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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:21 | |
With me are Lance Price,
political commentator | 0:00:21 | 0:00:22 | |
and Steven Swinford,
Deputy political editor | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
of The Telegraph. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
The Financial Times leads
with the Bank of England hinting | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
that interest rate rises
are on the way. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
The Express reports Conservative MP
Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to cut | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
government spending on foreign aid. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
The Mirror goes with NHS figures
showing over 1,000 A&E patients | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
waited over 12 hours on trollies. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:55 | |
The Metro says the last two
Briutish Jihadi's from the beheading | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
gang known as "The Beatles" have
been captured in Syria. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:03 | |
The I goes with the same
story, and a look ahead | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
to the winter Olympics,
which officially begin tomorrow. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:16 | |
The Telegraph reports
Jeremy Corbyn told EU | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier that
Labour was open to keeping the UK | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
in the EU customs union. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
The Guardian leads with a government
crackdown on unpaid internships. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
So a mixed-bag of front pages there,
thank you both for joining us | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
tonight, let's hear what you make
of some of those stories. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
Let us start with the FT and this
signal from the Bank of England, | 0:01:39 | 0:01:44 | |
that rate rises are on the way,
presumably to make sure inflation is | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
kept in check. Exactly. This is
about trying to dampen inflation, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
what we are talking about is is a
doubling of interest rates from 0.5% | 0:01:52 | 0:01:59 | |
to is %. I cover politics, a lot of
stories matter but this is important | 0:01:59 | 0:02:05 | |
because it directly affects our
readers and their pockets, if you | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
have a mortgage, this means your
payments will go up. If you are a | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
saver it is good news because you
will get more interest on your | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
savings. I bet there is a lag
between the higher interest rate, we | 0:02:17 | 0:02:24 | |
have got used to low interest rates.
It will be a shock. A relatively | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
small rise. It is not that long ago
when interest rates were much | 0:02:27 | 0:02:34 | |
higher. It is interest, it is not
the first time the Governor of the | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
Bank of England and the Monetary
Policy Committee have warned of rate | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
rises to come without putting them
up. It makes you wonder whether | 0:02:41 | 0:02:45 | |
issues that warning is part of the
policy whether they hope the people | 0:02:45 | 0:02:51 | |
will factor that in and it might
have a dampening effect. The other | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
picture on the front-page this is
the Japanese were in town in Downing | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
Street, particularly the car
industry, the Japanese ambassador, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
that little altercation with Larry
the cat. I don't know what was | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
happening there, he wasn't playing
for the cameras. This is before they | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
went in. Maybe Larry was concerned
that the Japanese businessmen | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
weren't going to give Theresa May
the message they wanted and he was | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
turning tail and refusing to play
ball. He is very picky. He had -- | 0:03:19 | 0:03:27 | |
they had a stark warning, saying we
have to have frictionless trade. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
They were threatening to withdraw
business from the UK, if they don't | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
get free trade they will do so.
There is a fake twitter account in | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
Larry's name which says I may have
cost Britain a couple of billion. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:45 | |
You have personal experience of
Larry. We will hopefully see a | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
photo. There, I was at a reception
at Downing Street with colleagues | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
from the Jo Cox foundation which I
work for, and there we are, it shows | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
that Larry the cat is choosy about
who he decides to fraternise with. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
He was digging his claws into my
hand at the time. But there you are. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:08 | |
It can be done. I that had to do a
piece about the day he came to | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
Downing Street, he was picked up by
a colleague who he did scratch her. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
He has form. This is your paper
story Steven. This is about Labour's | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
policy on Brexit this time. Indeed,
our Europe editor has on taped a | 0:04:22 | 0:04:29 | |
memo from Brussels which is a
meeting Jeremy Corbyn had with | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Michel Barnier, why it is
interesting that Jeremy Corbyn | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
suggested he was open to staying in
the customs union rather than | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
Labour's policy which is to stay in
a customs union, that might sound | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
like semantics but to Labour it
means a lot. The party is trying to | 0:04:44 | 0:04:52 | |
chart a difficult course between
voters many of whom are pro-Remain, | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
this memo appears to go in the
middle. Labour is absolutely | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
emphatic that Jeremy Corbyn said he
would stay, Labour wanted Britain to | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
stay in a customs union not the
customs union, the problem for | 0:05:05 | 0:05:11 | |
Labour is their position appears to
keep shifting. We are not going to | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
dwell on Brexit so let us move on to
a difference rent story. We have | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
heard a lot about this, in the
Mirror. This is about people not | 0:05:18 | 0:05:25 | |
getting seen by medical staff, they
are being kept on trolleys, missing | 0:05:25 | 0:05:31 | |
targets month after month. This is
about Jeremy Hunt in the spotlight. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
Yes, and not surprisingly it is the
daily mirror that chooses to put it | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
on the front-page, they campaigned
vigorously on the Health Service and | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
rightly too. And you know, Jeremy
Hunt carries on smiling, through all | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
of this, it would have been in the
past politically unacceptable to | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
have missed the targets month after
month, something like 30 months in a | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
row, but this Government seems to
think they can just weather it. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:05 | |
Providing it doesn't get massively
worse they are prepared to live with | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
headlines like this because they
don't have the resource or choose | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
not to have the resources to put
into the Health Service to tackle | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
the problem. Jeremy Hunt he has
survived. He is one of the longest | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
serving Health Secretaries. He will
become the longest serving Health | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
Secretary. He said the NHS staff
knew what they were signing up to. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
It is a problem for the
Conservative, they know that health | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
really matter, it is top of the
polls and they know that Jeremy | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
Corbyn is doing a lot of the running
on this. People like Boris Johnson | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
are aware of this and he has said we
have to make a commitment to | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
spending the money, the Brexit Di
depends as he calls it on the NHS. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
He got slapped down across the
country for speaking out of turn on | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
that but he hit on a problem for the
Tory, they have to come up with a | 0:06:51 | 0:06:56 | |
strong health offering by time of
the next election. Brexit alone | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
won't get them through this. The
question is whether they would be | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
prepared to put up taxes in the way
national insurance went up under | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
Labour to fund the NHS. There was an
interesting debate about whether | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
there should be be high pot casing,
a tax that is specifically protected | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
for the Health Service and for
social care in the same way the | 0:07:16 | 0:07:22 | |
license fee is hypothecated,
directed at one bit of expenditure. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:28 | |
And an NHS story on page two of the
Express, a league table showing the | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
number of NHS workers in England
according to the nationality, that | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
is from September 2017. NHS workers
from 202 countries. It is | 0:07:36 | 0:07:41 | |
extraordinary. It is amazing, the
figures are amazing, our NHS is an | 0:07:41 | 0:07:48 | |
incredible institution. There are
two sides to this. These figures | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
show those people working in the
NHS. People are concerned will they | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
still work in it after Brexit, are
they leaving? The Commons report | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
this is taken from shows that the
number of EU staff has changed | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
little since the referendum, and
this is an ongoing debate. Will | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
these EU nationals that are working
in the NHS stay here, and what kind | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
of migration controls are we going
to introduce after Brexit? The | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
question is the ones who are here
will presumably get the right to | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
stay. It is about the ones who come
after. And whether people will leave | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
for other reasons and the pool of
available workers from EU countries | 0:08:24 | 0:08:31 | |
will inevitably diminish. It is
interesting the number of non-EU | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
countries in the list and the top
two under Britain, by far the | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
largest, are from India and the
Philippines before the first EU | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
country, Ireland comes in in fourth
place. So, I mean I am a passionate | 0:08:44 | 0:08:51 | |
remainor and think that the Health
Service is one of those institutions | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
that will suffer badly from Becks.
Others who disagree with me would | 0:08:55 | 0:09:00 | |
say there is plenty of other
countries able to take up the slack. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
The Metro, this story on the
front-page of a number of other | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
papers. Beatles Jihad dis seized.
This was the gang led by Jihad | 0:09:09 | 0:09:19 | |
diJohn, they are saying these two
have also been captured. They have | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
been at the top of a kill list for
the US for some time. The Daily | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
Telegraph disclosed that a while ago
and the fact I have finally been | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
caught comes after exhaustive effort
from the US, surveillance, one of | 0:09:31 | 0:09:36 | |
the questions is where will they end
up. It looks likely this report has | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
come out of the US, it looks likely
they will end up in Guantanamo Bay | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
in the US I imagine. And that
presumably would be controversial | 0:09:44 | 0:09:49 | |
for some. And a headache for the
British Government. The British | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
government has been going to lengths
to try to get British citizens out, | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
we oppose it, interestingly, also,
apparently, these two guys have been | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
squealing, they have been talking to
the, their cap for -- captors and | 0:10:03 | 0:10:11 | |
giving high level information, so
they may be trying to negotiate | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
their way to some sort of better
deal, if they can get a better deal. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:20 | |
Move on to the guardian now, this is
ministers warning over unpaid | 0:10:20 | 0:10:26 | |
interns, there is a lot on this
story and making this point this is | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
how people do favours, the same
people end up in the same | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
profession, it is hard for people to
get in because of this kind of | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
thing. Work experience is the way
into the working work world, you | 0:10:36 | 0:10:42 | |
look at this, there is statistics
from the Sutton Trust, a charity and | 0:10:42 | 0:10:47 | |
it estimated that 10,000 graduates
are in internships six monthses | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
after they leave university. A fifth
are unpaid. People who have gone | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
those months unpaid. I couldn't have
afforded that, if you are somewhere | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
in London, living in London with the
living costs here or any city you | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
can't afford that, so work
experience would be cut off for you | 0:11:03 | 0:11:07 | |
and a way into a fantastic
workplace, but it is not just that | 0:11:07 | 0:11:12 | |
ministers and the HMRC are been
altruistic and trying to right a | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
wrong. . If you are not paid you
don't pay tax. There is a real | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
interest there on the Government
side, to do something about it. Lots | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
of people were saying it was
happening in Parliament and they are | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
trying to clamp-down on it. Now the
final story on the Independent, a | 0:11:28 | 0:11:34 | |
good story for an awful lot of
women, human eggs, the potential to | 0:11:34 | 0:11:39 | |
become fertilised embryos are grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
It raidses hopes for women who don't
of late naturally. An incredible | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
breakthrough in science. It is one
of those exciting science stories | 0:11:47 | 0:11:52 | |
you only get now and then, to grow
an egg frommish awe -- tissue is | 0:11:52 | 0:11:59 | |
extraordinary. It offers hope for
women, who are infertile. Older | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
women and to girls who are about to
undergo cancer trial.. Trial.. I is | 0:12:03 | 0:12:09 | |
a remarkable find, all credit to
Edinburgh University. It amazing | 0:12:09 | 0:12:14 | |
progress. It shows the value of this
technology, and of the research that | 0:12:14 | 0:12:19 | |
has gone into it. I am pleased we
live in a country where the | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
scientists are allowed to get on
with this. It is the fact it is | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
British universities doing this work
as well. Thank you. A range of | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
stories there to cover. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
A range of stories there to cover. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
That's it for The Papers tonight. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:33 | |
Don't forget, you can see the front
pages of the papers online | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
on the BBC News website. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
It's all there for you -
seven days a week, | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
at bbc.co.uk/papers -
and if you miss the programme, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
any evening you can watch it
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:52 |