28/08/2016 The Papers

further than her real time. That's all for now but time for a look at

the papers. Hello and welcome to our Sunday

morning edition of The Papers. With me are this morning's reviewers

are the columnist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai Brown and former

Foreign Correspondent and author The Observer quotes a former Tory

health minister calling for a new tax to fund

the NHS and social care. The Sunday Telegraph says

Theresa May is asking her ministers for their personal

Brexit blueprints. More lives could be lost

on Britain's beaches according to the Sunday Express -

which blames cuts for leaving coast The Mail on Sunday claims victory

over plans it says are in place to divert tens of millions of pounds

in foreign aid to fund Peter Sutcliffe's fears

over being transferred from Broadmoor Hospital

into a prison is the Sunday And the Sunday Mirror says a brother

of four time Olympic champion Mo Farah, faces being forced

to move back to Somalia. Let's begin, good morning to you

both. For restarting? The Telegraph. The Sunday Telegraph has a

front-page story entitled me, the Brexit in force. Talking about how

the Prime Minister has asked all Cabinet and the stress to come up

with blueprints of what breaks it will look like. Dash-macro where are

we starting? Pro-EU civil servants, claim, that they will thwart the

entire enterprise. The story is a little bit like something you would

find in Pravda or a state-sponsored media in the Eastern Bloc, we go

after the immigrants, now it's the civil servants who stop us from

leaving. Not a shred of evidence to back up that assertion, just an

unnamed government sources and a rather hysterical sounding Tory MPs

saying we need emergency legislation if anyone does this, so they can be

fired. A thin story. This has gone on for a while, always this thing

that the Foreign Office is full of lefties. There is this atmosphere

why isn't Brexit happening now? It can't happen now. It's the fear in

the Cabinet which is... Essentially add each other's throats... Fear is

too good a word, it's hysteria. I don't envy misses me at all, she

must feel she is ruling over the most dysfunctional family ever in

her Cabinet. You say dysfunctional, why do you think she is doing this?

Because a lot of her team are probably thinking, no... What is the

point of this? Is she trying to unify them all... I don't think,

Matthew, what do you think? The right of the Tory party will never

be satisfied, they got their vote, their place, they will never be

satisfied and I think this is one way that this it destroyed Cameron,

Haig, everybody it has ever come... You see the issue in the first

paragraph of the story, me ordering every Cabinet minister to, but the

personal blueprint for Brexit. Guess what, we don't get to decide the

Brexit blueprint, we have to negotiate that with the EU, the idea

that a Cabinet minister will chip in and create a dream version of

Brexit, we are living in a fantasy land. It's time that the media

rather than repeating this nonsense, held politicians to account.

Interesting to know if she will read each account! You can imagine the

scene, who will come first in this rather awkward, shuffling silence.

Hand your homework! Laughter-macro we turn to the Times newspaper...

The front page, we are going with Theresa May... What is the theme

with this? Like I said, no one can do anything that is enough for the

Brexit side of the Tory party and the Cabinet. Here, the story is that

Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, is I called, resisting plans for other

ministers to pull out of the EU single market. If we pull out of the

EU is in gold market, where are we going to trade? Where are we going

to go with this thing? It's the problem, we don't know what breaks

it actually means, and we can't know what it means until we've had

negotiations with the EU and the real headline for this story is

actually on the inside page, Angela Merkel and other European leaders

have been very clear, either you stay in the single market and allow

the free movement of people which is more or less staying in the EU, or

you leave the EU and you start to impose controls on immigration, one

or the other. We are still reporting the story and talking about it I can

we get to choose but guess what? We don't. Again, I'd like to see some

of these journalists taking some of the statements with a little bit of

a pinch of salt. Don't go for the journalists... I am not going for

journalists but as the media I think we need to look at ourselves, we

have wandered into Brexit without realising it, how many journalists

were surprised about what happened in the referendum result? The reason

is we are all focused on the ding-dong in Westminster, we are not

getting... What's going on in the regions and beyond the M25, forget

that, even outside of Westminster. I think, Yasmin, like you say, this

particular article is pointing to the fact it seems to be a turf war

at Whitehall. Exactly but also within Cabinet. Somewhere else, it

says Boris Johnson and... What's his name... Liam Fox are worried about

who is really in charge... What is Labour doing? Never mind the

journalists, what is Labour doing here? It is talking about trains.

They should be having a field day, really. OK... Let's turn to the Mail

on Sunday. We are going to go inside the paper, the Page three, this was

an astonishing read, I don't know what you thought of this. Good Queen

Tess... Yes, the submarine Prime Minister

because unlike David Cameron she hasn't been popping out of number

ten every day with a new sound bite and she's given an interview to the

Windsor Maidenhead and Arscott magazine which the Daily Mail

describes as astonishingly candid. Dash-macro the Mail on Sunday. But

it's not bad candid, she talks about not liking snakes... And not liking

her nose. I don't think we get a really powerful insight into the

inner workings of her psyche but the Mail on Sunday gives an excuse to

mark up an image of her looking like Elizabeth Everest. Because she's

such a private... I once remember cheering her at a meeting on women

in politics, honestly, she was terrifyingly right but also,

terrifyingly unknowable, you never knew what position she would take. I

mean, I can see where her power comes from, it's interesting to see

that she lost her husband and to see a softer side to her. Interestingly

she says the qualities she likes another's is conceived and any

psychologist will tell you the things we don't like another people

tend to be the things we don't see in ourselves, that is my

psychoanalysis for this morning. I wonder how on earth they got onto

the subject of her nose. That is because she is a woman and all

women, as we know, judge themselves by how we look. We put it out there,

don't we? Would they ask Liam Fox what part of you do you hate most

and witty even tell us? No, there would be a withering stare. The

Observer newspaper... Perhaps more serious matters, the NHS, maybe a

rescue plan? A call for a rescue plan, the former Tory Health

Minister Doctor down Poulter, an MP and part-time doctor, saying we need

a new tax for the NHS and social care to stop the system collapsing.

It's been widely reported that the NHS will face a ?20 billion

shortfall by 2020, a huge amount of money, and he is coming forward

saying we need to radically rethink the options and Conservative Party

doesn't like taxes but maybe we need to think about ringing one in to

steer the ship away from the rocks. Yes, absolutely but I think there

needs to be blue sky thinking. We have got such a fast growing, ageing

population. Often they are stuck in hospital beds because they have

nowhere to go. We should spend public money on a halfway house, a

really good place for older people in particular with complex problems,

can go after hospital. And get social care rather than medical

care. We need to do that, to think much more about building a sector,

rather than cutting back. That's going to cost though, isn't it? If

we don't do it, the National Health Service is going to collapse. Do you

think the NHS has a future, Yasmin? It has to have a future, the one

thing that binds everyone in this country, whatever their political

persuasion, despite the tiny minority that goes to private health

care. It means a lot and I think we should do something. Interestingly,

only a week or to-macro ago about how the government caved in to

pressure from the sugar industry, food industry, about plans to reduce

the amount of sugar in food which has shot up over the last few

decades. One aspect of the problem the NHS is, we need to become

healthier as a country under the government is not willing to take

hard line in favour of public health instead of bowing down to corporate

interest, we have a problem. The problem with the big programme,

everyone eating cake! I am not with you on that, I think we need one

show a week... But I love that. We are sticking with the NHS, turning

to page two of the Times newspaper. Yasmin, I think you picked up the

bed shortage element. This is what the Times is focusing on, on page

two, bed shortage of sending NHS back to the dark days of the

1980s... I don't know if the viewers can see that, there we go. Yes, it's

the same thing, not that there is a bed shortage but patients can't go

home, especially those who are on their own, widows, widowers whose

families might be far away. There is a terrible situation with people who

are physically better but mentally and emotionally in need, who are in

our hospitals and they shouldn't be, hospitals are miserable places for

most of us. There has got to be a big rethink on this, I think. It

seems there is a breakdown in the social care and the hospitals, you

would think they would be working a little bit closer together. They

keep saying they are going to and the Kings Fund think tank, which has

been in existence, a very good, serious think tank, has been talking

about having a kind of United service perhaps of Health and Social

Care Bill. It just doesn't seem to have happened. I don't know why.

Look at the statistics quickly, the Patients' Association revealing the

total number of people waiting more than 18 weeks for surgery had risen

to just under 90 3000. Almost doubled from what it was in 2015.

Sorry, 2014, 51,000, now almost double. OK. Let's turn to the

mail... Going back in, page four, this is a story that I think they

picked up on the front page... That's right, claiming victory in

the campaign to cut back on foreign aid. I mean, actually this is a

fascinating story on many levels. The Mail on Sunday running a series

of Expose is over the last few months about aid being wasted in

many compelling ways, actually, and there is a spread of examples on the

inside pages. And the government has essentially said it is going to

divert the tens of millions of pounds that was in the aid budget to

fund... What the Mail on Sunday calls the war on terror. I have

worked abroad for many years, seen how a lot of our aid dollars go to

waste and I think there is absolutely a case for reforming the

way Britain distributes foreign aid. What have you seen? You go to

Afghanistan, I worked there for three years. The British military

and an agency were working hand-in-hand creating dash-macro

creating projects that were overrun by the Taliban. We have seen what

happened in Helmand in the last few weeks, virtually falling to the

insurgents. And as examples of money going to waste, not hard to find.

But the idea that you can somehow take that money and spend it... Or

you can read to aid or submit aid to foreign policy objectives is... It

is so wrong and there are bad examples and I know them but also,

in many, many areas, the aid is essential and it is, the smaller

projects are really good and they work and they send out independent

evaluators. This is just crazy, we are going to spend the money on the

war on terror, kill using weapons to kill people and creating... It is

total nonsense, Priti Patel has been at the forefront of wanting this

department closed. Very quickly... We have about 40 seconds on the

express... Hanging onto our inheritance, what do you think about

this? The Coronet... I really couldn't care less! Since you are

asking... I think it is clearly an excuse to print a picture of Aidan

Turner doing his surviving which is... Wrong story! Clearly

justification for the Sunday express talking about the Coronet which is

being blocked for being sold abroad for ?5 million. Our heritage is

safe! Yasmin and Matthew thank you very much. That was our look at the

papers and of course a reminder that you can take a look at tomorrow's

front pages every evening at 10:40pm right here on BBC News.