11/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Ayesha Hazarika, the former Labour political

adviser and now comedian, and the Conservative

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Times leads with the Labour Party's cleat manifesto, saying they

are facing a doctor to the Guardian takes a different angle saying the

party is rallying around the proposals.

The Independent picks up the Bank of England's

latest forecast, which suggest incomes could get squeezed.

The Financial Times notes that Japan's Soft Bank

is investing $500 million in a UK tech start-up.

The NHS makes the Mirror's lead story -

with nurses urging the government to end a 1% paycap.

The Express focuses on what it calls a "dementia crisis",

reporting that some families are being forced to pay ?100,000

Let's begin on the first of our papers with the front page of the

eye. Labour's ?50 billion wish list. Ayesha, presumably it hasn't

actually been costed as that, that is their best guest. -- best guess.

I think the diggers will be a slightly movable feast but it's not

about the figures, it's about the bold political signal that Jeremy

Corbyn was sending out today. We have had two years of Jeremy Corbyn

today, a lot of criticism, but his team came out swinging today,

absolute cobblers. Some would say this was Michael foot tribute act --

absolute Jeremy Corbyn. He has not shied away from putting forward his

choices, his policies, and there is a very clear choice on the ballot

paper. I think the Labour Party have managed to convert, everyone is

talking about it and people are certainly talking about the boldness

of it. Tim, you get the front page of the eye and then you get the

alternative take on Ayesha's which is fantasyland. Boyle the

Conservatives be licking their lips over this? I think this has worked

well for the Labour Party over the last 24 hours. They have had good

publicity and Jeremy Corbyn looks like a happy warrior on the news

tonight. It's a contrast with Theresa May's quite scripted style

but the one thing that isn't in the leak was the costings. I wonder

whether there's a gap now between this leak and the publication which

the Tory party will fill. I'm sure that's what the Tory campaign

strategist will now do, so that perhaps on Saturday or Sunday's

papers, the will be attacking Corbyn before Labour get their costings

out. The Tories will try to have the first strike. Often a story that

looks good for the first 24 hours can take on a different life

afterwards. In a way, we're already starting to see this. The male are

saying this will cost every family ?4000 but I think the calculation

that Corbyn's team have taken on this is that the average family will

not get bogged down in the costings of this, they will see things they

like, and they think as well because there was a lot of talk of the media

being biased against Corbyn and things like that, and a lot of

people get their news three Facebook and social media, I think they are

taking quite a bold move to try to make an emotional, populist appeal.

You are doing a very good job on this. God loves a try. You are right

about some of the press on this and there was acquired last night from

Margaret Thatcher which was that the problem with socialism is that

eventually socialists run out of other peoples money. I think that's

problem with this. Labour lost office because they look like they

spent too much money and they couldn't control public finances. I

would say one thing on that. There was quite a howl of discontent about

how much people feel on inequality at the moment. Even though the

dominant narrative is against Corbyn, you can never say never. The

polls have got it wrong in lots of elections. Not this wrong. We will

come back to that. We will look in passing at the front page of the

Guardian. If the eye is the positive and the Daily Mail is no negative,

the Guardian is looking for middle ground. That is a pretty straight

headline. I am more worried that Star Wars is 40. I remember going to

it as a kid. The daily Mirror might make you feel even older. The actor

who played cat weasel has died. There's a childhood memory many

people will have. He looks a bit like Jeremy Corbyn. Right, you are

off Jeremy Corbyn's Christmas card list. Although if he doesn't win

number ten and there is every Mac, it might be a job for him. It is

interesting that in the phone in Theresa May was in this evening, the

first question came from a nurse. The NHS has always been a difficult

issue for the Conservative Party at elections. Even know so much has

been cut during these years of austerity, plenty of budgets

typically associated with the Tories, the defence budget, the

police budget, the Conservatives have kept putting money over and

above inflation into the NHS but it's still their Achilles' heel.

It's still something the public worries about. Do you think they

worry about it in a sense that they worry about the political damage

that health is finished you can do to the Conservatives? Even though

the Conservative governments have probably been running the NHS longer

than Labour governments because they have been in office for longer? I

think they should worry about it. We have been fortunate not to have

extreme winter is the last few winters get the NHS has still been

at the brink. We only need a bad winter in the next few years and it

really will be tested to its limits. I think the health service is one of

those issues that is very symbolic of the Labour Party and people

always fill the Labour Party is more likely to look after the NHS. And

that sometimes constrains what the Labour Party feel they can do. In

terms of having a radical agenda and talking about modernising the NHS. I

think the NHS will loom large in this campaign. Brexit is not proving

to be as much of a lightning conductor issue as they thought. I

think health and education and things like social care will be very

important. Social care I agree with you. In the Copeland by-election,

the Labour seat held by them for decades, Labour ran very tough scare

stories about the local hospital and the Tories still won. I think that

the leadership issue and also the nuclear issue. I think there's a

chance that Labour have overplayed this card and made it too political.

True, but there is also a lot of public sympathy for... When you have

stories of nurses writing to the Prime Minister talking about their

pay, when you hear that nurses have got to go to payday loan companies

and to food banks, begging the Prime Minister that they are in poverty,

that is very emotive. It is interesting that you brought

that up because I've put this to a party spokesman from Labour and the

Conservatives. I said, Labour you are saying vote against the Tories

because the Prime Minister has said it may not be appropriate to keep

the maternity unit at this hospital and people should perhaps travel

further. If you vote Labour you will be sending a message, but their

policy wasn't necessarily to do anything different and equally their

policy decision would be made by health service managers not by

politicians. Similarly, the Conservatives were saying our local

candidate supports keeping this hospital whatever the local

candidate might have said. That was equally dishonest because they

weren't making the decision either. What is it about health that

politicians think they can play these games are public expectations

or is it our fault as well? I think it is difficult because it

impossible to be giving the honest about the health service challenges

that are faced. Even an infinite amount of money might not be enough

because of the challenge of the health service. It's such an emotive

issue because what's hard for any political party is when you are

essentially in a short-term cycle, to look at the health service

properly, to really review it and make it fit for the future, join it

up with social care, have prevention strategies and things, that's

radical thinking that's probably 15 or 20 years down the track. And when

there are financial restraint as difficult as well. I think that's

Labour's problem, the financial restraints. It's a card the

Conservatives are good at playing, you can't look after the National

health service, you don't look after the economy properly I think that's

why it won't work the Jeremy Corbyn because people don't think he's got

a basic level of economic competence. I don't know if people

think that Theresa May has the level of empathy to look after NHS. I have

to ask you, are you missing being in the thick of it? Are you missing not

party headquarters this time round party headquarters this time round

because you have both been in the past? I have to say I have and

that's partly because working on an election campaign is that a

fantastically interesting thing for all the good things and bad things

that go wrong. There's a lot of adrenaline and it's exciting. Not

much actually because I think the campaign is quite dull. I think the

exciting thing will be afterwards, potentially the ructions within the

Labour Party, Theresa May getting together whether -- getting to grips

with the Brexit negotiations. If she wins. I think she just might.

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