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Welcome to our look ahead at what the Papers will be bringing us | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
tomorrow. Yasmine Brown and Vincent Moss join us now. Tomorrow's | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
front-pages are already in, and the Sunday Times leads on a call from | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
the former Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to crush Isis or be | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
faced with a terrorist act in Britain that's worse than Paris or | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Brussels. He calls on the West to equip Arab Ground Forces. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
The Mail on Sunday says convicted terrorists are being paid terrorists | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
using British aid money and it criticises the Government's | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid. The | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
telegraph quotes one of America's top generals, David Petraeus as | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
saying he thinks a Brexit would weaken the West. The Sunday Express | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
says after the terrorist attacks, it's time for the fightback. It | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
reports that SAS squads are ready to fly in and protect any town in the | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
UK. The Star on Sunday leads with "got him! " Saying Belgium police | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
have arrested the third bomber. He's been charged with murder. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
The Observer leads with a warning from the Health Secretary, Jeremy | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Hunt. He says if Britain votes to leave the European Union, the NHS | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
would face budget cuts, falling standards and an Exodus of junior | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
doctors and nurses. Let's begin and we are going to | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
start with the Observer and that story that we have talked about, how | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
all of a sudden now the National Health Service, according to Jeremy | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Hunt, is under threat if we decide to leave. Yasmine? Yes. I think this | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
is interesting because actually I wouldn't have expected Jeremy Hunt | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
to come in on this debate in quite this way. It's very interesting; | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
those who want to stay, when they come up with their own take on it, | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
are accused of project fear by the Brexit lot. But Nick Clegg wrote a | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
very good piece this week where he said, on the other side with Brexit, | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
it's project fib, so you have got project fear very suss profig and | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
there's something in it. It's obvious to me that if we leave, | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
there will be a problem with some aspects of the National Health | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Service. The pressure on it may well go down but I'm not sure the numbers | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
of people coming into this country will necessarily be going down. So | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
it's an interesting political move. He's also saying if the economy | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
doesn't do as well, then Britain won't be able to fund the National | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Health Service as it is, that's also another argument he's talking about? | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
That seems to be his central point which is one that all the Government | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
ministers who're on the remain side, are saying, which is that if the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
economy does worse, that will be bad for the NHS. Many would say when | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Jeremy Hunt talks about a potential Exodus of doctors, that the main | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
cause of that would be Jeremy Hunt himself. Yes. With his plans to | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
impose contracts they find deeply unplavrmt it's a strange way of | :03:38. | :03:49. | |
linking the NHS to Brexit. Next week, there will be an Environment | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Minister popping up, perhaps the week after that, a Defence Minister. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Getting cynical vibes coming out. Absolutely. We haven't heard a great | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
deal from Jeremy Hunt about staying in? He's been too busy annoying and | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
pushing off doctors actually. I never knowingly in my life agreed | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
with anything Hunt has said but I think he's right that, you know, the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
whole link-up with Europe has been very good for health tourism both | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
ways actually. A lot of our people, you know, people forget how many | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
British people for example go to France for certain operations, for | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
certain treatments that are not available here. Do they have to pay | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
for that? No, they do not. Cosmetic surgery is a lot cheaper in European | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
countries. My husband had to have an operation on his hand which couldn't | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
be performed here but was informed in an hour in Paris and he couldn't | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
have done that. A lot of people are going, not because they have a | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
better service, but because they have certain specialities which we | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
don't have. We have had our children go to Poland for cancer treatments, | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
you know. We are not thinking about how connected we are and how good | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
that has been with all the problems I understand. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
OK. Let us stay with the Brexit but change papers and on now to the | :05:23. | :05:36. | |
Sunday Times. This isn't the main story but Brexit's big buzz list | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
backfires. Businesses backing the campaign to leave the European | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Union. The paper claiming that's unravelled because some chain they | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
didn't know they were being signed up. This is an increased problem. | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
They get lots of worthies, dignitaries to sign a letter and | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
publish it in a newspaper. The Sunday Times is pointing out it | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
seems to be unravelling. The cofounder of Carphone Warehouse and | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
the founder of Phones 4 U were surprised to find themselves on the | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
list. I find it ironic that both these people founded mobile phone | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
empires, you would have thought somebody would have rung them up and | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
told them they were going to put them on the list. Good point. John | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Cadwell supported the campaign. You have to check when compiling the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
lists. But I'm sure I remember it wasn't one of the staying in open | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
manned by people that... Yes, absolutely. It seems so far to be a | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
very unground up debate on both sides. People don't know the facts, | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
they have not been given the facts at all about the things they need to | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
know before they can vote. Our media's not been very good at | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
communicating the basic information to let people make an intelligent | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
choice, they've just got carried away. It's hard because people argue | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
about the truth behind the information. Isn't there a | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
fact-checking website now which is really good and you can go there and | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
you can check these facts and give you the proper numbers completely | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
objective numbers and I think that's where we have to go now with this | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
debate. We have a long few weeks ahead of it as well. Let's change | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
story but stick with the Sunday Times and the headline on the main | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
story Blair; crush Isis or horror will intensify and he's calling for | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the West to equip Arab ground forces. Let's come on to that aspect | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
of it, but Tony Blair calling for a steppup of military action. He never | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
gets over this. He must have had such a lot of guns and soldiers when | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
he was a little boy. There is this impulse in him. I mean he's right, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
the Isis threat is at a different level from Al-Qaeda or Taliban. I | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
would never deny that. I think it's taken everybody by shock, they're | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
very well organised. Why are they well organised? Because some of the | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
people who're organising their campaigns were Ba'athists, Generals | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
and top people in the Iraq Army, the two allies got rid of them. But his | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
need to go and use weaponry is astonishing, it's kind of... I don't | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
know, psychosis. I don't understand that. This is not going to go away. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
We have to find different ways, I don't know. He does make the point | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
which many would agree with that, when it comes to Isis, they can't be | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
contained, they have to be defeated. That's the idea that every time it's | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
an arrest it's a great victory and we are all safe again is not the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
case and it's a systemic problem that has to be dealt with where it's | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
happening, if you like, in the region and it's no good just | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
arresting and picking people up in European cities, it's far deeper and | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Tony Blair is saying a Rapid Reaction Force should be set up to | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
deal with incidents where they happen. That's fine but it's still | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
not going to solve the problem. Annal cysts saying you can't crush a | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
collective like this? -- analysts say. And who has spend over $07 | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
billion in the last few years getting into young Muslim people's | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
heads? Saudi Arabia. What does Mr Blair have to say about this allie | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
of ours Saudi Arabia, who has sent this infection around the world? | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Nothing. Strangely admitted. Saudi Arabia of course would dispute that. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
But what I want to bring you now is, he's talking about Arab ground | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
forces. Now that to me begs the question, which Arab ground forces. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Yes. There's always been a view that nations in the region should be | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
doing more, not least because everybody in the West is very | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
reluctant to commit ground troops into these areas and it's a | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
coalition of willing countries and nations around there, but as you | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
say, all that is a sort of a real hot bed of problems in itself | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
because of all the rivalries in the area. So how you sort that out, I | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
don't know. That's what the West did, they went and armed the | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
so-called good guys and look where we are now, we don't know who the | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
good guys are any more. Exactly. Just on this, do you think now, like | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
him or don't like him, do people listen to Tony Blair still? I don't | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
think so. I don't think so. I don't wholly blame him for what's | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
happening, you know, as other people seem to think if we hadn't have had | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
this war in Iraq, we wouldn't be experiencing what we are | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
experiencing. In my view, the project has been funded by Saudi | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Arabia and this is on record, I'm not making it up. But where I think | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
it's very sad is that people have forgotten his good record now | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
because he is so focussed on trying to clear his name over the war, he | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
did some brilliant stuff with the nation. But he's still in the | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Spotlight because we are still awaiting the Chilcot Report. Which | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
is mentioned as well in this piece. We'll be dead by then! Still no date | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
on that. OK so that was the Sunday Times' main story. Now back to | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Brexit, on to the Sunday Telegraph. And this, another US intervention, | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
but this time it's General Petraeus warning that being within the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
European Union makes Britain stronger against the Jihadists. Are | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
you buying that, Vincent? It's a very good article actually, a better | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
one than the Tony Blair article in the way it's written, it inVokes a | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Chilean tone and you have the top American general warning about the | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
isolationism of Brexit. He makes the case and it's an Easter | :12:22. | :12:38. | |
weekend, apart from terror events in Europe, there's not too much going | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
on domestically. Let's not forget David Petraeus was the person who | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
made the biggest mistakes after the war in Iraq. The failures, he was | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
the one who made all the bad decisions, so for him to stand up | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
and say very much that people should listen to Isis is not wise. But they | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
are determined to get the message out there. I suspect this would have | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
been the campaign warning of the risks. But why is it in the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Telegraph which is more or less Brexit isn't it? As a lead story? | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Yes. Even the sceptical papers, the propapers, they want to run | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
reasonably good stories at the moment. You would expect the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Telegraph to be very much on that side of the argument, but it's a | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
good story and probably one of the better Brexit stories around in the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Sunday papers. Certain think Brexit and Islamic state dominate in the | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
headlines, as we probably expected. This development with general | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Petraeus comes after we were told we were going to hear President Obama | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
saying we should remain in? It would have been different. Do you think we | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
are going to see more and more foreign backers give us their | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
opinion about what to stay over the coming week? It's always hard when, | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
especially America intervenes, and it's very hard the other way. There | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
was a time when the last American election when some big names started | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
to say vote for Obama and it was taken very badly in America. I think | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
it's the same here. There is this sense that America cannot tell us | :14:21. | :14:33. | |
what to do on Europe. I don't think it plays well. It will always | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
dominate in Britain. If you are an American visiting or interviewing an | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
American politician, whether it's the BBC or a newspaper, they are | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
always going to be asked and they follow the same broad script which | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
is, we prefer when Europe is united rather than divided. | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
It was the Observer piece about the fact that although the remain in | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
campaign, according to the opinion polls would suggest they are still | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
in the lead, just, that Downing Street's worried about the number of | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
undecideds and, are you getting the feeling that they are quite a | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
significant number? Well, they will decide. We saw with the febrile | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
nature around the general election which most predicted wrongly, lots | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
of people won't consider this issue until much closer to June 23, the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
referendum date, probably the last week and that critical proportion of | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
undecideds may swing the votes. We have the May elections coming up. We | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
need to be looking at that first and then looking at the June referendum. | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
It's taken off and now there's no putting it back into the bottle. I | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
can't help but wonder whether the undecideds are being put off by all | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
of the mood music? I think so. I think they tune out, by and large, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
and they'll tune back in in the days running up to the poll. You have | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
very strong views. Those who feel strongly won't change their mind | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
about it. Those who're firmly in are firmly in, those firmly out are | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
firmly out. It's the critical 10-15% who are undivided. For young people | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
it's not even a big issue, they are brought up as Europeans now but yes, | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
it's... I mean all we need is pop stars singing... I'm sure that will | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
be the next thick. -- next thing. The Mail on Sunday, time to squeeze | :16:39. | :16:50. | |
this is in. The story that Petronella Wyatt is breaking her | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
silence on Boris Johnson's affair. Why are the guns out for Boris | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Johnson in the Mail, do you think? And now, she's been silenced in the | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
interim years but when it happened, there was a huge amount that we all | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
read and remember about it. I think Boris at Select Committee this week, | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
some of the way Boris is arguing about a Brexit, lazily, picking | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
facts which are not facts, is upsetting a lot of people, but that | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
doesn't explain why the Mail on Sunday has decided to remind people | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
of his hot days at the Spectator. And he's the poster boy of the | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
campaign as well? Because George Osborne had a very bad budget and he | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
was always seen as really the potential successor to David Cameron | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
apart from Boris, the scrutiny is now starting to fall on Boris | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
Johnson as potentially the next Conservative Leader and potential | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
think next Prime Minister because I don't think David Cameron will stay | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
to the last day of the 2020 Parliament so the scrutiny is there | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
and he had an interesting piece in the Times today by Matthew Paris who | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
was extremely critical of Boris Johnson, that's sparked renewed | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
interest and renewed scrutiny and explained why the Mail on Sunday | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
have turned their focus and lens firmly on this. Do you think we are | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
going to get more on this Much more and he's a fascinating and | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
interesting character. Indeed! What papers - it's interesting to see | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
that it's the Mail - they have been extremely supportive? Not least | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
because Rachel Johnson, Boris's sister writes. She's a columnist on | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
the Mail on Sunday, yes, so it's a surprise. Maybe it's just simply | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
commerce - people love gossip of this kind and they'll buy the paper. | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Of course we don't know what is inside, we haven't had the inside | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
papers. But you can imagine this will be a good read. Yes, with some | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
of the Brexit stuff as well. Yes. I can tell you will be desperate to | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
get your hands on this. I know all of it because it's been around for | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
such a long time. An odd time to bring it out now, except because the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
guns are out for Boris to focus. He's either going to be the next | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
Conservative Leader or not and these stories will play a big part. Miss | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Wyatt must still be very angry about what happened. A woman scorned is | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
doesn't... We'll leave that hanging in the air. I know because I was one | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
and, you know, we don't go quietly. That is it from the papers this | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
hour, thank you to Yasmine and Vincent. Back later for the 11. 30 | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Papers. Before the | :19:40. | :19:40. |