12/02/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Caroline Frost, entertainment editor

at the Huffington Post UK, and Tony Grew, Parliamentary

Let's start tomorrow's front pages with the Daily Telegraph.

Alongside a picture of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arriving

at the Baftas, the paper quotes the Justice Secretary,

Liz Truss, as saying wicked offenders won't be released early

in order to meet prison population targets.

The Express says there is fury at a new bid to wreck

Theresa May's Brexit Bill when it goes through the House of Lords.

We all need tasers to fight terror is the Metro's headline,

following a survey of Metropolitan Police officers

suggesting two in three believe the stun guns should be carried

The Times is predicting a high street revolt over proposed rises

The paper says pubs and restaurants fear they will vanish.

What a waste, declares the Mail, which claims mandarins have wasted

billions of taxpayers' money on failed schemes such as crashing

drones and plane tickets for asylum seekers.

And alongside a picture of Emma Stone, who has taken

Best Actress award for her role in La La land at the Baftas,

the Guardian reports that whistle-blowers face a full-frontal

Let's now move on to look at some of those papers. Who wants to start us

off? Tony, perhaps you can get us started with the Daily Telegraph's

front page. Forget jail numbers, criminals will do time. He was

saying it and what is it about? It is a speech that the Justice

Secretary is expected to make tomorrow. It marks a significant

change in one aspect of justice policy. Theresa May likes to joke, I

say it is a joke, I have never heard anyone laugh at it, so I guess she

just likes to say it, when Ken Clarke was just a secretary, she

liked to lock them up and he liked to let them out and now there is a

new Justice Secretary and it seems locking them up is the new priority.

This is a change from Liz Truss's predecessor, Michael Gove, who

talked about reducing numbers and called for the release of 500

prisoners serving minimum term public protection sentences. He

wanted more emphasis on rehabilitation and prevention. What

Liz Truss is expected to say tomorrow is the government now

thinks that people who have been convicted of crimes she regards as

we could well serve longer sentences and this is seen as a reaction to

some of the public who feel that people are given a sentence and

don't serve the full sentence, there is something wrong with that of the

system. Interesting to use the word wicked.

Labour had called for the prison population to be halved as it was in

1990. I had forgotten that was ever a target. It seems jolly

unrealistic. It sounds good, it sounds very promising, ringing down

on overcrowding in prisons and all the problems that that causes. The

chain goes on. You go to prison in unfavourable circumstances and you

come out often much more likely to offend, in some cases, and Labour

made this great promise. For me this is very much trying to square the

circle, trying to reduce the people in prison but not really going into

the small print of how you are going to perhaps cut problems and the

social problems that come. We know that inequality and drug addiction

and mental health problems are all part of this big social chain that

lead so many people to jail and until you tackle that, this use of

the word wicked can be bandied around, but you need to really

define your terms, I think, if you are going to specify who will stay

in and who will come out. Let's press on. The Times, I think we will

look at next. A High Street revolt over the rates rise. This is

business rates, a lot of pubs and restaurants will vanish.

Interestingly, the story here, a lot of big-name companies. We often hear

of small businesses terrified of rate rises. But these are big ones.

They are, and these hikes are due to come in at the end of March, or

April, and they will have huge cost implications. If you go into the

small print is the government have been swift to point out, in fact

rates will fall for many businesses and remain the same. This is very

much trying to... Philip Hammond is doing what chancellors do, which is

Move pots around to enable councils to spend money where it is most

needed. They are having to tackle the lobby ready, politically

powerful bigger chains, who do certainly have pool on the high

street and in Parliament. -- pull. It is linked to the value of

property. People think of London but a lot of places are hotspots around

the country. They emphasise this again and again and again, big

businesses, which have real value of over ?100,000. That is why

households are worried about eye watering rises. Oxford Street is

particular concerned they will face a significant rise. As someone who

lives in London, I have been on Oxford Street and business is not

bad for them. They can afford to pay more for social care. I have very

little time for this story. If it was hitting small business, I would

be concerned. These businesses, Peter Express, Wagamama, the last

time I was there, they didn't seem to be struggling. -- Pizza Express.

And a lot of small firms also complain about this. And one of the

problems is the government has been slowly strangling councils for the

last six years. Massive cuts in their budgets, and they are coming

up with these solutions that you can raise rates and council tax, but

actually, I think we all know that local council funding will need a

lot more than they will raise through these rate rises. There are

a lot of stories around tonight, an important one here. North Korea.

They are sizing up the Trump reaction to this missile launch. It

is fascinating. North Korea sets off yet another one of its missiles, at

the very time when President Trump is meeting and playing golf with the

Japanese Prime Minister, so Mr Trump comes out and says I support Japan.

That is at least a clear statement of policy, isn't it? It is good that

he got the name of the country right, and didn't insult anyone. He

didn't mention South Korea, who have a dog in the fight, being across the

border from North Korea. It is a rogue state, and very few countries

have influence over North Korea, really only China. This is the first

big foreign policy test for President Trump and so far he hasn't

started a nuclear war, so we should be pleased about that. That is, of

course, true. But it is a very serious situation, where as you say

China is in there, we don't know, Mr Trump's attitude to China seems to

swing around depending what issue he is facing. It is a difficult job,

being president of the United States. Not as much fun as he

anticipated. I'm sure those tweets fired off to Arnold Schwarzenegger

involve a bit of nostalgia. We really are rattling along. Who

considers themselves an expert in what happens at things like the

races? The Times has this great story, drink curbs to stop bad

behaviour at the races. I'm sure there is no bad behaviour from you

anywhere at any time, Carolyn, not tell us what the story is about.

Very similar to other sports in the past, even making's boon sport has

involved over imbibing and a certain amount of reverie which hasn't ended

well -- own sport. They will only be able to buy three glasses of water

and no more than four alcoholic drinks at a time, which were just

about finished me off. Do you mean having them or not having them? I

think the cost would be prohibitive. Nobody has seen bad drinking at the

races unless they have been to the Melbourne Cup, and I say that to all

Australians watching this. I am sure you hold that title with pride. At

some point they have to decide if they actually want drink. They are

being seen to be socially responsible, but obviously they are

still coining it, and these drinks are not cheap. If they really want

people not to drink, they shouldn't be available. At a football match

you can't bring drink in at all, but cricket now, massive amounts of

drinking, almost everywhere else. Wimbledon, Ulph courses, everywhere.

Racing used to be a middle-class sport and some working-class people

have come along and urinated into a glass, and the whole thing has

changed as Mac golf courses. -- golf courses. The second day of the

festival was marred by photographs of footballers getting drunk, women

baring their breasts and two people urinating into their beer glasses.

Something must be done. I hadn't quite looked at this as a class

-based issue, I must say. Let's go on to the Daily Mail. Their front

page here. What a waste, they say. What is the waste they are referring

to? What is it about? Surprisingly, in an extremely complicated

organisations such as the government, waste does happen. They

have information from 20 government departments and put it to find out

where government money has been wasted, important to point out that

money the government has admitted they have wasted, and they have

recovered sums of ?300,000. The first horrible example they pick up

on is almost ?2 million squandered on deportation fight for failed

asylum seekers, which is something where the Daily Mail might have an

interest. This is where they paid for the tickets and they didn't go.

They have something called the court system, which the Daily Mail doesn't

approve of is the judge enemies of the people. That these people

shouldn't be deported, and quite rightly, the cost of their ticket

comes back to the government. They are complaining that RAF drones

which are tested crashed, which is the point of testing drones. And a

ride off by the MoD, which is very wasteful, and defence is notorious

for overspend and problems with equipment. Obviously you could pick

out things that sound a bit silly, but it does seem ready awful,

doesn't it, some of the things that go on. It is the old pennies and

pounds argument, isn't it? If you are allowing money to go wasted on

small things, what about the big things? In the mail seems to have

identified them. That is what it is all about. -- the Daily Mail. You

could say ?626 being wasted on Christmas bonuses, that is an extra

?10 each of those individuals got. I think this is chipping away at

trustworthiness. That the government can't be trusted with that much

money. I don't know what they are proposing, that they should have

less of it, that there should be a transparency issue... We will see

what comes out in the response. And you were there tonight. At the Royal

Albert Hall, freezing away, but there is Emma Stone, who got the

Best Actress award. She doesn't look as though she is wearing enough. I

was wearing slightly more than that, you will be pleased to hear. She has

a massive smile on her face, she won the gong for wearing this out fit in

minus three degrees and her sterling work in La La Land. But the real

star of the night was the Duchess of Cambridge. And their pictures on the

front of the Daily Telegraph there. As usual, they stole the limelight

on the red carpet. Yes, in an Alexander McQueen down. I can tell

from looking at it, it is black with ice cream cones on it, that is

Alexander McQueen. For once you have done your homework. What you said in

the first section is really true, you have these huge US stars who are

their own planet, ego, and a minor royal walks into the shop and their

knees go weak. Not that they are minor royals. We understand the

point exactly. That is the papers for the sour.

-- That's it for The Papers this hour.

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