:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:20.With me are the journalist Helen Croydon and the
:00:21. > :00:26.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
:00:27. > :00:30.The Times leads on the care story we've been reporting today,
:00:31. > :00:32.saying that ageing parents are drawing up legal documents
:00:33. > :00:35.to make clear that they would rather die than allow excessive care home
:00:36. > :00:45.fees to eat into their child's inheritance.
:00:46. > :00:51.The Daily Mail has the same story, but the paper is asking the foreign
:00:52. > :00:59.aid budget to be used to tackle the crisis. The Guardian focuses on the
:01:00. > :01:03.issue in Syria and carries a picture from Aleppo with the headline, this
:01:04. > :01:04.is a final distress call to the world.
:01:05. > :01:09.nightmare with strikes by postal workers and rail staff
:01:10. > :01:11.likely to cause misery in the days before christmas.
:01:12. > :01:13.The I leads on plans for a new network of super
:01:14. > :01:15.selective schools to cater for the country's
:01:16. > :01:24.The express as a daily dose of statin 's can reduce the risk of
:01:25. > :01:33.developing Alzheimer's disease. We start with the Telegraph. Have
:01:34. > :01:38.you posted your Christmas cards yet? I do not do Christmas cards. Well,
:01:39. > :01:47.you are all right then. You will be laughing. The postal strike will not
:01:48. > :01:53.be until the 20th of December, sorry the 19th, and the last post date is
:01:54. > :02:00.the 20th. It is only for the people who are a bit last-minute like you.
:02:01. > :02:05.But it is not actually all of the post offices, it is the crown post
:02:06. > :02:08.offices, the main high street branches, not the little ones inside
:02:09. > :02:16.shops. But still it is really badly timed. Not if you are a postal
:02:17. > :02:19.worker who feels industrial action is the only way to sort out the
:02:20. > :02:25.debate over pensions and new working practices. That is the dilemma. If
:02:26. > :02:32.you are a trade union leader, when is the time to make an impact? If
:02:33. > :02:37.you still believe that strike action works, and I was talking today to a
:02:38. > :02:42.trade union leader, and we were talking about strike action in the
:02:43. > :02:46.21st-century as a weapon, and there is an argument that if you want to
:02:47. > :02:52.make an impact, when better to do it than now? That is not going to win
:02:53. > :02:58.the public support. That is what they should be doing, trying to win
:02:59. > :03:02.support from the public. As well as the post-office strikes, this story
:03:03. > :03:08.is also mentioning the rail strikes, three days this week. That is hugely
:03:09. > :03:14.disruptive with people coming into town to do their shopping. Everybody
:03:15. > :03:22.is blaming Southern with this. But it is the unions, Southern have
:03:23. > :03:29.tried to have talks with the unions. Oh! That is one view of what has
:03:30. > :03:35.happened. But I have to tell you there is another view. But, be that
:03:36. > :03:40.as it may, it is interesting that this is a return of what used to be
:03:41. > :03:44.called militancy and probably should still be called militancy. It will
:03:45. > :03:47.be interesting to see the attitude of Jeremy Corbyn in the last few
:03:48. > :03:56.days before the Parliamentary recess. He is very quiet. Whether he
:03:57. > :04:01.will support the postal workers, let alone the people in the southern
:04:02. > :04:05.region. You talked about public support and you cannot have
:04:06. > :04:09.industrial action in this day and age in a vacuum. If you have the
:04:10. > :04:14.whole of the public on your side, that is something that can be quite
:04:15. > :04:20.important. Is there a difference between support for postmen and
:04:21. > :04:25.support for rail staff? Is there a sense that the postmen, good honest
:04:26. > :04:30.working men and women who keep us all in communication... If it is
:04:31. > :04:37.people who are not getting their presence is delivered in time, also
:04:38. > :04:41.there have been so many post office closures recently that most of us
:04:42. > :04:45.cannot find a post office near to us. You make the journey and it is
:04:46. > :04:50.closed because of a strike two days before Christmas. I have a wonderful
:04:51. > :04:56.small post office run by a wonderful single woman who works and works and
:04:57. > :05:02.works. She is a tribute. Would she go on strike? She will confirm this,
:05:03. > :05:14.I have sent more Christmas cards this year than ever in my life. She
:05:15. > :05:22.has been there a few years. You have been known as Mr Scrooge, so I am
:05:23. > :05:29.quite shocked. I am only jesting! The front page of the Guardian,
:05:30. > :05:38.actually, no, it is not Aleppo, it is Brexit. Hammond, we need a deal,
:05:39. > :05:41.there could be an economic cliff if we pull stake out of the European
:05:42. > :05:47.Union as businesses have not had time to adjust. This is a
:05:48. > :05:52.fascinating battle now developing within the government. On the one
:05:53. > :05:59.hand Philip Hammond backing up the Governor of the Bank of England,
:06:00. > :06:04.Mark Carney, on having this transitional deal. On the other side
:06:05. > :06:11.my namesake without the E, David, and the likes of Liam Fox, who say
:06:12. > :06:16.apparently they are not keen on a traditional and transitional deal.
:06:17. > :06:21.But Philip Hammond appeared before the Treasury Select Committee today
:06:22. > :06:27.and said two years people have talked about it, and this could take
:06:28. > :06:31.rather longer. Some of the papers are saying he is thinking about four
:06:32. > :06:40.years which would take us up to the official date of the next election,
:06:41. > :06:47.in 2020. Mr Hammond had a quote that his thinking is emerging amongst
:06:48. > :06:52.those people, among thoughtful politicians. Where that put David
:06:53. > :06:57.Davis and Liam Fox I am not sure. We have got to two tier debate, hard
:06:58. > :07:02.Brexit and soft Brexit, should we be in the single market or the customs
:07:03. > :07:08.union? And now we have this other debate, is it a fast Brexit or a
:07:09. > :07:15.slow Brexit? You have got a two-way debate with overlaps on each one.
:07:16. > :07:21.And it is more and more confusing. I am not a betting man, but I promise
:07:22. > :07:25.you it will not be a fast Brexit. There will be a natural transition
:07:26. > :07:30.period, whether Philip Hammond gets what he once or not because
:07:31. > :07:35.businesses will need to adapt. They will need new IT systems, new
:07:36. > :07:41.training systems. If we have a customs union, will we need
:07:42. > :07:46.barriers? All the other 27 countries are keen on it as well because their
:07:47. > :07:51.economy has been bound up with elements of the British economy, so
:07:52. > :07:57.they want extra time. You are forgetting our learner to friends in
:07:58. > :08:01.all of this. Some of them want an immensely long Brexit. I do not
:08:02. > :08:06.think there is any advantage in having a prolonged Brexit because it
:08:07. > :08:12.leads to uncertainty. And lawyers getting a nice big fat cut. Onto
:08:13. > :08:22.super selective schools. What I date? This is exclusive, part of
:08:23. > :08:29.Theresa May's new grammar schools that she will be introducing. As
:08:30. > :08:32.part of that she has plans for so-called super selective schools
:08:33. > :08:42.which are for the brightest 2% of children. This was recommended by
:08:43. > :08:46.her advisers who said it would bring Britain in line with countries like
:08:47. > :08:51.the US, India, France and Russia who have a similar system. We do not
:08:52. > :08:57.know a lot about it, we do not know what this election would be. If you
:08:58. > :09:03.get the highest amount in your 11 plus, would you be creamed off? It
:09:04. > :09:08.sounds very great, less reward the brightest children and give them an
:09:09. > :09:14.opportunity, let's get rid of class elitism which we have had in the
:09:15. > :09:18.past, but this will lead to perhaps a little bit of intellectual
:09:19. > :09:27.elitism. We will get a situation where parents become really pushy.
:09:28. > :09:31.It will still favour the elite. Which is what you see in Asian
:09:32. > :09:36.countries, kids committing suicide because there is so much pressure on
:09:37. > :09:41.them. Will somebody explain to me that how is it that my country is
:09:42. > :09:45.moving towards a more selective system at just the time that so many
:09:46. > :09:49.of these other countries we are meant to be a thing are moving away
:09:50. > :09:57.from selection? I do not understand that, it is quite beyond me. There
:09:58. > :10:00.is an argument for comprehensive education that over the last few
:10:01. > :10:04.years it has not produced the kind of workforce that we apparently need
:10:05. > :10:10.to take on the likes of Germany and others. Whether that is true or not
:10:11. > :10:16.I would not argue with it, but that does not necessarily mean that
:10:17. > :10:20.selection is correct. Or the way forward and the Labour Party say
:10:21. > :10:27.that better comprehensive education is the way forward. A long-running
:10:28. > :10:30.debate. Give opportunity to all. Parents calling in lawyers over
:10:31. > :10:37.soaring care costs in the Times newspaper. It has been leading the
:10:38. > :10:44.way on this social care scandal and I use that word deliberately. It is
:10:45. > :10:48.a wretchedly sad story on the front page of The Times tomorrow that
:10:49. > :10:51.ageing parents are drying up these legal documents to make clear they
:10:52. > :10:57.would rather die than allow excessive care home fees to reach
:10:58. > :11:02.into their child's inheritance. Whatever happened to the 2015
:11:03. > :11:09.Conservative manifesto commitment to reform the care system for the over
:11:10. > :11:14.65 and all that noise over a cap? Whatever happened to the idea of an
:11:15. > :11:23.all-party commission? This must be the longest predicted crisis of any
:11:24. > :11:31.that I can think of. The government has a responsibility to keep people
:11:32. > :11:37.safe and sound. But this is part of it, surely, keeping people safe and
:11:38. > :11:44.sound in my view. The government says local councils will be able to
:11:45. > :11:50.raise the precept, a bit more on council tax towards social care. A
:11:51. > :11:59.lot of people are suggesting this is too big a problem for that kind of
:12:00. > :12:04.remedy. It is, the ageing population is getting worse. This is such a
:12:05. > :12:08.tragic story, that parents are literally prepared to die for their
:12:09. > :12:16.children's inheritance. It also taps into the idea that the children of
:12:17. > :12:21.these parents who are now going into care either lost generation, the
:12:22. > :12:25.ones who are suffering rising house prices and a lower standard of
:12:26. > :12:29.living. They are the ones now who need that inheritance of the most.
:12:30. > :12:35.This whole generation is relying still on their parents. We have to
:12:36. > :12:42.bring it to an end. That went very quickly. It has been good to see
:12:43. > :12:46.you. Stay with us on BBC News. The front pages are online on the BBC
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:12:55. > :12:56.us there as well with each night's edition of the programme. Thank you
:12:57. > :13:12.for watching. Nothing too extreme on the horizon
:13:13. > :13:17.over the next few days, but I would not rule out a white Christmas just
:13:18. > :13:19.yet. But it is very mild and it will stay that way for the next few days
:13:20. > :13:20.to