03/09/2017 The Papers

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With me are James Millar, political commentator -

and David Wooding, Political Editor Sun on Sunday.

Good morning to those of you. The front pages are here for us. Let me

run them by you. The Observer says that the Prime

Minister Theresa May is facing a revolt from remain supporting

Conservative MP's over The same story leads

the Sunday Telegraph with Tory rebels being told to back Brexit

or get Corbyn. The Sunday Times also leads

with a Brexit story, it says Theresa May has secretly

agreed a 50 billion pound The Mail on Sunday claims that

Theresa May ignored a memo from Sir Lynton Crosby

telling her not to risk a snap And The Express front

page has the news that Moors Murderer Ian Brady,

who died in May, left presents to pen-pals

including locks of his hair. James, take us to the Telegraph

first. Tory rebels told that Brexit or get Corbyn. Parliament is back

this week. The Great Repeal Bill is in front of parliament this week, we

will get into the proper and meet and vegetables of Brexit. Tory

rebels have been told back Brexit or get Corbyn, rather suggesting that

Theresa May has not learned the lesson from the election in which

she said back me or get Corbyn. She has got a minority government, the

possibility that Corbyn... If the government falls, but the numbers

are such that it will be fun and games over the next couple of weeks.

A warning from Damian Green. David... Warnings going out today,

Damian Green saying we should bury our differences and fought for the

good of the people, the Labour former frontbencher Caroline Flint,

saying put aside any thought of sinking the government and do for

the people voted for. In the Sun on Sunday David Davies writes today,

talking about how he thinks Labour are dry to hold down the Brexit

debate in this House of Commons voting chaos which could come about

if they don't get the Great Repeal Bill through. The problem with this

is what a lot of MPs will be voting for is what breaks it was supposed

to be about, ringing back control. The Great Repeal Bill will focus on

government moves to try and sideline parliament and take as much

executive power so we don't have to put thoughts before Parliament and

the rebels, such as they are, want Parliament to have as much say as

parliament which is surely the Brexit was about. It's the laws that

were EU laws becoming UK laws but how much do you scrutinise the

transfer process? This is quite sensible. When we leave the European

Union in March 2019, we will take back control but there is all these

laws which have wheedled their way into our lives, 70-80% of laws

created by the European Union. Controversial statistic. Let's

say... Other statistics are available. The Great Repeal Bill

scraps of those as European laws and transfers them into the British

statute books or they can then be altered. The row that arises because

the Labour Party or Keir Starmer the shadow Brexit secretary says this

will lead to ministers having the power to amend and altered these

laws and things like workers' rights. He also wants crucially for

the bill to stipulate that we could have an extended membership of the

single market which means no control of free movement and also the

customs union which of course means we can't do trade deals with other

countries. Let's continue the Brexit theme. Meet secretly agrees ?50

million breaks at all. What do we make of that? I love a secret on the

front page because it's no longer a secret. Number ten denying this,

suggesting they want to keep it secret. It's an interesting way of

covering this. Some weeks ago we had the Telegraph saying 36 billion is

the figure Britain is willing to pay, that's now gone up to 50

billion, Brexit negotiations going on over, suggesting to me the EU is

saying you have to pay more, the government is going to have to pay

more. But it's being dressed up as internal Tory politics and all the

rest. What's interesting, nobody has come up with a real figure, all the

figures have been speculative, the European Union hasn't told us how

much they want and we happened made them an offer they keep saying we

need to settle a bill. The figure has been touted at 60 billion, but

never crystallised. Never official. Somebody has told the Sunday Times

that the government has drawn up a figure of ?50 billion but they are

not going to announce it until after the Conservative Party conference

because to say we will pay this much money to the European Union would

cause a massive row at party conference and could topple Theresa

May. After the conference they will announce this to sweeten the pill,

all but three years, it will be about 17 billion a year and paid off

by 2022, before the next general election. The figures and timings

make sense, Downing Street saying a load of rubbish. They are hoping

that no one will spot they are paying at over three years, still

adds up to 50 billion. If that was a stab in the dark, it's reasonable.

That Telegraph story a few weeks ago, was verified by three sources,

this has been verified by one source, everyone keen to establish

their stories are well sourced but no body is saying much else. If that

was supposed to be secret and you point out it isn't, what is the

motivation, do we think? For making it less secret. It is around

confidence. The Tory conference is coming, we will get some of these in

the next few weeks because Theresa May is week after her election

gamble failed. And there are certain people who would like to see her no

longer Prime Minister, people in her Cabinet and you will get a lot of

people breathing and counter briefing to weaken her. Talking of

her election, the front of the Mail on Sunday suggests she was warned

about holding that election and did not follow the warning. Yes, there

has been quite a bit of talk of a clash between who was to blame over

the selection shambles, whether it was Lynton Crosby, the pollster, the

big election winning Australian, known as the wizard of Oz because of

his great success and the gang known as was beaten, the formerly bearded,

Nick Timothy, one of the joint chiefs of staff. There has been a

lot of counter blaming but the leaking of this note says that

Lynton Crosby says, the research had shown there was a lot of risk in

holding an early election, voters actively seeking to avoid

uncertainty and by creating uncertainty it might run against it

and of the election was held today there is a risk it could go back to

the Parliament of 2015. What's curious, people will remember the

opinion polls when she decided to call the election and they were

resoundingly in her favour. It's interesting, the memo, as you say,

the important bit is it says voters want stability and having an

election is not stability, as the memo says. Folders show a clear

preference for Theresa May but that means they think they can vote for

whoever they want and Jeremy Corbyn will not get into number ten and the

way things played out suggest that this was bang on, people did think,

I will vote for a good local MP and Jeremy Corbyn ends up with a lot

more MPs than any of us, including himself, were expecting. The other

bit of interesting detail, when one of Theresa May's aides ran that a

brand Lynton Crosby with the date, he said apparently, I am not so sure

that is a smart idea, mate. Good idea. Let's move on. The Sunday

Telegraph, let's go back to that. This is a story towards the bottom

of the front page, stop scaring older mothers and it quotes

Professor Cathy Warwick, from the Royal College of Midwives. I was

think about three men in suits sitting around and talking about

childbirth... It is interesting. What she says, the longer you wait

to have children there are certain risk factors that go up but what

Professor Cathy Warwick suggests is that the risk goes up by a small

amount, how significant is that? Is it overplayed? She says I am not

sure why we are so worried and I am not sure we should be terrifying

woman about it. Well... I suggested something to do with the patriarch

if you want to go into that, that level of staff. Why do we constantly

terrify women by biological clocks and all that sort of thing?

Regularly. I suspect this is one of the reasons behind it. Quite a bit

in there about the overzealous promotion of so-called natural

childbirth, some others being purged to have no medical intervention

whatsoever, of course each breath is completely different and has to be

taken as such. The Sunday express, let's pick some stories from there.

Page two, exclusive, can't specialist says NHS tourists cost ?2

billion a year. It's the running controversy of health tourism --

tourism, as it is dubbed, people coming to Britain to have free

nonurgent medical care like hip replacements and cataract

operations. A consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital, cancer

specialist, says one in 20 cases that come to the hospital are health

tourists and of course, the big problem is, we don't claim the money

back. If you come here from a foreign country to have routine

surgery of some kind your government or you yourself should pay that back

and the problem is that the NHS don't seem to chase it. He says

doctors are not equipped to look at people's passports and know whether

somebody is a foreign health tourism or not. But of course in my view,

there are flaws and -- floors and floors at health managers and

officials who could do this. But isn't that the problem? Not enough,

a lot of hospitals employ someone specifically to work out who is

entitled to what and to reclaim the money. And of course, if they do,

certain newspapers will say, look at all the managers in the NHS, why

don't they spend that on nurses? It is worth pointing out that Graham

Thomas is a controversial character, been in the papers a few times over

the years. Just one point, makes reference to what the government

hopes to recoup by introducing new -- new measures next month, some

debate as to whether that will make a difference. 500 million a year, I

think? These figures get handed about. Figures on paper, if someone

turns up, they talk about the Lagos shuttle of pregnant women who turn

up from Nigeria, someone turns up at a hospital saying I am about to have

a baby, you can say to them you don't have the right passport,

Galway, what do you do? It's all about the mix of efficiency. -- go

away. Reform and funding. You cannot just divorce one from the other. I

should say the Royal Marsden declined to comment on that piece.

Alongside it, page three, my career has gone West, he was the future

once now Cameron is booked to speak in the wilds of South Dakota to a ?5

ahead crowd. David, take us there. This was the man who was in number

ten, David, David who? He is in rapid city in the heart of the wild

West, students paying the equivalent of ?2 50 to hear him speak and those

in non-concession are paying $7 or five quid to hear the Prime

Minister. It shows you how life moves on and compared with the likes

of Tony Blair, raking in a fortune, even Gordon Brown who gives it

straight... Read further down, Mr Cameron has not done badly out of

one or two previous... And we don't know how much he is earning, it says

this actually pays the speakers but doesn't reveal how much it pays

them. Mrs Thatcher spoke, Colin Powell, Benazir Bhutto, they are not

getting paid just what they make the door, they get paid a significant

fee to turn up. I was to say... Not making so much out of that. ?100,000

publishing deal has been struck, compared with Tony Blair or Margaret

Thatcher, significantly lower. Apparently Tony Blair made for .6

million, Thatcher three and a half million. One more, let's go to the

Observer and its front page. Fixed odds betting, quite a lot of concern

about terminals, there is talk of a clamp-down. Yes, the crack cocaine

of the betting world, super puggies as they are known in Scotland. You

can lose huge amounts of money on these and the government keeps

saying it will do something about them but it slightly smacks of the

government not having a huge amount to talk about. A lot of Brexit

talking up, yesterday talking about holes in the road, they are going

fixed on betting terminals. We are expecting something in the summer,

classic government definition is now getting pushed back to October.

Whether that is something that will happen or not, it just smacks to me

of the government saying something to put in the papers. As one of

these issues are lot of people will be saying I told you so. In the

Blair years betting regulations were relaxed as were drinking

regulations, people feel maybe they went too far, the balance has been

redressed. As you say, it's quite striking. Make a stake of up to ?120

every few seconds, a player could potentially gamble away ?18,000

every hour. Not good for anybody. Good for the Treasury. Some betting

shops make after earnings from these now. Rather than the horses. That

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