31/01/2016 The Papers

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are writer Bonnie Greer and the Metro's Joel Taylor.

Sir Terry Wogan is pictured on many of the front pages.

Thanks, Tel, is the headline on the Metro.

Express calls the broadcaster a 'true national treasure'.

Independent leads with research which found the pay gap faced

by black workers widens the more qualifications they obtain.

The Times says the Prime Minister's hopes

of securing an EU renegotiation are hanging by a thread

after the president of the European Council walked out of Downing

The Guardian reports that an estimated 800,000 people have

dropped off the electoral register since the government introduced

The Mail says GPs have voted to stop looking after hundreds of thousands

The Telegraph says Mr Cameron has forced Brussels to admit Britain

needs an immediate "emergency brake" on the number of

And the Sun's headline beside a picture of Sir Terry: Thank

We will start with the Times, and coverage of the talks that have

taken place for only one and a half hours this evening. Just what it for

hours to reach a deal with Europe. This time. There might be lots of 24

hours before them. I don't think that is exactly what the story says

exactly. It says he wants to try to get this deal going around in-work

benefits and the Times figures he has 24 hours to do it. Donald Tusk

walkout apparently saying no deal. What ever that means. The PM now,

his people, they are saying that there is kind of one but we are

going to see if we can make it better than it is. It is all quite

bizarre. No deal and yet they are constructive talks. Looking at the

papers, the Times and the Telegraph, the Times says he has 24

hours to save the deal, it is an ultimatum. The Telegraph is

suggesting the conversation has been positive. It is almost like an

Hollywood movie trailer. Yes. The Telegraph is suggesting they have

made a significant concession in the EU. They have finally said Britain

needs an emergency brake. And then finally it mentions that Tusk walks

out saying no deal. International calls are not supposed to end like

that. It does sound like the Prime Minister said we need a break and

Tusk says that is what you do and that is it. If he walks out saying

there is no deal then none has been done. It says there is a significant

concession and they say the levels of migration into the UK require a

break. Any idea what the formula is to work that out? The other point is

that Tusk has said that the rest of the EU has to agree on the level the

UK has reached in order for some break that might happen to kick in.

The Prime Minister wants it to happen right away. We don't know

what this is. If they even get the chance to apply for this, the other

EU member states have to agree to it. Others might want that brake. If

you think of Greece. That adds a whole other level of complication.

Hard to see a way through this that is going to be easy. Meanwhile, back

at the Conservative Party, the parliamentary party, a segment is

very angry. The Eurosceptics. They are saying this is not a real thing.

This isn't real. Someone called it a sick joke. That's not nice. Let's

look at the Guardian. Students hit hard by a slump in electoral roll.

The Labour Party say that the change in the rules, so that individuals

have to register to have disappeared from the list.

Apparently. They would supposedly have to reapply. Yes. Labour are

concerned. They fear these are likely to be people more likely to

vote for them. They are highlighting this. It doesn't seem that the

Cabinet office and the Government are taking it on board. They have

said these entries are by people who have moved or died or were on the

list fraudulently. How can you know if you have slipped off the list?

They have said this around the time of the election, these people will

be missing from the electoral register. It will be interesting for

someone to publish figures or to see something definitive. We've just

been told this is happening. It would be nice to know. We're not

getting that definitively. Presumably, the first time someone

would know they are not on the list is when they come to the election.

You wouldn't think, I need to go and check. There are almost a million

people declared ineligible to exercise their vote, that would be a

concern to all parties. Particularly young voters. A head scratching

about how to attract young people to get involved. -- a head scratch. I

find it quite strange. Maybe after this they will do something. Pay gap

hits black graduates in white college jobs according to the

Independent. A report showing how they miss out despite tries to curb

discrimination and it's not just when they go into work. The NUS says

it starts at the moment, when HR enters the education system, they

are immediately on the back foot -- when a black child enters the

education system. University graduates earn 23% less than white

graduates and that is huge. We have laws to deal with it. Anthony

Lester, leading human rights lawyer, has tweeted to us: We have strong

equality law against racism but not enforced. The human rights

commission should tackle this. I have to say, it isn't popular, but

40 years ago the US tackle this by quota -- tackled this bike quota.

People are entitled to have the same amount of access to jobs and

education but there has to be legislation to enforce it. It

happened. It worked. What about the argument, if you do quotas for women

or minorities you don't get the best candidates. That didn't happen in

the United States. We have a whole generation of people. We have had to

African-American attorney generals. -- two. A whole generation

benefiting from these quotas, not least the president of the United

States. It works. There are still incredible racial divisions in

America. We are talking about people accessing jobs. This level of

inequality is appalling. It isn't anything that a democratic society

should be willing to tolerate. And it should be something that is an

emergency situation. Oxford University says it does not see the

need for extra legislation. They have tried to say there is a broader

problem within society. Their figures are stark. Last year, 64

black students were enrolled at Oxford University. That's up from 30

95 years ago. That still very low numbers of people -- that's up from

39 five years ago. There is a sort of intellectual bar that stops

people from seeing these problems. You start to see when there is

legislation to help you to see. I have to say that. In the United

States people were incentivised to do things. How? For instance, you

were given extra money, literally, extra money, to run your business or

your university, if you considered hiring. And people did it and it did

bring in a workforce. It brought in people, people became entrepreneurs

and business owners, and it enabled people to go to universities. It

happen. Did it stop the problem? In introducing those incentives? Did it

mean that you had enough minorities within an organisation that they

were then role models for people coming behind them? They became role

models. It became stagnant after a while, of course, as everything. It

created a generation of professionals. Let's look at Donald

Trump on the top of the Independent. America starts to give its verdict.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seemed to be leading in the polls in

Iowa, where the primary takes place. It's all a bit close and

there is a big margin of error. But they are the leading candidates. We

are told. The mountain Mr Trump would have to climb even to be

nominated as a Republican party candidate is massive. First of all

he has a lock of the Republican Party establishment against him.

Even though he has a lot of the grassroots interested in him -- he

has a lot of the Republican Party establishment against him. I have to

say that the president of the United States is not directly elected by

the people of the United States. He has to be elected by the electoral

college, the assemblage of the popular vote. The Democratic Party

at this point in time has a lock on the... That is literally what it is

called now. A candidate like Donald Trump would not break that. So that

is the dilemma for the Republican Party. He is not going to get them

the White House, and they know it. So, tomorrow, the Iowa caucuses,

with bad weather there, and people worrying about the turnout... He has

to win it and win it big. But he does have a lot of grassroots

support. He is different. It might not be palatable, what he says, but

he is certainly outspoken. Absolutely. He is appealing to this

disenfranchised body of people who feel they have not been represented

in the White House. Are they likely to vote? I don't know. He is facing

a battle to convince his own side. Certainly. I want to say, it is

important to say, this is not a matter of a person going to vote.

This man has to be elected by a specific waddy. The process he has

to go through to get their is so enormous -- body -- there. It is for

everyone. The party who nominate him do not want him. Barack Obama's

former adviser was talking today, saying how the Republicans are off

the rails, in a similar way to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, that

was his comparison. It is a party that at the moment it is hard to see

how they can pull up. Let's finish with tributes to Sir Terry Wogan,

who has died of cancer at the age of 77. The Daily Mirror and the Sun

have the same headline, but different photos. Thank you for

being our friend. And the quote, Bonnie, about not seeing millions

but people were individuals. That is what he was, and artist of the

radio. I have lived here for 30 years and I remember where I was

when I first heard him. He came right through that radio and that is

a rare gift. He used it superbly. The Sun, a different picture with a

cheeky grin of a national treasure. As Bonnie has said, he had such a

reassuring... Always familiar, strangely familiar. You listen to

him and he would just might you were just relax and enjoy his humour. The

instrument was beautiful as well. That is the other part, the

instrument itself was beautiful. Nice way to finish with tributes to

Sir Terry Wogan. Thank you so much for taking us through the front

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