0:00:17 > 0:00:21Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:21 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24With me are Lord Digby Jones, Former Trader Minister and Henry Bonsu,
0:00:25 > 0:00:26broadcaster and campaigner.
0:00:26 > 0:00:36Tomorrow's front pages.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Metro devotes its entire front page to the engagement photo
0:00:40 > 0:00:41of Prince Harry and Meghan Merkel.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43The paper wishes its readers a Merry Kissmass.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45The I claims that the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48wants to take over as Deputy Prime Minister following the
0:00:48 > 0:00:49departure of Damian Green.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51The Express headlines details of what it's calling
0:00:51 > 0:00:54a breakthrough on Alzheimers.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58The Financial Times shows an image of Nikki Haley,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02the US ambassador to the UN who has warned that the US will not
0:01:02 > 0:01:04forget countries who voted against its decision to recognise
0:01:04 > 0:01:11Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
0:01:11 > 0:01:17The Daily Mirror leads with a report about an alleged Russian spy
0:01:17 > 0:01:19who visited No 10 as part of a Ukrainian delegation.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22The Telegraph features claims from Boris Johnson that Damian Green
0:01:22 > 0:01:25was the victim of a 'vendetta' by retired Met Police officers.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27The Times has a similar story, alongside another picture of
0:01:27 > 0:01:34the recently-engaged royal couple.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37And the Guardian says that tens of thousands of NHS patients
0:01:37 > 0:01:39will have their surgeries cancelled this winter to help avoid a crisis
0:01:40 > 0:01:41across the health service.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45That is a flavour of the front pages. We can dip into some of
0:01:45 > 0:01:53those. Digby, Jeremy Hunt is after a promotion?That is a statement of
0:01:53 > 0:01:59the obvious, isn't it. People go into politics to be Prime Minister
0:01:59 > 0:02:03and any politician who tells you they don't is not often telling you
0:02:03 > 0:02:07the whole truth. Yes, they want to change society and change their
0:02:07 > 0:02:14country but they do want power. I'm not at all surprised. I'm not
0:02:14 > 0:02:17passing judgment on whether he would be good or not, but I'm not
0:02:17 > 0:02:25surprised that he would be on the move. There are two ways, he will be
0:02:25 > 0:02:31in the bars and the corridors and he will be saying, if I was to suggest
0:02:31 > 0:02:37I might be, would you support me, that is a manoeuvre, the concept of,
0:02:37 > 0:02:42oh, what a good idea. The other thing, if you notice what they are
0:02:42 > 0:02:44saying the headline, the Health Secretary is on the move, claims
0:02:44 > 0:02:50Cabinet colleagues. If you also wanted to become the Deputy Prime
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Minister is one of the best ways of getting rid of a competitor for the
0:02:53 > 0:02:58job is to put it out that someone else wants the job. He who wields
0:02:58 > 0:03:03the knife is often not the one who becomes the King. One takes this
0:03:03 > 0:03:10with a huge dose of salt because many people will say, let's trash
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Jeremy Dennis, this puts him out of the game and clears the field from
0:03:13 > 0:03:21the -- Jeremy for this. Politics is a dirty business.I'm not sure
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Jeremy Hunt is on any greater manoeuvres than anybody else, the
0:03:24 > 0:03:28only evidence in this piece is a quote from a Cabinet member who says
0:03:28 > 0:03:31he is deeply ambitious and seems convinced he has a good chance of
0:03:31 > 0:03:37greater things at if you look at Jeremy Hunt's career, it hasn't been
0:03:37 > 0:03:41stellar, it has been controversial, but also a safe pair of hands with
0:03:41 > 0:03:47health. Before that he was culture minister. When David Cameron asked
0:03:47 > 0:03:53ministers to take a campus cut in their budget, he volunteered 20%, he
0:03:53 > 0:03:59is able to go clean skin -- take a 10% cut. He is a flexible friend and
0:03:59 > 0:04:03maybe that is what you need as the deputy prime minister.He shifted
0:04:03 > 0:04:09from opposing Brexit to supporting it, with an increased social media
0:04:09 > 0:04:15profile.Interesting point. He has taken to social media over the top
0:04:15 > 0:04:21of the usual routes.What was that mean?If you look at a lot of what
0:04:21 > 0:04:27Jeremy Corbyn did in the election and what Trump does in America, I'm
0:04:27 > 0:04:30not talking about the messages, but if you look at the route to market,
0:04:30 > 0:04:35to the consumer, the voter, what they are doing, they are ignoring
0:04:35 > 0:04:39the usual routes and the usual media channels and the press briefings,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42and Jeremy Hunt is going straight over the top of all of that, and
0:04:42 > 0:04:48getting quite the Severus in his tweets. -- white angry.
0:04:51 > 0:04:59He is quite a blind person.He's trying to put a bit of character
0:04:59 > 0:05:07into his profile.-- bland.Now The Daily Telegraph.Boris Johnson says
0:05:07 > 0:05:11that Damian Green was the victim of a vendetta, although he does not
0:05:11 > 0:05:16back this up with much. Theresa May has also shared the concerns across
0:05:16 > 0:05:19the political spectrum about the conduct of two retired police
0:05:19 > 0:05:24officers Neil Lewis and Bob Quick, who were in a position to know what
0:05:24 > 0:05:29was found on Damian Green's computer. They then leaked this to
0:05:29 > 0:05:32the media and it appears they may have broken the law and the knives
0:05:32 > 0:05:39are out for them in the Tory party and also some sections of the media.
0:05:39 > 0:05:45And it worries me, it asks a big question about the trust equation
0:05:45 > 0:05:51between the public and the police. Because when it happens with
0:05:51 > 0:05:54personalities, they will always take sides because they have people to
0:05:54 > 0:05:58defend and they have reputations to protect but if you look at people we
0:05:58 > 0:06:02have never heard of, in the high street tonight, and the police doing
0:06:02 > 0:06:08it, they will say, you are going to tuck me up like you tut. Damian
0:06:08 > 0:06:12Green, and then there is a lawyer somewhere, and it worries me, the
0:06:12 > 0:06:17behaviour of these retired officers could damage some good policeman
0:06:17 > 0:06:21doing a good and difficult job, and also of course, in public life,
0:06:21 > 0:06:27people might think, I'm not going to be an MP is look at what happens to
0:06:27 > 0:06:36you. And then whether it is Labour, liberal, Green Party or new cap,
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Conservative, you don't have good people going into politics. -- or
0:06:40 > 0:06:45Ukip.They will say this was in the public interest because of what
0:06:45 > 0:06:49Damian Green was saying on television, it was a conflict with
0:06:49 > 0:06:55what he said in private.Let's move on. Surgery cancelled over flu
0:06:55 > 0:07:06outbreak fears.It is written in this article, oh dear, oh no, this
0:07:06 > 0:07:10isn't GP surgeries, this surgery as an operations. They have been
0:07:10 > 0:07:13cancelled because of flu outbreak fears and this is written from a
0:07:13 > 0:07:21critical point of view. I think it is very good planning. What they are
0:07:21 > 0:07:25saying is, if there is flu in the next few weeks the stretched NHS
0:07:25 > 0:07:29will get past breaking point, so you are bound to get the problems you
0:07:29 > 0:07:33have with that, ambulances waiting with people in the corridors, or the
0:07:33 > 0:07:40rest of it, and flew in the old and the young, it is a killer, and
0:07:40 > 0:07:45therefore, for once, the NHS is showing a bit of forecasting
0:07:45 > 0:07:51management and everything else, and tired my rid. It is a shame The
0:07:51 > 0:07:56Daily Telegraph is riding about is if we should be critical of it --
0:07:56 > 0:08:06and flooring it up.The quote at the end, the NHS national director, the
0:08:06 > 0:08:10public should use pharmacies and the NHS 111 system and have flu jabs if
0:08:10 > 0:08:19eligible. I am eligible but I didn't have mine.I had mine. I would like
0:08:19 > 0:08:26to say one thing, the real solution to the NHS problem of crowding and
0:08:26 > 0:08:29stretching, a lot of it is the lack of a connection with social
0:08:29 > 0:08:34services, and social care. In the village where we lived there is a
0:08:34 > 0:08:40lady who can get home for Christmas, she's coming after a very serious
0:08:40 > 0:08:43accident, paralysed below the waist, the NHS have done a great job with
0:08:43 > 0:08:48this woman, and they are ready to say, you can go, and release a bed
0:08:48 > 0:08:53for someone else. Social services are saying, we are not ready few.
0:08:53 > 0:09:00And it all costs money.-- we are not ready for you.It all has quads
0:09:00 > 0:09:07aggressors. -- it all has consequences.That bed could be used
0:09:07 > 0:09:14by a flu patient.Henry, trade deal, take it or leave it, they are
0:09:14 > 0:09:18looking ahead to what may happen in a few months' time.This sounds
0:09:18 > 0:09:21threatening, and some people say this is in line with what the FT has
0:09:21 > 0:09:26been pushing for some time.The propaganda.You might say that.At
0:09:26 > 0:09:32last it worked.LAUGHTER This is based on a couple of
0:09:32 > 0:09:39sources, a senior government official, and so we have got to look
0:09:39 > 0:09:45at these sources.It is a propaganda sheet.This is a very highly
0:09:45 > 0:09:50respected global newspaper. This person says the commission will
0:09:50 > 0:09:55prepare a take it or leave it proposal, a Canada, threadbare
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Canada proposal and the other source is a top EU diplomat who says the UK
0:09:59 > 0:10:06is still in Brexit Lala land and they need to understand winter is
0:10:06 > 0:10:13coming.I actually hope we are now into another negotiation, added is
0:10:13 > 0:10:17in the interests of the EU that they get a good trade deal -- and it is.
0:10:17 > 0:10:23I know that.It doesn't help when a lot of unaccounted and unaccountable
0:10:23 > 0:10:31and unelected officials in Brussels start negotiations in this way.We
0:10:31 > 0:10:36are well into the negotiations.If it was the other way round and a
0:10:36 > 0:10:38British official had said this you would be the first to say this is
0:10:38 > 0:10:45dreadful.Our politicians say all kinds of things, like go whistle.
0:10:45 > 0:10:51Why isn't the FT writing something once about how the EU treats us.The
0:10:51 > 0:11:00FT is a very respectable newspaper. Yes, I take it every day, but they
0:11:00 > 0:11:05are losing my respect because they are so biased, their coverage.You
0:11:05 > 0:11:10might see that as biased because you Brexiteer.I am going to call a
0:11:10 > 0:11:18truce at that point. I was richly entertained.And informed.Exactly.
0:11:18 > 0:11:28And none the wiser.Exactly as Lord Rees said it should always be! --
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Lord Rees.
0:11:32 > 0:11:41Let's move on. Metro now.Yes, if you put this up.It will happen any
0:11:41 > 0:11:47second. A lovely photograph will appear on screen.The palace have
0:11:47 > 0:11:50put out a couple of photographs to celebrate the royal engagement and
0:11:50 > 0:11:57one looks a bit posed and the other one looks fabulous. And on this cold
0:11:57 > 0:12:00night with a lot of grief and anguish in the world, tomorrow
0:12:00 > 0:12:03morning people will go to work and they will pick up their copy of the
0:12:03 > 0:12:08paper and I think that is the most lovely photograph of the Digby has
0:12:08 > 0:12:12his N'Zogbia pulse on the finger of the nation. Isn't it a lovely
0:12:12 > 0:12:21picture?-- Digby has his pulse on the finger of the nation.Yes, the
0:12:21 > 0:12:25official engagement photographs of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. We
0:12:25 > 0:12:28needed that.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:12:31 > 0:12:32on the BBC News website.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35It's all there for you - seven days a week at
0:12:35 > 0:12:38bbc.co.uk/papers - and if you miss the programme any
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0:12:41 > 0:12:47As Digby hinted, they will be back at 1130. Thanks for joining us.
0:12:47 > 0:12:57Goodbye.