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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
With me are Tom Bergin, who's Reuters' Business Correspondent and | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
the Senior Political Correspondent at the Times, Lucy Fisher. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Is that what you were the last time you came in? I think we give you | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
many different titles! Welcome to both of you, fresh from a summer | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
break! Tomorrow's front pages now... The Daily Express leads on words | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
of optimism by the prime minister about Brexit | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
and the UK's economic future. Allegations against Labour MP - | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
and Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee - | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Keith Vaz paying to meet male more on the Keith Vaz story - | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
but a smiling Theresa May enjoying the limelight in China | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
takes centre stage. Brexit makes the lead | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
in the Guardian - the paper claims the Prime Minister has declined | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
to endorse pledges made by the Vote Leave camp for a points | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
based immigration system. The Times continues the theme, | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
saying Theresa May has ruled out a points-based system | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
for EU migrants. It also has a picture of the | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
impressive replica of the Great Fire of London, set alight to commemorate | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
their epic blaze that happened in 1666. | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
Finally, the Daily Mail also runs the Keith Vaz | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
So, let's begin with a few of the stories to do with the Prime | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
Minister and Brexit. Warnings that are coming from various members of | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
the G20, in particular. Let's begin with the Daily Express, may, no fear | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
over a year exit but Prime Minister warns off watering the deal down | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
with Brussels. What would that look like according to the Daily Express? | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
They've been pretty clear that means we cannot stay in the single market. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
What is also interesting is coming onto the front pages of The Daily | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Telegraph, and whether she will accept some of the pledges made by | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
the league campaign through the EU referendum, of course they were | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
supported by the big beasts in the government by John Whittingdale, | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Chris Grayling, but it was not government pledges -- Leave | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Campaign. The idea that 100 million extra pounds a week would be given | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
to the NHS after leaving the EU. VAT should be cut, she's not giving into | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
those ideas and leaving the door open at the moment. Watering down is | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
not necessarily Britain's choice, is it? There are people in other parts | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
of the EU we had to negotiate with? Obviously, the Brexit campaigns were | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
clear that they wanted to have a single example with Boris Johnson | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
describing it as having your cake and eating it. But we live in a | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
real-world, and our partners, or potential partners, have ground | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
rules. They say that you can have free movement of access if you want | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
it to the market. And you have other things are potentially not just | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
mutually exclusive, but they also said that they wanted access to | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
regulated markets without following regulations of those markets. This | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
means Theresa May is in a difficult position as she has so many | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
conflicting objectives that it is very difficult for them to achieve | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
theirs. The Daily Express does not want her to compromise on anything | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
and achieve everything at the same time. But some in favour of Brexit | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
don't want to be part of the single market anyway? Because of all of the | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
other elements that have to go along with that, like freedom of movement? | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Absolutely, there is such a plurality of opinion, Theresa May | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
can continue to say Brexit means Brexit but we are no more clear on | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
what that means. I understand David Davis, the Secretary of State, will | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
make a statement in the house tomorrow, I don't think we will see | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
more detail then but it's interesting, the tone of the Daily | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Express is still a paper that pushed leaving the EU, they have had that | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
is a key agenda for years now, they are optimistic, reporting her | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
optimism, telling the G20 that Britain is open for business. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Everyone is waiting to see what happens, pressure is behind her. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Everyone is weighing up what is going on. But she can only wait so | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
long, the reality is people of investing as the Japanese pointed | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
out, but we don't know what will happen. The ex-head of the European | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
bank has said that you have to get a move on with this. The Daily | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Telegraph, PM could stop Boris is plan for a points-based immigration | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
system, this was muted by Boris Johnson during the campaign to | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
suggest that we could have something like the Australian system where you | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
get access to Australia if you meet certain criteria and gain certain | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
points. Why is she thinking this would work for us? A couple of | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
things, there's this watering down question, is this a possible | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
trade-off? Basically, the Financial Times goes into more detail, Theresa | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
May may have a more relaxed system for EU citizens, so they can come to | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
the UK without fulfilling all of the criteria that non-EU people would | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
make. She would be doing that with a view to getting access to the single | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
market. On the other hand, the other reason she may want to do it is if | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
you talk to businesses, if they've spoken to international businesses | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
since the vote, they make it clear that one aspect they like about | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Britain is that they can get a lot of people in easily. It's all very | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
well talking about these systems but the easiest ones to get still take | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
six months. If you are a business that relies a lot on bringing in | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
talent, you don't like these kinds of systems. It might be another | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
factor Theresa May is thinking of, if the economy goes south, she won't | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
want to bring in new elements that could slow it down further. And | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
seasonal workers who come in to help, particularly with agriculture? | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
You are right, if she tries to curb immigration, that is what many | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
Brexiteers are saying, she gets net migration to come down, but today | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
she said there was no evidence that a points-based system works. The | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
suggestion may be that Number ten is looking more and quotas for work | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
permits, the idea being that if you judge people by age and skills, they | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
have to tick the boxes and many people could fulfil those criteria | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
so it may be better to set a concrete upper level for people | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
coming in. Let's look at The Guardian on this story, Mae refuses | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
to guarantee Brexit pledges, promises on NHS and immigration in | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
doubt. Another subheading, Japan and US warned Prime Minister of exit | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
risks to Britain. Barack Obama not going back on what he said during | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
the campaign, saying we would negotiate with the EU before we talk | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
to the UK. A stern warning from Japan? Yes, it's interesting, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
doubling down on his warning, making it clear he believes Britain made | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
the wrong decision in the EU referendum, they not only is it more | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
important for the US to negotiate with the EU, but also in the block | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
of Pacific nations, he's making clear that we are at the back of the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
queue. And Japan have said we have a lot of workers in the UK, in the, | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
new factoring and technological industries, we expect the same | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
privileges and access that we currently enjoy -- in the car | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
manufacturing business. Won't this smack of more interference by | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
foreign countries? That really got people's backs up in the campaign? | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Possibly, but we have a statement coming out today, Britain will lead | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
the way on free trade. There's the idea that Britain can push ahead | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
through sheer determination. It does not really fit with the way that | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
trade deals work. You cannot lead a trade deal, you need two people. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
The whole perception in how it works, what is being depicted is | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
that it is very much by good. Trade deals now are about regulation and | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
not tariffs, they are pretty passed as an issue since the WTO. There is | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
the fundamental problem when you negotiate trade deals like | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
regulation, that is what they are about now. And they take a lot of | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
time, the WTO is still going on! The Metro, a very different story, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
this is what has been happening with the story surrounding Keith Vaz, the | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Leicester East MP, a Labour MP, here is chair of the home affairs select | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
committee or he has been. It says that he steps down as head | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
of home affairs committee after paying for male ex-Scots. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
They are all allegations, nothing is against the law -- escorts. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Nothing has been confirmed, but there are whisperings that he's | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
planning to step down on Tuesday when the committee meets. He's been | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
head of the committee for nine years. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
One of the most influential in Westminster, but it does of course | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
mean dealing with the Home Office and policies looking into those, it | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
deals with advice and there's an enquiry on prostitution and laws | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
around sex workers. There will be questions raised about | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
appropriateness of him remaining as head when he is alleged to have | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
engaged with prostitutes. Over the weekend it has been stated | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
over and over again that there is nothing illegal about paying for | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
sex, it is illegal in some parts of the UK? | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
It is a difficult area. Had he solicited a prostitute from a car it | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
would be illegal, in certain circumstances in the UK and Northern | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Ireland it is illegal to pay for sex in most circumstances. It's a tricky | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
legal area to be in. It seems, as Jeremy Corbyn said, even if the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
allegations are true, Mr Vaz has not done anything illegal. But the fact | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
that this is an area where the legality of alleged activity, there | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
is a broad dispute over it, and it puts them in a difficult position. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Yes, these are all allegations at the moment, nothing confirmed but | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
also Mr Vaz has said he is deeply disturbed by The Sunday Mirror | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
choosing to pay for access to this story. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Let's move on and look at The Times newspaper. NHS blows nearly ?2 | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
million in payoffs to bosses, who is getting these hand-outs? It seems | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
these are the bosses of NHS various units, who are getting very | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
significant pay-outs for leaving their jobs, partly because there was | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
a rationalisation and more people were made redundant than might | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
normally be the case. In one sense, the NHS... It is big, | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
or the numbers will be big and we will be outraged by the payoffs to | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
bosses who we may not feel huge amounts of sympathy for. The | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
government said that there would be payoffs that would be capped at a | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
certain level of ?95,000. It seems we had pay-outs going up to | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
several times that amount. There seems to be a case to answer, | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
as to why the rules have been broken and the figure is big not just | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
because the NHS is big but because rules were not followed. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
We don't know exactly what their individual contractual agreements | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
were with some people and if they were entitled to these bonuses and | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
payoffs? We do not have the details here but the real nub of the story | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
is that this goes back to the widely criticised top-down reorganisation | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
implement it by Andrew Lansley in 2010 during the coalition | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
government. That is when he abolished 150 bodies, and created | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
more. It was the largest restructure in the history of their NHS and has | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
led to payments that people have said are down to the restructuring. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
There's been a revolving door system in many cases, people leaving one | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
unit only to become re-employed by the health service in another | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
capacity, some people have said it smacks of waste. Let's look at the | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
Express, page two, Mother Teresa, she was made a saint. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
It attracted huge crowds in the Vatican. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
In 2016, the canonisation of the woman who died in 1997, it has been | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
greeted with great enthusiasm. And the | :12:43. | :12:54. | |
compassion that she had for the working Kolkata, it has captured the | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
public's imagination. -- the poor in Kolkata. It is a touching moment, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
whether you are Catholic or not, seeing someone canonised who gave so | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
much of their life to eliminating poverty. She is controversial in | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
some of the things she did, some think that her legacy was entirely | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
good? Growing up in Ireland, people took for granted that she was | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
already a saint, she was a significant figure among Catholics | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
for a long period of time. The controversy, yes, that's been here, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
you made the point of alleviating poverty, the accusation was that she | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
did not tackle the causes of poverty. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Regarding compassion, the questions around alleviation of pain, and in | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Ireland, in the past, one of the issues was that in Catholicism, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Payne brings you closer to God. That may have led to pain relief not | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
being distributed as otherwise it would have done -- pain. The whole | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
issue of sainthood is difficult for some Catholics as the idea of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
granting miracles is something that maybe does not tell nowadays with | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
our scientific outlook. It's not without controversy but as Lucy | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
said, is hugely popular to the faithful. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
And The Daily Star, Struck the winner decided already, and the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
dancers have not even taken to the floor yet, they've been rehearsing. | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
A fixed claim made by James Jordan, who used to be one of the | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
professionals on the show. It is shocking. The late has gone off, | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
what can you believe in! Fairies! Obviously you can, I'm not a major | :14:44. | :14:55. | |
Struck a fan, but it captured my attention, if they are reading a | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
contest based on career political trajectories, it can be serious. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Similar claims made last year during the competition that it was a fix? | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
It overlooks the fact the audience gets to vote? I'm not sure on the | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
basis of this former dancer who no longer appears on the show... I | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
don't know their claims, but as we approach the anniversary of 9/11 | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
Mac, conspiracies of truth, Jeremy Corbyn supporters... | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
People see conspiracies and wrecked contests where there are none. | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
Amanda is our editors tonight, and a fishy order low of Stictly, they | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
have not even began to dance yet. -- aficionado. That's all for now, | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
but Tom and Lucy will be back in an hour but now, time for Meet The | :16:00. | :16:00. |