0:00:14 > 0:00:18Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:18 > 0:00:20bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:20 > 0:00:25With me are Rachel Shabi, journalist
0:00:25 > 0:00:27and broadcaster, and Laura Perrins, co-editor of The Conservative
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Woman website.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33The Metro says police forces
0:00:33 > 0:00:36could face fresh legal action by victims of serious crime over
0:00:36 > 0:00:43bungled investigations, following the John Worboys ruling.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47The i has the same story, which is summed up in its headline:
0:00:47 > 0:00:57"Landmark victory for crime victims".
0:00:59 > 0:01:01The Mirror claims Worboys received £166,000 in legal
0:01:01 > 0:01:03aid to defend his sex crimes.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05The Telegraph reports that Theresa May faces a backlash
0:01:05 > 0:01:07because senior ministers claim the Cabinet didn't sign off
0:01:07 > 0:01:12on a Brexit strategy that would limit free trade deals.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14The Guardian carries a photo of students marching in Florida,
0:01:14 > 0:01:20calling for tighter gun control after last week's school shooting.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21More people should get pills to combat depression,
0:01:21 > 0:01:26is the lead in The Times.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28The Financial Times claims Unilever could move its HQ
0:01:28 > 0:01:31from Britain to the Netherlands.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33And finally, The Express says an arctic storm
0:01:33 > 0:01:38is heading for the UK.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42So, the Worboys case, and pills for depression share the headlines
0:01:42 > 0:01:47on many of the front pages, so let's look at them in more detail.
0:01:47 > 0:01:54Let's start with the Warboys case, in the metro, the headline, the Met
0:01:54 > 0:01:58must pay for the failure to nail Warboys. This is the case of the
0:01:58 > 0:02:06black cab driver, John Warboys, won, the two victims of his have won a
0:02:06 > 0:02:08law case against the Metropolitan Police after officers failed to take
0:02:08 > 0:02:13action after they reported what happened to them. Laura, if you can
0:02:13 > 0:02:18kick as off, according to the metro, landmark ruling opens door for other
0:02:18 > 0:02:23crime victims to sue the police. What are the implications?They
0:02:23 > 0:02:26could be significant, but I don't think there will be a huge rush of
0:02:26 > 0:02:32cases to begin with. It is a very big case, the Supreme Court
0:02:32 > 0:02:35upholding a decision by the High Court that the police could be
0:02:35 > 0:02:41liable under article three of the Human Rights Act under the European
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Convention of human rights, as opposed to a negligence claim, which
0:02:45 > 0:02:49traditionally they would lose. So instead under article three if you
0:02:49 > 0:02:54can show in cases of serious crime that there was a failure of
0:02:54 > 0:02:59investigation alone, and not just a systematic failure, but you have to
0:02:59 > 0:03:06have a serious failure, also where the crime was sufficiently serious,
0:03:06 > 0:03:13then that could lead to a compensation claim. But I think the
0:03:13 > 0:03:20test is quite high. You have to have a serious crime, there has to be a
0:03:20 > 0:03:22sufficiently serious breakdown in the investigation for you to even
0:03:22 > 0:03:29consider a compensation claim against the police. In the case of
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Warboys, they made significant mistakes early on in the
0:03:32 > 0:03:37investigation.Has a serious crime actually been defined yet? I don't
0:03:37 > 0:03:42think it has, has it?No, but in this case you can see why these two
0:03:42 > 0:03:47women were successful at the Supreme Court, after the High Court ruled
0:03:47 > 0:03:51they were entitled to compensation, and that was taken to the Supreme
0:03:51 > 0:03:59Court. Obviously something has gone wrong when someone is thought to
0:03:59 > 0:04:04have carried out over 100 such attacks and is not caught. Obviously
0:04:04 > 0:04:11something has gone wrong with the investigation. So I do think that
0:04:11 > 0:04:14this landmark ruling is to be welcomed if it makes those
0:04:14 > 0:04:18investigations more rigorous, and means that less people have to go
0:04:18 > 0:04:25through this before arrests and proceedings are taken.John Warboys
0:04:25 > 0:04:31is also on the front of the Daily Mirror. The headline says black cab
0:04:31 > 0:04:36rapist given £166,000 in legal aid. I presume he hasn't been given this
0:04:36 > 0:04:42personally, this presumably is going to his lawyers.A headline designed
0:04:42 > 0:04:47to in rage, but there is a legal aid system in this country, and as the
0:04:47 > 0:04:52decision by the parole board, which is a different aspect of this
0:04:52 > 0:04:58Warboys case, it has been judicially reviewed not by the government but
0:04:58 > 0:05:04by two of his victims who I believe have had to crowdfund for their
0:05:04 > 0:05:10legal fees. John Warboys was entitled to legal representation in
0:05:10 > 0:05:17that judicial review and somehow the Mirror have calculated it at
0:05:17 > 0:05:21166,000, which seems like a lot, but it is not going to him personally,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24it is going to his lawyers forced up I would be interested to see how
0:05:24 > 0:05:30they come up -- came upon that number.We shall see post of let's
0:05:30 > 0:05:36move on to the Financial Times and economic news, borrowing and
0:05:36 > 0:05:40productivity figures spark double windfall for the Treasury. This is
0:05:40 > 0:05:43that government borrowing was less than expected but there has been a
0:05:43 > 0:05:49rise in productivity.The FT is reporting this as good news and a
0:05:49 > 0:05:55windfall for the Treasury, though it might not necessarily show up in the
0:05:55 > 0:05:58forthcoming budget. They might decide to stash it, you know, save
0:05:58 > 0:06:04it for a rainy day. But they are reporting productivity has increased
0:06:04 > 0:06:09by 0.9%, which is the strongest six months since before the crash.
0:06:09 > 0:06:15Obviously that is great news but in context it is not amazing. 0.9% is
0:06:15 > 0:06:21not amazing. Britain's recovery is still the slowest in the G-7 country
0:06:21 > 0:06:25since 2008, and low productivity is of course keeping wages down as
0:06:25 > 0:06:31well. Productivity should be around 2%. During the 90s it was at 5%. So
0:06:31 > 0:06:36it is not great news, and you might also argue, and some economists do,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39that the two things are linked, the fact the government is not spending
0:06:39 > 0:06:44is what is keeping our recovery so slow and so slow, because you need
0:06:44 > 0:06:51for the government needs to invest in infrastructure, in major building
0:06:51 > 0:06:55products, in order to stimulate the economy and get it out of the slump
0:06:55 > 0:07:01it is currently in, and that is affecting semi people.And Laura,
0:07:01 > 0:07:08unemployment has gone up as well hasn't it?It has gone up slightly.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11It is true that productivity is a big issue in the economy first no
0:07:11 > 0:07:16one can quite put their finger on why it has been so stubbornly low.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Of course investing in infrastructure is one way, but that
0:07:19 > 0:07:23of course will mean further borrowing, and public borrowing is
0:07:23 > 0:07:28at least down. Of course another way would be to cut taxes, and then
0:07:28 > 0:07:31employers would invest in there and please because it is the please
0:07:31 > 0:07:34themselves, it is how much they can produce, that is what drives
0:07:34 > 0:07:40productivity. So that is the other way of looking at it, if you cut
0:07:40 > 0:07:45taxes, that can drive productivity. Except it never does because
0:07:45 > 0:07:51trickle-down economics is not a thing. It doesn't work.That's not
0:07:51 > 0:07:55true, but anyway.We will agree to disagree, because I am sure we can
0:07:55 > 0:08:01all agree on Brexit. The headline, backlash at Theresa May's plan for
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Brexit transition. This says ministers claim cabinet never signed
0:08:04 > 0:08:08off on the strategy that could limit free trade deals. This was the
0:08:08 > 0:08:11strategy I think that was leaked earlier this morning and then
0:08:11 > 0:08:18finally published about five o'clock this afternoon. This is about
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Theresa May's plan for transition which some ministers are annoyed
0:08:20 > 0:08:23about because they say they never signed off on it. It is really hard
0:08:23 > 0:08:28to figure out why this would have happened. I mean, all this week, all
0:08:28 > 0:08:35we have heard is about this road to Brexit, you know, which has been...
0:08:35 > 0:08:40Rocky.Otherwise described as a road to nowhere. We have had these big
0:08:40 > 0:08:44speeches from the Brexit related ministers, this much trumpeted big
0:08:44 > 0:08:49meeting of Cabinet, tomorrow and eight hour-long awayday in which
0:08:49 > 0:08:53they finally, a year and a half later, tell us what they actually
0:08:53 > 0:09:00want from Brexit. And so maybe this over the transition, maybe it just
0:09:00 > 0:09:03got sort of lost in the detail, maybe it fell down the back of the
0:09:03 > 0:09:07sofa, maybe they just thought that actually we don't need to agree
0:09:07 > 0:09:11anything on a transition deal, because by definition a transition
0:09:11 > 0:09:14deal is static, nothing changes. If it changes then you have another
0:09:14 > 0:09:17deal that you have to renegotiate for the transition period and what
0:09:17 > 0:09:24will be the point of that. So it is hard to figure out.Unfortunately
0:09:24 > 0:09:27they have to still agree on how long the transition will be and how the
0:09:27 > 0:09:31rights in that period will be affected. For instance, a big
0:09:31 > 0:09:33sticking point is whether free movement would continue or whether
0:09:33 > 0:09:38it would end, and also the second issue after that would be canned the
0:09:38 > 0:09:42European Court of Justice to arbitrate on it? It is difficult to
0:09:42 > 0:09:45come to an agreement on a transition deal, it will be even more difficult
0:09:45 > 0:09:48to come to an agreement on what Brexit will actually look like.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53There is no doubt there is clearly a split within the party, and tomorrow
0:09:53 > 0:09:58at Chequers seems to be the day that Theresa May thinks she can sort of
0:09:58 > 0:10:02nail Jell-o to the wall. That might be quite difficult but Jacob
0:10:02 > 0:10:07Rees-Mogg of course has a piece in the Telegraph, quoted here, saying
0:10:07 > 0:10:13the current document would lead to Brexit in name only and was a
0:10:13 > 0:10:16perversion of democracy. He says it has been disowned by ministers as
0:10:16 > 0:10:24not representing government policy. He is the leading Brexiteer who
0:10:24 > 0:10:27wants a much cleaner Brexit than perhaps is on offer. I think things
0:10:27 > 0:10:33will stay pretty difficult for Theresa May at the moment.The clock
0:10:33 > 0:10:35is ticking so just want to make mention of the photograph of the
0:10:35 > 0:10:40Telegraph, which is the first lady of farming, this is the first female
0:10:40 > 0:10:49president of the National farmers union in over 100 years.Yes,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52welcome to the 21st century, comrades at the National farmers
0:10:52 > 0:10:55union! This is a very pleasing picture, I have to say, on this grey
0:10:55 > 0:11:05day, this very green grass and blue sky picture, it is a relief.Ivan
0:11:05 > 0:11:10know if that Segway is well or not well at all into The Times. More
0:11:10 > 0:11:17people should get pills to beat depression. Laura, I think some
0:11:17 > 0:11:22people could be surprised by this headline, but doctors are told,
0:11:22 > 0:11:26according to The Times, that millions of sufferers would benefit.
0:11:26 > 0:11:32They have run the study, I am in no position to second-guess. A global
0:11:32 > 0:11:38study led by researchers at Oxford University, saying that some of
0:11:38 > 0:11:41these prescriptions for antidepressants are affected. And I
0:11:41 > 0:11:45think the case might be that general practitioners are still cautious, in
0:11:45 > 0:11:49terms of prescribing antidepressants, and there may well
0:11:49 > 0:11:54be people who would benefit from it who are currently not receiving that
0:11:54 > 0:11:59prescription. If it helps them, and the trials are there to back it up,
0:11:59 > 0:12:03then this is something they should be prescribed.Rachel, you are
0:12:03 > 0:12:11nodding.Yes, what this report has noted is that there is still an
0:12:11 > 0:12:14ideological resistance, it describes it as, to antidepressants. This idea
0:12:14 > 0:12:20that you should not take medicine for issues related to mental health,
0:12:20 > 0:12:24which is a lingering stigma that means that people are not
0:12:24 > 0:12:27necessarily getting the treatment that they need. Apparently only one
0:12:27 > 0:12:33in six of those diagnosed with
0:12:33 > 0:12:36depression are taking the medication.I am being screamed at
0:12:36 > 0:12:39in my ever we have to leave it there, which is a real shame because
0:12:39 > 0:12:46eventually interesting talking to you both. Thank you, you can see the
0:12:46 > 0:12:56front pages of the papers on the BBC news website. If you miss the
0:12:56 > 0:12:59programme any evening you can watch it later on the BBC iPlayer. Thank
0:12:59 > 0:13:03you Rachel and Laura, sorry to cut you short, always too much to talk
0:13:03 > 0:13:05and never enough time.