:00:16. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:23. > :00:26.With me are Sian Griffiths, Education Editor at the Sunday Times
:00:27. > :00:28.and Robert Fox, Defence Editor at the Evening Standard.
:00:29. > :00:34.The Sunday Times reports a Cabinet Office row in
:00:35. > :00:37.which the Chancellor Philip Hammond is said to have referred to public
:00:38. > :00:40.The paper reports general 'astonishment' from
:00:41. > :00:44.The Independent reports a poll that suggests that a majority of voters
:00:45. > :00:47.would be happy with a tax rise to see the salaries of emergency
:00:48. > :00:52.Brexit negotiations are on the front page of the Observer,
:00:53. > :00:55.with a warning of chaos ahead and a former EU Ambassador saying
:00:56. > :01:00.the Talks have a one in three chance of collapsing.
:01:01. > :01:03.The Sunday Telegraph leads with the salaries
:01:04. > :01:06.of the BBC's highest earners, suggesting there is a gender pay gap
:01:07. > :01:11.And there's a great image of Garbine Muguruza's
:01:12. > :01:15.balancing her Wimbledon plate on her head.
:01:16. > :01:18.The Mail on Sunday says the French Government and banking
:01:19. > :01:26.chiefs are engaged in a plot against the British banking sector.
:01:27. > :01:38.So let's start. The front page of the Sunday Times, your paper, Sian.
:01:39. > :01:44.Chancellor says public sector is overpaid and these are remarks that
:01:45. > :01:49.the paper has got from five separate sources? At Augusta. It's a great
:01:50. > :01:53.story. It's Philip Hammond saying that they cabinet met Joe Murphy
:01:54. > :02:02.meeting on sector are overpaid. He refused to
:02:03. > :02:05.be lift the pay cap because he says they earn 10% more than private
:02:06. > :02:10.sector workers taking into account pensions. What is really giving us
:02:11. > :02:14.the headlines for that is on several occasions he apparently used the
:02:15. > :02:17.word overpaid, and of course at the moment, you know, after the
:02:18. > :02:28.election, with a mood in the country as it is, that is such a strange
:02:29. > :02:31.thing to say. Teachers are doing that school funding should be higher
:02:32. > :02:36.and teachers salary should be higher and we have seen the recruitment
:02:37. > :02:40.drives and schools, and it does not capture the mood of the nation. I
:02:41. > :02:46.guess it is true that if you look at pensions, public sector pensions are
:02:47. > :02:50.generous. You can make this argument about the 10% differential, but
:02:51. > :02:55.against that, public sector workers have actually seen their income fall
:02:56. > :02:59.in real terms over the past seven years, and it just seems to me an
:03:00. > :03:04.extraordinary miscalculation, really. As though he hasn't learned
:03:05. > :03:09.anything from what has been happening of the last few weeks. I
:03:10. > :03:12.feel duty bound to fake the Treasury quoting their confirms the
:03:13. > :03:17.Chancellor has talked about public sector workers of having it in
:03:18. > :03:20.percent premium, because of pensions, but denied he used the
:03:21. > :03:24.word overpaid. Many put that on the record. Robert Wood, what is so
:03:25. > :03:34.interesting about that, is that other Cabinet ministers. Such as
:03:35. > :03:39.Johnson and goes say the public sector workers should get a pay rise
:03:40. > :03:46.-- Boris Johnson Michael Gove. This is the player in the paper and.
:03:47. > :03:54.No fewer than five people leaked the story of a confidential cabinet
:03:55. > :03:58.meeting. Because our defence correspondent, I can hear the
:03:59. > :04:04.torpedoes leaving the tubes and they are sinking Phil, forensic
:04:05. > :04:14.spreadsheet Philip Hammond, potential leader, you are sunk. That
:04:15. > :04:20.is what's going on, it wiped it out, tin-eared. I experienced him when he
:04:21. > :04:30.was Defence Secretary and he is known as spreadsheet bill, he looks
:04:31. > :04:37.at the bottom line of the finances, he looks at the accounts. But he
:04:38. > :04:41.doesn't get the hinterland. He talks, albeit privately, without a
:04:42. > :04:47.sense of irony, about a list at the time of Grenfell Tower, of the need
:04:48. > :04:53.to reward public services. And the public now feel that the public and
:04:54. > :04:57.emergency services, particularly as Sian mentioned, are under rewarded.
:04:58. > :05:02.I know the 10% and so one, actually it is people like senior civil
:05:03. > :05:07.servants, senior military, senior diplomats, and I hear them banging
:05:08. > :05:13.on at meeting after meeting. They are an index linked, very, very
:05:14. > :05:19.substantial pensions. That is part of the inequality and this will play
:05:20. > :05:24.very, very badly, I think, with the public as a whole. But it is a
:05:25. > :05:28.political game, it is part of this awful expression of being on
:05:29. > :05:33.manoeuvres. Most people in this cabinet seems to be fighting each
:05:34. > :05:39.other. It's so interesting because innocents we've had this story of
:05:40. > :05:48.the Prime Theresa May saying looking at the pay public sector pay cap
:05:49. > :05:52.will stay, it didn't but come a -- Iddon becoming front-page story. I
:05:53. > :05:57.think it is a death warrant for the government. They will find it
:05:58. > :06:04.difficult to fight a Tamil election which won't be in five years' time,
:06:05. > :06:09.I protect it will be in a austerity ticket -- fight a general election.
:06:10. > :06:14.We will talk more about Brexit, a large component of the Brexit vote
:06:15. > :06:21.was the sustained effect of austerity. They are on a high risk
:06:22. > :06:26.game. We will get on the Brexit surely but we want to look at one
:06:27. > :06:31.other story on the Sunday Times, your story, Sian and the new GCSEs
:06:32. > :06:33.that have been sapped by 16-year-olds this year and all the
:06:34. > :06:46.All I found this really interesting. I didn't interview with the new
:06:47. > :06:50.Chief inspector. I didn't expect her to come from this angle. But she is
:06:51. > :06:55.really worried coming into the job that kids are not getting a broad
:06:56. > :07:01.and balanced education. She has seen in schools and teachers drilling
:07:02. > :07:06.kids with their GCSEs and for all GCSEs. They are taking three instead
:07:07. > :07:11.of two years to teach them, kids to think their GCSE options at 13.
:07:12. > :07:16.Others such as art, music and drama, all those we think of a balanced
:07:17. > :07:20.education, are often the things kids become passion that abounds, are
:07:21. > :07:24.being squeezed out of the curriculum. There is a feeling of
:07:25. > :07:29.schools are becoming almost like factories. We get new GCSEs in maths
:07:30. > :07:33.and English this summer, with the new grading scale -- grading scale.
:07:34. > :07:38.A lot of parents don't know that they are a start to G and they will
:07:39. > :07:42.be harder than in the past. The whole thing is bubbling up to be a
:07:43. > :07:48.complete mess, to be honest, in August. We will brace ourselves.
:07:49. > :07:56.Let's move on. Staying with your paper, Sunday Times getting a lot of
:07:57. > :08:03.coverage today. Lots of coverage on acid attacks. In the latest acid
:08:04. > :08:06.attacks, a child has been laid for the grooviest bodily harm and other
:08:07. > :08:16.serious offences. We -- GBH. We are not talking about
:08:17. > :08:22.that specific case. We have seen an area of London where it becomes a
:08:23. > :08:27.fashion. Look at the National statistics, the incidence of the
:08:28. > :08:31.attacks has doubled. It is a fashion and it is disturbing. It seems to be
:08:32. > :08:38.now the thing. Almost in the wave knife crime came in as an epidemic
:08:39. > :08:47.among a certain category of teenager, a demographic. I'm not
:08:48. > :08:54.doing it by class or whatever. The point is, the thing raised by Amber
:08:55. > :08:59.Rudd, who is effective in addressing it, you are looking at the wrong end
:09:00. > :09:04.of the tell us that if you go have it too is sentencing policy. In the
:09:05. > :09:09.age group we talk about, sentencing isn't much of a deterrent. I think
:09:10. > :09:12.its greatest huge global questions about policing, about community
:09:13. > :09:17.relations, about what is going on. There is a subculture in a lot of
:09:18. > :09:22.these inner cities where things are breaking down. And this kind of
:09:23. > :09:27.outrageous attack is completely acceptable. Equally we have that
:09:28. > :09:31.licensing regimes for this substance, it's jolly difficult to
:09:32. > :09:37.do. Why would you want sulphuric acid? You can make it easily. One of
:09:38. > :09:41.the more the suggestions was stopped and searched policies to try and
:09:42. > :09:48.catch people carrying acid and actually it is becoming a problem in
:09:49. > :09:52.schools. We found 12 year were taking acid to schools and sports
:09:53. > :09:57.drinks bottle. It is quite frightening. We come from north
:09:58. > :10:04.London where there has been a spate of attacks. There are a group of
:10:05. > :10:11.children who ride in balaclavas and bikes via live and I myself feeling,
:10:12. > :10:14.I regarded them as slightly worryingly and there might snatch my
:10:15. > :10:18.phone. And now I think I have to keep well away because they might
:10:19. > :10:25.have acid which is a life changing attack. Absolutely. Let's move on,
:10:26. > :10:31.give the other papers a look. Let's look at the Observer. Former civil
:10:32. > :10:38.service head warns Theresa May of Brexit chaos. Overwritten? Or
:10:39. > :10:44.underwritten? I write for a bit of the Brexit chaos paper as well. Our
:10:45. > :10:51.points and warnings have been good in the standard. We are up there
:10:52. > :10:55.with the Observer in the Guardian. They are quoting the ambassador but
:10:56. > :11:03.also their former head of civil service and really very much at the
:11:04. > :11:12.helm, and someone I have known well, for whom the expression tough-minded
:11:13. > :11:17.is an understatement. It is chaotic. I am rather dismayed, being from the
:11:18. > :11:24.Eurotrash tendencies, being an Anglo Dutch family and working in Italy
:11:25. > :11:29.extensively, at how little of Europe is being understood by this. We come
:11:30. > :11:37.onto another story of the male from a French conspiracy. But here we are
:11:38. > :11:43.so badly prepared for this. I have been taught to buy a number of
:11:44. > :11:49.senior civil servants and diplomats who are extremely worried about
:11:50. > :11:52.this. And the other side of the negotiations, so-called, are
:11:53. > :11:58.extremely worried about how unprepared everybody is. It's highly
:11:59. > :12:03.complex. They are not even asking themselves forming a David Davis all
:12:04. > :12:07.Liam Fox or Theresa May even, have they any understanding about what
:12:08. > :12:14.the shape of Europe is going to be? We now have to think in six months's
:12:15. > :12:20.time, in 18 months' time, one thing that is sure, the Observer are
:12:21. > :12:27.pointing to as well, no way Billy hard and fast exit negotiation
:12:28. > :12:32.position being prepared by March 20 19. This is extremely difficult.
:12:33. > :12:37.Angela Merkel and Macron are in a project that has gone for some time
:12:38. > :12:40.on reshaping Europe. It cannot go on as a single speed Europe. Things
:12:41. > :12:46.like the olive oil belt, the problems of migration and Brexit,
:12:47. > :12:52.and migration particularly is top of it. I want to reshape. Angela Merkel
:12:53. > :12:59.pointed this do David Cameron, Cameron says I will win the vote and
:13:00. > :13:05.we are headed for a difficult Tamil election around 2019. The job will
:13:06. > :13:11.be far from done a rampant -- general election.
:13:12. > :13:22.Brexit plot to wreck Britain -- French plot to Great Britain in the
:13:23. > :13:29.Daily Mail, what do you think? The story is France is allegedly
:13:30. > :13:32.threatening to disrupt and destroy the city and French executives are
:13:33. > :13:38.offering money to France to move from London to France. To move to
:13:39. > :13:45.Paris. This is all from a memo from Jeremy Brown? The City of London's
:13:46. > :13:49.Brexit envoy? He has met banking chiefs in Paris and written this
:13:50. > :13:57.memo to the Mail on Sunday. I love the headline. Bombshell memo leaked
:13:58. > :14:02.to them are so spiteful plan to destroy the city at any cost. So the
:14:03. > :14:08.stakes are very high! You can see them rubbing their hands with glee
:14:09. > :14:14.with that headline. Mail on Sunday, let's lighten the tone slightly on
:14:15. > :14:19.the front page, Jodie Whittaker, broad church star, tipped to be the
:14:20. > :14:26.first Doctor Who. I don't know the first thing about Doctor Who. Oh,
:14:27. > :14:32.come on. It's a lovely story, it's such fun. What has to be said, the
:14:33. > :14:38.outgoing doctor, Peter Capaldi, he has raised it to a new level.
:14:39. > :14:42.Fabulous actor, who real hero worship, he and David Tennant
:14:43. > :14:53.between them did such a good job. Because we also have David Tennant's
:14:54. > :15:00.broad church farm partner, Olivia Colman. But we have another answer,
:15:01. > :15:07.transgender. He contains identity, it must be a transgender Doctor Who?
:15:08. > :15:13.Even if it's not a transgender Doctor Who, this idea it is going to
:15:14. > :15:16.be a woman and the first female Doctor Who. That will really play
:15:17. > :15:21.for young people for whom this whole idea that you can choose your
:15:22. > :15:27.identity, you can be male or female gender binary, that is such a lovely
:15:28. > :15:31.modern idea. But I am so perplexed, I thought he could only have 12
:15:32. > :15:40.regenerations and this is the 13th, is that right? When will they put
:15:41. > :15:49.those stars of another genres, John Sargent or Ed balls? That would be a
:15:50. > :15:54.turn-up for books. The power of the imagination, they have done a
:15:55. > :15:59.terrific job. We find out today don't we? Straight after the tennis.
:16:00. > :16:09.Talking about gender, let's go to the front page of the Sunday
:16:10. > :16:14.Telegraph, more traditional gender story, BBC braced for pay row. You
:16:15. > :16:19.must be in the middle of it. I first came to the BBC 49 years ago and
:16:20. > :16:26.it's always been around. This is based on the fact that later this
:16:27. > :16:32.week, the salaries of over 100... Those that are concealed by a
:16:33. > :16:38.commercial confidentiality company, we won't know about. I think this is
:16:39. > :16:43.a terrific tilting point because we name names here, Fiona Bruce,
:16:44. > :16:48.apparently gets half a million. Some of the big radio stars like Nick
:16:49. > :16:54.Robinson, presenter of the today programme, I find it difficult
:16:55. > :17:02.personally, to where salaries like this. He gets very high six figures.
:17:03. > :17:11.20 seconds I have to let Sian have saved. Gender pay... I find this
:17:12. > :17:15.very. Get more. Women earn less money than men do and that is what
:17:16. > :17:20.disclosing the gender pay gap is about. It'll be interesting to see
:17:21. > :17:24.on the Today programme, Sarah Montague, John Humphrys, what do
:17:25. > :17:30.they get paid? We find out on Wednesday. Thank you for watching.
:17:31. > :17:32.That is it for the papers, my thanks to our guests.
:17:33. > :17:35.Just a reminder we take a look at tomorrows front pages every
:17:36. > :17:53.Hello. Yesterday was cloudy and damp for many. Think brightening up from
:17:54. > :17:54.the