23/10/2017 The Papers

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

With me is Henry Mance, political correspondent

at the Financial Times, and Lucy Fisher, senior political

The Metro leads with Labour MP Jared O'Mara quitting his place

on a Commons equality committee after derogatory comments

he made in the past about gay and overweight people

The FT leads with the story that a Russian tycoon is looking

to increase the value of his aluminium and hydropower

empire, ahead of its initial public offering in London.

The Daily Express calls for an end to foreign aid spending

on its front page, saying it should be directed

towards health and social care funding here instead.

The "i" has more on Theresa May shrugging off reports

that she asked EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker for help

The Telegraph says GPs are ignoring advice by the NHS to put more people

on statins to decrease their risk of heart attacks and strokes.

And the Mirror has details of a new expenses scandal

Let's kick off, then, with the "i", on the Brexit row - Theresa May

shrugging off the alleged Jean-Claude Juncker Lakes. It was

alleged that she had begged for help, and needlessly, in the view of

Jean-Claude Juncker. After the bombshell leak in April, the first

confidential, private meeting between Theresa May and Jean-Claude

Juncker, when he was then set out that she was delusional, combat of

the scale of the man she was making the Brexit, and again, a leak has

occurred to the same German newspaper. Interestingly, her former

chief of staff, Nick Timothy, accused his European counterpart of

being behind the leaks. The counterpart denied this and said it

played into a broader narrative of the UK trying to characterise the EU

as punishing the UK per Brexit. I have enjoyed their handbags at dawn

on Twitter today. What you make of it was Mike Downing Street were

briefing that Theresa May was going to say, I need help on this from you

guys. It is a different -- what do you make of this? Downing Street

were briefing... Theresa May went and talked about the divorce bill,

and now the fallout from a dinner, the belief that communications, even

a private dinners, are not particularly private. A lot of

things need to be negotiated over the next year, and it doesn't look

like the best relationship to start from. Jean-Claude Juncker denied

this when he was doorstep by the BBC amongst other people today, 100%

denial. With a twinkle in his eye, it might be said. Theresa May stood

at the dispatch box today and claim she made significant progress at the

summit last week, and Frank were, as far as I see it, Jeremy Corbyn

called it when he said it was Groundhog Day. The Guardian, their

headline is: To keep Britain in the single market and the customs union

for a couple of years is that aim. What she said today in the Commons

was, if we don't get a deal on trade that goes well beyond that, even

those two years of standing still, giving businesses time, they won't

exist, we will be out in March 2019, and there will be a cliff edge. That

is a way of trying to push the EU towards negotiations on trade, but

it creates the risk that if they don't do what she says, then we had

a very hard exit within two years. Businesses are getting more and more

worried that time is running out? Absolutely, the story in the last 24

hours of five leading business organisations warning that the time

period before March 2019, they're planning period, it's coming to a

crunch point now when they need to know what the transition looks like,

and beyond that, the trade deal. You mentioned Jeremy Corbyn and as a

picture is not actually off him in the Guardian, but it looks like him.

Amazingly, this is Tracey Ullman's new impersonation of the Labour

leader for her new sketch show. I think it's a bit out of date. These

days, Jeremy Corbyn is a bit smarter. He has ditched the beige

jacket and wears a navy suit often. And the tie is done up. No top

button undone any more? No. He has a unique, shambolic vibe, so it would

be interesting see if anyone can take him up. I've not seen any

impersonators manage it. It looks quite like him, though. I think

there are prosthetics there! The Daily Telegraph: Doctors putting

patients off stat ins, prescriptions dropping, according to the

Telegraph. This follows up on advice a few years ago that prescribing

stat ins might benefit more patients. A new study has found that

it is patients themselves are deciding after advice from doctors

that they don't want to risk the side effects because the benefits

don't our crew to the majority of people who take statins, instead to

a small minority. You may take them, not have a good effect and people

say that stepping -- people are stepping back from the advice. It is

patients failing to take them, then? It is the patients who are most at

risk of heart attack and stroke soon appear to be shunning them, perhaps

sold on the critics of statins, who say that the side-effects are not

wanted. Is there a problem with saying that patients should take

statins just because there might be some good? There is advice, and then

it appears it changes. What you find from studies like this is where the

blockages in the system lie. Is it the advice that is wrong, or the

fact that doctors are relying it in the wrong way, or that patients are

coming to the wrong decisions? It is a process of experimenting with how

we prescribe drugs. That is the Daily Telegraph. Now, the metro, and

they focused, as I mentioned earlier, on the MP Jared O'Mara, who

has got into a spot of trouble, the sea. Comments he made online 13

years ago on message board making derogatory comments about gay

people, fat people, talking about and no orgies with girls aloud. He

attempted to cling onto his role on the women and equality is Commons

select committee and it was only in the face of a growing backlash that

he finally agreed to resign from that role. And he is the MP who

defeated Nick Clegg in Sheffield. One of the reasons why something

like this can happen is because Jared O'Mara did not expect to win a

seat, did not expect there to be an election, and there was limited time

for parties to scan candidates and for opposition parties to put them

under scrutiny, and some unexpected people, like Nick Clegg, lost, and

unexpected people, like Jared O'Mara, won. Is it a cautionary tale

that what you put on social media can come back to one should? You do

think, gosh, ten years ago, what was I saying on Facebook? We will see as

time goes on more MPs and people in public life who have come of age but

have said the listings in their youth. Do you think that is true?

Yes, his excuse for laying it on strongly was that he was in his

early 20s. You will have people making comments when they are 15,

13, for someone of the things in Theresa May's manifesto was giving

people more privacy while they are and sharing things on Facebook and

other platforms. It has an impact potentially if you go for a job.

Employers can trawl through your social media history if they. Yes,

and perhaps that is what should have happened here. People have been

asking questions about the robustness of Labour's vetting

process. Several news organisations to date have found a plethora of

different remarks made in different places about different subjects by

Jared O'Mara. Why did the Labour Party not discover that beforehand?

OK, let's just talk briefly about Donald Trump. We've got this

controversy over this call that he made to the widow of an American

soldier who died in Niger, allegedly getting his name wrong and so on,

and he has denied it in a tweet. What do you make of that? We are

entering into a world where what is true and what's not is so difficult

to tell. It Donald Trump goes, as he did today, and claims that he spoke

this fallen soldier's name without hesitation from the beginning of the

conversation, then people who just see that statement in isolation and

I may be inclined to support Donald Trump anyway -- and may be inclined

to support Donald Trump anyway will accept that. There are other

sources, including the soldier's widow, and a politician, who

contradict that. It is a he said- she said thing. Would you trust your

president or the widow of a fallen American soldier? It is hard to

know. One would think perhaps it would be unlikely for someone to

make up something in that scenario, while grieving for their lost

husband, but as we know in recent weeks, he has made comments that

former US presidents haven't honoured US service men - blatantly

untrue. He has also made crass, insensitive comments, I think, about

the particular killed soldier in question, saying he knew what he

signed up for, hardly the thing you want to say to someone who has just

lost a loved one. A couple more stories to look at... Back to the

Telegraph - this is interesting. The Queen's racehorses are won nearly ?7

million in prize money over the last 30 years. I don't think she is

pocketing it all, or any of it. A record-breaking year, ?560,000, a

pheromone. The Queen is famously frugal and famously in love with

horses, so this is the kind of thing that would delight. I don't think

the costs are taken into account, or indeed inflation. The money was made

by the trainers. I thought the Queen had made some money when I saw the

headline. That she had been down the betting shop! Horse racing is a

traditional form of gambling, and I like to have a flutter, and I love

seeing the Queen, often with a headscarf on, at the races. I'm glad

she's winning out. Somebody else who got lucky was this chap in the

Express. A diver who was followed, he says, by a 13 foot shark as he

swam almost five miles to shore. That's quite a chase, isn't it?

Swimming away from a sharp five miles. I think he was only followed

by the shark, in his account, for the first 15 minutes, then he was so

panicked, having left the boat on a dive in at place that is wonderfully

called Shark Bay. The shark gave up. He then swam a distance that, to be

honest, had some volunteers in the area, people who know about swimming

in these waters, in disbelief that he had swum so far so quickly.

Spoilsport! It's a good story. Could you swim for five miles being chased

by a sharp? I can't come about as a journalist, I could probably put

menace into the tail. -- into the story. He is certainly good at

telling the story of this incredible escapade. It is a great story.

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