0:00:14 > 0:00:17Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:17 > 0:00:20bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23With me are Kate Andrews, director of news at the Institute
0:00:23 > 0:00:29of Economic Affairs and Joe Watts, political editor at the Independent.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Thank you for joining us.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Tomorrow's front pages now.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36The Financial Times leads with a story about how companies
0:00:36 > 0:00:38are raking in billions of pounds from a boom in pension
0:00:38 > 0:00:43transfers, as people cash in their schemes for a lump sum.
0:00:43 > 0:00:48The Times says the NHS could start using spare rooms to house patients
0:00:48 > 0:00:51under a scheme being proposed by a private company to help free up
0:00:51 > 0:00:54beds on hospital wards.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58People could be paid up to £1,000 a month to provide accommodation
0:00:58 > 0:01:02and cook food for patients recovering from minor surgery,
0:01:02 > 0:01:06the Guardian says, but campaigners are warning it
0:01:06 > 0:01:13could lead to patients being abused.
0:01:13 > 0:01:34The Metro have the same story about NHS Airbnb to free up wards. Daily
0:01:34 > 0:01:40Telegraph looking at what they call an excessive green tax.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44The story dominating many papers, Kate, the NHS, according to the
0:01:44 > 0:01:49Guardian, might rent spare rooms to ease the beds crisis. They are
0:01:49 > 0:01:58calling it NHS Airbnb as shorthand, it seems and is ordinary concept.It
0:01:58 > 0:02:05does, the Guardian leading with this attempt by a group called Care
0:02:05 > 0:02:11Rooms, we don't know who the people would be but offering spare rooms
0:02:11 > 0:02:15and meals, attention and time with mostly elderly people who aren't so
0:02:15 > 0:02:19ill that they need to be hospital but they cannot go home because no
0:02:19 > 0:02:25one else is there. I think there's a lot to say about the story. I
0:02:25 > 0:02:28applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, the NHS is in perpetual crisis and
0:02:28 > 0:02:33maybe ideas like this are part of the solution. But ideas like this
0:02:33 > 0:02:37are popping up because the NHS is in such a poor state and the article
0:02:37 > 0:02:42says 8000 deaths take place because of bed blocking in itself.It's a
0:02:42 > 0:02:47way of dealing with bed blocking, moving patients out of hospitals
0:02:47 > 0:02:51while they are convalescing.Talking about people with minor procedures
0:02:51 > 0:02:56but what does that mean, people who have had their appendix removed or
0:02:56 > 0:03:02are they going to have cuts and scars that need tending? Will they
0:03:02 > 0:03:04have mental health problems? It's difficult to know who this is going
0:03:04 > 0:03:09to be. Also is difficult to know who the people are who are going to be
0:03:09 > 0:03:14providing the rooms. If you are a childminder and you want children in
0:03:14 > 0:03:18your homes, you need to do more than pass a common records check, you
0:03:18 > 0:03:23need to be licensed and inspected by Ofsted continually, you need
0:03:23 > 0:03:26qualifications, passing tests. Surely these people will have to
0:03:26 > 0:03:30meet those standards as well, in which case are they going to want to
0:03:30 > 0:03:37do it, is it a viable business?Some people are wondering about it,
0:03:37 > 0:03:41asking if it is social care on the cheap.I think social care is one of
0:03:41 > 0:03:44the main thing is being targeted here because a lot of people ending
0:03:44 > 0:03:49up using this, they note that some people would voluntarily opt into it
0:03:49 > 0:03:52because they want this kind of attention and company, people like
0:03:52 > 0:03:58the elderly, people who are a bit afraid to go home themselves after a
0:03:58 > 0:04:04procedure. Not right to be alone. A lot of things at work here. If it's
0:04:04 > 0:04:13a business model, we will find out, with the help of NHS Southend. An
0:04:13 > 0:04:17interesting idea but it won't solve the problems of the NHS.Does it
0:04:17 > 0:04:23past the sniff test? When you hear the idea, do you think it's a
0:04:23 > 0:04:30fantastic idea or are you not sure? Do you think that Airbnb would have
0:04:30 > 0:04:33passed the test? Staying in somebody's home.But these people
0:04:33 > 0:04:38are ill.These people may not be ill, they are afraid to go home
0:04:38 > 0:04:46after soldier E. -- after surgery. This is a story about the Tory party
0:04:46 > 0:04:49machine, looks like they might be hiring Matthew Elliott, chief
0:04:49 > 0:04:55executive of Vote Leave, to perhaps get some more oil into the Tory
0:04:55 > 0:05:00party machine after it didn't go very well in the election.Yes, he
0:05:00 > 0:05:03certainly is one of the big political figures of our time,
0:05:03 > 0:05:08considering that he turned the Brexit referendum around. There's no
0:05:08 > 0:05:12doubt that one of the triumphs he had during the campaign was to steer
0:05:12 > 0:05:17the referendum and the Leave campaign away from the high torque
0:05:17 > 0:05:24of sovereignty and the Jacob Rees Moggs of the world to maul bread and
0:05:24 > 0:05:26butter issues like immigration and things working class voters care
0:05:26 > 0:05:31about. That is the area that Theresa May must be in if she wants to win
0:05:31 > 0:05:34the next election, keeping the working class voters from going to
0:05:34 > 0:05:39Labour. In that sense it may be a canny move but there are areas where
0:05:39 > 0:05:45it may not be so. For example, he didn't get on with the other
0:05:45 > 0:05:49Brexiteers, such as Dominic Cummings, who was sidelined in the
0:05:49 > 0:05:54campaign, a close ally of Michael Gove and there are questions over
0:05:54 > 0:05:59whether that rivalry may come back out. And the Tories must target
0:05:59 > 0:06:04young people if they want to do well in the next election and really new
0:06:04 > 0:06:12to the kind of Corbyn threat and I'm not sure how Matthew Elliott fits in
0:06:12 > 0:06:15-- Airbnb the threat --
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Elliott has a history of bringing along heavy hitters to push towards
0:06:22 > 0:06:30a certain goal, he is very goal oriented. To bring the party
0:06:30 > 0:06:36together, he does not seem like a bad pick. Also he has a very liberal
0:06:36 > 0:06:39version of Brexit which I would personally support, the idea that we
0:06:39 > 0:06:44won't close the borders, we will be open to the rest of the world, we
0:06:44 > 0:06:47want to be more outward looking. That is a nice way of looking at
0:06:47 > 0:06:52this, especially when the debate between soft and hard Brexit is
0:06:52 > 0:07:01going on.The other story, one of the stories in the Times, Britain
0:07:01 > 0:07:04considering, they say, selling front line warships. This isn't
0:07:04 > 0:07:12interesting story because we've had a line from the MoD, the defence
0:07:12 > 0:07:14correspondent quoting them, saying they are denying this, that there
0:07:14 > 0:07:20are no plans to go below the current strength in the Navy of 19 frigates
0:07:20 > 0:07:26and destroyers. This story is claiming that maybe they are talking
0:07:26 > 0:07:32to Chile and Brazil about selling the frigates but according to the
0:07:32 > 0:07:35MoD, categorically confirming there has been knowing casement with them.
0:07:35 > 0:07:44On the one hand --there has been no engagement.Some of the ships they
0:07:44 > 0:07:47are talking about selling our amphibious landing craft that would
0:07:47 > 0:07:58possibly drop the Marines onto shore and potentially cutting troops. At
0:07:58 > 0:08:02the same time, while they may not be engaging with the governments of
0:08:02 > 0:08:07Brazil and Chile, the MoD is engaging with the Treasury over the
0:08:07 > 0:08:11budget coming up in a few weeks' time and these sorts of stories are
0:08:11 > 0:08:14handy for putting out and playing your violin about how much money you
0:08:14 > 0:08:20need.So you think it's all positioning by the MoD?Who knows,
0:08:20 > 0:08:29it is convenient timing.The Daily Telegraph have a story about, well,
0:08:29 > 0:08:34excessive green tax forcing up fuel bills. Consumers paying too much for
0:08:34 > 0:08:37their energy because of excessive green taxes added to bills according
0:08:37 > 0:08:41to a government commissioned report. A government commissioned report
0:08:41 > 0:08:44which has a damning take on what's happening to consumers of energy and
0:08:44 > 0:08:46religious idiot home.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49-- and the atrocity at home.
0:08:52 > 0:08:59-- and electricity at home. The Conservative Party are saying they
0:08:59 > 0:09:07are going to address this, they are saying it is an attempt...The price
0:09:07 > 0:09:12of energy is very political.Green taxes have been very efficient, and
0:09:12 > 0:09:18putting at least £150 on people's household bills alone next year. We
0:09:18 > 0:09:23did a report showing that a little city charges have risen 50% since
0:09:23 > 0:09:272001 in real terms as these regulations have come in. You don't
0:09:27 > 0:09:30have to be opposed to tackling climate change to say that these are
0:09:30 > 0:09:35not efficient or good regulations. If you want to tackle it, bring in
0:09:35 > 0:09:40the apartment tax, bringing something that is simple and obvious
0:09:40 > 0:09:43where the charges are coming from but there are so many regulations
0:09:43 > 0:09:47which always leads to prices going up for people at home.The key thing
0:09:47 > 0:09:54to draw from the article, it is easy to draw the conclusion from the
0:09:54 > 0:09:59headline is that the report is hitting out at the focus on green
0:09:59 > 0:10:07energy, but actually the professor behind it focuses his fire, if you
0:10:07 > 0:10:09like, on ministerial decisions, bad decisions, and how they handled
0:10:09 > 0:10:16policy. This is a man who published a book called the endgame for fossil
0:10:16 > 0:10:22fuels. His focus is that coal fire and fossil fuel power stations are
0:10:22 > 0:10:28on the way out and we need green energy, but in the right way.The
0:10:28 > 0:10:36FT, a fascinating week in China with this party congress. President Xi
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Jinping, who has emerged as a figure who is the most dominant Chinese
0:10:40 > 0:10:45figure since Chairman Mao. This piece says there is no other are
0:10:45 > 0:10:50apparent, no one else who comes anywhere close so he's effectively
0:10:50 > 0:10:55in power for as long as he wants to be.We talk so much about Brexit and
0:10:55 > 0:11:00Trump in the west but we forget that this is a big story. Many of us hope
0:11:00 > 0:11:04that as China brought on more liberal reforms, especially to their
0:11:04 > 0:11:08economy, allowing China to be more globally focused, that democracy
0:11:08 > 0:11:11would come with it but here we see there is no plan to increment a
0:11:11 > 0:11:20successor.The party seems to be involving itself again.Asserting
0:11:20 > 0:11:24what they believe is the importance of commenters, an ideology that has
0:11:24 > 0:11:30killed millions over the years. -- the importance of communism. The FT
0:11:30 > 0:11:37have done great work, saying how we have closed our eyes to the work
0:11:37 > 0:11:40they have done in improving their economy and expanding.I think
0:11:40 > 0:11:45that's right, what it also says beyond the succession story is that
0:11:45 > 0:11:52the Chinese see the next period as a critical one in their history, where
0:11:52 > 0:11:54they are possibly going to overshadow the United States, when
0:11:54 > 0:11:58it comes to the biggest economy in the world and one where they need
0:11:58 > 0:12:03stability and that also speaks to their own self-awareness of their
0:12:03 > 0:12:05country, that there may be pockets of the stability where they need to
0:12:05 > 0:12:10be strong and push through.It's about self identity and strength,
0:12:10 > 0:12:15isn't it, not just about coming is the quality because we know it is a
0:12:15 > 0:12:20country full of billionaires and millionaires.Absolutely, it's about
0:12:20 > 0:12:24strength and stability. The Communist Party of China, but it is
0:12:24 > 0:12:28the single powerful body in China and it is about keeping control and
0:12:28 > 0:12:35stability and making sure that the movement carries on. It isn't
0:12:35 > 0:12:38recognisable compared to the Communist Party is of the past, it's
0:12:38 > 0:12:43a new kind of fiscal movement that embraces many of the tenets of
0:12:43 > 0:12:51capitalism but is moving forward and I did -- undertake taught -- under
0:12:51 > 0:12:59dictatorial rule.Fats Domino, the Independent there, a fellow
0:12:59 > 0:13:09countrymen from America.Yes, I'm not from New Orleans, I wish I were.
0:13:09 > 0:13:16He outsold every other artist of the era apart from eldest.He seems very
0:13:16 > 0:13:27influential. Transforming modern music in many ways.I wasn't from
0:13:27 > 0:13:30that generation but one of the first things I listened to on a Sony
0:13:30 > 0:13:39Walkman when I was Young was an old Fats Domino tape that my dad had and
0:13:39 > 0:13:45old rock and roll things from the 50s and 60s. He was an enduring
0:13:45 > 0:13:49influence in music and I think that will continue after his death.From
0:13:49 > 0:13:55New Orleans, during hurricane country in -- hurricane Katrina,
0:13:55 > 0:14:00they thought he was dead and he was rescued.An amazing story and really
0:14:00 > 0:14:05a stable in history through that experience and much earlier on. He
0:14:05 > 0:14:10played a large role in moving blues and jazz and rhythm into a culture
0:14:10 > 0:14:21that was predominantly focused on white artists. So he's has had those
0:14:21 > 0:14:23influences at crucial times in American history.Thank you for
0:14:23 > 0:14:25joining us.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27That's it for the papers tonight.
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