10/01/2017

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: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 Laura Hughes, Political Correspondent

:00:21. > :00:22.at The Daily Telegraph and Jack Blanchard, Political Editor

:00:23. > :00:31.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

:00:32. > :00:33.The Daily Telegraph says that Labour's immigration policy

:00:34. > :00:35.is in "disarray" after a rapid u-turn on free

:00:36. > :00:43.The i focuses on the Labour leader's comments on capping wages.

:00:44. > :00:50."Corbyn's fat cat attack" is the headline.

:00:51. > :00:52.Mr Corbyn is pictured on the FT's front page,

:00:53. > :00:55.but the paper leads on a call by City bosses to delay full Brexit

:00:56. > :00:59.so companies can get used to new trading arrangements.

:01:00. > :01:05.The guard in pictures Claire Hollingworth, the veterinary war

:01:06. > :01:09.correspondence he broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland, who has

:01:10. > :01:15.died at the age of 105. Theresa May's senior aides have privately

:01:16. > :01:25.criticised the senior aides at the NHS.

:01:26. > :01:28.The death of 7-year-old Katie Rough in York is the lead

:01:29. > :01:31.And finally the Mirror has the latest evidence

:01:32. > :01:34.in the trial of Ian Stewart, who's accused of killing his

:01:35. > :01:41.Dominating many of the front pages is Jeremy Corbyn's speech in

:01:42. > :01:48.Peterborough. Both of you had the pleasure of getting on the train to

:01:49. > :01:53.head over there. Jack, as political editor at the Mirror, was it worth

:01:54. > :01:57.it? It always is, how much news he has created over the course of a 15

:01:58. > :02:03.minute speech. He is on the front page of almost every newspaper. OK,

:02:04. > :02:07.but the front page of the Telegraph, "Corbyn's migration policy in

:02:08. > :02:13.disarray, Labour leader forced into rapid U-turn". Was that what he was

:02:14. > :02:14.seeking? Clearly not. It is fair to say the day hasn't gone quite as

:02:15. > :02:22.they would have hoped. This is perhaps a bit harsh to say

:02:23. > :02:25.it is in disarray but once again, the communication coming out of

:02:26. > :02:29.Jeremy Corbyn's office has not been as good as it should have been.

:02:30. > :02:33.Journalists were briefed one line last night about what he was going

:02:34. > :02:37.to say. When he stood up and said that line he said with these extra

:02:38. > :02:42.caveats, suddenly added on into the speech that nobody had bothered to

:02:43. > :02:45.mention were going to be their last night and it changed the tone of

:02:46. > :02:49.what he was saying and left people confused about his position. Aurora,

:02:50. > :02:55.this is your headline, you read this story. It's a bit out of order

:02:56. > :02:59.according to Jack. -- Laura. There has been some serious confusion

:03:00. > :03:03.today. All journalists thought this morning, Jeremy Corbyn is saying the

:03:04. > :03:06.Labour Party is going to take a tougher stance on uncontrolled

:03:07. > :03:11.migration. They will say they are not wedded to free movement, that is

:03:12. > :03:14.what we were told. But then Jeremy Corbyn went on the airwaves this

:03:15. > :03:18.morning as did a series of interviews where he seemed to

:03:19. > :03:23.distance himself from his own words that had been briefed by his own

:03:24. > :03:26.office. They added... Before, we were told he would say we're not

:03:27. > :03:31.wedded to the policy when we went to Peter Brooke, line added "We are not

:03:32. > :03:34.ruling it out and it might be necessary if we want to have

:03:35. > :03:38.continued to have access to the single market" -- we went to

:03:39. > :03:42.Peterborough. Keir Starmer, the Shadow Brexit secretary was not in

:03:43. > :03:47.Peterborough with us, that was quite odd in itself. Over the weekend, Tom

:03:48. > :03:52.Watson, the deputy leader said we did not know the stance for Labour.

:03:53. > :03:56.The whole area seems to be confused. Labour MPs are still unhappy with

:03:57. > :04:00.it. Union leaders who watched Jeremy Corbyn to start speaking to the

:04:01. > :04:03.concerns of a lot of their voters. -- who want Jeremy Corbyn. A little

:04:04. > :04:07.birdie told me that Keir Starmer, who is the Brexit secretary, didn't

:04:08. > :04:14.have wind of this speech on Brexit from Jeremy Corbyn before the speech

:04:15. > :04:17.was made. I mean, those sorts of things do happen. LAUGHTER

:04:18. > :04:21.I don't know whether that is the case but it is possible. OK. The

:04:22. > :04:26.bigger picture is the Jeremy Corbyn has been mooted to make a big speech

:04:27. > :04:29.on Brexit today, to make clear what his position is. And we are coming

:04:30. > :04:34.away from it and people still aren't clear what his position is. That

:04:35. > :04:39.cannot be a good thing. That's not great, is it? The Financial Times.

:04:40. > :04:45.Another big pillar of his speech wasn't just Brexit but it was wages

:04:46. > :04:52.and the disparity between FTSE 100 CEOs earning megabucks at the top

:04:53. > :04:57.and folk on the shop floor. Corbyn and wage gap, Laura, the word

:04:58. > :05:01.appears again, confusion. Confusion. We all got very excited this

:05:02. > :05:05.morning. Is it just that you guys aren't very bright? LAUGHTER

:05:06. > :05:11.Is that what this is about? You just don't get it? That's very harsh! We

:05:12. > :05:14.all got very excited this morning because he went on the airwaves

:05:15. > :05:20.again and said, quite drastically, although he has said it before when

:05:21. > :05:24.he was a backbench MP, he would like to see a cap for the top earners in

:05:25. > :05:28.this country. Which went down like a... It didn't go down very well.

:05:29. > :05:31.His own advisers said it was a ludicrous idea. It wouldn't work.

:05:32. > :05:36.Could lead to a brain drain because people would leave the country. Lots

:05:37. > :05:41.of MPs said that's not fair. And it might be illegal, by the way! That

:05:42. > :05:45.little matter. I spoke to in MP earlier who made a good point,

:05:46. > :05:48.interesting, why should a working-class kid, who goes on to

:05:49. > :05:52.become a professional footballer, and pays his taxes, doesn't do

:05:53. > :05:56.anything to avoid paying taxes, why should he be penalised when wealthy

:05:57. > :05:59.young people will inherit a land of their wealthy parents who inherited

:06:00. > :06:05.it from their wealthy grandparents? You are not solving the problem.

:06:06. > :06:10.Confused, Jack? It certainly was confused. This was more confused

:06:11. > :06:14.than the immigration one. This is one step up with the confusion. No

:06:15. > :06:17.doubt when Jeremy Corbyn was on BBC radio, he was talking about this

:06:18. > :06:21.idea of having a maximum wage, that is what he was talking about. As

:06:22. > :06:27.Laura says, you floated the idea a few years ago when he wasn't the

:06:28. > :06:31.idea -- leader of the Labour Party. He did several interviews. We went

:06:32. > :06:35.to Peterborough this afternoon and there is no mention of it. He talks

:06:36. > :06:38.about other ways of reducing executive pay, which, by the way, is

:06:39. > :06:44.far too high and does need to come down. Yes. This idea wasn't in

:06:45. > :06:47.there. When he was asked about it afterwards he said, I quite

:06:48. > :06:50.preferred as the way of doing it through pay ratios where bosses

:06:51. > :06:54.can't be paid more than 20 times more than their lowest worker. That

:06:55. > :06:58.is fine but it wasn't what he was talking about this morning. This

:06:59. > :07:01.morning. Labour have to have a clear message because people do not follow

:07:02. > :07:05.these arguments slowly through the day in the way that Laura and I are

:07:06. > :07:08.paid to. Most people will just get a vague idea at the end of the day of

:07:09. > :07:12.what it is and unfortunately the only message coming through from the

:07:13. > :07:19.papers once again tomorrow is that it is confused. Is it? The Guardian,

:07:20. > :07:24.Corbyn steps up assault on fat cat salaries. The takeaway, Laura,

:07:25. > :07:28.there, is as far as the Guardian is concerned, he has put the disparity

:07:29. > :07:31.between the mega rich at the top and working people at the bottom on the

:07:32. > :07:39.agenda. That is the takeaway. All the other stuff, detail, is chaff.

:07:40. > :07:43.He's got that on there. That is basically what the Leave campaign

:07:44. > :07:48.did in Brexit and what Trump did. Does that make sense or was that

:07:49. > :07:51.rubbish? It makes sense. They lead on this, the headline, you are

:07:52. > :07:55.right, he has got the headline he would have wanted but they go on to

:07:56. > :08:00.the detail but today wasn't great. For Jeremy Corbyn. It is interesting

:08:01. > :08:04.because we have had there is a strategy that Corbyn's team have

:08:05. > :08:08.launched, which is to take a Trump style approach and, sort of, come

:08:09. > :08:11.out with these big statements. And even if they are not viable, it will

:08:12. > :08:14.get the attention of the public. And, actually, they might be quite

:08:15. > :08:18.popular because a lot of people will look at that headline and say, yes,

:08:19. > :08:21.they are paid too much. The hardest thing in the opposition is being

:08:22. > :08:25.heard. The worst thing that could happen is you become irrelevant.

:08:26. > :08:29.Jeremy Corbyn has inserted himself into the news today and although it

:08:30. > :08:33.might not have been done perfectly, a lot of people, they would get a

:08:34. > :08:37.vague impression, Jeremy Corbyn is against high pay. That is all they

:08:38. > :08:40.will get at them today and that is not a bad place for them to be in

:08:41. > :08:46.competitive last week when there was no sign of Jeremy Corbyn. --

:08:47. > :08:52.compared to last week. The times, Corbyn Gath derails bid to relaunch

:08:53. > :08:58.his leadership. -- gaff. As political editor of the Mirror,

:08:59. > :09:03.left-leaning paper, how can it be that the leader of the biggest

:09:04. > :09:11.political party in Europe, 400,000 members, money awash, is irrelevant?

:09:12. > :09:16.How can that be? How did that happen? I don't think it is that

:09:17. > :09:20.he's irrelevant,... You said he was trying to great relevance? Whenever

:09:21. > :09:23.you are the Leader of the Opposition, that is the challenge

:09:24. > :09:26.you face. Especially when we are Quadra years away from a general

:09:27. > :09:31.election. You are a long way from power -- you are four years. And he

:09:32. > :09:34.is not doing well in the polls. It is a long time before it is even

:09:35. > :09:40.possible Jeremy Corbyn could be Prime Minister. It is difficult to

:09:41. > :09:46.make yourself part of the news. To make yourself heard. You don't want

:09:47. > :09:50.headlines like Corbyn gaff derails anything, but it's better than not

:09:51. > :09:54.being talked about. Maybe. Laura, writing for the Daily Telegraph on

:09:55. > :09:58.the other side of the political spectrum, are you guys just sitting

:09:59. > :10:02.in the newsroom, thinking, "Yes, another Corbyn speech, we can have a

:10:03. > :10:09.go, we can have a laugh". Never! They totally are! No! You are,

:10:10. > :10:13.aren't you? Is you love that won't give him a chance. No, we do. A lot

:10:14. > :10:17.of our readers will look at this, and they will be...

:10:18. > :10:24.A lot of other people will vaguely hear it and think they are paid too

:10:25. > :10:28.much. There you go. Yes, these bosses earn too much. That is what

:10:29. > :10:35.they wanted but he should have been talking a bit more about the NHS

:10:36. > :10:40.today. Well, here we go. That's a nice segue, Laura, into the times.

:10:41. > :10:46.Number ten planes NHS chief hospital chaos. Find a scapegoat,

:10:47. > :10:51.potentially. -- blames the NHS chief for hospital chaos. There seems to

:10:52. > :10:54.be a row over money, as always. The head of the NHS apparently is

:10:55. > :10:59.unhappy that Theresa May in public has said you have had this money in

:11:00. > :11:02.2015 and we had an agreement and you had this but other departments are

:11:03. > :11:06.not getting the cash injections at this stage. It's winter, is normal

:11:07. > :11:10.for the NHS to be struggling at this time. They are not moving. Simon

:11:11. > :11:17.Stephens is coming out and making some quite strong statements before

:11:18. > :11:20.MPs. He is in front of a select committee tomorrow where he has

:11:21. > :11:23.criticised the government for things like this, bus passes. He says we

:11:24. > :11:28.need more money at number ten says he's not getting it. He is defending

:11:29. > :11:33.the workers he represents in the NHS. He is a civil servant, not a

:11:34. > :11:38.political figure and he is a very experienced manager and very

:11:39. > :11:41.respected. This appears to be an attempt by certain people at number

:11:42. > :11:45.ten to undermine him. Perhaps because they are worried about what

:11:46. > :11:49.he will say before MPs tomorrow afternoon when he appears before the

:11:50. > :11:52.select committee. The NHS winter crisis will be front and centre of

:11:53. > :11:56.that hearing and people will be watching him very closely for any

:11:57. > :12:00.sign that this is as bad as some people think it is. Senior people at

:12:01. > :12:05.number ten briefing against this guy, trying to undermine him and

:12:06. > :12:08.this is something of a pattern for Downing Street. Since this new team

:12:09. > :12:12.has come in with Theresa May, we have seen a succession of senior

:12:13. > :12:17.people walk out of their jobs from Ivan Rogers, the ambassador to the

:12:18. > :12:20.EU, are there were things against him, Mark Carney, the governor of

:12:21. > :12:25.the Bank of England will be stepping down sooner than we had thought. Jim

:12:26. > :12:28.O'Neill, a Treasury minister advising them on the northern

:12:29. > :12:33.powerhouse, walked out within days. There seems to be a clash between

:12:34. > :12:40.these senior figures, who have been often quite good at their jobs.

:12:41. > :12:44.Finally, the Daily Telegraph. A hero of mine. Claire Hollingworth. She

:12:45. > :12:51.happened to have the scoop of, I don't know, the last 300 years. The

:12:52. > :12:56.beginning of World War II. She was in the job for about three weeks, I

:12:57. > :13:02.think? Something like three days. She said, I'm going to do this, she

:13:03. > :13:07.got the scoop that all of us would only ever dream of within three

:13:08. > :13:10.days. What is remarkable about her, when she was doing this job at the

:13:11. > :13:15.Telegraph sent her to Poland, at that time, women were still, it was

:13:16. > :13:20.difficult with... To have these big careers. They were told, get

:13:21. > :13:24.married, go home and have children. Even more impressive she managed to

:13:25. > :13:27.do all of this at a time not like now, when women weren't brave

:13:28. > :13:31.enough, and she put to bed that I did that women couldn't be foreign

:13:32. > :13:36.correspondence. Inspirational. She was 27 years old at the time and

:13:37. > :13:40.went driving about the front line in a British embassy car. She found

:13:41. > :13:44.these German tanks, ready to invade, and came back, got the scoop, front

:13:45. > :13:48.page of the Telegraph, first big story, three days later the tanks

:13:49. > :13:50.came rolling in and she was the one that the British Embassy the

:13:51. > :13:54.invasion had happened. They didn't believe her. She had to put the

:13:55. > :13:59.phone out, so they could hear the tanks going past and the war had

:14:00. > :14:04.started. Proper journalism. It beats standing in a field listening to

:14:05. > :14:08.Jeremy Corbyn. LAUGHTER Rest in peace, and Laura, Jack, it's

:14:09. > :14:11.been good having you in the night. Don't forget all the front pages

:14:12. > :14:14.are online on the BBC News website where you can read a detailed review

:14:15. > :14:16.of the papers. It's all there for you,

:14:17. > :14:20.seven days a week. And you can see us there too,

:14:21. > :14:23.with each night's edition of the papers being posted

:14:24. > :14:27.on the page shortly