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tv   The Papers  BBC News  January 17, 2018 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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hello. this is bbc news with clive myrie. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, but first the headlines. drivers are urged to stay off major roads for all but essentialjourneys as a new snow storm approaches southern scotland and northern england. thousands of people who have worked on private sector service contracts for the failed company carillion are told they will continue to get paid. a court has heard claims that the former manager of the wales national football team, gary speed, was one of four men, who took their own lives, after working with the coach barry bennell. he denies 48 counts of child sexual abuse. more than one in ten nurses is leaving the nhs in england every year, and more people are now leaving the profession thanjoining it. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me arejessica elgot, political reporter with the guardian and henry zeffman, political reporter at the times. the telegraph covers an agreement between the uk and france over apologies that we are so laid, chelsea and norwich couldn't get their act together in 90 minutes! the telegraph covers an agreement between the uk and france over migrants at the border in calais, with theresa may expected to pay up to £41; million to keep police checks on the other side of the channel. with the same story, the daily mail says its ‘le stitch up‘ and also claims the offer to loan britain the bayeux tapestry is designed to sweeten the calais pay—out deal. the times quotes the government's spending watchdog saying billions of extra pounds are being spent on private finance initiatives, with little benefit for the taxpayer. the guardian also leads with the controversy over pfis, saying the projects can cost up to 40% more than using government cash. the i headlines a pensions
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shock for high earners, as new rules take effect ahead for the tax return deadline at the end of this month. while the financial times says goldman sachs is being pressured into changing its fixed—income and commodities trading business, after a 50% drop in revenues. and finally the sun claims a former sas soldier who helped free hostages at the iranian embassy siege in 1980, has been left homeless after the local council failed to house him. it's a right old mix of front page stories our guests will be checking out tonight... one story in particular features, and most of the front pages, and thatis and most of the front pages, and that is calais. a look at the front pages of the telegraph. the big picture is of the duchess of cambridge, on a visit to great
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ormond street hospital there. she is having a high five with the little heart patients. the top story, £16 million to keep the border at calais. jessica, that is a lot of money and people will be upset about that? it is, you can see that the daily telegraph has that in. the leading brexiteers there, giving more money to france is absurd, they say, they suggest it will go on to this brexit bill. i'm not sure that is how google works but theresa may, the former home secretary, she knows how important the agreement is. she knows... she probably thinks £44 million is the price worth paying to make this a french problem rather than a british problem. one suspects that emmanuel macron could have come up that emmanuel macron could have come up with any figure and they would have had to have said yes. have migrants that side rather than the
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side? it was important, she was the longest serving home secretary ever, she spent a lot of time dealing with issues like this. from her perspective yes, it is a lot of money but for the government, any amount of money is the right amount to keep that problem on the french side of the border. the self—declared boys of middle england, the daily mail... let's see what they think of it. —— voice of middle england. £16 million more in block capitals to stop migrants at calais. we get to borrow the bayeux ta pestry calais. we get to borrow the bayeux tapestry as a sweetener but only if the local murder agrees with it. —— but only if the local mayor agrees. but this is the prize that is to be paid, even if people are not impressed? the daily mail, consistently the most supportive of theresa may, championed her early in the leadership campaign when boris johnson was the front runner. they are not happy. this is the kind of
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thing that they have campaigned on for a long time, it was assigned to theresa may that if there are more capitulations or stitch ups, they are willing to say that the government has gone too far. with the daily mail have been happy if theresa may said no and the border came back to kent? am sure that what is theresa may would say... you can imagine the headlines, all of the border posts had to be moved from calais to dover, then you spend millions of your own money on setting up new systems over here. you cannot see that the daily mail would have reacted well to that either. theresa may may think it is a short—term hit but beyond that... what game is the daily mail plane? what game is the daily mail plane? what are they trying to say? that she should have accepted a lower figure? i don't understand.” she should have accepted a lower figure? i don't understand. i guess they are saying, are we paying 45
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million quid for the bare tapestry. that is the sweetener that they have given us. —— the bayeux tapestry. maybe it is good pr play by emmanuel macron. he has an eye for a stunt like that... he didn't have to give it! and it was a nice story in the times but the really important thing is this border. that's what she will wa nt to is this border. that's what she will want to do when she sees emmanuel macron tomorrow. plus onto the times... henry, this one is for you. the times newspaper, billions lost by taxpayer on wasteful pfi contracts, public money being used
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for private initiatives, we know all about carillion and that, it's a sign of the whole debate. and pfi in the news as a result? there are extraordinary figures from the national audit office, the government spending watchdog. they say that they cannot find evidence to back up the treasury ‘s gains. with an infrastructure programme, that they pay back of a long period. they cannot find evidence to support claims that it is cheaper than borrowing itself. it is worth noting that theresa may may get some flak for this but the report finds that 85% of payments made under pfi last year we re 85% of payments made under pfi last year were procurement decisions made more than ten years ago. it really isa more than ten years ago. it really is a story about a load of public policy decisions made by gordon brown, first in the treasury and then when you move to 10 downing st.
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yafai is not as popular with the government any more. but the rent on these buildings, the government and what the tax payer pays, it is comparable to the cost of the build? the cost of publicly financing projects can be 40% higher than relying solely upon government money. if that was a bank offering you those kinds of differences, you would always turn it down. the figures are quite astonishing. {10.3 billion, the annual charges for 2016-17 for billion, the annual charges for 2016—17 for those deals. it is money thatis 2016—17 for those deals. it is money that is effectively going on improving health services and schools in those companies. john major, tony blair, it was really extended. you would argue that you
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would not get certain structures built if you did not have a pr five. and in the guardian, residents face a huge bill to remove cladding. this is people living near or at the g re nfell tower? is people living near or at the grenfell tower? it is extraordinary, these residents are living in a building where they have the same kind of flammable panels as the g re nfell tower. kind of flammable panels as the grenfell tower. the kind of flammable panels as the gre nfell tower. the property kind of flammable panels as the grenfell tower. the property owner, where they all own those flats, they need to spend £2 million to replace the cladding but he will give them the cladding but he will give them the bill of £31,000 each in order to make the flats they own say. it is extraordinary. they are private flats ? extraordinary. they are private flats? yes, at the moment, because the flats are unsafe, and the
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flammable cladding, there are fire wardens patrolling there. 24 hours a day, at the cost of £4000 a week. the government will have to do something... it is a flabbergasting story. sajid javid, the housing secretary, said that the government told the owner of the freehold five months ago that the cladding was u nsafe. months ago that the cladding was unsafe. imagine being a resident, having seen that same cladding go up in flames at grenfell not so long before. you would be petrified. for many of them, it is more than they earn ina many of them, it is more than they earn in a year. asjust said, surely the government will have to pay here. it would be interesting, they are not going to use public money to bail out korea, why would they do that for this guy? or whoever has to
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service this block of flats. —— to bail out carillion. this is basically the former chancellor, mr osborne, usually they get some sort of nod, but that will not happen in this case. they do not like one another, do they? some would say that george osborne has a lot of jobs and maybe he doesn't need another one! but the two do not get on. as evidence by george osborne's entry in the evening standard. you only need to look at the front pages... he hammers theresa may everyday! i don't know, something tells me that george osborne doesn't necessarily consider his political career necessarily consider his political career to be over. if he was tojoin the house of lords, then maybe that would put the brakes on him ever returning to the house of commons. i
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don't know, whether this is something that he once? he certainly wasn't expecting anything from theresa may, the woman who sacked him... in her first act as prime minister comic she didn't even let him clear out his flat! in the story, friends of george osborne so that he never wanted a peerage. i can believe that, i wonder if he considers himself a tory still? it's an extraordinary thing to say about someone an extraordinary thing to say about someone who was chancellor less than two years ago but his politics are so different to theresa may. he's made it clear so often. he definitely does not see his career necessarily as being over but maybe he is looking at the french president, looking at theresa may —— meeting theresa may tomorrow and thinking, hmm, maybei meeting theresa may tomorrow and thinking, hmm, maybe i can be the british macron? i don't know if the country would agree... if he isn't a tory, what is he? well, there is
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this centre ground, certainly a lot of people in westminster think they fall somewhere betweenjeremy corbyn and theresa may. whether the appetite for that in the countries is larger, i don't know. but i think osborne is part of the bridge in the middle. very interesting! in the daily mail, it is the demise of landmines... landmines! land lines! that would be a good thing! can nuisance callers lead to the death of the landline? my mum used to call the landline, but i can talk to her on my mobile so it doesn't matter. is this really what will happen, do you think? i do, i don't have a landline either. my mum has my mobile number, that is fine! but this story attributes the demise of the landline to nuisance telephone calls. a survey found that of $2000, 32% had missed calls from their
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pa rents 32% had missed calls from their parents because they did not want to a nswer parents because they did not want to answer their landline in case it was answer their landline in case it was a nuisance call. i didn't do that! it may be true, but the story is, why do you need them? we have mobile phones. the nuisance call thing influenced my decision. phones. the nuisance call thing influenced my decisionlj phones. the nuisance call thing influenced my decision. i don't have a landline but in the story, most people have missed calls from their parents but 5% of people said that they missed calls from a long lost love who may only have their landline. maybe that is an incentive? so long lost that they we re incentive? so long lost that they were together before mobile phones! 0k...! finally. were together before mobile phones! ok... ! finally. the were together before mobile phones! 0k...! finally. the inside of the times newspaper, a big statue in the middle there. that is baroness thatcher. apparently, it still does not have a home. yeah... you don't
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care? apparently not! they say one of the reasons it doesn't have a

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