30/08/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the broadcaster Edward Adoo and journalist

and features writer for the Independent, James Rampton.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Financial Times leads on the ?11 billion, 13 billion euros

Brussels has ordered Apple to pay in back-taxes.

The Metro has done the sums saying they effectively paid 0.0.5% tax in

a sweetheart deal with the Irish government.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Labour plans an "expenses

free-for-all" following calls by one of its senior figures

to replace expenses with an allowance for MPs instead.

More on Apple in the Guardian - it leads on the multinational's

warnings that investments and jobs are on the line following

The Daily Express reports that the Prime Minister has ruled

out holding a second referendum on any Brexit deal her government

Junior doctors are planning five-day strikes to the end of the year. Ed

Balls is on the front page of the male ahead of his Strictly Come

Dancing appearance. The Times thinks Jeremy Corbyn is on course to win

with an even bigger mandate. The Metro, Fiori at Apple's tax. ?5 for

every million quid. ?50 for every million, so to a lot of people who

work hard and pay their taxes, they will be in disbelief thinking, how

were Apple able to get away with this. So they have been told to pay

?11 billion. How long has this deal been going on for? Will it ever

happen? The Irish government have said that. They have said they don't

agree with the actual deal and both Apple and the Irish government are

appealing against it. They could go on for a long time, to try and

resolve it. The competition commissioner, the Danish competition

commissioner, I am going to call it. Very wise, I was struggling with her

name also. I wonder if she has a Apple handset or an iPad. It is

going to be blocked now. Exactly. Whether this goes ahead now, it is

like being given a lottery ticket, a poisonous chalice. You accept it, or

you don't take it. The bottom line, James is, Apple have been told they

have got to pay back taxes that comes to ?11 billion. They are

suggesting this could hurt investment in Europe? I do think it

is a threat. There is a veiled threat in what Apple have said and

the US government who back them up. They say if they forced to pay this

bill, what does that mean for the future corporations, many of whom

are headquartered in Ireland, with its favourable corporation tax deal.

The Danish competition Commissioner said it might tax bill fell but far,

I would think I had to take a second look at my tax bill. If we had

favourable tax rates, we would be jumping up and down for joy. Any CEO

of a company would say it is a devastating blow. I watched a

report, I think it was a news piece earlier on people who asked is a

good or bad. A lot of people said, how long has this been going on for,

why was it happening? The concern is if the Irish government accept and

take the money, will Apple leave and go elsewhere? If they leave, will

other companies follow suit and do the same thing as well? Also the

Irish economy with the euro in a bad state a couple of years ago. I

remember family friends and other people saying, we will leave because

the economy is unstable. By having these companies in Ireland is

beneficial for the economy. I think this could open a whole different

can of worms. That certainly will be the Irish government's argument, as

part of its attempts to get this decision overturned. James,

Brussels, 13 billion euros tax bill clears the way for further

crackdowns on Apple. 13 billion in respect of what George Osborne

managed to get out of Facebook recently? Yes. Are we going to see

other countries across Europe tried to claw money back from some of

these tech companies? Well, she has thrown down the gauntlet and saying

this should be a challenge for other countries to try and get back some

of that money. This was a huge amount of money, 13 billion euros is

in fact the total budget for the Irish health service every year. So

it shows how tall they are, they are challenging this, because they are

prepared to forego this money, rip up this winning lottery ticket, in

order to appease other corporations, to say to them, we are your friends

and we are favourable tax shelter for you, so we will reject the money

in order to encourage other businesses here and not frighten

them up. One assumes they are getting more than 13 billion in the

kinds of business and job creation, whatever from different companies

benefiting from this low tax regime. Huge corporations are based there

with turnovers Biggers than most nations. They are headquartered in

Ireland. It is an economy that was struggling and the Celtic Tiger was

on death's door a few years ago. It has come back from the dead and this

would threaten it, if Apple withdrew and it had a domino effect. It would

be catastrophic. Let's move on to the Telegraph. Labour plan expenses

free for all? The Parliamentary expenses should be scrapped and MPs

should be trusted with an allowance, that is what has been put forward. A

senior ally of Jeremy Corbyn has said the Parliamentary watchdog was

a bureaucratic ornament. The whole deal here is MPs, the expenses

should be placed in their bank accounts without us knowing about

it. We have had an issue about the expenses, it has caused a lot of

issues, why should this happen? It sounds dodgy in every aspect. They

get a fixed allowance rather than putting receipts through the claims?

Yes, like a lot of TV companies give allowances to their employees. Not

free money technically, but placed into their bank account. It would

also be deductible against tax as an expense. Paul Flynn, this man

suggesting this, it that he hasn't been made policy, had to pay back

?2000 after the last scandal. Another MP says it shows how

completely detached from reality Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is. How

many people out there would be saying I would love all this money

every week without having to submit claims. We all had to submit claims.

Several people went to jail after this scandal. It seems idiotic and

totally detached from reality. At the end of the day, the man or woman

on the street, who works hard and pay their taxes, if they went down

this route or try to think of considering this option, why has

this been put on the table? It does seem like an odd thing to do. But I

suppose the argument would be the bureaucracy involved in dealing with

receipts, accounts and people having to put their expenses in, have a

flat rate. We all have to do it. Trust me, we have to do it here at

the BBC. It is like they are saying we are special, different from other

people. He would argue this would save money, which is the whole point

of the exercise. The New York billionaire heiress who was found

guilty of tax fraud a few years ago who said, taxes are for the little

people. You should just be given the expenses. The despite many others

went to jail a few years ago, it seems ridiculous. Staying with the

Telegraph, about churches. Yes, after what took place in France,

churches should have bouncers. The church is a place where many people

go to worship, get away from the outside world. But my mum is a

devout Catholic, I couldn't imagine her having to speak to a bouncer in

order to get in. There has been a 12 page guidance by Nick Tolson, who

advises the Home Office. This has been put through. Is this for

Catholic churches? All churches, I just cited my mum as an example. My

concern here is, churches are places of worship. If you start putting

bouncers in churches, by the police getting involved, a lot of

anarchists will be saying, it is turning society into a police state,

where you don't have the freedom to go to a place of worship. It is a

bit scary. James, it defeats the whole idea of church being open to

everybody? Yes, we have freedom to worship, that is one of the things

enshrined in our whole DNA. It is almost laughable, this idea of

bouncers standing on the door, you're not coming in, you are

wearing trainers. You have the wrong suit. If your name isn't on the

list... If your name isn't Joseph or Mary, you are not coming in.

Junior doctors, five-day strikes, plotting, not planning, plotting.

What a surprise it is in the Daily Mail. Saying hospitals will be

overstretched and strikers might forfeit any other remaining public

sympathy. They would take place between eight in the morning and

five in the afternoon. You have got to think of operations, most

important issues, cases which need to be looked into. Would they ever

get done? What will the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, what will he

do? I think next year we may see Jeremy Hunt on Strictly Come Dancing

with Ed Balls. He is on the front page of the Daily Mail. I am going

to take some bets on that. What have we got here, patient is ten times

more likely to die in cancer lottery? It is the postcode lottery

again. Certain areas who are not using cancer treatments correctly or

quickly enough. As this headline says, in those areas, you are ten

times more likely to die. It is particularly upsetting his thing, my

relative, my mum, my dad, my granny could have been saved if they have

the correct treatment at the correct time. It is a complete lottery and

something the NHS must address as this report says by Public Health

England, as a matter of urgency. 19 trusts have been told to review

their cancer treatment as a matter of urgency. 12, it is not OK, but 19

trusts, it is worrying. It is something that touches us all.

Nobody in this country doesn't know somebody who has had cancer and

often it is a close relative. It is a very emotive thing. If you feel

the NHS has not got it under control, it is a bad reflection on

the NHS. An institution we all love, but it has to get control over this

because it impacts seminary lives. The big talking point that some

people, as cricket fans... Lots of people out there who aren't cricket

fans. I played cricket once in my life. Alex Hales and the England

team have smashed, completely smashed a world record. 444 in a

one-day limited over again. Most astonishing of all, Alex Hales has

had a terrible Test series and his place was under threat. He has

completely battered the Pakistanis almost single-handedly. They speak

the score by Sri Lanka in 2006. But it was against Holland. England did

it against Pakistan. Our Pakistan the world number one? They are in

tests, it is not a Mickey Mouse team, it is a serious opposition and

to clock up this total, over eight runs an over, is astonishing. It was

a batsmen's pitch. I once got eight in one afternoon. So to get more

than eight and over. Don't ask. We will end it there. Thank you both

very much. That's it for the papers tonight, the front pages are online

on the BBC News website. You can see is there with each night's addition

being posted on the page shortly after we have finished. Wang is

tonight guests, Edward and James and thanks to you for watching.

Gorgeous day across most part of the UK today. Temperatures got up to 27

degrees in the South East. Tonight and tomorrow there is rain away. Not

a lot, but for a