06/01/2018 The Papers

releases, in The Film Review.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Eve Pollard,

the broadcaster and former

Fleet Street editor,

and the economics commentator

and author Dharshini David.

Tomorrow's front pages:

The Sunday Times claims

the Prime Minister will hold

a cabinet reshuffle on Monday,

with up to six ministers

being moved or sacked.

Its main story follows

an investigation by the paper

which claims to have found Google

profiting from those

with addictive diseases.

The Sunday Telegraph reports that

Theresa May is to appoint

a new education secretary

to try to reinvigorate

the Government's approach

to schools, leaving the incumbent,

Justine Greening,

fighting for her job.

In another area of education policy,

the Mail on Sunday claims Mrs May

has criticised her new university

tsar, Toby Young, after old social

media posts of his were found to

contain sexist and obscene remarks.

The Observer headlines

President Trump's reaction

to a new book about

his administration.

The publication by the journalist

Michael Wolff questions

President Trump's mental stability

since taking office.

The Sunday Express writes that

Theresa May has ordered a review

into parole boards after former taxi

driver John Worboys,

found guilty of sexual

assault against 12 women,

was released after

nine years in prison.

I didn't mention Brexit, but it is

still in here, I promise, somewhere,

related no doubt to the reshuffle,

which is where we began. The Sunday

Times headline, Theresa May plots to

reshuffle an entire sixpack of

Cabinet ministers.

It is amazing how

they make Vics Pack sound like a lot

when there are lots and lots of

Cabinet ministers, many of whom we

cannot remember the names of. --

sixpack. Apparently they are going

to change again on Monday or

Tuesday. It was Monday, but it could

be Tuesday.

It could be the senior

ones on Monday, the more junior ones

on Tuesday.

Well, Theresa May does

not have a lot of time, because Mr

Barnier is probably celebrating

Christmas and is not freely

available for Brexit talks. So you

have to get your reshuffle in fast.

Apparently they did research in the

set one of the reasons the Tories

did not do well at the election was

that people were very unhappy with

the schooling of their children,

which I think there is a feeling

that schooling, we never come out

anywhere near the top of the list is

of children who have got

mathematical knowledge or reading

and writing skills, all the rest of

it -- lists. So we are going to

change all the people round and have

another go.

Well, that would mean,

then, as it says in the Sunday

Telegraph, that Greening fights for

job as Theresa May wield the axe but

some teaching unions have felt she

understood them a great deal more,

which of course may be problematic

to the Conservatives.

Indeed, and

this is interesting, because we all

thought it was the NHS which was in

crisis. When you read these reports,

it seems the government thinks

education is the crisis creating a

headache for them, and therefore

Justine Greening must go. She has

been quite popular in some sectors,

relatively speaking. It is also a

time when you are seeing huge

changes to the funding of schools,

creating a lot of problems for

schools and parents, all of whom

vote, and that has been hugely

popular, and this is a central plank

of the government's pledged to

improve productivity post-Brexit and

we are also hearing from the Sunday

Times that Mrs May thinks Justine

Greening has a patronising tone. So

it looks like, if these are right,

she could be on her way out while

Jeremy Hunt could be on his way up,

replacing Damian Green.

I have to

say, newspapers do get a bit over

excited about reshuffles.

And its

readers do not.

Some readers do,

probably if you have a vested

interest, or if you have been

writing to them and they have been

writing back to you, you lucky

person. But in the end, of course,

the political editors, it their

life. It changes who they can have

lunch with, who they could be

talking to, and if you have just got

yourself in with Justine Greening,

and then off she goes, maybe... I

mean, it is important, but actually

Brexit is the thing that matters

now.

It is the thing that is taking

everybody's time and energy. The

other thing which has set Justine

Greening and Theresa May apart was

their attitude towards grammar

schools, which hasn't materialised,

of course.

Has not materialised, and

don't forget Acura three is not just

about education, she also has a

quality under her belt as well. I

know we were talking about the

gender pay gap.

I never tire of

talking about that!

Why is it always

stuck in with somebody else's job?

I

would be only too glad to sort that

out.

It could be Monday or Tuesday

you find out.

It is a strange one to

tuck in when it affects more than

half the population.

On the other

thing, of course, you are quite

right that the NHS is having

problems, and it makes great

headlines, but more people have

children than ill, thank heavens,

and it really does affect people's

lives and their dreams and all the

rest of it.

The Mail On Sunday. The

PM's discussed at the student tsar's

sordid tweets. This is Toby Young,

who we know and who has in the past

kindly reviewed the papers for us,

he has a new office for the student

watchdog at some tweets from eight

years ago has resurfaced.

This is

the thing university students are

told all the time. Be careful on

social media, because it can come

back to haunt you.

What they are

only told this now.

He was in his

40s, though.

A young man, didn't

know any better!

The other thing is,

he probably understand students

better than somebody who has never

done anything so silly.

I have read

the tweets, and they are not the

ghillie edifying. You haven't read

them, but you will find them very

easily.

On the other hand, people

have been saying how can you, in a

position of responsibility, make

these kinds of comments on a public

forum and expect to keep your post?

Has he apologised? Has he talked

about it? Has he been questioned?

People have been defending...

Friends of years have been defending

him, so he amounts to a great deal

more than that, and as you said, he

has done a lot of work with Free

Schools, so he is clearly embedded

in the world of education.

On the

other hand there was all this talk

about the fact that a press release

had said he taught in Harvard and

Cambridge, when in fact he was a

student and had some kind of

supervisory role, which isn't the

same.

CV writing, maybe that is what

needs to be looked at as well.

Make

sure you have been way you say you

have been.

Don't exaggerate. The

Sunday express, PM's fury at rate

fast. A Lot four Theresa May to be

dealing with at the moment, before

she gets back to the racks at table.

This is the release after nine years

in prison of John Worboys, the

former black cab driver who many

people felt should have served

longer than nine years for these

offences.

There is this new thing,

the indeterminate sentence, which is

about ten years old, apparently. Of

course, when they say somebody has

an indeterminate sentence, you think

they are going down for a long time.

That is not how it works at all. But

interestingly, we have been looking

at possibly becoming parole board

members ourselves.

You can apply for

this, can you?

Well, it is public

appointments. It is a bit in the

mire and sludge. I think you need a

double degree in classics from

Cambridge or Oxford to become one,

but we are going to look into it,

aren't we?

The other thing which

struck us is there are only three

people on the board who make the

decision.

There are many people who

sit on the board, but at any one

time there are only three.

Shall we

go into how many people its?

Dozens,

but it comes down to three people in

the end.

Well, it may do. You also

have the situation where not only

were the victims not told he was

going to be released, and many, many

victims were not used in the court

trial.

Indeed, and the fact of the

matter, as well, is we don't know

why the decision was made by the

parole board, and we won't know.

The

Daily Telegraph reports that the

children, chairman of the parole

board is considering publishing the

rationale behind the decision to

release John Worboys, but tonight, a

spokesperson for the parole board

said this is misleading and that it

has no plans to release this

information, because rules don't

permit it to. And that raises the

question about should the rules be

changed? No-one the rules should be

changed. I think that if you were

one of those victims or a relation

of one of those victims, you would

want to know why the world, why this

group of these three people on the

parole board, thought this man had

changed so much in nine years,

having been convicted of raping, I

think, 14 women, is that right?

It

is a hell of a lot.

And then there

are all the other alleged victims

out there.

It is 12 convictions, but

there are thought to be possibly 100

women.

Don't you often think in

Britain that our laws are very

old-fashioned and they are all about

property? So you steal, you really

go down for a long time. But

actually raping a woman on a

premeditated basis...

When you look

at the kind of things he had in his

cab, it is utterly shocking.

Well,

there are calls for the reasoning

behind the parole board's decision

to be made available. The Observer

is where we will finish, bigly.

I

think we should put this on our CV

is when we apply for the parole

board, we are a very stable genius.

I will give you both good

references. We have heard Trump say

I am a very stable genius, we have

also said we have a situation where

I was a very excellent student,

which is extraordinary English,

isn't it?

Even if you were a very

excellent student, would you go

around boasting about it?

It is

better to wear these things lightly.

I think so, that people find out for

themselves.

He is keeping this story

going.

You have to wonder,

apparently he has his lawyers going

over this one, but you have to

wonder if he has read the book as

avidly as others?

Well, Michael

Wolff says he doesn't read.

Is the

audio book available? They are

casting doubt on his mental

stability, whether he is fit for

office. He wants instant

gratification, but of course Donald

Trump is rubbishing Michael Wolff,

saying he is a fraud and this is a

work of fiction.

If he says he has

tapes, that will be interesting. He

says he was sitting around in the

White House for ages. I mean, Donald

Trump is on the Apprentice every

day. He just happens to be president

of America. He just happens to be

broadcasting from the White House.

And having started reading the book,

I have to say what you read here

ties in entirely with the character

Michael Wolff is talking about. I

don't think he is doing himself any

favours with these types of

comments.

And the books will sell

well. It is a shame it wasn't time

for Christmas, it would have gone

wild. Thank you very much for coming

in, lovely to see you both again.