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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
With me are the broadcaster and barrister Sophia Cannon | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
and the Deputy Editor of the Daily Express Michael Booker. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Welcome to you both, let's have a look at the front pages tomorrow... | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
The Times claims insurance companies are charging motorists over | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
the odds for cover - despite a government crackdown | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
on fake claims that has saved the industry half a billion pounds. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
The plans for restructuring parts of the NHS - hospital closures, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
cuts to services and helping patients to treat themselves - | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
The Mirror carries the story of a British woman who it says | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
is risking her life to rescue women and girls being held as sex slaves | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
The Telegraph says Theresa May will invoke Article 50 - | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
triggering the start of the UK's exit from the European Union - | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
without getting consent from a vote in Parliament. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
An early Brexit is also on the cards according to the Express, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
which reports that plans to repeal the European Communities Act have | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
already been drawn up and are "on the table". | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
The Guardian leads on claims that universities are hiding the scale | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
of sexual harassment on campus by using non-disclosure agreements | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
While the FT says billionaire businessman and former BHS boss | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
Sir Philip Green may pay less than half the money needed to plug | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
the gap in the defunct high street chain's pensions scheme. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Let's begin with that story, it is quite a momentous weekend. BHS is to | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
close its doors for the last time. And, the Financial Times have a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
story there about plans to close quite a yawning deficit in pensions? | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
It is massive, ?700 million. Equally, we have to look and see how | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
it got there. Sir Philip Green sold the company for ?1. Basically, where | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
is the money? 350 billion, sorry, 350 million, that is what he will | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
put into the pot. He has spoken to regulators and | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
trustees and they seem to like it. He has said he will sort it, he's | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
gone quiet for a while, some papers will say, what is going on? They | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
will target his wife who technically holds the purse strings, they are | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
currently away on a yacht, understandably people have been | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
getting to them, 20,000 people have their pensions at stake. Reading | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
into this, there is an offer, Frank Field, the head of the work and | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
pensions committee, says Sir Philip should hand over the money. They | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
need to get it sorted quickly. The pension regulator wants it sorted as | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
quickly as possible. If they hold out for 700 million, that will never | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
happen. They will try to do the best deal they can, and save the face of | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
the pensions regulator as well. He says he is going to sorted, we will | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
wait and see whether he can come up with the cash. Within it, there | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
seems to be sources saying that the offer is there, it is tentative at | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
the moment. But, there could be joy for these people and their pensions | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
will be saved. To a certain extent. There is a line that some pension | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
experts have been consulted and they argue Sir Philip obviously inherited | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
the company in the year 2000, and these debts predated his | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
acquisition? That was my understanding but the Arcadia group, | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
I believe, it was Topshop, Evans, and BHS was the jewel in the Crown, | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
everybody loved it, people love to shop there. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
When it was sold, it had a huge deficit. People turned around and | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
said, this is capitalism but carnivorous capitalism. It's not the | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
whole idea that we see as being British. It is British home stores | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
that has failed and it means a lot to a lot of people. This weekend is | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the weekend where it disappears from the high streets. People losing | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
their jobs... Does ?350 million do anything to heal his reputation? | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
He's been battered, he got a big duffing up in the work and pensions | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
committee. There is talk of him going back and his wife being | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
summoned there, I think the deal has to be done to save his reputation. | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
He says he will sorted but we will wait and see. I want to live in | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
society where 20,000 people, not only they have lost their jobs but | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
their futures. It means a lot. The government has to step up or there | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
will be others. Let's talk about the NHS, a story that has been with us | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
throughout the course of the day. The i newspaper's FrontPage, they | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
say "Patient, heal thyself", patients being coached over the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
phone and via computers as to how to treat themselves. All of the cuts | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
that come with it, etc. Do we have two face up to the fact that we are | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
an ageing population, growing as a population, and we cannot have the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
NHS we want unless we put more into it? Well, politicians don't want to | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
say that we are going to get rid of the NHS, no politician would say | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
that, otherwise they end up out of office quickly but these stories | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
come up more often, you will see that there will be huge changes to | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
the NHS and how it is funded. The access that we get to it, we will | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
pay more for various things and services, you can see this. It | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
sounds nuts, virtual appointments? Coached over the phone? Readers of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
the Daily Express, an older reader, in their 50s and 60s and 70s, they | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
have paid in all their life and deserve that free treatment, when | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
they want it and when they need it. Most people are not bed blockers, | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
most people go only when they are ill, and if they can't get in when | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
they are ill, if they are put off with virtual appointments and things | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
like that, thinking of older people who rely on the NHS, a lot of them | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
do not have the Internet and cannot do these things over Skype. It's all | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
well and good saying this but it affects real people. It will get | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
worse. If a doctor is telling you what to do over the Internet... Is | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
it fair enough? Things are changing. The NHS has never been put down, | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
it's about it you need it, it's there for you. The whole idea is | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
that it is not even the national health service any more. It is not | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
national, we have NHS England and NHS Scotland's run by different | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
governments, it is not healthy. It is not about keeping well, it is | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
prevention. I was going to say it is fair enough having a debate about | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
how you spend money within the NHS and how you prevent some of the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
things people go to hospital for? Yes, it is the idea that people in | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
each decade of their lives will need the NHS at different times, and how | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
we approach it and educate people, how they make sure people do not | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
misuse the NHS. It is a political football, it does not need a | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
cross-party debate, take it out of the political time of war, face up | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
to how we will fund it. I think every government has this problem. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
They get to this point every time but the ball is kicked down the road | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
more. People don't want to know that they had to start paying for it. You | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
cannot turn up and get the service when you wanted, that is what these | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
stories Telus, these are being chipped away at. In a of | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
generations, people will pay more for this -- in a couple of | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
generations. You will be pretty angry about this, we pay through the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
nose for car insurance. They have cut down on fraud but are still | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
charging the same amount of money? Yes, Chris Grayling, in 2013, | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
brought him amazing reforms saying that we are the whiplash capital of | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Europe. Unbelievably, their necks of Britain are more delicate than the | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
necks of Europe. There is the idea that many claims | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
were fraudulent and un-meritorious. What we decided to do was lift the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
bonnet on how car insurance works. They brought down the costs, ?500 | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
million have been saved but, guess what? It's been passed on through | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
the premium to the man and woman on the street. They are not just | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
driving Miss Daisy, they are driving us all mad. We need this money back. | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
It is chipping away at everybody's idea of what is fair, just and | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
reasonable. They saved ?500 million and motor insurance prices have | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
risen in the last 12 months? There is a call from the vice president of | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, their first duty is to | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
shareholders. That is capitalism. This headline is the most | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
unsurprising I've ever seen. Most people think that we are going to | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
get ripped off, we are being ripped off. We get ripped off in every | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
aspect of our lives, by various businesses. But insurers have never | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
had the greatest reputation... Can't the government insist that they pass | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
it on? The chairwoman of the Commons transport committee say that it was | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
promised and it has not happened. Currently, she says, what will you | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
do about it? They say, nothing. By law, everybody has to have car | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
insurance if they drive. You cannot choose to have a car and not have it | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
insured. There must be a select committee for that! Let's move on to | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
your paper, the Daily Express. The world's greatest. There is a new | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
move for instant EU exit. This is something put on the table by John | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Redwood, incredibly Eurosceptic as we know. He is saying that a lot of | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Tory MPs are more vocal about this because since the vote, it's gone a | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
bit quiet. We have not jumped out of the EU straightaway. People are | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
getting a bit and see -- uncomfortable and wondering what is | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
happening. This would be the repeal of the 19th into two communities | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
act, and instantly we would get out and say, OK, if you want tariffs on | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
us, puts tariffs on us otherwise we will put them on you. As far as | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
trade goes, they have two and pick everything else but there is a move | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
now... I love how they glossed over it... It is fiendish. Luckily it is | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
not me doing it! Human rights! Whether that happens or not, we are | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
told article 50 will be triggered in the New Year by Theresa May's | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
government but you can see there are those people in the Tory party who | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
are still grumbling, why aren't we out the use yet? A majority of the | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
house campaigned to remain. Unfortunately, the majority of the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
country wanted to get out. They campaigned in opposition to their | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
constituents. The Daily Telegraph says that Theresa May will approve | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
or go for article 50, this former way of getting out of the EU without | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
a parliamentary vote. It was muted by remainders, many MPs said, we | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
need a parliamentary vote. The referendum is an advisory from the | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
people, we now need MPs to vote on it. The Labour leadership candidate | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Owen Smith went further on BBC breakfast this week, he said if he | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
had to campaign for an early general election he would campaign on | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
opposing Article 50 even before negotiations. Yet, 70 million people | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
voted for it -- 17 million. People were upset, I would not reveal that | :12:41. | :12:52. | |
now, but people, we should look at this closely. Many MPs believe that | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
they were voted into vote for the best interests of the country. It is | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
party before country. These votes come once in a lifetime and it is | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
their duty to take it to the floor of the house. Is it an executive | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
decision by Theresa May or a decision made by Parliament? You say | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
they were elected to do the best for their constituents but they also | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
agreed there should be a referendum in the first place, but not legally | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
binding. It was never said at the time, was it? 70 million people with | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
pitchforks will be banning -- banging down the doors of Number | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
ten if it does not happen. This was small print, what does it mean, what | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
were people voting for? I did not see small print when I went to vote | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
on the referendum. Two big boxes, I had to take one! -- Tech one. We | :13:48. | :13:59. | |
aren't out the EU yet. That's the big debate. In The Guardian | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
newspaper, do we have any sympathy regarding the Burkini ban in France, | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
and our French friends, and the public attitude? Towards women? | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Towards the Burkini. It is towards women's dress. Throughout history, | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
how women dress signal so much about culture, and history. It signals so | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
much about the laws and rights of women in that country. It's the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
whole idea that you can tell a woman watched where -- what to wear, I've | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
never come across an issue where a woman is wearing too much. That's | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
the whole idea. As feminists, I am one, we have campaigned to wear what | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
we want when we choose. We live in a permissive society. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
Unless it is offensive, you can wear it. If you are saying a woman who is | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
over covered up on the beach is offensive, we have lost a lot of | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
arguments. Do we understand the French enough though? With this as | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
well, I think we all understand the fear in France at the moment, about | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
what has happened in the last couple of years. Look what happened in Nice | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
and Paris, they are looking at Muslim people, and think there is a | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
threat, you can see why they are looking at anything they possibly | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
can to say look, we are trying to sort this out, the perceived threat | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
they have. You can see why some of the mayors are scared, it is | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
entirely wrong... Some are saying they will ignore red? Yes, -- ignore | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
it. Public attitudes are on their side? But that is fear. It is. | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
People had to look into history. It has echoes of history. I remember | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
when I read my history books that the Jewish population were singled | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
out for the way they dress and what they wore on their heads. That's the | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
whole idea, that dress signifies something else. We have to draw back | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
from that. If we go down this route, we have | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
America looking at Europe. We were seen as a permissive | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
society. Some women have their breasts on the beach in Europe. A | :16:10. | :16:21. | |
final word, -- bare breasts. We have the front National waiting | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
in the wings, this is going to come back again. It certainly will, I | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
think it will. I am putting a marker down, I think it will come here in | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
the next two or three years. This is an interesting story in The Times. | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
Theresa May has demanded an audit of public sector data to see how races | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
affected in the state -- race is affected in the state. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
I am a barrister of 15 years. How many black judges did you appear | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
before? One. One black judge? I can name them. Do we need an audit, we | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
know it already, don't we? The whole issue is doing an audit and it needs | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
to be there. We need to know why more black and minority ethnic | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
people are getting degrees but are less likely to be employed. Where is | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
the merit? It is affecting the economy. You will have the audit and | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
then the courts, the civil service and BBC will all be held to account? | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Journalism. According to this, once analysed the information will be | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
available for people to foster public pressure for reform. You | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
don't have enough black, you would be ashamed to say that? How many | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
black journalists are in Parliament? Zero, it cannot continue. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
You have a black mayor and you do not have one journalist who holds a | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Parliament repast. You have to look at what is happening in this | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
country. We have merit. It is a meritocracy, that is what made | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Britain strong. It will make Britain strong in the future. We have a new | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
society where we have technology, we need maths and science, the | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
undergraduates are there. Look at the NHS, you would think they would | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
soak up so many bright graduates, the doctors and physicians. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
The chemists, they go into that area. Also, she is looking at white | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
working class... They are not getting anywhere either, they are | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
being left behind. Again, I went to... I was the only black child in | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
my school, that sits with me, people contact me on Facebook saying, we | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
went down the pits and were told they were jobs for life. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Look at where we are now. She is trying to make the country work for | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
everyone. Did it work. And such? Yes, it shone a light in our darkest | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
places. Nobody wants to be called racist, or a bigot. Nobody wants to | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
know he -- the society embedded in them is | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
the one they live them. There will be a Royal commission on | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
how we make society equal. We have mixed race children, Lewis Hamilton, | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Leona Lewis, look at the British Olympic team. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
I don't want to be cynical... Then don't be. They will make it | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
available online to foster public pressure, but where does it come | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
from? Surely, the MPs? We are running out of time, let's focus on | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
the front of the Daily Mirror. Is Richard Branson to world to be -- to | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
old to be careering down a road on the Virgin Islands on a bike... He | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
hates publicity obviously does Richard Branson! There he was, he | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
thought he would die, you saw his life flash before him... He's had | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
adventures all over the world, this is the first time I've heard him say | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
he thought he would die. He has fallen out of the sky... Maybe he | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
has Jeremy Corbyn's hex on him! What I particularly like is that he is on | :20:22. | :20:33. | |
this bed... With a beer by a well known brewer, and an intravenous | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
something in his arm. He had to fly to Miami for more treatment. If you | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
have a private island, you would think you would have a hospital in | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
there. And the twist? It happened on the British Virgin Islands and it | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
was not named by him! We are out of time. | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
Thank you to both of you for your company this evening. Don't forget, | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
all of the front pages are online on the BBC News website, read a | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
detailed review of all of The Papers, that's there for you seven | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
days a week on the website. And you can see us there as well. Thank you | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
to both of you, goodbye for now. Good evening, it's a fine and one | :21:16. | :21:31. | |
day across most parts of the country, the bank holiday weekend is | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
now upon us as the weather shapes up to be mixed. This is how | :21:37. | :21:38. |