01/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the broadcaster John Stapleton, and Kate Proctor,

political correspondent at the London Evening Standard.

Tomorrow's front pages: The Daily Telegraph reveals it has

seen documents that show EU officials are trying to prevent

the Prime Minister securing a deal for British expats in Europe.

Like many of the papers, it also features a large picture

of Princess Charlotte which was released to celebrate

The Financial Times says the European Commission is preparing

to issue plans to control the City of London's

The high cost of calls to and from bedside phones

in hospitals is highlighted on the front page of The Metro.

The i claim tax laws used by HMRC are so complex,

taxpayers who fill out their returns online may end up overpaying.

The furore surrounding the now infamous meeting between Theresa May

and Jean-Claude Junker is on the front of the Daily Express,

with the Prime Minister claiming the account was just

The Daily Mail leads with a special investigation in to claims fertility

clinics exploit couples desperate for a baby by persuading them

to donate eggs in return for free treatment.

The Times warns of a looming crisis surrounding financing deals

for new cars, saying buyers are often not made fully aware

And finally, the Guardian says the Prime Minister is having

to battle to get Brexit talks back on track,

following what it calls a botched and humiliating start

to the negotiations with the President of the European

Hello again, John and Kate. We will start inevitably with a debacle. The

Daily Telegraph. Would you like to kick us off, Kate? So this is an

account of the dinner between Jean-Claude Juncker and Theresa May

and the Telegraph has seen documents showing that Jean-Claude Juncker had

for a while had a plan that he wanted to put the brakes on Theresa

May's deal to try and make sure that EU rights were sorted out as quickly

as possible. This is talking about expats, Brits living abroad in

Europe, so Jean-Claude Juncker has come to this meeting and really left

Theresa May in some way describing it... She is using megaphone

diplomacy, she is being very forthright in what she wants, and it

has really, really rattled a lot of people. Yes, he is reported as

saying he was astonished that she had raised this, and he thought it

could all be sorted out very quickly but in fact the Telegraph points out

this morning, or tomorrow morning's papers, that EU officials have known

for a long time that is what she wanted to do. It shouldn't have

caused him any surprise, put it that way. It is an amazing story, but you

will remember after the event Theresa May said they had been very

constructive talks, et cetera, et cetera. It illustrates the need for

newspapers because a German paper has found that what really went on,

or so we are told, and has come out with some amazing detail. It might

have been constructive, but there were certainly some very sharp

opinions exchanged about crucial issues. Does this particular story,

on the front of the Telegraph, say how they unearthed this plant to

block Theresa May? Is there any detail given about that? It doesn't

give any detail but it does say Jean-Claude Juncker was aware of

this. He has managed to keep a lid on this for a certain amount of time

and now we have had this dinner and a week later we are getting juicy

detail on how fraught relationship sounds as if it is between these two

people. He phoned Angela Merkel, apparently, the next day and talked

about Theresa May living in another galaxy, on another planet. It has

not been a great meeting of minds, to put it mildly. And clearly this

information... I say clearly, it would appear this information has

come from someone who was in the room as an EU official, we imagine,

who has leaked this to the German newspaper and of course the British

newspapers today have picked it up. It just feels like such

mischiefmaking. It sounds slightly underhand, doesn't it? That is

investigative journalism! I think Jean-Claude Juncker has really swept

up on the wing here. He sounds quite extreme and very hard line on how he

will be approaching Brexit, and you think this is power play and

posturing so he can come back in and be the guy that saves the day and

the end. We will stay with the Telegraph, and put smiles on

people's faces. Hasn't Charlotte grown? I still remember the baby

pictures. We don't get that many pictures, so every time they do

release one is very celebrated and obviously what she is wearing will

sell out in no time as well. It is on the front of the Telegraph and a

lot of the papers today as well. Happy birthday to her and all the

other two -year-olds. There are one or two more. She is the spitting

image of George. And the Guardian has more Jean-Claude Juncker. As the

Guardian might in these circumstances, they say that it

shows she has screwed up, basically. It wasn't as hunky-dory as the

British government would have us believe. There certainly appears to

be a lot of areas in which they did disagree, and Jean-Claude Juncker

and his officials expressed astonishment, as to the issue of

whether or not we should pay. Our people say we shouldn't hate to

leave the EU, they are saying you are out of your mind. ?50 billion,

depending on who you talk to. Massive areas where they disagree,

not least the issue of whether we can settle the deal for Europeans

living in the UK and Brits living abroad. You have this line as well,

sources close to Jean-Claude Juncker saying the chances of Brexit talks

failing are now over 50% which from the very beginning make things sound

as if they are in a very precarious situation. I think that will be

music to the ears of Brexiteers, who will be delighted to hear that

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

I just read what I see in the newspapers and you are a political

correspondent, but one thing, it confirms for me that this is a heck

of a site more complicated than many people imagined it would be. I think

many people who voted for Brexit, with decently held views, thought it

would be all over in a few weeks. I will be surprised if this deal is

done in two years' time. This is meeting one, in a sense. And what

happens if at all stops? What happens to Brexit? It is

interesting, isn't it? Let's talk to the Times, and we have a lovely

picture of Princess Charlotte, and the story we are concentrating on is

Staton 's. It is causing many of my generation some concern. The story

says that 6 million people are on the wrong does, and basically the

body that determines these things, recommended three years ago that

more people should be put on stronger statins. And GPs for

various reasons haven't necessarily done that. In fairness to them, I

think they are saying that there are some side-effects to some of these

statins, and there are big concerns about the impact, but nevertheless

the official view is that more people should be on them, and this

piece is saying please don't rush to your doctors all at once. 6 million

people rushed to their doctors tomorrow morning, the NHS is in

bigger trouble than it is at the moment. I don't think there is any

immediate emergency for any of those people, but it is something to bear

in mind, and ask your GP about. Only 6% on the recommended dosage.

Goodness me. Staying with the Times, the car market. So this is a story

about the way that people in Britain are buying their cars, and there is

concern that there has been a mis-selling issue. So people that

are buying their cars through finance deals, and that is 90% of

new cars, basically it is saying here that there is a risk that the

person who is leasing the car doesn't quite know the full chain of

the financial transactions that are backing it, so although there might

be working with one company and paying one company, the person they

owed the money too could be further down the line. There is a bit of

confusion back, and that is putting people at a great of risk if one of

those companies go bust. People could be in a very precarious

financial position. So it really feels like it is the very beginning,

the story, of a much bigger issue. It is like the old leasing

arrangement, you finance the car for three years and it is not actually

your own. It is a health warning on that, to make sure you know what you

are doing. They compared it to the crisis that triggered in America...

I can't think, mortgage crisis. So let's move on to the FT. I am sure I

still tap into the bank of mum and dad from time to time. I don't know

about you, Kate. They are watching, they will no! I am a governor of the

bank of mum and dad, so I am well versed in these matters, as a matter

of fact. Are you surprised by this? I think this is a really interesting

story. They are saying, they have done a survey and they say that 26%

of all UK property transactions are now financed by the bank of mum and

dad, and that is the equivalent of the number of transactions financed

by the Yorkshire building society, so there is a whole new building

society of mums and dads and family and friends. The equivalent of the

ninth biggest mortgage lender in Britain. For someone my age and my

generation, this is a very common situation. Perhaps if you want to

get onto the property ladder, you look to your mum and dad for help,

and in saying that, you know, you are in a very privileged position

because your parrots can help you. What it points to such a bigger

issue here. You have got Nigel Wilson, the chief executive of LNG,

says the housing market is broken and demand is out pacing supply.

Interest rates are lower and we still have this problem that people

under 35 cannot afford to buy because they don't have the deposit

on the other big factor, not just for young people, but a whole lot of

other people, is stamp duty. It has slowed the market down quite

dramatically, because it is a big, big amount of money. You also think

I going to be in a position to be able to help out? Generational

change completely. There is an awareness that our generation have

to save up either. I am in the luckiest generation ever born,

because we missed national service, we were part of a democracy, most of

us have had a fairly good time. But now we are paying the price. The

Daily Mail, and exploited by cash for eggs, IVF clinics. Rather

worrying. Yes, it is a really sad story, and very alarming. Fertility

clinics accused of exploiting desperate women by asking them to

donate eggs for cash and free treatment. Women on lower incomes

who want to have IVF are being offered a strange deal where they

can have their eggs harvested, but they would give half away. And then

they would have some money from that, or they would be given another

round of IVF. You get some free treatment, but it is just so

uncomfortable sounding. Why does that make it uncomfortable? If you

are donating eggs but getting something back, why would that be...

It doesn't feel like this is the correct medical and ethical way to

be doing things. One someone far more qualified than us, Lord

Winston, says I fear that some of my profession have no moral or ethical

compass any more. I think that is the issue. It is stepping over a

certain line. Hospitals, I have never used one of these phones, I

see it and they terrify me. My mother, God bless her, spent some

considerable time in hospital and they set up one of these things

beside her bed. And you would need a degree in technology to operate

this. And these are laid on for people like my mother, and people

who are sick. And now, according to this one firm, charging 50p a minute

to use the phone, and ?5 a day, 12 times as much as it would cost with

an ordinary TV licence, to use the television. It is a disgrace. I

think you are in hospital, you are supposed to be looking after people,

not charging them. I am surprised that these phones still exist,

because it is accepted that you can use your mobile phone in most wards,

obviously there are some exceptions, but most people have mobiles, that

they? Not all elderly, vulnerable people have mobile phones, and they

are the people who will end up spending a lot of money. It is a

good story, it will strike a chord, I think, with a lot of the Metro's

readers. Going back to the Telegraph, the drama being put

together by the BBC, King Charles III. Do you all know what it is

about? The problem is... So King Charles III, it was a stage play,

very popular, being made into a TV adaptation, but there are concerns

from some actors, they didn't want to play King Charles III, in case

that jeopardised their chances of getting in on a further down the

line. Forwardthinking! I think some actors actually do take this very,

very seriously, and they take their Honours potential seriously. But

King Charles III such an amazing role, I don't know why you wouldn't

want to leap into it and do it. And most actors I know would give their

right arm to play it, irrespective of the consequences. I have read

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