0:00:17 > 0:00:21Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:21 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24With me are political commentator Jane Merrick
0:00:24 > 0:00:25and Kate Forrester, political correspondent
0:00:25 > 0:00:28at the Huffington Post.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Thank you for coming in.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34The Metro leads with the story we've been
0:00:34 > 0:00:37reporting here this evening, that police are investigating
0:00:37 > 0:00:39a new allegation of sexual assault against the convicted rapist,
0:00:39 > 0:00:44John Worboys, who is due to be released
0:00:44 > 0:00:45at the end of the month.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The Financial Times leads with report on what the paper calls
0:00:48 > 0:00:50a secretive Mayfair men-only charity gala - the Presidents Club -
0:00:50 > 0:00:52which raises millions for charity.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54The Telegraph leads with news north of the border.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57It says Scotland's First minister has ruled the union flag should not
0:00:57 > 0:01:01be flown on government buildings in Scotland.
0:01:01 > 0:01:07-- it will only be flown on the Scottish Government buildings on
0:01:07 > 0:01:08Remembrance Sunday.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11The I leads with news of an attack on fake news.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14It says a new national security team has been launched to tackle
0:01:14 > 0:01:15disinformation spread online.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16The Express leads with health news.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18The paper says a new cheap pill could help arthirits
0:01:18 > 0:01:20sufferers fight the pain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22And finally The Daily Mail warns that people could be
0:01:22 > 0:01:25risking their health by taking herbal remedies at the same time
0:01:25 > 0:01:26as prescription drugs.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27So, Jane and Kate, let's get started.
0:01:27 > 0:01:34A lot to have a look at. Starting with the Metro and this John Worboys
0:01:34 > 0:01:38story because it looks as if, in this ongoing saga, this could be
0:01:38 > 0:01:45quite significant.Yes, obviously he is a quite notorious sexual predator
0:01:45 > 0:01:52who is due for release in matter of days. He has served less than ten
0:01:52 > 0:01:55years for 19 offences and is due to be questioned over another alleged
0:01:55 > 0:02:03assault in 1997. If this claim leads to a prosecution, they say he could
0:02:03 > 0:02:09be kept in custody to await trial. This could put off the problem that
0:02:09 > 0:02:12David Gauke as new Justice Secretary is facing because there was a
0:02:12 > 0:02:15suggestion in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago that the
0:02:15 > 0:02:18government would try to block his release but David Gauke has said
0:02:18 > 0:02:22they cannot do that because there is little chance of success. I think it
0:02:22 > 0:02:25is important for the government to get this right because it is
0:02:25 > 0:02:31obviously very high profile.And if there was a fresh prosecution, it
0:02:31 > 0:02:37takes the political heat of the government in the immediate time.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Absolutely. David Gauke was under pressure last week because of this
0:02:40 > 0:02:47and the victims are very concerned because they say he knows their
0:02:47 > 0:02:49oppressors and they are worried about him coming out and they have
0:02:49 > 0:02:55launched a crowdfund is an attempt to stop it. It is politically
0:02:55 > 0:02:58difficult but this courageous person has come forward over this assault
0:02:58 > 0:03:02in 97 and we will see what happens. And a lot of those victims did not
0:03:02 > 0:03:06know he was going to be released which is one of the big bits of the
0:03:06 > 0:03:11scandal. The Financial Times, we have to be careful with this story,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15it is an investigation from the FT but they are making some pretty
0:03:15 > 0:03:20serious allegations about what they are presented as an evening of
0:03:20 > 0:03:27debauchery.This was two report going undercover at this Presidents
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Club dinner which I had never heard of but apparently has been going for
0:03:30 > 0:03:4033 years and it is men only, the guests, 360 guests and they hire 130
0:03:40 > 0:03:46hostesses to entertain the men in the evening. Hostess Inc happens a
0:03:46 > 0:03:50lot in clubland and so on but some of this reporting is quite
0:03:50 > 0:03:57strawberry, the things that happened that are -- quite extraordinary
0:03:57 > 0:04:02things like groping and things that would be constituted as sexual
0:04:02 > 0:04:06assault.And without going into names, there is a long list of
0:04:06 > 0:04:12people invited to this event, the FT says they don't know if they went
0:04:12 > 0:04:17but it is titans of industry and the like?Completely, a lot of
0:04:17 > 0:04:21well-known names on the list, obviously we do not know if they
0:04:21 > 0:04:26actually attended but it goes to show that a position of authority or
0:04:26 > 0:04:30power is not necessarily an indication that you're going to get
0:04:30 > 0:04:35away with this kind of thing.The Presidents Club has said they
0:04:35 > 0:04:40received leads hosted their annual dinner and raised several million
0:04:40 > 0:04:43pounds for disadvantaged children and the organisers say they are
0:04:43 > 0:04:46appalled by the allegations are bad behaviour that the Financial Times
0:04:46 > 0:04:50is talking about and this it is unacceptable and the allegations
0:04:50 > 0:04:52will be investigated fully and promptly and appropriate action
0:04:52 > 0:05:01taken. I suppose that surely the focus this comes at a time where the
0:05:01 > 0:05:07zeitgeist is very much women have been demeaned in public life and by
0:05:07 > 0:05:12powerful men, it is Hollywood, Westminster, all over the place. How
0:05:12 > 0:05:17do we move from this to a situation where the system itself is changed?
0:05:17 > 0:05:23That is really important and everything about the metoo has been
0:05:23 > 0:05:28spotlighting this behaviour. And also spotlighting all sorts of
0:05:28 > 0:05:34incidents is picked has to be backed up by concrete and systemic changes,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37slightly granular, but that stop this thing and give women the
0:05:37 > 0:05:40confidence to be able to report things independently without fear of
0:05:40 > 0:05:48a backlash.But also a change in what is deemed to be acceptable.
0:05:48 > 0:05:55This is clearly something, this is an event and yes, there are denials,
0:05:55 > 0:06:02and yet it was deemed to be acceptable. Even if only half the
0:06:02 > 0:06:05allegations are true, you would have thought the FT stands by its story,
0:06:05 > 0:06:10but even if half of them were true it is shedding a light on the way in
0:06:10 > 0:06:14which some people choose to amuse themselves.And I think it is
0:06:14 > 0:06:19shedding a light on the scope of the problem. We would be kidding
0:06:19 > 0:06:23ourselves if we pretended this sort of thing did not go on a much
0:06:23 > 0:06:27smaller scale in smaller firms. We were talking earlier and we said
0:06:27 > 0:06:32that the City has not had its own metoo moment yet and that is
0:06:32 > 0:06:36significant and this could be an early indication that it could come
0:06:36 > 0:06:40soon.Moving on to the Daily Telegraph, this is a story we often
0:06:40 > 0:06:46hear from the United States, but Britain hooked on prescription
0:06:46 > 0:06:51drugs?The figures in this are quite stunning. The figure they have drawn
0:06:51 > 0:06:58out is 64 million NHS prescriptions each year for antidepressants to bed
0:06:58 > 0:07:03to 22,000,002 thousand which is an extraordinary amount considering the
0:07:03 > 0:07:07population is only 70 million and ministers are looking into a review
0:07:07 > 0:07:12of prescription drugs not only anti-depressant but powerful
0:07:12 > 0:07:17painkillers. We have heard a lot about fentanyl which is an extremely
0:07:17 > 0:07:23powerful opiate painkiller. There is a concern of the rise of
0:07:23 > 0:07:26prescriptions which is allowing people to be hooked on them. Another
0:07:26 > 0:07:31figures shows that two thirds of the people on these medicines are women
0:07:31 > 0:07:37in their 50s and 60s and that is incredibly concerning.And just
0:07:37 > 0:07:43above it, the story from Scotland, the union flag sometimes flying?It
0:07:43 > 0:07:48is only going to be flown once a year from now on. I think it was
0:07:48 > 0:07:56only flown a couple of times a year anyway. The cynic in me says this
0:07:56 > 0:08:02might be an attempt by Nicola Sturgeon to stir up her support base
0:08:02 > 0:08:05in Scotland again. Obviously she was kind of flavour of the month until
0:08:05 > 0:08:12last year and support for the SNP is now falling slightly. I think
0:08:12 > 0:08:18supporters of it will think this annoyed the Daily Telegraph, a
0:08:18 > 0:08:22quintessentially English paper, and people it are quintessential English
0:08:22 > 0:08:30Tory MPs.And moving on your Huffington Post and the story that
0:08:30 > 0:08:37everybody has been covering, Boris Johnson getting slapped down. Is it
0:08:37 > 0:08:42a problem for borrowers rather than Theresa May? I don't know if it is
0:08:42 > 0:08:50-- for Boris Johnson.I don't know if it is, a lot of the news
0:08:50 > 0:08:53organisations are leading on him being slapped down but if you are
0:08:53 > 0:08:56not following the intricacies of what is happening in the Cabinet and
0:08:56 > 0:09:00with Brexit at the moment, Boris Johnson Saunders looks like he is
0:09:00 > 0:09:07just championing the NHS again -- sort of look. As he did in the
0:09:07 > 0:09:13referendum campaign with the £350 million promised for the NHS. Again,
0:09:13 > 0:09:17I'm not sure that this is a particularly bad story for him.And
0:09:17 > 0:09:23I think it works, as Kate said, in his favour. There are not any fresh
0:09:23 > 0:09:27ideas coming out of number ten, there is a vacuum and he is coming
0:09:27 > 0:09:33up with slightly mad ideas like this bridge to France last week but this
0:09:33 > 0:09:36is a populist and popular proposal which is more money for the NHS
0:09:36 > 0:09:44which I think voters will recognise as seriously needed.Moving onto the
0:09:44 > 0:09:50i, fake news unit to fight web threat. I was reading that Italy had
0:09:50 > 0:09:53done something similar.And we have heard so much about fake news
0:09:53 > 0:09:59factories in various countries, using Twitter and Facebook to
0:09:59 > 0:10:05propagate this stuff. Theresa May has decided that part of the
0:10:05 > 0:10:08response to this has to be a dedicated unit to stop it and make
0:10:08 > 0:10:14sure it is not happening and there is also a parliamentary enquiry into
0:10:14 > 0:10:17how Twitter and Facebook, who claim they are platforms not publishers,
0:10:17 > 0:10:21are being used for this kind of thing. It is important because there
0:10:21 > 0:10:24is not only the fear of Russian interference into the referendum and
0:10:24 > 0:10:30so on but a more pernicious and people died really notice it is
0:10:30 > 0:10:34there and they think it is real news on Facebook, they trusted because it
0:10:34 > 0:10:43is their -- people don't really notice it.Going back to the Metro
0:10:43 > 0:10:57to cheer ourselves up. This is the nomination of Daniel Kaluuya for
0:10:57 > 0:11:02best actor.There is a lot of incredibly young talent up for
0:11:02 > 0:11:06awards this time round. This the Daniel but also Rachael Morrison who
0:11:06 > 0:11:15is up for the first e-mail cinematographer -- female. I watched
0:11:15 > 0:11:22the film at the weekend, it is fantastic, Mudbound. It is nice to
0:11:22 > 0:11:26the big presence for this kind of thing across a few of the papers.
0:11:26 > 0:11:35And I'm ashamed to say I did not know this, but a nomination for Lady
0:11:35 > 0:11:41Bird, the director of that, a woman, is only the fifth woman ever to be
0:11:41 > 0:11:45nominated for best director.Which is extraordinary, only the fifth in
0:11:45 > 0:11:5090 years and given there were no women on the nominations list that
0:11:50 > 0:11:58was picked up at the Globe that will grab the Golden Globes. The whole
0:11:58 > 0:12:05atmosphere in Hollywood the temple movement has shone the spotlight on
0:12:05 > 0:12:09women and people of colour but it is extraordinary as you say that it is
0:12:09 > 0:12:18only the fifth woman nominated.And let's finish with Kyle Edmund.This
0:12:18 > 0:12:23is a great story for British tennis, obviously Andy Murray is injured and
0:12:23 > 0:12:28Kyle Edmund has become only the sixth British man to reach a grand
0:12:28 > 0:12:32slam semifinal.So much was made last week that Andy Murray would not
0:12:32 > 0:12:36be there, Johanna Konta was our only hope and all of a sudden, for people
0:12:36 > 0:12:41with only a casual interest, up pops Kyle Edmund.If you don't follow
0:12:41 > 0:12:45every match on the taught you might not have heard of him but it is a
0:12:45 > 0:12:50fantastic achievement for him but what struck me, he did not stop
0:12:50 > 0:12:55playing tennis until he was nine years old and he is only 23. My
0:12:55 > 0:12:58daughter is seven at the moment, she started when she was forced it gives
0:12:58 > 0:13:05parents like me great hope! -- when she was four.And her mum and dad
0:13:05 > 0:13:11are heading out to see him.Dad is already out in Australia and his mum
0:13:11 > 0:13:15is following on. My favourite line was that he joked that his mum sent
0:13:15 > 0:13:20him to tennis lessons because he was annoying her!The same with your
0:13:20 > 0:13:27daughter?Yes!Thank you very much and if you're daughter makes it to
0:13:27 > 0:13:31the semifinals of Australia I presume you're flying out. Thank you
0:13:31 > 0:13:31both indeed.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33That's it for The Papers tonight.
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0:13:46 > 0:13:48Thank you to Jane and Kate.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Goodbye.