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