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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:23 | |
With me are Kate Andrews,
News Editor at the Institute | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
of Economic Affairs and the former
Labour advisor and political | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
commentator Ayesha Hazarika. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:32 | |
Good to see you both. We have quite
a few of the papers already in. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
Let's look at some of them. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
The FT leads with the state
of the UK stock market, | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
suggesting it's trailing its rivals
because of concerns around | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
growth and profits. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
It also has news of the German
Chancellor's coalition deal to stay | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
in power. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:52 | |
Some low alcohol beverages are being
marketed as if they are soft drinks, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
warns the Metro, quoting a study
that claims people who switch | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
to weaker drinks could end up
consuming more alcohol overall. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
The Express reports that millions
of households will see their council | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
tax bill rise this year. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
The picture shows the Duchess
of Cambridge getting her | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
heel stuck in a grate. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:08 | |
The Telegraph has revelations
about a campaign to overturn Brexit | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
that apparently has the backing
of billionaire George Soros. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:16 | |
The i newspaper focuses
on the plight of young migrants | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
prepared to take extreme risks
to get to the UK. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
The Times reports on a hundred
million pound financial shortfall | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
at Surrey County Council. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
The Sun has a response
from Denise Bulger to the news | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
that her son's killer Jon Venables
has been jailed for a second | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
time over the possession
of child abuse images. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:38 | |
The Guardian's front page reveals
secret government documents have | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
estimated a no-deal Brexit
would hit the economy | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
to the tune of £80 billion. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
No chance of getting through an
addition of the papers without | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
talking about Brexit. No matter how
hard we try! We are going to start | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
with that story, the front page
of... We tried really hard(!) We | 0:01:57 | 0:02:05 | |
can't ignore it, a secret plot to
thwart Abraxas, apparently, a | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
picture of Mr George Soros? --
thought Brexit. Apparently it is his | 0:02:09 | 0:02:17 | |
plot, he is a billionaire, known
quite famously for breaking the bank | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
of England, that is in reference to
the fact that he bet against the | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
pound during the 1992 Black
Wednesday currency crisis. He did | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
not literally break it! He has been
accused of coming up with plans over | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
a dinner, a secret document has been
leaked that would put the government | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
in a position where it would have to
call a general election will | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
probably hold a second referendum.
The goal is not to get a soft | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
Brexit, it is to reverse the
decision. I don't think it is | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
particularly newsworthy that some
people have enough money to be | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
holding a private dinner are
discussing the fact that they would | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
like to remain in the European
Union. Even putting a document | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
together is not shocking. I imagine
lots of people are doing this. The | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
most newsworthy thing about me is at
the end, sources at the dinner said | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
that the message fell flat and that
donors left without giving money. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:12 | |
Even if you are very opposed to
Brexit, it is hard to see how it is | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
not going to happen at all. That is
probably not because people are | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
going to get behind. Soft Brexit,
maybe, but not at all, that is | 0:03:19 | 0:03:26 | |
unlikely. The Daily Telegraph, we
know where they stand? Absolutely, | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
the byline, the first name is Nick
Timothy, I think the beard has gone, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:35 | |
but he is still very much a man
connected into Number 10 and was | 0:03:35 | 0:03:40 | |
very against this kind of you. I was
a Remainer, I would like us not to | 0:03:40 | 0:03:46 | |
leave the EU, but I am also a
Democrat. We had a referendum and | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
voted to leave. I think everybody
has the right to make arguments | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
about what kind Brexit, get people
to change their minds. What is about | 0:03:52 | 0:03:57 | |
this is the fact that it is the
people that really want to stop | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
Brexit happening, it is like they
learned nothing from the Remain | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
campaign. It did not do well, is
lost. It should have spoken to | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
working men and women, particularly
outside of London. Again, we have a | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
millionaire, a billionaire
businessman, lots of other rich, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
white, powerful men, based in
London, trying to reverse something | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
that has happened. That is not the
way to get a successful outcome on | 0:04:23 | 0:04:28 | |
Brexit. These other guys that look
like they could have been Presidents | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
club. They are not really... We are
not casting aspersions, Mr Soros, | 0:04:31 | 0:04:40 | |
you are a very rich man, please do
not sue! It shows a ten year to what | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
is going on. Make the arguments
about why you are worried, don't | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
have a rich, powerful, mail dinner
to thwart it. What is funny, planted | 0:04:49 | 0:04:56 | |
a document discusses having Momentum
style rallies and concerts. There is | 0:04:56 | 0:05:03 | |
recognition about what is getting
people excited and motivated. I | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
don't think the people at this
dinner would necessarily be the | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
people attending those rallies and
concerts. There is a recognition of | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
it. I think they love that the
Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon and said, | 0:05:12 | 0:05:21 | |
we will have a piece of that. It is
not as simple. The thing that | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
motivated these people, they felt
that they were the underdogs that | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
would not go to rallies for the 1%
that have just come back from Davos, | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
you know what I mean? They want a
change, and Brexit is the change. If | 0:05:31 | 0:05:38 | |
you disagree with Brexit, this is
not the way to do it. We are all | 0:05:38 | 0:05:43 | |
Brexiteers now. Does Brexit mean
Brexit? The Times, the UK's richest | 0:05:43 | 0:05:54 | |
county hit by £100 million cash
crisis, how can that be? Well, it | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
looks like many, many areas of the
UK are falling short when it comes | 0:05:59 | 0:06:04 | |
to council funding. Nearly every
part of England is warning that tax | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
rises, particularly council tax, to
make ends meet. Nine out of ten | 0:06:07 | 0:06:13 | |
councils will be hit by Williams of
pounds of deficit. The average looks | 0:06:13 | 0:06:18 | |
to be 6.9% of the budgets. There are
a few reasons that this is | 0:06:18 | 0:06:23 | |
happening, of course. The government
has cut funding to local areas, and | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
this means they either have to
reduce services or make up the funds | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
in some way. It is understanding
that there are certain services they | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
don't want to cut, particularly
related to children. They are | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
looking at new ways to raise
revenue. The problem is that council | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
tax has risen by 60% since 1998.
Councils are needing to find | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
funding, but families have to find
extra cash. I am very nervous about | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
this. I call for a pause before they
raise taxes to look where they could | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
be making more efficiency. Surrey
County Council said in a statement | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
this evening that they have agreed a
three-year budget, despite severe | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
pressures. We aren't councils across
the country, they are keen to | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
stress, are under pressure due to
rising demand for services and | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
falling government funding. We have
been managing the growing need for | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
social care, partly by making
savings of £540 million since 2010. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:25 | |
The key, Ayesha, is that this is one
of the richest, a Tory council, if | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
they have trouble, everybody does?
That is what I was shocked by. The | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
average gap was 14.7 million, and
you wonder why. It gets you to a | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
broader point. Local authorities and
councils have been under severe | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
pressure for a very, very long time,
since the financial crash, since | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
2010. They have really had budgets
cut and cut. Actually, the first | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
councils that bore the brunt of it
were lots of northern councils, lots | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
of Labour run councils. Some of the
cuts were political in terms of how | 0:07:57 | 0:08:02 | |
it was meted out. All councils are
facing it. You cannot underestimate | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
the knock-on affect people's lives
that these things have. You | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
mentioned services being cut, cuts
to the roads. Sure start centres | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
closing. That has a huge impact on
childcare. Adult social care has a | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
huge impact on the NHS. We have seen
older people not being able to get | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
out of hospital, bed blocking,
backing up A&E. And adult social | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
care, the cuts to councils. Youth
centres, it has a huge knock-on | 0:08:27 | 0:08:33 | |
effect crime. I would argue that you
need to rethink taxes. There has to | 0:08:33 | 0:08:39 | |
be a better way to redistribute
money, whether it is locally or | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
nationally. If you are a family, you
don't care whether the money or the | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
tax, where it is coming from, it
affects you directly. Staying with | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
The Times, sit more exams to beat
stress? Yes, the claim here is that | 0:08:51 | 0:08:56 | |
children should be setting more
exams, not fewer, so that they find | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
them less stressful. Nick Gibb is
actually talking about internet or | 0:09:00 | 0:09:07 | |
social media pressures rather than
assessments, on the other side you | 0:09:07 | 0:09:12 | |
have a Labour MP saying that exams
bring women in particular to | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
breaking point. She mentions a high
achieving girls school. You know, I | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
think we have to look at this from
more of a social perspective. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:27 | |
Children are facing all kinds of
pressure that Ayesha and I would not | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
have grown up with. Particularly
online. The point about internet and | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
social media is very important. Is
there one way of teaching kids how | 0:09:33 | 0:09:38 | |
to take exams or schooling that will
fit all? Of course not, some | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
students will do a lot better if
they are sitting more exams, some | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
will need to wait until the day and
that is how they will perform. I | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
wish we could speak more about the
individual and not just what kids in | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
need. Is there logic to doing more
exams? No! If you run more | 0:09:51 | 0:09:59 | |
marathons, you will get better. Kids
are not marathon running machines. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
We put so much pressure on them and
we should let kids be kids, let | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
their minds expand and let them
learn things. One thing that would | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
really help children is more
creativity, the curriculum on | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
creative subjects that have been
cut, more sport provisions. I think | 0:10:13 | 0:10:19 | |
you have better, healthier, more
intelligent and better rounded | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
children if they have healthy
brains, intellectualism, creativity, | 0:10:22 | 0:10:27 | |
healthiness through sport. All of
this is just completely wrong. It is | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
interconnected. There is not a one
size fits all. Kids need options. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
The front page of the Financial
Times, we will quickly look at this. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
Angela Merkel looks like she has her
grand coalition. The FT is reporting | 0:10:40 | 0:10:47 | |
that. She has given ground in order
to get the coalition and stay in the | 0:10:47 | 0:10:53 | |
chancellery. We are going to go to
the Express. Ayesha, gift from | 0:10:53 | 0:10:59 | |
heaven, £700,000 request. This is a
lovely story? We had a negative | 0:10:59 | 0:11:05 | |
story about local councils and this
is a positive one. If village was | 0:11:05 | 0:11:10 | |
trying to raise funds for a
community hall for 60 years. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
Yesterday they found out a resident
left them £700,000 in his will so | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
that they could do the job. What a
lovely story. Absolutely amazing. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
His wife deserves credit as well.
They have identical wills, who ever | 0:11:22 | 0:11:27 | |
passed away first sent the money to
the other and then they were jointly | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
planning to give. It shows that
local things are really important, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:37 | |
having community spaces, they are
going to build a fantastic amenity | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
space for birthday parties, communal
activities. People need these things | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
in their communities. Absolutely.
Finally, the bold truth. Gust of | 0:11:45 | 0:11:55 | |
wind revealing Donald Trump's bald
truth. You don't think this is the | 0:11:55 | 0:12:03 | |
biggest story? Why are we doing this
last? We should have done it first. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
Sending people off to bed with a
smile on their face. You know they | 0:12:07 | 0:12:13 | |
say hairdo? This is a hair don't!
There were pictures of him with his | 0:12:13 | 0:12:19 | |
mother and he has identical hair.
You need serious hairspray to keep | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
that in place. It looked like a very
windy day. I am sure this happens to | 0:12:23 | 0:12:29 | |
supermodels all the time as well...
It does not, you're not going to see | 0:12:29 | 0:12:34 | |
them... Wind going through your hair
is a good look. He is not going to | 0:12:34 | 0:12:42 | |
be on the Armani commercial, no
matter what his doctor says. This is | 0:12:42 | 0:12:49 | |
why he is so upset as a human being.
He would be happier if he sorted his | 0:12:49 | 0:12:57 | |
hair out. Why doesn't he just face
up to it, like me? If you are bald, | 0:12:57 | 0:13:05 | |
you are bald! Sorted out, I know you
are watching online. Don't tweet at | 0:13:05 | 0:13:16 | |
us! | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
That's it for The Papers tonight. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
Don't forget you can see the front
pages of the papers online | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
on the BBC News website. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
It's all there for you -
seven days a week at bbc.co.uk | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
and if you miss the programme any | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
evening you can watch it
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
That is what Donald is going to do! | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
Thank you Kate Andrews
and Ayesha Hazarika. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:37 | |
Goodbye. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 |