18/11/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Katie Martin from the Financial Times

and Lucy Fisher Senior Political correspondent at The Times.

Nice to have you both here. Tomorrow's front pages, this is how

they are looking. The Financial Times, which leads

with President-elect Trump's appointment of three conservative

hardliners for his administration. The Daily Mirror looks

at the ?369 million cost to the taxpayer of the refurbishment

to Buckingham Palace The Daily Mail has an interview

with the father of a girl who was cryogenically frozen

following her death last month Unlike the girl's mother,

he had opposed his daughter's The the Times has a picture of

Theresa May and Angela Merkel who met in Berlin today. The European

leaders are saying farewell to President Obama.

The Telegraph leads with an announcement expected next

week by the Chancellor, that will see cold callers

being banned from targeting people in the wake of

Forecasters warn of a weekend of snow and storms across the UK,

The major refurb planned for Buckingham Palace

is on the i's front page, with the paper detailing

the potential fire risk of the ageing cables.

We will start with the story on the front of the Daily Mail, agony of

frozen Gold's father. This was a story that was embargoed until

midnight last night for a month after this girl died. The father

says in this story about the bitter row that has affected his family. He

is suffering from cancer as well, as is his daughter. An extraordinary

case. It is horrible, nothing nice to say about this story. It's been

all over the papers today, clearly captivated the nation. It's

difficult to see there are any winners here. It's just awful in

every direction. The poor girl and the father is suffering from cancer

himself. They had a disagreement, he and the mother of the child over

what to do. It just sounds better and awful. The court case, it was

not whether or not she should choose to cryonics league preserve her

remains, it was about which of the parents should have a say over what

Absolutely, about the rights of a Absolutely, about the rights of a

child's last wishes when they haven't yet reached the age of 18.

Who is to decide? I think it captured the nation's imagination

because of this idea of freezing your body and the possibility of

coming back 200 years later. What's really sad is the father. He's

talked about these hope traders and his complete scepticism, whether the

science is where all will ever be there to allow his daughter to be

unfrozen and live again. Is a leap of faith, very few facilities in the

world offer this service. It's in the hope that one day somebody might

be able to do something? You have to imagine he wants what's best for his

daughter, although she has passed away. He doesn't want people to be

trading on false hope or slim hope. But... The human tragedy behind

this, the family tragedy behind this is laid bare by the fact they can't

agree. Whatever there is in the science, whatever the possibilities,

whatever the legal ramifications, this is a very personal family

tragedy. The only thing you can take from it if she got her wishes. She

found out before she died this was going to be permissible. Absolutely.

I am sure many people across the nation heard this morning her final

letter to the judge saying she didn't want to die. It was

absolutely heartbreaking. At least... She wanted to have this

chance to try and cheat death and she did achieve it. The ethical

moral dilemmas of if this technology ever becomes available, she could be

brought back to life, in theory, to be treated for cancer but won't know

anyone. It will be hundreds of years from now. That is a very peculiar

thought, isn't it? It's very peculiar. If it works for her,

presumably everybody could do it. Ultimately nobody really wants to

die. So, as you said, there are these ramifications further down the

line. What if everybody does it? What if everybody wakes up 200 years

from now on to live in a completely different world? There are huge

ethical questions here and we don't know the answers. And not very well

regulated, it seems, this small industry? I think it is a very niche

industry at the moment, highly expensive. She asked her father for

?50,000, to be frozen at minus 196 Celsius, upside down in one of these

cryopreservation tanks. It seems a bit sci-fi to me and I'm not

convinced by it. I think it was her grandparents who helped raise the

money? Yes. The Daily Mirror. Who pays the bill when one of the

world's richest women in eat her house fixed up? You, of course. This

is the Queen and Buckingham Palace needing a refurb. Yes, electrical

cables are 40, the lead pipes, it all needs an update. ?370 million

has been approved by the trustees to allow this overhaul of Buckingham

Palace. And guess what, the usual suspects are not happy about! The

public are out in force saying this is absolutely outrageous. Frankly, I

think it is easy to see that when next week we are expecting the

Autumn Statement, Theresa May is trying to give a boost to the just

managing families, to see the Royal family getting millions and millions

pounds in the next ten years to do at the Palace... It's only open

during the summer months and doesn't necessarily seem for money to all

quarters. It's a tricky one. But doesn't the Queen and the Royal

family and all of this living history bring in billions to the

country? Sure... But as we were just saying, we have got the Autumn

Statement next week, which is going to be all about these just about

managing families. Whilst we or worrying about spending a third of

our income on childcare costs, it does seem slightly galling that the

Queen is getting such a huge amount of money to do up her house. It's

notable she doesn't have to move out during this process. She can just

move into the East Wing whilst the West Wing is being done up. These

are not any ordinary home repairs are going on here. Nonetheless, as

you say, there is a public interest. Nobody wants the Palace to burn down

or flood. It's full of antiques and of items that are of national

importance. Just the timing. And also the amount... It's a round

number that is very similar to this ?350 million a week we're all

supposed to be saving from leaving the EU. Whether that exists or not

we don't know yet, but there's a lot of parallels here and there's really

awkward timing that doesn't go down well with a paper like the Daily

Mirror. The FT and the Times on the appointments President-elect Trump

has been making. KT, if we're led to believe the direction he's going in,

it's conservative and quite hard line. Quite hard line is putting it

mildly. Once Donald Trump knew he had won he came out with a speech

that was quite conciliatory and talked about being a president for

all of America. But that seems to have melted away pretty quickly.

Some of the appointments have already been extremely contentious

and the ones we have seen come through today have really got people

upset and excited. In particular, I would say, the appointment of Jeff

Sessions, the Attorney General role. He was previously turned down for a

federal Judge role on the basis people thought his comments were too

racist in the 80s. He has resurfaced into this role now. Mike Flynn, very

hard line, you said various things about Muslims in America that are

rather ugly to our ears. So it seems to be pretty divisive. Some of these

appointments will have to go through a congressional hearing, but the

Republicans control Congress? Yes, that's right. I think it remains to

be seen, what we've seen so far from Donald Trump is he is quite a

whimsical and material character. Pointing these hardliners, will sit

down with Mitt Romney and some of his opponents and rivals within the

Republican party, said that we will see a bit of balance from across the

GOP. But his family, whether they are going to be part of any of these

jobs. The Times Ed Ivanka Trump, I don't intend to be part of my

father's government, I thought the kids were meant to be running his

businesses? There's a lot of confusion about the rules. Previous

presidents have put their businesses into blind trusts. That makes sense,

there can be no conflicts of interest. But today Ivanka Trump was

in that meeting with the Japanese premier and I think there's a lot of

smelling Sarah Mack, people thinking, why is the

President-elect's daughter coming to a meeting with a world leader? His

son-in-law is supposed to look at the loopholes that might allow him

to be a legal adviser. Yes, quite a power couple. I wouldn't put it past

him, where there's a will there's a way. I'm sure they will find a

loophole if there is one. It does sit rather uncomfortably that Ivanka

Trump talks about not wanting to be part of the government and then

there she is, sitting in this meeting with the Japanese Prime

Minister. What on earth is she doing there? It does look rather awkward.

Let's stay with the Times and talking of awkward photos, look at

the expressions on these faces! Eurovisions. Theresa May and Angela

Merkel, saying farewell to President Obama. The picture editor has been

told to go out and find a picture that represents national stereotypes

for the Brits and Germans and this is what they have come up with.

Angela Merkel looks rather frosty. It sounds like she has rebuffed

approaches from Theresa May to get talking about the Brexit process.

Theresa May did say today we are on track to be triggering Article 50,

this two year divorce process from the EU, by the end of March next

year. Angela, true to national stereotypes, has stuck to the rules

and said once you have done that we can have a conversation about it.

President Obama was apparently talking to Angela Merkel about her

being leader of the free West? Yes, interesting, wasn't it? Obama really

stuck the boot in and said the special relationship is in between

the US and the UK but the US and Germany. Called Angela Merkel his

closest ally. I think she has stood up for the values of liberalism much

more open stance towards immigration. I'm not surprised Obama

is championing her bravery when across the rest of Europe that seems

to be a more fragile consensus. Shall we look at the express, page

four. Senior Tory backs calls for Nigel Farage to be given period. I'm

not sure Nigel Farage wants this, at least just yet, but who is

suggesting he gets it? He's trying to retire from politics you know! He

doesn't want anything to do with it any more. There is a backbench Tory

MP, Graham Brady, who is saying the Ukip leader deserves, the former

Ukip Wheater or is he the Ukip leader? Interim. That he deserves

the honour. Also there's some talk about putting him into some sort of

informal role as a go-between between Theresa May and Donald

Trump. In terms of the peerage... I know we have slightly different

views about this. I tend to think... It's the definition of a divisive

appointment to put him in a position like that. I think you can't keep

him out. Whatever you think of his politics he has led the rise of an

insurgent party at the general election last year, received 4

million votes almost, almost 13% of the popular vote share. I think at

least the party deserves some appointees in the House of Lords,

whether they want to give that to Farage, let's leave it up to Ukip. I

think keeping them out is only going to fuel antiestablishment sentiment.

Doesn't seem like he's in a hurry? It doesn't. I think is hoping to

play a bit of a role in the Trump administration. He's had several

decades now at the forefront of British politics. He has this

lecture tour, is going to go round Europe and tried whip up anti-EU

feeling elsewhere. You get the sense he's really enjoying himself. On

Radio 4's any questions he said it's not going to happen, it's not what I

want at this moment in my life. But when his old he might think about

it, if the offer is still there! Right, the Telegraph, speaking of

Brexit. Sturgeon's chance to veto Brexit. We have heard today that the

Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly... This is the Scottish

Telegraph, thank you to that voice in my ear for reminding me. The two

devolved governments get the chance to go to the Supreme Court as

interveners, not parties to it, but in this case that's been referred as

a result of the appeal by the government against the success

challenging whether the government can just trigger Brexit before

putting it before Parliament. The High Court said Parliament have to

have a say. The government are taking it to the Supreme Court. Why

might this be a chance for Nicola Sturgeon to stir the pot a bit?

Because, of course, Scotland voted to remain and this is the problem.

Brexit doesn't only threaten the European Union, there's the union of

the United Kingdom at stake. I think it's perfectly valid for her to say

our nation voted slightly differently, we want to have our own

input, and that alongside already arguments about if the government

needs to seek parliament's approval to invoke Article 50, whether

Article 50 is reversible. There are so many questions around Brexit

remaining. There is also the issue that constitutionally it's very much

in the interests of Wales and Scotland to act in this way, because

it very much will affect their constitution if we are in or outside

of the EU. Exactly, it affects them constitutionally but this is the

very purpose, they are there to represent the people of Scotland and

Wales. As this story points out, 62% of people in Scotland voted to

remain. It's not even a slightly different view from the rest of the

UK, it's a hugely different view to the rest of the UK. This is very

much Nicola Sturgeon's moment to that view forward. The paper has a

QC writing today saying this could explode the cosy consensus that the

two year process for leaving the EU cannot be undone. We are slightly

shooting in the dark. Nobody understands how this process is

going to play out. But the fact gives Scotland and Wales an

opportunity to put a spanner in the works... A goes on to say that if,

this is really getting ahead of ourselves, if Nicola Sturgeon went

to the European Court of Justice, we are only way from that everybody, it

would leave the door ajar if she was successful at the ECJ for the entire

of the UK to stay in the EU and she could use it as a bargaining chip.

Couldn't she does? The SNP trying to leverage. One minute left to discuss

something that brought joy to my heart last weekend. The Daily

Mirror, Ed can win it. This is one of the former judges on Strictly

saying Ed Balls and his great entertainment value... But is he a

dancer? He is an entertainer. I wouldn't say his dancing is the best

on the show, but he's the one everyone looks forward to. If I tune

in on a Saturday night, I hope he makes it all the way to the final.

You are not the Strictly fan but I think you have to look at diplomat.

I am almost tempted to watch it. You must. OK. That is it to the papers.

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Thank you Katie Martin and Lucy Fisher.

I hope you enjoyed it, you seemed to! I hope you come back. Lucy, nice

to see you again. We have the weather in a minute and then the

headlines. Good evening. The cold and wintry

theme continues for the next couple of days, for much of the week ahead.

But wet and windy weather on the cards for later