:00:00. > :00:16.That is all, coming up in a moment, the papers, see you later.
:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:22.With me are the former Conservative pensions minister Ros Altmann
:00:23. > :00:30.and the sports journalist Mihir Bose.
:00:31. > :00:32.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with The i,
:00:33. > :00:34.it leads on the political crisis in Northern Ireland.
:00:35. > :00:41.The Telegraph says a review has found that Britain's most senior
:00:42. > :00:44.military judge mishandled the trial of a Royal Marine, who was found
:00:45. > :00:46.guilty of murdering a wounded Taliban fighter.
:00:47. > :00:48.The Mail leads on the pressures on A
:00:49. > :00:51.It says the Health Secretary has begged patients to stay away
:00:52. > :00:56.While the Guardian says front-line doctors have warned
:00:57. > :01:00.patient safety is at risk, as casualty units are overwhelmed.
:01:01. > :01:03.The Times leads on the story that doctors believe more than a quarter
:01:04. > :01:07.of accident and emergency units are dangerously overcrowded.
:01:08. > :01:14.The Express focuses on house prices.
:01:15. > :01:18.And the Metro leads on Meryl Streep's criticism of Donald Trump.
:01:19. > :01:24.That is at last night's: globes, we will talk about that later on, but
:01:25. > :01:31.let's start with the Daily Mail, broken a and E is your fault, i.e.,
:01:32. > :01:35.the public was fought. One in three of us should not be in casualty at
:01:36. > :01:41.all. We are in the middle of winter, when you get the biggest pressures
:01:42. > :01:45.on the NHS, particularly A, he is trying to flag up that sad hopefully
:01:46. > :01:48.stop a few of us going over there. It is unprecedented for doctors to
:01:49. > :01:52.give the kind of learning we have had just now, which is that our A
:01:53. > :01:56.systems are overloaded, patient safety is at risk. As you say, we
:01:57. > :02:02.are in the winter, the busiest time of year for ten one typically, but
:02:03. > :02:05.what I think is really going on here, and if you look through some
:02:06. > :02:11.of the examples of what people are saying and what is happening in
:02:12. > :02:15.hospitals, lots of problems stemming from the failure of our social care
:02:16. > :02:19.system, and hospitals are saying we have got to discharge people. We
:02:20. > :02:22.have not got enough beds to admit people to, and they can't, because
:02:23. > :02:29.social care is not taking people back into the community. So you have
:02:30. > :02:33.patients at risk, at one level, and then you have got the government
:02:34. > :02:36.saying that actually about 30% of people who actually show up at ten
:02:37. > :02:41.one are not real emergencies. So they are talking about having GPs to
:02:42. > :02:47.fill the people out as they come into town one to see who is really
:02:48. > :02:52.an emergency and who isn't. Mihir, this is a problem we have year after
:02:53. > :02:55.year, ten one can't cope, people are going there who should not be going
:02:56. > :02:59.there, there is not enough money to put into the health service.
:03:00. > :03:03.Something radical has to be done to deal with all this. Absolutely, and
:03:04. > :03:06.it is quite interesting what the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has
:03:07. > :03:12.said, that people are going in with broken fingernails, and that is
:03:13. > :03:17.causing the broken A It is almost the way he has put it, and of course
:03:18. > :03:22.he is suggesting that if fewer people have to go, otherwise the
:03:23. > :03:25.four hour wait, which is what was prescribed back in 2004 by the then
:03:26. > :03:31.Labour government, that patients have to be treated, may have to be
:03:32. > :03:35.revised. In a way, what is happening here, we are very proud of our
:03:36. > :03:38.National Health Service, but we are getting close to what happened in
:03:39. > :03:42.America, where they don't have a National Health Service, and where
:03:43. > :03:48.people when they are ill go to the emergency ward. That seems to be
:03:49. > :03:53.happening. We need to look at our whole health care system. What we
:03:54. > :03:55.need to do and what we should do, people are growing older, living
:03:56. > :04:00.longer, and every year we have the same crisis. But this year the
:04:01. > :04:08.emergency seems to be greater. But having GPs there to filter out who
:04:09. > :04:11.really is an emergency make some sense. You would think it was
:04:12. > :04:20.already happening to some degree and it hasn't done, so we have to get to
:04:21. > :04:27.grips with this. The front of the independent macro, crisis as
:04:28. > :04:35.McGuinness resigns. Bizarrely, all of this over a green energy scheme.
:04:36. > :04:42.Yes, and although that is the sensible reason, but one suspects
:04:43. > :04:48.that this goes back to the reaction of the Republicans who are sharing
:04:49. > :04:57.in the ruling Northern Ireland to what has happened to Brexit and how
:04:58. > :05:02.they feel about it. Oh really? I suspect that the filling of the
:05:03. > :05:05.whole peace process in Northern Ireland, the European Union played a
:05:06. > :05:10.big part in it, and the feeling was if we quit Europe and Northern
:05:11. > :05:14.Ireland, particularly the peace process, would be damaged, and I
:05:15. > :05:21.think this is the first, if you like, dividend, if one can put it
:05:22. > :05:27.that way, of the June vote. Roz, Mihir has hit on this going way
:05:28. > :05:31.beyond the green energy scheme, which if people have missed the news
:05:32. > :05:34.over the last year, it was a scheme to encourage people to be more
:05:35. > :05:40.green, they were getting subsidies in order to do this. But in fact the
:05:41. > :05:44.subsidies were so great that people were actually using more energy than
:05:45. > :05:47.they needed in order to get the subsidies, and as a result the
:05:48. > :05:55.people of Northern Ireland are in a hole to the chewing of ?490 million
:05:56. > :06:00.think it is. It is known as the cash for Ash scheme. But as Mihir has
:06:01. > :06:06.suggested, it could be Brexit, certainly as far as Sinn Fein is
:06:07. > :06:11.concerned, you have got certain issues with the First Minister, in
:06:12. > :06:14.that state she is not seen as a friend of pound sharing --
:06:15. > :06:17.power-sharing, per se, but she has not been giving the Catholics and
:06:18. > :06:22.Sinn Fein what they believe they should be getting out of devolution,
:06:23. > :06:28.so this goes very deep, way beyond Ash for cash. It definitely does.
:06:29. > :06:34.The power-sharing agreement means that Sinn Fein and the DUP, both
:06:35. > :06:40.sides have got to share power. So as soon as Martin McGuinness as Deputy
:06:41. > :06:46.First Minister and stand that brings down the government and they have to
:06:47. > :06:49.go for elections. So the DUP First Minister cannot rule without the
:06:50. > :06:52.Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister. But an election will bring out the same
:06:53. > :07:00.as arts, the DUP will probably be the ruling party. What they are
:07:01. > :07:05.helping us to get rid of Arlene Foster, who they find it difficult
:07:06. > :07:10.to work with. But there are Brexit overtones to this, as Mihir says,
:07:11. > :07:12.there are Brexit overtones to this because nobody knows how it will all
:07:13. > :07:17.work with the border with Northern Ireland, if you have not got an open
:07:18. > :07:21.border, how will you make this whole thing work? Jeremy Corbyn on the
:07:22. > :07:26.front page of the Daily Telegraph, he faces Labour backlash over
:07:27. > :07:31.strikes. This is the RMT strike, Southern Rail strike, Jeremy Corbyn
:07:32. > :07:34.has refused to condemn the strikes, even though the Mayor of London
:07:35. > :07:37.Sadiq Khan has attacked rail workers who went on strike on the tubes
:07:38. > :07:42.today, and this is seen as something that could hit him electorally. I
:07:43. > :07:47.think it could. There are hundreds of thousands of not more people who
:07:48. > :07:51.are really being disadvantaged by the problems on the railways. It has
:07:52. > :07:56.been happening for a long time on the Southern railways. Today we have
:07:57. > :08:02.had this awful strike in London, so a lot of people couldn't get to work
:08:03. > :08:09.or spend hours trying to get work. There is a lot of anger out there.
:08:10. > :08:13.We have got the Mayor of London saying this is unnecessary and then
:08:14. > :08:19.you have the Labour leader saying actually he is backing the strikers.
:08:20. > :08:28.The public want to see that something is done. At the end of the
:08:29. > :08:33.day, we all need to get to work, we all need to commute. Lots of people
:08:34. > :08:42.will either be losing business or some people will be losing jobs as a
:08:43. > :08:46.result of this travel chaos. The Labour Party is putting a new Streng
:08:47. > :08:51.-- campaign strategy for the beginning of the year that they
:08:52. > :09:03.believe will take them to a better place in the polls. To be the kind
:09:04. > :09:08.of unconventional leader that they believe Donald Trump has been and so
:09:09. > :09:13.on and so forth. Is it going to work, and not being mealy-mouthed is
:09:14. > :09:15.what Jeremy Corbyn's followers would say past Labour leaders would have
:09:16. > :09:21.done in this situation, they would say it should go to as lead, they
:09:22. > :09:27.should have talks, both sides have an item that suggest they should
:09:28. > :09:34.whatever -- to as lead. He is saying I am going to back the strikers. Big
:09:35. > :09:38.mistake? In the past, Labour leaders would have said let's have a beer
:09:39. > :09:42.and Sam Burgess. Labour is doing what the Republican right did in
:09:43. > :09:48.America for a long time, that we will go to our core base. I get the
:09:49. > :09:53.feeling that Corbyn would not mind losing the next election if he gets
:09:54. > :09:59.a Labour Party that believes in the sort of socialism he wants and that
:10:00. > :10:04.could be the launch pad for years down the line for a Corbyn acolyte
:10:05. > :10:08.or another figure like Corbyn that would really bring in the socialist
:10:09. > :10:12.republic that really they aspire for. We may say that is impossible
:10:13. > :10:21.but look at what has happened in America. But that is a maverick on
:10:22. > :10:24.the right, and that is the thing about all these revolutions, yes
:10:25. > :10:27.there was Syriza in Greece and the Durm us in Spain, though they are
:10:28. > :10:35.both on the back foot. Everyone else they are on the right. But if you
:10:36. > :10:38.know now, there is a lot of talk about the disparity in incomes, that
:10:39. > :10:46.people in the city are still getting huge bonuses. Even Theresa May has
:10:47. > :10:49.spoken that the so-called Jams want the government to intervene. So
:10:50. > :10:55.those are change even in Conservative thinking. Rods, is that
:10:56. > :11:00.true from your experience? Yes, but Corbyn doesn't have the backing of
:11:01. > :11:05.his own MPs. Most of them. The core Labour supporters to want to get to
:11:06. > :11:09.work, Mr Wood to have a job and travel. That could be his big
:11:10. > :11:15.problem. The front page of the Metro now Ros, the Golden Globes last
:11:16. > :11:23.night, Millstreet used that pulpit and microphone for a bit of sparring
:11:24. > :11:27.with the president elect. It is incredible that he has risen to that
:11:28. > :11:32.date. It is not incredible, Ros, where have you been? I guess you're
:11:33. > :11:36.right, I still can't quite believe it, though. What she was basically
:11:37. > :11:39.saying is you should not mock someone who is disabled. Most people
:11:40. > :11:43.out there would agree with that, but for Trump to come back and said to
:11:44. > :11:49.her that she is some kind of second-rate actress, this woman has
:11:50. > :11:53.got 19 Oscar-nominated is, 13 Golden Globes, three Oscars. By no stretch
:11:54. > :12:00.of the imagination could you call her other thing -- other than
:12:01. > :12:04.anything van... We are living in a post-truth world, Ros, where have
:12:05. > :12:09.you been? We can't keep going like this, surely? It shows that Trump is
:12:10. > :12:13.being very Trump, and he denies saying what he says, which is on
:12:14. > :12:17.record. If you point out to Trump that he says that come he will say I
:12:18. > :12:25.have not. We have all fallen down the rabbit hole. A post-truth world.
:12:26. > :12:29.We have had the meeting of the old pulpit, I support our troops in
:12:30. > :12:34.Vietnam or I don't, thanks for the Oscar by the way, thanks to my mum.
:12:35. > :12:40.And the way Donald Trump does it, with a bit of a tweet. At five in
:12:41. > :12:46.the morning. Which one is going to win? It has to be that we do. Will
:12:47. > :12:52.he still be doing it after January 20? The front page of the Guardian,
:12:53. > :12:59.Trump to hire son-in-law the top job in White House. There is most to be
:13:00. > :13:02.laws against nepotism, when JFK hired Robert Kennedy, they brought
:13:03. > :13:07.in a law to stop this kind of thing happening. It's still happening. He
:13:08. > :13:12.is going to be senior adviser, that is the story, but they believe there
:13:13. > :13:18.is a loophole, because the law says you can't, the person who has an
:13:19. > :13:22.agency can't appoint a relation to the agency, and they are arguing
:13:23. > :13:26.that the White House is not an agency, the president is not an
:13:27. > :13:32.agent, he is above that. This is an interpretation of the law. This is
:13:33. > :13:38.semantics of the worst kind. Can he get away with it? I suppose it can.
:13:39. > :13:43.I think he can get away with a hell of a lot. Until things go wrong.
:13:44. > :13:48.Maybe he will continue to. He will say he is a consultant. To be fair,
:13:49. > :13:55.he is pointing out that Bill Clinton and his wife, you know, they both
:13:56. > :14:01.had top positions together. She would have asked Bill for a bit of
:14:02. > :14:09.advice, wouldn't she? Maybe, maybe not, but I can see their point of
:14:10. > :14:12.view. Mrs Clinton acted on the health care programme which did not
:14:13. > :14:18.actually work, so she had a proper job. But I think the problem here,
:14:19. > :14:20.Ros, is we have to see how he does and secondly at this point in time
:14:21. > :14:26.the American people might give him a lot of slack. I do believe they will
:14:27. > :14:32.come as I say, until something goes wrong. It is all fine until it goes
:14:33. > :14:36.belly up. Front page of the Daily Telegraph, shoppers warned over
:14:37. > :14:43.waste. Yes, I mean, basically we are going to apparently get science in
:14:44. > :14:49.supermarkets reminding us that you should not why food unnecessarily,
:14:50. > :14:54.that bread goes off more quickly if you keep it in the fridge, things
:14:55. > :14:58.like this. Do we really need this? Are they going to help by not giving
:14:59. > :15:02.ridiculous two-for-one offers, Fifa one of us, so you have six packets
:15:03. > :15:06.of these things in your fridge, not speaking from personal experience.
:15:07. > :15:11.And then you have to throw for them away. It is a bit nanny state. There
:15:12. > :15:14.is a huge amount of food waste but not sure that signs in supermarkets
:15:15. > :15:20.are going to make much of a difference. I will have to read it
:15:21. > :15:23.here. Mihir, Ros, good to see you, thanks for joining us. All of the
:15:24. > :15:28.front pages online where you can read a detailed review of all of the
:15:29. > :15:35.papers. It is therefore you seven a week. You can see us there too with
:15:36. > :15:45.each night's edition of the papers and we are on iPlayer as well. Stay
:15:46. > :15:48.with us for all of that, Ros and Mihir thank you, and to you goodbye.