Transcripts For BBCNEWS The Papers 20170114

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Political Editor of the Sunday Mirror and sunday people, nigel nelson and political commentatorjo phillips. Tomorrows front pages starting with. The Observer Says Cancer Patients are feeling the brunt of the nhs crisis, with operations being cancelled on a regular basis. The Mail On Sunday suggests cutting the foreign aid budget to fund the health service. It claims more than three quarters of voters support the idea. Meanwhile, on the same story, the Sunday Mirror has a picture of a 2 Year Old Girl it says had to sit on the floor for eight hours before she was seen. Theresa mays Brexit Strategy is the sunday telegraphs focus. It says the pm is prepared to lead britain out of the single market. The Brexit Battle Plan is how the Sunday Express put it, saying may is going to get tough with brussels. And The Sunday Times carries an image of Prince William who it says will be leaving his position as an air ambulance helicopter pilot, to pursue full time royal duties. So those were some of the front pages. We will have a more in depth look now and we will start off with The Sunday Times and discuss brexit. This is. The Prime Minister will make a speech on tuesday and there has been a bit of a briefing from number ten to the newspapers. We are led to believe that this is going to be heard aiding her cards on the table and it is very much a clean, ha rd table and it is very much a clean, hard exit which i think will in some way go to reassure the eurosceptics and people who have been calling on her to be more decisive. It also, i think, shows that perhaps Boris Johnson is winning the argument about britain leaving the Customs Union in order to secure control of immigration. But, you know, it will be interesting to see what the effective, on the financial markets. Do you think it could be shaky even in the leader . They call it a market correction. Darling street staff expect her words to create a market correction. She is down to she doesnt damned if she doesnt. There has been a growing call for her to be far more clear about what it means and we are waiting for the Supreme Courtjudgement means and we are waiting for the Supreme Court judgement any means and we are waiting for the Supreme Courtjudgement any minute now. We are. We are waiting for mp5 to get a vote on it which will be interesting to see if they want to fiddle around with what is going on. For instance, Jeremy Corbyn says he is the bottomline is that we in the single market. How do you do that . Does he then vote against article 50 . He said no. At some point, if it returns to parliament you can bet your life that mps will be trying to find a vehicle to hold this process up. Ithink find a vehicle to hold this process up. I think we have gotten to a point where im not sure where theresa may could have gone with his other than where we are at the moment. It was perfectly clear from europe that Free Movement was not going to be messed around with so that ruled out a single market. Free trade deals with the rest of the world meant, we want those, it meant that we were not going to get the Customs Union. I think her Negotiating Hand was won without any cards in it anyway. You can see we have reached a stage where, right, at least we know the direction that we are going in is hard brexit. At least we know the direction that we are going in is hard brexiti think, also, europe will be listening and watching very carefully on tuesday. Already the deputy Prime Minister of The Netherlands is saying that he will block any trade deal with the uk depending on brexit, unless they sign up to tough tax avoidance. Nobody wants britain to become a tax haven. They envision that possibility. And so it starts. We will get an awful lot more of this. This is one of the problems of laying out your position, things like this will happen. We have already seen today the chief rex that negotiator worried now about the City Of London and the impact it may have on the other 27 countries. All this, you see when things really start blowing it will get very difficult and very messy. And you are correct. The rest of europe will be watching because they have elections coming up. French elections, spanish elections. And we have donald trump moving into the white house in a few days time. It is all moving. It is really exciting, isnt it . At least it is moving now because there has been a lot of waiting. Let us move on to the mirror. I think it is only right that you take us through this. Fraud in the nhs. We were looking for an image that sums up the worst crisis in15 image that sums up the worst crisis in 15 years image that sums up the worst crisis in15 years in image that sums up the worst crisis in 15 years in amd is specially. We found it was a little girl who is two years old and was taken to hospital in kent and she has severe asthma. There was no bed, she just had to be put on the floor with a blanket and that is what amd has come to now over the winter crisis. This was a sikh girl. She spent three days in hospital. They could not get her into a ward. She came in at 630 in the evening and did not get to a ward until 2 30 am. It sums up just how get to a ward until 2 30 am. It sums upjust how bad things have become. We also do a poll in the paper where people are very generous about the nhs. They are talking about, look, happy to pay more tax if that money could be specifically earmarked for nhs. The government hates that kind of thing, they want our money and decide how best to spend it stop you can see that people are concerned enough about it, everyone knows that it needs more money, the question is how you get it. Here you have taxpayers coming up and saying we can help. It is also how you spend the money stop it isa is also how you spend the money stop it is a lot more complicated than i just said. You could find a million pictures in hospitals around the country that are just as Heart Wrenching and awful and tragic as this little girl. But where are the pictures of the other people in amd and how did they get there . Should that happen . Of course it should end. But if you have a target, whether or not the person who needs to be out and a knee in front of this person. I take the point that you may find amd cluttered with people who should not be there. We need to address that. The number of be there. We need to address that. The Numberof Drunk be there. We need to address that. The number of drunk people on a saturday, for instance. It is a powerful image. The vision was that the nhs should be based on need rather than an ability to pay. The nhs should be based on need rather than an ability to paylj think now it is not about need it is about expectation and part of the problem is that we have an ageing population and people with more complicated illnesses that can be treated that a050 years ago would have killed somebody. You have far greater sophisticated stuff even in things like eye surgery and things that can be done. That is the point. In 1948 when the nhs was founded, the average male Life Expectancy was 66. Now one in three children born today live to be 100. Asa children born today live to be 100. As a result we get more prevalent ageing diseases. The 1948 model worked wonderfully in 1948. The biggest problem is we have kept that model all the way through until now. It has been fiddled with at the edges but it has been kept. What we needis edges but it has been kept. What we need is a complete rethink is the nhs is to be sustainable. That leads to our next piece. You would talking about diseases and the progress of medicine. The observer talks about Cancer Operations where so many cancers now are treatable which means it is more pressure on the nhs. That model does not fit society today. Also the lives we lead and the diet we eat, some of this and the diet we eat, some of this and the chair of the Health Select committee was talking about this on radio today, she has been writing about it often. Some of it does come down to us and the responsibility We Ta Ke Down To Us and the responsibility we take for our own health. It is about dietand take for our own health. It is about diet and sensible living. It is also about the expectation that if you dont do anything and you smoke 500 cigarettes a day and eat rubbish and you become overweight and put pressure on diabetes and Everything Else you, you cantjust expect to rock up to amd and have it fixed. Actually, it you might be doing that and that little girl is sitting on the floor. It is huge and i think there are hard questions that need to be addressed by politicians. 0ne of them is to get some sensible evidence about why are people doing this. The government is now in a Head On Collision Course with gps and do we know the shore. At the same time they are cutting funding to pharmacies who are huge first stop for many people and not used enough. It seems to me that their needs are better. A bit more of a cold and harder look at where the money goes. Do people over 60 automatically need free pensions . Well, most of us will not be Drawing Pension until we are willing to our 60s. Pension until we are willing to our 605. If pension until we are willing to our 60s. If we have one. On that cheery note we will go to to another story in the observer and talk about senior british politicians including the ones named in this article such as liam fox and warrenjohnson being targeted from the kremlin. This comes from a former Foreign Office Ministerand Ina comes from a former Foreign Office minister and in a sense this is obviously in the wake of what has been happening with donald trump but aimed at us. This is not actually knew. It is quite amusing to think of russians chasing Boris Johnson around. It must be a dream job that they were hoping for because i am sure they would have a lot of fun. But, yes, what they are always looking for is compromising material. Not necessarily to blackmail somebody. It is often to find out more about them or whatever. Even those who are well disposed to russia. And that is what the allegation is over trump i am not entirely surprise, however, that the russians have the Foreign Secretary and the International Trade secretary in their sights. Secretary and the International Trade secretary in their sightsm is not really astonishing. It is astonishing. If you publish pitched this idea to a publisher or a television producer, if it had all the details, they would not take you seriously. It seems to me that we are now going back. We are having are now going back. We are having a lovely. A resurgence of the old cold war and spy movies. Meanwhile everybody puts everything that they do on facebook or twitter. Fake news. Kind of staying with donald trump here. Everything is fake news. That is negative. It is going further, now. A committee of mps investigate. And, good. High time. What we have seen with what happened over donald trump is that these allegations all emerged back in october and no one did anything with them until buzzfeed put the document on its website. No newspaper or respectable Media Organisation would have done that. The bbc would not. So the whole storm is actually a story about a story and the question comes down to is there a way of regulating facebook, google, twitter in the same way that the Mainstream Media is heavily regulated . That seems to be the question that emerges. This group