05/01/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Randeep Ramesh,

Chief Leader Writer at The Guardian

and the Political

Strategist Jo Tanner.

Tomorrow's front pages.

The Telegraph leads on the news that

Theresa May could delay a promotion

for Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's

next week because of

the worsening NHS crisis.

The Daily Mail also looks

at the NHS winter crisis -

the paper say the latest advice

from health bosses

is "don't get ill!".

The Express also features

the NHS crisis, saying cold

temperatures this weekend

could increase health risks.

The I leads with claims from a woman

who says John Worboys

spiked her drink years before

he was arrested, but that her claims

were ignored by police.

Worboys went on to drug and sexually

attack most of his victims.

The Sun says the police

and Crown Prosecution Service

did not want to pin any more attacks

on Worboys as they thought his

sentence was 'adequate'.

The Guardian reports that

John Worboys could face fresh

prosecutions as alleged victims

prepared to come forward to police.

The Mirror leads on one

of the murderers of James Bulger

being sent back to prison.

Jon Venables is to face a secret

trial over possessing

indecent images of children.

And The FT reports that productivity

levels in the UK have risen

at their quickest rates

for six years.

We will begin with the story in the

i, black cab rapist kept on

attacking after police ignored her.

This is a woman writing about her

narrow escape and sometime later

recognise the nature the attacks he

carried out.

This is a lady called

Hannah Roberts who was a 20-year-old

student working in London. She

describes the police dismissing her

as stupid and naive or accepting a

drink from a stranger and refused to

investigate and it was only six

years later after the reports came

out that she was given the

opportunity to identify him in a

line-up. The story is very similar

to the other reports that came out

that the time about John Worboys

behaviour. She also talks about how

it appears that the police had

accumulated a lot of evidence but

the CPS had to strike a balance

between justice for victims and

clogging up the courts, which is

very reassuring for people who

report crimes.

The issue also that

he was likely to receive the maximum

sentence possible anyway and some of

the cases that came to the attention

of the police did not necessarily

meet that threshold that the CPS

thought was worth taking to court.

All the bits of the general justice

system have a case to answer, the

police in the case of Hannah Roberts

who says did not believe her and

they laughed at some of the other

victims, the IPCC thought their

behaviour was OK after investigating

them, rather ridiculously. We will

see many cases, probably private

prosecutions, which will end up with

this man being put through the

courts again because the right thing

wasn't done at the time. People

thought, OK, he will get a sentence,

but it meant that he came out, what,

ten years later, nine years later?

So many women are reluctant to come

forward because they hear about how

other women are treated by the

authorities.

In this case, I had my

drinks spiked last year.

Last year?

I was in the House of Commons, in a

bar, I reported it at the time but

no action was taken. The issue is,

the sense afterwards of not knowing

what happened to you is very

distressing, I was very lucky, the

police were very good with me, but

in this case, to then be in a very

vulnerable position and then report

something and then the laughter

effectively is just awful. -- and

then be laughed at effectively. What

is quite worrying, the failure in

the handling after, we learned today

that the victims did not know that

John Worboys was being released.

This is a man who knew the knowledge

and he knows his way around London

and he knew where these people

lived. This is very distressing for

the people involved.

This is not to

excuse anybody, but does it need to

be better explained to people who

come forward with a complaint, why

certain cases are not taken forward

because they don't believe that they

will reach that beyond reasonable

doubt threshold?

There might be a

case of that and in this case there

were nine other cases he could have

been prosecuted for at the time but

the judge or the CPS said they did

not think they would need it because

they will get him for enough time on

what was presented.

And the

indeterminate sentence, as well,

which was part of the problem. There

are questions over whether people

thought he was going to be in for a

lot longer but the parole board only

have one conviction and vector

macaque as well as the assaults,

where as if it had been several

assaults and rates it would have

changed their view -- one conviction

and rape as well as the assaults.

There will be a lot of fallout from

this. Now to The Daily Telegraph, a

bit of a reshuffle, but Theresa May

doesn't have much room for manoeuvre

and Jeremy Hunt might have to wait?

He is in the midst of an NHS crisis

and he is seen as the safe pair of

hands so they are not likely to

moving from that, but he she has a

big hole because the Deputy Prime

Minister one. -- but she has. The

reporter is very certain there will

be a Cabinet reshuffle next week,

but I guess she has got to do

something because there is a gap in

her government.

She doesn't want to

move the chess pieces around much

for top she hasn't wanted to euro,

and I think it is more about being

forced to -- she hasn't wanted to,

really, and I think it is more about

being forced to. It was reported in

October that the chairman Patrick

McLoughlin wanted to leave his post

as chairman of the Tory party and he

was holding on hopeful of a

reshuffle which did not happen, then

holding on again, and then when

Priti Patel left there was talk that

it might have happened but it

didn't. There are a few players who

are being touted, getting their best

Sujad of the wardrobe, and then it

doesn't happen. -- best suit at the

border.

She only has ace -- a few

ways she can manoeuvre.

You always

have very unhappy people when they

leave Cabinet, and it is not even

them that you have got to worry

about, it is the others who are

overlooked for promotion, so you can

cause as many problems as you think

you are going to solve but

inevitably she doesn't have came in

green in that post and that has got

to be filled -- she doesn't have

Damian Green in that post.

The

caption says in the cartoon, will be

reshuffle be seen, Theresa May,

Jeremy Hunt has been waiting in the

corridor for 36 hours! Now to

another story in The Daily Telegraph

about coal.

Yes, I remember the 70s,

and the events of the 80s, you

forget that coal was still going

them, because it seemed as if we

didn't really have any coal that was

being used. Last year was the first

time since the Industrial Revolution

that Britain used no coal-fired

power at all in a single 24-hour

period. We are moving over to other

methods and that is why this move

and the pollution associated with it

is part of the reason for the switch

over.

We are doing better than other

countries.

We are one of the leaders

in Europe in terms of clean energy.

The government has to do and it has

been very zealous in implementing

carbon taxes and the rest of it. It

is a marker of change because the

whole thing was Britain was built on

call. But times move on -- built on

coal.

Few records have been broken

where clean technologies have

generated more power in a particular

period of time that the older more

traditional ones as well. And yet

sometimes it seems as if the

subsidies have dried up, the

government subsidies have not been

there more recently for some of

those cleaner fuels.

When wind power

came out as cheap and nuclear, that

was seen as a turning point for

green technology, -- cheaper than

nuclear.

Then everyone moaned about

wind turbines because they didn't

like the look of them. You can't

please everyone.

The Daily Mail, the

NHS tells us don't get ill. Over

Christmas we were told to look up

any illness we might get over the

internet. This is great advice.

I

can't get excited about this,

because if the NHS was telling us to

get ill I'd be more worried. Don't

get ill seems reasonable. It is

Nanny statism I can kind of agree

with, to be honest.

It will be on

present conditions and that can

cause problems this weekend. --

rather on present conditions.

Yes,

and if your operation has been

cancelled... But people get sick,

ultimately, they need somewhere to

go, but if they are encouraging

people to self remedy and stay at

home, rather than soldiering on, and

no one will turn up for work on

Monday. I was told not to get ill so

I don't want anyone else to get ill.

Nip early symptoms in the bud. I

don't think I've ever been

successful at doing that.

Everyone

will be googling the old wives tales

to find out the answers.

Now, 16 and

17, The Times, extracts from the

book Fire and Fury, by Michael

Wolff, after his infiltration of the

West Wing to find out what life has

been like inside the White House

with Donald Trump and his first

president. Take a shower, Steve

Bannon, you have want those pants

for six days, is one quote. This is

Steve Bannon really losing a lot of

friends.

I had to go through the

book today, so I have speed read it.

You know how it ends.

Yes, badly. It

is the rise and fall of Steve Bannon

who is quite a character and the

obvious source for much of the stuff

but it is funny and it makes you

laugh out loud. You have warned

those pants for six days is the

general mood.

Trousers?

He doesn't

care much for his appearance, that's

why.

Personal hygiene leaves a bit

to be desired?

Yes, I don't think

Ivanka Trump will be standing next

to him in too many bridges. But it

was his warm the doe -- it was his

war against Ivanka Trump and Jared

Kushner. When Steve Bannon goes

down, he tries to take other people

within, the stuff about kids

committing treason and that Donald

Trump might be done for financial

fraud and that he should be

impeached for being mentally unfit

to hold office, you know, he will

not be welcomed back, unless Donald

Trump really needs him for election.

If he is still there. This book has

become a bestseller before it is

released because the advance orders

were so intense. Anyone who got hold

of a copy, was sticking their

pictures on Facebook today. If they

had a Kindle version.

How wise is it

to turn on someone who knows so many

of your secrets?

There is the

argument that potentially, some

people around him, like Steve

Bannon, consider writing on the

wall, and if you think he won't last

that long, he will think he can use

his time wisely -- can see the

writing on the wall. This headline

and much of what is talked about in

here, Donald Trump was putting him

down in front of people and he was

quite aggressive in his tone and he

did not really try to treat him in a

friendly manner. Even the journalist

who has written this, Michael Wolff,

he's going out all guns blazing

because he has turned on the

convention, that much of this that

is said is not reported, but he has

decided he's going to make a lot of

money and he will probably retire on

it.

He is saying he had unfettered

access to the White House. Despite

what Donald Trump is saying.

Michael

Wolff blows his own trumpet. He had

a lot of time in and out of Steve

Bannon's office.

It is like the

house of cards being replayed, the

author in that, given loads of

access. Essentially it looks like in

this case, they took advantage of

the naivete of the administration

not really recognising that this was

probably a bad idea. You work in

politics and someone says they want

to do a fly on the wall. But no, you

are on my watchful stop the

Financial Times,

hopes for a

productivity rebound?

Productivity

was as flat as a pancake and they

have had a little bump so the

Chancellor has tweeted this and

hopes to rise, I suppose, but they

probably fall, as well, I suspect,

is the expert says, there needs to

be a sustained improvement to ease

concerns. It's the worst period

since the 1820s in terms of

productivity in Britain.

In one

quarter output per hour rose less

than 1% and that has made the front

page of the FT because they are

looking for any reasons to be

cheerful.

The Guardian. Phones fuel

shock rise in exam cheating. Who

would have thought it, crafty little

devils.

Staff also involved.

Official figures showing the number

teachers and school staff involved

in exam malpractice, more than

doubled between 2016 and 2017.

What

are they doing, then?

Handing the

phones over.

LAUGHTER

The fascinating statistic, there

were 2715 penalties issued to just

over two and a half thousand

students which implies some of those

must have done it more than once.

Surely if you have been caught once,

you might not do it again.

Does it

say what... A reduction of marks or

a warning given. It is not much of a

punishment, to get a warning.

I

suppose it is redemption, giving

them a second chance.

You have to do

that?

I think so.

They are only in

their teens but they still know what

cheating is.

LAUGHTER

Sometimes. It is no surprise, you

can easily put a phone in your

blazer pocket, I imagine.

It is the

using it on a desk... I think over

the years there have been tactics

tried.

Robert who is producing said

we wrote on the back of our hands,

didn't we? Did we, Robert?

Top

marks.

He is only surmising.

Finally, the Scottish Daily Mail.

Last or in the war on plastic, this

is getting a lot of coverage at the

moment. How we dispose of plastic

and how much plastic reuse and

plastic bags. Talking about these

particular bags with lining in a

coffee cup which makes it more

difficult to recycle the stop coffee

cups

one of the hardest areas to

deal with because it doesn't matter

what special bin you put somewhere,

someone will walk down the road with

their cup and chuck it somewhere and

then it gets into a system that

can't recycle it. It is a massive

challenge. The Scottish Daily Mail

is focusing on a campaign that has

been launched by an MSP who is

essentially saying that stores, we

need to look at pubs and

restaurants, stopping the use of

stores because they are used far too

widespread and they are a real

problem in terms of recycling, as

well -- the use of straws.

They

cause a lot of problems when they

get into oceans in particular.

China

has said they are not taking any

more of our plastic so we have got

to do something.

Not the first time,

I'm going to show my when I was

growing up, we had paper straws. --

I'm going to show my age, when I was

growing up, we had paper straws.

They are still around for the Fai

are not very good

-- but they are

not very good, because they get wet.

The thing with the coffee cup,

everyone thinks it is paper so they

throw that in the cycling, but you

have got to line it with something

-- throw that in the recital in. --

in the recycling.

Thanks for coming

in. Don't forget you can see all of

the papers online, if you have

missed the programme any evening.

Thanks again. Coming up next, the

weather.