27/12/2017 The Papers

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than the current record.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Josie Cox,

business editor at the Independent,

and Tom Bergin, business

correspondent for Reuters.

It is not just business news, folks,

there is a lot of variety so stay

with us.

Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with

the i has Jeremy Corbyn declaring

he's ready to fight an election

at any time, and will around in 2022

if the Government survives

a full term.

The Times claims the

Metropolitan Police is failing

to protect vulnerable children.

The Financial Times reports that

companies have made a record amount

from floating on stock exchanges,

mainly because of deals

in the US and China.

The Daily Express runs with a story

about people seeing their pension

funds whittled away

by hidden charges.

The Telegraph leads with a warning

that patients are going blind

while waiting for

cataract operations.

The Guardian leads with a story

claiming the rise of automation,

will adversely affect the poorest

in society the most.

The Mirror claims hospitals made

half a million pounds a day,

from NHS car parks last year.

And finally The Mail has a report

claiming almost half of local

authorities haven't had

a bobby on the beat,

for the past year.

We will start with the ait, Jeremy

Corbyn tells his ready to fight for

an election any time and will work

feel 2022. He is getting the message

out that he is still out there.

Theresa May is looking more secure

but he is making clear he is still

around.

And that he will be for

potentially is the long haul. What

is interesting about this story, the

age comes up. They are making the

point that he is 60 ait -- 60 years

of age. He will be fighting fit

because of his diet. I do not know,

I have not seen age becoming a big

issue in British politics...

He is a

spring chicken compared to the US

president.

Age has become an issue

at times. People have brought it up

in the US elections. He says he is

fighting fit even for 2022. He's

tried to bring some of the attention

back on himself which may has been

shunning more on Theresa May.

Is

part of the problem that so much has

been discussed about Brexit, Brexit

seems to be the centre of the

political conversation and Labour's

position is a bit unclear. Even some

Labour members would admit that. And

that lack of clarity has perhaps

meant they are not getting the kind

of traction in the polls?

I think

that is definitely the case. Jeremy

Corbyn has been speaking to several

papers and one of the things that

were discussing earlier, he is

reiterating some of the pledges that

got him the support. Pledges around

healthcare, around housing, for

example. Really strong issues that

people care about and he wants to

use to get through...

To refocus of

discussion and debate.

The Brexit

angle has been that any issue of an

clarity in Labour, there is a ground

swell among Labour voters who say we

do not know where you stand on

Brexit and we demand that what we

are supporting you for what you will

fight for. This is part of the

package to try to re- mobilised his

support base.

The Daily Telegraph,

some are suggesting that a Labour

government under Jeremy Corbyn

rather than Brexit go through

because you can get rid of Jeremy

Corbyn in four years but the Mac is

a favour.

This is a

once-in-a-lifetime decision.

Hazeltine is articulating something

people have been thinking for a long

time, natural Tory supporters stop

realistically if you go back to the

2015 election. One of the big risks

around a Tory victory is they were

promising a referendum that might

not go the way the business Trinity

wanted. This is more contentious

because he is a figure that the

Conservative Party would expect to

always be beating the drums for the

party. This asks whether politicians

should be loyal first to their party

or to the electric and the country

as a whole. -- electorate. It may

look like disloyalty to the party

but he may say it is serving the

greater good but it is not going

down very well.

I wonder if Ken

Clarke feels the same way. To see

Jeremy Corbyn in power rather than a

Brexit.

It is a difficult one. The

rhetoric we are hearing from

Heseltine is not surprising. He has

been very clear on his opinions of

Brexit but the draw that comparison

directly, that takes the thing to a

whole new level and that is what is

upsetting some members of the Tory

party.

We will move on to the Times,

continuing with Brexit. David Davis

sidelined as a civil service takes

over the negotiations.

They are

quoting sources saying that Oliver

Roberts, the former Parliamentary

Secretary, has been moved in as a

bit of a substitute for Davis and

that he has been going to these

meetings in Brussels. July and

September he went to significantly

more meetings than David Davis. He

reports to Theresa May. This is

quite worrying for David Davis...

Because he is of the Brexit

secretary and if he is not doing

anything... Not taking part in the

negotiations, what is he doing? I

not sure... Playing golf? I am sure

you are not doing that, David.

Is it

surprising considering that David

Davis has been the face of Brexit

negotiations so far. His competency

and credibility have been questioned

and we can all agree that Brexit

negotiations have not gone as

planned even though we have some

progress in the last couple of weeks

but nonetheless there was a lot of

scrutiny around whether David Davis

is the right person for the job and

whether he is in it for the long

run, as Jeremy Corbyn claims to be.

There is no suggestion that Theresa

May would go any further and get rid

of him.

She is playing a really

difficult balancing act. There is a

huge risk for Theresa May and also

for Remainers which is that at the

moment he is negotiating, he is a

Brexiteer, clearly, and the

Remainers are saying there is the

potential for the government to be

all to deliver. If it ends up the

case that this deal is not going to

be as sweet and nice as the Brexit

campaign said it would be, if their

man has been sidelined, Brexiteers

canton around and say we got a bad

deal because we were undermined by

Remainers. Theresa May could end up

facing the blame if the reason a

deal the country does not like about

freedom of movement, and things that

people said we would not have to

have if we left the European Union.

If David Davis is sidelined and

another Brexiteer is not in a

powerful position, this could

contribute to who owns the failure.

The whole point, one assumes, that

you appoint David Davis, Liam Fox

and Boris Johnson because of three

of them were Brexiteers and if it is

a complete failure, it is their

fault. Sidelining David Davis should

turn that on its head.

Absolutely

but we have to remember that a lot

of her plans back in the day have

since proved not to have been the

most successful approach so I think

the way Brexit negotiations have

gone so far has clearly presented

additional challenges that perhaps

nobody factored in. Who is to save

what will happen in the next couple

of months.

Indeed. In the mail.

Bobbies disappearing. 40% of people

in this poll say they have not seen

an officer on street patrolled in

the last year.

It is an Independent

police watchdog poll questioning

4000 people and they say that

apparently 44% of not seen Bobby on

the beat in the last year, last year

it was 36%, is they be declined by

all the look of things. --A steady

decline. I wonder how we liable it

is as an indicator because one thing

we have to consider is how many

lease officers out there are

plainclothes and on top of that

there are other techniques for

monitoring, for surveillance, at

cameras etc and surely they must

play a part as well and finally, I

think I do not know how conscious we

are police officers and what I would

really like to do and find

interesting would be if we did this

survey in the immediate aftermath of

some terrible terrorist attack and I

think people are there more

conscious of seeing police officers

and think a lot of people would say,

yes, I have noticed police officers

around because they are looking out

for them.

I seem to see a lot of

community officers. Community

Bobbies, as they are called. PCS oh.

Definitely. One of the things we

were discussing, in Canary worth,

where I work, I see as many police

armed as an armed. One of the

interesting thing is is what does

the date at tell us? There is a

debate about whether there is a

benefit about using police in a

targeted way, the high spots of

crime. If you deployed many more

police on the beat, you still would

not see them because they would be

going to the hot crime spots.

Going

on to the Guardian, the poorest fare

worse in automated age. It is those

jobs that are repetitive that

perhaps could be done by a robot or

a machine, those in the professions,

the workplace areas that are going

to be worst hit were the machine to

take over.

Every few months we tend

to get a new report out about the

robots. This report says it does not

think robots are going to take over

jobs, you are not heading for some

kind of future where we do not have

jobs any more and robots do

everything. They are concerned about

what the automation of certain

industries will lead to wealth

inequality and to that balance. They

are saying that actually the jobs

that pay the lowest wages are most

susceptible to automation and as a

result of that, that will force more

people to retrain, to relocate, to

shift their focus to high your

earning professions and that will

create an imbalance. They are urging

the government to do more around

educating people, educating

employers around the risks of

automation and the changing face of

the workforce.

Are we on top of this

enough? Are we ready for this great

new world? Is the society ready to

meet the challenge?

Over the past

30- 40 years, particularly with

Margaret Thatcher in the UK, we have

believed a very much in deregulation

and market allowed to allocate

resources efficiently. We are

increasingly seen the Rat shortfalls

and there are certain areas where

markets need help. -- there are.

This is a massive trend that think

is talk about and we did not have

clear answers for it. Automation

creates jobs but they are low-wage

and low productivity is one of the

biggest problems the UK faces. It

may be that we need to look at more

creative thinking, increasing

minimal wages, robot takes it looks

like we may possibly need innovative

thinking and trying out some things,

give it a go even if it is really

dramatic.

Finally, the express at the end of

December. Ice and snow out there but

it has been causing problems

according to the Express. Deadly

warning, ice chaos after snow hits

Britain.

A bad situation. Not just

the Express, it is across the

newspapers today and unsurprisingly

that flurry of snow we had across

London was dramatic elsewhere. The

Times is saying we are in for two

more days of subzero temperatures.

50,000 homes are apparently without

power over the last few days and it

is clearly a dramatic situation.

Travel has been disrupted... The

interesting thing pointed out is the

implication for people who are

suffering health conditions. The NHS

is saying it increases the risk of

heart attacks and things like that.

That is when logistics become

serious.

Time to bring that to an

end. Sorry, you may have heard that

buzzing. That was my phone. What are

you doing?! Leaving some of the

stories behind the headlines and

thank you for watching. Thank you

and goodbye.