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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
With me are Kate McCann, who is senior political correspondent | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
at the Telegraph, and the political journalist Rob Merrick. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Financial Times. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
It says George Osborne is considering a plan to sell-off | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
the Government's stake in housing associations, in what it says would | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
be one of the largest-ever privatisations of its kind. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Corbyn steals a march on Labour plotters is the headline | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
It suggests the Labour leader is looking to change party rules, in a | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
The i has details from the court case involving a Brixton man accused | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
of imprisoning and beating his daughter over a 30-year period. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
The Telegraph sets out further details of possible industrial | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
action by Junior doctors, who are currently being balloted | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
The same story is the lead in the Guardian. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
The paper says that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
The suggestion from a Tory minister that those | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
affected by tax credits cuts should go without, to make ends meet, | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
The Times leads with the migrant crisis. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
The paper says Europe's system of open borders is under serious | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
And there is a warning that Storm Abigail could wreak havoc | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
So we are going to start with The Times Which features the latest | :01:33. | :01:52. | |
developments, in some cases lack of them as well, in the migrant crisis. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Borders in crisis after migrant talks fail. Free movement across | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Europe close to collapse. There was some agreement, though, wasn't | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
there? There was some agreement, but perhaps not be agreement that | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
everybody wanted to see. The African leaders have agreed to voluntarily | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
received failed asylum seekers, at European leaders were hoping... It | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
is kind of where we are right now, isn't it? Exactly, they were hoping | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
for an agreement that that would be as a matter of course, and the | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
biggest point in this article is that Schengen, the system of orders | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
between 26 EU nations of free movement across those borders, is | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
looking likely to collapse. And Donald Tusk is warning more | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
countries are going to bring back border controls that hits at the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
very heart of what Europe is about. Is also a big part of David | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Cameron's argument and renegotiation planned that border controls are | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
very important. So it is a very, very big issue for European leaders | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
to have the sort of grapple with. It will be interesting to see what | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
happens in those coming days, to see whether borders will be put up to | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
stem the flow of migrants across Europe. It is a big issue which has | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
been here for some time. It will be here for a lot longer, and surprise, | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
surprise, it is another story about European leaders failing to agree in | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
a crisis over the big issue of the day. You know, the reaction of some | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
people, of course, when these people arrive in Europe is to say, well, | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
they should go back. They are economic migrants, this is the Aga | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
met, they should go back. But of course, what this shows, even if | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
that is desirable, which is an open question, it is so difficult to | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
achieve -- this is the argument. Presumably the solution would not be | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
what Germany has done, to open its borders to refugees, but this story | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
talks about the pressure mounting on Angela Merkel. There is a quote | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
comparing her management of the crisis to a careless skier who | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
triggers an avalanche. That quote comes from her own Finance Minister, | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
her own ally. There is disagreement on the governments of various | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
countries. There does seem to be a multiple procedure that people are | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
talking about, to try and ease the migrant crisis. It is managing the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
borders, it is allowing people in, and it is easing and trying to get | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
rid of the various issues they are fleeing from. But what there doesn't | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
seem to be as a general procedure that everyone except, everyone | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
agrees too. And that is the problem, really. There is a big | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
problem here that there are lots of people already in Europe and in | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
European countries and nobody knows how many because they have come | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
across borders that are open. And that is going to become even more | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
problematic when we see people looking for housing. So there are | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
migrants from Africa and other parts of the world, and the Middle East, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
who are in these camps. And that cannot last forever. That issue is | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
going to become bigger and bigger as people come. Something I learn from | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
our correspondent Clive Murray is that Britain is the biggest donate | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
of aid in Europe -- Clive Myrie. And they are quite heavily involved in | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
the fight against Islamic State as well. The counter to that is that | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
that might be at treble, but Britain has -- that might be admirable, but | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
Britain has talked about thousands of potential refugees by Christmas. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
We have not seen any figures as to how many of that 1000 have arrived. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
And as Kate says, the conditions are horrific. As the weather turns in | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
southern Europe, it is frightening what will happen. To remind us, | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
there are still millions more on the move in addition to those in refugee | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
camps. The Guardian, the health secretary condemns extreme action as | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
doctors warn of three walkouts. The first one very much industrial | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
action. Extreme action which you perhaps didn't see coming. I think | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
it was something he hoped wouldn't happen but it looks increasingly | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
likely and I don't know if Jeremy Hunt will be able to avoid that. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the last couple of months | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
in trying to renegotiate doctors' contracts. I think it is likely that | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
they will walk out. I think that is going to look out on both doctors | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
and on the government. I don't think anybody is going to win out of | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
this, and certainly not the people who are going to suffer, literally | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
because their operations will be cancelled, their appointments will | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
be put back. People will really feel this. And it will be the first time | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
that dock as have walked out on strike, it is very symbolic. The | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
argument is about whether Jeremy Hunt is changing the terms of the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
doctors' contract to such an extent that that means lots of people are | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
going to move out. On the front page of the Telegraph, there are some | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
figures showing only 1% of junior doctors will earn less, the rest | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
will add more all the same. So I think there is a question about who | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
is sort of telling the truth here? And junior doctors are refusing to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
sit down with Jeremy Hunt, or saying that they don't want to sit down | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
with Jeremy Hunt and talk it over, and that means they are likely to | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
vote for the strike action. What happens as a result of that will be | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
really interesting. Jeremy Hunt digging his heels in over this. It | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
will be interesting to see how this all plays out. The Guardian is | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
pretty adamant that he is not going to back down. Presumably he has no | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
choice but to dig in. He has conceded ground already it was he | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
has reassured us that the majority of doctors will not be worse off | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
even as they lose their penalty rates, so he has given way to some | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
extent. The government is part of a plan to save tens of billions of | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
pounds on the NHS by 2020. No one believes that is going to be | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
achievable that if you are going to get anywhere near it you have to | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
find a way to make the NHS run more efficiently. That is going to sound | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
very odd to people at home because all day we have been reporting on | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
the NHS missing targets and being overwhelmed with admissions, and yet | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
there are more cuts to be looked at. They wouldn't call them cuts, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
they would call them efficiencies. They would say ways that the NHS can | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
be run more efficiently and the money can be pumped back into the | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
NHS. It is an enormous sum to find, ?20 billion. This is an attempt to | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
find more by making working hours more sensible. We are trying to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
change their working practices. The doctors are demoralised, working | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
hard, and putting in the time and effort, they would argue. The danger | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
is if more of them quit and fly off to Australia where they don't work | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
as hard and they earn more in the sunshine. Part of the reason we lose | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
doctors abroad. Shall we move onto Independent. Jeremy Corbyn steals a | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
march on labour plotters. Basically the independents suggesting he is | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
looking at changing the rules for the Labour Party, being booted out. | :09:23. | :09:35. | |
Or not re-elected, anyway. And some of his own MPs, it is the latest of | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
that story, isn't it? Jeremy Corbyn and his top team on one side who are | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
wanting to make some pretty drastic changes, got some very strong ideas | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
and then you've got the so-called moderates on the other side who are | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
a bit concerned about that and what it might mean. There has been some | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
interesting talk today about whether journalists should use that term | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
moderates for these MPs, Jeremy Corbyn's camp feels that paints him | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
as extreme, which is unfair. What term do you use? We use different | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
terms, we do use moderates. It has taken on the meaning of people who | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
used to be in the Labour Shadow Cabinet and who would not have been | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
seen as quite as left wing as Jeremy Corbyn is now, and therefore are | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
more moderate. That is why it it is used. This story is interesting | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
because it seems to suggest, and I think that is broadly true, that | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is trying to shore up his support in case there is a bid | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
to oust him as leader. As Robert was saying earlier, it is unlikely to | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
happen in the next couple of months for the next couple of years, | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
because a lot of people in the Labour Party accept that Jeremy has | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
a big mandate from the electorate and they want to see how that plays | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
out. And it would play very badly for them to try and take on but at | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the same time they don't underestimate the fact that there a | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
group of MPs below the surface planning to mount a campaign to | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
introduce a new candidate at some point. Some papers you would expect | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
these kind of headlines, he is not shaking them off, is he? I wonder if | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
he can win an election or be Prime Minister without the support of the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
press? There has been some speculation perhaps, if Labour is | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
doing really badly in three or four Mac years' time, resuming that | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is still there, that perhaps he would be willing to make | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
way for another left-wing leader, someone who would follow much of his | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
programme, but perhaps he might be convinced that he himself is not | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
electable, that he would lead Labour to defeat. This would suggest | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
otherwise. If he is attempting to change the rules, that would suggest | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
to me that he is determined to lead Labour into the next election, and | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
that would send shivers down the spines of most MPs who think he will | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
condemn Labour to certain defeat. Another MP making the papers, Tracey | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Crouch, has apologised. Losing tax credits, then ditch your pay-TV. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
This is an interview where she suggest that people trying to make | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
ends meet cut back on what she deemed as luxuries. So I have mixed | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
feelings about this story. Really? Yes, because the original interview, | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
this is a line from the original interview but the interview focused | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
on the fact that Tracey Crouch very sadly had a miscarriage during the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
election campaign and that led to the question of whether she would | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
want to accept the position of sports Minister, which in itself is | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
quite a big story. And I think that has obviously been lost given that | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
this is the angle some newspapers are taking. She still said what she | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
said, she said it in the context of conversations with her constituency, | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
saying that she has seen examples where people are still paying for | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
Sky TV and maybe they need to have a rethink. We were discussing it | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
before we came on, it is obviously not a particularly wise, to make and | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
I think Tracey has apologised this evening for saying it. The Daily | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Mail does point out that perhaps it was coming... It wasn't the right | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
thing to say but it was coming from a well-intentioned place. It does | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
point out that she was brought up by a divorced mother on a pretty modest | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
income. So she was talking from experience of having to make ends | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
met, in a way. I think she has made what many would think in most | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
circumstances is a sensible point. That the family is struggling it may | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
have to make do without some of the things it would wish to have an Sky | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
TV is maybe one of those. things it would wish to have an Sky | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
TV is maybe one of While it might be a sensible point, it is terrible, | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
terrible politics because the tax credits crisis is so much bigger | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
than that. 3 million people are going to lose ?1300 a year, so | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
clearly that is much more than the cost of Sky TV. Huge numbers of | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
those people will not have Sky TV, so it is hugely offensive and more | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
than that, the government broke its promise to people not to take that | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
?1300 off than, a promise that was made by the Prime Minister during | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
the election campaign. Maybe a sensible point in another time but | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
very bad politics. Would it be getting as much coverage if we | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
didn't have the tax Reddit cuts? No, it is because we are in the middle | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
of this tax credit row -- credit cuts. And they are going to have two | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
announced new measures in the Autumn Statement. They have no idea what | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
they are going to do. And they are struggling to figure out what it is | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
going to be, and... We have run out of time for a fun story, no time for | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
a skateboarding squirrel or. ! -- skateboarding squirrel or a dog! | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Coming up next, it is time for Sportsday. | :15:07. | :15:17. |