0:00:20 > 0:00:24Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:24 > 0:00:25bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27With me are the political commentator Lance Price
0:00:27 > 0:00:28and the public affairs consultant Alex Deane.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Tomorrow's front pages.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Starting with...
0:00:30 > 0:00:33The Metro leads with the sentencing of acid attacker Arthur Collins,
0:00:33 > 0:00:36who has been jailed for 20 years.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38The Daily Telegraph reports that Scotland Yard has announced a review
0:00:38 > 0:00:41of all current rape and sex abuse investigations, after a second trial
0:00:41 > 0:00:50collapses in less than a week.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54A story also picked up by the Guardian, which claims the case is
0:00:54 > 0:00:59the second in which material had not been disclosed to the defence teams.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05Four meant arrested in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire to prevent an
0:01:05 > 0:01:09alleged terror plot. The Sun claims the men planned to attack over the
0:01:09 > 0:01:10Christmas holidays.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13The Express claims that household face a hike in council tax,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15after Ministers allow Police and Crime Commissioners to raise
0:01:15 > 0:01:16funds for local forces.
0:01:16 > 0:01:21The Daily Mail also headlines a possible rise in council tax,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23which it suggests could add more than £100 to average
0:01:23 > 0:01:26household bills.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28The Star warns of three massive storms set to blast Britain over
0:01:29 > 0:01:30the Christmas period.
0:01:31 > 0:01:36So, let's begin...
0:01:36 > 0:01:41Starting with the front page of the Metro, which has the sentence for
0:01:41 > 0:01:47Arthur Collins, who threw acid in a crowded nightclub 20 years, a hefty
0:01:47 > 0:01:53sentence.But no less than he deserved and some of his victims
0:01:53 > 0:01:57expressing the hope he would serve life in prison. He is a man who was
0:01:57 > 0:02:01no stranger to the criminal court system and he was on a suspended
0:02:01 > 0:02:05sentence for another nightclub act of violence. When he committed this
0:02:05 > 0:02:10one. To be clear, people may not know how serious it was. People with
0:02:10 > 0:02:15third-degree burns on their face with the City through. Corrosive
0:02:15 > 0:02:21acid in their eyes. His wilful act, injuring many people, 16 people were
0:02:21 > 0:02:29injured that night, was an act of supreme selfishness. And almost
0:02:29 > 0:02:33sociopathic, in total disregard for other people.A sentence really
0:02:33 > 0:02:37designed to send a message about what the system thinks of this sort
0:02:37 > 0:02:43of attack.Yes, it is a one sentence, of course. As Alex says, a
0:02:43 > 0:02:48lot of the coverage, there is the heartbreaking evidence from the
0:02:48 > 0:02:51victims of the attack. You see his face all over the front pages, but
0:02:51 > 0:02:58it is the victim is we should be thinking about. And by pleading not
0:02:58 > 0:03:01guilty, he forced them to go to court and relive the horror of what
0:03:01 > 0:03:05happened. And they say that every year now, one of them was
0:03:05 > 0:03:09celebrating her birthday and every year now, it will be the anniversary
0:03:09 > 0:04:21of that attack and their lives will never be the same again.
0:04:44 > 0:05:07They have to disclose evidence. That obligation lapses.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Like the same scale but the ex-girlfriend of his who was on the
0:05:09 > 0:05:12TV show, because she had an element of Fame she gets mentioned in every
0:05:12 > 0:05:15story about this awful person.Let's move on to the Daily Telegraph and
0:05:15 > 0:05:15another crime
0:05:21 > 0:05:26The paper points out that the conviction rate is 11%.They are
0:05:26 > 0:05:37hard to prove and it is one word against another. It is difficult. In
0:05:37 > 0:05:43our system, the right thing is to contest these as best you can. Not
0:05:43 > 0:05:56withholding material that is plainly relevant. It was clear they had held
0:05:56 > 0:06:02back material that was plainly disclosed.Let's go on to the Daily
0:06:02 > 0:06:16Express which shares the same front page story.
0:06:16 > 0:06:24Both these middle market tabloids look very similar this morning.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Concentrating on how much this will cost individuals. The reason it will
0:06:28 > 0:06:41happen is this massive funding crisis. In part it is the need for
0:06:41 > 0:06:46police and growing commissioners to get more resources into combating
0:06:46 > 0:06:52crime but more important is the social Care Bill. The government has
0:06:52 > 0:06:59failed to come up with a solution to this. The government have not
0:06:59 > 0:07:04stepped in and local government are having to step up the cost. This
0:07:04 > 0:07:11money is going into that.It seems to me we've ducked some of the big
0:07:11 > 0:07:15questions on council tax, and plenty of properties are worth a great deal
0:07:15 > 0:07:20more money than they were when they went into the bands initially.
0:07:20 > 0:07:25Furthermore, the increase in value means we probably need some higher
0:07:25 > 0:07:34bands to represent more significant value.They don't necessarily
0:07:34 > 0:07:43reflect income, do they? True. These are regressive and will hit poor
0:07:43 > 0:07:49people the most. That's why these papers have run identical front
0:07:49 > 0:08:04pages. The front page of the i. It is a second day front page. It was
0:08:04 > 0:08:12that the NHS was running a deficit of 100,000, and now it has the
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Health Secretary agreeing that there is a problem.He disputes that
0:08:16 > 0:08:24number. He says it is not accurate. That is a Labour figure, an estimate
0:08:24 > 0:08:32he says is not right. But he does say there's a problem.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Notwithstanding more people working as professionally qualified staff,
0:08:35 > 0:08:4732,000 more people working there since 2010 but nevertheless he
0:08:47 > 0:08:52concedes there is a very big problem. What a thing to have to say
0:08:52 > 0:08:57having been one of the longest ever serving Health Secretary is.Imagine
0:08:57 > 0:09:02if he had not said it. He would have been laughed out of court. There are
0:09:02 > 0:09:05times in politics when you have to take it on the chin and recognise
0:09:05 > 0:09:11that you are facing a problem, provided you can indicate that there
0:09:11 > 0:09:15are things in the pipeline designed to address that problem. The problem
0:09:15 > 0:09:19is that a lot of those things take a lot of time to come through in terms
0:09:19 > 0:09:24of training new doctors or making sure those going through medical
0:09:24 > 0:09:37school go into general practice. In the short term, the NHS is hoping we
0:09:37 > 0:09:51don't have a really cold winter. GPs are the first port of call. Let's
0:09:51 > 0:10:05move on to the Financial Times. It has a very happy looking Paul Ryan.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Let's put some context into it. People view this as if it is a
0:10:09 > 0:10:13rampage through the tax rate. It will still be higher than ours but
0:10:13 > 0:10:19not by much. Ten years ago the tax rates were broadly comparable. There
0:10:19 > 0:10:28is was a bit higher, ours was 28%. Now we have a flat rate of 20. The
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Americans have been so uncompetitive that it is a wonder they've done as
0:10:33 > 0:10:38well as they have. You can criticise this administration for many
0:10:38 > 0:10:50different things but this is desperately needed.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54They are smiling because they can say that they've got to the end of
0:10:54 > 0:10:58the year and actually passed something. It is a significant.His
0:10:58 > 0:11:07first victory. The other front page story is banker bonus hopes dashed
0:11:07 > 0:11:13as the EU insists on rules for access. We've bitterly opposed any
0:11:13 > 0:11:18limits on bankers bonuses. We say it will not be global if you pause
0:11:18 > 0:11:27across the EU. People earn megabucks across the world. One of the things
0:11:27 > 0:11:32people have hoped for, written by people like Mark Carney, is that
0:11:32 > 0:11:37when we leave the EU we can be outside the banker bonus caps and
0:11:37 > 0:11:43preserve the city of the's edge. It seems that the EU wants to say you
0:11:43 > 0:11:50need to maintain equivalents on things like goods, to make sure your
0:11:50 > 0:11:56material is the same standards but also have equivalents in the rules.
0:11:56 > 0:12:02It becomes almost impossible to envisage the EU -- the UK agreeing
0:12:02 > 0:12:13to that. It's stymies the point of leaving. We want to trade with the
0:12:13 > 0:12:26world and not just the EU. Great front cover of city AM. It happens
0:12:26 > 0:12:40every year. Somebody gets likened to Scrooge. He is stating the obvious.
0:12:40 > 0:12:49If the United Kingdom wants to have freedom of access, which now trade
0:12:49 > 0:12:55deal has ever been offered to anybody else with that advantage, we
0:12:55 > 0:13:03will be to stick by the rules.It is not obvious at all. Nobody else
0:13:03 > 0:13:07outside the EU have bankers bound by requirements imposed by the EU.
0:13:07 > 0:13:12Leaving the single market is a fundamental, not least because it is
0:13:12 > 0:13:18about freedom of movement. That doesn't mean they get to dictate
0:13:18 > 0:13:25what are bankers do. News in brief on the front page, promote parking
0:13:25 > 0:13:34to get the green light.I thought cars could already do this. This is
0:13:34 > 0:13:41great news for everybody who finds parking in tight spaces difficult.
0:13:41 > 0:13:57They need to rewrite the Highway code.It must be safer.I think you
0:13:57 > 0:14:03are both hopeless. It is part of the skill of driving. That is it from
0:14:03 > 0:14:09us. You can find the front pages on the BBC website. If you missed the
0:14:09 > 0:14:23programme you can watch it on BBC iPlayer.