11/01/2018 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Lucy Fisher,

Senior Political Correspondent

at The Times and Paul Johnson,

Deputy Editor of The Guardian.

Tomorrow's front pages.

The Telegraph reports the government

will have banks freeze the assets

of illegal immigrants.

The paper says that as part of a

plan to force them out of the

country.

It also carries a picture

of Bethany Walker who died

after becoming ill at home -

initially from flu symptoms which

later developed into pneumonia.

They on a letter expressing

intolerable conditions endangering

lives.

The Express is warning readers that

a second EU referendum could be

on the cards after comments made

by Nigel Farage this morning.

The daily Mirror also has this with

them saying he wants a second

referendum. Their own polling shows

remain would win by 55-45.

The Times talking about a daring

plot to hide royal gems in a biscuit

tin in the grounds of windsor castle

during the second world war

to ensure they didn't fall

into the hands of Nazis.

And the Guardian has news that the

parliamentary cook has only just

been given leave to stay in the UK

after living here for 50 years. The

Daily Mail has news that President

Trump is planning to cancel his trip

to the United Kingdom over fears

they want to be made welcome. Let's

get off, we have got this story in

the Times, an interesting story

about the threat of a merger between

the Royal Marines and the

paratroopers and attempts to cut the

Armed Forces by up to 14,000 troops.

This will cause a lot of uproar, the

Army is already 14,000 short of its

82,000 target. There is a £20

billion shortfall in the budget over

the next decade, by firemen tested

how this is coming out. He has been

tipped as a future leadership

contender and he has been banging

his drum and it'll be interesting to

see if he gets his way.

And he won't

want big cuts on his watch?

Three

things about this story, one, it is

a good story, process in action and

real-life politics. It says troops

would leave the smallest army since

before Napoleon. We don't fight

battles in Europe using squares and

cavalry so I don't think that

matters, but you could have had the

headline, merger threat to Philip

Hammond because that is really what

the story is about. Is Gavin

Williamson playing a crafty game?

The story is of backbenchers getting

really irritated about this and

Philip Hammond has another person

knocking on his door but more money.

Somebody it seems won't be knocking

on the board of Downing Street is

Donald Trump according to the Daily

Mail. You can phone that visit which

would've been hugely controversial,

and I would have been big protest if

they came.

I wouldn't be surprised.

He said he was still planning to

come but Donald Trump not keeping

his word wouldn't necessarily raise

my eyebrows. We know what he is

like, he would be faced with huge

protests. He had already scaled down

the ambitions this year for a huge

state visit to a more low-key trip

to open the embassy. I am not

surprised. He could have tagged onto

his trip to Davos for the World

Economic Forum but I think this is

right on the money.

Presumably he

will come sooner or later?

It has

been a long running things. Went to

the Zamir scuttled over to

Washington to be the first leader to

hold his hand on the trip, a lot of

Brexit ears are saying, he is the

personal embodiment of a new

relationship, the special

relationship recreated, then use

that it had to be scaled down

because he would be uncomfortable,

and news now that he's not at all.

We as a newspaper said he shouldn't

be banned but the only people sad

about this will be a lot of

policemen missing out on an overtime

bonanza is interesting story in the

Telegraph, a 14-year-old girl

winning a pay-out from Facebook

about revenge pawn.

This could have

a big implications for social media

and their responsibility over what

is put out on their platforms. It is

a horrifying story, the girl was 14

years old and pictures of her naked

repeatedly published on Facebook as

revenge by people known to have. The

really interesting thing is as you

say, how this can open the

floodgates for a raft of similar

claims. With Facebook but also

tested commitment to security and

jihad a content, this is the battle

line on which it is fighting and it

has so far been quite unwilling to

help and cut down on these kinds of

fences and outrages, not willing to

spend the money for people to go

through posts to rely on faulty

algorithms. There seems to be a

general mood among individuals and

governments that social media need

to take a bit more responsibility

for what is on their platform?

That

is right and Facebook in particular

we published last year some Facebook

files which had the Bible in the

sense of how moderators should work,

and you could see how capricious it

was for the small number of

moderators to make snap decisions in

real small-time. Facebook have

appointed about 10,000 more

moderators since but the pressures

will grow particularly from Europe.

Interesting stories on the Express

front page and yours as well which

we will come to but let's just show

the Daily Express because they have

Nigel Farage on the stick everyone

by surprise when he went on TV and

said actually he wouldn't mind,

quite like a second referendum, and

he is the last person you would

expect to see that.

It seems to have

taken Nigel Farage by surprise as

well because he commit first of all

to say we should have second

referendum and immediately, unusual

bedfellows for him, Nick Clegg,

Andrew Adonis and Vince Cable said

he is talking sense.

The remoaners

as he would say!

Then there was a

subtle shift. This through to Ukip

style he was immediately condemned

by his own party saying this was a

ridiculous thing to do but it had an

immediate impact. The bookies have

propped the odds from 10-1 to 5-1 on

the second referendum and we talked

about the Manner for which had 55%

and the pawn December had 53% in

favour of a second referendum, so

perhaps that is despite the

government saying there won't be won

and despite the Labour position,

perhaps that is more talk that comes

from an unusual source.

It is in the

Guardian as well, we can show your

front page, the same story. The way

they bid it is hoped to raise, I

suppose it depends on which side of

the argument you're wrong. When he

said it in the interview he said

maybe, just maybe there should be a

second referendum and sounded like

he was just chucking it out.

I am a

little bit more cynical than both of

you. I don't think Nigel Farage

makes those kinds of mistakes in the

media, he is quite an accomplished

performer whatever you think of his

politics. The fact he said he was on

the verge and your travelling hours

later is from classic Nigel Farage

playbook of headline grabbing as he

is now on the front pages. Had he

stuck to the idea of backing it it

would have been a huge moment.

Really, these remoaners had cause to

delight and some of the champions of

Leave like Boris Johnson might have

been wrong-footed by it all but at

the end of the day we are thinking

he has said one thing turned around.

And Downing Street are saying there

won't be one anyway.

I don't think

there will be an Theresa May has

said it would undermine the

democratic vote.

She has been firm

on many things! We have seen a few

reverses.

Watch that space. Speaking

of Theresa May, our government has

serious problems with the National

Health Service. We are seeing that

letter from A&E doctors saying

conditions are intolerable and the

front-page pictures on the Metal and

other papers are of an 18-year-old

general Bethany Walker who has died

despite being airlifted to hospital

in Inverness. She had flu. What do

you make of that because this flu

outbreak at the moment, a lot of

serious problems in the NHS this

winter.

Really tragic to see a young

person, often the fluid tends to

affect elderly and more surreal

people. Worrying to hear that the

Australian flu as it has been

termed, though it is not from

Australia and not new, is about to

take off. 55,000 operations have

been cancelled over this winter and

the crisis in the NHS so far.

Theresa May today in a key speech

used a question and answer session

to call on all NHS workers to get

the compulsory flu jab. That could

be quite problematic.

Clearly

something needs to be done. The

Arctic blast coming into Britain

which is obviously a weather story

but equally means the NHS, which

always faces problems that winter

time, plus it has a flu outbreak and

not enough beds.

You said yourself

the NHS, the government is under

pressure on the NHS from both the

people that represent the main

thrusts you are talking about a

radical rethink and the people

talking about taxes, but significant

amounts of more money needs to go on

to the NHS and from the people on

the front line. Six the A&E units

saying they are currently

underfunded. 12-mac things are

happening. I thought it was

interesting Jeremy Hunt has managed

to get social care umbilically tied

to his NHS health service role. He

has also talked about we need to

make significant progress about a

ten year plan. This is potentially

very positive. We need to thank our

way through this. Although the

government said no to a Royal

commission then assigns he is trying

to do this.

Last story, a cracking

story on the front page of the

Times, about the crown jewels been

heading in a biscuit tin from the

Nazis. We know how to hide our

assets in this country!

It is not

just any biscuit tin but it is a

Bath biscuit tin, and I come from

Bar. It follows a lot of

conspiracies that people think they

had been heading millivolts in

Canada and others any secret panel

in Devon.

But the Nazis would never

let any biscuit tin!

Even if the

phone the biscuit tenet would be so

quintessentially British that they

wouldn't fancy it.

How has all this,

it now?

During the filming of the

BBC documentary? Yes.

It is a great

story anyway. Thank you both coming

and,.

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Thank you, Lucy Fisher

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Goodbye.