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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
With me are Tom Bergin, who is Reuters' business | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
correspondent, and the senior political correspondent | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Tomorrow's front pages: The Daily Express leads on words | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
of optimism by the Prime Minister about Brexit and the UK's economic | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Allegations against Labour MP and Chair of the Home Affairs Select | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Committee Keith Vaz paying to meet male escorts make the front | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
The Daily Telegraph has more on the Keith Vaz story, | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
but a smiling Theresa May enjoying the limelight | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Brexit makes the lead in the Guardian. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
The paper claims the Prime Minister has declined to endorse pledges made | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
by the vote leave camp for a points-based immigration system. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
It also has an impressive picture of the replica of the Great Fire | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
of London, which was set alight tonight to commemorate the 350th | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
anniversary of the original epic blaze. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
The Daily Mail also runs the Keith Vaz allegations | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
on its front page, along with news from a report which says E coli | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
is found in a quarter of supermarket chickens. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
And finally, the Mirror devotes almost its whole front page | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
to Keith Vaz, saying the senior politicians faces calls | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Let's start with a few of the headlines, then, regarding Brexit | :01:26. | :01:40. | |
and what it might look like. The Daily Telegraph says the PM could | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
stop Boris Johnson's plan for points -based immigration. This is | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
something that Australia has been using for quite a long time. It has | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
been pointed to as something we could adopt, but not necessarily. It | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
is the magic wallet for immigration according to the Brexit campaign. It | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
looks here, there is more detail in the FT, that Theresa May is taking a | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
position whereby she would look at reverential treatment for EU | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
citizens. Of course the aim here would be to try and preserve more | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
access to the single market by giving a bit more leeway with | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
respect to access to the Labour market, while at the same time not | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
allowing it into our policy. It is not clear if this would work, | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
certainly in terms of achieving access to the single market because | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
our partners in Europe have been pretty clear they want to have total | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
open door or no deal on trade access. And employers often need | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
speed, they need to be able to recruit people quite quickly. Yes, | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
that's it. In many ways that was a dividing line in the EU referendum. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
The boss class, employers, wanting higher net inward immigration | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
because of cheaper Labour and workers who feel their wages have | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
been depressed because of migration to the UK. The Guardian, Theresa May | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
refuses to guarantee Brexit alleges, saying the extra money for the NHS | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
which was talked about rather controversially at the time, and | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
also these warnings from Japan and the United States, still saying this | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
is not going to do you any good if you leave the single market. There | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
is still a lot of uncertainty around what Brexit really means, and I | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
think it is a key issue. The Australian style points system, the | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
?100 million extra each week from the US if we left the EU, and cuts | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the energy bills, all pledges made by the Leave campaign. He told the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
British public this is what you can do if you vote for Brexit but of | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
course the Leave campaign were not the government and now Theresa May | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
is making pretty clear she is not necessarily going to accept pledges | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
made by leave campaigners. And the ?100 million was a net figure, the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
number on the side of the bus which we will never forget was ?350 | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
million. The Prime Minister can point to the fact that the CBI for | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
example is saying that businesses are doing very well. The value of | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
the pound has fallen. Yes, you can look at the FTSE, doing very well. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
The reality is, jobs and actual real-world economic activity in this | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
country, and whether over the long-term that will continue. I | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
think that has always been a concern for people so we will see what | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
happens with growth and unemployment. But the question in | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
terms of the guarantee, she has a very difficult thing to do. She is | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
trying to deliver on mutually exclusive and contradictory promises | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
on the part of the campaign. So very difficult choices to make them. And | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
on this subject, the Daily Express, no fear over EU exit, she has been | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
warned off watering down a deal with Brussels but a deal has to be | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
negotiated. It is not necessarily what written what is, it is what | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
other people are prepared to give us -- what Britain wants. She is | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
optimistic and looking at the benefits and lots of up the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
statements, but not a lot of detail. I think that at the moment that is | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
something which increasingly we are going to see business asking for. We | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
have already had up partners asking for that. Is will hold off | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
investments if they don't know what the future is like. Looking at the | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
FT, Hinkley Point offers prize to EDF and Chinese partner. So this is | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
a little bit complicated. It is a little bit complicated but this is a | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
boon for critics of the Hinkley Point project. A new analysis says | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
that EDF, a French backed company, and CGM, the Chinese state backed | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
company, stand to make ?100 billion in revenue if the nuclear power | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
station goes ahead -- CGN. And the interesting thing here is that the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
very controversial model of pricing electricity that the whole project | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
centres on, the burden of that increased price will fall on | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
consumers. And this has had the breaks put on it. Whether this | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
project goes ahead in its previous form. Absolutely, according to | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
former colleagues, Theresa May has concerns about security implications | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
of Chinese investment in the UK. It may also be about the money. It will | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
involve the company is getting twice the current rate of electricity, the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
differential may be higher in the future because it is an inflation | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
linked price and we are looking for shale gas, and if we ever find that | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
the cost of electricity generation will go down. Financially this is | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
enormous. ?30 billion is the cost of the subsidy, that is what you and I | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
will be paying for it if it goes through. You can understand why | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Theresa May is giving pause for thought. The Times has a headline | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
that the NHS blows nearly ?2 billion in payoffs to bosses, these are | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
redundancy settlements. Yes, obviously bosses in the NHS is a | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
perennial question. We talk about how there is not a lot of criticism | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
of inefficiencies in the NHS, and they get in professional managers | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
and they seem to be a source of increasing inefficiency according to | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
many of these reports. Some of those are not founded at it does seem in | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
this case that people have received pay-outs which are well above the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
ceiling the government had put on pay-outs. And a huge amount of money | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
leaves the NHS at a time when it is struggling for money and it seems | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
that some of those posts have to be either reinvented or people brought | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
back in on a freelance, contractual basis. You are absolutely right, at | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
a time when the NHS is having to ration services in some areas, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
surgery being refused to obese patients, for example, people are | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
very angered to see that 6-figure payoffs going beyond the cat | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
mentioned and sometimes two or three times that tap, are being paid at | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
the managers. This goes back to the restructuring of the NHS led by the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
former Health Secretary under the coalition government. A huge tearing | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
up of the structures of the NHS which led to a lot of post is being | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
abolished and reformed. Some people left their job and were given big | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
pay-outs, but in a revolving door system they come back to work for | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
the NHS again in a different capacity. Let's look at a couple of | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
stories from the Daily Mail. Shameless is the headline. It is | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
talking about these allegations surrounding Keith Vaz, the Labour MP | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
for Leicester East and also who has been sharing the Home Affairs Select | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Committee for the last five years. He clings to power after paying Mail | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
escorts. He blames the press for exposing him, and Jeremy Corbyn, the | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Labour Party leader, dismisses the scandal as a private matter. In most | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
parts of the country, paying for sex is not illegal. All these | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
allegations at the moment, and Keith Vaz has expressed his deep | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
reservations and concerns about the fact that the Daily Mirror has even | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
run the story in the way it has run it. Yes, I think the key issue here, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
why the story would be in the public interest, is because he chairs the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Home Affairs Committee which looks into vice issues. It is even at the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
moment running an enquiry into prostitution. So the allegations | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
against Keith Vaz are that he has himself participated and liaised | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
with prostitutes, raising lots of questions and making people think is | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
he really the right person to be presiding over an enquiry which is | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
looking into laws to do with sex workers. It is an interesting one. I | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
mean, Jeremy Corbyn is saying it is a private matter, as we discussed. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
The issue of solicitation of prostitutes is a legal area of | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
ambiguity in the United Kingdom, solicitation from an automobile is | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
not legal, solicitation at all in Northern Ireland is not legal. Even | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
if it was totally legal, it is an area where I think people aren't | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
entirely comfortable with it, and I think that the issue of being a | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
private matter, probably a lot of voters would not take that view. And | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
that particular point may make his position, even though these at this | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
stage are just allegations, that may make his position of authority | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
difficult to sustain longer term. He says, he has referred to what the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Sunday express has done -- he has referred what the Sunday express has | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
done to his solicitor. There has been no confirmation whether these | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
are true so difficult week ahead for Keith Vaz. Still on the Daily Mail, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
superbug found in a quarter of chickens. I feel I can read this | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
story a few years ago. It is interesting, and it is all coming in | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the wake of... When you see that, it takes the question of whether we | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
have enough regulation of food standards. We have had a campaign as | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
a newspaper for the last several months about getting rid of | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
regulations. It is a very interesting situation, but obviously | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
it is not good if chickens have got this... Unfortunately from the | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
reporting that we've seen in the newspaper, not a lot of details of | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
what the problem is here, what failings in which stores all which | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
rules are not being followed. It would be interesting to see more | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
detail on this. Even if we don't have EU regulations, we have our own | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
regulations which suggest that E-coli in chickens are not a great | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
idea. I am glad to say I am a vegetarian. But it does worry me, | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
the antibiotics pumped into supermarket chickens. E-coli is | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
another matter altogether but one in four chickens having a strain of the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
superbug sounds very worrying if that is correct. Yes, we have had | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
other bugs in the past, eggs which were not particularly safe, and | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Selman Eller. That is going back a bit, but this is E-coli this time, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
so resistant to antibiotics. That is the issue and it can be deadly, of | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
course. The Daily Express page two, Mother Teresa made a saint. And it | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
hasn't taken long. She died in 1997 and already she seems to have been | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
sort of fast tracked. Absolutely, and as an Irish person, I assumed | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
she was a saint for years. It is not surprised it is coming in as quickly | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
and a huge turnout today. Among the Catholic faithful is a bit tricky | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
among the more religious, I suppose, of Catholics. She is a very popular | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
figure. But of course in other areas she has had her critics, about, you | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
know, helping alleviate poverty but maybe not focusing on the root | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
causes of poverty. She might of course have argued that as a | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
political area, which she thought she shouldn't straight into but | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
nowadays we see advocacy to be quite important. There has also been | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
criticism of who she took money from, some of the sources of that | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
money were a bit suspect. Yes, she is not a whiter than white figure in | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
many people's eyes. There is a lot of controversy surrounding Mother | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Teresa. But she is such a global icon, I am not surprised she has | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
been canonised in only 19 years. It is a formalisation of what many | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
people thought anyway. And just to say, one key thing is she was the | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
stigmatising working with people like lepers, AIDS patients at the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
time, other types of ill and destitute people who were considered | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
untouchable and that is a legacy that should be honoured. Page three | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
of the Times. Poldark, it is a Cornish name, Lewis the Jetset to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Cornwall. Are they all hoping to get an eye on Captain Poldark? I wonder. | :13:43. | :13:51. | |
As it happens I went with Boris Johnson on the Brexit trail to | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Cornwall and we stopped in a town and some women in the village | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
crowded around the bus and they were hoping to see Poldark, not Boris | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Johnson. The show has exquisite scenery and I'm not surprised that | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
the story says a fifth of all visitors to Cornwall in the past | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
year say that they were inspired by a Poldark to come and see the | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
landscape for themselves. And there have been a lot of programmes over | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
the years which have done that the various parts of the country. I | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
guess so, yes. Obviously Poldark is fronted by an Irish actor. I | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
remarked to your producer that it was good to see a show which were | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
still marketed the Irish charm. She said actually it was set in Cornwall | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
and I was feeling a bit deflated. Our rude, and you are a guest! But | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
it is a reminder again of the importance of the way that culture | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
itself as an significance beyond immediate viewership -- and | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
economics significance. These programmes get sold overseas, people | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
watch them in the United States. And finally, fact and fiction merge as a | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
character from The Archers goes on trial. This has been a very | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
well-publicised storyline, this woman who is on trial in The Archers | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
on Radio 4 for trying to potentially kill her husband, Robert, who by | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
many people's standards is a very controlling man. Yes, it is | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
extraordinary that pick up it has had, and when you think of The | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Archers as a gently rolling, bucolic sort of storyline, it is really -- | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
real drama. It has had interesting consequences, there have been | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
thousands of pounds raised for charity, an uptick in calls to | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
domestic violence helpline is, and are raised in awareness. And every | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
body wants to know the verdict. We will have to wait and see. | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
Thank you, Tom Bergin and Lucy Fisher. | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
Coming up next, it is The Film Review. | :16:00. | :16:08. |