:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:22.With me are Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent
:00:23. > :00:24.at the Telegraph and Martha Gill, Political Reporter at
:00:25. > :00:34.The Times has news that a state-run Chinese company is the largest
:00:35. > :00:38.provider of CCTV equipment to UK clients.
:00:39. > :00:43.The Financial times leads with the decision to go ahead
:00:44. > :00:47.with the new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
:00:48. > :00:53.The Metro devotes its front page to a shooting in London,
:00:54. > :00:55.where the victim was the mother of nine children.
:00:56. > :00:59.that UKIP members want Nigel Farage to return and lead the Party -
:01:00. > :01:02.he stepped down after the vote to leave the European Union
:01:03. > :01:07.The Telegraph leads with the news that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
:01:08. > :01:11.has re-affirmed his long-standing opposition to building a third
:01:12. > :01:18.The Daily Mirror reports that police looking for the missing
:01:19. > :01:20.child Ben Needham have made a breakthrough.
:01:21. > :01:24.The toddler disappeared in 1991 on the Greek island of Kos.
:01:25. > :01:27.And the guardian says that UK companies paid out a record
:01:28. > :01:38.?44 billion in bonuses last year So let's begin...
:01:39. > :01:46.Let's start with the story dominating today which is China
:01:47. > :01:49.getting a green light to power Britain. It may not be the headline
:01:50. > :01:55.all the papers would have chosen, but what do you make of this deal,
:01:56. > :02:01.Martha? This is the deal to put a power station at Hinkley Point. It
:02:02. > :02:07.was put on a pause by Theresa May for a few months and was originally
:02:08. > :02:08.put in place by George Osborne as part of its programme of
:02:09. > :02:19.strengthening relations with China. It would have been a disaster for
:02:20. > :02:29.our relationship with China if it had not gone ahead, but people today
:02:30. > :02:35.said it is an economic disaster. It will cost us ?30 million estimated
:02:36. > :02:41.over the lifetime of this plant and other energy sources are expected to
:02:42. > :02:47.be a lot cheaper. Value for money, Kate? And the political point of
:02:48. > :02:50.view? Is difficult to say if it is value for money, because we are
:02:51. > :02:54.trying to predict how much energy we will need in the future, what type
:02:55. > :02:59.and also what the cost of it will be energy sources are already becoming
:03:00. > :03:05.more difficult, so the prices are higher. This is predict is open in
:03:06. > :03:09.2025 and that may not happen. It's also the first big decision of
:03:10. > :03:13.Theresa May's Premiership. It is a difficult one and is opposed by many
:03:14. > :03:18.people for different reasons. It was always going to be hard for her. It
:03:19. > :03:22.would be almost impossible for her to reverse it at the point it has
:03:23. > :03:26.got to now, so it's a case of wait and see, though there are concerns
:03:27. > :03:30.that the technology will be out of date by the time it finally comes
:03:31. > :03:34.online, so it's very difficult to call whether it is good value for
:03:35. > :03:37.money at this point. I don't think we will know. But as with big
:03:38. > :03:44.infrastructure projects, they always go over Budget and take longer than
:03:45. > :03:51.expected. Interesting. Let us move on to the Financial Times. Their
:03:52. > :03:54.headline, further interest rain -- rate cuts remain despite the Bank of
:03:55. > :04:00.England and their bright outlook. Mark Carney has had to row back a
:04:01. > :04:07.bit from the gloom he predicted in the wake of Brexit, hasn't he? Well,
:04:08. > :04:15.he started the row back as soon as the Brexit vote was announced,
:04:16. > :04:19.trying to do it in a calming voice. What's happened now is despite the
:04:20. > :04:24.Bank of England having said that things are working, that the
:04:25. > :04:27.situation might not be quite as gloomy as we think, they say a
:04:28. > :04:33.further interest rate cut is still on the cards, which suggests that
:04:34. > :04:39.some people in the industry have been saying, that once they trigger
:04:40. > :04:45.article 50, a recession is on the way and this doesn't completely rule
:04:46. > :04:49.that out. Be done about business investment in the long term, but
:04:50. > :04:55.consumer spending has held up. I don't know if that's to do with a
:04:56. > :04:59.sunny weather. Possibly, but nobody knows. I think that's what the bank
:05:00. > :05:05.are all so saying, they can cut interest rates, but not saying
:05:06. > :05:09.they're going to do either. Consumer spending is better than expected,
:05:10. > :05:12.but people were told over and over that Brexit would trigger world War
:05:13. > :05:17.three and that hasn't happened of course, but we haven't left the EU
:05:18. > :05:22.yet. The crunch point will come in two years when we will really see
:05:23. > :05:26.the impact. Business investment as it says is expected to slow more
:05:27. > :05:30.sharply than consumer spending and that is a worry, because businesses
:05:31. > :05:32.employ a lot of people in the UK, so what does that mean for jobs? If you
:05:33. > :05:49.think about it in the round, if you're going to cut rates
:05:50. > :05:52.again, that's good for people spending, then offer people saving.
:05:53. > :05:55.If you have a situation where people are not getting much money back on
:05:56. > :05:57.their savings or able to invest, you could possibly end up with a
:05:58. > :06:00.situation where if people lose their jobs, it impacts upon them twice and
:06:01. > :06:02.the Bank of England are saying we could be in a brighter position, but
:06:03. > :06:05.it could worsen. So it is unpredictable. Good news according
:06:06. > :06:09.to the Financial Times for the Scottish whiskey industry.
:06:10. > :06:15.Presumably because the weaker pound is good for exports? Yes, we can all
:06:16. > :06:22.be proud of that. You criticising our choice of refreshment this
:06:23. > :06:27.evening? Yes. Although there is a slight warning point to note in this
:06:28. > :06:34.small article here, because it says although the value... No, that's
:06:35. > :06:41.wrong. Although the value of exports have risen, the value has dipped. We
:06:42. > :06:49.are exporting more, but getting less money back, so that's not ideal.
:06:50. > :06:54.Let's move on to the Daily Express. And this somewhat bizarre headline
:06:55. > :07:00.says amazing bid to keep Nigel Farage. Could it happen? They want
:07:01. > :07:05.to keep him as the leader of Ukip. The new leader is supposed to be
:07:06. > :07:10.announced tomorrow. It sounds like something out of a Roald Dahl book.
:07:11. > :07:16.The article points out there are some Ukip voters spoiling their
:07:17. > :07:20.ballot paper and writing, please Nigel, come back. He didn't rule it
:07:21. > :07:24.out when he quit a few months ago saying he wanted to spend more time
:07:25. > :07:28.with his family do personal things. He did say if it looks like the
:07:29. > :07:32.Government are making a mess of Brexit I will come back in 2020 and
:07:33. > :07:37.five for the best deal possible. So I would not be surprised if he came
:07:38. > :07:50.back, but I would be surprised if it happened this weekend. Ukip are
:07:51. > :07:53.about to elect a new leader. It won't be Douglas Carswell, he is the
:07:54. > :07:55.party's only MP and Nigel has said tonight he can't understand why he
:07:56. > :07:58.is in the party, you doesn't agree with anything we say, so he almost
:07:59. > :08:01.seems uncomfortable about being a Ukip MP. So it feels like a
:08:02. > :08:09.last-ditch, I'm going to have my final say before I bow completely.
:08:10. > :08:15.Can you see him doing that? Well, you certainly been able to
:08:16. > :08:21.reincarnate himself from certain disasters, but what is true is he
:08:22. > :08:25.will remain a shadowy presence in Ukip, particularly if Diana James
:08:26. > :08:33.who is currently the favourite, winners the plays. She is very much
:08:34. > :08:37.a Nigel Farage fan. Indeed in her announcement she said she didn't
:08:38. > :08:40.even want to be leader. The next four said let's keep everything the
:08:41. > :08:46.same as it was under Nigel. So we can expect to see something of him
:08:47. > :08:52.in the party. We will await the announcement tomorrow afternoon. On
:08:53. > :09:00.to the Telegraph. EU exploits are reinforced -- forced rethink on
:09:01. > :09:07.Brexit. This suggests senior figures in the EU are playing hardball with
:09:08. > :09:12.Britain in order to force them to rethink Brexit. The likelihood of
:09:13. > :09:22.that is uncertain, Theresa May certainly means business about that,
:09:23. > :09:26.we don't need to repeat her phrase. But the mood has been soured by
:09:27. > :09:35.Nigel Farage, who I think all of one of the senior delegates seated. I
:09:36. > :09:42.can't see them coming to an agreement any time soon. I think
:09:43. > :09:45.Theresa May's plan to say very little about Brexit is that when you
:09:46. > :09:49.say something very little about something everyone is talking about,
:09:50. > :09:54.it allows the other side to fill the gap and the vacuum, so we have seen
:09:55. > :10:00.it happen to Theresa May on her own backbenchers wet Tory MPs started to
:10:01. > :10:04.define the terms of Brexit might mean and Theresa May has been clear
:10:05. > :10:09.that Brexit means Brexit, buzzwords tell us any more. But the EU is now
:10:10. > :10:13.talking about what I could look like and if you don't trigger article 50
:10:14. > :10:17.quickly, then we are going to define the terms. All the other 27
:10:18. > :10:21.countries are meeting without us for the first time, that will be a big
:10:22. > :10:25.occasion, we will be in the room and won't know what will happen. David
:10:26. > :10:31.Cameron warned us about that before we left. So unless Theresa May is
:10:32. > :10:35.able to set out the terms, we will see more of these stories and we may
:10:36. > :10:40.see the rhetoric and conversation about Brexit slinking towards a
:10:41. > :10:45.hard-line EU position of we won't compromise, despite the fact Theresa
:10:46. > :10:51.May keep same Brexit will be good for the UK, we will make a go of it.
:10:52. > :11:00.Let us move on to the Guardian, a picture of Hillary Clinton, back on
:11:01. > :11:05.the Trail. It led me to wonder, there's been so much focus in this
:11:06. > :11:10.presidential campaign on the health of Hillary Clinton and on Donald
:11:11. > :11:13.Trump. Can you see a time when our politicians are going to have to
:11:14. > :11:19.reveal all about the medical history? Is certainly seemed very
:11:20. > :11:24.uncomfortable, is not something we've seen before, but there's been
:11:25. > :11:28.a lot of focus on and speculation on politicians and their health. Nigel
:11:29. > :11:34.Farage, he was certainly under a lot of scrutiny during the elections.
:11:35. > :11:41.He's complained of bad health. And I suppose with the new desire for
:11:42. > :11:49.transparency that we see -- have seen in the last few weeks, this is
:11:50. > :11:51.a possibility in the future. I wouldn't rule out anything anymore.
:11:52. > :11:57.My favourite part of the article was right at the bottom when it says
:11:58. > :12:01.Donald Trump exercises because his speeches are so hot they are like a
:12:02. > :12:08.sauna. So that's a form of exercise for him. Maybe that is the answer to
:12:09. > :12:11.the obesity crisis. Now the Daily Mail and pictures of Ringo Starr and
:12:12. > :12:20.Paul McCartney because there is a new documentary about the Beatles.
:12:21. > :12:25.You can see what they have done with the headline. I hate to say it, but
:12:26. > :12:30.-- but it is nice to see men are being criticised for their parents
:12:31. > :12:35.on the front page. I know it won't do much for equality, but these are
:12:36. > :12:39.two men who are still well celebrate, but we are focusing on
:12:40. > :12:44.their hair colour, which is what happens to women almost every day of
:12:45. > :12:50.the week. So I think it is a bit of a high five moment. Thank you. All
:12:51. > :12:59.the front pages are on a line on the BBC News website where can you --
:13:00. > :13:05.you can read a detailed review. You can see as their with each night's
:13:06. > :13:07.edition published shortly after we have finished. Thank you to my
:13:08. > :13:13.guests. Goodbye.