0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:28With me are Helen Brand, Chief Executive of the Association
0:00:28 > 0:00:30of Chartered Certified Accountants and Jason Beattie, Head of Politics
0:00:30 > 0:00:31at The Daily Mirror.
0:00:31 > 0:00:37Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41The Times reports that every rape case in England
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and Wales could be reviewed by the Crown Prosecution Service
0:00:43 > 0:00:45after the collapse of several trials over the failure
0:00:45 > 0:00:46to disclose evidence.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49The Telegraph says the UK is in negotiations with the EU
0:00:49 > 0:00:58to extend the Brexit transition period to nearly three years.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02The government, though has strongly denied the story.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Now you've got to be in agony to have a hip op is the headline
0:01:06 > 0:01:08in the Daily Mail which claims NHS Trusts are turning down patients
0:01:09 > 0:01:10for routine hip replacements.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14The Express leads with the rise in GDP.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18The UK economy rose by 0.5% in the last three months of the year,
0:01:18 > 0:01:19defying economists predictions.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21A poll in the Guardian shows support has grown
0:01:21 > 0:01:22for a second EU Referendum.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25The ICM survey says 47% of people want a second vote after the terms
0:01:25 > 0:01:31of the UK's withdrawal from the EU was clear.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34The FT reports on an apparent diplomatic rift between the UK
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and China that could threaten trade talks due to take place
0:01:36 > 0:01:46during the Prime Minister's visit to the country next week.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50The Sun says that a darts governing body has banned women appearing
0:01:50 > 0:01:52on stage in a move the paper labels as political correctness
0:01:52 > 0:01:53going too far.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57And the Mirror has the death of the wife of Singer Paul Young.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58Stacey Young died today from Brain Cancer earlier
0:01:59 > 0:02:00today at the age of 52.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03And so a variety of stories vying for top billing across a range
0:02:03 > 0:02:04of tomorrow's papers.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08We are going to begin with the times, every rape case to be
0:02:08 > 0:02:12reviewed, trials faced delays as disclosure scandal mounts. This is
0:02:12 > 0:02:17because something like four rape trials recently have collapsed,
0:02:17 > 0:02:25Helen.Yes, and it is having very serious consequences. First and
0:02:25 > 0:02:32foremost, obviously, miscarriages of justice need to be prevented. The
0:02:32 > 0:02:36nondisclosure, we have discussed it, surrounding incompetency is, and
0:02:36 > 0:02:41lack of resources, but it is serious that so many cases are falling by
0:02:41 > 0:02:47the wayside. Following on from that, we know rape cases are
0:02:47 > 0:02:52underreported, under prosecuted and there aren't enough convictions that
0:02:52 > 0:02:57come through from rape cases. The effect it has on the women whose
0:02:57 > 0:03:01cases are already in process, all women who are thinking about coming
0:03:01 > 0:03:06forward, this throws all of that into doubt now and it is very
0:03:06 > 0:03:10concerning.Whatever they do, it seems there isn't the trust in the
0:03:10 > 0:03:17justice system that the judiciary would want.Helen is right. Will
0:03:17 > 0:03:23this deter women coming forward? They already have a lack of face
0:03:23 > 0:03:29that claims will be taken seriously. We should be quite careful. This is
0:03:29 > 0:03:33current rape cases, not historic ones. It's one is going through the
0:03:33 > 0:03:41courts at the moment. And it is off the back, as you said, of 2-3 cases
0:03:41 > 0:03:45where there has been miscarriages of justice. One particular one was Liam
0:03:45 > 0:03:54Alan, where his defence team asked for evidence and the police failed
0:03:54 > 0:03:58to hand it over and said it didn't exist. It was only when it got to
0:03:58 > 0:04:01court and a barrister said we need to see the evidence, and it turns
0:04:01 > 0:04:09out that the woman in question had been sending lots of texts of a
0:04:09 > 0:04:14flirtatious nature. Therefore, the case collapsed and why didn't the
0:04:14 > 0:04:18police disclose that information? This is the problem, are the police
0:04:18 > 0:04:25under resourced? That is one complaint. Are they incompetent? Or
0:04:25 > 0:04:29is there a greater conspiracy going on that they are trying to push
0:04:29 > 0:04:36through convictions to meet some sort of target?Alison Saunders was
0:04:36 > 0:04:39talking about that, she said that is absolutely not the case and rejected
0:04:39 > 0:04:44that entirely. Let's move on, it wouldn't be a paper review without
0:04:44 > 0:04:54Brexit, would it?We like Brexit. I am excited by it.Are you?Yeah.OK.
0:04:54 > 0:05:02I do politics for a living. Let's start with the Daily
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Telegraph, it is on three front pages. UK in talks over longer
0:05:05 > 0:05:13transition for Brexit...The transition...David Davis has been
0:05:13 > 0:05:16setting out what he thinks transition should look like from a
0:05:16 > 0:05:20UK point of view.This is what happens, we actually leave
0:05:20 > 0:05:26officially the European Union on 29th March next year, and then we go
0:05:26 > 0:05:31into a transition period where we don't leave at all. We then have two
0:05:31 > 0:05:36years, we were told, or around two years, to actually prepare for
0:05:36 > 0:05:41leaving. Even during transition, we have ad hoc membership of the EU,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44accepting the rules, freedom of movement, members of the single
0:05:44 > 0:05:48market, members of the customs union, under the jurisdiction of the
0:05:48 > 0:05:52European Court of Justice, all the things Brexiteers hate. Now we are
0:05:52 > 0:05:55told, strongly denied by Downing Street, the transition period could
0:05:55 > 0:06:01go on for three years. That is a possibility. I have spoken to very
0:06:01 > 0:06:07senior EU officials that say they don't want to go on beyond two
0:06:07 > 0:06:13years. But if we get to the stage that we haven't got our border
0:06:13 > 0:06:20systems in place, and we haven't got the cheques ready, and we haven't
0:06:20 > 0:06:25sorted out regulatory alignment, and worked out membership of various
0:06:25 > 0:06:33agencies that matter, planes can't take off because they can't get
0:06:33 > 0:06:36permission, because they are not regulated, we need to do that. That
0:06:36 > 0:06:40is why you can see the timescale slipping, and you can see the anger
0:06:40 > 0:06:43of Brexiteers that want to leave now because our glorious future ahead of
0:06:43 > 0:06:50us is not. That is why it's so matters.The government is angry or
0:06:50 > 0:06:54a categorical lie already.They have. Shall we deal with the
0:06:54 > 0:06:58statement from Downing Street? This is a categorical lie, the
0:06:58 > 0:07:00time-limited period should be determined by the length of time it
0:07:00 > 0:07:04takes to put in place new arrangements, and we believe it
0:07:04 > 0:07:08should be around two years. The Telegraph is ranked a front-page
0:07:08 > 0:07:12article suggesting British officials are in discussions with Brussels.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16They are in. Business wouldn't like it to go on any longer, would they?
0:07:16 > 0:07:21Certainty is what is being looked for, currency is what is being
0:07:21 > 0:07:25looked for. We can only see an extended transition period injecting
0:07:25 > 0:07:30more uncertainty into the process. I think they're probably have been
0:07:30 > 0:07:33some discussions along these lines, whether it's as formal as is said
0:07:33 > 0:07:36here, because of the practical issues, it is a very practical
0:07:36 > 0:07:42process that needs to be gone through.Shouldn't there be
0:07:42 > 0:07:46contingency plans and pays? Nothing has worked out how anybody expected,
0:07:46 > 0:07:50it is a good idea to think about all eventualities, isn't it?Government
0:07:50 > 0:07:55or for business? Certainly businesses are thinking about all
0:07:55 > 0:07:58eventualities and lots of contingency plans are in place, but
0:07:58 > 0:08:02as we heard from the Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs this week, those
0:08:02 > 0:08:04contingency plans are being activated because I can't wait any
0:08:04 > 0:08:13longer.Matt says, somebody is having a drink, a tipple, opening a
0:08:13 > 0:08:19bottle of wine, and the legend is, "We are doing dry January after a 30
0:08:19 > 0:08:24day transition period." The Daily Express, Brexit boom is here. How
0:08:24 > 0:08:32big is this boom?Well, it was 1% issue at the end of 2017, stretching
0:08:32 > 0:08:37it a little to describe it as a boom. The growth figures for the
0:08:37 > 0:08:43entire year of 2017 were lower than 2016, and the lowest we have seen
0:08:43 > 0:08:48since the D12. It is hard to extrapolate from that that we are
0:08:48 > 0:08:54seeing a boom. Where the country is growing, it is largely on the back
0:08:54 > 0:08:59of global growth where we are seeing that filter through into the British
0:08:59 > 0:09:02economy, rather than anything in particular that has happened in
0:09:02 > 0:09:07relation to Brexit.The project fear was supposed, we were told, we were
0:09:07 > 0:09:13going to be plunged into a recession, and it was, the economy,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16it was good to be in a bad way. Even those that have been negative about
0:09:16 > 0:09:21the impact of Brexit, it is not quite that bad.Some bits of project
0:09:21 > 0:09:26fear have already come true in terms of seeing a slowdown in growth, we
0:09:26 > 0:09:32are seeing the pound fall in value, and we are starting to see
0:09:32 > 0:09:43businesses move offshore. The doomsday scenarios were 42034, after
0:09:43 > 0:09:47Brexit had happened. Brexit hasn't happened, so we should hold judgment
0:09:47 > 0:09:53here. They were long-term predictions, rather than short-term,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56and they may well come true.We haven't yet left the European Union
0:09:56 > 0:10:01and we don't yet have the settlement, so it has not happened.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05The Guardian, though, is looking towards a second referendum, because
0:10:05 > 0:10:10there is a surge in support for it. Who has got the stomach for this?
0:10:10 > 0:10:17LAUGHTER Britain favours a vote on Brexit by
0:10:17 > 0:10:22a 16 point margin but only when we know the final terms of departure.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Then what do we do if we say we don't like the terms? Then what
0:10:25 > 0:10:38happens? I don't suppose they have looked into that, have they, but...
0:10:38 > 0:10:48We had a poll in a similar area last week, which had a slight majority
0:10:48 > 0:10:52for not wanting a second referendum. We asked a slightly different
0:10:52 > 0:11:01question. What we then found was, if there were a second referendum, the
0:11:01 > 0:11:07majority of people would vote to Remain. Nobody wants an election,
0:11:07 > 0:11:12because we are tired of elections, but I think we are starting to see,
0:11:12 > 0:11:17and we always have caveats with polls, we have had a run of polls
0:11:17 > 0:11:28recently showing a bias for another referendum.It is stalled very
0:11:28 > 0:11:38split.Very marginal. What we are seeing is the entrenched views
0:11:38 > 0:11:44amongst age and the people that voted Leave, the older people, the
0:11:44 > 0:11:50over 65 is, they are just as strongly in favour of voting to
0:11:50 > 0:11:56Leave. For younger people, as the Guardian poll bears out, as our poll
0:11:56 > 0:12:02there is, they are fanatically wanting to Remain. It is a fanatical
0:12:02 > 0:12:07divide. The Guardian shows the Midlands, particularly East
0:12:07 > 0:12:12Midlands, very, very strongly still for Brexit. But you go to Bristol,
0:12:12 > 0:12:15classic metropolitan area, slightly higher educated, very, very strongly
0:12:15 > 0:12:23for Remain.Talking trash about the East Midlands, we won't stand for
0:12:23 > 0:12:30it! There are lovely people from Lee Smith and! Self praise is no
0:12:30 > 0:12:32recommendation. Let's look at the Daily Mail. Now you have to be in
0:12:32 > 0:12:44agony to have a hip operation.The article says it all comes down to
0:12:44 > 0:12:50cost in the end. The NHS is having to try to delay operations because
0:12:50 > 0:12:54it doesn't have the funding to go through with them. Therefore it is
0:12:54 > 0:12:59making sure that people really, really are in agony before they go
0:12:59 > 0:13:04for their operation and insisting on weight loss, insisting on stopping
0:13:04 > 0:13:08smoking, those kinds of measures. In themselves, they good things for
0:13:08 > 0:13:15general health, but aren't medically relevant to having a hip operation,
0:13:15 > 0:13:20so again, it is another symptom of that general NHS challenge around
0:13:20 > 0:13:26finding the resources to meet the medical needs of the population.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29£9,000 for the average hip replacement.That would make sense.
0:13:29 > 0:13:34By problem here is that we have right wing papers complaining for
0:13:34 > 0:13:41years the lower taxes, vilifying governments raise taxes to pay for
0:13:41 > 0:13:45health care, and turn around and go this is terrible, they can't have it
0:13:45 > 0:13:53both ways.Politicians find it difficult to sell the case for
0:13:53 > 0:13:57higher taxes.There is definitely a shift on this one. People are
0:13:57 > 0:14:02starting to wake up now. They want public services they desire, whether
0:14:02 > 0:14:06it is education or a better health service, they have to pay for it
0:14:06 > 0:14:11somehow.There is also a message in here about the wider health care
0:14:11 > 0:14:18issue, social care, preventative health care, which puts you in a
0:14:18 > 0:14:21position where you might not need a hip operation, and the joining up of
0:14:21 > 0:14:28those budgets.Social care in particular, it has been cut by 6
0:14:28 > 0:14:37billion in the last six years. No wonder hospitals are struggling.The
0:14:37 > 0:14:53FT, rift Taisho 's UK China golden hero. This is the Belton Road
0:14:53 > 0:14:58initiative.It is essentially a really big the ancient silk Route
0:14:58 > 0:15:06China's plans for China businesses involving billions and billions of
0:15:06 > 0:15:15dollars of investment throughout Asia, Africa, into Europe. We have
0:15:15 > 0:15:19done a lot of research around the opportunities that this presents,
0:15:19 > 0:15:23and it presents a lot of opportunities for British business
0:15:23 > 0:15:26in many countries across emerging economies. That, essentially, is
0:15:26 > 0:15:31where the future growth will come from and we are talking about a
0:15:31 > 0:15:36protest Brexit well, it is where trading is going to happen.Theresa
0:15:36 > 0:15:42May will visit China. China is hoping for a formal endorsement.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46What I don't understand is why we are reluctant to endorse this given
0:15:46 > 0:15:56we are meant to be a free trading wonderful Britain post-Brexit.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Pictographic, the Prime Minister's former disaster after the decision
0:15:59 > 0:16:08to call the election, it just seems weird that Britain would not want to
0:16:08 > 0:16:13support this.We will see what diplomatic language gets used when
0:16:13 > 0:16:18she is there.This time last year, President Xi was talking about free
0:16:18 > 0:16:23trade, we welcome that very much. It is in contrast to the speech today
0:16:23 > 0:16:30from Trump in terms of global versus protectionism. It is part of that
0:16:30 > 0:16:37free trade initiative.Let's finish with a bit of navel-gazing. BBC male
0:16:37 > 0:16:43presenters take cut in pay. John Humphrys is one of six highly paid
0:16:43 > 0:16:49male presenters who have done the decent thing, supposedly, for which
0:16:49 > 0:16:56the BBC says it is grateful.We should be, should we, very no-ball.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01Men self-sacrificing in this way to help the good cause of gender pay
0:17:01 > 0:17:09equality.I wonder how effective it will be in resolving the wider
0:17:09 > 0:17:14issues amongst 19,000 people.This is an interesting story, which
0:17:14 > 0:17:18essentially is why we are talking about it. But the bigger issue on
0:17:18 > 0:17:27equal pay and gender pay reporting are the systemic issues that exist
0:17:27 > 0:17:30within organisations. We will see more around these issues in the next
0:17:30 > 0:17:35couple of weeks.You are right. My company, I know, we have to reveal
0:17:35 > 0:17:40this. The BBC is the first one to do it, and therefore we are talking
0:17:40 > 0:17:46about it. But it is a weird way to handle it, saying they grateful,
0:17:46 > 0:17:49maybe expressing attitude to the women that have been underpaid for
0:17:49 > 0:17:56many years and do a wonderful job. Thank you for your comments. I don't
0:17:56 > 0:17:59have a view. That's it for the papers for tonight.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:18:02 > 0:18:03on the BBC News website.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05It's all there for you, seven days a week
0:18:05 > 0:18:06at bbc.co.uk/papers.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09And if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it
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0:18:11 > 0:18:18Thank you to Jason and Helen. They have both been paid the same for
0:18:18 > 0:18:25appearing hits a night. Now, the weather.