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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
With me are the Assistant Editor of the Times, Anne Ashworth | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
and Tony Evans, sports columnist for the London Evening Standard. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Not Monday, I am clearly a day out. The rioting was Friday, today's | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
Saturday and these are tomorrow's newspapers. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The Observer focuses on the Unite leadership battle, | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
featuring an interview with the man challenging Len Mcluskey to head | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
The Mail on Sunday leads with what it describes as the great | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
foreign aid freeze, saying the government has agreed to halt | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
new contracts after an investigation by the paper. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
The Sunday Times says the head of the rail union behind this week's | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
industrial action has vowed to topple the Conservative government. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
The Sunday Telegraph also focusses on the unions, | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
claiming Theresa May is facing pressure to curb | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
The Express says the high street is heading for a record breaking | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
The unions and in particular, the rail unions. This is a blast from | :01:09. | :01:31. | |
the past, a braille -- rail boss threatening to bring down the union. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Threatening environment, people taking increasingly difficult | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
positions. In the papers today, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
the pressure on the government to take on the unions. We are seeing | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
that the strikes are not just about pay conditions and safety, they are | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
about bringing down the Tory government, which I and not against. | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
This in flames it. The situation has become increasingly... In the Sunday | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Telegraph, pressure from conservative MPs that go back to | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Thatcher ministers. Former ministers in her government now putting on | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
pressure today. Putting pressure on Theresa May. We are moving in that | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
way. Are there areas in which you would think that is acceptable? No, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
I don't think so. One of the things in Britain, for the best part of a | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
century, pay and conditions improved for the right to strike and you take | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
it away, it is a dangerous game. I am surprised with the huge emphasis | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
on the front pages about unions. It is like they all rang each other up. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
There are so many other stories around. Let's not get ahead of | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
ourselves, it is not 1978, not the winter of discontent. If you are a | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
southern rail user it is aggravating and there will be hold-ups at | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
airports. But it is not a general strike. An industrial strike of the | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
1970s. The idea that politicians from former governments are trying | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
to tell the Prime Minister this is what she should be addressing | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
amongst all the other problems is, frankly, battling. The economy is in | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
trouble because of many reasons. We have austerities, the banks, 2008, | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
nearly brought down capitalism, lots of problems we should be worrying | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
about. Frankly, the battle with the unions is not a big issue. The | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
unions have spent years watching their membership diminished. They | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
have seen their influence in politics and arguably the workplace | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
diminished for different reasons. Changing contractual reasons, many | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
reasons why it has been difficult for them. Suddenly, if they read the | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
papers to -- tomorrow, they might think they matter. It is | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
extraordinary but it is 1970s, bringing down the government. And | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
then Mrs May being asked to crack down on the unions. The headline of | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
the Telegraph, unions run rampant. That suggests there is more than | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
just a strike on Southern Rail and possibly two days of action at the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
airports over Christmas. The impression is, not quite the enemy | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
within but, people would think, where is this happening? Holding | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
society to ransom and frankly I have not got the ransom note yet. It is | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
very interesting, they don't bring out why they think Mrs May would be | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
resistant to any legislation against strikes. Do you think she will be? | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
She seems to be attuned to be ordinary person, middle Britain and | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
there is some suggestion she feels that will be curbing important | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
freedoms. I don't know what is on her mind but it seems to be she has | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
some kind of sense, we do have the right to withdraw our labour. That | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
is a crucial... Fundamental freedom. She will not be saying what the old | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
guard may be doing, she doesn't want them pushing her around. You have a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
new Prime Minister who is uncertain on the way forward, who is | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
ambivalent about Brexit and there is a bit of nervousness in the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
government going forward. The Tories trying to take advantage and make a | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
move. I must say, I think there are other things happening. Iama bit | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
baffled. We were shocked Aleppo was not on the front page. Lovely photo | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
of the Prince of Wales and his mum. Very striking picture, beautifully | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
lit. Gorgeously taken picture and the front-page picture is very | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
important. A lot of time would have been taken to make sure they got the | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
right one. No doubt they will ... They have all three are gentle | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
winners of Strictly. Quite clever. The Royal Family to sell papers. We | :06:55. | :07:07. | |
will move on to the Observer. The photograph, maybe not as spectacular | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
as the Strictly photos or as regal as the royal one, but the man who | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
will be the leader of the free world, in one month, no wonder he | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
has something to smile about in front of the Christmas tree in | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
borrowed. He will not give up on the thing of the missing drone. He wants | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
to get, criticise China, prod them, he would like to work them up into a | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
furious. It is a lot of sabre rattling. Do you think they | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
understand that and say, it is OK, let him have his head. They do this | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
stuff. We shouldn't worry. The fundamentals of our relationship and | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
position, we don't have to worry about this guy. I think they would | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
be very good about not taking him too seriously. He is posturing | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
before he gets into power, playing to his power base. When it comes | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
down to it he will need to be friendly with us. They will say, you | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
want trouble, we will pull all the debt. It is interesting | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
repositioning American policy to be anti- China and soft on Russia. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Reagan, the axis of evil but the new axis, Russia and America. An | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
intriguing thought. We move from Donald Trump two and international | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
issue important back home. -- onto an international issue. Critical on | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
something David Cameron did, the British budget going to foreign aid. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
They are investigating and have suggested there are examples where | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
the money has been poorly used, at least the supervision of how it is | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
spent is poor. As a consequence, some of the projects have not | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
deserved it. I think there will be a great deal of relief, the money, | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
finally scrutiny as to how it is spent and if it is going to worthy | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
projects. The new argument this week as to whether a better way to spend | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
some of the cash would be on care of the elderly. I think this is going | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
to be a massive debate, issue in the new year. Is our aid being used | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
properly, buying the influence it should buy, that is a crucial aspect | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
of giving aid. There is a real risk when you get into that debate, the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
criticism that has been made of Priti Patel, a stronger relationship | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
between the money spent on aid and the benefits of purchasing power, | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
particularly ahead of wrecks it. We give you money, in return you by our | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
stuff. That is not necessarily the best way to measure it. I think that | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
might be true but people feel we are cash-strapped as a nation, we are a | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
great philanthropic and charitable nation but want value for the money | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
we spend overseas. It is an increasing sign of British | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
isolationism. Wrecks it, spend the money here, that is fine but will it | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
get spent here? The reality is we would hate for it to go to the | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
begging bowl barons as the Daily Mail calls them. It is a sign that | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
country is becoming more in chiller and I don't think it will benefit | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Britain long-term. You think whatever we might see as a benefit | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
here, the perception of the outside world is negative. Back to the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Sunday Times. We talked about unions. We can ignore that and talk | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
about prisons. This is an interesting headline. Cold showers | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
triggered jail riot. A depressing story, life was so bad. It was a | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
fairly small thing, they couldn't get a hot shower. They are banged up | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
plumbing goes, it is midwinter. It plumbing goes, it is midwinter. It | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
always goes midwinter! It comes to the heart of what we think prison | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
should be about, is it about rehabilitation or is it putting | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
people in, more and more of them and not attempting to think we need to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
turn these people once more into decent members of society. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Privatising prisons is madness. There is talk, Northumberland's | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
prison is on a knife edge and problems elsewhere. We could be | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
getting into a period of prison riots. It has been outsourced, the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
prisons. Money has been withdrawn from it. And there is no coherent | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
policy. Abhi trying to punish them of all rehabilitate them? If we want | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
to punish them, give them cold shower was but we are spending so | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
much money on reasons and people come out and commit crimes again. It | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
appears to be a your your relationship. We need to make sure | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
people don't go back to prison after being there. Some businesses should | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
be government controlled and prisons is one of them. I wonder if we are | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
coming into a broader debate, aid and prisons, how our taxpayer money | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
is spent, whether the strategy is right, whether it is piecemeal, no | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
thought out doctrine behind the prison system. And I wonder whether, | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
how this can be accomplished, by what means we could no if we are | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
getting value. It was easy enough to bail out the banks, of course. One | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
to ponder and we will ponder it by thinking about the photograph on the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
front of the Sunday Times. Lovely photograph. When you talk about the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
quality of colour photography in the newspapers these days, the vividness | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
of Joanne Clifton's dress, she and our colleague at BBC News, Ore | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
Oduba, have won Strictly. This picture, it exemplifies the Ginger | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
Rogers and Fred Astaire quality that Ore had in his dancing, the moment | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
of pure joy that dancing should bring. A tribute to a great light | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
entertainment show that it should bring joy on what is a very dark and | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
miserable time. I think you and Anne can replicate the picture over here. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Would we have a few minutes more before we have to go to De Film | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
Review? And there you go, he did. I suspect in a few minutes he will say | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
he never looked back. Thank you very much. | :14:58. | :14:58. |