02/06/2016 The Papers

Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring us tomorrow.

Our guests this evening are Henry Bonsu and Kieran Dixon former Trade

Minister Lord Digby Jones. Nice to see you both. Front pages, starting

with the Metro, dedicating its front page to be HS going into liquidation

with the expected loss of 11,000 jobs. The FT goes with the same

lead. The Daily Express goes with a health story, reporting that doctors

now believe are obese people with type two diabetes can quadruple

their chances of survival with weight loss surgery. The Guardian

focuses on David Cameron asking the UK not to commit self harm by

leaving be you. The Daily Mail says the UK is failing to expel foreign

criminals and this has undermined the case for Britain to remain in

the EU. The Daily Mirror claims boxing legend Muhammad Ali has been

rushed to hospital after suffering from breathing problems. Let's start

with a famous name on the high Street, 88 years in business and now

British home stores has gone into liquidation. Here it is on the

Metro. The shutters finally come down on BHS. We have heard a lot of

people, Digby, saying they are sorry to see it closing, but we are

shocked. The significance of the liquidation is overplayed in the

press. These people's jobs are no more or less insecure than

yesterday. The differences, it is an admission that no one wants to buy

it, so no longer will it be a going concern, no longer can somebody say

they will pay money and buy a business that opens every day, so

there is an admission that no one wants it. The problem you have is

how much of this is a commentary on the world going past BHS. Dear one

Woolworths went? What it was about was that the product, the offering,

people didn't want any more, and if that is the case, the best thing we

can do with 11,000 people is put the effort into Skillings and finding

the mother worked rather than saying, this is dreadful and we

ought to keep BHS open, because it is probably the offering to the

public is what they want to buy. Even if that is the case there have

been criticisms of previous owners and how they have treated them, lack

of investment, taking money out. Especially when you consider the

person who became a billionaire when he bought be HS 16 years ago, Sir

Philip Green, he was a darling of a number of newspapers, seen of the

great British buccaneer of the high Street. Some people including Labour

MP Frank Fielding want to drag him before select committees, I think is

going before one in parliament and a couple of weeks, and I sat -- some

people are floating the idea of removing him. We will be in violent

agreement about this, but you are mixing up two things. One thing is,

11,000 people out there who tomorrow morning are working for a company

nobody wants to buy its products, therefore the whole issue should be,

how do we find work for 11,000 people. That is different from how

did we get here. We are looking at the coverage area, it is the paper

reviews. Let's look at the FT. Last-ditch efforts fail to save BHS,

fruitless scrabble to find a buyer. On the point of how people behave

when they buy companies, surely it should be against the law to take so

much money out that the future of that company is imperilled. Except

of course. If you have this amount of profit you have made and it is in

the company called reserves, you are entitled as a shareholder to eat

into the reserves as long as you can pay the debts. You Anae can argue

about whether that is morally right or what it does to the stability of

the business, but the concept of it being illegal, no matter how morally

we might have a view, you have to be very careful. Indeed we must but we

talk about being ethical, we hold summits in this country on

corruption, we preach on it... What I am saying is, the brand of Britain

and business and ethics is famous throughout the world so we need to

hold ourselves to a high standard. Business people in this country need

to. But if you own the company you only assets in it. Including the

people, it would appear. There are two distinct things here. Yesterday,

the people running it say, no one wants to buy this business, 11,000

good people will lose their jobs. Let's have a maximum effort to try

to find the mother work. That is a different argument to, how did we

get here. In the first bit, that is what the paper review is about. The

second bit, how did we get here, I am in agreement with you, we have to

be careful about using certain words. I am pulling back... The

people who buy large did nothing illegal, although morally there is a

big issue. The question is, what should the select committee be able

to do. They will ask questions Philip Green and Dominic Shepherd. I

have appeared before a select committee, the people asking

questions don't knows much as you do so they grandstand and try to ask

questions that say, look at me, whereas the people being questioned

now the subject. The real sport would be, will Philip Green keep his

temper. Will presses buttons? We have to move on, I'm so sorry! Let's

look at the Guardian, Cameron, let us not roll the dice on Britain,

voting to leave the EU would be economic self harm, the Prime

Minister insists. Angela Merkel also, saying, if you want to change

the rules on how the EU operates, staying. She is making it very clear

that although Brexit supporters say the Germans want to sell BMW to us,

the French sell champagne to us, there is no way they will wreck good

established relationships over decades. Angela Merkel is saying

clearly, you might find it very chilly outside the European Union,

so don't be foolish. Cameron is echoing that in the first of the set

piece discussions on sky earlier this evening, and Faisal Islam was

the presenter, really pushing him hard on the issue of migration, and

also project fear, and apparently Cameron came unstuck on the issue of

keeping immigration down to the tens of thousands. I am quite pleased

that the Prime Minister, for once, hasn't often does death of the

first-born, plague of frogs and blood in the street if we leave the

EU. He is finally being asked to address certain issues. I did say,

the Prime Minister behaving in a statesman-like fashion, which I

think has been lacking. The other side have been doing much the same

sort of stuff. What I find interesting is, I am worried about

this nation hitching its wagon to a train that is marching towards 1917.

In Asia's century, I don't see much reform in Europe. Some people like

me are saying, I don't want to leave it but I wanted to reform. For my

grandchildren's sake I am beginning to think it should be right to come

out. What Cameron is saying, for your grandchildren's circuit would

be right to stay in. I think the long-term issue is the one not being

talked about. I think economic turbulence will happen and I believe

Europe is not competitive, but it is what will happen 30 years down the

line. The trouble is, that you can't deal with that. I can't forecast in

the morning, nor can the Treasury. I am so sorry, there is too much to

talk about! I am trying to be rational about those. The Daily

Mail, we fail to deports... Human rights being blamed here, Digby,

there is a mechanism for deporting criminals. The issue, in the text

they do with the issue quite well, the problem is always with this sort

of newspaper, the headline has little to do with the merits of the

case. They are saying, you have at the moment the right for people to

come into Europe without defence. Some will be criminals. If they

commit a certain crime there is in place in agreement, you can deport

them, and we have 5000 people walking around in the communities

who have already committed offences, waiting to go home. You can blame

Brussels for a lot but you cannot blame Brussels for this. This is

about the UK Government, and I guess it is all parties, and they are

saying, we can deport you but we haven't got round to it yet. That is

not Europe's fault. Exactly. We are not going to agree again?! These

people are sewn dangerous, surely you don't release them from prison

until you are ready to deport them. You release these people unlicensed

because you think they are no longer dangerous, you call them back if you

think they have breached the terms of their licence. If you think they

shouldn't be in Britain you should hold them until deportation. They

are dealing with 5789 living in the community. I was going to throw

water on you! The Times, page two, hospital delays leave thousands

waiting outside in ambulances. I am one of these people who say

obviously the NHS needs more money but can we have the money better

spent, more efficiently. I don't mean privatisation, I just mean,

everybody knows this, it is just no one will say it, a lot of the money

in the NHS is wasted. The system so often doesn't deliver, not that

there is not enough money because often it needs more money, not that

wit hasn't got good people, it has, the system isn't right. In this

article you have three different people from vested interests saying

the same thing, the reason this is happening is beds are full, beds are

full because too often we have linked up there with social care so

there is not enough in the community to get them out there, secondly we

have a bad system in the way we get them in, people wait, and thirdly

there isn't enough money. Those things together, I thought this

article was fair because you have people from vastly different areas

talking about this. Let's quote Norman Lamb the former Lib Dem came

minister, a very serious sky in this area, and says we are projected to

spend a reducing percentage of our national income on health, so even

though people like Digby complain about too much waste, we have to

spend money to get the system right, and every government that comes in

reconfigure the system. It takes four or five years to bedding and we

change it every time we have a new government, that is part of the

problem. It is persistent, not the money. It is both, I know a bit

about this, it is both. I am questioning what I have just heard?

How much longer have I got? Three minutes. Crikey, we could have

carried on talking about something else. Not to worry. There is a link

between this and Brexit. Your people claim... Hold your breath! The

Brexit supporters say if we leave the European Union, that ?350

million a week that we currently sent to the EU, a significant

proportion can be spent on improving the NHS. That is what their election

broadcast was about two nights ago. If you engaged brain before... Oh!

OK! On the Brexit bus they have this thing on the NHS and I think they

are wrong to do it. Hello! Just because a view conflicts with yours,

why are you derogatory about it? Stop! Time out! We're going to move

on. I am going to move the song, Digby. Digby thinks he is

presenting! He's not the only one who comes on here and behaves in

this fashion, but he is always so smartly dressed. The Financial

Times, the gender pay gap starts young as boys force a better deal on

pocket money, Henry. Who knew indeed, this 12% difference in the

current round, so boys receive an average of ?6.93 per week, versus

girls getting ?6 16 per week. As with use, so with adults, because we

know there is a pay gap between women and men, and apparently boys

are more abstract Brezovan girls... I find that difficult to believe.

Can you imagine Digby asking his parents for more money? Does the

article suggests we should get girls to practice asking for more money

when they are little? It is a good point in that respect,

assertiveness, self-respect and self esteem are some of the biggest

barriers to improvement in the job market, and using education

properly, because people don't feel they can because they don't have

that... Or assertiveness. Assertiveness in women is

interpreted differently from that of men. What is important is if in the

domestic, trusted environment of pocket money, if you could get a

young woman to start thinking intensive, I am worth it, then

possibly in the job market in years to come that filters through to a

better and more balanced society. Or it might be that parents and

employers are sensitive enough to be issued having been on training to

spot this, and if they see a young woman not raising her hands... I

think I need to go home and reassess what pocket money everybody gets! I

lacked for your daughters. She will be very pleased! That's it for you

didn't -- for tonight. You can see a detailed review of the papers seven

days a week on our website. You can see us thereto with each night's

edition posted on the page shortly after each addition. Thank you,

Henry and Digby, it's always good fun. Coming up next, it's the

weather. Once again on the weather front

today it was a case of all of nothing. You either had clear blue

skies and sunshine across many western areas