:00:18. > :00:20.We are usually late but tonight we are six minutes early. Sorry about
:00:21. > :00:22.that. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:23. > :00:26.to what the the papers will be With me are David Wooding,
:00:27. > :00:29.political editor of the Sun on Sunday, and Katie Martin
:00:30. > :00:31.from the Financial Times. Tomorrow's front pages,
:00:32. > :00:35.starting with... We start with the Daily Mail,
:00:36. > :00:38.which looks at the rising staff costs at the foreign aid department
:00:39. > :00:40.which have gone up sharply over The I features a picture
:00:41. > :00:44.of a still smouldering Grenfell Tower with the warning
:00:45. > :00:46.that the insulation used in tower blocks may be as flammable
:00:47. > :00:48.as the cladding. The Express leads with the claim
:00:49. > :00:51.that Brussels still wants to exert control over the UK once
:00:52. > :00:54.the country has left the EU, through European Court
:00:55. > :00:56.of Justice rules. The Daily Mirror follows up on it's
:00:57. > :01:01.campaign yesterday to change The Telegraph is leading
:01:02. > :01:03.with the concerns expressed by senior city figures
:01:04. > :01:05.that the government is focussing too much on trade talks and is failing
:01:06. > :01:08.to prioritise the financial services industry, one of the
:01:09. > :01:10.largest contributors The Guardian leads on the council
:01:11. > :01:15.head who has stepped down. The Sun has a large picture
:01:16. > :01:18.of tennis world number one Andy Murray urging readers to rub
:01:19. > :01:21.the picture and assist him in recovering from a hip injury,
:01:22. > :01:32.ahead of the Wimbledon tournament He has got a bad hip. He did not
:01:33. > :01:41.look good. We can start with the price. -- we can start with The i.
:01:42. > :01:49.The threat in high-rises is being ignored by the government. It is not
:01:50. > :01:53.just the cladding, it is what is inside the cladding, the insulation.
:01:54. > :01:59.From what I understand every single tower block's cladding that has been
:02:00. > :02:07.tested has failed. There is clearly a serious problem on our hands here.
:02:08. > :02:12.Every single one is taking it to quite some level. There is a failure
:02:13. > :02:18.somewhere in the building industry but also a problem within the
:02:19. > :02:23.Council. Many papers are running on the fact that the head of Kensington
:02:24. > :02:29.Council has quit and so has his deputy. There is a lot of criticism
:02:30. > :02:35.about how the council dealt with the fire and housing the residents whose
:02:36. > :02:40.lives have been disrupted. We are spoken to residents tonight who are
:02:41. > :02:43.concerned that this is a sop. They have stepped down from the
:02:44. > :02:47.leadership positions but they have not left those councillors, there
:02:48. > :02:54.will not be an election triggered to replace them. Where does this leave
:02:55. > :03:00.the leadership? The state of the Cabinet? They may have had something
:03:01. > :03:05.to do with it. This brings the total number of people who have gone to
:03:06. > :03:10.four. The leader and the deputy leader also the chief executive of
:03:11. > :03:15.the council and the head of the organisation that ran the tower
:03:16. > :03:20.block. The very least they can do is to go. They need to fall on their
:03:21. > :03:26.swords but why has it taken them so long, it has been two weeks. From
:03:27. > :03:30.what Nick Pagett-Brown was saying, once last night's meeting became
:03:31. > :03:35.another political story, the fact he was intending for it to be a private
:03:36. > :03:40.meeting and journalists got a court order to be allowed to attend to
:03:41. > :03:44.make it a public meeting, he felt suddenly there was another issue
:03:45. > :03:49.that was taking over rather than the problems itself that needed to be
:03:50. > :03:55.resolved. If it had not been this meeting that had broken the camel's
:03:56. > :04:00.back it would've been something else soon. The meeting went very badly. A
:04:01. > :04:07.number of John Ellis had permission to be in the room. You can find the
:04:08. > :04:10.footage online. There were questions about whether journalists were there
:04:11. > :04:17.and it was very scrappy and promptly called to an end. The council did
:04:18. > :04:24.not look in control. Not only have we had this massive tragedy but the
:04:25. > :04:27.handling offer it afterwards by the government and the local council,
:04:28. > :04:32.the way the whole thing has been handled in the aftermath has been a
:04:33. > :04:40.shambles and it has put more agony on the per families. Theresa May is
:04:41. > :04:43.under pressure. The Mayor of London says that should be independent
:04:44. > :04:45.counsel was brought in to run the council and Jeremy Corbyn
:04:46. > :04:53.questioning the scope of the inquiry. There have been moments
:04:54. > :04:59.when people have gone over the top. John MacDonald the Shadow Chancellor
:05:00. > :05:05.called a murderer, which is unwise. There is a bit of political
:05:06. > :05:13.posturing on this. People died because of problems with planning,
:05:14. > :05:19.sifting rules, fitting in contracts, whatever it was. A lot has gone
:05:20. > :05:23.wrong. We need to look after these families and get them rehoused and
:05:24. > :05:31.then we need to make the other tower blocks safe. We hear their is too
:05:32. > :05:39.much red tape, but it seems there is a lattice where there are gaps that
:05:40. > :05:46.these things can fall through. Buildings can be built or renovated
:05:47. > :05:50.and they are not safe. Regulation and red tape has a bad reputation,
:05:51. > :05:54.but this is the kind of situation that could have been prevented if
:05:55. > :05:59.the materials had been fit for purpose and the building had been
:06:00. > :06:02.fit for purpose. It is the same in financial services, there is a lot
:06:03. > :06:08.of red tape out there but they are trying to stop people from losing
:06:09. > :06:12.all their money. Can we look at The Financial Times for some stories.
:06:13. > :06:20.Household savings rate at 50 year low. That is quite shocking when you
:06:21. > :06:23.think that if interest rates go up people might have to rely on the
:06:24. > :06:27.money they have saved to bridge the gap, but will be dear to put
:06:28. > :06:33.interest rates up to control inflation if it will put an extra
:06:34. > :06:40.squeeze on households? Interesting figures from the Office for National
:06:41. > :06:43.Statistics. 1.7% of income is left unspent and has full budgets
:06:44. > :06:49.according to numbers that came out for the first quarter. The average
:06:50. > :06:54.for the last 50 years is more than that. It might be happening for a
:06:55. > :07:00.number of reasons and you cannot draw a straight line between living
:07:01. > :07:11.standards and saving rates, but this is like the situation will is to pay
:07:12. > :07:21.-- it is a situation where limits to pay is making people very close.
:07:22. > :07:28.There is also the suggestion that the UK consumer can get the UK out
:07:29. > :07:32.of a hole. We are quite good at shopping and we have done well at it
:07:33. > :07:37.over the last year. We have still gone shopping, but you have to
:07:38. > :07:44.wonder at what point that will run out of road. We will have to make
:07:45. > :07:48.some difficult choices. Probably some underlying issues here. If that
:07:49. > :07:52.is the amount of money that they are putting away to save, how much I be
:07:53. > :07:58.putting into pensions? Some people are withdrawing their cash lump sum
:07:59. > :08:04.is out of their pensions to do work on their homes and so forth. Are we
:08:05. > :08:09.building up another problem, which going back 15-20 years we were being
:08:10. > :08:13.told we had not saved enough for our pensions but now because of the
:08:14. > :08:18.taxes on pensions and the squeeze on income Ebor may not be saving enough
:08:19. > :08:24.for their pensions. It seemed that the Bank of England which may be
:08:25. > :08:29.drifting towards an interest rates sooner rather than later said it
:08:30. > :08:35.will be later. It has been a big week for central banks this week.
:08:36. > :08:39.Mark Carney give quite a strong impression this week that he would
:08:40. > :08:41.be minded under certain circumstances to start thinking
:08:42. > :08:47.about raising interest rates, which we have not done for ages. Only ten
:08:48. > :08:52.days beforehand he was saying that specifically that now was not the
:08:53. > :08:57.time to do it. There is not so much clear blue water between the
:08:58. > :09:01.statements as may one appear, but there is a shift in mood globally,
:09:02. > :09:07.both that the Bank of England and the European Central Bank and
:09:08. > :09:09.elsewhere to say, we might be starting to edge towards getting
:09:10. > :09:13.interest rates back to normal but everyone is saying but we need to do
:09:14. > :09:18.this very carefully because we have not been in this situation before,
:09:19. > :09:24.we have been sold for so long, we need to tread carefully. We can stay
:09:25. > :09:29.with the FT that moved to the story, the picture story on the front page.
:09:30. > :09:38.Pride of place, Germany legalises gay marriage despite of Angela
:09:39. > :09:45.Merkel's vote. She gave everyone the option of voting. She voted against
:09:46. > :09:47.the reforms. The first thing that shocked me was that I did not
:09:48. > :09:55.realise Germany did not have equal marriage. I thought we were behind
:09:56. > :10:00.them. A great picture on the front page, a lovely picture. It coincides
:10:01. > :10:07.with gay pride, celebrations going on across Europe this week. The
:10:08. > :10:15.shock there was Angela Merkel voting against the reform. I think it was
:10:16. > :10:25.an open vote, a free vote, but it is not what we expected. It passed
:10:26. > :10:32.pretty easily in the end, 393-226. I presume that Angela Merkel knew that
:10:33. > :10:35.that would happen. This has been a matter of personal conscience
:10:36. > :10:41.Fathauer and a reminder that a lot of social issues in Germany tend to
:10:42. > :10:47.have a more conservative attitude towards than we are used to hear. We
:10:48. > :10:52.can look at The Daily Mail. The stories also in The Sun. To do with
:10:53. > :10:59.the foreign aid budget. The civil service bill rockets and it should
:11:00. > :11:02.be spent differently. This is suggesting that the foreign aid
:11:03. > :11:10.department bill, the wage bill for running it, has gone up by 40% in
:11:11. > :11:13.seven years. The Daily Mail likes of the other newspapers has been
:11:14. > :11:20.questioning whether we should be spending this kind of money, at any
:11:21. > :11:29.kind of money. 40% of not very much is not very much. You with your
:11:30. > :11:37.statistics and clarity. The bill has gone up by ?38 million. It is a drop
:11:38. > :11:50.in the ocean when it comes to public finances. The Sun is making a
:11:51. > :11:55.similar point. When you are talking about amounts of this size but we
:11:56. > :12:00.have just given ?1 million to Northern Ireland 's, it makes you
:12:01. > :12:07.wonder whether we are focusing on the right numbers. It will play well
:12:08. > :12:19.with people who want to see the NHS is the recipient of this money.
:12:20. > :12:26.David Cameron brought in the 0.7% rule. He did this to try and ensure
:12:27. > :12:39.that the Conservative Party are not nasty and it is backed by the Labour
:12:40. > :12:46.Party. In the country, they say charity begins at home. When we are
:12:47. > :12:56.spending money on other countries they have genuine concerns about
:12:57. > :13:07.that. The wage bill has gone up by 40%. The public sector workers are
:13:08. > :13:17.all having their pay capped at 1%. That is now being brought forward.
:13:18. > :13:21.The Conservatives are now agonising over whether they should lift the
:13:22. > :13:28.cap on wages and this highlights the other side of the coin. It did not
:13:29. > :13:38.get much action in the House of Commons, removing the cap. There was
:13:39. > :13:46.a boat on that. Two stories in The Telegraph. BBC to take on net flicks
:13:47. > :13:58.with cliffhangers and cricket. Cricket coming back to the BBC, and
:13:59. > :14:06.Channel 4, it will be like the summer of our childhoods. The
:14:07. > :14:14.cliffhangers were in the days before boxed sets and DVDs. Now you can
:14:15. > :14:18.download the whole thing. You had to watch the TV at that time unless you
:14:19. > :14:27.were wealthy and had a video player. It is quite fun that people will
:14:28. > :14:30.gather around. The problem with not watching it live is that you hear
:14:31. > :14:42.someone talking about what you see something about a dramatic episode
:14:43. > :14:46.you are two episodes behind. The BBC can't be taking on some of the cost
:14:47. > :14:53.that the streaming services are able to put money into. It is about
:14:54. > :15:02.creating events and moments and being part of a family schedule, if
:15:03. > :15:08.you like. The cricket deal is extraordinary. A lot of money has
:15:09. > :15:17.gone to the England and Wales Cricket board. There is going to be
:15:18. > :15:26.a lot of cricket on TV. It is a sweet idea that you have everyone
:15:27. > :15:33.gathering around to watch the TV. Half of them on their iPhones. I
:15:34. > :15:40.like to thank the BBC already has a programme like that. Finally, the
:15:41. > :15:45.story keeps going, Rebellion spreads to the Lords. The speaker has said
:15:46. > :15:49.that you no longer have to wear a tie in common is now a Liberal
:15:50. > :15:58.Democrat peer is suggesting the same thing in the other place. It should
:15:59. > :16:02.not be a huge surprise because John Burkle is quite well known for
:16:03. > :16:07.having stopped wearing tights and wigs in Parliament. God knows what
:16:08. > :16:15.the rest of the world thinks about how we dress of these things. I find
:16:16. > :16:18.it difficult to get to animated about what people wear in
:16:19. > :16:24.Parliament. Clearly there is a strong school of thought that it is
:16:25. > :16:29.the thin end of the wedge in the usual characters are coming out to
:16:30. > :16:35.talk about how unhappy they are. It is clear where people are going to
:16:36. > :16:43.be in the debate. Apparently it is already happening on the BBC. On BBC
:16:44. > :16:47.News watch an editor showed up with no tie and chest here. Where do you
:16:48. > :16:52.draw the line? Would you be allowed to go to work without a tie? You're
:16:53. > :16:57.representing accompanying you need to look smart. You cannot go wrong
:16:58. > :17:03.with a tie, because no one will look at your hair. I think it is ordered
:17:04. > :17:09.that one of the Lords is going to break the rules. Can you imagine all
:17:10. > :17:17.the Lords wearing their costumes but not the ties. It is the way the
:17:18. > :17:25.world is moving. Maybe we will see Jeremy Corbyn in a sheltered. It is
:17:26. > :17:29.becoming more like a County Council, some have said. That is all from The
:17:30. > :17:30.Papers tonight. Don't forget you can see the front
:17:31. > :17:32.pages of the papers online It's all there for you -
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