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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 the
broadcaster and commentator, Alex
Andreo, and the chair of the Women's
Business Council, Mary Mloud. They'll be
with us from now until just before
midnight. So, let's see what is on some
of those front pages. While The Guardian
leads on Israel's strike on a hospital
in southern Gaza that killed 20 people,
including five journalists.
The Daily Telegraph has an opinion piece
on illegal migration by Reform UK's
leader Nigel Farage in which he accuses
Cir Starmer of siding with international
courts over the British public.
The reform UK leader also makes the
front of the Daily Mail their headline
Faraj unveil's plan for mass deportation
ahead of a speech on the topic.
The Times also leads on migration
writing that more than a 100 asylum
seekers have been detained for
deportation to France as the prime
minister steps up plans to tackle small
boat crossings. On the front of the
metro is the news that the government
will launch a crackdown on so-called
honor crimes. The eye says firms will be
encouraged to offer incentives like
flexible hours and working from home for
menopausal women to keep them in work
and boost the economy. The Financial
Times leads with banks pushing to change
US cryptocurrency rules over concerns
that it could spark trillions of dollars
worth of outflows.
And we are joined tonight by the
broadcaster and commentator Alex Andreo
and the chair of the Women's Business
Council, Mary Mloud. Welcome both uh
very much on this bank holiday Monday. I
hope you caught the sun at some point
today. Um okay, let's start with a story
that is going to be a big news tomorrow
as well with the Nigel Farage speech and
obviously has been big news in a way the
whole month. Uh let's start with the
times and the story is migration times a
slightly different angle on this UK
preparing to send a hundred small boat
arrivals back. Mary if I can start with
you this is part of Kier Starmer's onein
one out policy. Yes, and it's an
important part of this ongoing narrative
about are we actually in control of this
and with the the small boat arrivals and
of course we've seen an increase um and
even there's been over just sort of 200
yesterday 212 arriving yesterday. So
this has been an issue, an ongoing issue
that the last government tried to
resolve and now the the prime minister
said very clearly that he was going to
try and make this one of his top
priorities. So it's a really important
part of this and what always worried me
with the boats is that you would see a
lot of these young men arriving but
where are the women and the others who
um are actually going the legal route?
So actually we should be doing all we
can to support those who are trying to
do it. um legally to come into into the
country. So this is a um here the
government is trying to find an answer
to to to some of this but there is a
massive backlog um a the boats are
arriving more and more every day plus
also there's a backlog on on asylum
cases. Then there's the appeals process
where there's also a a huge backlog
there and that's taking time as as more
people are appealing and many of them
being allowed there for to stay. So
there's still a huge amount of work to
be done on this. The the country thinks
it's a big issue. Um and we're seeing
unrest and that's happening around the
country.
>> Well, certainly our latest poll
suggested that most people don't think
that Kia Starmer and the government have
a grip on the issue at all. And some of
the numbers that you were mentioning,
record applications, 111,000 have
applied for asylum. So that's a record
high. And 28,000 people have crossed the
English Channel, I think, in the past
year. Again, a record number there. Uh,
Alex, I mean, the prime minister
obviously is trying to deal with it, but
but it's just not working.
>> I mean, look, it's it's not working.
It's the first day of a new scheme that
they're trying out. So, we gave Rwanda,
the Rwanda plan, a good three years and
700 million and managed to send four
people there voluntarily. So I am a
little bit um unsure of the motives of
those who are now jumping up and down on
the first day the oneinone out deal has
been signed pointing to the beach saying
they're still coming. I mean you have to
give these things time to filter through
informationally more than anything. If
you're planning for this thing to be a
deterrent, it has to happen and it has
to become known among the community, I
guess, of people looking to cross in
Cali.
>> I guess what the government is trying to
do though is is just to try to come up
with new ideas. We had that announcement
from Iette Cooper about the reform to
the asylum appeals. And if we go to the
metro page for uh I think uh during I
think a few weeks and certainly a
weekend where there have been too many
great news for the prime minister, this
must have stung. Uh David Blancet there
uh Mary uh saying again that Starmer has
to get a grip on the small boats uh
crisis. This is for former labor home
secretary.
>> Yes. And and he's a heavyweight. You
know, people do listen to him and he
often has really good ideas on things
and is experienced in home office and
and and immigration of course. So this
he will be listened to on it on on it.
Um it's I think with this he's saying we
have to do something a bit more radical.
Um and therefore you know whether that
the temporary suspension of the ECR
but and he and he talks about the
appeals and there's also this bit around
just how toxic this ele this whole
discussion has become which you you
would you don't want to happen because
of for true asylum seekers we want to
treat them with care and attention they
deserve. Um and it's but it's this bit
around the small bolds. How can we
actually make it a deterrent? And you're
right, you can't do it overnight. And
the last government showed that it's
it's a complex issue and you can't
change it overnight.
>> And there are metrics that are going the
right way. So the backlog is down over
30% in the first year even though the
numbers of people coming in and applying
are slightly up. So that is quite a big
reduction and the amount of money being
spent on accommodation because of that
backlog being reduced is down also quite
dramatically. So there are some things
going in the right direction but I think
the the larger pro and it's interesting
that it's David Blancet raising this. I
think with more sympathy than most
people would credit because of course
David Blanket the crisis in his day was
people um illegally uh sort of being
smuggled on trucks and he failed to sort
it and was shifted to a different
department and someone else actually
sorted it. So I I suspect he's speak
he's speaking from bitter experience
rather than
>> okay
>> to uh to niggle stma. But the larger
problem is that this small number of a
small number of a very big number which
is the total immigration figures which
are down significantly
both last year and this year
>> from the high of a million. This has
become the sort of emblem of something
that has now been it's seen as a problem
by people and in a country with such a
low birth rate and such a a big po
population curve of an aging population.
This is going to be a big problem for us
unless we can have this conversation
like the maths won't work. that we need
either immigration or to incentivize a
massive baby boom like there is no in
between or for people to work until
they're 75.
>> Yes. And that would that that may happen
but it but it's certainly the skills
that we need in this country is a
different issue. We need to get quicker
at dealing with these cases. And of
course before we move on, Nigel Farage,
who's mentioned in quite a lot of the
other papers as well, will be giving a
speech tomorrow, undoubtedly will
capitalize on the problems that the
government is having. Let's go to the
Guardian now. Uh this was our lead story
uh today. That attack uh the Israeli
attack on the Naser hospital in Hununis,
which is southern Gaza. Global
condemnation headline of the Guardian
after Israel bombs the same Gaza
hospital twice. Uh Alex, let me start
with you. It's called a double tap um
attack. So they they fired uh and then
just I guess you know get that's what
usually happens in a double tap attack.
Then you know medics or journalists came
to help or see what was going on and
then a second attack which led to the
death of 20 people at least five of them
journalists. Alex.
>> Yeah. So this is the um NASA hospital in
Kunis and the attacks were 15 minutes
apart. So the the top two floors were
hit and in 15 minutes that really is
quite a lot of time for emergency
workers, for medical stuff, for
journalists of course to go to the area
and then there was a second attack. It's
interesting that the statement that's
come out from Netanyahu, there's been
actually a series of statements
and I have to say recently the IDF
attitude has been don't apologize, don't
explain very much like they they just
ignore any uh criticism. But today
there's been a series of statements
saying that this was a mistake.
Netanyahu himself came out a couple of
hours ago to call it a tragic mishap.
>> But the problem is, you know, there is
now a ceasefire deal on the table that
one side has accepted that Israel is
rejected. You know, it's very difficult
to sustain this idea that I w you might
remember I felt very strongly about back
in October
two years ago when that atrocity
happened that Israel is still defending
herself. It really it cannot feel like
that anymore. It feels like
>> is certainly the language is changing. I
think David Laming called it a horrific
attack. I think Emanuel Macron had
several, you know, similar strong words.
Let's look at the front page of the
Financial Times because it's the picture
here that's really striking. And we saw
her picture in the Guardian as well of
Mariam Abu Da uh Daga 33. And there she
uh is in a selfie in the FT with Mos Abu
uh Taha uh who is uh they are the well
two of the five journalists that were
killed in this attack. Now obviously you
know journalists their their lives
aren't worth more than other people's
but there is also accusations that
Israel is targeting journalists. It was
interesting in Benjamin Netanyahu's uh
statement where he said you know they
they respect the work of journalists and
medics values.
>> Yes. And I think just the picture there
humanizes it completely and makes it
very real about the loss of innocent
life and and journalists are doing their
job and and of course um it being a
double tap at a hospital where people
are going for care and attention and of
course with a double tap it means that
people have rushed to to the area to to
help out. So you're probably going to
get a higher higher death rate. um
unusual. We perhaps have had the the IDF
and um the prime minister both talk
about that it was a mishap and a tragic
accident um in essence and that there'll
be a thorough investigation into it. Um
I guess some people will question when
that will take place, what action
happened. The difficulty is is that
Israel just don't believe in a two-state
solution. It's and therefore you when
you look at what the solution is toward
>> but the current government certainly
does yes um and therefore it's it's
going to be a complex um set of
discussions and everything that will get
them to somewhere that hopefully would
be the first the first step. Um just a
minute and a half to talk about a story
in the metro. Uh Mary you start us off
with this crackdown on honor crime.
What's the story about? Yeah, this is a
really sad story and anything linked to
honor crime is is just absolutely
tragic. Um, and a picture there of
murdered lawyer, she was pregnant at the
time. Um, and and only 31 and she is an
example of so many others. Um, he took
her to Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat and
and and push her off. just that whole
thing around, you know, whether it's
honor,
if it's murder itself, whether it's FGM,
there's there's there's forced marriage,
all of those things, the more that we
can raise that the awareness that these
things happen. And as an MP, um I was
surprised. I really didn't know much
about it before I became an MP. And then
I was in my local hospital and they
said, "We've just had 50 cases of FGM."
And it so all of those things. and then
also 16-year-old girls going off for
summer holidays and never coming back
because of being forced into marriage.
There's lots of things like this going
on and and the more that we actually
show that it is happening and people are
aware of it then hopefully we can do
something more about it.
>> Alex, you think the law change is
important though beyond awareness?
>> Of of course it's important and I guess
>> but just talk us through what the actual
law change is here. So there's basically
a new legal definition that is the the
pivotal thing is that at the moment
there's no specific legal definition of
what is called honorbased abuse. That's
the term that includes all of that
stuff. Um and so the government is
seeking to define it and seeking to
impose harsher penalties than the
equivalent when that kind of u rationale
is not uh involved. I guess in order to
specifically target and discourage
people from doing this sort of thing and
I think a good start would be to drop
the word honor from the definition. In
my view, soal monop such a
>> such a it lets the men off basically.
>> Good point, Alex Mary. We're going to
have to leave it there for now. But
coming up on the press preview, how
flexible hours for menopausal women
could boost the economy by over a
billion pounds. Details of that story on
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Andreo and Mary Mloud. Right, let's go
straight to the Daily Telegraph. And
Mary, I'll start with you. Quite a
headline. Peers to be sacked if they
fail to turn up for work in the Lords.
Fair enough. What's the story?
>> Well, I can imagine that quite a few
peers will be getting a bit nervous at
at that. This is some reforms that have
been suggested by Labor at the moment.
And to be honest, there's been lots of
different proposals for how to reform
the House of Lords going, you know, for
the over the last couple of decades. Um,
and part of it is because there are 650
MPs in the House of Commons, and there's
now about 830 peers in the House of
Lords, and it just gets bigger. Um, and
so therefore they're suggesting that if
you don't turn up enough for work, they
don't define yet what the key
performance indicators of that might
might be other than just turning up for
work because some peers will just turn
up to vote but not necessarily
contribute to some of the really good
debates and the committees and and other
things. So they'll find a way around
that I'm I'm sure. But um and then of
course there's retiral age possible um
possibly at 80 and and of course they're
they're also talking about getting rid
of the 92 hereditary peers but um I was
always just that the 92 radio hereditary
peers of course are all men because of
the male preference premogenature policy
and um and I was always very much seen
if we could change that to allow the
first born to to at least get it which
actually the monarchy and sovereigns
already done. Exactly. Um but uh those
for for trusted for for estates and and
titles haven't changed yet so they're
behind the time. So yes, we'll have a a
different shape of House of Lords.
>> Very good news, I think. And I think
it's a better criterion actually than
the mandatory retirement because I I
don't I don't understand why you should
lose someone like Lord Dubs who is an
absolute workhorse. Y
>> while someone younger who does less
work, you know, this seems to me to get
to the nub of it and they must make sure
it goes on debate participation and
voting record
>> because a lot of them turn up for the
pdium. You know, if they if you sign in,
you get quite a generous daily rate as
it were and quite a lot of them turn up
sign in and then go off to the pub.
>> Um I probably they they may have I I
wouldn't perhaps go off to the
>> I know a few personally
>> but I do think there's a lot of other
peers who are doing some great work
behind the scenes and that should be
recognized anyway as part of this um so
yeah so things are changing they are
right let's go to the eye now and their
headline story on their front page is
about menopause of women and the impact
actually that losing uh parts of the
female workforce has on the economy 1.5
5 billion pounds a year and one of the
answers could be Alex giving flexible
hours.
>> Yeah. And I I mean I haven't seen the
data behind this. There may be a little
bit of correlation being seen as
causation because I think a lot of that
generation of women are also facing what
is called a double care crisis because
they have children who they expected
would have moved out by now but can't
afford to and also looking after ailing
parents. They might have had them older.
I know. So, so I think that a lot of
stuff is going into this, but this again
I think is terrific news because we
should be valuing experience. We
shouldn't be losing experience out of
the economy. That is part of the
productivity
>> crisis. But Mary and again, I haven't
looked, you know, beyond the the front
page, but one would think that it would
be motherhood that is when a lot of
women drop out of the workforce. And you
think about it a bit, if you look at the
actual data of the economically inactive
in this country, it's at 22% right now
and it's a bell curve. So it's those
under 24 and it's the over 50s. Um and
women are a large percentage of that
over 50s. So you're absolutely right. We
abs we need them for the economy as as
part of this. So it's looking at how can
we keep them in the workplace but with
just a bit more flexibility and giving
them a bit of choice so they can but one
in 10 women um are forced to leave
because of menopause. I mean it's just
there's a NHS thing here too which is
are they getting the right sort of
support in menopause but secondly how
can we be flexible enough which is not
rocket science but should be done and I
think actually companies are very open
to these things many already have
menopause plans in place and support in
place so that's good certainly a lot
more talk about the whole issue uh these
days uh Alex Mary thank you so much let
me just pull up the uh page three of the
metro lovely pictures of the Notting
Hill Carnival, which we don't have time
to talk about right now, but we will in
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people uh to watch the 11:00. Mary Alex,
thank you so much.
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