:00:00. > :00:00.sailors compete in the sea around Rio for the next Olympics, we have a
:00:00. > :00:00.report on the next -- on the state of the water. That is all coming up
:00:07. > :00:17.after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:18. > :00:20.to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are
:00:21. > :00:30.Neil Midgley, media writer at the Daily Telegraph, and the
:00:31. > :00:35.entrepreneur Scott Fletcher. Thank you very much for coming on a Friday
:00:36. > :00:39.night. Friday night in London! The Mail's headline "Champagne Perks
:00:40. > :00:42.of NHS Drugs Watchdog NICE". It says the body has spent around ?115,000
:00:43. > :00:47.on expenses which have come out of the NHS budget. The paper says these
:00:48. > :00:50.splurges are coming at a time when NICE is banning new drugs on the
:00:51. > :00:54.grounds that they're too expensive. The Express has a positive headline,
:00:55. > :00:56.with the good news that we're all going to live longer. According to
:00:57. > :01:04.the Office for National Statistics we're going to live an extra eight
:01:05. > :01:07.years. The Independent continues its theme
:01:08. > :01:10.of the corruption of Britain with a secret report into how they say the
:01:11. > :01:13.criminal justice system has been infiltrated by organised crime
:01:14. > :01:16.gangs. The Independent's sister paper the i
:01:17. > :01:19.has "The battle begins for the soul of the NHS", pitting Labour and the
:01:20. > :01:22.Conservatives against each other as the two parties start to set out
:01:23. > :01:26.their stalls ahead of the general election.
:01:27. > :01:28.The Telegraph has a picture of the French President's alleged mistress,
:01:29. > :01:34.the actress Julie Gayet, in a backless red dress.
:01:35. > :01:37.The Times also has a picture of the same French actress with the
:01:38. > :01:43.headline "Oui, Mr President" as well as Labour's plan to improve the
:01:44. > :01:46.teaching profession. And finally the Guardian leads with
:01:47. > :01:56."Benefits chaos will lead to a new housing crisis".
:01:57. > :02:01.Showing no favouritism, we start with the Daily Telegraph. Because
:02:02. > :02:06.they have so many good stories on the front, nothing to do with Neal
:02:07. > :02:11.being here. First, two new cities in secret Tory plan. The accusation
:02:12. > :02:15.that David Cameron suppressed a report calling for thousands of new
:02:16. > :02:21.homes. Do we need thousands of new homes? I think we do. We have 10
:02:22. > :02:25.million new people in the country over the last few years and rising,
:02:26. > :02:31.70 million within the next five years. It is about time we put
:02:32. > :02:37.something in place and looked strategically at these things. Also,
:02:38. > :02:42.the nature of family units as well. Often people are living single
:02:43. > :02:46.leaf. Housing needs have changed. Some proper planning. In business,
:02:47. > :02:51.we plan years ahead and government needs to do that and this is an
:02:52. > :02:54.opportunity for them to do so. There is something going on between the
:02:55. > :02:58.two sides of the coalition. This has been pushed by the Lib Dems in
:02:59. > :03:02.government and the Tories are trying to push it to one side. The Lib Dems
:03:03. > :03:08.are saying, we are in favour of garden cities, big, sprawling
:03:09. > :03:12.suburbs in any other language, and the Tories, already facing electoral
:03:13. > :03:13.difficulties in the Home Counties, where these places would be supposed
:03:14. > :03:24.to be, where these places would be supposed
:03:25. > :03:26.pressure is. Obviously in the Home Counties, in Buckinghamshire in
:03:27. > :03:31.particular, on the route, the proposed route of HS2, through the
:03:32. > :03:36.Chilterns, the Tories are already facing electoral wobbles up there.
:03:37. > :03:39.The idea that they might concrete over another swathe of the
:03:40. > :03:44.countryside to build suburbs will probably not go down well with Tory
:03:45. > :03:49.voters. But if we have that many people needing homes, we need to
:03:50. > :03:54.address it. Immigration is out of control and we have to do something
:03:55. > :04:00.about it. You cannot just plonk houses in a place. We have to have
:04:01. > :04:03.all of the amenities with it. Absolutely. That is one of the
:04:04. > :04:06.issues, which is why you need a plan, and not just to build
:04:07. > :04:13.willy-nilly. Schools are under pressure. And hospitals. Airport
:04:14. > :04:16.capacity. Another decision the government should take is where we
:04:17. > :04:21.will have more airport capacity in the south-east of England. The
:04:22. > :04:24.trouble is there are no votes in making these decisions, sensible,
:04:25. > :04:29.long-term decisions which cost money. There are no votes in that so
:04:30. > :04:33.governments shy away from taking them. The other story, UKIP will
:04:34. > :04:38.target Labour seats in the North, says Nigel Farage. The paper quotes
:04:39. > :04:42.him as saying the Conservative Party is dying in the North as it has
:04:43. > :04:47.failed to connect with ordinary people. You are both from the North
:04:48. > :04:54.of England, different sides of the Pennines. Our UKIP going to be the
:04:55. > :04:59.party that appeals to the people who do not like the Conservatives? It is
:05:00. > :05:04.a stretch to imagine there will be a swathe of whatever colour UKIP has,
:05:05. > :05:10.pink or whatever, purple, in the electoral map come 2015. It is
:05:11. > :05:18.shocking to me to see how far the Tory party has fallen in the North.
:05:19. > :05:21.Being from Manchester, brought up a Labour boy with socialist roots,
:05:22. > :05:25.that is definitely how Manchester still feels. But the conversation in
:05:26. > :05:33.the pubs now, UKIP are being talked about. Nobody would vote Tory. And
:05:34. > :05:36.they appeal to you. Absolutely. My political views are about liberty
:05:37. > :05:41.and socialism and try to do the two together but not with massive
:05:42. > :05:46.government. I want to control what we are doing for Britain so I am
:05:47. > :05:49.against the EU. We talked earlier about the two cities. One of the
:05:50. > :05:52.reasons we have to do that is the mass immigration we have got. These
:05:53. > :06:04.things have to be talked about sensibly and not the litter size. --
:06:05. > :06:09.politicised. Where I was brought up, it was a safe Tory seat and it has
:06:10. > :06:13.been a safe Labour seat now ever since the 1997 election. And the
:06:14. > :06:18.Tories, what Nigel Farage is right about, is that there does need to be
:06:19. > :06:24.a viable alternative for voters in northern cities, other than Labour.
:06:25. > :06:31.But when you have a party like UKIP, because they are divisive for
:06:32. > :06:35.a lot of people, sometimes there will be strategic voting even
:06:36. > :06:42.encouraged by the main parties. When you have the status quo, that
:06:43. > :06:50.2-party system, I am 40 years old and the vote on the EU was in 1973.
:06:51. > :06:54.When you look at change, it will be divisive in some way, and people
:06:55. > :06:57.want change at the moment, is what I am feeling, something different.
:06:58. > :07:01.That is what UKIP is bringing. If the mainstream parties take on some
:07:02. > :07:06.of their policies, things might change, but until they do, I think
:07:07. > :07:12.there is a big cohort of people, particularly in the north, saying,
:07:13. > :07:16.who is representing me. The Daily Mail talks about the champagne perks
:07:17. > :07:22.of the NHS trucks body. This is nice macro, which decides which drugs we
:07:23. > :07:27.get to be treated with, accused of spending thousands of pounds on
:07:28. > :07:32.hotels, a John Lewis shopping spree and champagne, racking up credit
:07:33. > :07:36.card bills of ?115,000. Not a lot of money in the greater scheme of
:07:37. > :07:42.things, but it is the message that it sends. It is the principle. There
:07:43. > :07:51.is a ?106 billion budget and we are talking about ?115,000 over two
:07:52. > :07:57.years. It is nothing. ?5,000 on luxury hotels over two years is ?200
:07:58. > :08:01.a month. One hotel each month. I do not really by the story. We have to
:08:02. > :08:06.focus more on what the drugs are costing and why we are not giving
:08:07. > :08:11.them to people. Obviously, these are expenses be part -- people are
:08:12. > :08:18.incurring, hopefully in the course of their work. Statistic that did
:08:19. > :08:22.stand out further down the story is that 137,000 credit cards are issued
:08:23. > :08:27.to government employees by the government. I have no idea how they
:08:28. > :08:34.manage -- how they manage that. Can you imagine? Who checks the bills?
:08:35. > :08:37.As an employee, it is better to have the money on the employer's credit
:08:38. > :08:43.card and for them to get it back from you, rather than the other way
:08:44. > :08:47.round. In the private sector, you would put it on your own and claim
:08:48. > :08:59.it back. That is maybe where the story years. Let's look at the
:09:00. > :09:05.Independent. Corruption of Britain. Looking back over ten years to stuff
:09:06. > :09:11.that was happening, apparently the infiltration of some of our bigger
:09:12. > :09:19.is to Jewish and is by criminals. -- our big institutions. This report is
:09:20. > :09:26.ten years old and is only just coming out. This is operation
:09:27. > :09:29.Tiberius at Scotland Yard, suspected in 2003 that juries were being
:09:30. > :09:35.nobbled by infiltration by organised criminals, that Revenue and
:09:36. > :09:40.Customs, here and abroad, the gangs were getting their own people to be
:09:41. > :09:44.employed by HMRC, and therefore, obviously, turning a blind eye or
:09:45. > :09:49.whatever to the criminal scams that were going on. The question that it
:09:50. > :09:53.raises, which is why it is on the front page, is how much of this is
:09:54. > :09:59.still going on today, and is there another report on a desk at Scotland
:10:00. > :10:06.Yard now? A difficult week for some of the organisations implicated in
:10:07. > :10:12.this. In plebgate we've got going on today, yes. As a man in the street
:10:13. > :10:17.looking at this sort of story, the institutions that you grow up
:10:18. > :10:22.trusting, certainly in the past ten years, we don't trust them any more.
:10:23. > :10:26.This is just another story that undermines that trust. It's about
:10:27. > :10:31.time that people in public office took it seriously. It smacked to me
:10:32. > :10:37.of the storylines of our friends in the north, the BBC drama that was
:10:38. > :10:44.set in the 60s. We are going back to the Telegraph and also the time is
:10:45. > :10:49.now. They are both looking at the story to do with Francois Hollande,
:10:50. > :10:59.the French president, and his alleged affair, spelt very nicely in
:11:00. > :11:10.French on the autocue for me in French! With this actress, Julie
:11:11. > :11:17.Gayet. The Times shows her giving a very Gallic shrug. Whereas the
:11:18. > :11:22.Telegraph, well, she is barely covered up, with a very glamorous
:11:23. > :11:27.picture of her, showing a little tattoo on her Derry air. We love the
:11:28. > :11:34.stories here, but in France they keep them under wraps until social
:11:35. > :11:39.media got hold of it. They've got stronger privacy laws. You look at
:11:40. > :11:44.this story and you ask yourself, where is the proof? There's a video
:11:45. > :11:50.with a guy with a helmet on. But he hasn't denied it. It's great PR. Is
:11:51. > :11:57.it, when you are so low in the polls? Can you imagine if David
:11:58. > :12:04.Cameron was photographed on a scooter, mopeds, turning up at his
:12:05. > :12:09.mistress's house, alleged mistress, who was as glamorous as this, and
:12:10. > :12:22.that his security guard was... Popping out for croissants. It would
:12:23. > :12:26.be Greg is, though, wouldn't it? Gregs pasties! Can you really ask
:12:27. > :12:37.for the sea when you are the president of France in 2014? We just
:12:38. > :12:41.have a very different attitude towards it here. It is fascinating
:12:42. > :12:47.because if David Cameron were having an affair, this is all fiction in my
:12:48. > :12:50.mind, I think there would be a period interest, certainly from the
:12:51. > :12:56.red top papers and the quality papers. I don't think you can expect
:12:57. > :13:00.privacy. Even though clearly, this is a private matter. If there is
:13:01. > :13:04.going to be a right to privacy, unless he is being a hypocrite by
:13:05. > :13:14.preaching family values... He was supposed to be Mr clean, Mr normal.
:13:15. > :13:18.He's just doing a terrible job, that's the bottom line. Let's look
:13:19. > :13:23.at the Daily Express. Britons are going to live for eight years
:13:24. > :13:27.longer. What if you don't want to? And how are we going to afford it?
:13:28. > :13:32.Some other headlines are talking about the cost of the NHS, how they
:13:33. > :13:35.are going to privatise it and everything else, yet we are going to
:13:36. > :13:40.Live 8 years longer and we have no plan to afford the pensions. I will
:13:41. > :13:46.have to work until I'm 70 here, doing the papers. I'm looking
:13:47. > :13:52.forward to being there with you, Martine! We may be underwater then
:13:53. > :13:58.anyway. It says Paul Daniels, you are going to like this, but not a
:13:59. > :14:05.lot. I don't think he does! That's his home. It looks like a caravan
:14:06. > :14:08.stuck on a lake. It's a beautiful home that Paul Daniels and Debbie
:14:09. > :14:13.McGee live in. I love the idea of living by the river, but not so much
:14:14. > :14:19.these days. I'm lucky that I'm 500 metres up from the nearest river.
:14:20. > :14:24.There is another story behind this, is this down to climate change, is
:14:25. > :14:29.it not? There's a big debate about that at the moment. And flood
:14:30. > :14:34.defences. The cost of those with austerity, we have two address these
:14:35. > :14:41.things. We haven't got any more time to look at the papers for 2014.
:14:42. > :14:46.Scott and Neil will be back for a look at some other front pages in
:14:47. > :14:51.just over half an hour's time, at 11:30pm. Stay with us here, because
:14:52. > :14:54.at 11pm, calls for Andrew Mitchell to return to the Cabinet after a
:14:55. > :14:56.police officer admits lying about the plebgate affair. Now it's time
:14:57. > :15:10.for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm
:15:11. > :15:13.Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, the headlines this evening. Jessica
:15:14. > :15:20.Ennis-Hill says she'll be ready for Brazil, after announcing today she's
:15:21. > :15:25.pregnant. Aberdeen beat Hibs in the Scottish Premiership as they bid for
:15:26. > :15:26.Europe next season. And sailing