:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:20.With me are the former Trade Minister, Lord Digby Jones
:00:21. > :00:26.and the Broadcaster and Campaigner, Henry Bonsu.
:00:27. > :00:35.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with
:00:36. > :00:41.The Financial Times says push to reform company bosses.
:00:42. > :00:43.The Metro leads with a warning that GP practices are
:00:44. > :00:46.Whilst The Telegraph claims the surgery shortage is down
:00:47. > :00:52.The i says parents face prosecution for taking their children
:00:53. > :01:03.The Daily Mail says travel companies must lower Fayers to help families.
:01:04. > :01:05.The Express reports on an armed police presence
:01:06. > :01:07.at the Grand National, for the first time
:01:08. > :01:10.The Daily Mirror claims the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe
:01:11. > :01:26.The Times says first-time home buyers are being priced out by large
:01:27. > :01:30.numbers of foreign investors. That is a flavour of the front pages and
:01:31. > :01:40.we will get into at least of those but let's talk about GPs, tell us
:01:41. > :01:46.about the front of Metro. Critical levels in red and a black and white
:01:47. > :01:53.headline. The whole purpose of the critical aspect of this is that so
:01:54. > :01:57.many GPs are leaving the profession, some earlier than you might have
:01:58. > :02:03.thought, and one of the reasons for that is going to be pressure at work
:02:04. > :02:06.coming into stress and one reason will be the pensions that are
:02:07. > :02:10.available to the GP profession is going to be brought more in line
:02:11. > :02:16.with the private sector, paying more in and get less out. The public
:02:17. > :02:20.sector have had it too good for too long, and all that means is that an
:02:21. > :02:25.approaching doctor thinks it is best to get out now and not risk it
:02:26. > :02:29.later. That is about what the doctor might think, the other side, and it
:02:30. > :02:35.is always difficult for people like us to understand which part of this
:02:36. > :02:39.is relevant. If you have less demand on certain parts of the city and
:02:40. > :02:45.more demanding another part of the city, then one of the good things to
:02:46. > :02:48.do is to close that one, you merge it into this bigger one, you don't
:02:49. > :02:53.need as much administration costs and you save money for the taxpayer.
:02:54. > :02:59.You asked doctors to move and you ask some of those patients to walk
:03:00. > :03:02.15 minutes to get there. Upside, you save money, then said it becomes
:03:03. > :03:08.more of a factory and therefore a lot of doctors and GPs say I don't
:03:09. > :03:12.like this. And it might be longer than 15 minutes, especially if you
:03:13. > :03:16.are old! And it is difficult to see at what point is this good for us
:03:17. > :03:23.and what point is it not. Tony Blair changed the relationship between the
:03:24. > :03:27.NHS and you, fundamentally paid a lot more money and then worked in a
:03:28. > :03:34.harder. A lot are working incredibly hard but quite a few but like the
:03:35. > :03:39.screws being twisted. If you think about it, a lot of figures on this
:03:40. > :03:45.story, let's go through one North two. 57 GP surgeries shut last year.
:03:46. > :03:51.Doesn't sound like much but it affects a quarter of a million
:03:52. > :03:58.patients because that is the average. The number of practices
:03:59. > :04:05.closing up 15% on 2015 and 100% on 2014. I will take a different tack.
:04:06. > :04:09.It is because of stress, it is because of underfunding. We the
:04:10. > :04:15.great British public expect more and more out of the NHS and who is on
:04:16. > :04:19.the front line? GP surgeries, even talk of a seven day a week service
:04:20. > :04:26.and you saw how angry they were. It sounds great on paper but it is the
:04:27. > :04:29.human beings in the end. The private sector is very difficult as Donald
:04:30. > :04:38.Trump is finding from the public sector. He made a point about public
:04:39. > :04:42.sector pensions compared to private ones, do you agree? Just looking at
:04:43. > :04:47.the figure, the amount you can save before being taxed as being reduced
:04:48. > :04:54.from 1.8 million to one million and they are saying as a result of that
:04:55. > :04:57.GPs are retiring early. But it is a vocation, not about money. Let's
:04:58. > :05:01.show you the front of the Telegraph because it has that on the front
:05:02. > :05:08.page as well, saying much the same thing. The answer is why is this
:05:09. > :05:14.happening and that is the question. It is never going to be simple and
:05:15. > :05:19.not going to be just one answer. But it is true to say they are trying to
:05:20. > :05:24.bring service levels, response levels and volume of work in line
:05:25. > :05:27.with a lot of people in the private sector who don't feel there is a
:05:28. > :05:34.fair balance between public and private. Specifically on pensions?
:05:35. > :05:39.Private sector pensions have been absolutely devastated than the last
:05:40. > :05:42.10-15 years and public sector pensions have not. It got to the
:05:43. > :05:46.point with the civil service when a lot of people got into the public
:05:47. > :05:51.sector just to get such a good pension. Last word on that one. If
:05:52. > :05:55.you use your local GP surgery and see the impact it has when it closes
:05:56. > :06:00.especially for older people who are more infirm and you see how hard
:06:01. > :06:04.most GPs work, they really do, a vocation and not about the money,
:06:05. > :06:10.and they are being pushed to the limit. I don't wholly disagree with
:06:11. > :06:14.that. Thank you. I knew there would be harmony in the end! Takers to the
:06:15. > :06:19.other story in the Telegraph we were looking at with regards to Syria and
:06:20. > :06:25.the British and American position. Things moving quickly. A few days
:06:26. > :06:30.ago Rex Tillerson said the US didn't really feel that they wanted to get
:06:31. > :06:33.rid of President Assad. It wasn't really something they were worried
:06:34. > :06:36.about some people felt that has been a shift of emphasis from President
:06:37. > :06:42.Obama to President Trump but no President Trump has done a 180
:06:43. > :06:47.degrees turn because of the appalling chemical weapons attack
:06:48. > :06:50.people are blaming on the jets of Bashar Al Assad. We have all seen
:06:51. > :06:56.the terrible pictures, people who have lost children, men and women,
:06:57. > :06:59.really terrible, and Donald Trump says something has to happen.
:07:00. > :07:07.Options for the military strike being considered. And the one thing,
:07:08. > :07:12.I don't think Syria was Barack Obama's finest moment. Right from
:07:13. > :07:16.the day he said chemical weapons are a red light and I am not putting up
:07:17. > :07:23.with and he did, they knew what they were getting away with. Saying up
:07:24. > :07:29.with this I will not put, the upside is the sponsoring of the President
:07:30. > :07:32.Assad regime, they will think, there's a new player in this, thread
:07:33. > :07:37.a little carefully. It is another dimension and a good thing on the
:07:38. > :07:45.other hand, another red line. Just like Barack Obama said, another red
:07:46. > :07:51.line. You have used the words and it is true, people immediately think
:07:52. > :07:57.guns. And if the node don't do that they weaken their possession.
:07:58. > :08:01.Potentially to take a military strike on Syria when there are
:08:02. > :08:06.Russian forces involved. Do you coordinate with the Russians? What
:08:07. > :08:09.exactly do you bomb? What about civilian casualties? Do you give
:08:10. > :08:16.them a slap on the wrist or go much harder. Boris Johnson is saying we
:08:17. > :08:19.need to calm down and investigate to see if it really was the Syrian
:08:20. > :08:23.government but most people seem to say. And that is the motion the UN
:08:24. > :08:29.will be looking at, calling for an investigation. Really poor show, 48
:08:30. > :08:34.hours afterwards, let's have an investigation. It is a good thing in
:08:35. > :08:36.terms of it is more than nothing but the problem you have with the
:08:37. > :08:43.security council of each member has a veto. Russia is never going to not
:08:44. > :08:49.veto, if you don't mind the double negative, anything that censors
:08:50. > :08:53.President Assad because he is their puppet. It is going to test the
:08:54. > :08:58.Russia- friendly Donald Trump in ways not tested before. Especially
:08:59. > :09:07.with the 180. Interesting conversations. Exactly. It is a line
:09:08. > :09:14.in the sand. There's a problem, I am agreeing with you again. Test it
:09:15. > :09:18.further, the Financial Times. I like the photograph at the top, and I
:09:19. > :09:25.would draw a bubble lover less and have word bubble, have you heard the
:09:26. > :09:37.one about... ? A very serious person, let's not get all Daily
:09:38. > :09:41.Mail. I am very impressed with the orderliness of Prime Minister.
:09:42. > :09:47.Multiparty political thing. As a personality. That fourth graph
:09:48. > :09:54.suggests a reasonably friendly cordial moment. It does say they
:09:55. > :09:57.agree we need to lower tensions but how much control do they have over
:09:58. > :10:06.the other actors. I am not talking about Nigel Farage. Don't worry
:10:07. > :10:11.about what these actors do in public posturing, worry about in private.
:10:12. > :10:17.That is where the deals will be. Not until the books are published! The
:10:18. > :10:22.other story is then at the bottom. I am so pleased you have allowed me to
:10:23. > :10:29.say this, because I have had big executive pay up to here. When I was
:10:30. > :10:33.at the CBI went on about it and as a minister, and frankly, there are so
:10:34. > :10:38.many chief executives who might deserve it, but so does a nurse
:10:39. > :10:42.deserve it but we can't afford to pay nurses, and these people ought
:10:43. > :10:46.to set a better example. The other example as you have some people who
:10:47. > :10:51.have failed or field relatively on the job and they still Gate great
:10:52. > :10:55.pay rises. It is doing nothing for the reputation of the business or
:10:56. > :10:59.for wealth creation and capitalism and always at the end of the day, my
:11:00. > :11:06.solution was always that has to come from within. Here you have rich
:11:07. > :11:11.countries, usually oil-based, Norway is one of the best because it has a
:11:12. > :11:19.serious good values. It has a huge amount of money because of oil, and
:11:20. > :11:23.they are saying, the boss of the welfare fund, he is saying, what we
:11:24. > :11:30.don't want to have any more is a lack of transparency, complication
:11:31. > :11:34.and two short term. His exact words are, pay should be long-term, so in
:11:35. > :11:41.other words you can fiddle the figures to have a good year and the
:11:42. > :11:46.big bonus. Two, simple. So many of these peer awards are made after
:11:47. > :11:54.complications and they get a great check possibly when the company has
:11:55. > :11:57.done badly. Lastly, transparent. So that you and I can understand it.
:11:58. > :12:02.That will not solve it but it is a very big step in the right
:12:03. > :12:07.direction. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn would agree with this. It
:12:08. > :12:11.involves the words create profit which I don't think he understands!
:12:12. > :12:19.Jeremy Corbyn unavailable to respond to that he ran now. Parents face
:12:20. > :12:26.price after losing school holidays. The father from this case is furious
:12:27. > :12:29.because he won the original case but it has been overturned by the
:12:30. > :12:32.Supreme Court. It means you have to turn that might bring your child
:12:33. > :12:38.into school when the headteacher says so. And one of the problems is
:12:39. > :12:42.if you are not a tour operator holiday company you have been
:12:43. > :12:47.charging a lot more for the product, this was going to actually I learned
:12:48. > :12:51.that out and now they can go back to exploiting it. I would say, wouldn't
:12:52. > :12:58.I, welcome to the market, not much you can do. I think what's going to
:12:59. > :13:04.happen is a lot of parents are going to look at the situation and
:13:05. > :13:10.consider it worthwhile fine. You got the last word! Don't forget you can
:13:11. > :13:15.see the front pages online and on the BBC News website, all Graf
:13:16. > :13:20.review seven days a week. If you mist the programme any evening you
:13:21. > :13:33.can watch it later on BBC. Thank you.
:13:34. > :13:39.The warmest weather today was in London where the temperature this
:13:40. > :13:40.afternoon rose to 18, lovely blue skies, much