23/02/2018 The Papers

That's all for now, coming up in a

moment, the papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Kate Proctor,

political correspondent

of the London Evening Standard

and John Stapleton, broadcaster.

Let's run through some

of tomorrow's front pages.

The Telegraph reports comments

by a former head of MI6 that

Jeremy Corbyn has questions

to answer over his relationship

with communist operatives

during the Cold War.

The Times reveals the identity

of a man it calls a "Putin crony"

with financial interests in Britain

after a long-running legal

dispute with the paper.

The FT Weekend leads on Brexit,

it says the Prime Minister is under

growing cross-party pressure to stay

in the Customs Union after Brexit.

The Guardian has an investigation

into food safety and says that half

of all audited meat factories have

had major safety breaches in the

last three years.

Possible changes to the organ donor

system is the i's top story -

it reports MPs have voted

to progress legislation replacing

the opt-in system with an opt-out.

The Mirror calls the move "historic"

and says it has delighted

ten-year-old heart

transplant patient Max.

The Mail reports hospital

consultants have won a battle

to retain lucrative bonuses,

which the paper claims costs the NHS

£320 million a year.

Stephen Fry's revelation

he has prostate cancer

is the Sun's lead story.

Let's start with the FT. Theresa May

on the spot over the customs union.

It has been another roller-coaster

day in terms of Brexit Cox and where

Britain is that with Brexit and the

FT is rightly leading with the most

important story -- Brexit talks.

Theresa May is easier to -- Theresa

May is facing a challenge from

backbench MPs. There are a few more

backbench MPs who have added their

name to this amendment.

Be clear

what the amendment is.

That would be

that Britain remains in the customs

union.

Do you think there's a

majority in the comments are staying

in customs union?

It is a knife edge

for the Conservatives right now and

we will learn more in Jeremy Corbyn

delivers his speech on Monday.

This

piece is saying the arithmetic has

changed but I have my doubts whether

all those Labour MPs whose

constituents voted for Brexit would

necessarily go that way. Like many

other people, I'm still wondering

what the Government have up their

sleeve, kicking the scan down the

road and saying we will tell you

what our plan and we will have a

series of speeches. We had a meeting

at Chequers last night and we still

don't have any details.

We think

there was a surprising unanimity.

They said they want to have managed

to divergence, meaning you could

cherry pick bits of legislation or

rules from the EU that you would

like to be closely aligned with, but

Donald Katherine task has called

this pure illusion and he is coming

for his own meeting on Thursday --

Donald Tusk. Theresa May is getting

her own meeting on Friday.

If we

leave the customs union, then you've

got to the border in Northern

Ireland and checks at Dover, etc and

no one wants either of those. If we

stay in a customs union, we can do

deals outside -- we can't do deals

outside.

Some Conservative MPs today

were saying they would like the

arrangements which some countries

are signed up to. There is another

option being explored by

Conservative backbenchers so there

is another option perhaps on the

table. It is to be able to have a

trade deal with a certain set of

countries. It is a form of customs

union.

The Brexiteers within the

Tory party, would they stand for

that?

No, they want us to be out

completely and not in any

collaborative arrangement with any

other countries. They want us to be

an independent coastal nation.

We

seem to be quite far down the Brexit

Road and it's still not clear what

kind of Brexit it's going to be.

400

days to go or something like that.

Is that because Theresa May can't be

clear because if she is clear, she's

going to upset some part of her

party?

That is a defence for saying

nothing. It is also an indication

that they can't make up their minds.

Moving on from Brexit to Kentucky

fried chicken. Why did the chicken

cross the road? According to the FT,

why did the chicken failed to cross

the road?

This story right

underneath the Brexit story is

making the point that this

destruction to supplies are GST is

good to continue. I can't believe

the fuss is created. There was a

woman on the news asked about her

views about not being able to get

her TSE and she said, I had to go to

Burger King! -- to get her KFC.

People have likely been calling the

police saying they can't get KFC --

people have actually been calling

the police.

We only had one job, to

deliver fried chicken, that's what

they're saying. We had the chickens,

we had the restaurants but couldn't

match the two together. The angle is

that it's going to continue.

Were

just great to have a weekend without

fried chicken -- we are just going

to have a weekend without fried

chicken.

To the Telegraph, the continuing row

over Jeremy Corbyn and whether he's

got questions to answer and the

former MI6 says that he has.

Jeremy

Corbyn as I'm sure viewers remember,

said earlier this week that was a

man who created

and it is a joke. Jeremy Corbyn said

he certainly didn't betray his

country as one senior Tory alleged.

We have Sir Richard saying hang on,

it's a bit naive to imagine Jeremy

Corbyn thinking this man was just a

diplomat. He has been in contact

with some of his so-called friends

in the intelligence community and

saying, there may well be something

in this, so presumably the whole

thing opens up again.

I imagine you

will see a really strong push back

again from Labour.

We had a very

strong statement from Jeremy Corbyn.

He put a video out to say that for

right-wing media barons, time is up.

Changes coming, with a glint in his

eye -- change is coming.

It's really

interesting to hear these views but

it also references the fact that the

CIA were keeping tabs on Jeremy

Corbyn when he was travelling around

South America and places in the

Caribbean so I think his politics

and his left-wing politics have come

over the last 30 years, brought the

attention of agencies.

The Daily

Mail and the sun will love this one

because it keeps the ball rolling.

The front page of Private Eye is

James Bond in a suave suit and

sunglasses and Jeremy Corbyn in a

T-shirt and shorts! Also the

Telegraph, another story that has

been rumbling since the first Oxfam

Revelations, a new charity embroiled

in the sex abuse scandal in the

eight world. What's this one about,

Kate? -- aid world.

They say they

have six cases of child abuse by

staff and volunteers. Is one of

Britain's biggest children's

charities and for me, this is

pushing it into another area where

some of these cases are displayed as

criminal in nature. We have had

correspondence between aid workers

and staff which has been

inappropriate but here we have

potential criminal activity against

children and it's another really

sickening story to be honest, that

people who do this have managed to

be employed in these charities. For

me, Oxfam brought this up earlier

this week, the referencing from when

one aid worker, let's say they are

disgraced and are able to move to

another place to find work and the

fact they are referenced and doesn't

show anything about them.

So there

is not enough vetting. I was reading

that when there is a disaster, the

aid agencies are scrambling to get

staff and sometimes they are

recruiting very fast, sometimes

hundreds of people, so some of these

people were not appropriate.

Some

are senior people and campaigners

and the Oxfam situation, the way

this was handled by the Oxfam people

at that time left a lot to be

desired. It was woefully inadequate.

What distresses me about these

terrible stories is thinking that

this. People giving money to these

organisations, which in the main,

the overwhelming majority of cases

do a fantastic job.

Oxfam gave

figures and said 7000 people had

stopped their donations but out of

400,000 so it was quite a small

centage.

Some also signed up in

protest.

Everyone is faced with

options about charitable giving and

I think it will have quite a big

impact on farmers.

Do you think they

will recover? Oxfam have been

hard-hit by these organisations --

accusations.

It just goes on and on

and they're going to publish new

safeguards and measures to make sure

this won't happen again. It might

remind people of the original

allegations and scandal so it might

be hard to operate in exactly the

same way.

Yeah, I find it difficult.

Things that this damage your

reputation so much that you can

actually scrap what you're doing and

start again but for something like

Oxfam which is so well entrenched,

it's hard to imagine how they would

go away and come back.

It's such a

big institution that has been around

for so long. Let's talk about the

Mirror, it's a historic move on

organ donation to make it an opt out

system.

This campaign has been going

around for two years and it involved

the boy on the front page, Max, who

had to have at heart transplant and

had to wait an agonisingly long

time. They argue that the law should

be changed and that organs will be

deleted unless the family say

otherwise. It will be deemed

consent. They have fought this

battle for two long years and now

the House of Commons have agreed to

bring in what they're calling Max's

law. They're saying 200 lives per

year might be saved. We often

criticise newspapers but the Daily

Mail deserves our congratulations --

the Daily Mirror.

If it is your

relative that is waiting for a

transplant, I think you would feel

very strongly that this is exactly

the right thing to do, that you need

to make sure that options are open

to you. What I think the Mirror has

done here is contributed so many

stories about families having such a

difficult time and also sad stories

where people don't get the organs

that they need and so I think

knowing those emotional stories as a

reporter, I can't help but support

this.

This little lad Max got the

heart of a young ghetto who had been

involved in a road accident and her

father gave permission for all her

organs to go to people.

What a brave

thing for him to do.

And that saved

for different lives.

We have been reporting that Stephen

Fry has prostate cancer and he has

been talking about that today. The

Simon say getting a flu jab saved

his life. -- the The Sun.

I saw a

video or Stephen Fry explain in what

happened, he got diagnosed at the

end of last year and had the

operation in January and it was

fairly aggressive. But he has

tackled it with style and humour and

told his millions of fans that

fingers crossed, he will be OK.

This

is another example of a celebrity

with an illness than raising

awareness about prostate cancer. We

sought with Angelina Jolie. She had

breast cancer.

It is effective when

people speak out in this way and for

something so personal, you've got to

applaud Stephen Fry for doing it. He

said something in his video, he did

a video on his website today and

said it is an old cliche, but you

don't think it's going to happen to

you and I thought that was a line

that would ring true with lots of

people.

But it is one of those

cancers that men are not necessarily

aware of.

We men are not very good

at admitting there is anything wrong

with us.

Going to the doctors.

We

don't like owning up to that kind of

stuff. It is a remainder, it's the

biggest killer of men in the UK,

40,000 cases a year, 11,000 of whom

died. Spot on.

It is sort of raising

awareness, which is a good thing.

Let's end on the weather. It's what

I been talking about all day.

It has

been freezing! Westminster can be a

chilly place.

Politically or...?

Written in a deep freeze, four

inches of snow on the way.

That is

going to cause havoc across the

country, from North East to London

and the South East and in Scotland,

some places are down to -15 Celsius

so I think that will cause

difficulty for motorists.

The South

of England which often gets off

latest, and I grew up between

Manchester and Huddersfield, this is

nothing.

I thought you were going to

say you were brought up in the

Arctic!

This is nothing, but we used

to laugh at the South because BBC

News with run a big weather story if

there was an inch of snow in

Trafalgar Square and we were digging

mountains of snow!

The express love

weather stories. It is their staple

diet.

A polar vortex is the phrase

that comes up over and over again

when temperatures plummet, which I

think is the most Matic thing. --

most dramatic. Four inches of snow

on the way.

The first thing you

think about when you get up in the

morning is what the weather is like.

It affects what you take to lunch.

Lovely. Great to have you with us.

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