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Good evening. You're watching the press
preview here on Sky News. A first look
at what's on the front pages as they
arrive in the next half hour. We will
see what's making the headlines with
journalist Benjamin Butterworth and
former conservative special adviser
Anita Buen. So, let's see what is on
some of those front pages. And the
observer leads with an in-depth piece on
the weight loss drug and its black
market sales as the demand for the jab
increases. The Mail on Sunday has an
exclusive on the row rumbling on about
Angela Raina's financial affairs. The
Sun on Sunday's front page is also about
Angela Raina's finances. This time
looking at her boyfriend's link to a
lobbying group. The Sunday Express is
saying two out of three Britons would
not fight for their country. according
to a new poll. And the Sunday
Telegraph's top story tomorrow is Kem
Badnock's opinions on North Sea oil
drilling. The Sunday Times has an
interview with Lioness star Khloe Kelly
as well as a piece about votes for
16year-olds.
The Sunday Mirror has an exclusive
interview with Strictly's Shirley Balass
following on from their front page
yesterday. And finally, The Star on
Sunday is also looking at the cost of
weight loss jabs.
So, I'm joined by Benjamin Butterworth
and Anita Battang. Let's get straight to
it. Let's start with um the Mail on
Sunday. Uh Anita because we said there
in the roundup of the front pages. This
one is rumbling on. It's she's on other
front pages. We'll get to in a minute as
well, but it feels like some of the
papers have got it in for her.
>> Yeah, it's a bumper weekend for her.
Spads. Um I remember these weekends well
uh where you'd spend most of your
Saturday and Friday in arguments um with
uh journalists. Um so yes, the the front
story is by um Glenn Owen, the political
editor. And it basically emerges that
she used um a blue chip law firm called
Shoesmith who have this sort of wealth
protection team um to look after her
finances in this sort of deal over her
hove house that she's recently
purchased. Um there isn't really much in
there that suggests there's anything
wrong in doing so, but more that they
are perhaps um a slightly blue chip and
slightly more kind of supporting the
wealthy with lots of um nods and winks
about maybe um her use of um her own
wealth and also sort of whether or not
uh she's sort of tried to limit her
liabilities when it comes to stamp duty
and council tax. And I should say of
course that her those close to her
generously deny this. Yes, exactly. Uh,
Benjamin, they're denying it. We don't
know if there's been impropriy or not.
That's going to be looked at. I think um
Karma's written to the uh the correct
authorities to have that uh beg you
pardon. I think that was the Tories who
wrote to him, not Karma. Either way, it
may well be looked into, but how this
all looks to the outside world is not
ideal. Uh yeah, I mean, look, I actually
think when you dig deeper, it doesn't
look like there's that much wrongdoing,
if any, that's happened. But it's this
idea that the Tories are trying to play
into that it's some kind of hypocrisy
because you know
>> it was Kevin Holland ra who wrote the
letter wasn't it?
>> Uh indeed and I think I think Chris Fil
the shadow home secretary made a police
report as well. Uh not there's not that
it looks like it will really get
anywhere. We'll see with that but the
suggestion is that there might be
changes to inheritance tax rules in the
Rachel Reeves budget coming up. There
certainly be various tax rises on people
with more wealth in the last year. And
so I think what people are getting at is
a sense of hypocrisy that Angela Raina
has used perfectly legal ways to arrange
her finances, but she might have
benefited from reducing her her tax
burden. Now I actually think when you
look at this, she's got divorced from
her husband and so it looks like she
paid to leave she took money to leave
the stake in her home in her
constituency and her home in London is
Admiral Ty House which is owned by the
state you know similar to 10 down
street. Exactly. And so actually, I
think a lot of the headlines saying that
she's got three homes are actually very
misleading because it would appear that
really she has one home and it's this
one she's just bought due to her
divorce. And so that would make the
council tax and things not not
inappropriate. But the thing they're
trying to get at is this hypocrisy. And
also, I'm afraid I think there's a real
element of classism in this. I do just
think that they see a working-class
woman who's made her way into this
position, who's earned this financial
security, and there are some people that
feel like she shouldn't be there. She is
in Hoveve, I think, because her partner
Sam Tarry's kids live there. So, it
makes sense that she wants to be with
him and he wants to be near uh his
children because he's also divorced from
uh from their mom. Uh but the Sunday
Telegraph, if we move on to that one,
thinks there might be an ulterior
motive. Raina plots chicken run to safe
seat after buying flat. And if you read
run down it, this is I think this is
Richard Tyson from reform uh saying that
this could be an option. Uh I think
Peter Kyle who is the MP for Hove and
Port Slade and is also a government
minister. He might have something to say
about that. Anita,
>> yes, absolutely. Um I don't think he's
quite going to be dropping the marmalade
when he sees a story in the morning
though because it very much is. Good on
Richard Ty for getting into um the the
front of the paper with this with this
alle allegation that she's done this
because she wants um his Hovind
Portsdale um sorry Portslaid um seat. So
it is one with a very very safe
majority. Um and there are there is some
polling that if you kind of were to
extrapolate where the polls are right
now, fast forward four years, you know,
Donald Trump's out of office but reform
is still riding high in the polls.
plausibly a safe seat such as the one
that Raina already holds could be under
threat and therefore Ty is using that as
a reason to argue that this is all
strategic positioning for a chicken run.
Chicken runs are actually first of all
highly unusual and second of all this
would be quite quite a plan in advance
um if that were the case. Um and I I
imagine again um that she would have
quite a fight on her hands. So I don't
think this is really what's going to
happen. Good on Ty for getting into the
front pages uh with this allegation. I
we also just saw I think we can go back
to it the cartoon that's on the front
page of the Telegraph from Matt which uh
is a play on the house being by the
seaside. There it is. Don't touch it.
Angela might have registered it as her
main residence says a parent to a son
who's built a sand castle.
>> There's also a great one in the times by
the way which says, "Haven't you got
homes to go to?" Which is a bar talking
to talking to Angela Raina. So she's
definitely amusing everyone this
weekend.
>> An interesting uh one on the front page.
Benjamin of the Observer tomorrow is
also a story similarish story that
features on front page of the Star as
well around weight loss jabs and this is
one of the stories of our times really
isn't it uh in the observer not the
times uh Britain's new black market in
weight loss drugs is one of their
headlines there tell us more
>> so uh Mangaro which is one of the most
popular uh brand names of these weight
loss jabs is the price is to go up
significantly uh although in UK
pharmacies. I think it will be less
significant than it will be in other
countries. Uh but basically one of the
the people that the observer have spoken
to are saying that because the cost of
these weight loss drugs which currently
would cost someone about £1,500 a year,
they're going to go up to about £25,000.
There were fears it could be four grand
a year. So obviously for most people
that might desperately want to lose
weight but aren't eligible on the NHS,
then that is is not a sustainable amount
of money to be paying for this. And so
there's a suggestion that fake jabs or
poorly regulated, unregulated jabs are
going to flood the market. Apparently
18,000 fake jabs were seized by border
control in the last year, which is a
lot. And there's warnings that, you
know, they might use similar medicine,
but you don't know the dosage. You don't
know if it's really what it's claims to
be on the packet. And so there's alarm
that this uh sharp rising costs might
lead people to do that. But also, you
know, I've got friends who've bought
sort of pill versions of this which are
not uh regulated uh but are much cheaper
and you can import them from other
countries. And so there are lots of
people that are seeing this medical
miracle. You know, it really is you're
right about story of our times. It could
transform health outcomes and quality of
life for a lot of people, but they're so
desperate to get it now and it's still
so expensive. And I looked this up. To
get to eligible on the NHS, you have to
have a BMI of 40 or more. 40 or more.
>> Yeah, that's what the observer story
states. Now, that's very high
>> because I thought over 30 was clinically
obese, but
>> indeed. Exactly.
>> It's even higher.
>> If you have other conditions like type 2
diabetes, you've got to be eligible, but
if it's just for weight, you have to be
seriously overweight. And so, that's
probably because of the cost to the NHS
of these drugs. So, you can see how you
get into this dangerous situation.
>> Yeah. Also featured on the front page of
the Star, they talk about makers set to
hike private prices to £300.
Um is it too good to be true? Any this
is the thing you know sure for people
who've got comorbidities and they are
clinically obese you understand the
reason but people who think I want to
shed a bit of weight I'm going to and
look I'm sure we all know people who are
doing that kind of thing they've got it
via other means quick jab lose the
weight although apparently they lose
their enjoyment of food and drink go
figure. Um but maybe this is a wise
thing.
>> Well I think that certainly I think that
the use of it is definitely going up for
private use. Westminster seems to be one
of the kind of the hot beds of of people
using various weight loss jabs and I
think some people definitely need it and
and and that's great for them in terms
of quality of life. But I do think when
we think about the two big moments of
our age in my view, you know, AI and the
weight loss jabs which could really
transform society. I don't think we're
really grappling with what it could
really mean. Um so one of the things
that's really critical with this is of
course it suppresses your appetite.
you're able to make more better choices,
but actually people aren't necessarily
making the right choices in terms of
protein and how does that how does that
shift things and also I mean the
observer has a piece um from a comment
about women and how they relate to their
bodies because Serena Williams has
become the face of one another um weight
loss jab and and so there's real
complexities in how we might think about
society that might emerge from this and
it sort of feels like we're racing ahead
to adopt it without really understanding
what it might shift in reality. It's
amazing, isn't it? Because she is one of
the best athletes of all time and she's
the face of one of these things. We'll
leave that one there. Thanks for the
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>> welcome back. You're watching the press
preview here on Sky News. With me a
former Conservative special adviser
Anita Buang. Let's get straight back to
the front page uh Benjamin of tomorrow's
Sunday Times. Uh interesting uh
political story at the top. Starmer's
votes for 16 year olds would actually
give a boost to Corbin's new party is
their headline. Tell us more.
>> So it was in the manifesto and Labour is
introducing legislation so that 16 year
olds everywhere in the UK will get a
vote at the next general election. you
expect at the moment they have it in
Scotland and Wales in uh their national
national elections but they've got some
polling on what that would actually mean
in reality and it's actually really
quite interesting so 24% would vote
Labour so that's in the lead but then
23% would vote for reform and Nigel
Faraj's party and a big chunk of what
would have been supposedly Labour's vote
among these 16 and 17 year olds would go
to the Jeremy Corbyn party and the
argument is that actually counter to
what you'd expect that these would be
sort of predictable Labor voters. There
is a real sense some commentators like
one of Corbyn's advisers say that they
are so frustrated with the establishment
with their life chances. In fact,
there's an extraordinary fact that uh
girls in this age group when asked to
rate their life chances on a scale of n
to 10 uh many of them uh rate it they're
twice as likely as boys to rate their
chances their life chances between two
and three. I mean that's incredibly
depressing. Yeah, it is.
>> And maybe that I mean, as the point the
article makes, that tells you a lot
about why they would vote for more
counterestablishment parties like
Farrage and Corbyn.
>> I have I have a six-year-old daughter
who's just been added. She just turned
16, just added her to the electoral
role. Doesn't mean she can vote of
course uh yet, but she is doing a
politics A level come September, so it's
kind of useful for her to know about
this. Anita, go ahead.
>> Yeah. No, the only thing to say is I
mean we are talking about 3% of the
electorate that's going to be added, but
I think there is an interesting cultural
thing going on with the attraction to
more um populist parties whether they're
on the left and the right and
particularly the schism between the way
girls vote and the way boys vote and
that could have profound implications
like if that continues to be the case as
these teenagers age.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Let me just mention another
story on the front page of the Sunday
Times tomorrow. A baby dies of hooping
cough as child vaccination rates fall.
Interesting story there. uh regarding
vaccinations, especially as we've seen
this week uh the intended roll out of
chickenpox vaccinations on the NHS in
England at least. But we'll move on from
that story to the front page of
tomorrow's Sunday Express. Anita,
>> yes,
>> most Britons would refuse to fight for
their country. Interesting that this
comes off the back of that story about
teenagers in the Times because there's
been polling previously that shows
teenagers wouldn't want to uh step up
and fight should the the need arise. I
mean, I think it's kind of I don't think
there's really any generation that would
actually want to have to enter a war.
And I think when you're talking about a
hypothetical, of course, you would get
polls like this. I actually have great
deal of faith in in the British people,
but if we needed to defend ourselves, we
absolutely would. I'm sure you would
have gotten similar results in other
countries before war starts. So, I'm not
as gloomy as the Express this Saturday
night. Benjamin quickly
>> I mean the dead express commission this
poll I do think there's sort of an
agenda to try and undermine young people
and make them out to be softies when
actually I think their life
>> every age bracket why would it's not
about it's not about young people
>> I I think actually there's there's I
think a lot of people feel like their
life chances aren't what they should be
in the country and therefore do they
feel the loyalty in return to it which
is a sort of a rational way to approach
things
>> interesting thing if there's a bit of a
malaise in how people feel about the
country we know that don't we people
aren't massively optimistic right now
maybe they don't think it's worth
defending I mean that's that's the
worry, isn't it?
>> No, I I think that I think we need to
have less of a transactional
relationship with the state which says
what do I get for this and actually more
of a sense of like obligations. It's one
of the things that in society in general
like people saying I feel more lonely. I
have fewer connections because we don't
go and make friends.
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