30/07/2016 The Papers

non-essential travel to Florida, after the state confirmed that four

people probably contracted the Zika virus from local mosquitoes.

Hello, and welcome to our lookahead at what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With many other political commentator Joe Phillips

and Dawn Maria from France who is the editor in chief of Yorkshire

Women's Life. The Observer reports of former pensions minister believes

the protection for state pensions should be dropped to save billions

of pounds. The Sunday express leads on the same story, claiming millions

of people face a cut to their retirement income if the government

abandons the policy. The Sunday Telegraph says the -- Theresa May

will pledge to fight modern slavery. It also reports on the risk of the

Zika virus in Florida. The Sunday Times says prominent campaigners to

remain in the EU and former Cabinet ministers are in line for knighthood

in David Cameron's resignation honours list. The paper also reveals

four active terror terror plots inside the UK being investigated why

the police. The Mail on Sunday says women who have sex changes on the

NHS are being given free fertility treatment so they can have babies

after they become men. And the Sunday Mirror reports that the BBC

will still face legal action from Cliff Richard despite a promise to

play his new records. Let's begin. We will start with the Observer this

our, and a story about pensions. And this beginning to suggest, anyway,

that some are saying the triple lock, the mechanism by which it is

calculated, is simply too expensive. A person who is saying this in an

interview with the Observer is a baroness who was a pensions minister

in David Cameron's government. She previously advised the Blair

government on pensions and what she is basically saying is we can't

afford it. At the moment the guarantee which came in in 2010

guarantees that pensioners either get inflation or... Average earnings

or 2.5%. So given that 2.5% is more than double that rate of inflation

at the moment, and double most in the public sector, most pay rises,

it is quite unsustainable. The office for Budget responsibility

says that if you carry on with the triple lock it will add more than 1%

of national income to spending on pensions by the middle of this

century. So I think it is a question. Float it and put it out

there. Baroness Altmann is never shy about coming out with her own

opinions whether they are government policy or anyone else's policy at it

is one of those things along with many that the new government is

looking at and it is something that the new Secretary of State is going

to have to look at as well. And a lot of your readers and subscribers

for Yorkshire Women's Life are expats and pensioners, some of them,

as well. What are they saying about this issue? They didn't think that

we would vote to leave the EU and they are concerned that once Article

50 is evoked, what is going to happen in that period. They are

worried that pensions will go down so it is a question of watching and

waiting to see after we invoke Article 50. A recent survey

suggested this current generation of 30 and 40 -year-olds would be the

first generation to be poorer than their parents. That is a situation

which many politicians will be very uncomfortable about. That's true,

and the conversations I have had with my colleagues in Yorkshire have

shown there is a real fear and are worried that thirtysomethings are

worried about getting housing and jobs. Even if they get a pension

there is a real fear. There is a pitch against the younger generation

and a lot of older people who have paid into the system, not all

pensioners are rich. The other thing is that pensioners of course a vote

in droves so this is a very contentious issue. And whatever

party wants to be in government it is difficult. As you say, they vote.

Roz Altmann was campaigning to get a better deal for women whose pensions

are now coming in at 66 instead of 60, which is what we all thought was

going to happen. And that was knocked on the head. The younger

people, as you said, who are in their 20s and 30s now, are looking

at attention drifting further away like a beach ball. They are probably

going to work until they are in their 70s. It is one of those things

like saving for a pension. If you can spend 20 quid on cups of coffee

and buns during the week you can spend 20 quid to keep in a pension

pot. We are financially pretty illiterate in this country about

saving for pensions, shoring stuff up, and the government is going to

have a look and maybe look at the universal benefits pensions like the

winter fuel allowance which everybody gets, which not everybody

needs. It is certainly going to be very controversial. I want to stay

in the Observer at change to Syria, and the headline there. Families in

Aleppo fear safe passage may be a trap. This is of course the fact it

has been agreed, at least that is what every one is saying, between

Russian and Syrian forces, that they will be corridors of allowing people

trapped in Aleppo to leave the city. What has happened is Islamic State

has lost about ?100 million according to a US Major General, and

they are losing ground as well. There is also the continued

airstrikes. So people have decided in their hundreds and thousands that

rather than wait for humanitarian aid, it is best to actually leave

their city. And I feel that that is something that you would do, if you

were under such siege and having to deal with Islamic State on one side

and air strikes you would take a chance and try and leave through

those corridors. If you thought there was somewhere safe to go, and

that is one of the issues. I thought people were feeling extremely unsafe

and would rather take their chance in Aleppo. They don't trust the

Russians and Syrians who are offering them safe passage.

Basically saying why would we trust a government which has been bombing

us continually? It is a rock and a hard place, the decision. They are

not dealing with the UN, not with the Red Crescent. Would you trust

them? It is an appalling situation. It is the Stalingrad style siege for

2016. It is absolutely horrific, what is going on. Certainly the

pictures we have been showing this weekend show a city in ruins.

Absolutely. The Sunday Telegraph with a very different story, saying

that Theresa May, the new Prime Minister, on a mission to end the

evil of slavery. This is a headline which almost any Prime Minister

would enjoy seeing attributed to them. Theresa May has hit the ground

running, and she has initiatives popping up, and through briefings as

well in most of the papers so far, this is very much a personal issue.

It is an issue she took very seriously as Home Secretary. It is

quite interesting, she is talking about slavery. When you think about

slavery, what do you think of? Remember the cocklepickers in

Morcombe. Think about every town, every city in this country where

there are probably nail bath is, car washes, people living 31 people in a

4-bedroom house. These people are working but we don't know the

conditions. What she is saying is very much echoing what she said as

Home Secretary. The police are not doing enough to investigate it. So

she is personally going to cheer a Cabinet committee to actually sort

this out and make sure that when people report it, whistleblowers or

whatever, it is properly reported. The government did ring in the

modern slavery act which she drew up, so it is obviously an issue

close to her heart. And she is wasting no time in addressing some

of these things she obviously feels she needs to sort out weekly. She

has a history of looking at a quality issues, women's issues, so

for her to take this forward is no surprise and I am glad she is taking

it forward. Slavery is quite hidden in a lot of community so it is often

not seen. There is often domestic abuse, people that are au pairs,

women that are trafficked, so for police to take it seriously on

Theresa May's watch is something I would like to see go forward and I

am glad to see it happening now. Moving on to the Sunday Times, it is

not their main story, which we discussed in the first session,

instead on this power we are going to look at the terrorist story,

which the headline is police... We are going to do the review of

Cameron cronies at the moment, are we? There is a leaked list of 48

remain campaigners, donors, and in other words those that served under

David Cameron are now to be given these knighthoods and various

honours. The surprising thing is that some of them being mentioned

are serving Cabinet ministers. Yes, which is most bizarre and very

irregular. One of them is Philip Hammond, the new Chancellor, who is

amongst nine people being proposed for a knighthood. It is only a list,

and it has been leaked, and it is, as somebody has said here, it is

amazing they haven't included Larry the cat. It does appear to include

almost all the staff in Downing Street but also people like Will

Straw, the director of the remain campaign. There is also the usual

controversial thing about big Tory donors. So Ian Taylor, who has

handed the Tories more than ?1.5 million and contributed quite a lot

to the remain campaign. Whether these actually go through, I mean,

they still have to be scrutinised. There is a scrutiny process. And

they are party donors. Scrutiny is quite but I think people are a bit

sort of ho-hum about honours because very rarely are the people there. On

the other hand some of these long serving civil servants and AIDS, you

know, it is quite a tough job doing it. It is the only reward you get.

-- aides. And the police tracking four terror plots. The idea that

there are at least four active terror plots in Britain being

investigated by police and security services. Should we be surprised, or

is that just worrying? It is worrying, but we have seen the

attacks in Germany and France and we are living in heightened security

Times at this moment. We are living in a time where Islamic State is

actually asking their footsoldiers to make more attacks on western

interests. What was interesting here is the same intelligence officer

told the Sunday Times that there were four or five cases and the

sensible plot where they were planning to actually attacked

written. That is quite concerning but it sounds like the intelligence

in this country is really good, from what I understand and we need to

actually give credit to the secret services and MI5, really. They don't

get the credit that they deserve, I think, for keeping us safe. We don't

hear, one senses, about lots of plots. I think you're absolutely

right. They don't get the credit, and sometimes I think we have all

been rather cynical when they say they stopped this, that on the

other. In this current climate, when I don't think there is one single

person watching but isn't slightly worried they go to work or on

holiday, or what they are up to, and if we know that 900 people have been

prevented from travelling to Britain, to Syria, to join terror

things and this threat, you know, the new security Minister has been

having talks with retail bosses in big shopping centres. So those are

the sort of things they are looking at is obviously the experience in

mainland Europe has shown some holes in security. I want to end on a

lighter note, just briefly. All the papers in some form have something

on JK Rowling casting a new spell, where Harry Potter and the Cursed

Child, and what I like about this photo is her shoes, with this winged

angel on the back. And the lovely thing about this is the show has

been in preview for six weeks and nobody has revealed the plot. So it

is a bit like the Mousetrap, you don't say a word. It is lovely that

people have entered into the spirit of things and it is supposed to be a

fabulous show. And the producer of it, Sonia Friedman, has persuaded JK

Rowling to come out with something else. And if it encourages people to

read it almost doesn't matter what it is. I am always somebody who has

encouraged people to read and that is something I am passionate about

and if that is what happens here, and that is a good thing, obviously.

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