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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
With me are journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
and David Wooding, the political editor of The Sun on Sunday. | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with... | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
The Observer headlines on Labour's plans to increase income tax | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
for people earning more than eighty-thousand-pounds, | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
if Jeremy Corbyn becomes the next Prime Minister. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The Sunday Telegraph has that same story and also reports | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
that the European Commission's own lawyers say a suggested | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
100 billion euro Brexit divorce bill could not be legally enforced. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
The Sunday Times - says the move is in a bid | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
to shore up Labour's core support - as a new poll suggests the party has | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
The paper - which is publishing its annual rich list - | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
also says Brexit has seen the combined wealth of the country's | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
The Sunday Express says - Theresa May is to unveil a set | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
of manifesto pledges - which will serve as | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
And The Mail on Sunday criticises a controversial drama to be aired | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
The BBC has defended the production as a "critically acclaimed | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
and fictional" play, which the Mail has described | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Who shall we start with? Yasmin, The Observer, this seems to be the | :01:35. | :01:53. | |
election story at this early hour, Labour will fund spending by raising | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
tax on ?80,000 earners. A fair amount of detail of what they want. | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
There is, and if the party wasn't in such disarray, which it is, many | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
people would support, I would support it. I would support such a | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
move because in such a hopelessly economically divided country, and we | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
are going to talk about the people who have more money, bathing in | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
money, it doesn't make for a happy society. We have so many reports | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
telling us our children are more miserable, our health is worse than | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
countries which are more equal. The problem is, nothing is held together | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
by this team properly but is trying to sell itself and its policies. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
This is Labour. I feel terrible saying it. Sticking with the policy | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
that they outline, ?80,000, for an awful lot of people they'll say | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
that's an enormous amount of money. But if you live in the south-east of | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
England and you've got to people working it's not. It's an | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
interesting figure. It's just a bit more than what an MP earns, | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
strangely enough. You mustn't cast any aspersions! The Leader of the | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Opposition gets rather more. Of course. It's all about where you | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
pitch it. The Conservatives are clearly working out what they do. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
The Chancellor Philip Hammond has said he needs more room, more | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
flexibility. You'll need tax-raising powers if he can but they want to | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
portray themselves as the party of low taxation. The issue is, there | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
will be 1.2 million people paying more tax. While this will appeal to | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the hard-core Labour voter in working-class low-paid areas, there | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
will be people in the NHS such as doctors who will be earning more | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
than 80,000 who may think twice, and headteachers. I think if it was well | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
presented as something that was necessary for the NHS, for | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
education, a lot of us would go for it. 85%? 95% of us. We might only | :04:00. | :04:12. | |
problem is is that it's presented hopelessly inadequately. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Headteachers earn a lot of money, vice chancellors and a lot of money. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
It's right they should pay, we should pay. But it's the top cream | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
that finds ways of not paying. It's interesting to me The Sunday | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Telegraph front page have been same story very much, and their | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
headliners, labour tax to hammer workers, "A savage cash raid". We | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
all know The Telegraph is a right-wing newspaper but the wording | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
matters a lot now. Of course it does. They are focusing on the other | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
aspect which is that Labour haven't said what the tax rise will be for | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
people earning over ?80,000. I think the decision a lot of people will | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
make if taxation is an issue that helps to decide your boat, is when | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the Conservatives come clean on what they are going to do about taxation. | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Clearly they don't have a simple choice, they've got to do something | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
about giving the Chancellor money that he needs. One of the things | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
about Brexit that they are going to consider seriously, is that it | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
becomes a low tax economy for those who create jobs. One of the ideas | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
has been to do what Ireland did, which is lower corporation tax and | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
so on. How that fit with the need, as you said, for more money in the | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
coffers? One thing we haven't heard about is this thing about large | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
companies who avoid that. We've got to be careful who we mention because | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
some do and some surprisingly don't. But for the popular bit of politics | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
only a short time ago. Yes. And The Telegraph line is people earning | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
over ?80,000 will have made a success of their lives, some will | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
have clawed their way up to that level and feel, why am I being | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
punished for my success. That is one side of the argument that you've | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
also eloquently expressed the other side of the Ottoman. They will be | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
thinking, what about these huge organisations, multimillionaires, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
who somehow have creative taxation accountancy, which helps them to | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
avoid paying anything. In the end you have to say, there is such a | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
thing as society. We all share a space. If we all contributed a bit | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
more, that space could be a much better space for us. How many | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
handbags do you need that cost ?30,000? How many? None, in my case! | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
Better ask my wife. LAUGHTER We talked about the Conservatives, it | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
different tact from them today but an interesting one about mental | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
health. It's on the front pages, it's a small story but it's quite | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
important. Theresa May, when she became Prime Minister, one of the | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
first things she did when she stood outside Downing Street in July was | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
said she wants to end the prejudices in our society. One of the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
prejudices was against people suffering from mental health. What | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
she is announcing today, which is in the papers, is that she wants to | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
scrap the 1983 Mental Health Act, which is regarded by campaigners as | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
being completely unfit and out of date, an anachronism in fact. She | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
says it discriminates against people. Apart from that it will | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
reduce the number of people who are detained, sometimes often in police | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
cells. There is a disproportionate number of black and ethnic people | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
locked up under the Mental Health Act and she hopes it. That. There's | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
also other action being announced here, such as mental health first | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
aid as in schools. Some kids suffer from mental health issues at the age | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
of 14 because of things like cyber bullying and the workplace will be | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
forced to have mental health first aid is as well. All of this is going | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
to cost money. I recently spoke to someone from the Royal College of | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
psychiatry. Funding for a lot of these developments of young people | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
being distressed to the point of non-functionality, there is no | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
money. So it's no good our Prime Minister saying I want to do | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
something about it. It's good she's getting rid of this awful archaic | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
law, but where is the money to really provide the kind of services | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
every section of the population now need is to mark why are we so | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
mentally ill is a question which I think relates back to the terrible | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
inequalities that we've gone through and are living with now. The funding | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
issues needs to be answered. She say she will employ an extra 10,000 | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
medical health medical staff in the NHS by 2020. Labour say that there | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
has been a reduction of 6000. I often wonder where these figures... | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
They always seem suspiciously rounded up. I'm talking about all | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the political parties who do it. If there's been a big fall, you've got | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
to make up that shortfall before you stop recruiting more. But also, | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
various other things have been cut, where very high levels of mental | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
distress, like women's refuges. Where quite a lot of women who have | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
been abused is to find shelter and find a lot of therapeutic help. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
They've been shut down across the country. No joined up thinking about | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
the needs that are there and how you fund them and do it properly. What I | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
think is positive about this is that mental health is being treated more | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
seriously by all politicians and a good thing that the celebrities have | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
done, a lot of celebrities, footballers, the Royals, they've all | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
come out and spoken about it. The stigma is slowly being removed and I | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
think that's good. If Theresa May is really going to do this, good for | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
her. It's made of the newspapers as well. The Mail on Sunday has it as | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
well. There's a spread in The Mail on Sunday and we've got it on page | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
two in The Sun. Let's move on. Yasmin, start off on the rich list. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
You've already mentioned that you aren't in favour of ?20,000 | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
handbags. Not necessary. Are you in a state of rage about billionaires | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
generally? Is fascinating, isn't it? It's not fascinating. Why are you | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
begin people? OK, you start up a company and you do well and that's | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
fine, it's capitalism, I have no problems with that. But the real | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
heroes of our country are those neurosurgeons who are saving lives. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Why don't we have a list our top doctors? Our top social service | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
workers? This concentration on the quite offensive amounts of money... | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
We have food banks growing around the country. I'm sorry, there's | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
nothing to celebrate for me here. OK, let's not celebrate, let's | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
report. Again, it's the Hinduja brothers who are always at the top. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
They've increased their wealth by ?3.2 billion to ?16.2 billion on | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
oils, plastics and other things. They've opened a posh hotel in | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
London. The overall figures are quite fun. The fortunes have risen | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
by 14%, this has been fuelled by what is called the Brexit boom. This | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
is to do with in some way the buoyant stock market and also the | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
weaker pound. A lot of these multi billionaires have money invested | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
overseas. An interesting fact is that we now have 134 billionaires in | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
the UK. There were only 14 last year. That is a huge leap. There are | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
86 billionaires in London which is more than in any other city in the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
world. And how much tax do they pay? And do they see the beggars on the | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
street, or they don't walk the streets? They can look at the back | :12:42. | :12:55. | |
of the Rolls-Royce. Not all people... There is a funny picture | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
on the front page of Adele where she is pretending to be this Catherine | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
Tate character. She likes disguises. She's made about ?125 million. I | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
remember a while ago when she didn't like the taxes she was having to pay | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
as her money went up. Actually, again, how many handbags do you | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
need, Adele? JK Rowling, ?650 million, Harry Potter wizardry | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
there. She still says she a socialist, interestingly. Some | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
people go down. Sir Philip Greene, there's a name. And Mike Ashley of | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Sports Direct. There is a God! LAUGHTER It brings me onto another | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
thing, David, there are a lot of people who are very wealthy who | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
don't ever appear in this list. They make sure they don't talk to the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
researchers, or the researchers can't find out. There must be a lot | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
of that about. There is. I disagree with you on this one. Oh David, no! | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
I'm not supporting them and good luck to some of them. I find it | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
fascinating reading the magazine because it breaks it down into the | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
arts, doctors, football, everything. Journalists don't seem to appear in | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
there! LAUGHTER We are more concerned about the Labour story on | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
the taxes, I think. Let's move onto a story altogether. It's in a couple | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
of the papers, The Mail on Sunday. Pride and plagiarism, no TV | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
historian, Lucy insists... What is this about? Lucy Worsley has written | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
a book about Jane Austen and there is a suggestion that she cut and | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
pasted it and tickled around with it a bit from another book... Paula | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
Byrne. They say all the facts are in there. Her response is that there | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
are a lot of books written about Jane Austen and all these facts are | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
common ground and she hasn't lifted it. The gracious Doctor Byrne is | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
saying, I'm not getting involved in this one. She says, the more books | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
about Jane Austin, the better the Jane Austen. Jane Austen has been | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
gone a number of years, there can't be much more new to say about her. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
There can't. This is one of the dangers of our times. You can Google | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
anything and once upon a time you had to sit in the library, take a | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
book down and write your own notes in pencil in the British library. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Now it's all feeding into you. Sometimes I think it's quite easy to | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
forget it came through another source because it becomes quickly | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
part of the way you think. Quite a lot of authors have landed in | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
trouble by unconsciously almost filtering information that had | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
earlier appeared. It's a great drama, this unconscious plagiarism. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
We get this in newspapers will be break an exclusive and put it | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
online, then it's cut and pasted into people's blogs, virtually word | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
for word, by people who attack the paper and say they don't like it. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Then they put it on their own websites in the same language. In | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
other sections of The Daily Mail, it does a separate review of Lucy | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Worsley's book and it gives her four stars out of five. LAUGHTER You like | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
her, that's it! | :16:55. | :16:58. |