:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are Ayesha Hazarika, the former Labour political
:00:23. > :00:24.adviser and now comedian, and the Conservative
:00:25. > :00:37.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
:00:38. > :00:56.The Times leads with the Labour Party's cleat manifesto, saying they
:00:57. > :00:59.are facing a doctor to the Guardian takes a different angle saying the
:01:00. > :01:05.party is rallying around the proposals.
:01:06. > :01:06.The Independent picks up the Bank of England's
:01:07. > :01:08.latest forecast, which suggest incomes could get squeezed.
:01:09. > :01:10.The Financial Times notes that Japan's Soft Bank
:01:11. > :01:13.is investing $500 million in a UK tech start-up.
:01:14. > :01:14.The NHS makes the Mirror's lead story -
:01:15. > :01:17.with nurses urging the government to end a 1% paycap.
:01:18. > :01:19.The Express focuses on what it calls a "dementia crisis",
:01:20. > :01:22.reporting that some families are being forced to pay ?100,000
:01:23. > :01:38.Let's begin on the first of our papers with the front page of the
:01:39. > :01:41.eye. Labour's ?50 billion wish list. Ayesha, presumably it hasn't
:01:42. > :01:48.actually been costed as that, that is their best guest. -- best guess.
:01:49. > :01:52.I think the diggers will be a slightly movable feast but it's not
:01:53. > :01:56.about the figures, it's about the bold political signal that Jeremy
:01:57. > :02:02.Corbyn was sending out today. We have had two years of Jeremy Corbyn
:02:03. > :02:06.today, a lot of criticism, but his team came out swinging today,
:02:07. > :02:16.absolute cobblers. Some would say this was Michael foot tribute act --
:02:17. > :02:26.absolute Jeremy Corbyn. He has not shied away from putting forward his
:02:27. > :02:34.choices, his policies, and there is a very clear choice on the ballot
:02:35. > :02:37.paper. I think the Labour Party have managed to convert, everyone is
:02:38. > :02:44.talking about it and people are certainly talking about the boldness
:02:45. > :02:52.of it. Tim, you get the front page of the eye and then you get the
:02:53. > :02:57.alternative take on Ayesha's which is fantasyland. Boyle the
:02:58. > :03:03.Conservatives be licking their lips over this? I think this has worked
:03:04. > :03:10.well for the Labour Party over the last 24 hours. They have had good
:03:11. > :03:15.publicity and Jeremy Corbyn looks like a happy warrior on the news
:03:16. > :03:20.tonight. It's a contrast with Theresa May's quite scripted style
:03:21. > :03:25.but the one thing that isn't in the leak was the costings. I wonder
:03:26. > :03:29.whether there's a gap now between this leak and the publication which
:03:30. > :03:33.the Tory party will fill. I'm sure that's what the Tory campaign
:03:34. > :03:39.strategist will now do, so that perhaps on Saturday or Sunday's
:03:40. > :03:43.papers, the will be attacking Corbyn before Labour get their costings
:03:44. > :03:47.out. The Tories will try to have the first strike. Often a story that
:03:48. > :03:52.looks good for the first 24 hours can take on a different life
:03:53. > :03:56.afterwards. In a way, we're already starting to see this. The male are
:03:57. > :04:04.saying this will cost every family ?4000 but I think the calculation
:04:05. > :04:10.that Corbyn's team have taken on this is that the average family will
:04:11. > :04:14.not get bogged down in the costings of this, they will see things they
:04:15. > :04:18.like, and they think as well because there was a lot of talk of the media
:04:19. > :04:22.being biased against Corbyn and things like that, and a lot of
:04:23. > :04:27.people get their news three Facebook and social media, I think they are
:04:28. > :04:32.taking quite a bold move to try to make an emotional, populist appeal.
:04:33. > :04:42.You are doing a very good job on this. God loves a try. You are right
:04:43. > :04:48.about some of the press on this and there was acquired last night from
:04:49. > :04:52.Margaret Thatcher which was that the problem with socialism is that
:04:53. > :04:59.eventually socialists run out of other peoples money. I think that's
:05:00. > :05:02.problem with this. Labour lost office because they look like they
:05:03. > :05:06.spent too much money and they couldn't control public finances. I
:05:07. > :05:11.would say one thing on that. There was quite a howl of discontent about
:05:12. > :05:15.how much people feel on inequality at the moment. Even though the
:05:16. > :05:19.dominant narrative is against Corbyn, you can never say never. The
:05:20. > :05:26.polls have got it wrong in lots of elections. Not this wrong. We will
:05:27. > :05:31.come back to that. We will look in passing at the front page of the
:05:32. > :05:34.Guardian. If the eye is the positive and the Daily Mail is no negative,
:05:35. > :05:42.the Guardian is looking for middle ground. That is a pretty straight
:05:43. > :05:49.headline. I am more worried that Star Wars is 40. I remember going to
:05:50. > :05:55.it as a kid. The daily Mirror might make you feel even older. The actor
:05:56. > :06:01.who played cat weasel has died. There's a childhood memory many
:06:02. > :06:08.people will have. He looks a bit like Jeremy Corbyn. Right, you are
:06:09. > :06:14.off Jeremy Corbyn's Christmas card list. Although if he doesn't win
:06:15. > :06:21.number ten and there is every Mac, it might be a job for him. It is
:06:22. > :06:27.interesting that in the phone in Theresa May was in this evening, the
:06:28. > :06:31.first question came from a nurse. The NHS has always been a difficult
:06:32. > :06:37.issue for the Conservative Party at elections. Even know so much has
:06:38. > :06:41.been cut during these years of austerity, plenty of budgets
:06:42. > :06:44.typically associated with the Tories, the defence budget, the
:06:45. > :06:47.police budget, the Conservatives have kept putting money over and
:06:48. > :06:51.above inflation into the NHS but it's still their Achilles' heel.
:06:52. > :06:55.It's still something the public worries about. Do you think they
:06:56. > :07:00.worry about it in a sense that they worry about the political damage
:07:01. > :07:02.that health is finished you can do to the Conservatives? Even though
:07:03. > :07:07.the Conservative governments have probably been running the NHS longer
:07:08. > :07:11.than Labour governments because they have been in office for longer? I
:07:12. > :07:15.think they should worry about it. We have been fortunate not to have
:07:16. > :07:19.extreme winter is the last few winters get the NHS has still been
:07:20. > :07:23.at the brink. We only need a bad winter in the next few years and it
:07:24. > :07:28.really will be tested to its limits. I think the health service is one of
:07:29. > :07:31.those issues that is very symbolic of the Labour Party and people
:07:32. > :07:36.always fill the Labour Party is more likely to look after the NHS. And
:07:37. > :07:40.that sometimes constrains what the Labour Party feel they can do. In
:07:41. > :07:46.terms of having a radical agenda and talking about modernising the NHS. I
:07:47. > :07:51.think the NHS will loom large in this campaign. Brexit is not proving
:07:52. > :07:54.to be as much of a lightning conductor issue as they thought. I
:07:55. > :07:58.think health and education and things like social care will be very
:07:59. > :08:07.important. Social care I agree with you. In the Copeland by-election,
:08:08. > :08:10.the Labour seat held by them for decades, Labour ran very tough scare
:08:11. > :08:17.stories about the local hospital and the Tories still won. I think that
:08:18. > :08:21.the leadership issue and also the nuclear issue. I think there's a
:08:22. > :08:27.chance that Labour have overplayed this card and made it too political.
:08:28. > :08:31.True, but there is also a lot of public sympathy for... When you have
:08:32. > :08:34.stories of nurses writing to the Prime Minister talking about their
:08:35. > :08:40.pay, when you hear that nurses have got to go to payday loan companies
:08:41. > :08:45.and to food banks, begging the Prime Minister that they are in poverty,
:08:46. > :08:48.that is very emotive. It is interesting that you brought
:08:49. > :08:52.that up because I've put this to a party spokesman from Labour and the
:08:53. > :08:56.Conservatives. I said, Labour you are saying vote against the Tories
:08:57. > :09:00.because the Prime Minister has said it may not be appropriate to keep
:09:01. > :09:03.the maternity unit at this hospital and people should perhaps travel
:09:04. > :09:08.further. If you vote Labour you will be sending a message, but their
:09:09. > :09:11.policy wasn't necessarily to do anything different and equally their
:09:12. > :09:15.policy decision would be made by health service managers not by
:09:16. > :09:18.politicians. Similarly, the Conservatives were saying our local
:09:19. > :09:24.candidate supports keeping this hospital whatever the local
:09:25. > :09:27.candidate might have said. That was equally dishonest because they
:09:28. > :09:30.weren't making the decision either. What is it about health that
:09:31. > :09:36.politicians think they can play these games are public expectations
:09:37. > :09:40.or is it our fault as well? I think it is difficult because it
:09:41. > :09:46.impossible to be giving the honest about the health service challenges
:09:47. > :09:50.that are faced. Even an infinite amount of money might not be enough
:09:51. > :09:54.because of the challenge of the health service. It's such an emotive
:09:55. > :09:57.issue because what's hard for any political party is when you are
:09:58. > :10:00.essentially in a short-term cycle, to look at the health service
:10:01. > :10:06.properly, to really review it and make it fit for the future, join it
:10:07. > :10:09.up with social care, have prevention strategies and things, that's
:10:10. > :10:13.radical thinking that's probably 15 or 20 years down the track. And when
:10:14. > :10:19.there are financial restraint as difficult as well. I think that's
:10:20. > :10:23.Labour's problem, the financial restraints. It's a card the
:10:24. > :10:27.Conservatives are good at playing, you can't look after the National
:10:28. > :10:29.health service, you don't look after the economy properly I think that's
:10:30. > :10:34.why it won't work the Jeremy Corbyn because people don't think he's got
:10:35. > :10:38.a basic level of economic competence. I don't know if people
:10:39. > :10:45.think that Theresa May has the level of empathy to look after NHS. I have
:10:46. > :10:51.to ask you, are you missing being in the thick of it? Are you missing not
:10:52. > :10:53.party headquarters this time round party headquarters this time round
:10:54. > :10:59.because you have both been in the past? I have to say I have and
:11:00. > :11:01.that's partly because working on an election campaign is that a
:11:02. > :11:05.fantastically interesting thing for all the good things and bad things
:11:06. > :11:09.that go wrong. There's a lot of adrenaline and it's exciting. Not
:11:10. > :11:14.much actually because I think the campaign is quite dull. I think the
:11:15. > :11:17.exciting thing will be afterwards, potentially the ructions within the
:11:18. > :11:28.Labour Party, Theresa May getting together whether -- getting to grips
:11:29. > :11:32.with the Brexit negotiations. If she wins. I think she just might.
:11:33. > :11:37.Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
:11:38. > :11:42.It's all there for you - 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers -
:11:43. > :11:46.and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it