27/11/2016 The Papers

after finishing second in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Team-mate Lewis Hamilton won the race.

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

With me are Nigel Nelson, who's political editor at both

And the Columinst for the Feminist Times, Jo Phillips.

Welcome to you both. Hello. The front pages, then.

The Telegraph leads with its own interview

with the Polish Prime Minister, who says that the European Union

will have to compromise with Britain over Brexit.

The Express says the government must come clean over what it calls

It says 30 million British people could have to work until they're 70

The Financial Times' main story is that eight big Italian banks

could fail if the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi loses

the constitutional referendum next week.

The Metro says a prisoner commits suicide in a British jail every

three days, in what it calls an epidemic fuelled by overcrowding

The i newspaper splashes across its front page that Castro

It says Jeremy Corbyn is under fire for praising

The Guardian has the story of Francois Fillon defeating

Alain Juppe to become the conservative candidate

It quotes him as saying, "France is more right-wing

than it has ever been."

And the Mail claims some GP surgeries are assessing patients

on the phone before they decide whether they should get

We are going to start this time with the Mirror and it has got this

football paedophile sexual abuse scandal on the front page along with

the men who have very bravely come forward in the last couple of weeks

to talk about those allegations. Ten questions the FA must answer, in

short, what are they? Some of them what you would expect, the kind of

things they want answered is it Crewe tell the FA what was going on?

Why was Barry Bennell, the man at the centre, allowed to leave the

country? Were similar incidents reported to the FA? That kind of

thing. That is exactly what the FA should answer. They are quite right

to get this investigation going on speedily. They have appointed a

senior barrister to look at this enquiry. There was a suggestion that

the FA could have acted sooner. One would have thought so. This man was

jailed in the 1990s. We just heard in the clip with Gordon Taylor from

the PFA, the professional footballers association, you would

have thought there might have been an investigation and I am afraid it

sounds weak to say that we asked if there are any more victims and no

one came forward. We are not talking 40 years ago. We are talking, you

know, within the last 20 years. There are lots of questions for the

football association to ask. As you rightly say, Martine, it is

incredibly courageous people to come forward and to talk about this and

to open this horrible can of worms. And apparently there will be many

more, of course, and the suggestion is that it is not just football,

there will be other sports. In a sense, it is surprising, given how

many sort of areas this has affected, showbiz with Jimmy Savile,

politics, it is amazing no one has turned their attention to sport. It

almost seems obvious because it is a gateway for paedophiles to get close

to young people. The MS PC has a unit to look after this. Yes. --

NSPCC. Thatcherite victor has sharp shock for France. Francois Fillon

took 70% of the vote. What is the promising? He is basically promising

Thatcherism Lite. He is promising to take on Marine Le Pen, leader of the

National Front. He is conservative. By his own admission, he is... He

has said he admires Thatcher and he wants to scale back the French

estate, which would see about 500,000 public sector workers gone,

lose their jobs, he wants to cut back on public spending but he is

not looking at privatising national services and infrastructure and

things like that. So, he beat Alain Juppe very convincingly. He will go

on to the election next year. We don't know yet whom the Socialist

candidate will be. I think you were saying earlier in the news that it

could be Francois Hollande and he would be mad because he is the most

unpopular president they have ever had. He will get knocked out early

on if he does decide to run. It does look as though Fillon... You know,

centre-right. The unions are still quite powerful. They will fight

these cuts to the mail. This is why I find some of this little

surprising as a selling point at the moment, because it is exactly the

kind of policies that people have been rebelling against. So, here

with Brexit, America with Donald Trump, however, it may be that we

need some kind of right-wing agenda to take on Marine Le Pen. Yes. The

Telegraph, EU must compromise on Brexit, this is the Polish Prime

Minister talking ahead of a summit between Britain and Poland, Nigel,

and this is looking less at the economy as far as Brexit is

concerned. Yes, that is right, really, he is here to deal with

defence matters and we are sending 150 troops to help them out. It is

defence and security that the summit is basically about tomorrow but in

the interview with the article she has written for the Telegraph, she

is talking about how she thinks there is room for some kind of

compromise. In other words, there could be a negotiated deal with the

EU. She doesn't seem to go into any details from what we have seen about

what that deal might be, whether it is the single market, the customs

union, but she says if a compromise, the only compromise I can think of,

access to the single market or some of it, and we will take in some

migrants and we have to work out the figures, but it is interesting that

it is the first European leader to talk about the fact that they might

be able to come to an agreement. It is also a different voice for all of

the reasons you said, the voice of our security and defence, the other

big issue apart from the economy, which is focusing minds, but in

light of the conversation we have had about looking to the French

elections, actually this is a different voice, this is a different

part of Europe, and if Britain, if Theresa May can do some sort of

building of a relationship with Poland, you know, that's going to

make it a lot easier when you come to deal with the new French

government and a new German government potentially. But there

are 27 countries, aren't there, who have to be satisfied with this. If

it is a site Eastern Europe will say, we want to help Britain get

some kind of deal, that is a better start than anyone else has talked

about, everyone else has said it is take it or leave it. If you want

single market you take freedom of movement. If you want customs union

you don't get foreign trade deals. The idea there is room for manoeuvre

would suggest that they are -- there will be genuine negotiation. Maybe

there will be softening of the rhetoric. Eventually. Yes. The Daily

Express, pension shock for millions, the government urged to come clean

with the retirement age rising. Not something you hear in the Daily

Express, is it, pension shock. Britain to be colder than Iceland

and a whirl. It isn't a killer cold snap. Not yet. As many as 30 million

could work until they are 70. It is not surprising. We know that the

pensions are moving away from us like beach balls in an ebbing tide.

LAUGHTER. I like that metaphor! That's what I

am here for. You get extra pay for that. Leaving school now, someone

will... Sorry, they face a working lifetime of more than half a century

before they are eligible for a pension. The paper was produced by

the Department for Work and Pensions and it would bring in the pension

age of 70. Years ago when people left school at 15 and didn't get a

pension until 65, they were 50 years too. People are living longer. The

real problem that you are facing is people would spend one third in

retirement. A baby born today will live to be 100, one in three, so we

are facing a real crisis. What they should have done is thought about

this 30 years ago when they knew about it. I should be happy to

serve, if called. LAUGHTER. Imagine! The Times... Rip off rail

companies forced to display cheapest fares. Yes. Where will they display

them? Ticket machines have to be redesigned. According to the Times

investigation, passengers were presented with 42 possible fares for

a single journey between London and Birmingham and the online facilities

are under attack. It is ludicrous, at a time, talking about more and

more people doing the gig economy, freelance work, not working regular

Alice, in London there is the Oyster card, rail companies, you need a

monthly or yearly ticket, or you have to buy expensive peak time

things -- regular hours. So there is no flexibility. They are not

advertising the cheapest. Some rail companies have these cards which you

can buy which are extremely good value but there are no posters

advertised. Rail fares are such a complicated business. You get on the

wrong train and you have to pay the full fare because it was a different

one. This is such an easy thing to do. When you go and buy your ticket,

wherever it is, it should be the cheapest fare for where you want to

go. Wouldn't that be simple. That is what they are trying to do. These

are the basic, you know, just managing the jams. The Daily Mail,

prove you need to see their GP on the phone... Yes, the Daily Mail is

serious about this, as they tend to be about many things... Everything.

I worry about their blood pressure. LAUGHTER.

In which case they should phone their GP and ask if they should come

in. This is what the story is about. Three minutes on the phone with your

GP and the Daily Mail don't like this terribly because the argument

is patients need to be seen physically by a doctor. Yet it seems

to make a lot of sense if you are feeling rough or you don't want to

go to see their GP but you are worried about something, make a

phone call, the GP talks to you and decides whether or not... Lots of

surgery is already do that. Yes. I have got an elderly aunt and her GP

is extremely good at finding. You know, she probably doesn't need a

home visit but she just needs reassurance -- phoning. Older people

like to know they are talking to their GP. We also do have NHS

Direct. There is a quote from a former president of the Royal

College of GPs who says doctors cannot see if the patient is pale,

jaundice, if they have a tremor or if they are dressing differently,

which would suggest the GP knows the patient well and I would suggest

most of them don't. Let us finish, though, with something rather

different, Ed's out, he has left Strictly.

Let's take the chance to remind ourselves of some

How can you not love that? That is animated trifle. He has clearly put

in a huge amount of work to be able to do that. It is rather typical. He

put in work when he was learning the piano, a huge amount when he was

running marathons. And in government. LAUGHTER.

He put a bit of work into that too. This is the way he comes back into

politics. You think so? Yes. He went out when he wasn't terribly popular.

Now he is hugely popular from Strictly - back he comes. That was

really for Amanda, the resident Strictly afficionados. And Bake Off.

She is a polymath, she is. It won't be the same without him. It is

great. It is lovely. And I think we like people who have a go. We don't

want them to flog a dead horse. No, and other contenders have arguably

hung on longer. Dressed in yellow, he reminded me of an Whitaker when

she was sort of flung across the floor and spun around. LAUGHTER.

He has never been the same since, has he, spending a fortune on

physiotherapy, apparently! LAUGHTER. Well, we wish him well, and we

wonder what is next for Ed Balls. I think it will be Yvette Cooper comes

back. I thought it was peculiar hearing him talk about economics on

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