0:00:00 > 0:00:02following some of the heaviest rain for a century.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23Hello and welcome to our look ahead at the papers with my guests. Good
0:00:23 > 0:00:29evening to you both. We will be looking at the front pages in a
0:00:29 > 0:00:35moment with Nigel Nelson, the editor of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday
0:00:35 > 0:00:40people and the broadcaster Penny Smith. Let's look at the front
0:00:40 > 0:00:48pages. The Sunday Times says Meghan Markle plans to make a speech at her
0:00:48 > 0:00:52wedding. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has criticised Theresa May according to
0:00:52 > 0:00:56the Mail on Sunday who thinks the PM's approach to Brexit has not been
0:00:56 > 0:01:02tough enough. The Independent on Sunday in Leeds with a dramatic
0:01:02 > 0:01:08picture of the bomb in Kabul which has killed at least 95 people and
0:01:08 > 0:01:14injured many more. The Telegraph says Cabinet source is warning of a
0:01:14 > 0:01:34Brexit betrayal. The Express has a story on rogue parking companies.
0:01:34 > 0:01:39Lots of stories on the front pages. The papers all have their own
0:01:39 > 0:01:45investigation is taking place. Let's start off with the Mail.We were
0:01:45 > 0:01:48having a discussion, Nigel and I, about whether it is really a snub
0:01:48 > 0:01:55when what he has said is he would have played hardball with Europe. He
0:01:55 > 0:02:00he said the EU is not all it is cracked up to be, I would be tough.
0:02:00 > 0:02:06It is not really a snub. He says he has been invited, Theresa May has
0:02:06 > 0:02:10invited him twice to Britain and everybody is saying did we know
0:02:10 > 0:02:20about this? Is it true?Fake news! Because as we know, there have been
0:02:20 > 0:02:22suggestions that there would be protests and various other things,
0:02:22 > 0:02:28and also in this, this is an interview he has done with Piers
0:02:28 > 0:02:33Morgan, and in it he praises Macron and says how he really likes them
0:02:33 > 0:02:39and they went up the Eiffel Tower. And the wife, he likes the wife is
0:02:39 > 0:02:43specially.He likes the wife, they closed everything and it was
0:02:43 > 0:02:48fantastic. I supposed it is the contrast between saying Theresa May
0:02:48 > 0:02:53should have done this, but the Macrons, they are great! That is
0:02:53 > 0:03:03what struck me.It was a new special relationship.It is not as!What do
0:03:03 > 0:03:06you think?It is quite special to get an interview with Donald Trump
0:03:06 > 0:03:10so full marks to Piers Morgan for pulling it off. But the problem is
0:03:10 > 0:03:15you get the feeling that he did not say anything. When it comes to the
0:03:15 > 0:03:21so-called snub about Brexit, what he says is he would have taken a stand.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25What does that mean? David Davis might say he is taking a tough
0:03:25 > 0:03:31stand, Theresa May might say she is, so it goes on. I think the news that
0:03:31 > 0:03:35he thinks he is coming to two visit is the most interesting, as Penny
0:03:35 > 0:03:38said. The fact that Buckingham Palace does not know anything about
0:03:38 > 0:03:43it and nor does Downing Street, does make me feel that he is a bit
0:03:43 > 0:03:47confused. We do know that he is due to make a working visit at the end
0:03:47 > 0:03:59of the year. That seems to be set in stone.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04But the idea of a state visit within the year.Maybe it is one of those
0:04:04 > 0:04:07things when people say we must do lunch and you get your diary out and
0:04:07 > 0:04:09that you look horrified.It is reported that when it was brought up
0:04:09 > 0:04:15Mr Trump said we will talk about it. It has then moved on to two visits!
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Who can tell?Let's turn to the Telegraph. A couple of stories that
0:04:20 > 0:04:28we are looking at on the front page. Again, it is Brexit. Brexit
0:04:28 > 0:04:31betrayal, Nigel.You could call it Brexit common sense, it rather
0:04:31 > 0:04:36depends on which side of the argument you are on. What the
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Telegraph is suggesting is that Whitehall officials, Whitehall
0:04:39 > 0:04:43mandarins as we like to call them, they are trying to get the Prime
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Minister to agree a soft Brexit. Much of the lines that Philip
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Hammond was talking about, that he seemed to get hauled over the coals
0:04:51 > 0:04:56over by the PM when he was in Davos. This is the idea of the modest
0:04:56 > 0:05:02Brexit, not too many differences and so on. They are saying Jeremy Heggie
0:05:02 > 0:05:07Cabinet Secretary is behind this, along with Ollie Robbins, the PM's
0:05:07 > 0:05:12chief Brexit advisor. They may well be advising that. It may be the
0:05:12 > 0:05:17sensible thing to do. But the Telegraph being a Brexit paper, this
0:05:17 > 0:05:24is a betrayal.They do say that obviously they have the big war
0:05:24 > 0:05:29cabinet meeting on Monday, say really keying it up.Every time I
0:05:29 > 0:05:39hear the word whenever I try, I see people sliding under the table! The
0:05:39 > 0:05:43thing is, we are in it for the long haul. It seems to me that these are
0:05:43 > 0:05:48the small things on the way to our divorce. These other bits, I have
0:05:48 > 0:05:54mentioned it before, it is like a divorce. You have the house,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57children, probably children and then house. You have all these things to
0:05:57 > 0:06:04unpick and then you are talking about who is having the books.What
0:06:04 > 0:06:08aspect of Brexit concerns you? Whenever they start talking about
0:06:08 > 0:06:12things that I think are going to really affect me, let's face it,
0:06:12 > 0:06:17that is the only thing I really care about, being able to get to Europe
0:06:17 > 0:06:21quickly and getting through customs without worrying, and also about
0:06:21 > 0:06:27companies and companies that rely on European interchange. Those are the
0:06:27 > 0:06:33things. This to me, as I said... People have got bored with it
0:06:33 > 0:06:37because not a lot has happened. The feeling that one gets all the way
0:06:37 > 0:06:40through with the government doesn't really know what it wants from
0:06:40 > 0:06:44Brexit. That is what the Europeans keep telling us. When we know what
0:06:44 > 0:06:48we are aiming for, it might get more in just in because we will then
0:06:48 > 0:06:51begin to understand how it will affect us individually. Until it
0:06:51 > 0:06:58happens, it can be a bit dull.That is putting it mildly for some!
0:06:58 > 0:07:03Something that will probably get a lot of people's attention is council
0:07:03 > 0:07:11tax bills to rise by £80.This is because as we know, councils are
0:07:11 > 0:07:15strapped for cash, and the government has lifted its cap on
0:07:15 > 0:07:20increases, and it looks like quite a few councils are going to say right,
0:07:20 > 0:07:24lets makes it out. We need lots of things doing and we particularly
0:07:24 > 0:07:28need to pay attention to social care. Social care has been the one
0:07:28 > 0:07:32thing they have been banging on about with the NHS, the reason why
0:07:32 > 0:07:36the NHS is struggling is because of social care, and that has this
0:07:36 > 0:07:45knock-on effect.It of all the bed blocking.And frankly, no one likes
0:07:45 > 0:07:48tax rises, but my view on this one is, bring it on. Until we start
0:07:48 > 0:07:52talking about this whole social care issue and until we integrate the
0:07:52 > 0:07:56health side and the social care side and the billions it will cost, we
0:07:56 > 0:08:01will have constant problems. Yes, somebody will have to pay for it
0:08:01 > 0:08:05somewhere along the way, let's start with council tax.But a lot of
0:08:05 > 0:08:11people are not getting pay rises, how will they pay for this?Because
0:08:11 > 0:08:15of inflation, they are Angela getting paid equally as is. The cost
0:08:15 > 0:08:19of life is getting more and more. We are in 's territory. No matter which
0:08:19 > 0:08:24way you dress it up, whether you put those on it and put glitter on, it
0:08:24 > 0:08:29is still austerity.The other side is we have ambulances queueing up in
0:08:29 > 0:08:33car parks. However you cut it, more money is necessary and it means a
0:08:33 > 0:08:38lot more money. Obviously, if the Labour government was in the moment,
0:08:38 > 0:08:42what we would have is the highest paid would be making the biggest
0:08:42 > 0:08:46contribution. That to me is the way forward. However you look at it, we
0:08:46 > 0:08:51are all going to have to pay some more.Talking about pay, let's move
0:08:51 > 0:08:56on to our third story on the Sunday Telegraph. What grabbed you about
0:08:56 > 0:09:04this story? The BBC are accused of paperboy.The argument is because
0:09:04 > 0:09:08you have the gender report coming out next week, the BBC decided what
0:09:08 > 0:09:12a perfect time to deflect from this and we will announce that some of
0:09:12 > 0:09:18the top paid presenters like John Humphreys and Huw Edwards have
0:09:18 > 0:09:23agreed to take a pay cut. It does seem that this is a bit more
0:09:23 > 0:09:28fundamental. The BBC needs to think about what it needs to and what it
0:09:28 > 0:09:33do wants to be. You might argue John Humphrys should not get £600,000 of
0:09:33 > 0:09:36public money and Hugh Edwards, I hope he is not around at the moment
0:09:36 > 0:09:43to hear after! You can argue about things like that you can argue about
0:09:43 > 0:09:47pay parity, but at the end of the date is public money and it is how
0:09:47 > 0:09:51you spend it. I would have thought this was a perfect time for the BBC
0:09:51 > 0:09:56to look at itself and say, do we need to do everything? Do we need to
0:09:56 > 0:09:59have so many expensive light entertainment programmes on? Isn't
0:09:59 > 0:10:05it part of the BBC to be producing television that would not be
0:10:05 > 0:10:13available elsewhere?How does this compare to the commercial side?I do
0:10:13 > 0:10:17think with the BBC, and particularly with radio presenters, like you were
0:10:17 > 0:10:22talking that John Humphrys, the BBC in the past has talked about other
0:10:22 > 0:10:27commercial pressures and part of me thinks, you are not supposed to be
0:10:27 > 0:10:31competing in that way so therefore, don't offer huge salaries because
0:10:31 > 0:10:35somebody will do it because they want to do it. You don't need to
0:10:35 > 0:10:38offer these massive amounts and you cannot get that in the commercial
0:10:38 > 0:10:43sector. You really can't. These wages are far more than anybody
0:10:43 > 0:10:54else's offering.OK. Let's move on to the Independent. And, yes, 95
0:10:54 > 0:11:00people killed in Kabul. There are stories of women and children also
0:11:00 > 0:11:04killed in this. The Taliban really picking up the pace on attacks in
0:11:04 > 0:11:10Afghanistan.I think for me, there is also that added hideousness that
0:11:10 > 0:11:19it was all packed into an ambulance. It is that horrible juxtaposition.
0:11:19 > 0:11:26Just like when you find out doctors have joined Isis, for example. You
0:11:26 > 0:11:30think there is something quite weird about that combination of something
0:11:30 > 0:11:33which is supposed to be helping people who are ill and then blowing
0:11:33 > 0:11:40people to bits. You can only imagine the hideousness of living in a place
0:11:40 > 0:11:50like this, and the same in Syria, to be fair.I will look it up for the
0:11:50 > 0:11:54next programme, I think the international Red Cross have said it
0:11:54 > 0:11:59is regarded as a crime, that they have used an ambulance, something
0:11:59 > 0:12:04which should help people, to commit an atrocity. I will find that for
0:12:04 > 0:12:09the next hour. Nigel, could you take us to the Express please?Indeed.
0:12:09 > 0:12:14The Express have gone completely off piste when it comes to politics. A
0:12:14 > 0:12:22story which will affect a lot of people because 6 million people get
0:12:22 > 0:12:24private parking tickets in this country. No more. The government is
0:12:24 > 0:12:28doing something about this. This is Sajid Javid the Communities
0:12:28 > 0:12:33Secretary. The idea is a new code of practice for the private parking
0:12:33 > 0:12:38companies. They handle private bits of land and hospital car parks. If
0:12:38 > 0:12:42they issue tickets when they should not and if they have an appeals
0:12:42 > 0:12:46procedure which does not work or if anything is confusing about the way
0:12:46 > 0:12:52they operate, what they can do is remove the right to go to the DVLA
0:12:52 > 0:12:56to get our addresses and that will put them out of business because if
0:12:56 > 0:13:00they have not got the addresses from the DVLA and our names, they cannot
0:13:00 > 0:13:05finance, they get no money and that will be the end of them. That is the
0:13:05 > 0:13:10idea.You were telling us early on about how you stopped off somewhere.
0:13:10 > 0:13:19I was at party conference. I parked on a hotel for court to put in in
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Manchester. I drove off, put my car in a multi-story. The next morning I
0:13:23 > 0:13:28found a ticket on it from one of these private companies. Somebody
0:13:28 > 0:13:32had seen me in the hotel and worked his way all round the car park to
0:13:32 > 0:13:37put the ticket on. Tickets are not actually tickets, they are invoices.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41I refused to pay the invoice and told the company I would happily
0:13:41 > 0:13:53expose them in the newspaper if they pursued it and that was the sad
0:13:53 > 0:13:56thing is not everyone can say that threat. How would you know it was a
0:13:56 > 0:13:59cowboy? First of all the tickets should not look like tickets. It is
0:13:59 > 0:14:05one of the things that would be banned under this system. They will
0:14:05 > 0:14:09not be local authority. It will be written on it that it is a private
0:14:09 > 0:14:13firm. And then what you do is you take them on. You should be able to
0:14:13 > 0:14:20get rid of them.I think a lot of people would be scared.Very
0:14:20 > 0:14:25quickly, irony want to get to this story, the bride will be speaking at
0:14:25 > 0:14:30her wedding. What do you think about this?The amount of weddings I have
0:14:30 > 0:14:37been to in the past two years where the bride have spoken.Really?Yes,
0:14:37 > 0:14:45it is relent. Andy McDowell did it in the film For Weddings and a cat
0:14:45 > 0:14:53macro funeral.We have not mentioned which wedding it is. It is Meghan
0:14:53 > 0:15:01Markle and Prince Harry. Why do like it?I just think it sounds like it
0:15:01 > 0:15:05will be really good fun. There is a line where it says she is even
0:15:05 > 0:15:12thinking of putting in some jokes. Excellent!We will leave it there.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17Penny and Nigel, thank you. We have more coming up in the next hour. You
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