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have the result from the game between Manchester and Arsenal. And | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the latest from the BDO. Darts championship. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
With me are the political commentator Lance | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Price, and Bronwyn Curtis, from the Society of Business Economists. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
The FT, which says the Chancellor George Osborne will warn that unless | :00:27. | :00:38. | |
tough economic reforms are stuck to, it could mark "the beginning of the | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
He cites the Chinese slowdown and plummeting oil prices | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The i leads on a story about five extremists it says have | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
slipped out of the UK to join terror groups, despite having travel bans. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
The Sun says red wine drinkers are being warned to stop thinking it's | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
good for them, with its supposed health benefits set to be rubbished | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
The Mail says exam timetables for this summer's GCSEs | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
and A-Levels have been altered over fears that Muslim children fasting | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
during Ramadan will be unable to produce their best work. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
The Express warns Britain's set to freeze when it's battered | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
by an Arctic blast next week, bringing with it snow and subzero | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
temperatures heralding the start of what it calls proper winter weather. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
The Guardian leads on North Korea's claims it's tested a hydrogen bomb - | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
it says the UN Security Council has threatened | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
the country with new punitive measures, and there are also doubts | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
The Telegraph says Republican Presidential candidate | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw nearly ?700 million | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
of investment in Britain, as he hits back at attempts to ban | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
And the Times claims ministers are now | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
considering a tax on sugary drinks, after evidence showed it would | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
It has a picture of Prince George who has started his first day | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
The reshuffle that does not seem to want to end. The pack is continually | :01:56. | :02:12. | |
being shuffled and shuffled. It is still going on. We have had three | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
resignations today, so Jeremy Corbyn is to find three people to replace | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
those who have left. It is a bit of chaos. It looks very chaotic. I am | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
looking from the outside, I am not a political preacher will stop but it | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
seems to me one of the things when I was employing people, I always tried | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
to employ the best people. They may not always agree with me, they may | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
not always agree with each other, but what you hope to do was put | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
together the best you can get, and mould them into a team to go forward | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
together. That is what leadership is about. This does not look like this. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
It looks like getting rid of those who have spoken out against the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
views of Jeremy Corbyn one of his supporters. Politics is slightly | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
different from business in that regard. Some people would argue you | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
want the best talent but also need to speak with a united voice, and it | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
would save the Labour Party has not been doing that, especially on | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
crucial issues like defence and Syria and foreign policy. That is | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
trying is trying to do, have a united party. You do want a united | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
party, and a coherent voice. But everyone doesn't have to agree with | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
each other. One of the strengths of Jeremy Corbyn's new approach to the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
leadership is that he said it is OK to debate. In the past, we have been | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
a bit too rigid in a system where everyone in the Cabinet or Shadow | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Cabinet had to agree with everything everyone else said. Everyone knew | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
that is not our works. We would sit around and discuss everything and | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
not always agree. Is it naive to talk about a new politics? Was that | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
just rhetoric? I think it was. A lot of it was just rhetoric, and an | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
excuse for allowing Jeremy Corbyn to cover up for the fact he did not | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
have the authority. He has the support of about 10% of MPs on the | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Labour benches in the House of Commons. He has to manage a | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
situation where he has a large body of support no body can deny amongst | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
membership outside, but when it comes to the party in Westminster, | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
who are the men and women who have to work with him, there is a really | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
difficult relationship. This business around the reshuffle will | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
make that relationship far worse. It is not just the three Shadow | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
ministers that no one has heard of outside of West Minister resigning | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
occurs to other people were sacked. It is that people who have a lot of | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
respect because they are hard-working people are not only | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
forced out of jobs but also trashed afterwards by some of the People | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
around Jeremy Corbyn. That is unprofessional. That is an | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
interesting point. Define Hilary Benn claims he has not been muzzled, | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
says one paper. Those colleagues of his who have lost their jobs in the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
reshuffle have been described as disloyal and part of a right wing | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
clique. Is that the kind of rhetoric that you would expect, especially in | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the political arena, when you want to be seen as capable of running the | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
country? It looks very amateurish to me. It looks as though everyone is | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
talking about everyone else I know backs, talking to the media. -- | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
behind their backs. That is not what I want to see. We voted the People | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
who got in. They represent asked. I want them to be able to represent | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
us. I find this sort of disorganised... I find it | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
amateurish. You may be point as a voter, as a member of the public, | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
this looks bizarre and amateurish. Are the public taking notice of | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
this? One interview suggested it is a bit like the pre-season games for | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
football. This is just the warmup, and no one really cares. It is not | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
until you get close to a collection that people will care. There is some | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
truth to that. Although people to form impressions of any process | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
whether it is sport or politics. In contents is something people can | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
smell, and it is written all over these stories and what has happened | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
over the past few months. If those like months. -- it feels like | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
months. It does feel like the reshuffle has gone on for weeks and | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
weeks. It has turned out to be, compared to the blood threatened to | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
bespoke, something far less serious. Yet it is all over the papers and | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
broadcast media for days. That does have an impact. It may not have | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
anything to do with their everyday lives, but the most important thing, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
if you are a political leader, every decision you make you should think, | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
does this make my party more credible, more electable? All of | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
these decisions fail those tests. Let's go to the Financial Times. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
George Osborne will give a speech where he will warn that the country | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
is heading for rocky economic times. This is because of external risks. A | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
lot of external risks. There are a lot of them. He also makes the point | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
that last year, we had the slowest global growth since the crisis. So | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
he is looking at these risks. It is China that is been all over the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
media. We have seen the stock market really volatile, crashing, and | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
people are worrying about whether China is slowing down too much. The | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
slump in the oil price, and a $35. -- under. Saudi Arabia and Iran are | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
disagreeing, putting it mildly, and yet you expect the oil price to go | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
up. But it went down again because you were not getting any agreement | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
in OPEC. There is the fact that the UK economy, the numbers recently are | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
much weaker than perhaps they thought they would be. It means the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
deficit might be higher. One thing the Conservatives have over Labour, | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
polls would suggest, they are way ahead on economic readability. The | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
latest poll suggested the Conservatives were 42% and Labour | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
18%, reiterating George Osborne's point that there are not economic | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
times ahead. That helped his cause any cause of his party. Those | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
figures are woeful. It is a cause of great concern. It does bring it back | :09:19. | :09:31. | |
to the arguments of austerity, whether or not it has run its course | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
or George Osborne can continue to make because we need to be cutting | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
back on spending and perhaps increasing taxes, which is something | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
the Tories are normally reluctant to do. The problem for Labour is they | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
don't have an alternative narrative. They say they are not happy with | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
austerity and think it hurts the wrong people, but there is not a | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
coherent alternative. One silver lining for some people, interest | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
rates will probably not go up. Any time soon. That is what it looks | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
like, because we are looking at growth that is quite soft, and | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
coming out of the US Federal Reserve today, they said it was a close call | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
on interest-rate hikes. They don't want to do that again soon. They are | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
talking about another quarter point hikes, but it pushes interest-rate | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
further into the future for everybody. Netflix launches in 130 | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
countries in an online streaming battle with Amazon. This tells us | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the whole way in which we get our entertainment is changing so fast. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
People are switching on to things like I prime and Netflix, and | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
compared to the prices people pay for their sky subscriptions is a | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
very cheap way of getting television -- Amazon prime. Some people still | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
have to make these programmes. It is like journalism and any other | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
business. If people don't want to pay money, they will not get quality | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
of product. Have you got Netflix? No, but I have been looking at it, | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
and the reason I have been looking at it is because I was checking | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
yesterday my television Rundle. -- bundle. I won't say which one it is. | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
Because they drag you in with discount, it has almost doubled in | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
the last 12 months because discounts go away after three or six months. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
As they do with Amazon and Netflix. But they are very expensive. Just | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
with movies and entertainment, and broadband, I am up at ?90 or more. | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
That is far too much. I will look at an alternative. That is what they | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
are doing in the US. How can they keep it so cheap in comparison to | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
other satellite providers? It is called revenue investment. They are | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
spending money to discount to get people in, to sign them up, and once | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
you are signed up, most people just continue and don't look at it. Is | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
that what Netflix will do? I think so. It is Netflix, Amazon, and there | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
is too much competition, so there will be some fallout. But the model | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
depends on dramatic growth in customers, which is what this story | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
is suggesting. Netflix have 74 million already endured in the US, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
and 3.2 billion people have the Internet. The Daily Mail, exams | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
being set early to fit in with Ramadan. This to accommodate fasting | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
Muslims. They are trying to suggest this is a shock horror scandal and a | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
threat to the British way of life, but it strikes me as sensible. | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
Ramadan moves each year, but so does Christian festivals. The school | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
calendar changes to accommodate whenever it is to happen is to be in | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
any particular year. I don't see a problem right similar changes should | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
not be made to accommodate Hamadan and the fact some kids are fasting | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
and therefore not at that test. -- Ramadan. The suggestion is that all | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
kids have to move their exams because of this. That could cause | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
problems for Christian kids or whatever? Any kids. Is it fair? I am | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
trying to find the opposition to this as well. You want students to | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
do their best, because we want the best people to pass exams as well as | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
they can because you want them skilled and in the workforce. You do | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
not want them to suffer because they have not been eating. It is not a | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
big deal. What is your story? On the front page. I think it is trying to | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
put the word Muslims in a headline and suggest because sensible changes | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
have been put in place, that somehow there is a threat. All right. Excuse | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
me. Moving on to the Sun. This is an. A. Red wine is not good for you. | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
What is that about? Back in 1995, they told us small amounts of | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
alcohol, especially red wine, are good for us. Now they are not. Now | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
they have decided actually, really, the health benefits are much more | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
from exercise, eating greens and all of that stuff. All of that horrible | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
stuff. Really they are saying it is bad for us. The fact is, we are | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
drinking less alcohol as they say in this article. But not enough less. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
You have aged extremely well. The good news in the small print is that | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
the health benefits are still there for men over 40. Which is probably | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
both of us. And another group we won't discuss. And postmenopausal | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
women. You said it. Busting myths on the inside page of the Sun, it stop | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
you getting fat. It prevents cancer, wrong. It prevents memory loss, | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
wrong. It prevents bug bites, wrong. It cuts heart disease et cetera it | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
is all nonsense. I dislike it. I like the taste. It is not reached my | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
memory so badly. -- damaged. You just have to wait six months and | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
there will be a report that says the opposite. Thank you both. Stay with | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
us on BBC News. Much more coming up. | :16:20. | :16:22. |