02/08/2014 The Papers

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That is with Jason Solomons. Hello and welcome to our look

ahead to what the the papers With me are Philippa Kennedy,

Ombudsman for the Sun and Vincent Moss, Political Editor

of the Sunday Mirror. The Observer is leading with the SNP

saying the success of the Commonwealth Games will encourage

Scotland to back independence The Sunday Times servers Boris warns

the primaries they must be ready to leave the EU.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond's condemnation of the intolerable

suffering in Gaza is the main story on the Sunday Telegraph.

The Gaza conflict is also the top story for the Independent with the

paper focusing on a row between the Conservative and Labour leaders.

And the Mail on Sunday says Britain is to get its first NHS`funded

national sperm bank, to make it easier for lesbian couples

Let's begin. No surprise the papers continue to be dominated by Gaza. We

will have a look first at all `` of all at the Independent on Sunday.

Cameron and Miliband in furious row over Gaza. A political story.

Vincent. Quite interesting, Ed Miliband has issued a statement,

very strongly criticising David Cameron, saying he has not been

critical enough of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, saying his silence

over this issue has been inexplicable. It is very strongly

worded. He is making the point David Cameron has not been quite as out

there as he should have been, as Nick Clegg has been. He says it is

intolerable and it has to be stopped. He has balanced that by

saying it is intolerable also that Hamas had been attacking Israel. He

said Cameron should be doing more, use currently on holiday. Number ten

have answered this by saying they are shocked, they think Ed Miliband

is playing politics with this issue. An old`fashioned political row, but

David Cameron should step up to the David Cameron should step up to the

plate and play a more leading role. David Cameron is on a flight. Yes,

it looks like quite a tabloid headline. There is a big Cameron and

Miliband in furious row. In fact, Mr Cameron has not said anything, you

spokesman has. It is quite strongly worded. To get any political leader

interesting in the current climate. interesting in the current climate.

I do not know if you want to go on to go onto the Telegraph piece, the

Philip Hammond piece is to go onto the Telegraph piece, the

Philip much more on a humanitarian... We can look at that

next. Hammond condemns intolerable suffering in Gaza. That is the angle

most papers have taken. I have been watching the news all week like

everyone else and I find it really hard to watch without crying. It has

been the most awful, pounding of emotions for viewers, for anybody

with any interest... Watching children with their eyes tight

closed, please let it go away, it is really hard to watch. It seems to me

the PR battle has been won by the Palestinians, by Hamas, until the

Israeli lieutenant was captured. Then it slightly swung the other

way. They say they have no knowledge of it. What was the Second

Lieutenant doing wandering around on his own? From a military point of

view I find it very hard left tenant is captured. Normally it is a stray

soldier. These pictures playing out across the world. `` tenants at the

ability for anybody outside the situation to be able to do anything

about it. That is what the political row was about. I think everybody is

incredibly disturbed, as Philip Hammond points out. I think a lot of

the public especially in England are taking the view, hang on, that are

civilians out there, children out there, you have to have a

cease`fire. It has to happen. It is no good saying they are bombing us.

I think that is why the Ed Miliband interventionists and interesting. He

is Jewish, it is his background club his heritage. He is saying, he

almost seems to be saying while not condemning Israel can hear saying

the Prime Minister has to take a stronger lead on this. And it is

time something has to happen. In a sense he is trying to push the Prime

Minister into a no`win situation. He is. Nobody can ever solve this

situation, we hope someday can one day. It has taken years and years.

Until Israel sits down at the table but they will not do that. The whole

of the Middle East is in this manner strum of war and disagreement. We

are now seeing a ratcheting up of the pressure on the Prime Minister,

who unfortunately for him is in Portugal on a sun lounge. Everyone

is entitled to a holiday, but this is a major complication and we have

a situation where we are not seem to be too involved. You and I mentioned

the timing about this holiday. Is the comment from the Labour Party

deliberately timed for the moment the Prime Minister steps away, to

make it more difficult for him to come back? I think Matt is part of

it. I'm sure Ed Miliband is about to take a holiday as well. `` think

that is part of it. The Middle East is in a terrible situation, there

might be demand to recall Parliament because there are problems all over.

Even the bowler crisis. Serious problems than it does not look good.

`` the bowler `` Ebola crisis. Now this story on the NHS. The fact that

many hospitals now have fast food restaurants or coffee bars on site.

Which is a revenue raiser for them, but questions about the type of food

they are serving. This is an extraordinary story. The poor people

who go to visit their relatives in hospital. They want to have a cup of

Coffey may to have something quick because they do not want to be away

from their relatives too long. `` cup of Coffey. We are grown`ups, we

can decide what we are going to eat. Furious because they are selling

discounted chocolate. You get a drink, a sandwich, a sugary drink

and a bar of chocolate as well. This is absolutely disgraceful. But it

tends to while away the time. If you have ever spent any kind of time at

the hospital bedside of a relative, as I know you have been in seeing

your mother. The argument seems to be the presence of certain

companies, a bakers that sells pasties, a fast food takeaway

chain, another firm telling these foot long bag gets. `` French bag

gets. That is the row, that it is a wrong type of food. If you are in a

hospital, most people I have seen just have tea and Coffey. They do

sell tea and Coffey, but it is not compulsory. What you want when you

are in hospital visiting a relative is convenient. You might want a cup

of tea or coffee. I would rather you could get it in the hospital than

walking 15 minutes down the road to get it. If they get some revenue

from that, that is fine. There is an argument against Coffey bars and

burger bars. I think there is a difference there. I have a view

about a temp I think you have to be sensible

about these things, you need a place to have a coffee or a cup of tea. It

is find they are there and hospitals get some revenue from it. A separate

argument being made that we should eat more healthily. We started with

some awful stories, let's move to some bright ones. The Commonwealth

Games. This is on the front of many papers. On the Observer, the front

page dominated by picture of Nicola Adams, who has taken gold in the

women's flyweight boxing. My fellow countrywoman. You are going to rub

that in. She think she won that fight. It went down to a split

decision. Yes. The story that the Observer quite extraordinarily is

running as their lead story, is that they believe the success... Nicola

Sturgeon, the Deputy First Minister, believes the bounce effect

of the Commonwealth Games will benefit the yes vote and the Scots

will vote yes in the referendum. Everybody is feeling very good about

themselves. The Commonwealth Games have been a great success, apart

from the one remark or otherwise from Usain Bolt. Which he said he

never said. However, that is the sort of thing... Sport is a

wonderful thing of making people feel... I wonder if it knocks the

story down a bit, sport and sport and politics is politics is the last

quote. Yes it has been a successful games, will it turn the vote in

favour of the yes vote? My instincts are probably not. Nicola Sturgeon

would say that. She is running the yes campaign. It is not a surprise.

That wonderful picture of Nicola Adams. I suspect in later editions

it might be replaced by pictures of Usain Bolt or Tom Daley. Very brief

bathing shorts. Have you been monitoring that? It is a lovely

picture. It is an important story. Tomorrow is the closing day. Will

Barack a vote yes, my instincts are probably not. Timing is everything.

And an interview with Nicola Sturgeon saying momentum is in their

favour. Closing tomorrow. By all accounts it has been a great

success. Moving on to the Sunday Times, back with some less positive

news. The Ebola story. The doctor's diary of hell in the heart of

Africa. 720 lives so far lost in four African countries, set to get

very worrying. Sadly we have not seen the diary. All we have is the

front pages. This is the diary of a care worker, American, William

Fisher. He has recorded his daily e`mails to his family. He goes in

there in his suit to keep the germs away. Seeing the most frightful

things. There is no cure for Ebola, bleeding internally. A little boy

came into the hospital carrying his dead mother. Queueing up blood in a

room on his own with nobody to comfort him. `` throwing up blood.

It is awful. I health authorities are already saying it is very

unlikely Ebola will come to this country, because it spreads via

bodily contact. It is not as if it is a virus or a flu. Nevertheless,

we were just talking about that. If that is happening in America,

everybody would be in quarantine. `` if it happened. A lot of people are

superstitious, they think the doctors are bringing it in, it is

part of the issue. We have a similar story in the Sunday Mirror tomorrow,

the diary of a different doctor, saying much the same thing. These

people are dying without the comfort of the human hand. In a north London

Hospital, if anybody came to England with that, how they would be looked

after. It is astonishing to see there is a tent, people get suited

up in the space age suits, it is very frightening. I have seen news

items where people have come to London and said they are surprised

at the lack of checks as people come into this country. In America... A

change of pace, I want to try and get to ? la story. The headline in

the times, you are hired. `` in the Times. She is your close friend. I

was on a television show with Karren Brady and if she is indeed being

elevated to the peerage, I cannot think of a better person. Just

following her career in a very male dominated sport,

she would be a concern peer but the person she helps `` she would be a

Conservative peer. She is a respected businesswoman and great on

the apprentice. Great choice. That's it for the papers this hour. We will

be back for 1130 PM. Stay with us because at 11, the latest in the

violence in the Middle East where any hopes of the cease`fire are

fading.