18/02/2018 The Papers

the Churchill family and of course,

once again, BAFTA. I am so grateful

for this incredible honour, thank

you.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the former

Conservative Adviser,

Giles Kenningham and Torcuil

Crichton, Political Editor

at The Daily Record.

Let's have a look at

tomorrow's front pages.

The Financial Times is leading

with a story about Donald Trump

lashing out at the FBI

and his national security advisers

over the Russia investigation.

A pensions boost for millions.

The Daily Express says pensions

experts are hailing a "perfect

cocktail" of conditions that have

boosted many company schemes.

The 'I' focusses on the new review

of university tuition fees saying

the reforms will be divisive.

Power dressing at the BAFTAS.

The Telegraph pictures British

actress Florence Pugh who joined

other celebrities dressing

in all black at tonight's Bafta

awards, in solidarity

with the Time's Up movement

and victims of sexual assault

and harassment.

The Metro also leads on tuition fees

with a quote from the Prime Minister

saying 'uni fees unfair

and poor value.'

The Mirror shows a picture

of Keira Ball, who died in a car

crash, whose heart helped

save the life of a 10 year old boy.

The Guardian also focusses

on tuition fees saying that

proposals to reduce charges

for cheaper courses is deemed

'unworkable' by critics.

And The Times says that savers

are losing millions to retirement

fraudsters with a surge in cyber

criminals targeting pension pots.

So a mix of stories there

in tomorrow's papers.

We will begin with university

tuition fees. The Guardian's

reporting that is a is warning to

universities over high cost. Some

courses might become cheaper?

Yes,

all part of the Tories overhaul of

tuition fees in an attempt to woo

the youth vote. She is saying that

some subjects the fees should be

dictated to by their market value to

the economy. Interestingly, the

Guardian have a chart here were

saying if you studied medicine and

dentistry you are looking to rake in

about $35,000 when you leave, if you

do art and design you are looking at

about £20,000. There are some other

sensible things in the proposals

that they are rolling out. A push

towards more degrees which last two

years with a vocational aspect.

Looking at a cap on fees. I have to

say, I did my own degrees which

lasted for years, it deftly could

have been done within two years.

Sensible, but these are ideas and

not policy.

The Labour Party said

they would scrap tuition fees

altogether and bring us in line with

Scottish universities.

It was 11

billion when he looked at it and it

would cost more now, would you spend

that if you are getting a

middle-class subsidy or would you

put it at the other end at the start

of schooling, with kids from

working-class areas to boost them to

get into university in the first

place. It is interesting in the

first instance because it is not

about Brexit. A story about Theresa

May and the UK government. It is the

first time we have heard the

government on the front foot on a

domestic story.

I thought he was

very surefooted, he gave a great

interview on the Sunday Times,

everybody talking him up as a future

leader, very sensible and pragmatic.

He is out on Sunday, the headlines

on Monday morning she will make a

speech tomorrow morning. She sang

the university fees are too high. --

saying. A lot of people having a go

at that as well, there has been

blowback already from Justin

Greening, who was sacked as

education Secretary and from

universities UK in the eye.

Let's

look at that because the headline is

tuition fee reform will be divisive.

Penalising poorer students and they

have got to do something to address

the interest rate that you pay on

these loans.

Yes, because these are

only one part of it. There is fees

and then the loans you take out to

survive because they have

maintenance grants. Then the amount

of money that universities rake in

from foreign students and the amount

of money that universities pay to

themselves.

You make a good point,

none of this is costed so how will

we pay for it? Is no detail at this

point. I suspect the government will

hide behind the fact that there is a

review going on. With Jeremy Corbyn,

he said it will be free tuition

fees, after the election they go

back and say it is an ambition, not

eight promised.

-- not a promise of.

It is a huge amount of money that

universities have gotten used to

having.

It is the wrong end of the

Marsh. If you want to get more

people in, or more poor kids from

working-class areas into university

you spend money on education at the

beginning of their lives not when

you are giving middle-class

subsidies.

Let's look at the time.

We have got a couple of stories

about pensions in different guises

here. The Times is saying that

savers lose millions to retirement

fraudsters, targeting pension pots

online.

An incredible story, says

the law changed in 2015, people over

50 but access and can choose what

they want to do. People have gone

and advising people on how to spend

their money. A huge fraud industry

has gone up attending, cloning

themselves online, cold calling

people and fraud in people out of

money. They set up websites that

look like legitimate high-street

names getting people to get their

pension pot out and stick it into

non- investment. The financial

authority estimates that to an half

million has been stolen in the last

year from pension pot.

Fascinatingly, they have cloned the

financial conduct authority 's

website. If you go to check on their

company against the site, it refers

you to a clone website that tells

you the company is legitimate.

Which

talk about how facts here -- they

talk about Halifax being targeted.

Big-name. What is interesting is,

cyber security, the government will

spend more on that. It is a new

front.

There is a huge amount of

money sloshing around which in the

past was safely stored away.

It

would have been locked up.

It says

here...

Don't invest in anything

else!

They are not qualified to give

advice. The Daily Express has a more

positive story about pensions.

Pensions boost the millions.

Deficits have gone down because of a

perfect cocktail of conditions,

apparently.

They are saying the

surge in the stock market has helped

to replace £50 billion in deficit

and comes as a huge relief to

millions of employers in their final

salary pensions scheme. Great but I

think they miss out because the

stock markets are quite volatile.

Also, a lot of so what? Is this

doesn't affect you tomorrow morning

unless you are retiring tomorrow

morning. It is a bit like pensions

themselves, it is like never-never

land. Let's put that to one side for

another day.

And a lot of people

don't even have access to their

pension scheme and never have.

They

are increasing in the minority,

aren't they?

Look at the Financial

Times, Richard Hammond -- Philip

Hammond to drop.

We knew that there

was going to be a smaller budget, we

didn't know that small.

The box

office still being a somewhat ironic

nickname. -- docs office filled.

That was his nickname back on the

day.

Kind of ironic. He has picked

the net publicity box, it will be 15

minutes long, no red Ox is. -- box.

Did in the previous chancellors toy

with the idea of not bothering with

it any more?

There was the whole

thing about having one budget a

year, most advanced economies in the

West only have one.

We have two

because Gordon Brown wanted two

hits.

The only thing I would say

against that is that at the moment

we are in a huge time of uncertainty

but it might be a good idea that we

had a bit more than 20 minutes to

reassure the world that we are a

good place to invest. I am sure Phil

it -- I am sure Phil knows best. You

guys will fill the void with a lot

of speculation.

The budget used to

be the use day in Westminster now

they want to take it off.

Is still

24 hours a day of light and

continuous use channels to sell.

Thanks very much Philip Hammond. The

Telegraph is where we will finish.

Power dressing at the BAFTA's. This

is an actress looking defiant in

support of the movement to tackle

sexual harassment in the film

industry and in particular she is

also wearing black like a lot of

people chose to do on the red

carpet.

Power dressing at best, most

of the female guest we're chose to

wear black. They chose it to put

focus on to the meat to campaign and

culture of abuse of power and sexual

harassment. -- Apra to. They want to

change that and they will but as we

were saying earlier on, these things

don't change at award ceremonies,

they change earlier on in industry

and earlier on in the development of

movies and scripts who has the power

on who green lights movies, who

writes movies and directs them.

I

know it feels like there is a

sizeable shift going on in relation

to tackling inequality, sexism, it

is not just isolated towards the

film industry, it is spilling out of

a charity set and politics and into

many other films.

The actress

pictured there, with two of the

women from the date on...

Two of

them. -- Dagenham. The Dagenham

strike was all about equal pay, it

was good in name but not good in

nature because women are still

earning less. It was nice to take

along these two women.

Part of a

campaign from so long ago that is

still not complete. Let's finish

with hidden calories fuelling

obesity. Don't nibble on anything

before you go to bed. We are all

eating too much but particularly men

do.

We are the worst offenders.

Apparently an obesity crisis is

being filled by the average person

eating 50% more calories than they

realise that has come down to lack

of portion control and people eating

more meals outside of the home. I am

definitely on the fence.

That is

good of you to declare that.

It is a

good old STAT story. Where are they

from? They are from an official STAT

agency. They asked people to

estimate how much there were eating

over a four-day period and men

estimated they were eating 2000

calories per day, in fact they were

3500. The women estimated they were

eating thousand 500 and were eating

just over 2000.

What I find is that

Britain is the fattest country in

western Europe, which I didn't

realise. The sugar tax is coming

into force in April, which they

reckon will rake in £520 million,

which will be earmarked to get

sports in primary schools, getting

kids at its. Clearly it is a

problem. We hear stories every day

about the obesity crisis.

It is a

worldwide problem, other countries

have got the sugar tax in, it does

seem to work. In the 1970s, talking

about Dagenham and their workers, 2%

of the population were obese, now it

is 45%. -- 25%.

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Thank you Giles and Torcuil.