Browse content similar to 20/11/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Jeff With me are journalist James Rampton and Sian Griffiths, | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
education editor of The Sunday Times. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
The Sunday Telegraph warns that the Autumn Statement may | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
include a tax raid on middle-class job perks - | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
The Observer claims Europe's leaders are to force the UK into a hard | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Brexit in a bid to see off any future populist insurgencies that | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
might lead to the break-up of the European Union. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
The Sunday Times says the Queen is to invite | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Donald Trump to Windsor - with Ministers hoping | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
she'll help cement ties with the new American President. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
The Sunday Mail claims that the Duchess of York has | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
launched a legal case against the owners of the now | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
defunct News of the World for 25 million pounds after the fake | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
Sheikh sting that she says destroyed her reputation. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
The Sunday Mirror's top story is an interview with TV chef | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
Jean-Christophe Novelli, whose new-born son is very ill. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
the Autumn Statement will give us some people better health checks. | :01:18. | :01:34. | |
What do you make both parts of that? It is clever and as you say, this | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
idea that is going to be a raid on job perks and classes, gym | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
memberships, phone contracts, a lot of companies offer those now and of | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
course they do cost quite a lot in lost income tax out of national | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
insurance contributions so I think it will be a palatable way of | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
getting money back for the state. Even the middle classes can afford | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
it. The Government have made it very clear it is very interested in | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
helping these managing families. Nobody will say working class any | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
more because you can't say that. There has also been squeezed middle. | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
By reading these salary sacrifice middle-class perks that a lot of | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
people who are insecure jobs do enjoy -- by raiding, I think that | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
will be quite popular and I think spending ?1.3 billion to fight | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
congestion on the roads and improve our real services, that's going to | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
be a winner. -- rail. It is very easy to say you're going to spend | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
all this money but as we have seen with Heathrow for example, it might | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
not ever happen. I live near Holloway Road in North London which | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
has been dug up 40 or 50 times in the past two years which creates | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
immense traffic chaos in itself. There's an interesting stat here | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
that says 100 million working days will be lost between now and 2040, | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
which cost 13 billion to the economy due to traffic congestion so if | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
there is some way of solving that alleviating it, that's got to be a | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
good idea because it will help everyone and help business | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
particularly to get from a to B. Is the Chancellor suggesting it is not | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
all about Brexit but it is interesting to find out the tone, a | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
cautious is he going to be? People will be looking at his demeanour. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
They will and I think they will be other things on the odd statement. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
We have a story in the Sunday Times -- Autumn Statement. We think he | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
might be spending millions on the expansion of grammar schools so they | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
are other projects I think we will be seen as the week unfolds. As | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
everything is about PR these days, it is very important to give an | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
impression of business as usual. Nigel Lawson was used to say, steady | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
as she goes. That's the impression Philip Hammond was to create for the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
markets. They hate uncertainty. We seen the plunge of the level of the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
pound after Brexit. Philip Hammond was to emphasise his own long career | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
in business and quell fears that things are going to become chaotic. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Let's move on to the Sunday Times. Queen to invite Trump to Windsor. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
This is a well worn path but it does them to work with foreign readers. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
-- tend to work. Donald Trump invited to meet the Queen as the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Government employs its secret weapon to cement ties with the American | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
president. One of the sources is saying that Donald Trump is a | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
massive Anglophile because his mum was Scottish of course and he is | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
really keen to meet the Queen. His late mother loved the Queen. He | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
says, I can't wait to meet her. My mother would be chuffed. He's now | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
the American president but he's also a person and meeting the Queen is a | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
huge thing for anybody. I don't think he has necessarily endeared | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
himself with the Scottish people because of the shenanigans with golf | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
courses. But also, to be a fly on the wall, he has made a career out | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
of saying the unsayable and what is he going to say to the Queen? Even | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
what had immense diplomatic skills, she might be taken aback. Her | :06:08. | :06:20. | |
Majesty will acquit herself fairly well. I did see one of the American | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
papers, he was asked at some point about Trump Towers and its | :06:29. | :06:41. | |
garishness but he said it is based on British architecture. It is more | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
like Louis XIV, over the top garishness. Apparently the elevator | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
door costs more than my house! It is incredible what he has done in terms | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
of extravagance. He has the opulence of the French king which led to the | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
French Revolution! Back to the serious world that we have to cover, | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
the Observer says your's leaders are to force Britain into a hard Brexit | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
-- Europe's leaders. It is hardly surprising that those left in the | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
European Union don't want to give Britain an easy ride. It is | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
something the EU is terrified, that if they see the British getting an | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
easy ride, they are in favour of cake and eating it, if they get it | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
both ways with free movement and immigration, then a right-wing | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
parties are making great strides in Europe, in Holland, in France with | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
Marine Le Pen. Italy is very unstable at the moment. The Prime | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Minister is likely to lose a vote on the constitution in Italy next week. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
All of these people might say, why do we need the EU? It would be an | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
almost existential threat to it if they make it easy for the Brits and | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
in that respect, I agree with the EU, give them a hard time and show | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
them it is not easy and you will have a very difficult time as the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
tumbleweed blows across your economic wilderness. Nigel Farage, | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
he is a divisive figure in her country, surely it is right that if | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Marine Le Pen wins, it would be game over for the EU, without fans and | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
without her policies the EU would be finished. 60 years of EU integration | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
would be at an end. The way things are going, it is not inconceivable. | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
I'm told by a great number of French experts it is impossible for her to | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
win. Her father was down to the last two and everybody who wasn't in the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
French National front, which was 60% of the country, ganged up and | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
stopped her father getting in, but it does worry me that it will only | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
be Germany left in the EU, like a Monty Python, when the black natives | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
having his limbs sliced off and he says, I'm fine, I'm fine -- Black | :09:28. | :09:42. | |
night. -- knight. We are much more interested in Renzi's future in | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Italy and the Chancellor of Germany's future and the next French | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
president. Those are the three largest remaining economies in the | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
EU once we exit, so if one of those pillars was chipped away, it would | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
be cataclysmic for the EU. Let's move on to the Sunday Times. Here's | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
a story we can all enjoy. Tony Blair. Who? He was Prime Minister, | :10:08. | :10:22. | |
elected three times. Oh, that one! I thought he was just a rich man who | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
toured around giving lectures about how brilliant he is. Tony Blair is | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
saying Theresa May is a lightweight and Jeremy Corbyn is a nutter, so | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
I'm back. It's a good headline! Sources are saying that he is | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
positioning himself to play a pivotal role in shaping Britain's | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Brexit steel and he is scouting out a power base in Westminster and | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
apparently he is setting up an institute close to Whitehall and he | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
has already been holding talks with senior ministers and officials as he | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
tried to re-enter British politics -- tries. He's not impressed with | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
Theresa May, he says she is a lightweight and things Jeremy Corbyn | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
is a nutter and the Tories are screwing up Brexit, so enter Tony | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Blair to sort it all out. I like the squad, he thinks there is a massive | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
hole in British politics he can fill. I think it is a whole lot of | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
people would want to put him in! A lot of us voted for him in 1987 | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
that he was going to change everything and he did for a few | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
years but then the catastrophe that was Iraq destroyed his reputation | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
and since Chilcott, he's been trying to rehabilitate himself, but the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
damage has been done, it's too late. He says he has an office he is going | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
to fill with 130 staff. That's as big as most medium-sized countries. | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
More people than we have negotiating trade deals. Exactly, because we | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
can't find any negotiators! His point is there's a vacuum of | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
leadership in British politics, that's effectively what he's saying. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
And he's right, and I never thought I would say this in a million years, | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
but I agree with George Osborne, who is saying that all the predictions | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
which levers said was project fear, could come true. We don't now what | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
is going to happen after Brexit, to the economy or who we are going to | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
do trade deals with, so apparently Tony Blair has been meeting George | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Osborne. It might seem like an unholy alliance, but it also might | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
feel like saviours who are talking sense. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
Tony Blair thinks it will end in tears and bitterness, that Brexit is | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
a car crash that will end in a pile-up. A lot of people think that | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
is a reality. Leaving aside reservations about Tony Blair, | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
Theresa May has said if you don't want to reveal your hand, but there | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
are those who think she doesn't actually have a hand. I think there | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
is a great fear about this pending appeal in the Supreme Court. If the | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
campaigners win that appeal, which seems likely because it would be | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
very unusual for the Supreme Court to overrule a judgment about the | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
sovereignty of Parliament, then the Government is good to be forced to | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
reveal its plans, if it has any. -- going to be forced. The other part | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
of Tony Blair's supposed comeback is his reference to Jeremy Corbyn. It | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
was interesting that Prime Minister's questions this week, | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
given the profound changes in the world and the discontent about how | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
to handle Brexit, the questions about the Supreme Court and so on. | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's first question was about the islanders, a worthy cause | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
but hardly top of the agenda for most people who wanted to know what | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
about where their country is is true. All the stories we have been | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
talking about this morning, Brexit is an underlying theme of all of | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
them and I think the uncertainty about where we are heading, it is | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
the major thing that is facing us and for the Leader of the Opposition | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
not to be addressing it at Prime Minister 's questions is wrong. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
Although I am left of centre, I think Jeremy Corbyn is a potential | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
disaster for democracy because we need a very serious opposition to | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
bogus Government to account, particularly in these extremely | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
uncertain times when no one knows how it is going to pan out. We need | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
a leader who will say Theresa May, what I never you doing? -- what on | :15:03. | :15:15. | |
earth are you doing? Jeremy Corbyn did eventually mention Brexit and so | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
on, but the implication of what Tony Blair is doing, or hoping to do, is | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
that there is a centre ground in Britain which is not being | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
represented by a strong voice in Parliament or elsewhere. I can see | :15:29. | :15:41. | |
him as a kingmaker for a comeback by Osborne. I don't think he is totally | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
discredited and I wouldn't wish this at all but if the economy does crash | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
and burn, Osborne might be able to come back to centre stage and say, | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
this is what I predicted, here I am, usage. I loved your story in the | :15:53. | :16:09. | |
Sunday Times. Oxford students pick classism officer because | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
working-class students have been told, did you get that from Primark? | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
Michael insults, micro aggressions. -- micro insults. This is an issue | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
with students, the rights of the working classes. We have heard | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
officers to support... Do you mean the working class or the squeezed | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
middle? The top universities are very small proportions of | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
working-class students -- Oxford and Cambridge have tiny proportions, but | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
this is funny and serious at the same time because student unions | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
have defended the rights of transgender students, lesbian and | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
guy mag students, and now the rate of working-class students -- gay | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
students. It sounds silly and ridiculous and bizarre, and lots of | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
student unions have chav evenings where they dress up as Vicky Pollard | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
and get drunk and that is offensive to working-class students on campus. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
The thing about Oxford is you have this huge divide between privately | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
educated students are incredibly wealthy and a small minority of | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
working-class students on bursaries and there is a real tension, a | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
social division. Students who come from working-class backgrounds do | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
have difficulties getting into universities. That is the principal | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
difficulty. Somebody saying, did you get your calls from Primark, on a | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
scale of zero to ten, that is lower for people from working-class | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
backgrounds. That is indicative of a whole attitude. I agree with you | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
that if you hope these events were you looking down your nose at | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
so-called chavs, it does bespeak a white attitude that somehow people | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
from public schools are superior and no better -- know better. The Linden | :18:15. | :18:32. | |
club highlights it will. -- Bullingdon. There is a massive | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
disparity with working-class students and universities. The | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
question is, why are they not going there? It is not about classism, a | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
classism officer is not going to solve anything. My daughter has just | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
left Lady Margaret hall in Oxford where they have started a scheme | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
which will give 12 students from disadvantaged backgrounds a year's | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
free tuition at Oxford at the college to see if they like it and | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
they are suitable for it. It not dependent on A-levels. It is done | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
through interview and an assessment of their potential. I think that is | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
a brilliant scheme and is the sort of thing that Oxford should be | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
doing. The final story of the day. Our future Prime Minister Ed Balls, | :19:28. | :19:40. | |
the most popular politician in the country? I always try to get back to | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
watch Ed Balls on Strictly anti-surpassed himself yesterday, he | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
descended from the ceiling playing a flaming piano, playing Great Balls | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
Of Fire and he had me in stitches. We love the Eddie the Eagle figure, | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
we love the person who tries. Same with John Sergeant and Ann | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Widdecombe, we love the idea of someone fighting against the odds. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
We love an underdog in this country. Having said that, if Tony Blair is | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
looking for a figurehead to take over the middle ground, who better | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
than this guy who is winning more votes than the Labour Party every | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
week? Maybe Tony Blair should go on Strictly! | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
Just a reminder, we take a look at tomorrow s front pages every | :20:38. | :21:07. | |
It was a stormy wake up thanks to Angus, it is | :21:08. | :21:09. |