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:00:20. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:23. > :00:26.With me are the broadcaster John Stapleton, and Kate Proctor,

:00:27. > :00:28.political correspondent at the London Evening Standard.

:00:29. > :00:30.Tomorrow's front pages: The Daily Telegraph reveals it has

:00:31. > :00:33.seen documents that show EU officials are trying to prevent

:00:34. > :00:44.the Prime Minister securing a deal for British expats in Europe.

:00:45. > :00:47.Like many of the papers, it also features a large picture

:00:48. > :00:49.of Princess Charlotte which was released to celebrate

:00:50. > :00:57.The Financial Times says the European Commission is preparing

:00:58. > :01:00.to issue plans to control the City of London's

:01:01. > :01:03.The high cost of calls to and from bedside phones

:01:04. > :01:09.in hospitals is highlighted on the front page of The Metro.

:01:10. > :01:12.The i claim tax laws used by HMRC are so complex,

:01:13. > :01:15.taxpayers who fill out their returns online may end up overpaying.

:01:16. > :01:17.The furore surrounding the now infamous meeting between Theresa May

:01:18. > :01:21.and Jean-Claude Junker is on the front of the Daily Express,

:01:22. > :01:23.with the Prime Minister claiming the account was just

:01:24. > :01:34.The Daily Mail leads with a special investigation in to claims fertility

:01:35. > :01:37.clinics exploit couples desperate for a baby by persuading them

:01:38. > :01:39.to donate eggs in return for free treatment.

:01:40. > :01:41.The Times warns of a looming crisis surrounding financing deals

:01:42. > :01:44.for new cars, saying buyers are often not made fully aware

:01:45. > :01:51.And finally, the Guardian says the Prime Minister is having

:01:52. > :01:54.to battle to get Brexit talks back on track,

:01:55. > :01:56.following what it calls a botched and humiliating start

:01:57. > :01:59.to the negotiations with the President of the European

:02:00. > :02:21.Hello again, John and Kate. We will start inevitably with a debacle. The

:02:22. > :02:26.Daily Telegraph. Would you like to kick us off, Kate? So this is an

:02:27. > :02:30.account of the dinner between Jean-Claude Juncker and Theresa May

:02:31. > :02:33.and the Telegraph has seen documents showing that Jean-Claude Juncker had

:02:34. > :02:38.for a while had a plan that he wanted to put the brakes on Theresa

:02:39. > :02:42.May's deal to try and make sure that EU rights were sorted out as quickly

:02:43. > :02:46.as possible. This is talking about expats, Brits living abroad in

:02:47. > :02:53.Europe, so Jean-Claude Juncker has come to this meeting and really left

:02:54. > :02:59.Theresa May in some way describing it... She is using megaphone

:03:00. > :03:04.diplomacy, she is being very forthright in what she wants, and it

:03:05. > :03:08.has really, really rattled a lot of people. Yes, he is reported as

:03:09. > :03:12.saying he was astonished that she had raised this, and he thought it

:03:13. > :03:16.could all be sorted out very quickly but in fact the Telegraph points out

:03:17. > :03:20.this morning, or tomorrow morning's papers, that EU officials have known

:03:21. > :03:24.for a long time that is what she wanted to do. It shouldn't have

:03:25. > :03:29.caused him any surprise, put it that way. It is an amazing story, but you

:03:30. > :03:36.will remember after the event Theresa May said they had been very

:03:37. > :03:40.constructive talks, et cetera, et cetera. It illustrates the need for

:03:41. > :03:45.newspapers because a German paper has found that what really went on,

:03:46. > :03:48.or so we are told, and has come out with some amazing detail. It might

:03:49. > :03:53.have been constructive, but there were certainly some very sharp

:03:54. > :03:59.opinions exchanged about crucial issues. Does this particular story,

:04:00. > :04:03.on the front of the Telegraph, say how they unearthed this plant to

:04:04. > :04:07.block Theresa May? Is there any detail given about that? It doesn't

:04:08. > :04:11.give any detail but it does say Jean-Claude Juncker was aware of

:04:12. > :04:15.this. He has managed to keep a lid on this for a certain amount of time

:04:16. > :04:18.and now we have had this dinner and a week later we are getting juicy

:04:19. > :04:23.detail on how fraught relationship sounds as if it is between these two

:04:24. > :04:27.people. He phoned Angela Merkel, apparently, the next day and talked

:04:28. > :04:30.about Theresa May living in another galaxy, on another planet. It has

:04:31. > :04:36.not been a great meeting of minds, to put it mildly. And clearly this

:04:37. > :04:40.information... I say clearly, it would appear this information has

:04:41. > :04:43.come from someone who was in the room as an EU official, we imagine,

:04:44. > :04:47.who has leaked this to the German newspaper and of course the British

:04:48. > :04:52.newspapers today have picked it up. It just feels like such

:04:53. > :04:58.mischiefmaking. It sounds slightly underhand, doesn't it? That is

:04:59. > :05:02.investigative journalism! I think Jean-Claude Juncker has really swept

:05:03. > :05:07.up on the wing here. He sounds quite extreme and very hard line on how he

:05:08. > :05:11.will be approaching Brexit, and you think this is power play and

:05:12. > :05:16.posturing so he can come back in and be the guy that saves the day and

:05:17. > :05:20.the end. We will stay with the Telegraph, and put smiles on

:05:21. > :05:27.people's faces. Hasn't Charlotte grown? I still remember the baby

:05:28. > :05:30.pictures. We don't get that many pictures, so every time they do

:05:31. > :05:34.release one is very celebrated and obviously what she is wearing will

:05:35. > :05:38.sell out in no time as well. It is on the front of the Telegraph and a

:05:39. > :05:42.lot of the papers today as well. Happy birthday to her and all the

:05:43. > :05:49.other two -year-olds. There are one or two more. She is the spitting

:05:50. > :05:53.image of George. And the Guardian has more Jean-Claude Juncker. As the

:05:54. > :06:00.Guardian might in these circumstances, they say that it

:06:01. > :06:03.shows she has screwed up, basically. It wasn't as hunky-dory as the

:06:04. > :06:07.British government would have us believe. There certainly appears to

:06:08. > :06:15.be a lot of areas in which they did disagree, and Jean-Claude Juncker

:06:16. > :06:21.and his officials expressed astonishment, as to the issue of

:06:22. > :06:25.whether or not we should pay. Our people say we shouldn't hate to

:06:26. > :06:29.leave the EU, they are saying you are out of your mind. ?50 billion,

:06:30. > :06:34.depending on who you talk to. Massive areas where they disagree,

:06:35. > :06:39.not least the issue of whether we can settle the deal for Europeans

:06:40. > :06:44.living in the UK and Brits living abroad. You have this line as well,

:06:45. > :06:48.sources close to Jean-Claude Juncker saying the chances of Brexit talks

:06:49. > :06:52.failing are now over 50% which from the very beginning make things sound

:06:53. > :06:58.as if they are in a very precarious situation. I think that will be

:06:59. > :07:02.music to the ears of Brexiteers, who will be delighted to hear that

:07:03. > :07:07.things are going so badly wrong. You are far closer to all this and I am,

:07:08. > :07:11.I just read what I see in the newspapers and you are a political

:07:12. > :07:16.correspondent, but one thing, it confirms for me that this is a heck

:07:17. > :07:23.of a site more complicated than many people imagined it would be. I think

:07:24. > :07:27.many people who voted for Brexit, with decently held views, thought it

:07:28. > :07:35.would be all over in a few weeks. I will be surprised if this deal is

:07:36. > :07:41.done in two years' time. This is meeting one, in a sense. And what

:07:42. > :07:47.happens if at all stops? What happens to Brexit? It is

:07:48. > :07:52.interesting, isn't it? Let's talk to the Times, and we have a lovely

:07:53. > :07:59.picture of Princess Charlotte, and the story we are concentrating on is

:08:00. > :08:03.Staton 's. It is causing many of my generation some concern. The story

:08:04. > :08:11.says that 6 million people are on the wrong does, and basically the

:08:12. > :08:14.body that determines these things, recommended three years ago that

:08:15. > :08:17.more people should be put on stronger statins. And GPs for

:08:18. > :08:22.various reasons haven't necessarily done that. In fairness to them, I

:08:23. > :08:26.think they are saying that there are some side-effects to some of these

:08:27. > :08:30.statins, and there are big concerns about the impact, but nevertheless

:08:31. > :08:33.the official view is that more people should be on them, and this

:08:34. > :08:45.piece is saying please don't rush to your doctors all at once. 6 million

:08:46. > :08:49.people rushed to their doctors tomorrow morning, the NHS is in

:08:50. > :08:54.bigger trouble than it is at the moment. I don't think there is any

:08:55. > :09:00.immediate emergency for any of those people, but it is something to bear

:09:01. > :09:06.in mind, and ask your GP about. Only 6% on the recommended dosage.

:09:07. > :09:12.Goodness me. Staying with the Times, the car market. So this is a story

:09:13. > :09:19.about the way that people in Britain are buying their cars, and there is

:09:20. > :09:22.concern that there has been a mis-selling issue. So people that

:09:23. > :09:27.are buying their cars through finance deals, and that is 90% of

:09:28. > :09:32.new cars, basically it is saying here that there is a risk that the

:09:33. > :09:36.person who is leasing the car doesn't quite know the full chain of

:09:37. > :09:40.the financial transactions that are backing it, so although there might

:09:41. > :09:43.be working with one company and paying one company, the person they

:09:44. > :09:48.owed the money too could be further down the line. There is a bit of

:09:49. > :09:52.confusion back, and that is putting people at a great of risk if one of

:09:53. > :09:55.those companies go bust. People could be in a very precarious

:09:56. > :10:00.financial position. So it really feels like it is the very beginning,

:10:01. > :10:06.the story, of a much bigger issue. It is like the old leasing

:10:07. > :10:11.arrangement, you finance the car for three years and it is not actually

:10:12. > :10:15.your own. It is a health warning on that, to make sure you know what you

:10:16. > :10:21.are doing. They compared it to the crisis that triggered in America...

:10:22. > :10:27.I can't think, mortgage crisis. So let's move on to the FT. I am sure I

:10:28. > :10:34.still tap into the bank of mum and dad from time to time. I don't know

:10:35. > :10:44.about you, Kate. They are watching, they will no! I am a governor of the

:10:45. > :10:49.bank of mum and dad, so I am well versed in these matters, as a matter

:10:50. > :10:53.of fact. Are you surprised by this? I think this is a really interesting

:10:54. > :10:58.story. They are saying, they have done a survey and they say that 26%

:10:59. > :11:03.of all UK property transactions are now financed by the bank of mum and

:11:04. > :11:07.dad, and that is the equivalent of the number of transactions financed

:11:08. > :11:11.by the Yorkshire building society, so there is a whole new building

:11:12. > :11:15.society of mums and dads and family and friends. The equivalent of the

:11:16. > :11:20.ninth biggest mortgage lender in Britain. For someone my age and my

:11:21. > :11:24.generation, this is a very common situation. Perhaps if you want to

:11:25. > :11:29.get onto the property ladder, you look to your mum and dad for help,

:11:30. > :11:32.and in saying that, you know, you are in a very privileged position

:11:33. > :11:36.because your parrots can help you. What it points to such a bigger

:11:37. > :11:43.issue here. You have got Nigel Wilson, the chief executive of LNG,

:11:44. > :11:49.says the housing market is broken and demand is out pacing supply.

:11:50. > :11:52.Interest rates are lower and we still have this problem that people

:11:53. > :11:56.under 35 cannot afford to buy because they don't have the deposit

:11:57. > :12:00.on the other big factor, not just for young people, but a whole lot of

:12:01. > :12:05.other people, is stamp duty. It has slowed the market down quite

:12:06. > :12:11.dramatically, because it is a big, big amount of money. You also think

:12:12. > :12:18.I going to be in a position to be able to help out? Generational

:12:19. > :12:22.change completely. There is an awareness that our generation have

:12:23. > :12:25.to save up either. I am in the luckiest generation ever born,

:12:26. > :12:30.because we missed national service, we were part of a democracy, most of

:12:31. > :12:39.us have had a fairly good time. But now we are paying the price. The

:12:40. > :12:46.Daily Mail, and exploited by cash for eggs, IVF clinics. Rather

:12:47. > :12:50.worrying. Yes, it is a really sad story, and very alarming. Fertility

:12:51. > :12:54.clinics accused of exploiting desperate women by asking them to

:12:55. > :12:58.donate eggs for cash and free treatment. Women on lower incomes

:12:59. > :13:01.who want to have IVF are being offered a strange deal where they

:13:02. > :13:05.can have their eggs harvested, but they would give half away. And then

:13:06. > :13:10.they would have some money from that, or they would be given another

:13:11. > :13:15.round of IVF. You get some free treatment, but it is just so

:13:16. > :13:18.uncomfortable sounding. Why does that make it uncomfortable? If you

:13:19. > :13:22.are donating eggs but getting something back, why would that be...

:13:23. > :13:26.It doesn't feel like this is the correct medical and ethical way to

:13:27. > :13:31.be doing things. One someone far more qualified than us, Lord

:13:32. > :13:35.Winston, says I fear that some of my profession have no moral or ethical

:13:36. > :13:39.compass any more. I think that is the issue. It is stepping over a

:13:40. > :13:45.certain line. Hospitals, I have never used one of these phones, I

:13:46. > :13:49.see it and they terrify me. My mother, God bless her, spent some

:13:50. > :13:54.considerable time in hospital and they set up one of these things

:13:55. > :13:59.beside her bed. And you would need a degree in technology to operate

:14:00. > :14:03.this. And these are laid on for people like my mother, and people

:14:04. > :14:10.who are sick. And now, according to this one firm, charging 50p a minute

:14:11. > :14:17.to use the phone, and ?5 a day, 12 times as much as it would cost with

:14:18. > :14:20.an ordinary TV licence, to use the television. It is a disgrace. I

:14:21. > :14:25.think you are in hospital, you are supposed to be looking after people,

:14:26. > :14:29.not charging them. I am surprised that these phones still exist,

:14:30. > :14:34.because it is accepted that you can use your mobile phone in most wards,

:14:35. > :14:38.obviously there are some exceptions, but most people have mobiles, that

:14:39. > :14:42.they? Not all elderly, vulnerable people have mobile phones, and they

:14:43. > :14:47.are the people who will end up spending a lot of money. It is a

:14:48. > :14:52.good story, it will strike a chord, I think, with a lot of the Metro's

:14:53. > :14:57.readers. Going back to the Telegraph, the drama being put

:14:58. > :15:07.together by the BBC, King Charles III. Do you all know what it is

:15:08. > :15:13.about? The problem is... So King Charles III, it was a stage play,

:15:14. > :15:17.very popular, being made into a TV adaptation, but there are concerns

:15:18. > :15:20.from some actors, they didn't want to play King Charles III, in case

:15:21. > :15:26.that jeopardised their chances of getting in on a further down the

:15:27. > :15:31.line. Forwardthinking! I think some actors actually do take this very,

:15:32. > :15:34.very seriously, and they take their Honours potential seriously. But

:15:35. > :15:38.King Charles III such an amazing role, I don't know why you wouldn't

:15:39. > :15:43.want to leap into it and do it. And most actors I know would give their

:15:44. > :15:46.right arm to play it, irrespective of the consequences. I have read

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