:00:18. > :00:20.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:21. > :00:24.With me are Kate McCann, who is senior political correspondent
:00:25. > :00:32.at the Telegraph, and the political journalist Rob Merrick.
:00:33. > :00:34.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Financial Times.
:00:35. > :00:36.It says George Osborne is considering a plan to sell-off
:00:37. > :00:39.the Government's stake in housing associations, in what it says would
:00:40. > :00:41.be one of the largest-ever privatisations of its kind.
:00:42. > :00:44.Corbyn steals a march on Labour plotters is the headline
:00:45. > :00:50.It suggests the Labour leader is looking to change party rules, in a
:00:51. > :00:55.The i has details from the court case involving a Brixton man accused
:00:56. > :00:58.of imprisoning and beating his daughter over a 30-year period.
:00:59. > :01:03.The Telegraph sets out further details of possible industrial
:01:04. > :01:05.action by Junior doctors, who are currently being balloted
:01:06. > :01:11.The same story is the lead in the Guardian.
:01:12. > :01:13.The paper says that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is
:01:14. > :01:16.The suggestion from a Tory minister that those
:01:17. > :01:20.affected by tax credits cuts should go without, to make ends meet,
:01:21. > :01:23.The Times leads with the migrant crisis.
:01:24. > :01:26.The paper says Europe's system of open borders is under serious
:01:27. > :01:32.And there is a warning that Storm Abigail could wreak havoc
:01:33. > :01:52.So we are going to start with The Times Which features the latest
:01:53. > :01:57.developments, in some cases lack of them as well, in the migrant crisis.
:01:58. > :02:01.Borders in crisis after migrant talks fail. Free movement across
:02:02. > :02:06.Europe close to collapse. There was some agreement, though, wasn't
:02:07. > :02:09.there? There was some agreement, but perhaps not be agreement that
:02:10. > :02:16.everybody wanted to see. The African leaders have agreed to voluntarily
:02:17. > :02:21.received failed asylum seekers, at European leaders were hoping... It
:02:22. > :02:24.is kind of where we are right now, isn't it? Exactly, they were hoping
:02:25. > :02:28.for an agreement that that would be as a matter of course, and the
:02:29. > :02:34.biggest point in this article is that Schengen, the system of orders
:02:35. > :02:40.between 26 EU nations of free movement across those borders, is
:02:41. > :02:43.looking likely to collapse. And Donald Tusk is warning more
:02:44. > :02:47.countries are going to bring back border controls that hits at the
:02:48. > :02:51.very heart of what Europe is about. Is also a big part of David
:02:52. > :02:55.Cameron's argument and renegotiation planned that border controls are
:02:56. > :02:59.very important. So it is a very, very big issue for European leaders
:03:00. > :03:03.to have the sort of grapple with. It will be interesting to see what
:03:04. > :03:08.happens in those coming days, to see whether borders will be put up to
:03:09. > :03:13.stem the flow of migrants across Europe. It is a big issue which has
:03:14. > :03:18.been here for some time. It will be here for a lot longer, and surprise,
:03:19. > :03:22.surprise, it is another story about European leaders failing to agree in
:03:23. > :03:26.a crisis over the big issue of the day. You know, the reaction of some
:03:27. > :03:29.people, of course, when these people arrive in Europe is to say, well,
:03:30. > :03:34.they should go back. They are economic migrants, this is the Aga
:03:35. > :03:38.met, they should go back. But of course, what this shows, even if
:03:39. > :03:43.that is desirable, which is an open question, it is so difficult to
:03:44. > :03:47.achieve -- this is the argument. Presumably the solution would not be
:03:48. > :03:51.what Germany has done, to open its borders to refugees, but this story
:03:52. > :03:56.talks about the pressure mounting on Angela Merkel. There is a quote
:03:57. > :04:00.comparing her management of the crisis to a careless skier who
:04:01. > :04:06.triggers an avalanche. That quote comes from her own Finance Minister,
:04:07. > :04:11.her own ally. There is disagreement on the governments of various
:04:12. > :04:16.countries. There does seem to be a multiple procedure that people are
:04:17. > :04:20.talking about, to try and ease the migrant crisis. It is managing the
:04:21. > :04:23.borders, it is allowing people in, and it is easing and trying to get
:04:24. > :04:27.rid of the various issues they are fleeing from. But what there doesn't
:04:28. > :04:32.seem to be as a general procedure that everyone except, everyone
:04:33. > :04:36.agrees too. And that is the problem, really. There is a big
:04:37. > :04:39.problem here that there are lots of people already in Europe and in
:04:40. > :04:43.European countries and nobody knows how many because they have come
:04:44. > :04:47.across borders that are open. And that is going to become even more
:04:48. > :04:51.problematic when we see people looking for housing. So there are
:04:52. > :04:55.migrants from Africa and other parts of the world, and the Middle East,
:04:56. > :04:59.who are in these camps. And that cannot last forever. That issue is
:05:00. > :05:03.going to become bigger and bigger as people come. Something I learn from
:05:04. > :05:11.our correspondent Clive Murray is that Britain is the biggest donate
:05:12. > :05:14.of aid in Europe -- Clive Myrie. And they are quite heavily involved in
:05:15. > :05:21.the fight against Islamic State as well. The counter to that is that
:05:22. > :05:29.that might be at treble, but Britain has -- that might be admirable, but
:05:30. > :05:33.Britain has talked about thousands of potential refugees by Christmas.
:05:34. > :05:37.We have not seen any figures as to how many of that 1000 have arrived.
:05:38. > :05:42.And as Kate says, the conditions are horrific. As the weather turns in
:05:43. > :05:48.southern Europe, it is frightening what will happen. To remind us,
:05:49. > :05:54.there are still millions more on the move in addition to those in refugee
:05:55. > :05:59.camps. The Guardian, the health secretary condemns extreme action as
:06:00. > :06:05.doctors warn of three walkouts. The first one very much industrial
:06:06. > :06:11.action. Extreme action which you perhaps didn't see coming. I think
:06:12. > :06:13.it was something he hoped wouldn't happen but it looks increasingly
:06:14. > :06:17.likely and I don't know if Jeremy Hunt will be able to avoid that.
:06:18. > :06:22.There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the last couple of months
:06:23. > :06:26.in trying to renegotiate doctors' contracts. I think it is likely that
:06:27. > :06:30.they will walk out. I think that is going to look out on both doctors
:06:31. > :06:33.and on the government. I don't think anybody is going to win out of
:06:34. > :06:37.this, and certainly not the people who are going to suffer, literally
:06:38. > :06:41.because their operations will be cancelled, their appointments will
:06:42. > :06:44.be put back. People will really feel this. And it will be the first time
:06:45. > :06:48.that dock as have walked out on strike, it is very symbolic. The
:06:49. > :06:52.argument is about whether Jeremy Hunt is changing the terms of the
:06:53. > :06:57.doctors' contract to such an extent that that means lots of people are
:06:58. > :07:01.going to move out. On the front page of the Telegraph, there are some
:07:02. > :07:06.figures showing only 1% of junior doctors will earn less, the rest
:07:07. > :07:09.will add more all the same. So I think there is a question about who
:07:10. > :07:13.is sort of telling the truth here? And junior doctors are refusing to
:07:14. > :07:16.sit down with Jeremy Hunt, or saying that they don't want to sit down
:07:17. > :07:19.with Jeremy Hunt and talk it over, and that means they are likely to
:07:20. > :07:24.vote for the strike action. What happens as a result of that will be
:07:25. > :07:28.really interesting. Jeremy Hunt digging his heels in over this. It
:07:29. > :07:34.will be interesting to see how this all plays out. The Guardian is
:07:35. > :07:39.pretty adamant that he is not going to back down. Presumably he has no
:07:40. > :07:46.choice but to dig in. He has conceded ground already it was he
:07:47. > :07:49.has reassured us that the majority of doctors will not be worse off
:07:50. > :07:56.even as they lose their penalty rates, so he has given way to some
:07:57. > :08:02.extent. The government is part of a plan to save tens of billions of
:08:03. > :08:05.pounds on the NHS by 2020. No one believes that is going to be
:08:06. > :08:09.achievable that if you are going to get anywhere near it you have to
:08:10. > :08:13.find a way to make the NHS run more efficiently. That is going to sound
:08:14. > :08:18.very odd to people at home because all day we have been reporting on
:08:19. > :08:21.the NHS missing targets and being overwhelmed with admissions, and yet
:08:22. > :08:25.there are more cuts to be looked at. They wouldn't call them cuts,
:08:26. > :08:29.they would call them efficiencies. They would say ways that the NHS can
:08:30. > :08:36.be run more efficiently and the money can be pumped back into the
:08:37. > :08:41.NHS. It is an enormous sum to find, ?20 billion. This is an attempt to
:08:42. > :08:47.find more by making working hours more sensible. We are trying to
:08:48. > :08:51.change their working practices. The doctors are demoralised, working
:08:52. > :08:56.hard, and putting in the time and effort, they would argue. The danger
:08:57. > :08:59.is if more of them quit and fly off to Australia where they don't work
:09:00. > :09:08.as hard and they earn more in the sunshine. Part of the reason we lose
:09:09. > :09:17.doctors abroad. Shall we move onto Independent. Jeremy Corbyn steals a
:09:18. > :09:22.march on labour plotters. Basically the independents suggesting he is
:09:23. > :09:35.looking at changing the rules for the Labour Party, being booted out.
:09:36. > :09:42.Or not re-elected, anyway. And some of his own MPs, it is the latest of
:09:43. > :09:47.that story, isn't it? Jeremy Corbyn and his top team on one side who are
:09:48. > :09:50.wanting to make some pretty drastic changes, got some very strong ideas
:09:51. > :09:53.and then you've got the so-called moderates on the other side who are
:09:54. > :09:57.a bit concerned about that and what it might mean. There has been some
:09:58. > :10:02.interesting talk today about whether journalists should use that term
:10:03. > :10:07.moderates for these MPs, Jeremy Corbyn's camp feels that paints him
:10:08. > :10:13.as extreme, which is unfair. What term do you use? We use different
:10:14. > :10:15.terms, we do use moderates. It has taken on the meaning of people who
:10:16. > :10:19.used to be in the Labour Shadow Cabinet and who would not have been
:10:20. > :10:23.seen as quite as left wing as Jeremy Corbyn is now, and therefore are
:10:24. > :10:30.more moderate. That is why it it is used. This story is interesting
:10:31. > :10:33.because it seems to suggest, and I think that is broadly true, that
:10:34. > :10:38.Jeremy Corbyn is trying to shore up his support in case there is a bid
:10:39. > :10:42.to oust him as leader. As Robert was saying earlier, it is unlikely to
:10:43. > :10:45.happen in the next couple of months for the next couple of years,
:10:46. > :10:49.because a lot of people in the Labour Party accept that Jeremy has
:10:50. > :10:53.a big mandate from the electorate and they want to see how that plays
:10:54. > :10:58.out. And it would play very badly for them to try and take on but at
:10:59. > :11:01.the same time they don't underestimate the fact that there a
:11:02. > :11:04.group of MPs below the surface planning to mount a campaign to
:11:05. > :11:11.introduce a new candidate at some point. Some papers you would expect
:11:12. > :11:16.these kind of headlines, he is not shaking them off, is he? I wonder if
:11:17. > :11:20.he can win an election or be Prime Minister without the support of the
:11:21. > :11:23.press? There has been some speculation perhaps, if Labour is
:11:24. > :11:27.doing really badly in three or four Mac years' time, resuming that
:11:28. > :11:31.Jeremy Corbyn is still there, that perhaps he would be willing to make
:11:32. > :11:34.way for another left-wing leader, someone who would follow much of his
:11:35. > :11:39.programme, but perhaps he might be convinced that he himself is not
:11:40. > :11:44.electable, that he would lead Labour to defeat. This would suggest
:11:45. > :11:47.otherwise. If he is attempting to change the rules, that would suggest
:11:48. > :11:51.to me that he is determined to lead Labour into the next election, and
:11:52. > :11:55.that would send shivers down the spines of most MPs who think he will
:11:56. > :12:03.condemn Labour to certain defeat. Another MP making the papers, Tracey
:12:04. > :12:09.Crouch, has apologised. Losing tax credits, then ditch your pay-TV.
:12:10. > :12:13.This is an interview where she suggest that people trying to make
:12:14. > :12:22.ends meet cut back on what she deemed as luxuries. So I have mixed
:12:23. > :12:25.feelings about this story. Really? Yes, because the original interview,
:12:26. > :12:29.this is a line from the original interview but the interview focused
:12:30. > :12:33.on the fact that Tracey Crouch very sadly had a miscarriage during the
:12:34. > :12:37.election campaign and that led to the question of whether she would
:12:38. > :12:41.want to accept the position of sports Minister, which in itself is
:12:42. > :12:44.quite a big story. And I think that has obviously been lost given that
:12:45. > :12:51.this is the angle some newspapers are taking. She still said what she
:12:52. > :12:55.said, she said it in the context of conversations with her constituency,
:12:56. > :13:00.saying that she has seen examples where people are still paying for
:13:01. > :13:05.Sky TV and maybe they need to have a rethink. We were discussing it
:13:06. > :13:09.before we came on, it is obviously not a particularly wise, to make and
:13:10. > :13:13.I think Tracey has apologised this evening for saying it. The Daily
:13:14. > :13:17.Mail does point out that perhaps it was coming... It wasn't the right
:13:18. > :13:20.thing to say but it was coming from a well-intentioned place. It does
:13:21. > :13:24.point out that she was brought up by a divorced mother on a pretty modest
:13:25. > :13:30.income. So she was talking from experience of having to make ends
:13:31. > :13:34.met, in a way. I think she has made what many would think in most
:13:35. > :13:37.circumstances is a sensible point. That the family is struggling it may
:13:38. > :13:39.have to make do without some of the things it would wish to have an Sky
:13:40. > :13:46.TV is maybe one of those. things it would wish to have an Sky
:13:47. > :13:50.TV is maybe one of While it might be a sensible point, it is terrible,
:13:51. > :13:54.terrible politics because the tax credits crisis is so much bigger
:13:55. > :13:58.than that. 3 million people are going to lose ?1300 a year, so
:13:59. > :14:06.clearly that is much more than the cost of Sky TV. Huge numbers of
:14:07. > :14:10.those people will not have Sky TV, so it is hugely offensive and more
:14:11. > :14:15.than that, the government broke its promise to people not to take that
:14:16. > :14:18.?1300 off than, a promise that was made by the Prime Minister during
:14:19. > :14:23.the election campaign. Maybe a sensible point in another time but
:14:24. > :14:31.very bad politics. Would it be getting as much coverage if we
:14:32. > :14:37.didn't have the tax Reddit cuts? No, it is because we are in the middle
:14:38. > :14:40.of this tax credit row -- credit cuts. And they are going to have two
:14:41. > :14:46.announced new measures in the Autumn Statement. They have no idea what
:14:47. > :14:53.they are going to do. And they are struggling to figure out what it is
:14:54. > :15:00.going to be, and... We have run out of time for a fun story, no time for
:15:01. > :15:06.a skateboarding squirrel or. ! -- skateboarding squirrel or a dog!
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