0:00:18 > 0:00:21Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:22 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26With me are the economist Ruth Lea and John Rentoul,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Chief Political Commentator The Independent.
0:00:28 > 0:00:38Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:39 > 0:00:46Threats of no more cash for UN aid work dominates the front of
0:00:46 > 0:00:50tomorrow's Metro as the Government warns it may withdraw millions over
0:00:50 > 0:00:52allegations of sex abuse by aid workers.
0:00:52 > 0:01:09That theme continues on the front page of i. The Financial Times, the
0:01:09 > 0:01:12head of the Financial Conduct Authority features on the front, he
0:01:12 > 0:01:19is under fire in an alleged tax avoidance scheme. The Telegraph has
0:01:19 > 0:01:24the Queen enjoying herself at London Fashion Week. The paper leads with
0:01:24 > 0:01:28the scandal at Save the Children saying that the former chief
0:01:28 > 0:01:32executive at that organisation has admitted making what he called
0:01:32 > 0:01:38unsuitable and thoughtless comments to female members of staff.
0:01:38 > 0:01:53Hundreds killed in just two days, but as the war in Syriai. The Times
0:01:53 > 0:02:03features a story on the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who is accused
0:02:03 > 0:02:14of wanting a Soviet style.
0:02:21 > 0:02:30Let us start off with The Guardian. Syria, and full image.Eastern
0:02:30 > 0:02:40Ghouta, this is a catastrophe. These are the pro-government forces
0:02:40 > 0:02:44attacking this territory. They rebel held territory is in retreat. It
0:02:44 > 0:02:50seems that rightly or wrongly President Assad is getting control
0:02:50 > 0:02:56over Syria. This is the culmination of this dreadful civil war that has
0:02:56 > 0:03:03been taking place since March 20 11. Seven years. They still have the
0:03:03 > 0:03:15Kurdish part in northern Syria, IS is in retreat, other rebels are in
0:03:15 > 0:03:21retreat, but the brutality has been terrible.Women and children amongst
0:03:21 > 0:03:27the casualties. It is awful to read. There is a report in The Independent
0:03:27 > 0:03:33about some of the injuries to children. The picture on the front
0:03:33 > 0:03:40of The Guardian is traffic enough. Apparently some of the images coming
0:03:40 > 0:03:44out of Syria are too horrible to print.The front page of The
0:03:44 > 0:03:50Independent on the same story. Massacre in Syria. Another very
0:03:50 > 0:03:57dramatic front page. Somebody racing away from another explosion with a
0:03:57 > 0:04:05child in his arms.People probably do not want to read any more about
0:04:05 > 0:04:09this. There is a fatigue about this. But it is important that we do pay
0:04:09 > 0:04:16attention to this. I do not know what can be done. The civil war has
0:04:16 > 0:04:21been going on for so long that if the West could have intervened to
0:04:21 > 0:04:27solve it, it is to wait now.There is another international outcry, as
0:04:27 > 0:04:31there was over Aleppo, as there has been so many times in Syria, but
0:04:31 > 0:04:44that does not make much difference. And Al Asad -- Bashir Assad is
0:04:44 > 0:04:50getting control, with the help of Russia.
0:04:50 > 0:04:56Extraordinary battle between Jeremy Corbyn, the allegations in the least
0:04:56 > 0:05:03newspapers over the last few days. This is him.Explain what this is
0:05:03 > 0:05:08about. I do not know that he is rattled but he is certainly very
0:05:08 > 0:05:21annoyed by their son and the meal in particular going after him on this.
0:05:21 > 0:05:31-- Sun and Mail and meal. In the 1980s you assumed. Jeremy Corbyn
0:05:31 > 0:05:35would say he was promoting dialogue between East and West and was doing
0:05:35 > 0:05:39it for peace. He gets annoyed when he is asked about it that he was
0:05:39 > 0:05:43asked about it in a press conference today and decided to fight back by
0:05:43 > 0:05:46lodging a video attacking the press and warning that change is going to
0:05:46 > 0:05:55come.Change is coming.Does that sound like a threat? It does. He is
0:05:55 > 0:06:01taking on Sun and Mail, The Express, The Telegraph, that is quite a thing
0:06:01 > 0:06:10to take on. Jeremy Corbyn has got some explaining to do. It is
0:06:10 > 0:06:22interesting that the Czech secret service, they did say, he was not an
0:06:22 > 0:06:27informant, but he was a man of interest. What does that mean. We do
0:06:27 > 0:06:33not know. I think Jenna Coleman has to see more about this.I do not
0:06:33 > 0:06:45think he is going to.There was also a touch of humour. He said the
0:06:45 > 0:06:48papers have all gone a bit James Bond.Some of it was time in cheek.
0:06:48 > 0:06:58Yes. There are serious questions to answer. I think it is a silly spy
0:06:58 > 0:07:06story from the 1980s. Everybody knew that Jeremy Corbyn was sympathetic
0:07:06 > 0:07:10to the communist bloc and wanted to promote dialogue.But this sort of
0:07:10 > 0:07:15thing he does.We need to know more. There are questions to ask for
0:07:15 > 0:07:20Oxfam. They were and are invented the before the Commons select
0:07:20 > 0:07:31committee. Oxfam hits with new sex claims. 26 potential new allegations
0:07:31 > 0:07:35emerging. 7000 regular donors have stopped giving money to Oxfam but we
0:07:35 > 0:07:40were hearing earlier that is out of 400,000, maybe it is not that
0:07:40 > 0:07:45devastating for Oxfam.The chief executive said it was 3.5% of his
0:07:45 > 0:07:53donors. This is an extraordinary story. The basis of course, The
0:07:53 > 0:07:59Times initially broke the story a fortnight ago, they started talking
0:07:59 > 0:08:04about the 2011 report, all about sexual misbehaviour in Haiti. That
0:08:04 > 0:08:09had just been buried. By burying that report it seems that now
0:08:09 > 0:08:15everything is coming out. It is a contagion that is going through the
0:08:15 > 0:08:18entire charity sector. This is extremely distressing.I find it
0:08:18 > 0:08:23very worrying.From what point of view? You take the view that Save
0:08:23 > 0:08:28the Children or Oxfam, they do good work, but it does seem they are
0:08:28 > 0:08:31tarnished beyond belief by people who simply do not know how to
0:08:31 > 0:08:38behave.I am appalled. For a charity which relies on the fact it is a
0:08:38 > 0:08:43charity and people assume that it is somehow morally superior to a
0:08:43 > 0:08:47private company, for example, this kind of thing just undermines the
0:08:47 > 0:08:53reputation of these charities.The Times front page is similar,
0:08:53 > 0:08:59charities in crisis over sex claims. This has spread from Oxfam.Save the
0:08:59 > 0:09:06Children. New revelations about that today. And the International
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Development Secretary was seeing in the House of Commons today that she
0:09:08 > 0:09:14thinks it is endemic throughout the charity sector and throughout NGOs
0:09:14 > 0:09:19and the AIDS business in general. Which is awful because it suggests
0:09:19 > 0:09:22that these charities are exploiting the weakness of the people they are
0:09:22 > 0:09:33trying to help.
0:09:33 > 0:09:40-- aid business in general. Highlighting what Michael Gove was
0:09:40 > 0:09:48saying about the food industry, the agricultural industry, post-Brexit.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53He offered the farmers an olive branch. I am not sure which lot of
0:09:53 > 0:09:57farmers. A lot of farmers are brought Brexit. Another lot of are
0:09:57 > 0:10:04very keen to have their strawberries picked by workers from central
0:10:04 > 0:10:09Europe coming to do the hard work. One question is about migrant
0:10:09 > 0:10:13labour, there is also the question of subsidies, getting away from farm
0:10:13 > 0:10:17subsidies as we have known them. This was specifically about
0:10:17 > 0:10:22immigration, they depend on people coming from Eastern Europe for fruit
0:10:22 > 0:10:30picking. Subsidy has to be an issue. Subsidy has been guaranteed until
0:10:30 > 0:10:352022. But a lot of the farming industry, if tariffs were slashed,
0:10:35 > 0:10:40they were on their own, competing with Australia, New Zealand, Canada
0:10:40 > 0:10:46United States, they would really struggle.You are a farmer's.? That
0:10:46 > 0:10:51is right.Well but on's pharmacy better of post-Brexit? Some of them
0:10:51 > 0:10:58will need support. Farming is interesting, it is not just a food
0:10:58 > 0:11:04producer. Farmers are custodians of the countryside. I think there is a
0:11:04 > 0:11:06good case for subsidising them because they look out of the
0:11:06 > 0:11:08countryside.They did not answer whether they would be better off
0:11:08 > 0:11:17after Brexit.We will take that as a no.It depends what happens. The
0:11:17 > 0:11:22Telegraph, still on the Brexit theme. Jacob Rees Mogg and his
0:11:22 > 0:11:28fellow Brexiteer is laying down red lines for the Prime Minister.Yes,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31they have gone to the Prime Minister, this is what I call the
0:11:31 > 0:11:36economic ruin group. They are good chaps. Sorry, economic research
0:11:36 > 0:11:43group, I do beg your pardon. They either hard Brexit faction of the
0:11:43 > 0:11:49Conservative Party. It is a European research group. They want a hard
0:11:49 > 0:11:56Brexit and they don't want Theresa May to listen to the softies.The
0:11:56 > 0:12:01Brexit War cabinet is going to be meeting again soon. Do you think
0:12:01 > 0:12:06that it is still all to play for what kind of Brexit there will be?A
0:12:06 > 0:12:11lot of it is. She has specifically said in her Lancaster house speech
0:12:11 > 0:12:1512 months ago that we are out of the customs union and the single market
0:12:15 > 0:12:19but there is talk about regulatory alignment, that makes the nervous,
0:12:19 > 0:12:25it makes Jacob Rees Mogg very nervous. Even though she has laid
0:12:25 > 0:12:32down a feudal is there is still a loss to play for. I will be
0:12:32 > 0:12:34interested in the forthcoming meetings whether we will find out
0:12:34 > 0:12:40more.At this time we did. Is it's still a battle between those sort of
0:12:40 > 0:12:45Brexiteer use and the Philip Hammond camp?Yes, essentially Theresa May
0:12:45 > 0:12:50is trying to hold her cabinets together at The Bottom Line is that
0:12:50 > 0:12:55the Conservative Party is divided but in Parliament there is a
0:12:55 > 0:12:58majority for a soft Brexit and therefore the only question is is
0:12:58 > 0:13:01that something that the EU is prepared to give us and I am not
0:13:01 > 0:13:07sure that they are. It depends on what it means. A soft Brexit that
0:13:07 > 0:13:11does not include free movement of workers is not something that I can
0:13:11 > 0:13:16see the EU agreeing.We are definitely leaving the single market
0:13:16 > 0:13:21and the customs union?Yes, except in all those cases, clever use of
0:13:21 > 0:13:24language is being used to say we might mirror those arrangements from
0:13:24 > 0:13:31outside. It is not good to be as clear cut as those.A last look at
0:13:31 > 0:13:35one story. The Queen at London Fashion Week and she has never been
0:13:35 > 0:13:39to London Fashion Week before.She has made her debut there. Good for
0:13:39 > 0:13:44the Queen. Several of us have not been to London Fashion Week either.
0:13:44 > 0:13:50Would you like to be invited? Not really. This is a good picture of
0:13:50 > 0:13:54her in The Telegraph because she is actually smiling. There is another
0:13:54 > 0:13:59picture of her where she is looking extremely bored.I was astonished to
0:13:59 > 0:14:04see her sitting there in the front row.Doesn't she prefer to go and
0:14:04 > 0:14:11watch horses?She does love horses but she cannot only look at horses.
0:14:11 > 0:14:16Horses are better looking than a lot of these models, aren't they?There
0:14:16 > 0:14:21is another picture of a model wearing what looked like a motorbike
0:14:21 > 0:14:25crash helmet.The Queen looked a little puzzled by that.But she
0:14:25 > 0:14:29could be wearing her crown, couldn't she?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Lovely to see you both. Fight you for coming in.
0:14:33 > 0:14:46Many thanks. That is all for this evening.