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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired September 01, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Liz George live for us in London.
Good morning -- Liz.

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, Carol.

Yes, well, we're focusing very much here in Europe, at the moment, particularly in Britain, about what's going on with regards to the government and the latest fallout, really, from the resignation of Tony Blair's spin doctor, is what we call him, the name that used to deal with the press, Alastair Campbell. And really the papers now looking at how isolated Blair is.

He's been seen to be a Prime Minister who's had a sort of very presidential role and has isolated his cabinet very much and kind of relied on his personal advisers. And now that Alastair Campbell is gone, obviously a very close friend and an aide to Tony Blair, the decision is to move away from spin, to try and bring back that cabinet and have much more of a cabinet government again. So plans to be announced tomorrow about plans to kill off the spin is what Tony Blair is going to announce tomorrow and actually put more of the White Hall mandarins, the civil servants, in charge of what's actually being given out to the press.

And that, again, is another headline in "The Daily Telegraph." The broad sheets really focusing upon the fact that poor old Tony Blair feeling very isolated there. And the opposition leader, lain Duncan Smith, of course said that it's not the resignation of the servant that's important but the departure of the master after Alastair Campbell resigns.

And Campbell's successor as well, he's already been in the spotlight a little bit too. He had -- he's come from a sort of private public relations lobbying firm and he had share options in that firm and so a bit of mud being slung at him over the weekend already. Poor man, hasn't even been in the job yet, but he's announced that he's actually going to give up those share options, which would have been seen as being a bit of a conflict of interest.

You want to go on to Beckham now?

COSTELLO: But now to the big story, yes, Beckham.

GEORGE: Our favorite, "The Sun." Of course now Beckham has poured out his autobiography and "The Sun" has got rights to that autobiography. So all week this week a specific treat for you, they're going to have big Beckham stories across their front pages. And they focus very much on that incident with the football boot that took place in the changing rooms of Manchester United. I don't know if you remember when Alex Ferguson kicked a football boot and it landed or hit Beckham in the face and of course he ended up with a plaster and his head -- hair in a headband. That caused a lot of furor there.

And as part of that, as part of his autobiography, apparently in all those sort of ructions (ph) that he had with Sir Alex Ferguson, and his mom actually took on Alex Ferguson. It sounds a bit like handbags at dawn to me. I'm not sure what you feel about your mom taking on your boss. So it's kind of like taking up your plea.

COSTELLO: Hey, your mom can usually do whatever she wants.

GEORGE: And there is one picture. Exactly. I know, but he's a big boy now, you know he should be fighting his own battles. But there is a picture, look at that, isn't that something to make your heart melt, the sight of him feeding his little son, Brooklyn. So there you are, that's it.

COSTELLO: Especially in that shirt.

GEORGE: I know absolutely.

COSTELLO: Thank you.

GEORGE: So there you are. We're going to be able to drool over Beckham for the rest of the week, I think.

COSTELLO: I think. Thank you, Liz George, it was a lot of fun. We appreciate it.

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Aired September 1, 2003 - 05:45   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Liz George live for us in London.
Good morning -- Liz.

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, Carol.

Yes, well, we're focusing very much here in Europe, at the moment, particularly in Britain, about what's going on with regards to the government and the latest fallout, really, from the resignation of Tony Blair's spin doctor, is what we call him, the name that used to deal with the press, Alastair Campbell. And really the papers now looking at how isolated Blair is.

He's been seen to be a Prime Minister who's had a sort of very presidential role and has isolated his cabinet very much and kind of relied on his personal advisers. And now that Alastair Campbell is gone, obviously a very close friend and an aide to Tony Blair, the decision is to move away from spin, to try and bring back that cabinet and have much more of a cabinet government again. So plans to be announced tomorrow about plans to kill off the spin is what Tony Blair is going to announce tomorrow and actually put more of the White Hall mandarins, the civil servants, in charge of what's actually being given out to the press.

And that, again, is another headline in "The Daily Telegraph." The broad sheets really focusing upon the fact that poor old Tony Blair feeling very isolated there. And the opposition leader, lain Duncan Smith, of course said that it's not the resignation of the servant that's important but the departure of the master after Alastair Campbell resigns.

And Campbell's successor as well, he's already been in the spotlight a little bit too. He had -- he's come from a sort of private public relations lobbying firm and he had share options in that firm and so a bit of mud being slung at him over the weekend already. Poor man, hasn't even been in the job yet, but he's announced that he's actually going to give up those share options, which would have been seen as being a bit of a conflict of interest.

You want to go on to Beckham now?

COSTELLO: But now to the big story, yes, Beckham.

GEORGE: Our favorite, "The Sun." Of course now Beckham has poured out his autobiography and "The Sun" has got rights to that autobiography. So all week this week a specific treat for you, they're going to have big Beckham stories across their front pages. And they focus very much on that incident with the football boot that took place in the changing rooms of Manchester United. I don't know if you remember when Alex Ferguson kicked a football boot and it landed or hit Beckham in the face and of course he ended up with a plaster and his head -- hair in a headband. That caused a lot of furor there.

And as part of that, as part of his autobiography, apparently in all those sort of ructions (ph) that he had with Sir Alex Ferguson, and his mom actually took on Alex Ferguson. It sounds a bit like handbags at dawn to me. I'm not sure what you feel about your mom taking on your boss. So it's kind of like taking up your plea.

COSTELLO: Hey, your mom can usually do whatever she wants.

GEORGE: And there is one picture. Exactly. I know, but he's a big boy now, you know he should be fighting his own battles. But there is a picture, look at that, isn't that something to make your heart melt, the sight of him feeding his little son, Brooklyn. So there you are, that's it.

COSTELLO: Especially in that shirt.

GEORGE: I know absolutely.

COSTELLO: Thank you.

GEORGE: So there you are. We're going to be able to drool over Beckham for the rest of the week, I think.

COSTELLO: I think. Thank you, Liz George, it was a lot of fun. We appreciate it.

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