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0:00:20 > 0:00:23Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

0:00:23 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.

0:00:24 > 0:00:28I'm joined by former Conservative minister Nicola Blackwood and

0:00:28 > 0:00:40political commentator and columnist for the

0:00:40 > 0:00:42Evening Standard, Ayesha Hazarika.

0:00:42 > 0:00:44Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.

0:00:44 > 0:00:47The Times says advertisers are threatening to abandon Facebook -

0:00:47 > 0:00:48following Mark Zuckerberg admitting that the company had

0:00:48 > 0:00:50made mistakes over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

0:00:50 > 0:00:52Boris Johnson's comparison between Vladimir Putin

0:00:52 > 0:00:55and Adolf Hitler is the lead in the Express.

0:00:55 > 0:00:58On the FT - an image of Nigel Farage throwing dead fish into the Thames -

0:00:58 > 0:01:00in protest toward the UK remaining in the common fisheries policy,

0:01:00 > 0:01:06during the Brexit transition period.

0:01:06 > 0:01:11The Telegraph reports on what it calls Tory fury over a Franco Dutch

0:01:11 > 0:01:16company being poised to start making the UK's new blue passports.

0:01:17 > 0:01:20The £4 billion pay boost for NHS workers is the lead in the i.

0:01:20 > 0:01:22The Metro also reflects on the NHS pay-rise,

0:01:22 > 0:01:25and has that image of Ant McPartlin, who's been charged

0:01:25 > 0:01:28with drink driving.

0:01:28 > 0:01:31And it's the same story in the Mirror, which says the TV

0:01:31 > 0:01:33star has checked in to rehab.

0:01:33 > 0:01:37And the Sun says there's uproar in Lincolnshire,

0:01:37 > 0:01:39where police officers are being given two days off

0:01:40 > 0:01:41to de-stress with yoga.

0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

0:01:44 > 0:01:45bringing us tomorrow.

0:01:45 > 0:01:51Let's go to the Times front page with the Facebook story writ large.

0:01:51 > 0:01:58The main story in The Times is this story, the scandal of Cambridge

0:01:58 > 0:02:02Analytica, which continues to go on and get larger, with advertisers now

0:02:02 > 0:02:06threatening to pull out of Facebook. They have some 3000 brands that use

0:02:06 > 0:02:12Facebook. This comes on the day that Mark Zuckerberg has finally broken

0:02:12 > 0:02:19his silence and made a statement on Facebook. Even though during those

0:02:19 > 0:02:23five days we have had an operating manager who has told the DCMS select

0:02:23 > 0:02:34committee he warned the actions of Facebook were outside rules. We have

0:02:34 > 0:02:37still not heard an apology from Zuckerberg.You say finally, do you

0:02:37 > 0:02:42think you should have said more earlier?One of the reasons

0:02:42 > 0:02:44investors are suing and advertisers have pulled out, there has felt like

0:02:44 > 0:02:48there has been an absence of leadership.It doesn't look good at

0:02:48 > 0:02:52all. The thing that is becoming clear about Facebook is that for a

0:02:52 > 0:02:56lot of us, we thought it was a nice and fluffy platform for posting

0:02:56 > 0:03:04pictures of our babies and pets and actually it's a ruthless marketing

0:03:04 > 0:03:07platform and the deal is, you get to do all the fluffy nice things, and

0:03:07 > 0:03:11we get to harvest all your information. Everybody kind of knows

0:03:11 > 0:03:15that's the deal and we know it happens with advertising, but when

0:03:15 > 0:03:19it moves into politics and slightly more serious issues like democracy,

0:03:19 > 0:03:25I think people do want to know. Add Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most

0:03:25 > 0:03:32powerful men on the planet now. These new tech giants have so much

0:03:32 > 0:03:36power, but with that comes responsibility. I think the fact he

0:03:36 > 0:03:40has not said sorry... I have been reading his statement. It's very,

0:03:40 > 0:03:45very long, but the word that is missing is sorry.He does say, we

0:03:45 > 0:03:51made mistakes, there is more to do, we need to step up and do it. He

0:03:51 > 0:03:54pledged to investigate suspicious looking apps and banned developers

0:03:54 > 0:03:59who refused to comply with an audit. Is that enough?He also said it is

0:03:59 > 0:04:05against our policy for developers to share data without our users'

0:04:05 > 0:04:10consent. It's also against data protection laws to share that data.

0:04:10 > 0:04:14New laws were becoming in in May and breaches of that law will incur

0:04:14 > 0:04:19penalties of up to 4% of worldwide revenues, which means that these are

0:04:19 > 0:04:23now laws that have real bite and companies will have to pay attention

0:04:23 > 0:04:30to them. Not only that, it also means this is a wake-up call for

0:04:30 > 0:04:35companies like this about reputation. What we have seen is the

0:04:35 > 0:04:38delete Facebook hashtag trending. It remains to be seen whether those

0:04:38 > 0:04:42will be followed with actions, but what we are seeing is a move from

0:04:42 > 0:04:45people being happy with companies just relying on data protection, and

0:04:45 > 0:04:50they want that to be followed with data ethics.To conclude this, I

0:04:50 > 0:04:53think the idea of people deleting Facebook is not going to happen.

0:04:53 > 0:04:57It's a social lifeline for a lot of people. I have relatives in India

0:04:57 > 0:05:02and it's incredibly helpful for me. But us as consumers, and users of

0:05:02 > 0:05:08this, we have to get more savvy about what is happening with our

0:05:08 > 0:05:13data and our privacy. People at Facebook have to be much clearer

0:05:13 > 0:05:17with us, the users, about what the deal is, and allow us to opt in and

0:05:17 > 0:05:27opt out of things.Let's go to the i, a pay rise hope for the NHS.The

0:05:27 > 0:05:31pay cap on public sector workers, particularly in the NHS, has been a

0:05:31 > 0:05:34sore deal for a long time. Public sector workers feel they have borne

0:05:34 > 0:05:38the brunt of austerity. We have heard stories of nurses going to

0:05:38 > 0:05:41food banks and lots of horrendous things like that. It looks like a

0:05:41 > 0:05:47deal has been reached for nurses. They do still have to vote on it.It

0:05:47 > 0:05:51does feel like the unions and government are in a good place.Most

0:05:51 > 0:05:55unions seem to be with it.I would argue that it would have been good

0:05:55 > 0:05:59if this could have been done earlier because people have had a hard time.

0:05:59 > 0:06:03In real terms you have seen the cost of living going up and it's been

0:06:03 > 0:06:09hard for nurses. The question now is, what about the other public

0:06:09 > 0:06:13sector workers, teachers, classroom assistants, firefighters? They all

0:06:13 > 0:06:18do important jobs in society.As a former government minister, Nicola,

0:06:18 > 0:06:22I'm intrigued to know how you see this. Clearly that's an issue at the

0:06:22 > 0:06:25headline points to the fact that wants one group of public sector

0:06:25 > 0:06:29workers sees something better, the others are bound to want the same.

0:06:29 > 0:06:33If you look at health, this is not the only pay deal which has been

0:06:33 > 0:06:39settled. This has had the biggest news, £4.2 billion of new money from

0:06:39 > 0:06:42the Treasury, and it's a significant amount of money, and we are seeing

0:06:42 > 0:06:49the lowest amount going up to potentially 29% pay rises. It's

0:06:49 > 0:06:54coming from the Treasury reserves. And the GP contract has been agreed,

0:06:54 > 0:06:57£256 million more. We know doctors and dentists will have to follow

0:06:57 > 0:07:06suit. These pay settlements will be coming forward. I think what has

0:07:06 > 0:07:09become clear in terms of the way the government is looking at it, it's

0:07:09 > 0:07:13not just about the fact these are incredibly hard-working public

0:07:13 > 0:07:18sector workers, who have been on tight budgets for a really long

0:07:18 > 0:07:23time, it's also about recruitment and retention. In some places, like

0:07:23 > 0:07:26my own constituency in Oxford and Abingdon, it's become a real

0:07:26 > 0:07:32challenge with the cost of living going up inexorably.One of the

0:07:32 > 0:07:35reasons the Conservatives failed to get the majority and lost a lot of

0:07:35 > 0:07:38seats at the general election, a lot of public sector workers got sick

0:07:38 > 0:07:41and tired of the pay cap. I think the Conservative Party paid quite a

0:07:41 > 0:07:49heavy price for that paid.The express, Boris says Putin is just

0:07:49 > 0:07:58like hit her.With characteristic bluntness and use of language, Boris

0:07:58 > 0:08:01makes the point about what he sees as the risks of the World Cup. --

0:08:01 > 0:08:08Putin is just like Hitler. We know with the World Cup, the use of

0:08:08 > 0:08:12propaganda extends to sporting events. We saw it with the Sochi

0:08:12 > 0:08:16Olympics and the doping scandal that followed. I think the concerns Boris

0:08:16 > 0:08:22has raised are perfectly reasonable. The politicising of the World Cup. I

0:08:22 > 0:08:26think the question which then follows is twofold. The first is,

0:08:26 > 0:08:33who should then attend? And I think he is right that having worked so

0:08:33 > 0:08:37hard for all of this time, it's right for the team to attend, but

0:08:37 > 0:08:40the next question that follows is the safety of the fans, and ensuring

0:08:40 > 0:08:45that safety. I know discussions are going to follow on that, but I think

0:08:45 > 0:08:49it will be a really crucial part of the picture.Lots of discussions

0:08:49 > 0:08:54about whether England should even go to the games. As a Scot, we took a

0:08:54 > 0:09:00decision early on not to get to the World Cup! We took a very principled

0:09:00 > 0:09:03decision!LAUGHTER We look to the future and saw bad

0:09:03 > 0:09:07things coming down the track and said no. That's what I would like to

0:09:07 > 0:09:12believe.I'm sure that's how Gordon Strachan sees it!You have to look

0:09:12 > 0:09:17on the bright side. It's a difficult issue. Everybody is talking tough

0:09:17 > 0:09:22around Putin. To be slightly cynical, I think it's easy for Boris

0:09:22 > 0:09:27to ramp up the rhetoric. Equating Putin to Hitler I think is a bit of

0:09:27 > 0:09:32a stretch, to be honest. Putin is definitely a bad man. Hitler killed

0:09:32 > 0:09:37millions and millions of Jewish people and other people, so I think

0:09:37 > 0:09:41it's a big reach. What I think Boris Johnson should be doing, and Theresa

0:09:41 > 0:09:44May is cracking down on tackling money coming in from Russia to this

0:09:44 > 0:09:48country. They have done good on the diplomats. There is the Magnitsky

0:09:48 > 0:09:52Act, which they should be putting into place to allow us to crackdown

0:09:52 > 0:09:56on foreign officials involved in corruption, but there is a lot of

0:09:56 > 0:10:01dirty Russian money coming through London. I think a little less

0:10:01 > 0:10:04hysterical overblown rhetoric like this and C as crackdown on that kind

0:10:04 > 0:10:11of stuff.I will invite you both to move reasonably swiftly through the

0:10:11 > 0:10:16next few selections. A word about the Metro, and Ant McPartlin, and

0:10:16 > 0:10:22where it will leave ITV.It's a really sad story. Ant McPartlin has

0:10:22 > 0:10:29been struggling for a long time. And on deck are a large drawer for ITV.

0:10:29 > 0:10:36For the rest of the season it presents ITV with a huge challenge

0:10:36 > 0:10:43and Dec has said he will go through with the remainder of programmes

0:10:43 > 0:10:48without Ant. The question is whether that can be sustained for the rest

0:10:48 > 0:10:54of the season.It's hard to visualise it for either of them.I

0:10:54 > 0:10:58read that they had a pact that they would always do television together.

0:10:58 > 0:11:02They grew up together, they were teenagers when they entered the

0:11:02 > 0:11:05spotlight. It's very sad, but hopefully their friendship will help

0:11:05 > 0:11:09them come through this.Nigel Farage and some fish on the front of the

0:11:09 > 0:11:14Financial Times.Just when you think Brexit can't get any more

0:11:14 > 0:11:18ridiculous, it is the spectacle of Nigel Farage throwing dead fish into

0:11:18 > 0:11:25the River Thames as a protest at the fact that fishing is not going to

0:11:25 > 0:11:28change as much as we thought it would. We are not going to take back

0:11:28 > 0:11:33control of fishing in the way we had somehow promised. I think, you know,

0:11:33 > 0:11:40the whole thing was a completely ludicrous stunt, but then again, the

0:11:40 > 0:11:43Leave campaign did go around doing some ridiculous stunts during the

0:11:43 > 0:11:52campaign as well.Says a Remainer.A lot of people are saying... They are

0:11:52 > 0:11:55on the warpath saying it's an important industry. I'm not saying

0:11:55 > 0:11:59it's not, but there were other groups in society, take the staff in

0:11:59 > 0:12:05the NHS, we employ a lot of people in the NHS and they are wondering

0:12:05 > 0:12:08where the £350 million per week plastered on the bus is.We are not

0:12:08 > 0:12:11going to rerun that campaign again. We haven't got time. Nicola,

0:12:11 > 0:12:17sticking with that theme, the Telegraph, the blue Brexit passports

0:12:17 > 0:12:21might not be made in Britain.They might not be made by a British

0:12:21 > 0:12:25company, they might be made by a Franco Dutch company. The concern

0:12:25 > 0:12:29made by some Brexiteers is that the reason for this is because European

0:12:29 > 0:12:37rules required the tender to be put out across the EU and it has been

0:12:37 > 0:12:42won not by a British company, and the symbolism of this is not what

0:12:42 > 0:12:51we're after during the Brexit period I have to say, I think all concerned

0:12:51 > 0:12:55need to lift up their eyes and look at where we are trying to end up as

0:12:55 > 0:12:59an end goal, which is to come out of Brexit with an economy that is

0:12:59 > 0:13:03strong and with the right results. I think Michael Gove put it quite well

0:13:03 > 0:13:08when he said, keep the eye on the prize. You want to have trade

0:13:08 > 0:13:12negotiations through the transition period and have a pragmatic result

0:13:12 > 0:13:16at the end where immigration rules are right, and the terms of

0:13:16 > 0:13:19transition give certainty to companies. Some of these issues, it

0:13:19 > 0:13:24feels like they have some importance, they are perhaps not top

0:13:24 > 0:13:30priority.I will ask you to pause now, to give us 30 seconds to

0:13:30 > 0:13:36reflect on back pain. According to The Times, treatment is useless.A

0:13:36 > 0:13:41subject close to the back of my heart. It's about getting hooked on

0:13:41 > 0:13:46drugs and painkillers and opioids, what people should be doing is using

0:13:46 > 0:13:51psychological therapy and exercise. So instead... Back pain is a huge

0:13:51 > 0:13:56issue, suffered by 9 million people in Britain. One out of every seven

0:13:56 > 0:14:01GP appointments is about back pain. The message is, don't just pop

0:14:01 > 0:14:06pills, gets down and do some Pilates.About five years ago I

0:14:06 > 0:14:12couldn't turn my neck at all. I went to a physio who was also a Pilates

0:14:12 > 0:14:15teacher and she did everything with physio and couldn't fix it. She said

0:14:15 > 0:14:20I wouldn't respond to any touching, try doing exercise. And I did, and I

0:14:20 > 0:14:25can now turn my head.Beautiful. I am living proof that the article is

0:14:25 > 0:14:30correct.Thank you both for the papers tonight.

0:14:30 > 0:14:33Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online

0:14:33 > 0:14:35on the BBC News website.

0:14:35 > 0:14:37It's all there for you - 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers -

0:14:38 > 0:14:39and if you miss the programme any

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0:14:42 > 0:14:47Thank you to you both. Goodbye.