04/01/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Dia Chakravarty,

the Daily Telegraph's Brexit editor,

and Laura Hughes,

political correspondent

from the Financial Times.

Welcome. Happy New Year. Let's show

you what front pages we have.

The Metro leads with that explosive

book behind the scenes

of the White House,

which includes unflattering

material about the president

and revelations about his hair.

The times also features the book in

which Steve Bannon is said to have

made some sensational claims about

his former boss.

The Express looks at how much money

is spent on foreign aid, and says

some MPs say it should be diverted

to the cash-strapped NHS.

The FT reports on the story

we brought you earlier,

about companies being warned

to replace all their computer

hardware or risk a cyber

attack from hackers.

The Telegraph leads on the release

of John Worboys, thought to be one

of the UK's most prolific rapists,

who is set to be freed from prison.

The Mirror also has that story.

It says Worboys will be released

just eight years

after being jailed.

The sun headline says that is not

just this as a Parole Board approves

his release. And the Guardian leads

on the National Health Service

winter crisis, which led to an

apology from the Prime Minister

after tens of thousands of people

had their operations postponed.

Let's start off with Donald Trump

and this sensational book, as it is

being described. The new line on

that, according to the Times

newspaper, is that Donald Trump's

mental health has been questioned by

Steve Bannon, his former ideological

soul mate and top aide who know, it

seems, has turned against him.

The

basic story is that Michael Wolff,

the journalist, is bringing out a

book tomorrow and President Trump's

lawyers are trying to get an

injunction to stop that from being

published. The explosive claims you

talk about, talk about the

spectacular falling out between

Steve Bannon, his former right-hand

man, and Donald Trump. It talks

about invoking this amendment, the

25th Amendment, which questions...

Which can actually depose a

president from office on mental

health grounds. It has gone to that

sort of level. There is a huge

amount of interest. This is

following the events of what

happened after Charlottesville and

Trump's inability to actually

condemn what is seen as the white

supremacist aspect of those

incidents.

Some sensational

allegations in this book from what

we have read so far. Do we learn a

lot, do we think, but the real White

House, the real Donald Trump?

I

think it is less about the White

House and more about Donald Trump's

time in the White House. Already

people are suggesting this book is

not true, that it is actually not

totally accurate. But whatever does

come out will be incredibly damning

to the president, which is why he is

taking these dramatic steps to try

and stop its publication. Ironically

though and brilliantly for the

author himself, this huge storm is

the best PR you could ever hope for.

It is a best seller already. It was

meant to come out next week. But

because of the excitement it is

being published tomorrow.

And Donald

Trump so angry about it. The front

page of the Metro plays on that.

Keep your hair on. An unflattering

picture of the American president.

As you say, the more he tries to

stop this book being published,

which seems a forlorn attempt, the

more he -- it is destined to rise in

the best seller lists.

It is

difficult to stop it being

published. There will be leaks.

Everybody will try to get their

hands on the book. It has reached

the best seller list through

pre-orders. What actually is going

to happen would be quite

interesting. I don't know if

anything new is coming out of this.

He has this perception. It seems to

be a confirmation that a lot of

people, allegations that a lot of

people are made against him. How he

comes out of it will be interesting.

It is interesting with the leaks we

have seen so far, the family of

Donald Trump say there are

suggestions his daughter had a sort

of plan and part to become the next

president following her father.

Really personal things about her

describing his hairstyle and how he

managed to get it that way. Stories

of his wife crying when it was

revealed he would be president,

arriving in the White House not

knowing how to do with that. The

question of his mental health is

quite a serious one. I remember the

time in August when the racial

violence was happening in Virginia,

the leader of the free world had

this sort of extraordinary response

to the violence and kept blaming

both sides, then blaming one side,

it was all very confused. These are

pretty serious allegations that

supposedly have been made by one of

Trump's closest allies. He has since

come out and said, it is not me, we

have a good relationship, I am super

loyal to my old boss.

Not that

loyal!

Trump claimed he lost his

mind when he left the White House.

Let's move on to the Daily Telegraph

front page. It is on a number of

front pages, the story about John

Warboys, sentenced to a minimum of

eight years after drugging and

sexually assaulting at least 12

women. He was a black cab driver,

known as the black cab rapist, who

had what was called in the trial as

a rape kit in his vehicle. Ian Sloan

to get released.

This seems to be

the biggest story of the night. It

has struck quite a lot of people, I

think, the fact that 102 people have

come forward and alleged that this

man has raped them. And as you have

just read out, it was all

premeditated. He had a rape kit in

his car to carry out his crime. When

the case was actually been discussed

in the courts, I think it was in

2009, if I remember correctly, the

police officers involved were

originally very surprised at what

they thought was quite a lenient

sentence that had been served. It

had not been referred to the Court

of Appeal at that time. That seemed

like a surprise to a lot of the

officers involved in this case. Now,

with this early release, it is very

strange. He is going from a closed

prison to being released.

And Laura,

government sources are quoted as

saying this is a surprising

decision. The government are clearly

very concerned?

Yes. And also David

Lidington, the Justice Secretary,

has no powers to do anything about

it. The concern would be the public

perception of this decision by the

three members of this panel who have

approved his release and seemed to

deem this man is now safe to be

among women. There will be calls to

see how they reached that verdict,

what the conversation was they had

in that room when they made that

decision. The number -- a number of

the women have come forward and said

they had absolutely no idea this

decision had been taken. That to me

is pretty shocking. They didn't even

know this man was going to be coming

out. One woman said she learned of

the news while cooking tea for her

children. She saw it on the

television.

Jamie Oliver in the

daily Mirror. Stop your kids buying

sugary energy drinks. Shivering

drinks is a hot topic. We ran a

story earlier on. -- sugar in drinks

is a hot topic. The makers of iron

Bru are going to cut New Meadow

sugar in it by Mark -- half.

Jamie

Oliver has become known as a bit of

a killjoy, saying children should

not be reading this and that. When

he himself has tried to serve kids

healthy food at school, kids were

actually refusing to read that and

were actually trying to go and eat

fast food somewhere else. The

question would be to see how we

actually deal with it as a society.

I think far too often we are very

quick to slap on a tax on something.

To a certain extent we expect the

state to be the parent rather than

our parents, schools or communities.

Often that does not work. If we're

not getting into the habit of

healthy eating, people will

stockpile and probably have the

sugar and take it from somewhere

else. I question the merits of that

to a certain extent. Of course we

need to be concerned about what we

eat.

Let's move on to the Guardian.

The NHS story is a big story this

week. The postponement of routine

operations causing a lot of people a

lot of anxiety. The Prime Minister,

an apology to the patients hit by

the this -- by these delays. A

politically damaging to think this

is too Theresa May?

I think it was

quite damaging yesterday that Jeremy

Hunt apologised. When she gave a

statement she chose not to

apologise. She has struck a

different tone today and has made

that apology, probably because she

felt it was necessary. It is

damaging for her because obviously

the strained relationship she has

with Stephen -- Simon Stevens, who

as a transactional arrangement of

Number 10 at the moment in a way he

didn't have under George Osborne. He

has kept out of the dark. Before

Christmas Theresa May said as head

of the NHS you are personally

responsible for ensuring we get

through this winter. Every statement

ever made by her on the NHS

contributes to this slightly bizarre

strained transactional relationship

that these two have. It probably

paid for a politically today to

apologise but Labour will jump on

this and called for more money to be

put into the NHS.

Problems in the

NHS, the education system. The Times

front page, crisis in teacher

recruitment as applications have

fallen by a third. That is a big

drop?

Yes, concerns are apparently

around classroom stress -- stress

and accountability. And confusion

about routes into the profession.

That is very strange. Classroom

stress I can understand.

Accountability and confusion around

route into the profession is

something we should be able to deal

with. Accountability, what does that

mean for teachers? Accountability is

something that every adult in every

industry would have two deal with. I

don't understand how they propose to

deal with it. They are comparing the

jobs with management consultancy

etc. Accountability will be an issue

in those jobs. Are we saying we're

not preparing our teachers when we

are providing them with the

training, with the necessary tools

you need for the role? And how can

you do, what can you do to train

them better for these particular

stresses of this particular

industry?

The Financial Times,

Laura, your paper. FrontPage. They

have got a about defence.

Toggles

through that? Defence cuts is a big

issue. It has been recently. The

defence Minister recently urging the

government not to make any more

cuts. The government does not know

how to deal with a black hole in

funding. They are trying to break it

up into little bits so they don't

have to answer questions as to how

they have gone to plug this massive

gap. We have certain targets. There

are still proposing... There are

calls from senior politicians asking

for more money. The goblin don't

seem to know where it is God, from.

They are pushing the issue back into

the long grass for as long as they

can.

In a sense there is not enough

money for the health service either.

A perennial problem for government.

Where do you allocate the resources?

It is always going to be about

priorities. When it comes to

security, the Conservative problem

is also that there is a group of

very plucky young Conservative MPs

who feel very passionately about

this. They have been adding their

voices to it. Johnny Mercer, seem to

be a rising star in the Conservative

Party. This could be politically

quite difficult for Theresa May and

her government.

A few seconds left.

Laura, looking ahead to 2018 as a

political correspondent, would this

be a difficult year for the Prime

Minister?

If you look back at last

year from the terrorist attacks to

the Brexit negotiations, to losing

Cabinet ministers, she is going to

try to watch yourself this year. She

doesn't want to be the Brexit Prime

Minister. She will try to talk about

other things. But in reality it is

going to be about Brexit. I am not

predicting anything because I don't

think you can.

You spoilsport! All

right. No predictions. Thank you

indeed.

Good to talk to you. That is it from

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you again.

That is it. Goodbye.