03/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Miranda Green from the Financial Times

and Christopher Hope, chief political correspondent

The Metro leads with the Haute de la Garenne children's home,

at the centre of a report into decades of child

by calls for the Prime Minister to end the 1% pay cap

are urging the Chancellor to abandon commitments to reduce corporation

tax on order to fund an increase in public sector pay.

cites a new report showing the impact of pay freezes

government ministers that the UK should be prepared to work

closely with EU regulators in order to protect our Pharmaceutical

treatment based on DNA testing could help millions of patients.

The Telegraph says that charities that

pester donors for cash, face being fined up to ?25,000

And the Express says a fresh heatwave

will hit the UK this week - it's expected to rise to 32 degrees

What a scorcher! Starting with the Metro, this is a dreadful story, the

island of Jersey. Tear down the house of horrors, the picture of the

Haut de la Garenne children's home, decades of abuse, a report several

years in the making. The report is out now and they say that there are

some children in Jersey who may still be at risk? That's right,

extraordinary story and it is very difficult to read. This is 57 years

of abuse and hundreds of cases. Although, as you rightly said, the

chief minister of Jersey today, on receiving the report, apologised, it

actually seems that one of the findings is that the lessons haven't

been learnt even now and that there are children in Jersey, in the care

of Jersey who are not being looked after properly and who are still

very runaround or. Such a horrific story -- still very vulnerable. They

are going with the story that the home should be raised to the ground

but it seems it will take more than that to ensure that this is never

repeated. Some things are absolutely horrendous and it isn't a story to

be taken lightly. As you say, the enquiry has been years in the

making. Sexual abuse, children were victimised, beaten, put in solitary

confinement, separated from their friends. Absolutely dreadful. And

this, the building on the front, Haut de la Garenne. The report says

that, it talks about the Jersey way, I don't know if you have heard of

it, it is a mindset where you are proud of the traditions and history

of the island but wrapped up in that there is a sense that society closes

ranks when there is controversy and the so-called Jersey way, the report

explicitly says it may have been a contributing factor to people not

coming forward and talking about it. So shocking and the examples,

youngsters selling flowers in the street until they sell enough. They

looked at 500 offences between 2007 and 2010, and that was just three

years but it is many more years involved, so no surprise the paper

is saying to tear it down. It is generations of abuse and no

transparency. None at all. The Times, you have been tweeting about

this, Christopher, this whole thing about scrapping the 1% pay cap. You

can't understand how the Tories have got into this. They won the

election, they didn't lose it, they won it and now this is the front

page of the Times, scrap tax to -- scrap tax cuts to boost state paid.

Briefly, I can't speak now! It is a strange row because the Tories were

the biggest party, they are panicking about why Corbyn did so

well and they think, OK, he offered money to public sector workers, so

we'll do that as well. Tuition fees were a hit, so we will hint

something about that. It was chaotic. It is baffling why they are

bothering, they are getting no credit, we are five years from an

election. Now you have these ministers bullying and hectoring

Philip Hammond who is trying to control the bucket and hit the

deficit target, by the next decade, so it is a bad luck. Looks like they

have lost, they are having a nervous breakdown. It is complete disarray.

As Lord Lamont said today, other Cabinet ministers are appearing to

publicly gang up on the Chancellor. Even last week Philip Hammond was

said to be angry that his budget in the Orton was being anticipated and

promises were being given -- his budget in the autumn. There is quite

a lot of detail speculation about what tax cuts he may be forced into

reversing, ones that have been promised but not put into effect, to

find extra money to pay public sector workers. It would get him out

of a hole because he does not want to put taxes up, he does not want to

borrow, he does not want to do that. This would get him out of a hole,

maybe he is pushing the story! I think this story is so complicated

already, let's not introduce any more! They have pledged to reduce

Corporation Tax even further, from 19%, to 17% and a suggestion here

that if they did not do that it is quite a lot of extra money for the

public sector workers. There is a lot of anger, the cap on public

sector workers when we are forced to congratulate them every couple of

weeks when they sold a disaster, like a terrorist attack or a public

tragedy like Grenfell Tower and then we aren't playing them. The Tory

government should be trying to put more money back in the pockets of

people who voted for it and dropping the threshold of 40%, even the lower

rate, I think is the wrong answer. I also supposed to be the party of

fiscal discipline so they have a real problem -- Bay supposed to be

the park it full -- Bayard supposed to be the target. -- they are

supposed to be the party. It was said that you cannot get rid

of the 1% cap because they must be fiscally responsible and they still

have a deficit of 80% of GDP, whatever. A lot. I said... He said,

we must be fiscally disciplined and we must be sensible but I said, you

have public sector workers, the argument is that they have taken a

real terms cut in pay for the last one, six, seven years. Inflation is

really going up. Things will be hitting people. He says he will not

balance the books until 2025 and Ken Clarke said he did not think anyone

was talking about a 1% cap until 2025. Who knows? You never know. The

Financial Times, top ministers pushing to keep EU farming ties

after Brexit. Interesting on two levels, it is more evidence of the

weird Cabinet free for all. Any minister at the top of government

seems to be making their pitch for public sympathy or manoeuvring. Why

not, they can get away with it. There is no discipline within the

Cabinet. Two ministers, Jeremy Hunt of health and Greg Clark Whiting a

joint letter saying that they want to keep these very close ties with

the EU over the drug industry, pharmaceuticals and health, which is

very interesting because it is very important for NHS treatment, drugs

coming on stream and having the regulatory structure allowing

patients to get them as quickly as possible, but it is also important

to the pharmaceutical industry. What is going to happen if every cabinet

minister in their particular sector starts saying, OK, Brexit, fine but

not my bit of business and industry? Why are the FT saying this, why not

write a letter to the Cabinet minister, or David Davies? This is

not business as usual. Wide are they pitching it at me instead of David

Davies? It is lobbying in public. On every single issue. It says the

letter has been passed by Downing Street but it is very odd. It again

makes it looks as if the Prime Minister's authority isn't strong at

the Cabinet level. The Daily Telegraph, charities facing fine for

pestering. A lot of rows about this. On Thursday they are launching a new

line where you can report any kind of... If you are being bombarded by

marketing and text messages you can say stop and within 28 days if they

don't stop, a fine by the information Commissioner. It is a

stick to try and stop this and forcing them to improve. It is the

elderly being affected. You can complain on behalf of a relation, a

concerned son or daughter. The eye newspaper, -- the I paper,

personalised cancer care based on genes. In an annual report there has

been a call for a complete change to how we treat cancer patients,

essentially saying we must bring it up to date and that means gene

testing, DNA analysis for every person who presents to the NHS. This

could improve care. At the moment, people can end up being sent around

to several different specialists before a treatment plan is in effect

and it may not be appropriate for that individual and their genetic

make-up. She says, give everybody a test and then you know what you are

targeting. It is the frontier of medical science and research and it

would change the way that individual patients received their care. At the

bottom of the I, the TV Guide, how to prevent terror... INAUDIBLE

. That is the papers for you. The Times newspaper, memory lapses are

good for your brain. One of the best stories in the paper. The best I've

seen in many years! You must blame your evolved mechanisms for neural

transience, our brains are saying that something isn't important,

forget that. Why would I bother anyway? The important stuff stays

in. More than that, it says that the brain deliberately decides to forget

things that you don't need any more so you can deal with new Tjallingii

information. And it is like not having enough bandwidth --

challenging information. What I find odd is that I have total recall for

music lyrics from the 1980s, which I don't actually need! I'm worried

that they are blocking space. So when I forget the keys, my bus pass,

whatever, it is actually a sign that my brain is clicking along at a

cracking rate! I'm actually on the ball. It actually says it is a sign

of intelligence. Those with superhuman intelligence need

psychiatric case studies. I have been described as that. Helen and

George, great to have you both. Good to see you both. Thank you. That's

it for the papers. Thanks for watching, goodbye.

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