20/11/2016 The Papers

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to what the papers will be With me are the broadcaster,

Natalie Haynes. It's nice. I'm not making a comment,

it is nice. And the Independent's

deputy political editor, The Daily Telegraph leads

with Prime Minister Theresa May's planned tax pledge to try

and win back business. 'New push for "clean break" EU

exit,' is the headline for the Daily The paper says 70 Eurosceptic

MPs are joining forces. The Metro says: "Blair is back

in politics," with reports that the former prime minister

is setting up a new institute And according to the Independent,

a third of young homeless people Let's look to Wednesday and the

Autumn Statement, the first one with Philip Hammond at the helm, here it

is on the i, Osborne austerity continues in Brexit budget and

Britain has to get match fit. Austerity was supposed to be a thing

of the past, wasn't it? And it feels like the last two or three weeks or

so we have had a little drip drip of worrying about managing families, we

will have some sort of fun for them which will make things a little bit

easier and nicer, excellent use, and suddenly three days before the

statement of thing is coming back and it is no, austerity, we are in

trouble, he is the only person who feels, who is breaking the party

line and saying we will be in trouble with Brexit so we can't do

anything and the question is expectation management or war and I

think expectation management... That is unusual, normally it is me.

Maybe. There are elements of disagreement between Number Ten and

Number 11 and Theresa May is keen to find someone to make good on her

promises for struggling families and Philip Hammond is less committed to

that and more worried as Natalie says about the impact of Brexit and

if he has any money to spend, he will spend it on tackling the causes

of our productivity crisis such as by transport and better broadband,

we need, along those lines rather than giving money to people in need.

Alternatively, perhaps the government thought people were not

excited about the budget and it will be first of all a splurge for

families and now it is continued austerity. Tune in on Wednesday and

find out. No, I don't think so. Do you? You talk about families who

will really struggle. They are on the front of the Guardian. Revealed,

cost four 6 million families. ?2500, some families will be worse off by.

Journalists light myself don't just report what happens in that budget.

You have to look at the big picture and what has already been announced,

when it was announced it was going to happen in years to come and so it

is happening now and what that means is huge cuts to Universal Credit for

low income families and huge cuts to benefits for many disabled people. A

four-year benefit freeze. So whatever goodies Philip Hammond

manages to find down the back of his so far there is no way he can

possibly compensate for what is coming and that is what this report

says. And as you say it is up to families just about managing with

?2500 worse off, it is an enormous sum. Has that fear come from this

study from the consultancy, Policy and Practice? Yes, the financial

circumstances of 187,475 households were studied and they have included

in that not just things like the benefit freeze but they have also

looked at rising rents and increasing inflation and the number

they have come out with is ?48.90 a week and when you think about it

that is a serious whack, it is a serious amount of money to spend on

groceries, heating, electricity, petrol, which of course is now

incredibly expensive, and these are things which people are going to try

to stretch their money to meet and it is a lot of money to lose. The

Times, Aleppo loses last hospital in onslaught from Russians. It is hard

to imagine, isn't it, the conditions in eastern Aleppo in particular,

because it has been under bombardment and under siege for so

long. Yes. And there were eight medical facilities, none of which

have now been functioning since Saturday, according to the Times. I

have to say they are the only paper that sees fit to include what is a

major I would have thought news story on their front page. Yes, I

suppose perhaps everyone else is just so riven with helplessness that

it doesn't feel like the information you want to share, that there are

premature babies being moved because the room where they are with their

incubator is filling with smoke. I assumed we could all agree that

bombing a children's hospital was wrong but it turns out there are

people who will defend all kinds of things. There are reports as well of

barrel bombs being used loaded with chlorine gas and a family of six has

died. It is difficult to get a lot of information out of Aleppo because

of the conditions. There are not many journalists, if any. There is

some testimony and to map quote leap out, one in the Times, quoting a

former graphic designer leaving eastern Aleppo with his family and

he says if you watch the film Mad Max you can imagine the city, there

is nothing useful, we spend time hunting for things to stay alive, I

feel I am not living in the 21st century. And a quote from a British

doctor who was there, no more, and they have been fed messages from the

Assad regime that if you don't live in the next 24 hours you will be

killed. The Times deserves credit for keeping the story on the front

page. Other papers have not. It is not just another story about how

terrible life is in Aleppo. It is something over and above that. The

last hospital. There is no hope for people with injuries in a Aleppo.

Looking at two papers, the Telegraph and the FT and what is happening in

politics in mainland Europe and notably France and Germany. Firstly,

the Telegraph, Nicolas Sarkozy suffers shock defeat in first round

of French primary. He wanted a second go at being president and it

is not to be. Yes, I suppose if there was one contender in the

election that a reasonable number of British people would have heard of

it would have been Sarkozy as president, perhaps it is our

mistake. He is out of the race. It has been suggested that it is

another example of voters turning against the establishment candidate

in the same way as Brexit. And with Trump winning. The contenders who

beat him were former French Prime Minister is so you can argue they

are in the establishment as well, maybe people just like Nicolas

Sarkozy. And Francois Fillon looks to be the contender next year and

the person who will take on the national front. And from what I have

read Nicolas Sarkozy risks chasing the populace vote and moved a little

bit to the right in the hope of appealing to those who might intend

to vote for Marine Le Pen. If the last few months have told us

anything it is that repositioning yourself when you are already a

known quantity is a recipe for disaster at the moment. We have a

strange craving for what is perceived to be authentic and I used

those quotes because that is in the eye of the beholder. Someone can be

in the establishment or the blue-collar billionaire can be

employed and people don't see it as being intrinsically ludicrous.

Nonetheless it is an attempt to say, oh, well, my politics are like this,

and voters are not buying it. We don't want people to triangulate

their position. We don't want people to move position. We have a strange

point in politics where we said on the what is your position, OK, I am

not interested and from then on you cannot win it back. The FT, Angela

Merkel seeking a fourth term in office, she seems to be sticking to

her guns and saying, I know it will be a tough challenge. Although her

popularity has waned, she still has a lot of wide support. You're, I

wonder if it has anything to do with Obama's visit this week. There was a

real sense, wasn't there, during the coverage of the visit that he was

passing on the torch of her being the person we are looking towards to

speak up for a united Western category of countries and leaders

and there is a vague sense that perhaps he is already bypassing the

next president of the US and offering it over to Angela Merkel.

Maybe that was the push she wanted. But there is an anti- Muslim,

anti-immigration party that is increasing its support in Germany.

Yes, there is. I mean, it is less popular than the National Front in

France, and I don't want to make predictions in politics, but surely

Merkel will win again. Now you have said it. There is a quote from her

hair which... -- her here which... How many people in the world will be

dependent on her and suicidal if Marine Le Pen wins next year. Angela

Merkel says it is grotesque and almost absurd to suggest she can

solve the world's problems alone. We can only do it together. Sorry,

Angela, but people are looking at you as the only person who can

vaguely keep things on track. The sun that, a tiny Navy is a danger,

who has said it? The defence Select Committee has a report out tomorrow

which makes the case for a shipbuilding splurge in Britain --

The Sun. If you ask people how money warships Britain have, people would

say 30, 40, 50, I don't know, memories that we once had an empire,

it is true that we have in fact 19, 13 frigates and six destroyers,

which is in many, and that is the point the committee will make

tomorrow. Will it make any difference? Most of the defence

budget is going to be spent on renewing Britain's Trident

submarines and missiles over the coming years and decades and I

suggest that will leave little for expanding the rest of the defence. A

pathetic fleet. You're, and as always we have more details front of

the Telegraph, but as always with stories about defence acquisitions,

the usual weight, you have spent how much, it doesn't work because... MPs

criticise mistakes in the design of the destroyers which have led to the

billion pound vessels being plagued by power outages in need of engine

refits. A report called restoring the fleet and in its usable failing

for not being designed to operate for long periods in warm seas such

as the Gulf and it does seem like an inexcusable failing. A bit of an

oversight. Yes, ?1 billion and engine refits. As always with

defence stories, you find yourself gazing at the sums and eyes

watering. Very quickly, two store is also on the Telegraph, British

children bottom of world fitness league, 38 countries have been

compared and we do very badly on. Yes. I find it hard to relate. I was

watching my daughter swimming up and down a 50 metre pool and she was

looming far better than I ever could, now, let alone when I was

that age and there are clearly lots of children who I see out there

playing sport as much as my generation ever did but presumably

there are not enough of them. This story tells us that overall these

children are getting less fit. England used to have a C-D rating

and now it has a D- rating for the fitness of 11- 15 -year-olds and

Scotland is even worse with F. I wonder what it is, then, because it

is expensive to do these activities if they are not available in school,

joining clubs, getting them now, it costs a lot of money. It is and they

are expensive and yet, still, the requirements seem not to me to be

impossible with one hour of moderate exercise per day. You think, well,

that is 1.5 miles walking to school and home, isn't it, and I know it

rains and not everyone embraces, as I do, the chance to get soaked and

say, this is brazing and character building, I really do see that, but

it is not unfeasible to fit that into your life, it doesn't have to

be a trampoline or ballet class or horseriding or the things we think

of as expensive, it could be going for a run or a walk. Finally,

keeping his crown, Andy Murray on the front of the Telegraph beating

Novak Djokovic to finish the year world number one. Ah yes, it would

have seen a unthinkable when Novak Djokovic was all conquering. I find

it astonishing that Andy Murray can win so many tournaments in such a

short amount of time and somehow his battered body has taken him over the

line. We were talking earlier that presumably he will collapse into a

heap if he hasn't already. Extraordinary stamina. It is

extraordinary and also the psychological strength that must

have been required to beat him yesterday after being one point

down, serving for the match twice, winning on the tiebreak, and then

coming out and having, I am sure not easy, relatively easy straight sets

win over Novak Djokovic, it is just amazing, his willpower is something

to marvel at. Rob knows all of the finalists at Wimbledon back to 1970.

Who played in 1983? Oh, that was when John McEnroe won. Oh, you see?

It is his superpower. It is. It is your superpower. I think it is

right. Lloyd? Yes. Mastermind. John Humphrys on the phone. Got away with

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