04/04/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Kate Proctor, political correspondent

at The London Evening Standard and the Broadcaster, John Stapleton.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Times leads with the apparent chemical attack that killed at least

The I leads goes with the same story, noting that a hospital

The Metro also goes with the attack in Syria, saying children

The Financial Times reports women are under-represented at the top

The Express claims that an increase in the number of people eating

take-aways could lead to a rise in diabetes.

The Telegraph leads with news that the government will help people

who brought diesel cars and are now facing higher tax bills.

The Guardian reports on dangerously high levels of air

The Daily Mail has the same story and shows a Spanish ship leading a

smaller boat away from Gibraltar. on dangerously high levels of air

pollution near schools. John, perhaps he would start is with

the awful story from Syria. The picture from the metro says it all

with a small baby with a mask on its face. We have got used to these

horrific images from Syria. But these pictures are amongst the worst

we have ever seen. These are people, including at least 11 children who

were murdered in their sleep. One expert I was hearing early in the

day, a British Doctor Who has worked out there said 58 deaths so far, but

in opinion he could be over a thousand given the ferocity of these

chemical agents, in circumstances like this. Syria denies any

involvement. Russia says it wasn't them, but we know this has happened

before. Syria was told some time ago to clear its factory, as it were, of

these agents, apparently it appears it didn't do so. All the papers are

covering it, Kate, but the Telegraph saying deadly chemical strike in

Syria puts pressure on US position and that is the complication about

the story, people conned them quickly, but where do we go from

here? It will be a test of Obama -- Donald Trump because Obama didn't

act previously. We don't know what the red lines are. He has used

strong language condemning the attack and no one should access this

in a world. In terms of what he's going to do next, it is unknown. And

his relationship with Putin, that will be a test of that. He has made

such a big play about how he admires Putin in some sense and Putin can

put that pressure on Assad. It will be interesting to see how he reacts,

whether it is through military means or a test of his diplomacy skills. I

don't know what we do about this. We have the opportunity a few years ago

to do it militarily and we decided not to do so. Most people would have

agreed with that because they didn't want to repeat a rack. But as that

cannot possibly continue to governess country, given what has

happened, but how do you get rid of him? I don't have the faintest idea.

John, let's go on to Ken Livingstone. You have a long history

with him, you are telling us? Yes, I have the dubious distinction of

being the first person to put Ken Livingstone on television and I

think it was in 1971 when he was a new Labour councillor before he came

leader of the GLC. I have known him a long time. Rarely of the front

pages. This business of him being in hot water. His remarks about Hitler

and Xeon is. Everybody expected him to be expelled, and he expected to

be expelled, but it is a suspension. It is a suspension from holding

office or representing the party at any level. He is still a member and

can attend branch meetings and vote in ballots. His parliamentary

colleagues are complaining saying it is making a mockery of the zero

tolerance approach by the Labour Party to anti-Semitism. Ken

Livingstone said he is not guilty of anti-Semitism and they did not find

me guilty. It is a sensitive business, but the Jewish community

to grave offence? They really did. I would just say that the sanctions he

has been given here make no difference to him, because I spoke

to him recently and he almost indicated he has semi retired and

doesn't want to hold office. I don't think he is pursuing to become an

MP. The head of young Labour in London has said, Ken Livingstone

doesn't represent her views. She is a Jewish lady. She was deeply hurt

by it. If she is the future of the Labour Party, people her age and her

generation say his views are not reflective of how they feel and you

have the support people like that. They are the future of the party and

they are putting their foot down and saying it is not OK. One of the

interesting elements about this, is Jeremy Corbyn should make his

position clear on this. Another example of the Labour Party emerging

not too well from a highly controversial issue. Jeremy Corbyn

in the headlines again himself when challenged by a reporter who said if

you are that concerned about what the Conservative government is

doing, why don't you consider resigning yourself and give the

Labour Party a chance? It didn't go down well. Every day, the Labour

Party is not getting good news for its image. There was confusion this

evening whether this was a true suspension, a qualified suspension.

It took a statement from him to sort it out. People are convinced this

issue with Ken Livingstone will have an impact Alecto orally and the

biggest indication will be the local elections coming up soon. Another

story, which a lot of newspapers have it in, we are going back to the

Daily Telegraph. This is the business of diesel cars. Kate, the

headline says hand-outs for diesel cars hits by toxin tax, what is it

about? A Labour initiative to encourage people to buy diesel cars

because they were deemed to be saved for environment. Ten years on, it

shows they are harmful vehicles and we have stacks of people in the

country who own one. It is how we try and go forward with this. You

work for the London Evening Standard and London has been picked out as

being polluted? We have campaigned heavily on clean air. Theresa May

has said, she has hinted at some sort of scrappage scheme might be on

the cards. If you have bought a diesel car, you might get some

compensation of financial help. My son has got a diesel van and he will

be delighted, to get some compensation from the government.

But how on earth will they work it out? How much compensation, for

which vehicles and what will they do if drivers dispute it. One of the

more interesting lines in the story, is in The Times version, or the

Telegraph, someone suggested if we eliminated the bumps in roads we

could do a lot to solve the problem of emissions. When diesel cars go

over these bonds, and I bet you didn't know this, they emit more

emissions. So if you get rid of the speed bumps, you can go some way to

solve the problem. On the same day the London mayor says... He has this

?24 charge, congestion charge and he is thought about extending it. Going

back to this big economic argument about this, looking up the inside

pages of The Times, they say it scrappage scheme would blow the

Chancellor's budget. It must be so? Absolutely, you cannot imagine the

cost. The last thing the government needs now while it is negotiating

Brexit, and there is a huge percentage of diesel car owners, I

have read somewhere 40% of car owners are diesel car owners.

Lorries are diesel, buses, some are green, but not very many. My son's

van. A major polluter because he drives over those bumps! It is a

problem. I wonder if the Prime Minister has said this off-the-cuff

and not done too much homework on it. I don't know. Very adventurous

idea. Let's go on. The Financial Times, women still missing out on

senior jobs in the finance industry. John, what have they discovered? A

survey done by the Financial Times has revealed when it comes to the

top jobs in the financial services industry, the big banks, insurers,

asset managers, only one in four of those positions are held by women.

Go down to the lower orders, 50% of their employees are female. 50% of

their employees in total in female, but only one in four females get

senior jobs. I am not amazed by this, there is a quote from one lady

who was asked to describe her role that it was a huge advantage for

clients from me being a woman, and a disadvantage internally. Suggesting

male chauvinism reigns inside these organisations. Saying that, we

should be careful because it would be interesting to see what the

results of an investigation into our own industry, into the media would

reveal in this regard. Your own newspaper, the editor has been

replaced by a man. That is correct. Does this surprise you, I presume

the figures don't? Later this week, the government is has got its gender

pay regulations, it is requiring companies to explain what their

gender difference is through the different layers of the firm and

that is happening towards the end of the week. That will be a cultural

shift and it will shine the spotlight on how many women are

employed at different levels. These are slow, incremental changes and

they will have a positive outcome in the end. But we are in the

21st-century. It is outrageous. I am not happy about it, but you have to

work with the baseline you have got. But there are some things being done

to help the situation. Very quickly, the Daily Telegraph is starring the

night, but peers call for an enquiry on BBC mumbling. I like it, I find

it atmospheric. The bill, you had to listen hard to Tom Hardy speaking.

-- the boot. And watching him at the same time. I was happy with

mumbling. It drives me nuts. It is not just the mumbling by the actors,

it is something to do with the flat screens as well. And also we are

getting old and we have got to admit that. I was watching one of my

favourite programmes, Line Of Duty and when there is music in the

background in particular, I hardly picked up a word. It has nothing to

do with the House of Lords. They have made their point. Julian

Fellowes on Downton Abbey and also house of cards, Lord Dobbs. He is a

BBC man. Too much mumbling all-round.

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days. High pressure building in and that will drive the weather front