18/12/2016 The Papers

That's all of the sport, now on BBC News, Martine Croxall with The

Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Business Journalist

Josie Cox and journalist It's nice to know what 9:30am looks

like! The front pages, beginning with...

The Observer focuses on the Unite leadership battle -

featuring an interview with the man challenging Len Mcluskey

The Mail on Sunday leads with what it describes as the great

foreign aid freeze - saying the government has agreed

to halt new contracts after an investigation by the paper.

The Sunday Times says the head of the rail union behind this week's

industrial action has vowed to topple the Conservative

The Sunday Telegraph also focusses on the unions -

claiming Theresa May is facing pressure to curb

And the Express says the High Street is heading for a record

breaking Christmas - fuelled by Brexit.

Let's begin with the Sunday Times. And, this idea of a loyalty oath for

public office holders. It has been suggested by the Communities

Secretary Sajid Javid, but following on from this report that Daimler

Weise Casey has published into looking into how well integrated we

are -- Dame Louise Casey. Yes, it is very far reaching. It applies to

civil servants and even local council workers. I wonder how

effective this would be. You can get people to swear an oath to anything

but whether they fundamentally change their beliefs and values as a

result is questionable. What kind of sanction would there have two B for

it to be meaningful? We can say anything. If I want a job, I will

say it. Do I feel it or believe it? There is a problem, there is a

problem of integration. You know, within SummerSlam communities and

frankly quite a lot of white people who do not want to integrate --

within some Muslim communities. Just saying that you cannot get a job

unless you come up with this oath? That will only end up in resentment,

I think. And it is not just public office, it is everybody in society

who have an investment or share in the same ideas. How do you bring it

about? Exactly, it would apply to all migrants. Currently, it is just

people seeking British citizenship. It is just so... Are we going to ask

those people who happen to be indigenous Britons, right? To

express tolerance when a lot of them are deeply intolerant of all

backgrounds. This could be against discrimination laws and so on. What

I think is that there was a problem and there has to be a more

imaginative way of dealing with it. How? Louise Casey has certainly got

the debate started... Don't get me started on her! Believe me, Yasmin,

I won't! We have 13 minutes! There are a lot of things that we could

actually... We have all kinds of activities. In Denmark there are

fantastically local authority schemes to bring people together.

Informally, casually, to be friends. We could do that. Moving on, the

Telegraph. A fuse union stories this morning. It is nice to feel a proper

newspaper and not just the front pages! Pressure on May.

Prime Minister faces backlash over failure to impose emergency laws to

curb crippling strikes. Southern Rail this week, it means a

lot of difficulty for people trying to get about. What are the pressures

that she is under? This has been going on for quite a long time.

Conservative governments and successive ones have tried to curb

the power of the unions. Now, some of these strikes are perfectly

legal, what will we do? Change the law again... I am quite interested

that Theresa May is refusing to curb the powers of the existing

conditions under which strike... I would have thought she would have

gone for it. They are quite crossed that she is not. But I think that

she is right to not immediately step into this and make laws because of

strikes. One of these suggestions is that critical industries would have

to commit to maintaining a certain level of service even in the event

of a strike, which I think would still slow people down if they are

trying to move around on the railways for example but would not

be quite the impact that they are facing this week? And I wonder

whether it is the impact that is needed in order to get the point

across, and whether keeping crucial services or at least half of them

running would in fact defy the point of the strike will together. And the

same with The Daily Telegraph, a picture of a mother and son but not

any of them... The Queen and Prince trials, in a photograph taken by

Nick Knight, a fashion photographer, prior to the final night of the

Queen's 90th birthday celebrations. Yasmin, what do you think? She looks

really good. I like her frock. At her age she looks really good. And

so does trials! -- Charles. He is looking very fondly at his mum. She

never greens a lot. I would love to know what is going on in her mind.

-- grins a lot. This headline... This is Len McCluskey, the head of

the Unite union facing a challenge from someone else. They are

accusing, Jeremy Corbyn, he is accusing Len McCluskey are basically

not doing his job as the head of the Unite union. I wonder whether this

is not a proxy of what is happening in the broader Labour Party at the

end of such a divisive year indeed for the whole Labour Party. Yes, but

I think, I have never heard of this chap before. He does have a point.

Len... I can never say his surname properly... McCluskey. He is more

politicised than a couple of union leaders have been in the past but

there are limits, after which he fails himself and the Labour Party.

The Labour Party has always suffered from this thing. At the hands of the

union. -- unions. I think that there is a point here? Not all unions are

politically affiliated of course, but if you are, you are inevitably

going to be quite politicised and you? Yes, but you can do it subtly.

This guy committee just talks all the time about politics within the

Labour Party. He is a trade unionist. You can be more subtle,

businesses who back the Tory party do not do this upfront all the time.

It is a lesson? And they accused of behaving in a less than transparent

way? Yes. But I think that they could learn a little bit from the

other sector. Let's stay with the Observer. Look at this story at the

bottom. TUC and businesses urge Made to act now on the rights of migrants

in Britain. -- Theresa May to act now. The rights of EU migrants

should be guaranteed, they say, so that they can remain in the UK after

Ore, because a lot of industries rely on those workers, don't they?

-- in the UK after Brexit. It is some thing that Theresa May has

addressed only last week. She said that she wanted answers to these

questions. But, she's also said that she is basically not going to do

anything until the talks are triggered in March. Three months is

a long time and a lot of people will be affected by this. And over 1

million British people are also living in Britain. 1.3 million, I

think. I think that it is unfair and wrong to keep people in... How many

months as it been already since Brexit? Some of these issues are, in

a way, protected by law. Article eight of the European human rights

Convention says that you have a right to a family life, and... These

are often bypassed. But we would still be part of the convention

unless they decide otherwise. You get the right to permanent

residents. Isn't there some worry unnecessarily? A lot of it is about

rhetoric as well. And signalling, a willingness to show that

collaboration with EU states that had been particularly hostile in the

aftermath of the Brexit vote. A lot of my Polish friends are very

anxious and feel that any minute now... They feel it, emotionally

they feel insecure at the moment. The Polish Prime Minister, when she

came over, she was sounding rather different to a lot of EU leaders.

Probably in recognition of the fact that there needs to be some

reciprocity. It's an anxious time if you are an EU migrant. And the

attitudes now developing in our country towards them. So... They do

not feel that welcome or integrated, I think, quite a lot of them now.

The Mail on Sunday, the great foreign aid freeze, a stunning

victory says the newspaper, for their campaign.

As Britain suspends new aid contracts after we expose fat cat

dirty tricks. What are those dirty tricks? We both have mixed feelings

about this. The big story here, Ian Birrell is a very good journalist,

about how many executives, if you like, the CEOs of big charities, the

bonuses that they earn, it is a fair enough story but I think that there

is something else also happening here which makes me uncomfortable.

It's kind of an attack on aid itself. But isn't it the right kind

of age to the right kinds of places? Making sure money gets to where it

is meant to be, rather than going in other directions? I would say so and

it is such a big industry it is difficult to police as a whole.

Transparency is so paramount. I think Ian has a good point here. The

wording is very strong. He's talking about a dramatic halt to new

contracts. It sells like a review going into something that has to be

reviewed, but it would be interesting to see the outcome. We

face cuts here on so many fronts. The best way, isn't it? To get

people to support the idea of us giving foreign aid. Showing that it

is properly having an effect? It is, but what is awful is that some of

The Papers in the last few months have said, let's stop and look after

our own. If you do not want refugees to come here, you better keep up

with some good aid projects, actually. Otherwise, you have to

work at the source or people will do what they've been doing and die and

coming to Europe. You cannot have it both ways, really. Let's go back to

the Sunday Times. Strictly winner, hip hip, Ore, our BBC Sports

presenter... He is lifting up his partner in her spectacular yellow

gown, it is not just a dress. She was so surprised when they won, her

face was extraordinary! Neither of us have been committed to strictly

watches this year... Maybe we should have been, it looked fantastic this

year. I am so impressed at how quickly the contestants pick up

those steps. Ore had never danced before. Some competitors have

dancing their background. Sport is his thing, obviously. No, I think

that the way that they do it... Ed Balls for God sake! He did really

well. It would have thought? He certainly committed, didn't he? His

gangland style, I watched it half a dozen times... It is so joyful! --

here's Gangnam Style. And we've just spoken to the parents

of JoAnn and Kevin Clifton... And those dresses! The wardrobe

department at the BBC News Channel is not quite as well at providing

the sequence! She says, dressed in black for this morning... --

sequins. That's all for The Papers this morning.

Thank you to both of you. A reminder that we look at my's front pages

every evening at 10:40pm during the week. -- we look at tomorrow's front

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