09/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the broadcaster, Lynn Faulds Wood, and Laura Perrins,

Co-Editor of The Conservative Woman.

Great to see you both. Let's look at the front pages.

The Metro leads with the death of an 11-year-old girl

after falling from a ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park

'Millions to miss out out on full state pension'

The FT reports Theresa May's manifesto chief held talks

with Ed Miliband's former policy guru, in a bid to appeal

The Daily Telegraph claims a number of Labour MPs

are considering forming a breakaway group after the election.

The Express leads on the medical research which suggests that taking

the anti inflammatory drug, ibuprofen, once a week raises

The Daily mail comments on trees and Philip May's weren't on The One

Show. The daily Mirror has more on the death of an 11-year-old girl at

that Drayton Manor theme park. Before we get into the papers, I

have an update on that incident in Staffordshire. This is a statement

from a website, it was a school trip to Drayton Manor in which the

11-year-old girl died. "We Are liaising with the relevant

authorities at this time. Please be ensured that the safety and

well-being of all our pupils is a priority. We would also request that

the family, as well as the school community, be given the time to

grieve. The school is also providing support to pupils and staff. We are

unable to provide any further information at this time." That is

from the school to which that 11-year-old girl was a pupil. That

is following the incident today in Staffordshire.

Let's get on with the papers. We start with the Telegraph, Laura.

Labour faces historic party split, don't spit your sides laughing. I am

not quite doing that. This is a story exposing yet again the

bloodbath occurring in the Labour Party at the moment. Jeremy Corbyn

seen as so divisive that even his own party don't want him. Should a

landslide happened, and I think that perhaps Labour MPs would like a

landslide happened, then they can maybe push to get Corbin out. But if

it doesn't happen, the story says that already moderate Labour

candidates are in talks with potential donors to set up or at

least sit independently under a progressive banner. As we have known

for some time, because they already tried to get him out with a

no-confidence vote, things are not all rosy in the Labour garden. You

did mention the word allegedly there! Christopher Hope put this

together, and a long night of the paper is here, where is your

sourcing, Christopher. I can't see any quotes. I was an investigative

journalist for many years, if I put out something without a tribute in

yet, it would never have hit the air. Here, this is a really damning

piece saying 101 people are setting up a new Progressive party. He uses

words like rabbiting and desperate, I am sorry, Christopher, this is a

bit desperate. I think we know the Labour Party are in a bad way. There

is an election, of course he is hammering the nails, it is his job

to do, to tell the people that this is the opposition in complete

disarray and didn't even want to sit under a Corbin leadership if he

continues on. -- a Jeremy Corbyn leadership. I would still love

fairness in the world. OK, let's go to the Financial Times. Main

manifesto chief held talks with former Miller band aid. --

you might be surprised if they didn't talk to each other. The Tory

manifesto chief talking to a former Ed Miliband aid? ? Ed Miliband

didn't do very well. This is a man cold Lord Glassman. I am not awfully

keen on titles, apparently they are mirroring pledges. And yes, the one

being mirrored all over the press today is about energy prices and the

Tories are going to cap them. When Ed Miliband was in charge, he was

talking about a price freeze. Then he turned it into a cap. But this is

a specific attempt to park Tory tanks on the Labour lawn. You could

put it like that, or you could say, these are quite sensible things they

are both talking about. I have been talking about energy prices for

about 14 years on television. Laura, is this a sign of a more moderate

Labour Party of the party? Are they trying to reach out beyond Jeremy

Corbyn? It obviously is Theresa May trying to park tanks on Labour lawn

is. It is red hey. It remain so. It is a silly policy. Broadly, I think

Theresa May is moving in the right direction. But an interesting quote

is when she says, "What matters is doing what you believe to be right,

as opposed to being ideological." But she is the Prime Minister, or

she lives to be the prime do, but that doesn't make her an oracle.

Believing you are doing something right isn't that important. What is

important is what works. I'm afraid... best ideas from wherever

they are. Both are conservative ideas. Not this one! And she

criticised this policy if you years ago. It is a major inconsistency, it

is a silly policy, it is going to hit pension funds, it it could hit

investments, and could hit jobs. Yes, there are ways to help low

income families and hard-working families, but I remain unconvinced

that this is the way to do it. The best way for the energy companies is

to say, "Make the bills so that we can understand them." Switching is a

way to increase competition, not this. OK, OK, OK... I am going to

interrupt because we have some breaking news.

The director of the FBI, James Coney, has been fined. There is a

search for a new permanent FBI director -- fired. It will begin

immediately. I am seen what information I can pick up here. He

has been very controversial, not least because of the details that he

released concerning Hillary Clinton's e-mails, literally weeks

before the presidential election last year. And she has cited that

publicly in the last 3-4 days that that was a contributory factor to

her losing the election. Let me just read you this statement from the

White House from the press secretary Sean Spicer today," Donald Trump

informed James Coney that he has been terminated and removed from

office. President Reagan on the clear recommendations of both the

Deputy Attorney-General and the Attorney-General -- President Trump

acted on the clear recommendations. Very interesting to see who gets

picked to lead it instead. Wasn't a woman in court this week criticising

Trump? He appeared before the committee last week. He appeared

before a house committee looking into allegations into President

Trump's during his campaign links to the Russians. But this is supposed

to be a nonpartisan job. He still had years to go on his term. The

suggestion that he has been fired, we don't know particularly or

exactly the reasons for him being fired, but this is quite an

interesting development in the last few minutes. A big story in the

states. Absolutely huge. Let's get back to matters here. Millions miss

out on. It pension. This is a story the i have run. It affects about

90,000 people, but what happened for these individuals, they were

contracting out without having been told, it seems. That is the

government's full. They were contracting out in their working

life, so they played produced national insurance. It was probably

their employers! Exactly. In the end, they were playing less National

Insurance at the time, meaning they don't have sufficient national

insurance. So it puts the government in a difficult position in terms of

whether they should pay out to the 90,000 even though they don't have

their full national insurance contributions over and above others

who have. It seems that it isn't the employees's full. We would need to

know more as to why they were contracted out, why they didn't

know, and where any employer is at full. People raise children, like

you at the moment, who said whether they don't get affected. There are

lots of reasons why people might be missing out on this. It sounds like

it could be terribly unfair. Official figures are staggering

about how many people could be missing out. Let's move on to the

Times, a judge attacks inhumanity of care homes that force apart frail

pensioners. There was a lovely story in the News the other night about a

couple who were terminal. She was dying of cancer, and the hospice put

them in together. They both died, one shortly after the other. What

this judge is saying is, where is the humanity in what is happening

when we split people up? You have a funny bit that you have picked up.

It is in the Daily Telegraph, Saint James Mumby was giving a lecture to

social workers, saying they should be slowed to split up elderly

couples -- Sir James Mumby. This idea, doing everything by the book,

where you automatically have to remove an elderly person because

their home is unsafe to perhaps a nursing home where they don't know

anybody. They said, if they had been living in that home for 50 years,

you should leave them there. You should leave your box ticking aside.

He did say that he was against removing people to nursing homes,

the artificial "You must be happy all the time" is something he was

objecting to. You don't have to be happy all the time. Indeed, you are

not forced to do it. We all know what he is saying. The front page of

the Daily Mail as well, Phil and trees -- Theresa. There they are on

The One Show. "It Was love at first sight" Mr Theresa tells all on TV.

Was the whole point to humanise and take a bit of the iciness way that

Theresa can exhibit. The suggestion is it has worked. It is all over the

front pages of several newspapers, probably the right-wing press. I am

not sure the mirror is going to turn up with it on their front page. I am

glad he reminded me about the recycling. He puts the Binder, that

is the important thing. I worry about this getting gigantic and

lovely publicity for an election, Jeremy Corbyn is not turning up with

his wife. He will be on the same programme. He will be there. I

watched it and I thought it was very good. They seemed like a really

decent couple. They have been married for 37 years, and that

alone, to me, is something that is very admirable. They are obviously

the very supportive of each other. Focus him supporting her, but they

are a good couple to each other. They seem a decent couple, why

shouldn't they give the interview? All the leaders will be interviewed

on The One Show. That is the key. Jeremy Corbyn will be on there ASBO.

And Theresa May is a good cook, according to Phil. Thank you for

looking at those stories. -- on there as well. Don't forget, you can

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