19/12/2015

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:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:20. > :00:23.With me are the political commentator Jo Philips

:00:24. > :00:26.and Nigel Nelson, Politics Editor of Sunday People.

:00:27. > :00:29.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

:00:30. > :00:32.The Observer reports that leading Conservative Eurosceptics have

:00:33. > :00:35.branded David Cameron's attempts to reform the Uk's relationship

:00:36. > :00:39.with the EU as a farce, and warned that the new National Living Wage

:00:40. > :00:42.will undermine efforts to cut immigration.

:00:43. > :00:48.with the resignation of the chairman of the influential campaign group

:00:49. > :00:51.Conservative Way Forward - a victim, it says, of the bullying

:00:52. > :00:56.row sparked by the apparent suicide of a party activist;The

:00:57. > :00:59.Sunday Express carries the news of the death of Jimmy Hill

:01:00. > :01:02.on its front page, while also detailing the number of household

:01:03. > :01:05.guests the Queen is expecting for Christmas.

:01:06. > :01:12.says as many as 50,000 children in the UK

:01:13. > :01:15.are being home-schooled and warns that many may be at risk

:01:16. > :01:20.Women will be allowed to take part in frontline

:01:21. > :01:23.combat within months, according to what the Sunday Telegraph says

:01:24. > :01:31.are radical plans to be unveiled this weekend.

:01:32. > :01:40.So, let us begin. A story we didn't mention in that lot but here we go

:01:41. > :01:49.again. It is the Observer. It is yet again Mr Corbyn dominating our

:01:50. > :01:55.thoughts. Peter Hyman was a speech writer and as chief strategist to

:01:56. > :02:04.Tony Blair and is now headmaster. Is writing in a personal capacity in

:02:05. > :02:08.the Observer but also because of his closeness to Tony Blair. He is

:02:09. > :02:12.warning, and the headline says it all, struggling labour may need to

:02:13. > :02:20.split to survive, because he says there are two Labour parties, he

:02:21. > :02:24.says one, the supporting of Corbyn, and the other lot which other

:02:25. > :02:28.sensible, progressive lot, which seems to be the mother of MPs in the

:02:29. > :02:34.House of Commons and it is possible to see how they could work together.

:02:35. > :02:41.Peter Hyman is looking to something like the SDP Mark to because how are

:02:42. > :02:47.these two strands that are so different but of course the idea

:02:48. > :02:57.that saying project will send a shiver down the Albany stilts. The

:02:58. > :03:05.SNP was a disaster. Yes, that is why it won't happen. Peter Hyman's

:03:06. > :03:08.analysis is spot on. The parliamentary party is completely

:03:09. > :03:11.spit. You have the people around Jeremy Corbyn and everyone else.

:03:12. > :03:17.That is absolutely right. The one thing that every single Labour MP

:03:18. > :03:23.and Shadow minister has told me is the one thing they don't want is a

:03:24. > :03:29.split. They don't want to go back to another SDP. So, the idea is they

:03:30. > :03:32.really would like to keep the party together. Those against Corbyn just

:03:33. > :03:35.want to get rid of the leader and that is posing a problem because

:03:36. > :03:41.there is no mechanism they can use to do it. But if he has lost the

:03:42. > :03:46.confidence of his parliamentary party, surely they can get rid of

:03:47. > :03:52.him? They can put a vote of no-confidence down, they put at

:03:53. > :03:58.Challenger up. The problem is that Jeremy Corbyn would probably winds

:03:59. > :04:07.again. As far as Labour member ship goes, they seem to like him. Ice

:04:08. > :04:13.here whispers -- I here whispers and he says he will not quit before 2020

:04:14. > :04:17.at the earliest. That is right. A lot of MPs and ex-shadow ministers,

:04:18. > :04:22.they have been counting on the fact that he would get fed up with the

:04:23. > :04:29.job but he looks like he is rather enjoying him. Well, he doesn't look

:04:30. > :04:35.like he is enjoying it. That is his manner. That is enjoyment for

:04:36. > :04:40.Jeremy! Smiling grimly through! Let's move on. It seems to me this

:04:41. > :04:46.story doesn't actually move very fast, to be honest. People saying

:04:47. > :04:53.the same things over and over again. Everyone is waiting for something to

:04:54. > :04:59.happen and nothing will. Now, an old subject. The Sunday Telegraph and

:05:00. > :05:03.the headline says it all. It does indeed. Women soldiers to go into

:05:04. > :05:06.combat. The Sunday Telegraph is saying they have cleared the way for

:05:07. > :05:12.this to happen within months. I would have thought unequivocal good

:05:13. > :05:18.news. Women should be able to do combat roles, it has been far too

:05:19. > :05:24.long they have not been able to. I'm assuming that that is exactly what

:05:25. > :05:29.women soldiers want to do. I think this is long overdue and the sooner

:05:30. > :05:35.we do it, the better. An awful lot of people don't think that. I agree

:05:36. > :05:39.with Nigel. I think if you join up to be in one of the services, or

:05:40. > :05:47.zero EU want to go to where the action is. -- presumably you want to

:05:48. > :05:53.go. It brings us in line with Australia and America. But of course

:05:54. > :05:57.there are lots of people, and it has to be said, a lot of them are men,

:05:58. > :06:02.who think it is a bad idea here, they think women in the front line

:06:03. > :06:07.would be a distraction, they question women's ability, physical

:06:08. > :06:15.strength, endurance and all of that sort of stuff. Women do play a very

:06:16. > :06:19.prominent role. Medics risked their lives to help other people in

:06:20. > :06:25.situations, bullets whizzing about and so on. It is not as if there

:06:26. > :06:30.aren't women used to battle. Yes, and as you say, doing stuff,

:06:31. > :06:35.driving, being out in the front line, piloting submarine and

:06:36. > :06:39.aircraft and what have you. I get the sense this is the underground

:06:40. > :06:44.stuff but why not? One of the arguments is that if women are

:06:45. > :06:48.injured, there was something in the male psyche that says you stop and

:06:49. > :06:55.help and that may not be the right wing to do. I've never ready quite

:06:56. > :07:01.believed that. If you are trained for the front line, then you would

:07:02. > :07:07.know there are certain things you do and don't do. I would point to

:07:08. > :07:12.Israel where you see women soldiers there, they blending perfectly, they

:07:13. > :07:16.have been fighting wars there for a considerable time. And as far as I

:07:17. > :07:24.can gather, totally successfully. Let's move on again. The Independent

:07:25. > :07:29.on Sunday, as so often, has very much its own story but it is an

:07:30. > :07:34.interesting subject. Home-schooled children, but what are they being

:07:35. > :07:38.taught? I'm surprised at the Independent on Sunday because I

:07:39. > :07:42.would have thought they were slightly classier paper. What they

:07:43. > :07:46.are doing is falling into the trap or even fuelling this sort of

:07:47. > :07:52.paranoia and hysteria that anybody who can't see this being

:07:53. > :07:57.radicalised. When you break this past story that takes up all of page

:07:58. > :08:01.six, all of that front page with a good photograph, actually what the

:08:02. > :08:05.story really is is a bout the fact that is the law stands at the

:08:06. > :08:09.moment, if a parent decides to educate their child at home, they

:08:10. > :08:13.don't have to let the local authority know, unless they have

:08:14. > :08:18.applied for and therefore the then declined a place at a school. If you

:08:19. > :08:23.decide you don't want your child to go to school, there is nothing to

:08:24. > :08:26.stop you doing that. You may say that is bonkers because nobody knows

:08:27. > :08:31.where these kids are all the level of schooling they are getting onto.

:08:32. > :08:36.But I think this has come out, really, because of an stepped report

:08:37. > :08:44.last week about the unregulated and unlicensed schools that are teaching

:08:45. > :08:50.quite sort of hardline Islam. Madras us. The interesting bit which is

:08:51. > :08:53.rather hidden away in this story is that actually it is not about the

:08:54. > :09:00.home-schooling. Fears have been raised that parents are claiming

:09:01. > :09:05.their children are being home-schooled when they are actually

:09:06. > :09:08.being taught at the legal religious schools which is a slightly

:09:09. > :09:15.different thing. There is a collision course with lots of people

:09:16. > :09:23.who -- who educate their people -- children at home and perfectly well.

:09:24. > :09:28.It should work that children and schools are expected and the Trojan

:09:29. > :09:33.Horse cases and so full,... But children being educated at home,

:09:34. > :09:38.there is no one keeping an eye on them. Until I read the story, I was

:09:39. > :09:42.unaware that children could basically slipped through the net,

:09:43. > :09:46.through the system. It seems to me, of course people have every right to

:09:47. > :09:51.educate their children at home if that is what they want to do but it

:09:52. > :09:57.does seem to me they should be registered. At least you put the

:09:58. > :09:59.children on the radar. This comes from Nicky Morgan, the Education

:10:00. > :10:07.Secretary who wants a review of home-schooling, the last Labour of a

:10:08. > :10:10.mad, Ed Balls, he wanted to do a review of education and it was

:10:11. > :10:17.conservatives, amongst others, who stopped it. And at the same time, we

:10:18. > :10:20.are seeing more academies and free schools opening up and certainly

:10:21. > :10:24.with free schools, they don't have to abide by the national curriculum,

:10:25. > :10:30.they are not governed at the same way by the local authorities. They

:10:31. > :10:36.will be inspected, yes, but you have to think this through. Are you going

:10:37. > :10:42.to have Ofsted inspectors going into somebody's house? I think perhaps

:10:43. > :10:47.somebody should. Do you! I think you should keep an eye on children, the

:10:48. > :10:50.idea that you don't know what the children are doing all day under the

:10:51. > :10:54.brother of education, I don't think is satisfactory. The Sunday express

:10:55. > :10:59.has a picture on the front page which will be in a lot of the

:11:00. > :11:06.papers, have every famous face, Jimmy Hill dying at the age of 87.

:11:07. > :11:13.It was extraordinary what he did for football, I was quite proud of this,

:11:14. > :11:18.apart from having 11 men and kicking a ball around, he seemed to have

:11:19. > :11:22.invented everything else. The headline in our paper is the man who

:11:23. > :11:28.created modern, English football. Reading his obituaries today, I was

:11:29. > :11:33.amazed about the number things he did. He seems to have done

:11:34. > :11:38.everything in football. Right from the early days of stopping a maximum

:11:39. > :11:41.wage of ?20 which seems extraordinary, paving the way for

:11:42. > :11:51.the superstars and the millionaires of today. These things are hugely

:11:52. > :11:56.important, three points for a win, that changed the whole face of

:11:57. > :12:04.football as well. He and I did everything that has happened. Are

:12:05. > :12:09.you a football fan? Yes, West Ham. Even for those who are not football

:12:10. > :12:15.fans, everybody knew him. Yes, he was that face, voice, and

:12:16. > :12:20.everything. And the chin. And the chin. It was Mike Yarwood who used

:12:21. > :12:25.to do the impressions. He was a part of our lives, the Saturday afternoon

:12:26. > :12:30.Grandstand and all of those sort of things. You do wonder, don't knew,

:12:31. > :12:37.people like that are such 1 million miles removed from the awfulness of

:12:38. > :12:45.Fifa. That is the point. Decent, proper, good bloke. Binary, Joe, I

:12:46. > :12:49.think you were talking about this. -- finally. What is happening with

:12:50. > :12:56.the weather. The Observer has a front-page picture which could

:12:57. > :13:02.almost be summer. What is happening? I'm not an expert on the weather.

:13:03. > :13:07.There was somebody to do that. Crazy highs of 17 degrees, what is

:13:08. > :13:11.happening in your garden? Everything has gone nuts. It is interesting

:13:12. > :13:16.that the trees are bare but there was stuff coming up. There are a

:13:17. > :13:21.pink flowering in my garden. I've got loads of roses and I thought I

:13:22. > :13:25.had done all the pruning. It is causing havoc for vegetable growers

:13:26. > :13:29.and farmers covet is still so very wet which means a lot of stuff will

:13:30. > :13:36.rot in the ground and we do need a bit of Frost for the bugs. By

:13:37. > :13:41.example, daffodils, if they all come out soon, there won't be any in the

:13:42. > :13:44.spring. That would be miserable. I haven't got a garden but I do have

:13:45. > :13:50.an overcoat and I have been leaving it behind for the last two weeks. It

:13:51. > :13:55.is the first time I can remember ever in December being able to go

:13:56. > :14:00.out just simply in ordinary clothes. That will be the next thing, you

:14:01. > :14:04.will get some great bargains on winter Cokes, it will hit the

:14:05. > :14:09.retail. And something a bit serious about the economic impact of it. It

:14:10. > :14:13.doesn't always apply everywhere. There are some people in some parts

:14:14. > :14:17.of the country who no doubt are getting chilly rained upon

:14:18. > :14:21.enormously. The rain is coming from the same mild weather, as I am sure

:14:22. > :14:29.the weather forecast experts will tell us. And she very much indeed.

:14:30. > :14:34.That is it for this hour. We will be back at half 11 for another look at

:14:35. > :14:35.the stories making the news tomorrow. Coming up next, it is

:14:36. > :14:39.Reporters.