23/12/2017 The Papers

And the Prime Minister has released

a Christmas message,

thanking the Armed Forces.

Theresa May says British troops

are making the world safer

by combating terrorism

at home and abroad.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the Evening Standard

columnist, Rosamund Urwin,

and the Telegraph's women's

editor, Claire Cohen.

Very good of you to be here at this

time of year. We at grateful.

Tomorrow's front pages:

The Observer reports that children

from poor families

are more likely to need

emergency treatment

for conditions like asthma

and diabetes

compared to their

wealthier counterparts.

The Sunday Times says that

Theresa May will abandon

a manifesto pledge to overturn

the ban on foxhunting

in the new year.

The Mail on Sunday details how

the British Army is spending

millions of pounds of

taxpayers' money to scrap

its 'Be the Best' motto,

because of fears it's elitist.

Britain's christmas food and drink

exports are at all time high

according to the Sunday Express,

with Brexit a main

catalyst the paper says.

Staying with Brexit,

the Sunday Telegraph reports

how Boris Johnson and Michael Gove

have criticised HMRC

for placing large tax bills

on individuals who donated

to the Leave campaign.

Amanda is in charge tonight. Nine

stories for you. We will be quick.

She always does this, she is very,

very keen. A gap between the rich

and poor, spending more time in a

and E.

This is a study by a trust

which is found that children from

poor families are more likely to

appear at A&E than their

counterparts. Asthma and diabetes

are the two mentioned in the

Observer. It isn't telling. It is a

story about child poverty, really.

Asthma, parents will likely to

smoke, more air pollution and

diabetes also related to diet.

We

are used to have reports about life

expectancy affected by where you

live but this is about children.

The

gap is there even in childhood.

There is a link to another page, a

dog by saying that he sees Ricketts,

something we hoped we no longer saw.

It is usually to do with diet, lack

of vitamin D de or calcium and that

is worrying if children are getting

a disease that a diet could prevent.

And spending time outside.

That

tends to be more in adults. But this

is normally about diets but also not

being outside also stop you seeing

illnesses in children that frankly

should not be seen in one of the

richest countries in the world.

There are been a resurgence as in

other Victorian diseases. Scarlet

fever, an epidemic recently of

whooping cough. It seems like we are

going backwards.

One of the things

they flag is that experts are saying

that cuts to school nursing is a

problem. Nurses at schools might

seek things early on. So it could be

treated far faster if diagnosed

earlier. They also mentioned

austerity being an issue.

The deputy

PM 's allies plotted to discredit

me, Damian Green was sacked this

week and this is Katie Boulter be --

Kate Maltby.

And media onslaught to

discredit her. Some evidence handed

to the enquiry and, obviously,

concluded this week with Damian

Green no longer being Deputy Prime

Minister. It was a sacking but it

was called the resignation. It was

one of those. She obviously was very

badly treated by certain newspapers.

It was a very vicious some of the

things written about her and the

allegations.

It would make women

think twice about speaking up.

It

was very brave of her to speak up

and it took real gumption and she

said she did that the spat other

women come forward as well and even

any suggestion of a smear against at

a time when we are in the midst of

the sexual harassment scandal in

Westminster and further is really

unhelpful.

The Sunday Times, Theresa

May ditches hunting the back animal

rights. This is a change of attack.

There was scant to be an overturning

and now it seems to have

disappeared.

It is the end of year

we brand. A brand and possible

reshuffle. She is seeking to

perpetrate the Conservatives as a

caring party, the end of the nasty

party and they suggest it might be a

move to try and attract younger

voters. Which, of course, is

something Labour did very

successfully.

Downing Street is also

in the night, no vote that could

change the policy schedule in the

session of Parliament.

That is

interesting that it clear is

something the Tories are worried

about. We saw earlier this year a

story that ended up not really being

true. What it was, mentioned down in

this piece, is that essentially

there was an issue with whether

animals were sent in and it looks

like the EU legislation would be

repealed and not replace. They are

obviously concerned that for the

Tory brand, it looks rather toxic.

They were surprised by how much

weight was given to that story and

how angry people were about it.

Let's move on to the financial pages

to the Mail on Sunday the top

40,000,000-dollar incentive. For

Toys "R" Us bosses. There are

hundreds of staff in some of the UK

stores who are likely to be out of a

job.

I should not think of this

story will win them many fans. They

have agreed to a last-minute deal

with creditors to save the business

but it looks like a third may still

lose their job in this country. As

this report, Toys "R" Us will hand

out $40 million to 17 US bosses

which is incredible, really, that

they could be lining their pockets

at a time when the business is in

such trouble in this country.

The

pension fund said there is a big

deficit and you need to put 9

million in it and they have come to

an arrangement that money will be

put in but over a number of years.

The bankruptcy protection was filed

earlier this year. They essentially

have to be approved in court and the

strange bit of it is that actually

it is... They are saying that is not

entirely up to us and the court has

had a say in it. When you have a

situation where people at Christmas,

worried they will lose their job,

all these stores are going to close

and at the same time having a

visit...

Is because of the different

jurisdictions? That is happening in

the State.

I not quite sure about

that but I think it is to do with

the way it American bankruptcy

detection works. This would not

happen here if those decisions would

have panned over in the same way but

we still have pay-outs when people

lose their jobs to bosses.

Ministers, this is a follow-up from

a story that the Telegraph broke

yesterday regarding inheritance tax

demands which is how donations from

private individuals to the

referendum campaigns are being

regarded by HMRC and now they

getting a big bill.

If you are

individual, an entrepreneur, the

story says, you donate to a

political campaign all party did not

pay tax on it seems that is not

going to be the case for the EU

referendum on a number of

individuals being slapped with tax

on the back of that. They're using a

slightly obscure inheritance tax lot

to do that thing of diminishing

their estate by contributing to

referendum campaigns.

Michael Gove

thinks this is a terrible thing to

happen to these plucky individuals.

To be fair, the rout Remainer donors

as well. There is one remain donor

mentioned here so it is not just

happening to the leave camp but it

is fair to say, a lot of people that

bankrolled the Leave campaign were

wealthy individuals are supposed to

businesses and organisations.

The

express, page two, US General,

prepare for war with Russia. This is

General Robert Mellor who has the

quote of the night.

Yes, we allowed

to say that? A big fight. The US and

Russia against a wall. It is quite

an extraordinary story, really. He

told this to US Marines as he

visited them fall Christmas at a

base in Norway any says that.

The

counterpart in Russia, particularly

over cyber warfare and maybe taking

the cables that run across the

Atlantic which could cut off

millions and millions of businesses.

It is interesting. These are

fighting words. He went on to say

that an informational fight and

political fight echoing what Boris

was saying about the UK is willing

and able to respond to cyber

attacks. Fighting talks on two

fronts.

An interesting question

about what warfare would look like

in the future. It will not be people

fighting...

Cutting table...

Economic warfare. The immediate one

is that cyber warfare by other

things could happen at that we

cannot envisage which will mean

troupe not fighting.

Subterfuge.

It

could look very different, world War

three.

The Mail on Sunday,

surrender- the army is giving up its

bid the best motto.

We are told it

is deemed noninclusive and elitist

so the army's top brass is dishing

this motto because it is not

attracting the right people to the

army. Saying it is frightening off

recruits. The army doesn't need to

attract more diverse people but, at

a time when it is in crisis and

needs to save £20 million, to be

spending millions changing the

letterhead is not seem viable.

We

did the same a few years ago with

our logo. It is extraordinary how

much these things cost.

One wonders,

who does it end up with? Cannot

imagine it is people deemed the most

deserving of courses. It is at a

time when the army faces such

enormous cuts as well in all sorts

of ways. It does seem like not the

wake to be spending cash.

Superstar

today on the Sunday express. 40

million hit the sales early.

Terrible. An enormous shopping date

shock. An estimated £1.67 billion...

How do they work that out? I

actually have not done all my

Christmas shopping.

You will have a

busy day tomorrow.

The great thing is that the majority

of the money

The great thing is that the majority

of the money was spent on High

Street, not online.

Actual physical

shops. Aren't you too late to buy

online? Oh, not for sale is not for

Christmas presents.

And at the

beginning of the market was down 10%

and everyone was worried so it

actually brilliant news the high

street.

You can spend it twice, you

need to spend it today or after

Christmas but you may get some

bargains. Take your sharp elbows

with you. Let's finish with the

express. Eat, drink and be merry.

Why? Good news, easy, convenient

answer to a obesity is on the way!

If this story is to be believed, an

injection has been invented, we are

told, or it has been invented by

university in Israel, that can stop

the sites that usually turn flat

into, our bodies burn them instead,

so the trial has been successful and

that could be on the market in two

years. Sir we can eat all the mince

pies we want.

We shouldn't applaud

this, should we?

We should show

restraint. Except we do exist in a

culture where there is food

everywhere the whole time and I

think we need to address culture to

make it easier for people, and also

so much is unhealthy and packed with

sugar and all sorts of things, it

makes it hard, I can see the need

for a magic cure and we will wait

and see...

We don't need new years

resolution, we can just have an

injection.

That is the papers.

Rosamond, Claire, good to see you,

thank you for coming in and a happy

Christmas and New