0:00:00 > 0:00:02That's all for now, coming up in a moment, the papers.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:26bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29With me are Kate Proctor, political correspondent
0:00:29 > 0:00:31of the London Evening Standard and John Stapleton, broadcaster.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36Let's run through some of tomorrow's front pages.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40The Telegraph reports comments by a former head of MI6 that
0:00:40 > 0:00:45Jeremy Corbyn has questions to answer over his relationship
0:00:45 > 0:00:51with communist operatives during the Cold War.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54The Times reveals the identity of a man it calls a "Putin crony"
0:00:54 > 0:00:56with financial interests in Britain after a long-running legal
0:00:56 > 0:00:59dispute with the paper.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03The FT Weekend leads on Brexit, it says the Prime Minister is under
0:01:03 > 0:01:13growing cross-party pressure to stay in the Customs Union after Brexit.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18The Guardian has an investigation into food safety and says that half
0:01:18 > 0:01:21of all audited meat factories have had major safety breaches in the
0:01:21 > 0:01:26last three years.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Possible changes to the organ donor system is the i's top story -
0:01:30 > 0:01:32it reports MPs have voted to progress legislation replacing
0:01:32 > 0:01:33the opt-in system with an opt-out.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37The Mirror calls the move "historic" and says it has delighted
0:01:37 > 0:01:40ten-year-old heart transplant patient Max.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45The Mail reports hospital consultants have won a battle
0:01:45 > 0:01:47to retain lucrative bonuses, which the paper claims costs the NHS
0:01:47 > 0:01:50£320 million a year.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Stephen Fry's revelation he has prostate cancer
0:01:53 > 0:02:00is the Sun's lead story.
0:02:00 > 0:02:07Let's start with the FT. Theresa May on the spot over the customs union.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11It has been another roller-coaster day in terms of Brexit Cox and where
0:02:11 > 0:02:17Britain is that with Brexit and the FT is rightly leading with the most
0:02:17 > 0:02:32important story -- Brexit talks. Theresa May is easier to -- Theresa
0:02:32 > 0:02:39May is facing a challenge from backbench MPs. There are a few more
0:02:39 > 0:02:45backbench MPs who have added their name to this amendment.Be clear
0:02:45 > 0:02:49what the amendment is.That would be that Britain remains in the customs
0:02:49 > 0:02:52union.Do you think there's a majority in the comments are staying
0:02:52 > 0:02:58in customs union?It is a knife edge for the Conservatives right now and
0:02:58 > 0:03:04we will learn more in Jeremy Corbyn delivers his speech on Monday.This
0:03:04 > 0:03:08piece is saying the arithmetic has changed but I have my doubts whether
0:03:08 > 0:03:10all those Labour MPs whose constituents voted for Brexit would
0:03:10 > 0:03:15necessarily go that way. Like many other people, I'm still wondering
0:03:15 > 0:03:21what the Government have up their sleeve, kicking the scan down the
0:03:21 > 0:03:26road and saying we will tell you what our plan and we will have a
0:03:26 > 0:03:29series of speeches. We had a meeting at Chequers last night and we still
0:03:29 > 0:03:39don't have any details.We think there was a surprising unanimity.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43They said they want to have managed to divergence, meaning you could
0:03:43 > 0:03:47cherry pick bits of legislation or rules from the EU that you would
0:03:47 > 0:03:52like to be closely aligned with, but Donald Katherine task has called
0:03:52 > 0:04:00this pure illusion and he is coming for his own meeting on Thursday --
0:04:00 > 0:04:08Donald Tusk. Theresa May is getting her own meeting on Friday.If we
0:04:08 > 0:04:13leave the customs union, then you've got to the border in Northern
0:04:13 > 0:04:19Ireland and checks at Dover, etc and no one wants either of those. If we
0:04:19 > 0:04:26stay in a customs union, we can do deals outside -- we can't do deals
0:04:26 > 0:04:32outside.Some Conservative MPs today were saying they would like the
0:04:32 > 0:04:37arrangements which some countries are signed up to. There is another
0:04:37 > 0:04:41option being explored by Conservative backbenchers so there
0:04:41 > 0:04:48is another option perhaps on the table. It is to be able to have a
0:04:48 > 0:04:51trade deal with a certain set of countries. It is a form of customs
0:04:51 > 0:04:57union.The Brexiteers within the Tory party, would they stand for
0:04:57 > 0:05:04that?No, they want us to be out completely and not in any
0:05:04 > 0:05:06collaborative arrangement with any other countries. They want us to be
0:05:06 > 0:05:12an independent coastal nation.We seem to be quite far down the Brexit
0:05:12 > 0:05:17Road and it's still not clear what kind of Brexit it's going to be.400
0:05:17 > 0:05:21days to go or something like that. Is that because Theresa May can't be
0:05:21 > 0:05:25clear because if she is clear, she's going to upset some part of her
0:05:25 > 0:05:34party?That is a defence for saying nothing. It is also an indication
0:05:34 > 0:05:39that they can't make up their minds. Moving on from Brexit to Kentucky
0:05:39 > 0:05:44fried chicken. Why did the chicken cross the road? According to the FT,
0:05:44 > 0:05:51why did the chicken failed to cross the road?This story right
0:05:51 > 0:05:53underneath the Brexit story is making the point that this
0:05:53 > 0:05:59destruction to supplies are GST is good to continue. I can't believe
0:05:59 > 0:06:03the fuss is created. There was a woman on the news asked about her
0:06:03 > 0:06:10views about not being able to get her TSE and she said, I had to go to
0:06:10 > 0:06:17Burger King! -- to get her KFC. People have likely been calling the
0:06:17 > 0:06:23police saying they can't get KFC -- people have actually been calling
0:06:23 > 0:06:29the police.We only had one job, to deliver fried chicken, that's what
0:06:29 > 0:06:35they're saying. We had the chickens, we had the restaurants but couldn't
0:06:35 > 0:06:39match the two together. The angle is that it's going to continue.Were
0:06:39 > 0:06:44just great to have a weekend without fried chicken -- we are just going
0:06:44 > 0:06:48to have a weekend without fried chicken.
0:06:48 > 0:06:55To the Telegraph, the continuing row over Jeremy Corbyn and whether he's
0:06:55 > 0:07:05got questions to answer and the former MI6 says that he has.Jeremy
0:07:05 > 0:07:16Corbyn as I'm sure viewers remember, said earlier this week that was a
0:07:16 > 0:07:21man who created
0:07:22 > 0:07:27and it is a joke. Jeremy Corbyn said he certainly didn't betray his
0:07:27 > 0:07:34country as one senior Tory alleged. We have Sir Richard saying hang on,
0:07:34 > 0:07:41it's a bit naive to imagine Jeremy Corbyn thinking this man was just a
0:07:41 > 0:07:47diplomat. He has been in contact with some of his so-called friends
0:07:47 > 0:07:53in the intelligence community and saying, there may well be something
0:07:53 > 0:07:57in this, so presumably the whole thing opens up again.I imagine you
0:07:57 > 0:08:02will see a really strong push back again from Labour.We had a very
0:08:02 > 0:08:07strong statement from Jeremy Corbyn. He put a video out to say that for
0:08:07 > 0:08:15right-wing media barons, time is up. Changes coming, with a glint in his
0:08:15 > 0:08:20eye -- change is coming.It's really interesting to hear these views but
0:08:20 > 0:08:23it also references the fact that the CIA were keeping tabs on Jeremy
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Corbyn when he was travelling around South America and places in the
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Caribbean so I think his politics and his left-wing politics have come
0:08:31 > 0:08:37over the last 30 years, brought the attention of agencies.The Daily
0:08:37 > 0:08:44Mail and the sun will love this one because it keeps the ball rolling.
0:08:44 > 0:08:55The front page of Private Eye is James Bond in a suave suit and
0:08:55 > 0:09:00sunglasses and Jeremy Corbyn in a T-shirt and shorts! Also the
0:09:00 > 0:09:07Telegraph, another story that has been rumbling since the first Oxfam
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Revelations, a new charity embroiled in the sex abuse scandal in the
0:09:10 > 0:09:20eight world. What's this one about, Kate? -- aid world.They say they
0:09:20 > 0:09:24have six cases of child abuse by staff and volunteers. Is one of
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Britain's biggest children's charities and for me, this is
0:09:28 > 0:09:35pushing it into another area where some of these cases are displayed as
0:09:35 > 0:09:39criminal in nature. We have had correspondence between aid workers
0:09:39 > 0:09:42and staff which has been inappropriate but here we have
0:09:42 > 0:09:46potential criminal activity against children and it's another really
0:09:46 > 0:09:52sickening story to be honest, that people who do this have managed to
0:09:52 > 0:09:57be employed in these charities. For me, Oxfam brought this up earlier
0:09:57 > 0:10:01this week, the referencing from when one aid worker, let's say they are
0:10:01 > 0:10:05disgraced and are able to move to another place to find work and the
0:10:05 > 0:10:09fact they are referenced and doesn't show anything about them.So there
0:10:09 > 0:10:16is not enough vetting. I was reading that when there is a disaster, the
0:10:16 > 0:10:20aid agencies are scrambling to get staff and sometimes they are
0:10:20 > 0:10:26recruiting very fast, sometimes hundreds of people, so some of these
0:10:26 > 0:10:33people were not appropriate.Some are senior people and campaigners
0:10:33 > 0:10:39and the Oxfam situation, the way this was handled by the Oxfam people
0:10:39 > 0:10:43at that time left a lot to be desired. It was woefully inadequate.
0:10:43 > 0:10:49What distresses me about these terrible stories is thinking that
0:10:49 > 0:10:55this. People giving money to these organisations, which in the main,
0:10:55 > 0:11:01the overwhelming majority of cases do a fantastic job.Oxfam gave
0:11:01 > 0:11:04figures and said 7000 people had stopped their donations but out of
0:11:04 > 0:11:15400,000 so it was quite a small centage.Some also signed up in
0:11:15 > 0:11:18protest.Everyone is faced with options about charitable giving and
0:11:18 > 0:11:26I think it will have quite a big impact on farmers.Do you think they
0:11:26 > 0:11:33will recover? Oxfam have been hard-hit by these organisations --
0:11:33 > 0:11:38accusations.It just goes on and on and they're going to publish new
0:11:38 > 0:11:46safeguards and measures to make sure this won't happen again. It might
0:11:46 > 0:11:49remind people of the original allegations and scandal so it might
0:11:49 > 0:11:55be hard to operate in exactly the same way.Yeah, I find it difficult.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59Things that this damage your reputation so much that you can
0:11:59 > 0:12:01actually scrap what you're doing and start again but for something like
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Oxfam which is so well entrenched, it's hard to imagine how they would
0:12:05 > 0:12:09go away and come back.It's such a big institution that has been around
0:12:09 > 0:12:19for so long. Let's talk about the Mirror, it's a historic move on
0:12:19 > 0:12:28organ donation to make it an opt out system.This campaign has been going
0:12:28 > 0:12:33around for two years and it involved the boy on the front page, Max, who
0:12:33 > 0:12:38had to have at heart transplant and had to wait an agonisingly long
0:12:38 > 0:12:51time. They argue that the law should be changed and that organs will be
0:12:51 > 0:12:54deleted unless the family say otherwise. It will be deemed
0:12:54 > 0:13:00consent. They have fought this battle for two long years and now
0:13:00 > 0:13:04the House of Commons have agreed to bring in what they're calling Max's
0:13:04 > 0:13:08law. They're saying 200 lives per year might be saved. We often
0:13:08 > 0:13:13criticise newspapers but the Daily Mail deserves our congratulations --
0:13:13 > 0:13:24the Daily Mirror.If it is your relative that is waiting for a
0:13:24 > 0:13:27transplant, I think you would feel very strongly that this is exactly
0:13:27 > 0:13:34the right thing to do, that you need to make sure that options are open
0:13:34 > 0:13:43to you. What I think the Mirror has done here is contributed so many
0:13:43 > 0:13:47stories about families having such a difficult time and also sad stories
0:13:47 > 0:13:52where people don't get the organs that they need and so I think
0:13:52 > 0:13:56knowing those emotional stories as a reporter, I can't help but support
0:13:56 > 0:14:01this.This little lad Max got the heart of a young ghetto who had been
0:14:01 > 0:14:05involved in a road accident and her father gave permission for all her
0:14:05 > 0:14:09organs to go to people.What a brave thing for him to do.And that saved
0:14:09 > 0:14:19for different lives. We have been reporting that Stephen
0:14:19 > 0:14:27Fry has prostate cancer and he has been talking about that today. The
0:14:27 > 0:14:36Simon say getting a flu jab saved his life. -- the The Sun.I saw a
0:14:36 > 0:14:40video or Stephen Fry explain in what happened, he got diagnosed at the
0:14:40 > 0:14:43end of last year and had the operation in January and it was
0:14:43 > 0:14:51fairly aggressive. But he has tackled it with style and humour and
0:14:51 > 0:14:56told his millions of fans that fingers crossed, he will be OK.This
0:14:56 > 0:15:00is another example of a celebrity with an illness than raising
0:15:00 > 0:15:06awareness about prostate cancer. We sought with Angelina Jolie. She had
0:15:06 > 0:15:11breast cancer.It is effective when people speak out in this way and for
0:15:11 > 0:15:14something so personal, you've got to applaud Stephen Fry for doing it. He
0:15:14 > 0:15:19said something in his video, he did a video on his website today and
0:15:19 > 0:15:22said it is an old cliche, but you don't think it's going to happen to
0:15:22 > 0:15:27you and I thought that was a line that would ring true with lots of
0:15:27 > 0:15:33people.But it is one of those cancers that men are not necessarily
0:15:33 > 0:15:40aware of.We men are not very good at admitting there is anything wrong
0:15:40 > 0:15:46with us.Going to the doctors.We don't like owning up to that kind of
0:15:46 > 0:15:52stuff. It is a remainder, it's the biggest killer of men in the UK,
0:15:52 > 0:16:0340,000 cases a year, 11,000 of whom died. Spot on.It is sort of raising
0:16:03 > 0:16:12awareness, which is a good thing. Let's end on the weather. It's what
0:16:12 > 0:16:16I been talking about all day.It has been freezing! Westminster can be a
0:16:16 > 0:16:26chilly place.Politically or...? Written in a deep freeze, four
0:16:26 > 0:16:33inches of snow on the way.That is going to cause havoc across the
0:16:33 > 0:16:37country, from North East to London and the South East and in Scotland,
0:16:37 > 0:16:41some places are down to -15 Celsius so I think that will cause
0:16:41 > 0:16:48difficulty for motorists.The South of England which often gets off
0:16:48 > 0:16:51latest, and I grew up between Manchester and Huddersfield, this is
0:16:51 > 0:16:56nothing.I thought you were going to say you were brought up in the
0:16:56 > 0:17:02Arctic!This is nothing, but we used to laugh at the South because BBC
0:17:02 > 0:17:06News with run a big weather story if there was an inch of snow in
0:17:06 > 0:17:15Trafalgar Square and we were digging mountains of snow!The express love
0:17:15 > 0:17:24weather stories. It is their staple diet.A polar vortex is the phrase
0:17:24 > 0:17:27that comes up over and over again when temperatures plummet, which I
0:17:27 > 0:17:35think is the most Matic thing. -- most dramatic. Four inches of snow
0:17:35 > 0:17:41on the way.The first thing you think about when you get up in the
0:17:41 > 0:17:51morning is what the weather is like. It affects what you take to lunch.
0:17:51 > 0:17:57Lovely. Great to have you with us.
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