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at the Winter Olympics
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Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
With me are Kate Andrews,
News Editor at the Institute | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
of Economic Affairs
and Sebastian Payne, who's | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Political Leader Writer at the FT. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
The Times says allies
of the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn | 0:00:27 | 0:00:29 | |
are planning to get rid of 50
Labour MPs. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:39 | |
The Telegraph - which leads
with comments from | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
that the UK should welcome a visit | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
from President Donald Trump. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
A poll in another newspaper suggests
that we do not want that. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:56 | |
The Sunday Express says that more
than 100 Tory MPs will demand | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
the Prime Minister end free movement
and leave the single market as soon | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
as we leave the EU in March 2019. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:09 | |
The Mail on Sunday leads with a plot
to target three ex-conservative | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
cabinet ministers in -
what the paper calls - | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
"a cash for Brexit scandal". | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
With me are Kate Andrews,
News Editor at the Institute | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
of Economic Affairs
and Sebastian Payne, who's | 0:01:20 | 0:01:21 | |
Political Leader Writer at the FT. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:31 | |
We can start with this story about
Jeremy Corbyn. I have the feeling I | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
have read this headline before, but
let's go through it. Jeremy Corbyn | 0:01:35 | 0:01:40 | |
allies plot to oust 50 Labour MPs,
what is it all about? We had this | 0:01:40 | 0:01:46 | |
big move on Labour's National
executive committee, which is the | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
body that rules the party, and it
was taken over by acolytes of Jeremy | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
Corbyn. Everybody is asking what
does this mean. This is what it | 0:01:53 | 0:02:00 | |
means. They will use this new-found
power to try to oust MPs who do not | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
agree with Jeremy Corbyn. We have
some of the names, Hilary Benn, the | 0:02:05 | 0:02:12 | |
former shadow secretary. The former
Shadow Chancellor. And Maria Rigas. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:19 | |
The idea is to use complicated
mechanisms within the party to get | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
rid of them and bring in more lefty
MPs. But this is speculative. If you | 0:02:23 | 0:02:28 | |
had this, all of these MPs would
just leave the Labour Party. They | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
would probably form another new
party. This is a risky strategy for | 0:02:32 | 0:02:38 | |
Jeremy Corbyn. I don't think they
would do this. They wouldn't have a | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
shock and awe deselection. A couple
of people do it carefully and below | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
the radar. Doing this is asking for
Civil War on the left which will | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
hurt them at the ballot box. If you
read until the end of this story it | 0:02:50 | 0:02:56 | |
says that And said they were not
campaigning for this. Even so, there | 0:02:56 | 0:03:01 | |
is a lot of movement. -- Momentum
said they were not campaigning for | 0:03:01 | 0:03:09 | |
this. Since Jeremy Corbyn did so
well in the snap election I think | 0:03:09 | 0:03:16 | |
that tension has been escalating.
The sentiment has been modern MPs | 0:03:16 | 0:03:21 | |
need to get on board otherwise they
could potentially be facing | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
conflict. Sebastian is right, if you
did one big exodus that would just | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
be setting up another new party and
spit your vote. The most important | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
thing to take home about this is if
momentum are trying to bring in more | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
radical MPs on the left, that 2017
manifesto we saw, which many people | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
said it wasn't as radical as they
expected, would be going out the | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
window. And we will see with Jeremy
Corbyn and McDonnell planned to do | 0:03:46 | 0:03:53 | |
with power. And they are getting
more confident. Pundits like us said | 0:03:53 | 0:03:59 | |
they had no chance of winning. They
did very well. They get more | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
confident in their position. The
real question is, was last June a | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
fluke or is that what is really
going on? They need to be careful in | 0:04:06 | 0:04:12 | |
not believing in their hubris too
much. This is about a General | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
Election, as well. Which is surely a
long way away. You would think. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
Surely Brexit has to get out of the
way before any political party wants | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
to have that debate. It's not on
Labour's interest to take over the | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
Brexit negotiations now. They don't
have consensus in the party about | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
what kind they would have. Imagine
saying that on television tomorrow. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
Let's move on. The Sunday Telegraph.
Their main story, we should welcome | 0:04:35 | 0:04:43 | |
Trump visit, says Boris. This is all
against the background of what is | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
going on in America at the moment.
The Government shutdown, protest | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
marches, and so on. Trump one year
run. What is Boris saying? He has | 0:04:52 | 0:05:00 | |
suggested that he should be welcomed
into the UK because the relationship | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
with the United States is so crucial
here. It is about respecting the | 0:05:04 | 0:05:10 | |
office of the presidency, respecting
that security, and potentially trade | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
in the future would be fighting
especially once Britain needs the | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
EU. Boris has been saying this for a
while. I agree with him. In the | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
short-term gain to completely push
the president out. I think a working | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
trip would be appropriate. Bring out
all the bells and whistles for a | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
state visit is another matter and
people have the right to protest. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
Boris is trying to highlight the
fact that the US has that special | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
relationship. It has always been an
ally. And to cut it off because | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
Trump holds office now could be an
error down the road. Trump himself | 0:05:39 | 0:05:44 | |
seems unwilling to come. He was
invited to cut the ribbon on the new | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
American Embassy. He said he didn't
like it. Off location, I believe. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
People south of the river upset
about that. It looks like it isn't | 0:05:55 | 0:06:00 | |
just antagonism here. I have
absolutely no idea what the | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
Government's policy towards the US
at the moment is. One year ago, | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
Theresa May was on the first plane
out of London to get to Washington. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
That backfired spectacularly when he
brought in that travel ban. She was | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
left looking foolish. Then it has
gone to Wear his best friend, we're | 0:06:16 | 0:06:24 | |
pushing him away, having paraded him
again. -- we are his best man. The | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
UK US relationship goes way back.
Fact is, Trump isn't well liked it. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:36 | |
There was a story on the front of
the express which says that we do | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
not want him to come here,
particularly British women who feel | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
his past actions are not something
they want to deal with. You would | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
get huge protest if he came here in
a official state visit. He has been | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
to France, all sorts of country
where you might think he would get a | 0:06:53 | 0:06:59 | |
hostile reception but he didn't. He
went done quite well. It's | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
interesting that the politico and
the elite here reached out. Other | 0:07:03 | 0:07:08 | |
countries were hesitant. He has met
Emmanuel Macron. He has met Angela | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
Merkel. These protests didn't
happen. The one country that is | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
reaching out to him find the most
difficult to stomach him. Theresa | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
May and Donald Trump will have a
bilateral over a coffee. There will | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
be no protesters. They can do what
Boris suggests here. Interestingly, | 0:07:27 | 0:07:35 | |
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State,
is on his way to London, and Boris | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
says he looks forward to having a
chat with him. I'm sure. Somebody | 0:07:40 | 0:07:45 | |
needs to open the new embassy
because Trump wasn't able to come | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
here himself. I like that.
CHUCKLES | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
The Sunday Telegraph again. Junior
doctors must pay to leave the NHS. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:58 | |
As if it didn't have enough hanging
over it, what is this about? | 0:07:58 | 0:08:04 | |
Fascinating titbit which has come
from a chap who represents senior | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
management in the NHS. Saying junior
doctors who get trained get all of | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
the benefits of the health service.
If they then want to leave they have | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
to pay back the £220,000 work
benefit. Surely this will get junior | 0:08:14 | 0:08:20 | |
doctors annoyed. Remember how
aggrieved they were last year when | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
they were hitting the streets and
some say trying to bring down the | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
Government and all of that stuff.
Now to be told by managers you have | 0:08:26 | 0:08:35 | |
to pay back. It's quite a lot of
money. It is. Training is a two-way | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
scheme. If you say to someone you
are going into this contract to pay | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
it back, it does seem unfair, but it
highlights the huge problems we have | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
with the NHS at the moment.
Absolutely and the representative of | 0:08:45 | 0:08:50 | |
this says this is one of the most
pressing problems of the NHS, we | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
have thousands of doctors choosing
to go abroad. If you have invested | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
that much money, hundreds of
thousands of pounds into one person, | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
to see them take off immediately is
difficult. We don't have the full | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
details. We don't know is going
abroad for a year would count. This | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
is an indefinite move in which they
have to pay something back, for | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
example. But there are other
services which have better pay, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:18 | |
better hours, nicer services for the
workers as well as the patients. We | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
must be aware of that when we have
these conversations. Does this come | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
back to the business of the fact
that the health system is a broken | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
model. Fantastic staff, but it isn't
working, is it? It is just an | 0:09:31 | 0:09:36 | |
example of it. Everyday we have all
NHS crisis. Everyday we find | 0:09:36 | 0:09:41 | |
something else is wrong. Nobody is
willing to come out and admit the | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
fact that the system might not be
fit for 2018. And you have doctors | 0:09:45 | 0:09:50 | |
voting with their feet to go to
other countries to work there and | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
that should be a sign. Theresa May
's Government should do something | 0:09:53 | 0:10:00 | |
about it. Jeremy Corbyn has
proposals to raise taxes, keep the | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
same model, but put more cash into
it. Talk has been coming from | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
Downing Street about a Royal
commission. That would be a | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
fantastic way of kicking the problem
into the long grass for the next | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
five years and not do anything. All
of this talk about raising taxes. In | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
the short term that is more money
in, but something needs to be done, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
we cannot keep going into this
situation. The population is getting | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
older. Strains will grow greater.
And the internal argument between | 0:10:26 | 0:10:34 | |
management and doctors will continue
to grow. Indeed. We mentioned the | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Sunday Express before. The polls
saying Trump isn't welcome. Brexit | 0:10:37 | 0:10:50 | |
enforcers is the headline. Kate, I
think it is your turn to explain. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:56 | |
They are reporting that more than
100 MPs will demand that Theresa May | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
ends freedom of movement and takes
Britain out of the single market in | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
March 2019. What this is pointing
out is that the transition period | 0:11:04 | 0:11:11 | |
should not include any kind of free
movement or access to the single | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
market. Jacob Rees Mogg is reported
here to be... What did you call him? | 0:11:14 | 0:11:23 | |
Layla the new darling. I must
remember that. He said that she must | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
stick to his red lines which she has
theoretically laid out. Phase one of | 0:11:27 | 0:11:33 | |
the negotiations wasn't something
the heart Brexiteers enjoyed. They | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
felt too much money was being
offered. They feel like the question | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
of the Irish border was leaning too
far towards remaining in the single | 0:11:39 | 0:11:46 | |
market, rather than taking them out.
And the other issues they care | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
about, like free movement, they
think they will not be listened to | 0:11:50 | 0:11:57 | |
there either. I think they are
laying down the line now. It is a | 0:11:57 | 0:12:04 | |
long game isn't it? It should not
just be about the next few years. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:09 | |
Does Theresa May need this pressure?
Certainly not. She should be worried | 0:12:09 | 0:12:14 | |
by this. Phase one was the easy
part. The EU said, give us lots of | 0:12:14 | 0:12:19 | |
money. Then you will have to keep
the same rules of transition. The | 0:12:19 | 0:12:27 | |
heart Brexiteers are saving their
ammo for the real fight, which is | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
the end state. I don't know why they
are so worried about the transition | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
part. As long as it has a finite
date, let's say the end of 2020, you | 0:12:33 | 0:12:39 | |
exit all of the EU's institutions,
then that is fine. But these 100 MPs | 0:12:39 | 0:12:45 | |
are the most powerful caucus within
parliament we have seen in modern | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
history. Jacob Rees Mogg has
recently taken over the head of this | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
group, which is called the European
search group, they are putting a | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
Garda van Theresa May. If they lose
faith in her, they will knife her. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
So she should be worried. -- are
putting a guard around Theresa May. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:08 | |
The transition will be the status
quo. I don't know what they're | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
getting at here. Very quickly. The
Mail on Sunday we cannot ignore | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
this. Top Tories in Chinese cash for
Brexit for -- who furore. It is your | 0:13:16 | 0:13:30 | |
story about undercover reporters. It
is Channel 4 saying this. It will be | 0:13:30 | 0:13:36 | |
a Dispatchers programme. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:41 | |
-- it is going to be a Dispatches
story. It was a sting. They said | 0:13:45 | 0:13:52 | |
somebody along to entrap MPs to say
something naughty. The MPs realised | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
what was going on. The programme,
coming out tomorrow night, which | 0:13:56 | 0:14:01 | |
really we will have to watch to see
what this is about, had targeted | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
Angela Lansbury, and Peter Lilley.
They deny any wrongdoing. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:10 | |
Absolutely. Or they are saying is
Cani influence Brexit? And it'll | 0:14:10 | 0:14:17 | |
open up the question of should MPs
have a second job. The bigger | 0:14:17 | 0:14:22 | |
question about this story is the
foreign aspect. -- can you influence | 0:14:22 | 0:14:28 | |
Brexit? It seems like there isn't
much of a story, given the fact it | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
has all been denied. We shall have
to watch tomorrow, as you say. Thank | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
you both. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
That's it for The Papers tonight. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:37 | |
Don't forget you can see the front
pages of the papers online | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
on the BBC News website. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:41 | |
It's all there for you - seven days
a week at bbc.co.uk/papers | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
- and if you miss the programme any
evening you can watch it | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
Thank you, Kate and Sebastian. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
Goodbye | 0:14:50 | 0:15:00 |