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Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
tomorrow. With me randy Ramage, the Guardian's chief leading writer, and | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
the Spectator's political correspondent, Katie. | :00:30. | :00:44. | |
The daily Mirror leads on the news that British Gas is putting up | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
electricity prices by 12.5%, even though its boss admitted wholesale | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
costs have fallen. The Daily Telegraph focuses on what the paper | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
calls a row between the government and British Gas over the cost of | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
green energy subsidies. The Times claims Jeremy Corbyn is under | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
pressure from Labour MPs to condemn President Maduro's violent regime in | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Venezuela. The Guardian has details of a number of tycoons who have been | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
revealed as the owners of more than 1600 empty properties in the London | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
borough whether Grenfell Tower fire residents are still without homes. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Long queues at some European airports, British tourists are | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
queueing up to four hours because of the botched introduction of EU | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
border checks. The sun says the BBC is facing accusations that the new | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Mary Berry show is just a great British take-off copy -- Great | :01:40. | :01:57. | |
British Bake Off copy. The 12.5% rise at British Gas. This story in | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
the Daily Mirror focuses on the boss. This is from a man who admits | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
electricity costs have gone down but he will put prices up for 3 million | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
people. There is outrage. And it is probably justified, given people are | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
finding themselves with their wages stagnating and prices going up. And | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
it is a big rise, you will notice 12.5%. Yes. Their justification is | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
that the costs have gone up, including, they would say, some of | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the green stuff, put on by the government. They are blaming the | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
government's Green levy and their policies. The government have tried | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
to distance themselves from that. It isn't a great look for the | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
government. One of the things to May promised was a cap on energy prices. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
But as with much of the doomed manifesto, it has been dumped. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
People thought this would be protected but it hasn't been. The | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
just about managing she has talked a lot about, not much help for them. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
We were told you could switch to another supplier but it doesn't | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
always work. It doesn't often. And those are often the most poor and | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
the most vulnerable. British Gas are putting out a rebate for its poorest | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
customers. But this, I think the rise is just too fast. It is four | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
times inflation. It is too big at a time when people are struggling to | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
pay the essentials, whether that is water, gas, electricity, they are | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
going up faster than anybody's wages and that is where the problem lies | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
for the government. British Gas say they are the last of the company 's | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
to do this. It just seems that if you switch it off. Make any | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
difference. It sparks everybody else off to put up their prices. Exactly. | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
Let's move on to the Daily Telegraph. Priti Patel, the | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
International Development Secretary, demanding restraint on civil service | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
pay. Talking about the crazy salaries, saying it isn't in step. | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
It is about public sector pay, about people struggling, their wages not | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
going up. Now she has said that now it's time for restraint. It bothers | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
me. Out of step with public opinion. Public opinion on something like | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
hanging is bad. If you went with everything in public opinion you | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
would not be in office. You way up reasoned argument and make a | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
decision. This does not sit very well with somebody like me. As for | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the salaries, ?300,000, I mean, the boss of British Gas gets ?4 million. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
If we are talking salaries then people get more angry about the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
British Gas man than they would about someone they've never heard of | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
it was probably dealing with a mountain of paperwork caused by | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Brexit. It is a lot of money. ?150,000 is a lot of money, given | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
the average salary. A teacher, a nurse, lots of others will be | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
thinking, hang on, this is not fair. There is so much about the public | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
sector pay cap. This might be part of the government's tactic. They | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
won't let the whole thing. You might see certain sectors being lifted, | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
such as nurses. This might be laying the groundwork. Or it could be Priti | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Patel trying to deflect attention from the foreign aid Budget, which a | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
lot of people think is a waste of money. Will they left it? Each pay | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
body gives its own version. They can pick and choose. They can go with | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
public opinion. Let's move on to the times. The story about Uber. Do you | :05:57. | :06:10. | |
use it? Yes, and I have paid the surge before. What is it? | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Particularly on a Saturday night, you go on your phone can you try to | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
get one, it says there is a surcharge, so you have to pay more | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
than you normally would. That means it is busy. The paper is claiming | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
that the drivers have been colluding with each other to gather in areas | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
and switch off. Then when the surge goes up, they go and pick up. I | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
admire the entrepreneurial spirit here. Maybe it is good that people | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
without a stable contract do something like this. Do you think it | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
is a good idea? I don't use it. How come? I cannot use my iPhone. Maybe | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
you should use it because it seems these guys can play the system | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
better than Uber can. I suppose it is something they would do. If you | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
are being rinsed by the company you might want to do it back. There has | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
been a lot of protest about their pay and conditions. Uber Dom have | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
said that it was based on drivers who were in many cases untrue. -- | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
Uber have said. Patients living in the same street | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
getting different NHS care. This is about GP surgeries. We have heard so | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
much about not getting enough appointments and all the rest. They | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
are saying you can have a different experience even if you are in the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
same postcode. I must admit this is an old story made new. Are we in | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
August yet? It postcode lottery story. You live in the same street, | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
you go to a different GP. Because budgets are controlled by different | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
bodies, different clinical commissioning groups, they will | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
offer different levels of care. It's obvious. You have to find somebody | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
on the board of a local authority -- on the board of a local authority. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Two bodies would offer different services. That is part of the model. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
It's true. But it is an oddity of the system where you -- if you | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
happen to live on a border. It is a good story but a whipped up story. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Your newspaper, the Guardian, which would never have a whipped up story. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Never. This is about tycoons and empty homes. A solid piece of | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
journalism which came out because there was a freedom of information | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
request everybody got. Did a straight story about how many empty | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
homes there were in the Kensington area. That was where -- that is | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
where the Grenfell Tower is. There was a much more juicy story about | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
Russian oligarchs and Sheiks an TV executives having empty homes in the | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
area. It is a good story. Does that go along with Jeremy Corbyn's idea | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
that people don't have housing and they seize these properties. Will | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
that happen? It is difficult in practice. What this story does is | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
placed into a narrative of us versus them. The idea that these people are | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
so far removed and it's so unfair. When you see the names you think, do | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
they need a home they are not going to use? When lots of the Grenfell | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Tower survivors still haven't been rehoused or they have rejected their | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
offers, it just puts more pressure on the council to sort it out. It | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
was a huge story. Still being covered. Are there any updates on | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
how many residents are still without properties? I think there are 150 | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
resident families. 46 were made offers. Very few accepted. It is to | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
do with the quality of accommodation. I think they are in | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
temporary accommodation at the moment. It is the kind of, do they | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
want to move out of the area question. It hasn't been handled | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
well by the council. Which is why they have relinquished their | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
responsibility to do with it. But it is a difficult time for anybody to | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
live through all of that. Let's move on to the Financial Times. The | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Eurozone growth accelerate after populist electoral threat receipts. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
We are not sure if it is an acceleration. In August | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
acceleration. The Eurozone expansion is at 2.1%. Britain is at just 2%. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
It is a tiny advance. Somebody said there is increasing evidence of a | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
diversion. That makes the headlines real. The populist threat has | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
receded. Le Pen, all of these guys did not break through. But we still | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
have Poland and Hungary unwinding the constitutional protections in | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Europe. It probably hasn't reseeded entirely. Are they trying to make | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
this into a Brexit story? I think there is an undercurrent. At the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
same time these are just figures. The growth has gone from 0.5 to 0.6. | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
Obviously good for the Eurozone. But we can't really read too much into | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
that. Absolutely. Metro, the kind of picture you do not want to see | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
before going off on holiday. Are you off to a European airport any time | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
soon? You might be in trouble. British tourist jetting to the | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
continent are facing queues of up to four hours. Airport hell for the | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Brits. What you make of it? It's terrible because I am going to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
somewhere in Europe later this month. They have tightened up the | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
Schengen area checks because of attacks. And there was a plain | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
breakdown. Those two things meant there were very long queues. -- | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
aeroplane breakdown. New controls have been brought in. Sounds like | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
they did not have enough staff to deal with it. It was a busy weekend. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Not really to do with Brexit. But because we are not in the Schengen | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
free movement area, it does mean that the Brits are being hit by | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
this, I guess. It looks like you will get the queues regardless of | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
being in or out. I'm just glad my next holiday is in Britain. I will | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
avoid this. Very sensible. Let's move on to the story of the day. | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
Great British ripped off in the sun newspaper. BBC bosses are facing | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
accusations that their new Mary Berry cooking show is just a copy of | :13:12. | :13:23. | |
the Great Baking Bake Off. -- Great British Bake Off. Obviously it has | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
gone to Channel 4 and the BBC has a new cooking programme. Do you watch | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
it? I don't. I am happy that Mary Berry will be back on TV. She is a | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
bit of a national treasure. For ?75 million? I think Channel 4 probably | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
have a reason to be slightly worried. There has been a comment | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
from the BBC press office. They have been swift in their response. They | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
have said that it is not -- they have said that they are different | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
shows as those watching Wilsey. Great. It is technically true. -- | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
those watching will see. No matter how much you spend on a format, you | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
cannot stop Mary Berry appearing on the BBC. They have said that there | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
might be some baking in the BBC series. I don't think you can own | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the concept of baking. If they get the whole cast they might have | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
trouble. If it is just Mary they will probably be safe. She won't be | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
doing something like the Krypton Factor. There will be other TV | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
programmes. Thank you very much indeed for all of that. Don't | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
forget, you can see the front pages of the newspapers online on the BBC | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
website. Thank you to my guests. We will see you all on another day. | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Thank you very much for | :15:02. | :15:02. |