04/05/2017

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:00:00. > :00:26.Hello. Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:27. > :00:32.tomorrow. With us former trade Lord Digby Jones and Henry. Brace. Brace.

:00:33. > :00:35.Tomorrow's front pages of the Telegraph leads with the Duke of

:00:36. > :00:40.Edinburgh who is retiring from public duties this autumn. "I have

:00:41. > :00:46.had my fill is the headline." There is a similar headline in The Sun.

:00:47. > :00:49.The paper totted over 22,000 personal engagements made by Prince

:00:50. > :00:53.Philip. The same story is on the front of the I. The paper estimates

:00:54. > :00:59.the Duke made 5,000 speeches. The Times claims that the Queen's

:01:00. > :01:06.consort decided to retire to avoid growing frail in public. The Mirror

:01:07. > :01:13.claims that Cliff Richard has spent an unreasonable amount on legal

:01:14. > :01:18.action. There is a warning from Donald Tusk to Theresa May to show

:01:19. > :01:21.respect during Brexit talks. There is a six month slump in oil prices.

:01:22. > :01:24.Apparently Prince Philip will wonder what all the fuss is about, but

:01:25. > :01:29.that's what we're going to talk about first. He's stepping down from

:01:30. > :01:37.public duties in the autumn. Here is the Metro. "I have had my fill. 70

:01:38. > :01:42.years of service." He could have retired sometime ago? I thud think

:01:43. > :01:46.even the most ardent Republican would be saying that's public

:01:47. > :01:49.service and it's, I think, just fabulous and the nation obviously

:01:50. > :01:55.should be very grateful to him. It's not the easiest thing in the world.

:01:56. > :02:01.It wasn't in 1947 or in 1952 for this guy who had obviously, isn't

:02:02. > :02:07.The Telegraph calls him the alpha male and suddenly, having to go one

:02:08. > :02:12.step back and let his wife. Today, we would say what's wrong with that?

:02:13. > :02:16.In 1947 it wasn't done. I'm full of admiration for the man and if he

:02:17. > :02:19.wants to spend the last few years on this planet in privacy with the

:02:20. > :02:25.woman he loves, what's wrong with that? The Telegraph have a similar

:02:26. > :02:30.story. The main picture story. Prince Philip retires, service with

:02:31. > :02:34.a smile. Everyone we've spoken to, the gaffes aside which some people

:02:35. > :02:42.found rather tricky to cope with. We could highlight one or two. Some of

:02:43. > :02:47.them have been controversial. He puts people at their ease. He cracks

:02:48. > :02:56.a joke. He could put you at your ease. If he says to you, "Well, my

:02:57. > :03:00.word, you're working in a factory in Edinburgh, it looks like it has been

:03:01. > :03:05.put together by an Indian." We can laugh about it because he is an old

:03:06. > :03:10.guy. He had fantastic coverage. The headlines are superb for him and if

:03:11. > :03:15.you consider as Digby said how he had to go from being this naval

:03:16. > :03:20.officer, a guy who would have continued to have a brilliant

:03:21. > :03:26.careerment you were in the Navy... I didn't marry the Queen. To fuming on

:03:27. > :03:29.one occasion. I'm the only man in the country not allowed to give his

:03:30. > :03:34.name to his children. But at the same time he said my duty is not to

:03:35. > :03:39.embarrass her or to let the Queen down so he has been a pretty

:03:40. > :03:46.sterling companion. I'm fortunate enough to have met him. So have I.

:03:47. > :03:52.Pat my wife sat next to him at a dinner. She did it with a degree of

:03:53. > :03:57.trepidation because of his reputation for being short. She said

:03:58. > :04:02.he was charming and he put her at her ease and Matt in The Telegraph

:04:03. > :04:09.is wonderful... Let's look at that. They put it right by the photograph.

:04:10. > :04:12.It's a, I mean, all three of us in our various ways open things at

:04:13. > :04:17.times. People say I open envelopes. It is the two curtains of an opening

:04:18. > :04:24.with the plaque behind and the little thing he has unveiled and it

:04:25. > :04:29.says, "Unveil your own damn plaque." He always had a good one liner and

:04:30. > :04:33.the papers are working hard to match the kind of things he has said in

:04:34. > :04:38.his time. Not just the controversial ones, but the funny ones. When I met

:04:39. > :04:42.him at Buckingham Palace, I was running a radio station called

:04:43. > :04:55.Colourful. He said, "What do you do? ?" I said, "I run a radio station

:04:56. > :05:03.called Colourful." He said "It's all very colourful in here." There is a

:05:04. > :05:10.nice poem on Twitter. Let us look at the FT. Thames Water fine over river

:05:11. > :05:17.sewage dwarfed by ?1 billion pay-out to owners. Digby, before you mention

:05:18. > :05:20.it, I will, Digby has written a new book. This is the kind of stuff you

:05:21. > :05:25.talk about in your book? Fixing business is not about running a

:05:26. > :05:28.business or fixing a badly performing business, it is fixing

:05:29. > :05:32.business's reputation, it is trying to get business to play its proper

:05:33. > :05:35.role and to be seen to do so. In the book I talk about the things you can

:05:36. > :05:43.do, skills, training, environmental sensitivity, all that. But the big,

:05:44. > :05:47.big chapter is on executive pay and how business has got to sort itself

:05:48. > :05:54.out. I'm a capitalist to my core, but if we are going to have business

:05:55. > :05:59.playing its proper role and seen as such and cut slack by politicians

:06:00. > :06:05.accordingly, you cannot have and I talk about Volkswagen and I talk

:06:06. > :06:08.about Philip Green who has done nothing, he hasn't broken the law,

:06:09. > :06:16.but the reputation isn't there and loads of others. I look at this, and

:06:17. > :06:21.I'm pushing you guys to put the FT up because I don't think that

:06:22. > :06:31.business gets its fair share of coverage on the business... We talk

:06:32. > :06:41.about business every day. I was going to say, I was the one who

:06:42. > :06:45.said, "I want this covered." Thames Water paid its owners ?1 billion in

:06:46. > :06:51.dividends over ten years. During which time it dumped the equivalent

:06:52. > :06:56.of 21 supertankers of sewage into the Thames. This is about

:06:57. > :07:02.accountability and not rewarding people... Not rewarding failure in

:07:03. > :07:08.one way. If the shareholders are losing money or the company is doing

:07:09. > :07:15.badly, they still get the big executive pay-out. The company is

:07:16. > :07:17.basically letting down the environment, the community, causing

:07:18. > :07:23.fines, not doing the right thing, and then paying out a load of money.

:07:24. > :07:28.It is just wrong. It's a monopoly remember. When we talk about

:07:29. > :07:35.accountability, it has not being slapped with a ?20 million fine when

:07:36. > :07:40.you can afford to give ?1 billion in dividends and the head of Ofwat

:07:41. > :07:43.saying, "He is not proposing any solutions. There is nothing that

:07:44. > :07:49.appears that can be done about this company. It doesn't help when you

:07:50. > :07:54.read that the FT says a complex structure which owns it, includes

:07:55. > :07:58.off-shore holdings in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands. I can't think of

:07:59. > :08:06.one redeeming feature. Stay with the FT for a second story. In the

:08:07. > :08:11.briefing section, Trump wins vote to replace Obamacare? He needed to get

:08:12. > :08:16.this win before his 100th day anniversary. It appears that the

:08:17. > :08:19.freedom caucus has been won over, the question is by what? Is it by

:08:20. > :08:26.reducing the amount of coverage that would be given to people by medical

:08:27. > :08:32.aid or reducing the coverage of preexisting conditions? The

:08:33. > :08:35.resistants are saying come the 2018 medium-term electionings every

:08:36. > :08:37.single Republican who voted for this will get punished because a lot of

:08:38. > :08:42.people will be left without coverage. Remember, before

:08:43. > :08:45.Obamacare, there were 40 million Americans who had no access to

:08:46. > :08:50.health insurance for the ripest country on earth. What he has done

:08:51. > :08:54.is he has got something through, what it doesn't say is how and

:08:55. > :09:03.somebody somewhere has done the deal. Someone has... The Senate

:09:04. > :09:06.might stand in its way. It will be diluted on the way through. He has

:09:07. > :09:12.done something. It doesn't say what, but the concept of changing this is

:09:13. > :09:16.all very well and good, but America surely cannot go back to being a

:09:17. > :09:22.country where you're rich, per capita, you're rich, you are the

:09:23. > :09:26.world's policemen and 40 million people have no access to health

:09:27. > :09:32.insurance. A lot of people think it is OK they go without health care. I

:09:33. > :09:35.used to say access to health care because they have access to health

:09:36. > :09:41.care, it is just they can't afford it. They are taking away the tax

:09:42. > :09:45.credits to enable people to afford it. Even before mental health. They

:09:46. > :09:51.are trying to make it more afford I don't believe as well to bring the

:09:52. > :09:56.premiums down. We don't know what it will be. The Express. EU to face

:09:57. > :10:02.explosive crisis without the ?85 billion from the UK. Whether it is

:10:03. > :10:05.?85 billion... It's actually. When I used to do corporate deals, when you

:10:06. > :10:08.were on a sticky wicket and you didn't think you were going to do

:10:09. > :10:13.very well, you got your PR machine of your client out there setting the

:10:14. > :10:18.agenda publicly, constantly trying to shore up your own position in

:10:19. > :10:22.public and everything I have seen from Juncker last weekend to this is

:10:23. > :10:26.all about the same thing. It's about basically they're trying to get an

:10:27. > :10:30.agenda where ?85 billion becomes the norment so they are talking about it

:10:31. > :10:35.always so it becomes the norm. The British Government is trying to set

:10:36. > :10:39.its own agenda too? I would like to think that's fine for a Brit. It is

:10:40. > :10:43.fine for both sides. It is a negotiation. Of course, but what I'm

:10:44. > :10:51.trying to say is, everybody repeats this ?85 billion. I would start at

:10:52. > :11:02.nought. I would say... Before that it was 60 or ?50 billion. This ?85

:11:03. > :11:05.billion from the Financial Times. You're surrounded by people who have

:11:06. > :11:10.their democratic right to have a discussion, even a row! What I'm

:11:11. > :11:14.trying to say is, they keep, what the fear is, they will keep

:11:15. > :11:20.repeating... The Brexit supporting newspapers that are repeating the

:11:21. > :11:27.?85 billion to put the fear of God into people. This is a paper review

:11:28. > :11:32.so we ought to look at the article! It has been calculated in the Daily

:11:33. > :11:39.Express that Britain contributes 12% of the bloc's total budget and could

:11:40. > :11:44.lay claim to ?58 billion of the EU's total assets. We loo like half our

:11:45. > :11:48.share out, like having half the house when you have a divorce. They

:11:49. > :11:53.are saying it is ?85 billion. I'm going to leap to the last paper now.

:11:54. > :12:00.We have got a longer review at 11.30pm.

:12:01. > :12:06.The Daily Star fears for 62 more premiership stars. This is after

:12:07. > :12:11.Aaron Lennon talked about having his mental health problems, he is not

:12:12. > :12:17.alone it says. The pressure, is this what it's about? I remember years

:12:18. > :12:27.and years ago, I think stfs Stan Collymore and his then manager said,

:12:28. > :12:30."What's wrong with you?" I lot of the premiership, even Championship

:12:31. > :12:35.footballers, the key reason why lots of people, men and women, become

:12:36. > :12:39.mentally ill and have problems is thwarted ambition, it isn't the

:12:40. > :12:43.money you make, it is what else is going on in your mind, everyone is

:12:44. > :12:46.talking about the push being more open about mental health. There are

:12:47. > :12:50.lots and lots of people particularly young men who struggle with things

:12:51. > :12:53.going on, we have got our demons, but it's even more pernicious if

:12:54. > :12:56.nobody understands you. You can't talk about it to anybody. As

:12:57. > :13:03.footballers you have got to be strong and out there... That last

:13:04. > :13:08.point. It is macho culture. I'm not making a jult here. Factually, you

:13:09. > :13:12.can't admit frailty and factually, you are banking this money... And

:13:13. > :13:18.you're not going to get any sympathy. I think it is the tip of

:13:19. > :13:24.the iceberg. Also, you know, it's clear, statistically there have got

:13:25. > :13:26.to be quite a few gay premiership footballers, you never ever hear of

:13:27. > :13:31.one. Imagine the pressure that puts on people. If you are gay and you

:13:32. > :13:38.love to come out and be normal, and you can't be... Just be yourself.

:13:39. > :13:41.Exactly. The mental pressure that's putting on somebody... The suicide

:13:42. > :13:45.rate of gay men is really, really high. In football, it is the last

:13:46. > :13:50.bastion and somebody has got to do something about it. I noticed on a

:13:51. > :13:59.lighter note, John Gregory was manager of just tell me the club...

:14:00. > :14:04.Aston Villa. Thank you. Birmingham's finest have to be

:14:05. > :14:08.mentioned. It wasn't finest. What are we going to look at? The weather

:14:09. > :14:14.in a minute. It is such a relief to get through it. They're back again

:14:15. > :14:16.at 11.30pm for round two. I am pleased really.

:14:17. > :14:31.Thank you for having us. A pleasure. Hello there. Good evening, it was a

:14:32. > :14:32.lovely day for large swathes of the