0:00:14 > 0:00:17Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:17 > 0:00:18bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21With me are the former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann
0:00:21 > 0:00:30and the writer and broadcaster Mihir Bose.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34Good to see you both. Let us start...
0:00:34 > 0:00:36The FT reports that Carillion was cash-strapped at the end.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40It held just 29 million pounds left before it collapsed.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42"Taking the Piste" is the headline in the Metro.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44It says whilst workers face redundancy the former
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Chief Executive of the company is living it up
0:00:46 > 0:00:48in a luxury ski home.
0:00:48 > 0:00:49The Daily Telegraph says Poppi Worthington's mother
0:00:49 > 0:00:52may finally see justice after the coroner in the case urged
0:00:52 > 0:00:54prosecutors to to carry out a fresh investigation
0:00:54 > 0:00:57into the toddler's death.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59The Express is angered by the French President's call
0:00:59 > 0:01:02for the UK to take in more migrants from Calais and pay more
0:01:02 > 0:01:05for border security.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08While the I has a different take on the thorny issue of migration,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10reporting that the NHS is losing doctors, because red tape
0:01:10 > 0:01:14is stopping qualified migrants getting in...
0:01:14 > 0:01:16A senior Scotland Yard detective is urging that five year old's
0:01:16 > 0:01:18should be taught the dangers of knife crime, that's
0:01:18 > 0:01:22the lead in The Guardian.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25And finally, The Daily Mail says the Prime Minister is to appoint
0:01:25 > 0:01:33what it describes as a Minister for the Lonely.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35There's no one big story dominating the headlines for our guests
0:01:35 > 0:01:40to sink their teeth into.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43It's really a mixed bag of front page news...
0:01:43 > 0:01:45But the shock of the collapse of Carillion is still reverberating
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and that's where we start on the front page of
0:01:48 > 0:01:53the Financial Times...
0:01:53 > 0:01:59Cash strapped Karelian held just £29 million in its final days, they had
0:01:59 > 0:02:02£16 billion worth of orders on the books?And the way the accounting
0:02:02 > 0:02:09seems to have been managed, Cash was just not coming in fast enough. They
0:02:09 > 0:02:14were trying to move things around in different bits of the company. It
0:02:14 > 0:02:18had a very complex structure but at the end of the day the company seems
0:02:18 > 0:02:22to have been so broke to the firm 's auditors were approached to
0:02:22 > 0:02:24administer it decided they did not want to get involved because they
0:02:24 > 0:02:28thought they would not be enough money to pay them. This company
0:02:28 > 0:02:41seems to have managed to have fool a lot of people. They had seen on I
0:02:41 > 0:02:47page 150 or something that actually a lot of the bills were not being
0:02:47 > 0:02:53paid, they had booked the orders and delivered some goods but it was not
0:02:53 > 0:02:55being paid. Sometimes because customers said it had not been
0:02:55 > 0:03:03delivered properly, or it just wasn't being managed right.It's a
0:03:03 > 0:03:06good example, the classic story that if you borrowed so much money from
0:03:06 > 0:03:10the bank the banks can't let you fail.Too big to fail, Donald Trump
0:03:10 > 0:03:16knows that.But career Leon when to 25 million from five bankers, like a
0:03:16 > 0:03:26football squad, three of the bankers said no, to said we would. In a way
0:03:26 > 0:03:29that people who we say mismanage the company clearly did because they
0:03:29 > 0:03:33said we can go on, the banks will not allow us to fail. This whole
0:03:33 > 0:03:38business of public and private as well, a private company allowed to
0:03:38 > 0:03:40have public sector projects and the government is going to pay for
0:03:40 > 0:03:46public sector workers.They must keep working.That's a bit unfair
0:03:46 > 0:03:49when you have private sector workers also working who are probably facing
0:03:49 > 0:03:55a very hard time.And lots of small companies who will go out of
0:03:55 > 0:04:00business.1000 people apparently already connected with the company
0:04:00 > 0:04:04not directly but you could be affected. The emphasis seems to be
0:04:04 > 0:04:10moving on to the managers at the top of this company. The Metro has a
0:04:10 > 0:04:21fairly salty headline, taking the piste. This is the chief executive,
0:04:21 > 0:04:26a luxury ski home with six bedrooms and an indoor Paul. He is in hot
0:04:26 > 0:04:39water. I am taking the piste now! They cannot actually find him, he is
0:04:39 > 0:04:42either in his Yorkshire home or his French ski chalets. They are making
0:04:42 > 0:04:50the point that it might cost taxpayers 600 million, and already a
0:04:50 > 0:04:55lot of redundancies being announced in these smaller firms that supply
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Carillion, so obviously not one fact has started straightaway.The people
0:04:58 > 0:05:05at the very top were getting bonuses and big dividend pay-outs, not too
0:05:05 > 0:05:11long before this company collapsed. Greg Clark has very quickly ordered
0:05:11 > 0:05:16a fast track investigation into the conduct of the directors, and he
0:05:16 > 0:05:21wanted extended to pass directors, not just current directors, because
0:05:21 > 0:05:24clearly we need to identify what went wrong, what happened, how
0:05:24 > 0:05:28directors were behaving. The company kept increasing its dividends even
0:05:28 > 0:05:32though the business was not doing well enough. It also had a big
0:05:32 > 0:05:39pension deficit which it was not taken Carol. -- it was not taking
0:05:39 > 0:05:43care of. It does not look good and we need to get to the bottom of what
0:05:43 > 0:05:47happened.We have not learned any lessons from the 2008 crash. The
0:05:47 > 0:05:54same thing with the banks.Let's see what they find.Moving on to the
0:05:54 > 0:05:59Telegraph, the main story that a coroner has urged the Crown
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Prosecution Service to reopen the case of the death of Poppy
0:06:02 > 0:06:07Worthington, the 13-month-old toddler who died of this fixation
0:06:07 > 0:06:12about four years ago. And it could well be that we see a reopening of
0:06:12 > 0:06:19that case, but at the bottom of that, Boris. He reckons £100 million
0:06:19 > 0:06:22a week for the NHS is necessary or the Tories will lose the next
0:06:22 > 0:06:29election.Given that the Leeds side promised people they would have £350
0:06:29 > 0:06:36million a week potentially available for the NHS -- the leave aside, you
0:06:36 > 0:06:40would think 100 million may not satisfy. But calling for any sum of
0:06:40 > 0:06:49money strikes me as being strange. Of course we have to celebrate the
0:06:49 > 0:06:52NHS but we must also recognise we're not getting extra money as a result
0:06:52 > 0:06:59of leaving the EU. It's not how it is turning out. We have already seen
0:06:59 > 0:07:05the Chancellor said we will have to pay 3.7 billion...He's a remain a!
0:07:05 > 0:07:13That's the thing, we are putting aside. We must spend more money on
0:07:13 > 0:07:21the NHS but when they can find it as a result of Brexit is a doubt.He
0:07:21 > 0:07:24gave an interview in the Guardian saying he got the figure wrong, it
0:07:24 > 0:07:31was much more! Interesting there was a divided between the Johnson
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Leavers and the barrage Leavers, barrage has always said it was not
0:07:34 > 0:07:41that figure. -- Nigel Farage Leavers.The point being made is
0:07:41 > 0:07:47that his party need to focus on the NHS, that is the big issue in voters
0:07:47 > 0:07:50minds, potential voters, now. Particularly as a result of winter
0:07:50 > 0:07:57crisis and the Tories have to get real with that.It's a position for
0:07:57 > 0:08:00him to make sure he's on the right line to succeed Theresa May when she
0:08:00 > 0:08:07goes.Maybe it is.We can't fix the NHS without fixing social care,
0:08:07 > 0:08:14offering money isn't enough also we have to sort out NHS, it's clear.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Onto the Daily Express, French tell us, take more migrants. Outrageous
0:08:18 > 0:08:22demands to give homes to refugees from Calais! The Daily Express
0:08:22 > 0:08:28pretty exercised about this.That is the headline that actually the
0:08:28 > 0:08:33Macron speech they have printed is not about taking more migrants,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Macron is saying Britain have to pay more for the arrangements,
0:08:36 > 0:08:41immigration arrangements we already have Calais. Maybe the implication
0:08:41 > 0:08:45is that if they don't pay more we were policed them, but the words of
0:08:45 > 0:08:49the French president saying we will actually do more but Britain has to
0:08:49 > 0:08:52pay more, so the Daily Express is implying something that the French
0:08:52 > 0:08:56president may not have said.When was the last time you saw a headline
0:08:56 > 0:09:03that actually matched the story? In any newspaper? Let's be real.They
0:09:03 > 0:09:07do sometimes, but what's important here is that there is a two K
0:09:07 > 0:09:10agreement we currently have where France has agreed to help us police
0:09:10 > 0:09:15our innovation so they do it at partly their expense, and what they
0:09:15 > 0:09:20are now saying is, we gave you special arrangements because we were
0:09:20 > 0:09:24working together as part of the EU, what we are now saying is we can't
0:09:24 > 0:09:27give the special arrangements, you have to pay more for this kind of
0:09:27 > 0:09:32checks and we are not sure why we should check your immigrants in our
0:09:32 > 0:09:35country, you should check them yourself.Historically that used to
0:09:35 > 0:09:41be part of this country so maybe we should reclaim it!LAUGHTERThat's
0:09:41 > 0:09:48another discussion.Flip side of the migration story, not enough trained
0:09:48 > 0:09:54doctors coming in. NHS losing doctors to migration red tape.We
0:09:54 > 0:09:59know there is a shortage, particularly in the NHS and this
0:09:59 > 0:10:03again shows that the question is of immigration as if it is an EU
0:10:03 > 0:10:06immigration issue, actually many of the doctors come from non-EU
0:10:06 > 0:10:11countries. We have a whole red tape problem there. Within the problems
0:10:11 > 0:10:15in the NHS it shows we have several issues to sort out over immigration,
0:10:15 > 0:10:20not just a question of numbers, but of who we want, how soon can we get
0:10:20 > 0:10:24the people we want, it's a very serious question.I think the
0:10:24 > 0:10:29government is a little court here because the referendum vote clearly
0:10:29 > 0:10:32signals that the country is not comfortable with a high level of
0:10:32 > 0:10:36immigration at the moment. They feel we need to slow down for a while so
0:10:36 > 0:10:41the government has put a cap on the number of people who can come into
0:10:41 > 0:10:45the country, but what's happened is because of the cat we can't take in
0:10:45 > 0:10:49as many doctors as we need because we have already reached the cap,
0:10:49 > 0:10:54then you have to stop taking more in. We need another national
0:10:54 > 0:11:00conversation on some of the issues and where the public actually want
0:11:00 > 0:11:05the government to clamp down or not. Moving on to the Daily Mail...
0:11:05 > 0:11:10Minister for the lonely. In a sad reflection of modern Britain when 9
0:11:10 > 0:11:14million live in isolation and 200,000 elderly go weeks without
0:11:14 > 0:11:20talking to a friend or relative.I think this is really important as a
0:11:20 > 0:11:24social issue. The Prime Minister is right to appoint somebody to look at
0:11:24 > 0:11:29this, Tracy Karachi was the sports Minister.She could not have been
0:11:29 > 0:11:34very lonely.To look into this issue. This is also part of the
0:11:34 > 0:11:39social care problem, 200,000 elderly people in this country go for weeks
0:11:39 > 0:11:45without seeing anybody on talking to anybody. The councils have had to
0:11:45 > 0:11:50cut meals on wheels, they have had to withdraw some of the clubs that
0:11:50 > 0:11:55used to be available to older people, they have cut the care for
0:11:55 > 0:11:59people with may be moderate needs, so you may not be too well that you
0:11:59 > 0:12:06are just on your own at home. This is a big issue so I hope with all
0:12:06 > 0:12:09this together, this new ministerial position will be able to look at how
0:12:09 > 0:12:15we can integrate people who are on their own batter into communities.
0:12:15 > 0:12:22Seems like a decent idea.She will give a CD of Roy Orbison's great
0:12:22 > 0:12:27song, Only the Lonely. That will be her first task.I don't know whether
0:12:27 > 0:12:33to laugh or cry!It is a bit worrying, you are quite right, it's
0:12:33 > 0:12:38a whole social problem which are not sure having a minister solves it.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42It's a much deeper problem if there are so many lonely people.Across
0:12:42 > 0:12:49departments. Across the whole social framework of our society.Families
0:12:49 > 0:12:59living apart and someone.Inside the Daily Mail, we love our animals. Ms
0:12:59 > 0:13:03utterly help when it comes to loneliness as well. Who one of pop
0:13:03 > 0:13:07Idol? Britain's top ten favourite breeds of dog revealed.
0:13:10 > 0:13:17The Labrador number one. The second is interesting, a mixed breed.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22That's quite interesting. In mixed breed that has come second in the
0:13:22 > 0:13:29poll. He would not have expected... The Jack Russells bird, and
0:13:29 > 0:13:36Staffordshire bull terrier of course.Labrador is also, so
0:13:36 > 0:13:41gorgeous, and of course they are used for guide dogs. They are very
0:13:41 > 0:13:45gentle, very intelligent and you can rely on them.And they make you feel
0:13:45 > 0:13:48very comfortable, they make you feel reassured.I had a Labrador for many
0:13:48 > 0:13:59years and I adored her.You are so soft! I am a cat man myself.Which
0:13:59 > 0:14:07breed?No idea. It's black and white. Thank you so much for looking
0:14:07 > 0:14:09at these stories.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11That's it for The Papers tonight.
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