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Hi there. You're watching the press
preview. A first look at what's on the
front pages as they arrive in the next
half hour. We'll see what's making the
headlines with journalists Theo
Asherwood and Carolyn Quinn. So, let's
see what is on some of those front pages
tomorrow. On the front of the metro,
news that a pay as you go app for train
travel that could make travel cheaper
and easier has begun triing in some
parts of the UK today.
In the Guardian, doctors say they found
a drug that is better than aspirin in
preventing heart attacks and strokes in
a discovery that could transform health
guidelines.
The Mirror says Karma has vowed to
tackle reforms fear tactics with a range
of policies that offer genuine hope. The
Daily Express has launched a campaign
demanding police take more action to
tackle the shoplifting crisis that's
currently costing shops more than 2.2
billion pounds a year. In the Telegraph,
they feature a report claiming that a
young Queen Camila was the victim of an
attempted sexual assault as a school
girl. And that alleged attack is also on
the front of the Sun. The star features
an alleged sighting of the Loch Ness
monster Nelly, who hasn't been spotted
since May, making another appearance.
Can we believe that one? Let's discuss
it later. We're joined now by uh
journalists Theowood and Caroline Quinn.
Maybe we'll get on to Nessie a bit later
on tonight. You never know. It's always
an interesting one. Uh but let's start
off uh Theo with the front of the Daily
Telegraph. Big picture of Queen Camila
there. But I'd like to discuss uh three
votes Raina uh underneath. Uh that's the
headline. Postal ballot puts tax claims
in doubt. This is all to do with Angela
Raina. And I think that is the third day
on the bounce that the Telegraph's
featured a story about the deputy prime
minister on his front page.
>> Yes, the deputy prime minister is on the
front of the number of the Sunday papers
as well um today and uh the Daily
Telegraph have done some research. have
gone through the electoral records which
of course a matter of public record and
they found the deputy prime minister has
firstly a postal vote in her
constituency home in Ashton under lime
and then in uh Westminster of course she
has that Grayson favor flat uh in
Admiral Treehouse however she's also
down to vote in uh person in Hoveve
where she's bought that uh 800 thou
£800,000 seafront apartment back in May
the paper reports now there's no
suggestion um that uh the deputy prime
minister has broken any of the rules.
But I think the problem for Angela
Raina, and this is the charge for the
Conservatives, is at a time when Rachel
Reeves, the chancellor, is going to have
to find tens of billions of pounds yet
again in tax rises, uh that this will
stink of hypocrisy.
>> And that's that's the the danger that
that lands. And and of course you think
back to last summer, we were discussing
this um just before we came on air and
Kia Starmer and and the row about his
spectacles and access for Taylor Swift
tickets and everything else
>> tickets and all the rest of it and and
and they and and ministers have done
nothing wrong including the prime
minister have done nothing wrong in
terms of the rules. Yeah. but it didn't
pass the smell test with the British
public. And I think that's the that's
the the problem facing Angela Raina is
that she can't just not say anything and
expect this story to go away because
once the Daily Telegraph and the Daily
Mail, you know, have their teeth into
something and they think that their
readers, it matters to their readers,
they're not going to let it go. No, I
mean they clearly feel that there is a
lot more ground to cover and they've
been dripping out various elements of
this story over the past couple of days.
Angela Raina says she has done nothing
unlawful. Uh in fact she hasn't spoken
personally about it at all and a lot of
people are saying look you really do
need to come out now and stamp this
down. Either make clear what the
arrangements are. At least address the
story rather than say well look we're
within the rules. we've done exactly
what other governments have done.
Everything's fine. But as Theo was
saying, that's what they did when it
came to the freebies issue last year.
And that story ran and ran and
eventually they had to tackle it. Um,
interestingly, if you think back a
couple of weeks ago, Rashinara Ali
resigned, didn't she, as homeless
minister. Yes. When there were some
stories written about the way that she
had handled her own rental properties.
Now, she didn't do anything wrong, but
she said that she felt that she needed
to be beyond reproach.
>> And I think that's it's the perception
thing,
>> isn't it? That, you know, as Lord
McConnell has said, you don't want it to
look as if Angela Raina falls into that
group of people that feel that there's
one rule for ministers and another rule
for for the common people.
>> Yes. As we all know, when there is a
vacuum of information, then someone else
will fill it for you, won't they? And
and that certainly happens with the the
perception of a story.
>> It's also, I think, been slightly
worrying, I think, the way that, and
I've heard a bit of we've heard some
rhetoric where, you know, ministers
have, you know, sought to defend Andrew
Raina's privacy being attacked or, uh,
you know, that newspapers, we don't have
a right to know exactly what the
arrangements are. Um, and nobody nobody
would dispute the fact that Angela Raina
has a right to spend her money as she
sees fit. But there is a question about
hypocrisy, I think, here.
>> Then again, Theo, you know, her private
life may be quite complicated as many
people's private lives are when one
relationship ends and another one begins
and there are children involved and
maybe she's just working through the
admin of sorting this stuff out.
>> Yes, but she needs to be clear and and
and absolutely Matt, you're quite right.
to think people's lives are complicated
and it's no different for senior
ministers within within the government
to have complicated lives and nobody
would judge anybody for that but I think
um it needs to be clear that um that the
arrangements were in place were to if
this was the case to you know whether it
was to manage a particular arrangement
but not to uh not to seek to and I use
this word advisy avoid uh paying tax
>> well she has not done anything wrong
she's not done anything wrong and this
is the So maybe a bit more clarity would
help. Although obviously there will
probably, I imagine, be some in the
government and some in the opposition
who perhaps think if you start opening
doors and being completely transparent
about everything like this, then what
more will have to be uncovered about
other people's arrangements?
>> I'd love to know, wouldn't you?
>> You know, um, we we don't have that sort
of system here. you know, people are
entitled to have privacy even if they're
a cabinet minister. But maybe a bit of
clarity on her part would would help.
>> I think also just as a broader question,
parliament's coming back tomorrow. Karma
needs to have a reset. We're talking
about, you know, rearranging the deck
chairs with those who work within number
10 and possibly a reshuffle with amongst
the junior ministers as well. This is
not the story he needs. Uh this is not
what uh the number, you know, number 10
spokesman needs to be asked about
repeatedly at the lobby briefing
tomorrow.
>> No, they'd like to have been talking
about the the education issue today.
Bridget Phillipsson was out earlier, you
know, talking about um the the after
school clubs, the the breakfast clubs,
the the the increase in um free school
meals, you know, that's the sort of
message that they were hoping to start
off a new term with. And um
>> but the line stick is the response to
what reformer have been saying over the
past week. Uh let's shift our attention
Caroline to the front page of the
Guardian is a bit of a mixed bag across
the front pages we've seen so far. And
their lead story is an interesting one.
I don't think it's one that anyone else
has got. A drug that's better than
aspirin at preventing heart attacks,
reports Andrew Gregory from uh from a
big shindig in Madrid, it looks like.
>> Yes. And you and I have been trying to
work out how to actually pronounce this
new drug. Um, which I I won't try it.
I'll leave it here.
>> Well, it looks like clidrell
>> or clopidogal.
>> Oh, clidogil. But
>> by the way, it's good.
>> There will be experts who know, but the
essence of this is that some very, very
clever people have found this drug
that's better than aspirin at preventing
heart attacks and strokes. And Andrew
Gregory suggests that it's a discovery
that could transform health guidelines
worldwide because of course for decades
people have been advised to take
aspirin, haven't they? To reduce the
risk of experiencing some sort of heart
event. Yes. Um a daily lowd dose
aspirin. People have been told is is a
good thing to have. Well, this may now
replace that. and the findings challenge
that long-standing recommendation of
aspirin as the default treatment. Um
whether it um moves on beyond a
discovery and becomes common usage.
Yeah, that will of course be the next
question. And whether NICE will take it
on as the sort of uh medicine that can
then be described and used on the NHS.
>> The difference here is though you can
just go and get aspirin for, you know, a
pound off the shelf, can't you? which
makes it so accessible and so easy.
>> But but but on the plus side, this this
drug is described by Andrew as as a
commonly prescribed blood thinner. So
we're not talking about necessarily uh
something that's coming straight to the
market and it's going to cost uh
potentially, you know, hundreds of
dollars per prescription or hundreds of
pounds per prescription for the NHS. It
sounds like this the suggestion in this
article in the in the Guardian is that
actually this is quite a readily
available um drug that's already being
used as a blood thinner um and actually
can be much more effective and and this
is seem you know it's a it's a study on
29,000 patients and there 2.3 million
people I didn't realize 29.3 2.3 million
people in Britain you know this is this
could potentially be something of a
>> breakthrough but how great to have a
headline like that you know a positive
story about something that could be
within reach reach of of most people.
>> I think the key word in it as well is
preventing. And we're seeing, aren't we,
the NHS shift more from cure towards
prevention, trying to obviously minimize
uh the impact that patients have on the
NHS and its and its creaking uh
resources. The fact that it's something
that is already there and seemingly not
too costly could make such a big
difference could be massive for the NHS,
couldn't it?
>> It would be. It would be huge. and and
where streeting has been you know
absolutely clear that the NHS can't just
continue as business as usual if it's
got he's managed to secure a lot more
money you know 30 billion pounds extra
for the NHS from Rachel Reeves but you
know in in return for that money you
know he expects and he needs the NHS to
reform and to move not just from you
know the expensive process of treating
serious illnesses like um you know
coronary coronary heart disease but to
actually preventing it from happening in
the first place and so you know if this
is something that can save the NHS money
in the you know serious amounts of money
in the long run it has to be welcome.
>> Let's shift our attention to the Daily
Express Theo because uh their headline
relates to a story that will drive a lot
of people uh nuts because it's so uh
infuriating. Police told end shop theft
sprees. Uh now the Express is uh putting
its weight behind this saying it's a
campaign to stop the shoplifting crisis
which costs an absolute fortune. Yes,
it's an interesting one. This the the
Daily Express have launched this um
campaign which you know it says
obviously to try and stop or clamp down
on shoplifting which is costing
businesses stores 2.2 billion pounds a
year. and their their top demand is that
police must attend every reported uh
theft. Um I you know I think it's a it's
a it's a it's a good campaign. This is
clearly you know an issue that needs to
be dealt with. I would just question
whether that's realistic. I'd like it to
be realistic. I think businesses, you
know, if you're a business owner
watching this program, would they would
want they would think that they it's
perfectly reasonable if they have thefts
from their store that a shop, you know,
that the police turn up and investigate.
Um, but I I I I just hazard a guess that
this, you know, if a police chief was to
react to this um tomorrow morning, um I
would I would hazard a guess that they
would say that it is completely
unrealistic for this to happen.
>> Absolutely. Where do you stop? because
they don't turn up for burglaries and
they don't turn up for car accidents and
they don't turn up for lot for lots of
things. I I I wonder as well there'll be
people watching who own businesses who
think of this and think well I'm already
paying for security and they can't do a
thing.
>> I feel this story has been around not
necessarily the Daily Express campaign
>> but they certainly are hitting on
something that a lot of people are
concerned about but as you say the
practicalities have been discussed over
and over. Uh we know that shoplifting
rates are going up. Um maybe it's cost
of living, but uh the Express is saying
opportunistic stealing spree by
professionals and some hard up
pensioners are soaring to record levels.
Even vulnerable children are turning to
thieving for criminals exploiting them.
>> But this has been an issue that has been
growing. Um we know that there are also
fears among security staff about
tackling shoplifterss. Um people have
reported over and over that they see
people going in quite blatantly, you
know, taking large amounts of things
from
>> challenged and they just walk straight
out again.
>> But the idea that police must attend
every reported theft, where are the
police where are the um forces going to
find the personnel to do that and how
will it be funded? Let's we're going to
leave that one there, but I should tell
you just on the front page of the
Express as well is a rather dashing
picture of Jude Law who uh is going to
play Vladimir Putin. See what he had to
say about that role and maybe you'll be
able to get a picture of him in
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preview here on Sky News. With me in the
studio, journalists Theo Asherwood and
Caroline Quinn. Uh let's start this bit
uh both of you talking about well a
couple of the papers because the stories
are related. The Daily Mirror has its
headline Star's project hope. I'll
defeat Farage scare tactics which echoes
what we were hearing from Bridget
Phillips today saying she thinks uh
reformer whipping things up effectively.
The Times has a related story slightly
different tack if you like leaving the
ECR the European Convention on Human
Rights not a threat to olster peace. Uh
and that's from a Labour grande.
Interesting takes uh on this one,
Caroline.
>> Yeah, absolutely. Because um when Nigel
Farage has talked about mass
deportations, but also withdrawing from
the European Convention on Human Rights
as a way of being able to detain and
deport individuals. Also, he's talked
about pulling out of the 1951 refugee
convention. Yeah. to so that he says
Britain can tackle this crisis without
people appealing for family rights
>> and bring in a UK bill of rights is what
they say they would want to do too.
>> Exactly. Because at the moment the ECR
is enshrined in in a human in a human um
a bill of rights that is covered by um
UK law. Um now ditching the ECR
would have dangerous consequences for
the Good Friday agreement. Now that was
the argument that was made at the time
when Nigel Farage was proposing this. Um
since then there have been a number of
senior figures within the Labor Party
who've said that maybe
>> parts of it should be amended or we
should suspend our membership of the ECR
for a certain period to try to tackle
this crisis. And interestingly, the
Times picks up on that warning about the
consequences for the Good Friday
Agreement and says that actually those
warnings are baseless that withdrawing
from the European Convention on Human
Rights will not jeopardize peace in
Northern Ireland. And um
>> they say that this report that's been
pulled together by the Policy Exchange
think tank has been backed by the former
Labour home secretary Jack Straw, who is
indeed one of these senior Labour
figures.
>> Yes. who's been saying that maybe now is
the time to suspend our membership
>> and a former lawyer as well.
>> Former lawyer. Yes. And uh he certainly
knows his stuff. So that is a very
lively debate ongoing and I think that
is a development of what's been said
over the past couple of days.
interesting that you know the government
with this huge majority and reform with
its four MPs are are clashing over this
because we've seen how far ahead reform
are in the polls and as parliament gets
back together tomorrow
>> Farage has led the debate on this by um
having daily press conferences or weekly
press conferences every Monday during
the summer leaving the the the vacuum to
be filled by um his call for more
drastic action and mass deportation of
illegal migrants.
>> I wonder who played Nigel Farage in a
film of his life. We'll have to wait for
that one. Uh but Jude Law uh no less is
going to step into the shoes as uh of
Vladimir Putin. Uh that features on the
front page of the Express, not in
character there. It's mentioned on a
couple of the other front pages. The
Daily Telegraph mentions it by saying
law goes Marshall Judas Putin. How
flattering. Maybe it is. But I think
we've got a picture of him in character.
Uh there he is on the left. I I thought
it was Martin Freeman when I first saw
it, but there you go. It's it's pretty
good. Maybe Is it Is it flattering to
Vladimir Putin to be played by Jude Law?
I mean, he was incredibly handsome in
the talented Mr. Ripley. Is it Is it
flattering?
>> I I I think Putin would probably see it
as a as a as a a minor point to chalk up
a small win. I always think it's
slightly it's always slightly risky
trying to play
a living a living. I I think there's no
danger if the you know the subject is
has has died. But I think you know
trying to to to get your pitch exactly
right according to somebody who a world
you know a hu public figure or or a
world leader like Vladimir Putin while
they're still alive is is is a really
risky you know could be quite a risky
thing to do. But Jude Law's embrace
>> even more risky when it's Vladimir Putin
perhaps. But he I think this is I've
just had a a brief look at what this
film's about. But it's looking at how he
came to power.
>> The wizard of the Kremlin, it's called.
>> Yeah. And remember the days when
Vladimir Putin was on the world stage,
was welcomed as an international figure,
you know, um was even talking at one
point about joining NATO, joining the EU
perhaps. Uh so, you know, maybe this is
looking back at a a time of his life
when he was more acceptable. Yeah.
>> And not the pariah that he's regarded as
now.
>> He's doing well. Jude law. Oscar
nominated of course. Played the pope as
well. I seem to remember playing Putin.
I wonder who he'll take on on next.
Maybe he'll take on Nigel Faros. That
would be interesting.
>> Okay. Thank you both for the time being.
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