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On this weeks meet the author, will be speaking | :00:00. | :00:28. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
With me are Jim Waterson of Buzzfeed UK and Tim Stanley | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
a grim outlook for Europe is headlined on the Express, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
quoting a warning from Angela Merkel's deputy, | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
of the consequences if Brexit is badly handled. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
The Telegraph says Theresa May has given pro-EU | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
civil servants their marching orders, | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
telling them to get on with the delivering Brexit. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
between the Prime Minister and China over the nuclear | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
While the i has a special report on the influence | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
The Scottish Daily Mail accuses Sir Philip Green of blackmail, | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
saying he's willing to clear BHS's pension deficit if the watchdogs | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
on the spread of Zika in across Asia. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
It says 41 cases have been confirmed in Singapore alone. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Bank Holiday Monday could ignite a heatwave. | :01:14. | :01:26. | |
I just want a bit of rain, a tiny bit! It has hit many places in the | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
UK but not my garden! This a little bit would be nice. Much more | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
important matters to discuss, such as Brexit, The Times, leading on | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Theresa May's thoughts on the Hinckley deal, this is the nuclear | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
power station that was just about to see the exchange of contract, she | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
was just through the door of Downing Street, and they said, let's have a | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
think about this, a cooling off period. The Times are talking about | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
how her attempts to unpick this deal, years in the making, macro | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
energy -- EDF weather company involved, Chinese officials were | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
even planning to sign the contract, at a big ceremony, it was the night | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
before when she pulled the plug and said she wanted to have a think | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
about this. It is all about whether she is comfortable with Chinese | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
businesses having access to our nuclear projects and whether we need | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
to be worried about serious global power having that sort of | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
information and involvement in our national infrastructure in nuclear | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
power. We need all of those things but do we want it in one big | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
project, especially when we could wait a little bit longer and perhaps | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
invest in smaller nuclear plants, which could be applied locally and | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
provide electricity within a certain region. It is not just security, it | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
is the price tag as well, quoted that when she called Francois | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Hollande, the French are part of this deal, to explain the decision, | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
she said, it is my method, my method to go through everything, line by | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
line. That matches what we know about her, she has been Prime | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Minister for only a few weeks, we are discovering what kind of Prime | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
Minister she is. Meticulous. We knew that she had these concerns when she | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
was Home Secretary, she raised them with George Osborne on a number of | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
occasions and this was dismissed, was nothing new. This was what she | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
was saying when she was the Home Secretary. If we had the Tory | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
leadership election, which could be going on, David Cameron would be | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Prime Minister for another couple of weeks and this would have been | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
signed, and we would be building it already. Last-minute, this project | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
started at the tail end of the Gordon Brown government, it has been | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
going on that long, finally, all the civil servants who spent six, seven | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
years to get this, new person in charge, final person to sign off, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
they have changed their mind, it is telling that this is yet another | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
thing where they are happy to rip up what went on in the previous | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
government. George Osborne pet project, the member state visit, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
when you're all of the stops, and already, complete change. The | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
message from the UK Government, China, come here, invest in what you | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
want, we need your money, we want to be first in. If you look at the | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
front page of this newspaper, the rise of China in Britain, they say, | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
this is what she's worried about, she's concerned that China has too | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
much of a stake in United businesses and energy. The figures are | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
extraordinary, 3.8 billion spent on mergers and acquisitions, the pace | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and investment is up nearly 500% in 60 is, China is becoming a major | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
investor. -- in six years. There is not just a security risk but an | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
economic risk, we rely so much on investment from China, which is a | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
fledgling economy, not a completely strong economy, a lot of the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
investment comes from state-run businesses. A lot of issues when it | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
comes to trade with China, the other thing to bear in mind, the human | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
rights record. When we get so close, drawn into the economic orbit of | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
China, it comes with it, brings with it so many other bigger ethical | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
issues and worries that other countries do not. Speaking of big | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
issues, Brexit, very much re-emerging on the front pages over | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
the weekend, particularly what is going on within the cabinet, the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
civil service as well. Moving on to the Telegraph, Theresa May telling | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
civil servants to get on with Brexit, there is going to be a big | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
meeting. At Chequers, awayday, you have been away on a summer break, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
you have got to come up with a fuel ideas to impress the boss when you | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
come back! LAUGHTER Going around the table, and you get | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
to the end, and you think, he has already said what I was going to | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
say! What do I do? LAUGHTER Easy to forget that Theresa May | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
technically campaign for remain, she seems to be wholeheartedly embracing | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Brexit now. -- Remain. She is the Prime Minister of a country which is | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
voted out. We do not know what it will look like but this is | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
interesting, her team will keep briefing the stories out there, full | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
steam ahead... Whatever it means, they do not quite know but they want | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
to get the word out to the public that she is committed. You speak to | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
the source is more than I do, different sources from different | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
cabinet departments, not all of them necessarily getting on, do you | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
get... Do you get a sense that the sources are leaking information for | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
their own benefit? Of course, 75% of the cabinet ministers asked to | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
present how you make Brexit work were against it, you have that | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
problem. Secondly, three departments will be directly in charge, they are | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
foreign, the new office for Brexiteer and the new Department for | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
International trade. In those three you have three very big | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
personalities, who do not gel, and the word is coming up from those | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
departments that they are already fighting over staff. Effectively | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
fighting over who gets the biggest desk. Who is going to be running | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Brexit. Already, apparently, the heads of the Department, Liam Fox, | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
David Davies and Boris Johnson have been called together for a meeting | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
to get back together and get on with it. There is going to be a lot of | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
jockeying over this. If it is not handled properly, the Daily | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Express... A certain gentleman in Germany has warned... A lot of | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
quotes from them, this weekend. Angela Merkel's deputy, warning that | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
if the UK got everything it wanted, other countries could leave the EU, | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Europe could go down the drain. That make sense, if the EU gives Britain | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
a good deal, that would encourage others to follow suit, I don't see | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
the incentives for the other remaining countries. Could it affect | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
the EU economy of Britain is given a bad deal? But they cannot make it a | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
palatable option otherwise it would be encouraging every other country | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
which has considered splitting or holding a referendum doing something | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
similar. Germany would say this because it is entering a period of | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
negotiation, when you do that, you don't begin by saying, whatever | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Britain gets will be great for all of us... No, you say, if we give | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
them what they want, the sky will fall in, they want Britain to water | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
down their demands. David Davis's famous list of what he expects to | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
get is a markedly optimistic, the idea that you can have free | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
movement, retain access to the single market, you will not get | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
these deals easily. This is the same day in which German sources also | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
said that Ttip is out of the window and is not going to happen. Thank | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
goodness we left, that is why we need to leave, Bees has left the | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
queue we were at the back of, now we are one ahead of them. They are | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
bound to say this sort of thing. They do not want negotiations to go | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
on. -- TTIP. Before we came on air, Angela Merkel has said that the EU | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
is letting down refugees, more cracks in what is meant to be a | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
union. The Scottish Daily Mail, lovely picture there, the main | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
story, Sir Phillip Green. The newspaper accusing them of | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
blackmail. This is over the pension pot hole. This is damage limitation, | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
the damage has been done, he has got to save his knighthood. The final | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
BHS doors have been shut, that has come to an end, and now there is the | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
issue of all of these investigations, he has been very | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
clear, picking fights with people who have been probing into BHS, | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
Frank Field, Labour MP, who has been to particularly critical, Phillip | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Green has given as good as he has got, this is a man, despite all his | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
wealth, much of it in his wife's name, it tends to do most of his PR | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
himself, on his Nokia 33 ten, taking calls on a battered old mobile phone | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
and dealing with journalists quite directly. -- Nokia 3310. He is not | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
used to dealing with this level of scrutiny, and now it is all about... | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
He's tried to cut a deal. Cut a deal rather than blackmail? That is how | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
he would perceive it, this is what comes naturally to them, there is | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
always a solution. He may have to take his public humiliation. The | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
people I feel for, the people who work for BHS. I heard... I read a | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
lovely story, on Twitter, a lot of Department stores around the country | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
are offering work, even if it is part-time, two members of BHS staff. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
It is nice that the high street is coming together, you feel for the | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
people. The Financial Times, scary story, BBC News reported on a model | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
that scientist had created on the spread of the Zika virus, reading | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
the FT tomorrow, that model has come to light, it is spreading, where | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
they said it would spread, we were worried about it ruining the | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Olympics, but in fact, probably a bigger issue. It is like a zombie | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
apocalypse movie, fleeing from one country, and they find a dead | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
walking in another, in the case the Zika virus, it turns out they have | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
confirmed 41 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus in Singapore, | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
will this be linked to Rio? I don't know, when I heard that it was that | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
safe to go if you take precautions, that was a risk, some athletes chose | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
not to go, it has spread to Florida, this is a disease which as a world | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
we will have to accept is not just Latin American, it will get to | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Africa as well. I know a journalist working in Rio, they got the Zika | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
virus, it had travelled to another couple of countries before he was | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
even diagnosed. We do not know how easily it spreads through sexual | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
relations and so forth, but clearly it can spread beyond just being | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
local, now we know that. We have got to find some way of dealing with | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
that. The race is on to get a vaccine, money has already been put | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
into that, although it is amazing, even with air travel and all the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
rest, how well we can contain these things, bird flu, above, horrifying, | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
amazingly contained within a couple of years. -- Ebola. We are amazingly | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
good when we pull resources to contain one thing, shutting these | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
things down. -- pool. That is it for this edition of the newspapers, we | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
will do it all again in one hour's time. | :13:23. | :13:27. |