this is bbc news. we will be looking at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment, but first our headlines: research by bbc news shows the number of patients in england waiting for more than the official target of 18 weeks for surgery has risen by 163% in four gears. passengers from countries subjected to america's travel ban sees the chance to fly to the us as judges refused to reverse the suspension of trump's controversial order. —— four yea rs. trump's controversial order. —— four years. there is a shift away from homeowners for all. there are fresh measures to encourage renting. romanians have been protesting outside government buildings for a six night running. despite the repeal of a decree which would have watered down penalties for corruption. marine le pen has launched her campaign to become the country's new president. she's promised to eradicate terrorism and

abandon the euro if she wins. on this week's meet the author, my guest is sofie kinsella. she will be talking about her latest book my not so perfect life. welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me is robert fox and former conservative employment minister esther mcveigh. the front pages, starting with the daily telegraph, leading analysis of plans to close a&e units in england in an effort to save money. it reports that up to one in six casualties departments face closure. rent revolution, the headline on the front of the metro, referring to a

shift in tone by the conservatives from their right to buy policy towards affordable homes to rent. the independent has a photo of the french far right leader marine le pen as she launched her presidential campaign in france today and attacked a radical islam. blackmailing beckham, the daily mirror reports on a plot over hacked e—mails from david beckham. health tourism is the focus of the times. it reports hospitals will be legally obliged to charge foreign patients before they are allowed access to nhs health care. the garden looks at the controversial travel ban imposed by donald trump but rejected by a us appeals court. it looks like those defending the us president and his effo rts defending the us president and his efforts to stop people travelling from seven many muslim countries. i expected to see more of donald trump on the front pages but no. but there is a lot of marine le pen instead. here she is. she was

appearing in lyon today as she launched her campaign. vive la haine, which i think long live hatred. yes. it was the rage of the banlieues, which they do every ten years, badly. and those are the suburbs? that's right. the interesting thing is that is her constituency. i am worried about you and mrtrump. we constituency. i am worried about you and mr trump. we are not having him 40 and mr trump. we are not having him a0 already, are we? and mr trump. we are not having him 40 already, are we? ijust thought he would feature more. —— for tea. the papers say marine le pen is going in and she has a roaring start in the presidential election race. she'll win the first round but definitely not the second. you don't agree. i don't because we heard all

of that about mr trump. what's been interesting since reporting last week from really depressed parts of france, very much the kind of rust belt area that trump appealed to. they say we are behind one of the big union configurations, the cgt, but the only one who can really speak sent us this time his marine le pen. wait for a shock. we've heard from other politicians, particularly to do with islamist fundamentalism in the us in particular, but also saying that we wa nt particular, but also saying that we want a rethink of our relationship with the eu. and even the euro as they currency. and she's come out with putting france first. she wants to get into the, sort of, national feeling, the sense of the people she's coming forward with. as you

say, whether it is the euro, whether it is talking in a debate to come out of the eu. she's also talking about wanting to tax imports. also looking at contracts for foreign workers. to raise welfare. cutting tax. she's appealing to everybody, giving them a pick and mix of things they can go to her for. do you think she will win? rob knows the country better. he feels she has support. i would not have thought that. everything i've been reading has very much said it has always been in the french tradition anything but marine le pen and the national front. she would get through on the first round but not the second. but if people are not tapping in and you are not hearing the coverage of the people she's appealing to, then that could be a way of keeping her off the front pages, but all i saw from the front pages, but all i saw from the footage on the bbc, when they spoke to an audience afterwards, some were teachers, doctors,

students, and they all said marine le pen is the only one for us. so what you are saying is resonating from those 3000 in lyon. but if they wa nted from those 3000 in lyon. but if they wanted somebody new, somebody different, who wasn't part of the political establishment in terms of had held elected office before they could pick macron, who have twice as many people turn up at his launch, also in lyon. he is part of the establishment. he went to the grand schools. he's been minister. he is never held elected office. we've heard that before. i think marine le pen is a much better politician than her father, the founder of the front national, and i think she has populism. she is another one of the big populist leaders, saying, i know the people, i trust the people, the people trust me. i think he is an

elite figure, very intelligent, absolutely top drawer, macron will find it difficult to break that crust. in a way the establishment let themselves down. the people who should have been there, fillon...|j could not agree more. in the states, everybody said, we didn't want trump, we didn't want hillary, hillary had problems with her foundation, her e—mails, why was she the democrat candidate ? foundation, her e—mails, why was she the democrat candidate? c have two people who wouldn't necessarily come forward but the establishment has, they've let themselves down by doing things they should not have done. you are saying the establishment has rotten candidates? i didn't. butl think you have a point. they have done things so wrong for a long time and got away with it, but these people are now coming through. they've opened up the path that these people who you would not have thought would have been here together in the final. so it is

really interesting. we will find out pretty soon what is going to happen. april, then many, if we need a second. and we have the dutch. -- then may. then we have the big ones, then may. then we have the big ones, the germans, and then the italian ones will come somewhere in between. we will have somebody who does not agree with politics at all. it is rock and roll. let's move on and talk about brexit in various guises. there are so many different strands to the brexit story. first of all on the telegraph. made to stand firm against rebels‘ attempts to wreck brexit bill. —— theresa may to stand firm. this would be by a number of amendments which would cause trouble. the government will not back any of them. how can they wrecked the brexit bill with amendments if they don‘t get much support? i would not have thought the support was more than nine or ten. amongst the conservatives? yes,

couldn't really see that, some of these amendments it is like 100 have come forward. they are wrecking amendments, i think, come forward. they are wrecking amendments, ithink, one has gone through that you cannot trigger article 50 until we've had money put into cardiff airport. bless them for trying, but lots of things are coming forward like this. at the end of the day she is going to proceed. she is going to carry on. the vote la st she is going to carry on. the vote last week was pretty much unanimous over 380 supporting it going forward. ken clarke? he is about the only one. he was the only one from the conservatives. but we expected that. we knew that. yes, stand firm, follow one through, and, you know, she is touring the right thing. we‘ve also got on the ft, just quickly, brexit having a negative

effect already, says big business leaders. hold the front page. how original of the ft. they‘ve been writing that practically since the 23rd ofjune last year. when we actually leave, though... it might happen, but, you see, they have been doing that and they‘ve been rather blown out of the water by the government of the bank of england —— governor. and the statistics saying we are doing better than we thought it would be. on the front of the independent, jeremy corbyn braced for fresh brexit rebellion, independent, jeremy corbyn braced forfresh brexit rebellion, it independent, jeremy corbyn braced for fresh brexit rebellion, it says. diane abbott also under pressure. this will be the story. it won't be the conservatives. they've probably never been so united. this is the story, diane abbott has a six—day, having a migraine... a brexit migraine. she said she was ill and thatis migraine. she said she was ill and that is why she didn‘t turn up. migraine. she said she was ill and that is why she didn't turn up. her owi'i that is why she didn't turn up. her own party don't believe that. caroline flint saying that today.

this will be interesting. what will she do next week? she cannot beat you with a migraine this coming week. she will have to vote. —— she cannot be all with a migraine. what will happen when other people didn't wa nt will happen when other people didn't want to vote, they wanted at stein, he said no and they've lost their place in the shadow cabinet. —— they wanted to abstain. i think this is the start of jeremy wanted to abstain. i think this is the start ofjeremy corbyn's demise and him going for what diane abbott has done. you think so? do you think he will stick with her? —— i do. i don‘t thinkjeremy corbyn has fought through a brexit strategy. one suspects he is in sympathy. he was not a great enthusiast for the eu. arguably he campaigned more visibly than theresa may did, who was supposed to be in remain.

visibly than theresa may did, who was supposed to be in remainlj tweeted the other week that they should have been given a free vote because brexit would have gone through if people had a free vote or not because more constituents and more mps would have had to have voted with him. he could have done that. i think he's put himself in a pickle going forward. he was trying to appeal to the by—election in stoke, the one in copeland, he had to show his northern voters that he's in touch with his working class. but he isn't. he is pulling further apart. it is difficult for any leader, who does he follow, kind of thing, metropolitan elite, working—class voters in the north, the two by—elections are in the north and that is why he went way. the health service. all this week across the bbc we will be looking at the state of the nhs. the daily telegraph says one in six a and the wards are facing closure. ——

accident and emergency wards. a lot of insight into that. they are really holding things together in a lot of places. exactly. talking of closing them down or and cutting them back, according to this story, which is very detailed, the plans are part of efforts to close a £22 billion debt. you cannot go on doing this. the thing is the nhs is going to need money. it will probably need a lot more money given the ageing population. we heard on your interview just before population. we heard on your interviewjust before this programme, i think he was from... he was from a former nhs trust. yes. we know what is going to happen. but when will we finally confront it? let me put it to you as a serving politician. put it off today because

it is such a big question. and it is about what you said about something else, dammed if you do dammed if you don‘t. but it is underfunded for what it is going to have to do and probably what it has today already. we will have a special tax. an insurance scheme in the middle of it. part privatised with an insurance thing. do we bring back that dreaded concept that i cannot see any british politician or political party doing it, the means test? they are very big questions. the conservatives in the coalition spent a lot of money as labour had. that appears from the figures we have seen to have tailed away, the amount of investment going in. the investment has gone in. the investments are going in. as we were saying before, there are so many demands on it now. even with the money going in and increased money going in the demands are growing at a faster rate. whether it is expectations, whether it is the cost

of pharmaceutical goods, whether it is ageing population, social care attached to that, that will be the issue. but i think it is positive that now maybe people are going to have a proper adult conversation rather than being so tribal, locked and extreme parts of the debate, and not really solving the problem. foreign patients to pay upfront for nhs care in the times newspaper. hospitals will be legally obliged to charge foreign patients. if somebody comes in and they really need help you do not ask to see a credit card, do you? no. this obviously has to work within the realms of