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Welcome back. You are watching the press
preview. A first look at what's on the
front pages as they arrive. It's time to
see what's making the headlines with
former conservative special adviser
Anita Bueng and editor of the Courier
David Kle. They'll be with us from now
until just before midnight. So, let's
see what's on some of those front pages
for you now. Immigration is the top
story in the Times reporting that hotels
housing asylum seekers are set to be hit
with a wave of protests this weekend.
The Metro also leads with the
government's record on immigration,
focusing on the rise in asylum claims.
The Daily Mail also focusing on that
story. Its headline, all-time high for
asylum claims.
The headline in the Eye, Star faces
growing unrest over record asylum
claims.
And The Express calls it Labour's day of
shame on migrant figures.
The Sun focuses on Lucy Connley, who's
been released from prison after she was
jailed for inciting hatred online in the
wake of the Southport attacks.
Telegraph leads with upcoming industrial
action from tube staff, GPS, nurses, and
resident doctors, calling it an autumn
of discontent.
83% of Gaza war dead are civilians. The
headline on the front of the Guardian,
the Financial Times leads with the
government's plans to take over
Specialtity Steels UK, part of Liberty
Steel, after it was put into compulsory
liquidation.
And the Daily Stars front page carries a
warning from Jeffrey Hinton, the
godfather of artificial intelligence,
that AI will eventually dominate humans.
We're joined tonight by former
Conservative special adviser Anita
Basang and editor of the Korea David
Kle. Welcome to you both. We shall be
discussing that a little later later on.
But let's start with the front page of
the eye newspaper and their headline
Starma faces growing unrest over record
asylum claims. The the figures that came
out showing a record number of asylum
applications in the year that um Labour
came into to power in the past 12
months.
>> That's right. uh figures out today
reveal 111,000 asylum claims during
Labor's first year in office. I think I
think actually it's a mixed picture as
as far as what how the Labor government
will feel about it. It it could have
been worse, but I think we are in a in
quite a dangerous moment around this at
the minute. We've seen protests at
asylum hotels across the country. We're
expecting uh more of them on Saturday.
Uh it's an issue that we've been
reporting on at my newspaper, The
Courier, uh because Perf is one of the
uh cities that is uh seen protests. Uh
I've been we've been we've been covering
that quite extensively and there is you
know real frustration uh amongst the
council there about some of the
misinformation and disinformation that
there's been about the numbers there
about the environment in which uh this
debate is being conducted uh and and
concerns that things that aren't
actually correct are uh being promoted
online stoked up uh by various actors
and that this could cause problems from
the for the example of Perf which I know
the most about uh this is a situation
where asylum seekers have been in these
hotels uh for a number of years already
without issue and it's only that this is
uh when this issue has begun to be risen
come up nationally that it's it's led to
uh certain tensions uh and that the
council have been have had to put out a
couple of statements basically myth
busting uh what what's been going on
there. So what the what the stories in
the papers tomorrow will be about these
new figures and what they show is that
uh there is clearly a continuing problem
with the number of people coming in
small boats and that that is causing a
real strain on the infrastructure across
the country of how to deal with this
both from a policy perspective from a
financial perspective and from a
political perspective and I I I think
though uh what my reflection on on that
would be that what we're seeing playing
out then against across the country is
that the attempts to to deal with this
to to deal with what this will actually
mean in the ground as we have a rather
toxic information climate uh happening
here. uh that the response to this and
the political necessity and imperative
that uh Kstarmmer and the UK government
get to grips with this issue and begin
to uh not only uh ease the log jam in
the system. uh take the international
steps that are required to bring down
the numbers of people trying to make the
trip on the boat, but also have proper
methods in place to process speedily and
in an efficient and acceptable way those
who are then going through the system.
>> Anita, do you believe that the the
parameters within which this is being
discussed that they are toxic as as um
David is suggesting? Um, I think that
ultimately if your strategy relies on
people not noticing that you have asylum
hotels in your local area, it's probably
not a very good one. Um, because I think
that residents in lots of different
towns and cities across the country, and
I'm from nearby Eping, um, feel like
often you have people come in um, in in
these circumstances where they literally
don't have anything to do because
they're they can't work. They they have
no no way of entertaining themselves.
And often that you do have a situation
where you have possibly hundred,
possibly more, possibly fewer, but in
your town center of kind of typically
young men kind of just hanging around.
And as a former local counselor, I can
tell you people don't like people
hanging around. It kind of doesn't
matter where they are and where they're
from. Um, so it does impact the dynamic
particularly in a small town. But I
think what we're getting to is it's
almost for me this is going to become a
confidence in the government issue
because whether or not you can end up
rehousing the 100 or so migrants in one
particular area or whether or not this
entire system of having asylum hotels
falls like dominoes. You still get to
the point of the lack of public consent
for the approach i.e. the number of
people coming over on small boats and
that is the issue that the government is
not going to get to grips with and
therefore can't get out from under the
series of crises that will emanate from
what's happening right now.
>> David, we turn to to the metro um
111,000 record asylum seekers. See the
prime minister there with the the strap
line securing our borders, the promises
of stopping the boats, smashing the
gangs.
>> Um and couldn't be further away from his
goal. Clearly it's a very difficult
issue for them and I I don't disagree
with anything Anita said but I think
what she's descri describing as a
symptom of the problem you know we have
uh asylum seekers and for example in the
perf issue there one of the hotels are
in is just across the road from the
train station so everyone's going to
notice there's no there was no keeping
it there was no keeping it secret and it
it it is blatantly not the right place
to be housing asylum seekers. The
problem is that the system has got to a
stage where that is where they have had
to put them and it's not a cheap way to
do it as well. I think some of the
statistics that are uh in the reports
today I think I think the hotels are
housing around a third of asylum seekers
but accounting for 3/4 of the cost of
doing so. So it's it's a really
expensive way to do it. It is clearly a
way that is going to uh
increase the likelihood of community
tensions if if you uh have people in a
visible area where you're shutting down
hotels uh and and as Anita says there's
the large number of people hanging
around because they're not free to work.
They haven't got nothing else to do.
They're given a bare minimum of money
and and have just got to survive it. So,
so that is undoubtedly not uh is a is a
very suboptimal situation. The the issue
is though from the from the political
perspective here is what does Kier
Starmer do about it and and and and how
can that be resolved? Now, it was a
labor manifesto pledge to close all the
hotels I think by 2029. I think it's
pretty clear that the events of the last
week have shown that he's going to have
to accelerate that timetable or he's
going to face real difficulties. Some of
these things are within his control and
frankly some of them are not in his
control either. You know they've got
what the global international uh global
political situation and and how many
people are going to try to come. He's
he's in negotiations with France and
Germany to try and change their domestic
policies and how they handle it to see
if that can slow it down. And then he's
got to work out how he he he houses the
ones within the law uh that that come.
But he inherited a big problem and I am
I I was never uh a believer that the
Rwanda scheme was going to work under
the under the last government. And in
fact what we have seen in the uh the
stats today is that what has been sped
up is some of the processing uh of
getting people through the system
because the numbers uh are record as the
metro front page suggests today but
actually it hasn't seen a corresponding
increase in the number going through the
system because they've been processing
them quicker. But also there there's
some discrepancy because the metro
they're saying a 77 7% fall in the
number of those um arriving being
deported but the independent saying a
25% rise in the number of of
deportation. So how it's it's all being
framed
>> that I I would need to frisk the figures
and I'm not I'm not in a position to be
the adjudicator between the metro and
the and the independent this evening.
But but my understanding of it from
having read across the various papers is
that they seem to be doing the initial
uh handling. They seem to have been sped
up that processing. They are now worried
that the appeal courts are going to be
uh a log jam in the year ahead because
uh more people are who are refused on
first instance are appealing and that
could cause problems down the road I
think.
>> Let's try and get to uh some other
stories. We've moved to the FT. Uh
Palestinians flee as Netanyahu prepares
to approve this fresh Gaza offensive.
All the while still saying that, you
know, he wants to bring the war to an
end. Anita.
>> Yeah. I mean, I think this is becoming
more and more devastating by the day.
Um, if we look at the situation in Gaza
City, um, never mind the issue of the
number of people that have been
displaced in and out of Gaza City, many
of whom have been, um, struggling with
lack of food. Um, and now we're in a
situation where, um, Netanyahu has
signaled that he is going to give final
approval for this, you know, massive
takeover, which you, Gillian, have been
talking about and has been, um, you
know, running on on Sky today. Um and
you know there is talk of how do we
encourage evacuations. Um I think there
are complexities to that because of the
number of people displaced because of
issues around starvation because of
issues around money. Um and because
we're talking about people potentially
walking I don't know 30 or so
kilometers. So, um I'm surprised
actually it's not captured more
attention, more political attention on
the front pages because the um this this
new attempt to remove Hamas um from Gaza
City um could have serious repercussions
and and we keep coming back to the
question of um who is going to run Gaza
if this is the the the Israeli um
government's intent. Um so things are
looking increasingly grim um in Gaza
City. Again,
>> David, you got about 20 seconds.
>> This certainly is looking grim. Two two
things that I I could add is one,
there's another report in the Telegraph,
I believe, that it's there's going to
officially be declared a famine in Gaza
tomorrow, which I think is only the
fourth officially declared famine since
the agency, which does that was set up
uh 20 20 years ago. And we've also seen
the uh uh Israeli ambassador called by
the someone from by the foreign office
in London tonight uh about the the West
Bank settlement plan which is going to
continue to be another issue causing uh
international tensions around this and
and I am pretty skeptical about
Netanyahu's uh desire for uh a peace
deal on the terms that have been
outlined thus far.
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there for the moment. We're going to
take a break. Coming up,
we'll be looking at how the newspapers
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preview. Still with me, former
Conservative special adviser Anita Bueng
and editor of the Courier, David Kle.
So let us uh take you through some of
those uh papers. We're going to have a
look at the Telegraph in this section.
Kicking off with this story about the um
Britain facing an autumn of discontent.
Uh the RMT announced yesterday that
commuters will endure a week of
industrial action on the London
Underground at the start of next month.
Uh these strikes look set to be followed
by months of walkouts across the public
sector. GPS, resident doctors, and
nurses may strike as well. Anita,
>> yes. I mean, what a way to be back to
school first week. Um, and I know when
we talk about strikes and people around
the country kind of slightly roll their
eyes because it is a tube strike
affecting Londoners. But nevertheless, I
think um it will not just be about uh
strikes on the underground. It will be
about GPS, resident doctors, formerly
junior doctors and potentially um nurses
too. Um so we could get this period and
sense that that Britain isn't working.
And I think that will be a huge and
considerable political problem coming
into a budget where the the fiscal
situation is incredibly tight and the
government has already shown that it's
not really capable of delivering any
meaningful cuts um to spending. Um and
so you've have West Streeting I'm quoted
here in the Telegraph saying that
ministers have a responsibility
to stand up um to public sector pay
demands um and to kind of support the
prime minister and chancellor. And I
wonder if that is increasingly the tone
that will be adopted by some certain
senior cabinet ministers because you may
recall that last year um Louise Hey,
then the transport secretary oayed um a
kind of significant increase in um
spending for public sector pay for um
R&T the union that is in charge of of TR
trains and they still str went on strike
and now they're asking for more and
they're rejecting a 3.4% 4% offer even
though inflation is at 3.4%. Um so it's
looking increasingly difficult and the
government is discovering that actually
having a red rosette doesn't mean that
the unions necessarily play ball. Just
very quickly I mean West Streeting has
struck a quite bellose tone, hasn't he?
Um particularly with the resident
doctors and the fact that he gave in to
them um initially when they first came
into power and now it's kind of come
back to to bite him. Well, I think
that's maybe been the lesson of the
first year for the Labor Party and it
will be interesting to see how they
proceed from from the conclusions that
they've drawn from the last 12 months
because it is the case that they uh gave
pretty generous pay settlements to a
whole range of sectors and then they
couldn't get the uh the cuts in other
areas that they required through uh
their backbench MP's eer. So there's
there's a a real there's an issue that
needs to be squared there, which is if
you're handing out more money, you need
to raise it from somewhere. Uh so we'll
we'll see how they tackle that. I'm
>> just going to jump in because we're
running out of time. We want to get to
this AI story uh in the Daily Star, but
also another angle on the front of the
times, but take us into the Daily Star,
Anita, first of all, bot no chance.
>> Yes. I mean, we've got bot no chance on
both fronts. Number one, the godfather
of AI, Jeffrey Hinton, thinks that a
robots will dominate humans. And it's no
wonder because people are increasingly
according to the times forming
attachments um to AI. And this actually
I've seen it on social media on Reddit
and all sorts of people thinking that AI
is in love with them. They have romantic
relationships that think that um you
know they have incredible powers. Um
that they kind of they've unlocked a
different level of AI that's giving them
is a real person or is sentient in some
way. Um it's worrying because it's a
sign of our times where loneliness,
parasocial um relationships, unhealthy
attachments to social media result and
they are they are calling it AI
psychosis. Um we must leave it there
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