26/11/2017 The Papers

is imminent and the only airport

on the island is closed.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the deputy head

of sport at The Sun,

Martin Lipton,

and the political

commentator, Jane Merrick.

Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with

the I, picking up on disagreements

over future Irish border

arrangements which, the paper says,

could derail Brexit plans.

The Financial Times reports on two

large pharmaceutical investments

into the UK, providing a boost

to Theresa May's vision

for post-Brexit Britain.

The Metro reports on the stolen car

which crashed, killing five people,

including two schoolboys.

The Telegraph claims that a security

review will recommend prioritising

investment in cyber security, rather

than the traditional armed forces.

The Times runs with an investigation

into thousands of children that

are being used by criminal

gangs as drugs runners.

The Guardian leads with a report

claiming that patients' lives

are being put at risk

as inexperienced doctors

are being left to run A&E units.

The Mirror reports on claims that

Russian cyber units are spreading

false information about

flu jabs in the UK.

And the Express says that Britain

should brace for a month of icy

weather in the run-up to Christmas.

Let's begin with the times and an

investigation that has been running.

The headline, thousands of children

groomed as drug mules on a huge

scale.

This is a pretty horrendous

story. Genuinely chilling. And

terrifying, I have to say. The

suggestion in this story is the

criminal gangs are using children as

drug runners, grooming children as

young as 12. The National crime

agency involved here, and it has

been dubbed the county line struck

with urban gangs moving the drug

between the inner-city and

out-of-town locations, and it sounds

like an absolutely horrendous

situation which the police are now

trying to counteract. Children being

basically sucked into helping these

drug gangs across the country all

over the place, from coast to coast.

And the approach to it now is to get

at the gangs by using human

trafficking and slavery legislation

to impose harsher penalties because

they are much greater punishments,

maximum sentences.

They using

children because if they get caught

with drugs on the assumption would

be they are treated as a minor.

Exactly. This is the appalling

thing, they the most vulnerable

children in the country, a lot of

them are in care medicine as 12, as

you say, and it is appalling and a

one scale it is a similar technique

that is using in Rochdale and

rubber, the grooming scandal there,

they are being groomed to do this

but once again, these children, what

is the care system doing? How are

these children being allowed to be

taken in this way? I think it is an

important investigation into what is

an appalling operation on a massive

scale.

And the way they get them to

actually comply is through some

really appalling violence.

Pretty

graphic, you can read this. They

include kidnapped, torture, severe

physical attacks, threats to rape,

and kill. The most vile use of live

Rich on young vulnerable people. It

is utterly despicable. This is the

first time I've seen this, it has

come out of the blue, I think. And I

think it will rumble through for a

period of time.

It is really

worrying. The Guardian, health

stories, safety fears as junior

doctors are left to run A&E.

I think

anybody who has had anyone who knows

it has been a patient or a doctor

even working in the NHS in the last

few months will save the pressure is

on the NHS are bigger than ever and

it isn't about the money, it is the

stuff also, and all sorts of things,

at the story in the Guardian is that

they are under such pressure to fill

the gaps in the A&E departments

which are the most critical parts of

the whole system, that they are

being thought of led by

inexperienced young doc is. There is

a case here, this is a warning by

the head of the General medical

Council and they are saying that

examples here, a huge survey has

taken place of how they have

uncovered this, a survey of 55,000

junior doctors, and this is quite a

sort of regular occurrence, and a

group of young doc is straight out

of medical school in charge of A&E

and left with decisions that are

thought of literally life or death.

I mean, it is really, really

disturbing.

Very little supervision,

it says, being asked to work way

beyond their competence.

Is this not

also part of the fact we have had

this idea of masochism structured

within medical industry where to

prove that you are good enough to be

a junior doctor you have to work 25

hours out of 24 on an eight days a

week for 13 months of the year. Just

to prove you are up to it.

Superhuman efforts expected of

people, weight above and beyond

legitimate expectations. And you

therefore... You have young doctors,

and they are in their 20s, often

just kids are asked to do things

they are not capable of doing at

that point. And obviously there is

then a dangerous things going wrong.

And of course you cannot just

conjure up a new doc.

It takes a few

years. It does take a few years. The

Daily Mail reveal cut-price

ambulance crews since 1999 calls.

--

seemed on treble nine calls. This

appears to be a similar sort of

Genesis to the previous story in the

Guardian where of necessity, you

haven't got enough staff, people are

slightly underqualified to be there

and it hugely important roles, it

says here we have the technicians

look like paramedics in terms of the

uniform that they are not quite the

same, they have less training, fewer

skills, five of the ten ambulance

trust in England show they would

dispatch these technicians to almost

300,000 calls. Without paramedics

last year, including 155,000 of the

most serious radicals were patient's

live were deemed to be in imminent

danger. These are skills, but just

slightly less skilled.

But we know

the care that you get in the first

few minutes after having something

like a heart attack and really make

the difference between a full

recovery or not.

Or even surviving.

This feeds into ambulance waiting

times, and we have heard about

ambulances queueing up outside A&E

departments could they cannot get in

because the response times, the

pressures, it is the same thing and

I want to say the work that

paramedics and the health services

do is amazing and I think the

criticism isn't on them and

obviously they are trying their

best. It's a difficult situation.

They are being asked to do this

without the necessary

qualifications, I think that is very

worrying.

No government could ever

spend enough money on the NHS are

what people expect it to deliver.

But people also have an expectation

that the service will be optimum.

And not some optimum. Therein lies

the significant issue.

The I, rift

with Dublin puts Brexit deal in

danger. Very different expectations

on each side about at what point the

Irish border issue will be resolved.

As it relates to the trade agreement

that Britain wants.

Actually, the

hard border soft border issue has

been rumbling on for months actually

but it is probably the most

important issue that hasn't really

been addressed properly by our

government and actually Ireland are

now stepping up, they are upping the

ante on the issue, firstly because

they have their own sort of

political issues at home and a

possible general election looming

but also because there has been a

deadline text to the middle of

December to the first stage to be

sorted out and the Irish border

question is part of the first stage

it is contingent on that, and what

Ireland is asking for is a sort of

assurance that they will not be a

hard border which would equate to

disaster to the peace process

without moving onto the next, they

will veto any steps for a hard

border before they, talks can move

forward. So Theresa May and David

Davis are in a difficult situation

of how they move the talks forward

and Brexit is just stuck in the mud.

Liam Fox saying it has to happen the

other way around, first bought out

the trade deal and then we will

decide what the border needs to be.

The problem we have here is because

of this desperate wish on behalf and

I think everybody, even those do not

support Brexit, for it to be a

success, they are trying to expedite

things through without them being

seen properly in place. " From Liam

Fox in the Telegraph is we don't

want there to be a hard border. But

the UK is going to be leaving the

customs union and the single market.

Well, if you do that, there is

probably going to be a hard border.

Unless you have it in the Irish Sea

and then that is of concern to the

unions.

And you know, they are still

keeping this government in place at

the moment, in particular you know

we have the schisms between Tory

party over Brexit, between the Ken

Klark Quinn or whatever, but it have

to be that big and there is a

minority legislation to put the

administration down, there is all

sorts of things that are going on

and we are in a ridiculously narrow

timeframe for this to be sorted out,

we are looking at leaving the EU

effectively in March 2019 we are

talking about deadlines being this

time next year. That isn't very

long. We have wasted six months

after the trigger of Article 50

without getting anywhere.

Let's look

at the FT, Saudi crown prince

delivers pledged of ridding the

world of Islamist terrorism.

It is a

busy man at the moment! Having got

rid of all of the corrupt people in

Saudi Arabia...

Or asking them to

pay a few quick to make the charges

go away.

And put them in a nice

hotel while they are at it, which is

lovely, but had been someone who was

the crown prince has decided people

on Islington are some. So he's

basically said we will take on the

Shia because we are Sony and there

are essentially old schisms between

the two wings of Islam being played

out on a geopolitical basis.

Mohammed bin Salman. The Saudis do

with the Iranians because they are

sheer, that by the Qatari survey as

it -- accused of bankrolling Islamic

State they were grabbed the Sony

states which is Iraq and Syria,

Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and Prince

Salman says we see its defeat in

many countries, we are tracking down

terrorism, we will pursue it until

it is completely gone from the

surface of the earth. It is rather

apocalyptic language.

But other

politicians from other countries

have said similar. If you push it

down it pops up somewhere else.

And

of course it would be wonderful if

we could get rid of that and as it

says is the story, this is in the

context of the absolute the

horrendous attack on a mosque in

Egypt on Friday. The worrying thing

is he is taking a much more

progressive stance, ' is, at home,

but also in verities -- is Martin

says, it will affect all of the

satellite states and I think it must

be very worrying, especially if you

have Donald Trump and here's sort of

Middle East International policies,

it is very disconcerting, if Saudi

Arabia will be suddenly more

assertive on a regional level.

Finally, the Daily Telegraph, armed

forces lose out to cyber war. This

is traditional personnel not getting

the funding that they may be a

hoping for.

Yes, and the shortfall

is £2 billion. This is the new twist

on an old story. The MoD has always

complained about not having enough

money and the Defence Secretary has

always had to ask for more money

than the Chancellor. It actually, --

but actually the National Security

adviser is saying that the extra

money is needed to tackle cyber

terrorism which is true, there is a

huge threat from Russia and

elsewhere.

Except if we are asking

for trips elsewhere.

This is the

issue being raised and it is a big

test, just a few weeks into the

tenure of Gavin Williams, the new

Defence Secretary, more

interestingly, Michael Fallon of

erstwhile Defence Secretary, has

already said he will speak up about

this. Didn't have the opportunity

for the previous two years, you may

ask, but there you go. There are

issues and the funding of the

defence forces is a big one.

That is

it for the papers. Please observe

the conveyor belt. We got their path

the midpoint of the circle.

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Thank you, Martin and Jane.