Press Preview: Thursday’s papers

Press Preview: Thursday’s papers

Well hello there you’re watching the Press preview a first look as at what is on the front pages uh time then to see what’s making the headlines with the daily mirrors associate editor Kevin Maguire and the daily Maes whal editor CLA elot welcome to both of you happy

New Year I’m going to keep saying it till the end of the week I think anyway let’s see what’s on the front pages shall we starting with the guardian have to say they’re all quite late tonight so bear with us uh the guardian writes about the growing pressure on the Prime

Minister as Junior doctors warned that they could stage more walkouts financial times is leading with uh those attacks in Iran which killed nearly a hundred people and took place at ceremonies to Mark the anniversary of the killing of a revolutionary guard Leader by US forces the eye has an exclusive into how some

Of Britain’s top diplomats believe a trump re-election could be a threat to the UK the Metro speaks to a man and his pregn partner who saved a mother and her three-year-old daughter as their car was being Swept Away by floodwaters dubbing them Hanks Heroes more papers as they come in as

You can see they are quite late it’s the darts going to blame the darts tonight anyway reminded by scanning the QR code you’ll see on screen during the program you can check out the front pages of tomorrow’s papers while you watch our guests so let’s go to Kevin and declair

Why don’t we start on the darts there and reflect on Luke ller and the other Luke who did so brilliantly um I’ll I’ll read a tweet in a moment or an X whatever it’s called by the prer but anyway Kevin first of all but it is the

Reason the papers are late is they were waiting for the result of the darts and that picture and uh like the guardian have a wonderful picture on the front of Luke L looking very ruthful by Tom Jenkins their photographer what could have been but it’s it’s like an

Incredible fairy tale and tomorrow I think people would want want to read that he’d won not that he lost I feel a little sorry for Luke humph who played brilliant darts his tournament favorite you know in getting into the final he wins it and it’s all about the the the

Loser uh and just a reminder he is 16 which is a phenomenal result to get to the final uh but also he doesn’t look like 60 yeah I mean you feel cherish supporting the 16y old against another Brit don’t you there two n you know both British and here’s the uh here’s the

What the Prime Minister said congratulations Luke he could have written it before a great win tonight what an incredible final to end a historic Championship I know that Luke Humphries and Luke the nuk as in Luke ller will be leading the sport for years to come well there we are CLA is

Probably true isn’t it actually yes Luke the N what a nickname he’s just 16 and apparently he he started playing darts when he was 18 months old and was um given his first dance board and it’s just an incredible story that everyone’s followed and I think loads of people

Including me who have absolutely no interest in darts fascinated by this because this idea that you know this boy he’s only just he’s only just sat his GCS can’t even legally celebrate with alcohol you know he’s um he’s done so well but I guess he’s got something to

Fight for next time yeah I mean it’s it’s diet and everything so it’s the what was it the ham and cheese omelette to start the day and the pizza when he arrived to Alexander Palace Ali pal Donna Kebab Donna Kebab on celebration right okay I don’t you know as a dad I

Want to say um I suspect he’ll have to change his diet at some point uh you know I know I know yeah just you know be very very very healthy go for but it’s it is a brilliant story it’s an incredible achievement but but it is as

You say look in a way you didn’t you didn’t win so you can’t have the cigar you wouldn’t be old enough to have one I mean not that you can smoke in Ali P anyway you can’t you couldn’t even bet on himself he’s not old enough he can’t

Drive he’s not old enough he can’t buy a lottery ticket he’s not old enough he’s going to use the money for driving lessons isn’t he I think that was the idea and take take his mates to Black pool uh or Al Towers which and and to be

The mom I was a little bit concerned when I heard it was during the covid lockdowns when schools were closed that he did 12 hours a day at the dart Bard which led to the great practice which is practice makes po perfect but what wonders what the GC how

The gcsc survived at the end of that to be honest with you anyway well done to both of the luks they’ve they they made great fun haven’t they um in the meantime why don’t we kick off or or go to the uh clear the front page of the

Guardian’s lead story which is pressure on the Prime Minister the Striking doctors warning of further disruption and already we’ve seen critical incidents declared and appeals for doctors as well tonight in uh in leiman South London for example yes so this is um this is the longest strike the NHS

Has ever seen it’s Junior doctor who’ve gone on strike and um they’ve they a lot of the other other parts of the NHS the nurses and the Consultants are voting on it now have accepted deals but the junior doctors are holding out and the BMA are refusing to to make a deal with

The government this is them just saying that they will continue striking until they get what they want they’re asking for 35% to restore the pay freezes that they would have suffered since 2008 and um the government has offered far less than that and the talks are supposed to be be continuing but they’re

Been put on hold while the strikes go ahead in the mean yeah yeah in the meantime well you’ve just got it’s a critical time for the NHS you’ve got Co covid flu everything’s out of hand doctors are in short supply lots of staff are sick as well a really critical

Time for the NHS to be suffering but the BMA the British Medical Association will do a deal but it has to be you there’s got to be an offer they can accept they did a deal with Consultants uh look there’s no there’s no strike at the moment in Scotland a

Deal was done with Junior doctors there where the S&P run the Health Service this is this is in England this six day strike although there might be one shortly in Wales Lia run and Junior doctors I think are ballot in in Northern Ireland but they will do a deal

But that you’re right the 35% is their claim because they say it goes back to 20 2008 they the criticism of them that they used RPI as a measure of inflation not CPI and if and if it’s CPI it’s much lower yeah yeah yes of course which is

Why the government would prefer CPI and the doctors would prefer RPI there’s always a debate over which is the more accurate measure of inflation as it affects you because housing costs are in RPI which aren’t in CPI and you got to you got to pay for for housing but that

That 35% is already down at 26% because the government and its ultimate wisdom imposed an 8% uh offer which it thought would break the resolve of the junior doctors and it hasn’t but the health secretary Victoria Atkin who’s far more recep should we say than her Steve Bartley her uh her

Predecessor is saying look I’ll make another offer but you got to suspend the strikes look you don’t suspend the strikes like that you’ve just got to get into talks and then there’ll have to be some give and tick on both sides and the BMA the junior doctors say they accept

They’re not going to get a big rise immediately it would take some time but you just come up with a a way because doctor Junior doctors got hit remember they up to eight years there 40% of the total so you know they they’re not you know they’re not just giving you

Aspirins I mean they’re pretty skilled and qualified they they realize it will take some time to claw back what they L it that’s these a very very skill and the and the brightest people in Britain the hardest thing to get into they’ve been hit harder than other groups in the

Health Service over that period that’s why they keep going on about this 35% figure which is now down to 26 the problem is they’re about what 50% of Hospital Stars 40% doctors 40% of doctors right okay and the point is that makes it very expensive when you add

Them all up I guess but also means that the hospitals are abely cled if they’re not there and it falls to Consultants to Pi up some theist govern already spent more on getting cover uh than it would have in s with the junior doctors for more than a

Year yeah well that’s just one year though isn’t it the point no no it’s Absolut it’s baked in after that yeah um do you see the government coming back new year you you start new talks or uh what are the clues the BMA did sort of

Say today that they would um that they would consider having a deal that went went for a number of years so not an immediate offer but one that span some time to sort of bring their pay back so it looks like there’s a slight shift on

That part but I don’t know about the government I mean I think they’ve already added an extra 3% to that 8% that they offered and there there is there has already been movement there and I think this the public are when when they’re pulled the public are still

On side they still think doctors should be paid more which is really interesting but I wonder if you know the waiting list are going be really impacted by this is a very long strike it’s going to cause huge problems we’ve already seen critical incidents in hospitals I wonder

If the public will it’s been more than a year the public the public blame the government more than they blame the doctors it’s not entirely entirely popular I think it it was at one point it’s been it’s been more than the year but I’ve not I’ve not known a government

To be so incompetent in its handling of work force issues because you’ve got real strikes have settled with the rmt but as left is still out that must be more than a year two now I it’s just cers reform as well wasn’t it but I suppose

The point is if if you put inflation on the pedestal that needs to be tackled then everything follows from that and the point was that wage inflation would be inflationary so that’s you know bottom line and the longer you w to settle them the more inflation but it’s

Not it’s not but wag you wages going up is an inflationary in the HS because we don’t charge now if if you build if you if you’re in a factory making biscuits and you know the biscuit manufacturer and you have to pay your workers more you might put up your price so that

Could see how that would be inflationary but isn’t in the NHS it’s a pressure on NHS spending that uh that I accept but it’s not inflation except you’re trying to squeeze money out of the system so people don’t pay the high prices but anyway but if you want but if you want

To stop doctors and other members of Staff leaving in a an AHS with more than 100,000 vacancies you’re going to have to pay them yeah the retention issue is critical isn’t it let’s move on to the Ft um quite extraordinary scenes in Iran um the talk of this is the worst attack

In the history of the Islamic Republic uh nearly 100 dead um you know scores and scores more injured in what looked like two blasts in an anniversary to remember somebody senior um in charge of the Islamic revolutionary guard Iranian Revolution guard rather um you know four years ago who killed by the Americans

Four years ago yeah he was assassinated drawn missile attack when Trump was uh president of salamani I mean a lot of people wouldn’t outside of Iran would not would not mourn his his his death but never nevertheless he was killed and who planted the bombs now now of course the the Iranians immediately

Point out Israel and America they may not they may not be wrong they may not be wrong on that because of course we saw the Israelis killed a Hamas leader in Lebanon uh very recently only only was it yesterday um so POS possibly they did but there’s no confirmation of that

Or it’s unlikely though isn’t it could be a rival faction well you know if I wasn’t isra Israeli though uh and I what happened on October the 7th with Hamas massacring Israelis was monstrous and what Israel is now doing in Gaza massacring Palestinians is monstrous too

But I would think if Iran is sponsoring Hezbollah and Hamas you’re going to take you’re going to take the fight to them I’m not saying the Israelis did it but I could see why the Americans have said tonight it was not them and it was not Israel and the suggestion has been it

Could well be something like Islamic State oh yes could be faction Sun faction in this sheer stronghold of Iran most of the experts talking about this is so it’s not out of Israel’s Playbook there people who are on the ground set off two bombs in you know in the

Area and there’s not really anything in it for um Israel and they have sort of not while they’ve not claimed responsibility for the other attack on the on the heah on the Hamas leader in in Lebanon they H they’ve steered away from this from having anything to do

With this so I think the viewers that and also you know Iran haven’t said who they think was behind it even though they’ve criticized Israel they haven’t said that they think it’s Israel so I think the prevailing view is that possibly it’s not probably it’s a faction within but the point is that

Iran is blamed for you know having this proxy war both in Yemen and with hisbah in Lebanon hisb is coming out to support Hamas um you know in the recent assassination yesterday as we saw and elsewhere so the whole thing weaves round doesn’t it Iran well yeah well

Well Iran it does back Hamas and hea and in in Yemen that is ABS absolutely true and they they are bitter foes of of Israel and the US uh us to but in Iran itself it’s deeply divided and fractures um the other story on the on

The papers um CLA Metro Hank’s Heroes um this uh awful situation uh where a um a three-year-old girl and her mother were swept away and effectively caught under this bridge we’ve got the pictures actually of this so let’s take a look um and the two people who rescued them as

Well um pictured here Hank’s Heroes is how the Metro uh call calls it it’s just listen hello yeah they’re going under the bridge they stuck the car’s about to sink under the bridge uh how many of you a threeyear old and a mom absolutely absolutely petrifying yeah the video is extraordinary um you

Know the sheer bravery of that man who St who who you know tried to get these people out of this car and we’ve seen there’ve been quite a few things recently with um cars crashing into rivers and people dying it’s quite a serious thing and to risk that um to

Risk yourself to try to help them is incredible and you know the storms have been so bad across the UK you’ve just the winds and London were were terrible and you know they’ve been terrible elsewhere and you can see still see the roads are all flooded and you do have

Examples like this 94 M hour winds and you know this is just incredible bravery on the part Liam Stitch is his name and it was his pregnant girlfriend who we heard on the on the phone uh Tia Draper they pictured there on the on the bridge you know he

Risked his own life there if he’ if he’d have slipped and gone into the water yeah uh yeah he could have he could have drowned but it was swam into the river he says he he ignored warnings grabbed a life ring ran into the river 7 in

Worcester which had burst its banks then swam to her and dragged her out I mean really extraordinary where is the environment secretary then you know where where you know there’s so much flooding Cambridge warshire Wester Shire as we’ve seen as well where you know Steven Bartley where is hey missing an

Action you know this is critical conditions for people isn’t it with more to come and it’s only January the whatever it is January the 3D is it I’m already losing track would you res I’m not um we got lots more still to come including British diplomats are reportedly worried about the prospect of

Donald Trump returning to the White House discussing that in just a moment Welcome back you’re watching the Press preview with me once again Kevin McGuire and CLA elot from the mirror and the mail respectively welcome back to both of you papers are starting to drop now U we’ve got the Daily Mirror in your paper um they’ve gone with the uh Luke ller

Alexander palace with it calling it a dart breaker Kevin it’s quite good that actually I didn’t come up with it which is which is why it’s why it’s good but again he is the story that’s why we can feel sorry in a way for Luke humph who

Turn out to be you know Cool Hand Luke and and won it uh but it’s that it’s it’s that story of the 16year old you know the pizza Kebab omelet eating 16y old yeah who was so young but he couldn’t buy a paint Al P yeah he still

Gets 200,000 doesn’t he uh but he misses out on the 500 ,000 that he would have got if want which goes to Luke humph from newb and bark think got the mail as well have we let’s have a look at that so close for Luke the nuke oh I

Haven’t got the rest of the front page but anyway there we go so close for Luke the nuke but anyway he’s only 16 he’s got a very long career ahead of him um let’s move on to the eye then CLA shall we uh Trump 2.0 is a threat to the UK uh

The government needs urgent contingency plans to protect the UK from massive security risks if Donald Trump is elected extraordinary yeah so they I have spoken to Lord McDonald head of the Diplomatic service five years and Peter West mcart the former British ambassador of the US and um they’ve warned most

Most of their warnings around Ukraine and we’re already having trouble with um the US financing and providing arms for Ukraine because there’s there are huge holdups there and you know Biden sort of wants wants to equip them but some of some Congress don’t and um there already

Huge clashes there Trump is a real question mark he’s been close to Putin in the past um he has has said disparaging things about helping Ukraine and it it remains to be seen what he would do and if um if the US don’t support Ukraine then that could have

Huge huge huge ramifications for the rest of the world in the global order yes absolutely it’s been held up by republicans in Congress who’ve linked it to border security with Mexico haven’t they so and it’s all tied up in a complex bill um but you know there are

Many issues if Trump comes back you know we’re just seeing tonight that he’s appealed against Colorado barring him from standing as a candidate in this in their state um Maine as well yesterday too but he’s got this body of support hasn’t he he has and he’s heading the

Polls or Joe Biden who many ways he’s got the economy going and Americans are doing quite well economically but they just see a dottery bloker they uh they’re not taking to while Trump nothing seems to stick it is absolutely incredible but I think he’d be a real threat to American democracy

If he came back CU he’s going to be vengeful uh things like the independence of the J judicial system will be under severe threat but of course that has a knock on for the UK and countries like Ukraine where Trump seems to like other white nationalist authoritarian leaders

Like Putin I mean I think he wanted to go the way in the US on elections the way Putin does in in Russia you know there’s elections in Russia this year and we know Putin will win of course Trump we know he says that the election

Was stolen now he tried to steal it himself he lost fair and square last time but he gets in again it’ll be it’ll be dangerous for all democracies yeah fascinating year ahead in US politics not least including our own as well CL elott and Kevin McGuire thank you both very much indeed

We take a first look at Thursday’s front pages with the Daily Mirror’s associate editor Kevin Maguire and the Daily Mail’s Whitehall editor Claire Ellicott.

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