08/09/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Benedicte Paviot, Broadcaster at France 24,

and Jenni Russell, Columnist at The Times.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Financial Times says the Chancellor will exempt

top bankers from post Brexit migration controls.

The news that the government is considering re-introducing

grammar schools gives the Metro it's front page.

The Telegraph goes with the same story, describing it

The Guardian also leads with grammar schools,

as well as a feature on Sir Nicholas Serota,

the outgoing director of the Tate galleries.

The Times front page describes the grammar school policy

The Express tells us there is proof that statins are a safe way

of preventing strokes and heart attacks.

And the Mirror leads with the same story,

as well as a picture of Amanda Holden and a Labrador.

I am sure it makes them somewhere. He knocked her over and licked her

face. He is a hero. Half the nation loves labradors and the other half

love Amanda Holden. I think we have some of the stories we need to talk

about. I'm supposed to be in charge! Let us stop with the Guardian. May

has opened the floodgates on grammar schools. Still controversial. It is

a Tory Prime Minister who is constantly compared to Margaret

Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher ended grammar schools. It was a radically

unpopular system and now May is bringing it back in. It looks like

the most confused policy I have ever read because any school can apply to

be a grammar school, but the big problem in English education is what

do you do with children who aren't really academic. There is no talk of

setting up schools for children whose strengths lie in different

directions. The Guardian says they are the preserves of the middle

classes because middle-class parents can tutor their children to pass the

exams. There is a lot of tutoring going on. There are a lot of classes

that have too many children in them. I don't know how it resolve this

problem. Interestingly, Theresa May went to a grammar school, but the

new education minister did not. I wonder how much of this has been

brought forward? Theresa May will be making her first big Prime Minister

speech and it will be on this policy. It's very controversial and

although is interesting because it is a cross-party issue, but there is

more opposition on the Labour benches than the conservative ones,

but it does not resolve problems sizes, the fact that there aren't

enough pupils who you can do apprenticeships in engineering or

things like that. It seems if all schools can do that, it will be more

selective than it is currently. The real problem is that it does not

address social mobility because all the evidence shows that by the time

you five, your academic path is usually set. We need to pump

resources into helping children from zero up to the edge of five. There

will be a bigger percentage of children who will have to be taken

from poorer backgrounds. I think a spotlight will be on Theresa May in

a very big way tomorrow on this and as a first major policy, is it

rushed because the notes were seen going into Downing Street? The Daily

Telegraph. The headteacher talking to parents outside a grammar school.

The captions so, many of our pupils go on to have successful careers

opposing selective schools. Let us move on. Statins. Thank you so much,

we can share. The express says statins are safe. It has been

confusing over the years whether statins are all they have cracked up

to be. Interestingly this report on statins, which is also on the front

of the Daily Telegraph, says a third of all adults should be taking them.

2 million people are currently taking them already in the UK and

what this report that is in the Lancet says is that in fact, be side

effects have been exaggerated and therefore that there should be

double the number of people actually taking the statins, bots, you know,

those reports initially criticising it, this is one report. -- Bart. Is

this about literally pushing statins down our throat? People should be

forgiven for being confused? I been reading statins stories three years

and it's evident that the drug companies have taken part in a big

push to take Clay make us take statins. It used to only be for

people at risk of heart disease. -- make us take statins. They are

effective for people with heart disease, but for the rest of us

there is evidence that they raise the risk of diabetes, calls muscle

pains and have other side-effects. The Daily Telegraph, Swinney

backtracks. This is about the SNP watering down plans after a court

ruling said having unnamed adult that every child in Scotland would

breach parental rights. They are going to press on with this, but in

a lesser role. When the Scots announced this I thought it was an

appalling idea, that there should be unnamed person licensed to interfere

in the life of every child under the age of 18. Why is it appalling if it

stops abuse? We haven't got lots of resources. You need to target your

resources on the children who are at risk and that is the real crisis in

this country. I sat for a couple of years on the panel organised by

Michael Gove that looked into serious abuse of children. There

aren't enough social workers all health workers to help children who

are abuse. A ridiculous waste of money. Imagining having an ill

educated person who doesn't know your child wants access to all the

records kept on your child. The courts in Scotland have ruled

against the... Sorry. We have so much to get through. Surely the

argument for watering it down here in this article is that they won't

just have carte blanche to look into and referred to every minor incident

of somebody's life? The reason why the Deputy First Minister has had to

announce this is because a court has ruled that it is breaching parents's

human rights and I think it is very much an interference in that sense.

It's also an assumption that everything the family is going to

need to be followed. It is the wrong way round. The Times, police defeat

Isis inspired bomb threat. It seems it was in its early stages, but the

head of the Metropolitan Police said in July it's a case of when, not if

some sort of Isis linked attack will take place here. Yes. Unfortunately

it is a problem that France is a very familiar with, unfortunately.

France is still in a state of emergency and I understand some

people will be appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court about

this. It's important to remember that the intelligence service and

the police do a fantastic job. They have been defeating all sorts of

Isis inspired bomb plots, we just don't hear about them. They don't

normally make the news because what has been successful, but we all need

to be vigilant. We don't know a lot about this particular plot. No, all

we know that two brothers were trying to get hold of chemicals to

set up an explosive device in west London. The police say it could've

been the most serious attack on London. Like the massive attack we

could have had in Notre Dame. A quick look at the Financial Times.

Hammond pledges to protect top bankers over immigration purge. That

is so that people with the skills can still get into London. Part of

the EU referendum was the issue of immigration, but the big question

the government has to face is who will it stop from coming? It said

one of the policies in the future will make sure the is more growth

and societies fairer to everybody. So are you going to let in the

bankers, as Hammond says he is going to do, or will you give visas to

people picking lettuces on the south coast? The government is making

clear they want the high-paid, high tax people to come to Britain and to

keep the city powerful. Indeed, there was also talk that could

become the financial centre. This is about reassurance. The Japanese made

some are turning comments at the jid 20 in terms of withdrawing the

headquarters, etc. There is a reluctance to invest and here

Hammond is pledging free movement for skilled bankers because the city

wants to be reassured over post-Brexit controls. The Daily

Mail, we must mention Dame Sarah Storey. This is a picture of the

cycling champion who has now got her 12 gold medal, I believe it is. She

is the most decorated female GB Paralympian. There she is with her

daughter who is three, who was born since the last Olympics. She is a

busy woman. There she is, back again. She has beaten Taney Grey

Thompson's Corp. 12? It is 12. -- Taney Grey Thompson's record.

Finally, the Daily Express says the Houses of Parliament could

potentially close for six years. Lots of problems with the building,

but it's only 150 years old. The MPs are going to what is the Department

of Health, which is interesting. I don't know where the bar would be.

The Lords will be down the street. Portcullis house was built at great

expense and it will be very handy, we are told. It is not too far to

walk, so after the big story is that it might move to Manchester or other

parts of the country, it went be far from Downing Street. They have

problems with the roof... IT, rats, asbestos. Why is going in different

places. Fire hazards. It is never a popular thing for a government to

say they are going to spend money on maintaining the building and that's

why it has got so run down. It's a beautiful building, but it is

vulnerable from the Thames. When it was built, we did not think it will

be vulnerable like that, especially after what happened on the river

with people accessing City Airport. Thank you both. Don't forget, all

the pages are online on the BBC website. You will find us there as

well because each night edition of the programme is posted on the page

shortly after we have finished. Thank you both, nice to have you

here. That's it for the moment. Coming up next, the weather.