:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are Ben Riley-Smith, Assistant Political Editor
:00:23. > :00:23.at The Daily Telegraph and Lindsay Razaq.
:00:24. > :00:25.Westminster Correspondent at the Scottish newspaper,
:00:26. > :00:34.Let's look at some of the front pages.
:00:35. > :00:36.The Telegraph says tonight's Brexit vote in the Commons has handed
:00:37. > :00:43.Theresa May a 'blank cheque' for leaving the EU.
:00:44. > :00:46.The Prime Minister's victory also dominates the front of the i -
:00:47. > :00:49.it says the government will now set out a strategic Brexit plan.
:00:50. > :00:54.And the most jubilant headline on the story comes from the Express.
:00:55. > :00:59.The Financial Times reports on the deal to save the Tata
:01:00. > :01:01.Steelworks in Port Talbot, which will keep the blast
:01:02. > :01:05.An image of the out-going HMS Illustrious dominates
:01:06. > :01:10.the front of the Times, which also has a story
:01:11. > :01:17.on consultancy companies earning billions from overseas aid.
:01:18. > :01:20.And the Metro leads on the fines handed down to two pharmaceutical
:01:21. > :01:24.companies for over-charging the NHS for drugs.
:01:25. > :01:34.We are going to start, where else, with Brexit. Lindsay, victory for
:01:35. > :01:37.the promised, the Commons backs her, and MPs show support for Downing
:01:38. > :01:42.Street on Article 50. There is no going back now, it is going to
:01:43. > :01:47.happen. That is what the Brexiteers would
:01:48. > :01:51.like to think. It has been a significant day, a significant vote
:01:52. > :01:57.in the House of Commons today. It is the first time MPs have shown
:01:58. > :02:01.support for Article 50. Clever politics from Theresa May. It came
:02:02. > :02:05.from a Labour motion calling on the government to publish its plan for
:02:06. > :02:09.Brexit. She was fearful of a rebellion from the backbenches, and
:02:10. > :02:15.came in with an amendment of her own, which said, yes, OK, but in
:02:16. > :02:25.exchange, we want you to commit to our timetable for Brexit, Article 50
:02:26. > :02:30.being triggered. It gives her breathing space.
:02:31. > :02:36.A bit of breathing space, Ben, the fact is we have a few months before
:02:37. > :02:39.31st March, there could be a lot of pitfalls and barriers, and hurdles
:02:40. > :02:43.up to that point. For instance, the Labour motion said they wanted a
:02:44. > :02:51.plan. That plan has got to be detailed enough, hasn't it? To
:02:52. > :02:55.satisfy those critics who feel the party, the Tory party is not putting
:02:56. > :02:57.out enough details as to what it is going to do.
:02:58. > :03:01.That is one of the big question is, we are in a big spin operation after
:03:02. > :03:11.the vote to work out what it means, which side has won. Whatever happens
:03:12. > :03:18.in the Supreme Court, whatever legislation, whatever decision is
:03:19. > :03:23.taken, the others are saying, hang on, there needs to be a piece of
:03:24. > :03:28.legislation, that is what we are arguing for in the Supreme Court.
:03:29. > :03:34.The second is how detail should the plan be? Labour appear to want to
:03:35. > :03:37.say, do you want to be in and out of the customs union, the single
:03:38. > :03:48.market, be specific about what you want. You can imagine, Theresa May
:03:49. > :03:56.will keep it broadbrush. Some conservatives? Ken Clarke voted
:03:57. > :04:01.against. One conservative. He voted against the government
:04:02. > :04:04.today. He is a well-known Europhile, which is not surprising. Others that
:04:05. > :04:12.did back the Prime Minister, it might not prevent them from being
:04:13. > :04:16.vocal, the Lib Dems are demanding a vote on the final referendum on the
:04:17. > :04:19.final deal, so people know they voted to leave, but now they want to
:04:20. > :04:25.know what the next stage will be. They want to have a vote on that.
:04:26. > :04:29.The pressure isn't going to go away. I suppose it is a momentary pause
:04:30. > :04:37.for her where she can reflect and think, OK, this is under my belt.
:04:38. > :04:40.Fact is, critics, the Labour Party, Plaid Cymru, they might say that
:04:41. > :04:48.there is not enough detail, they want a Bill. We will get to the
:04:49. > :04:52.Supreme Court in a minute. We know it has to be done by 31st March, we
:04:53. > :04:55.have agreed to that, but they could be big problems.
:04:56. > :04:59.It becomes incredibly hard labour and the critics which is where
:05:00. > :05:03.Theresa May has been clever. She has said, you backed 5-1 that we should
:05:04. > :05:08.begin the talks, if they begin to amendments down saying, OK, we are
:05:09. > :05:12.not going to talk again until you reveal the plan, she will ask why?
:05:13. > :05:17.You are undermining the agreement that we made a couple of weeks ago.
:05:18. > :05:20.It is hard for Labour to say, yes, we will force you to reveal the
:05:21. > :05:24.plan, but agree that you have total authority to begin it.
:05:25. > :05:29.Keir Starmer initiated the motion in the first place. Although Labour
:05:30. > :05:32.will claim it as a victory, it has backfired a little bit, potentially.
:05:33. > :05:37.The papers seem to think it has backfired. They are talking about as
:05:38. > :05:49.we talk about the Daily Telegraph, MP s hand made blank check for
:05:50. > :05:55.Brexit. Whatever happens in the Supreme Court, it doesn't matter.
:05:56. > :05:59.In theory, it does, because the vote we had today in Parliament isn't
:06:00. > :06:07.binding. It is utterly meaningless. In reality, it is not. But if the
:06:08. > :06:10.Supreme Court says she has two consult parliament before triggering
:06:11. > :06:15.Article 50, we have to have a Bill. I understand the government has
:06:16. > :06:20.prepared a three line Bill on the back burner in case they are obliged
:06:21. > :06:27.to do this. Even one of the justices is conceding that it would appear
:06:28. > :06:33.odd now if the Supreme Court were to say, "This is what we think". That
:06:34. > :06:38.is in contradiction to what the MPs have voted.
:06:39. > :06:43.You can see the way the Tories are beginning to put it, the Brexiteers,
:06:44. > :06:47.the Supreme Court ruling is now irrelevant. Iain Duncan Smith saying
:06:48. > :06:51.the government have a blank cheque. They are saying, case closed, job
:06:52. > :06:56.done, move on. The numbers are interesting. Like you said earlier,
:06:57. > :07:02.5-1, backed exit. If you look at Labour, this year, who has been the
:07:03. > :07:05.party with the biggest split over Europe, the Tories will thought one
:07:06. > :07:10.Tory refused to vote with the government. Most of Labour voted
:07:11. > :07:14.with them, 50 Labour MPs refusing to take a decision, and 23 Labour MPs
:07:15. > :07:20.voting against the motion. They are the most spit party.
:07:21. > :07:24.Why are we surprised at the size of the victory here? I was going to say
:07:25. > :07:26.that no one in their right mind, there was Tim Farron and others
:07:27. > :07:32.saying we should have a second referendum. The bottom line is, the
:07:33. > :07:35.vast majority of people did not say, we should overturn the will of the
:07:36. > :07:40.British people, and rerun the whole thing, they didn't.
:07:41. > :07:44.And remember, the key thing is that MPs are accountable at the ballot
:07:45. > :07:47.box. If you are at an MP in a constituency that is proper exit,
:07:48. > :07:51.you cannot stand up in Parliament and say your constituents are wrong.
:07:52. > :07:55.Anyone that wants to get elected again shouldn't be doing that.
:07:56. > :08:02.What these headlines are suggesting is that there was nervous and is on
:08:03. > :08:10.the part of Brexiteers that there could be some mechanism whereby the
:08:11. > :08:14.vote was overturned -- nervousness. That was seriously real.
:08:15. > :08:20.The greater fear was not that the vote would be overturned, that was
:08:21. > :08:23.the ultimate fear. It is two fold, one that they could use the vote to
:08:24. > :08:27.force Theresa May to be really specific about what she wants. Once
:08:28. > :08:31.she is public with that, they can chip away at it. The second one is,
:08:32. > :08:36.can you delay the process by withholding their support? Maybe she
:08:37. > :08:41.will miss her March deadline. Those two things become less likely with
:08:42. > :08:44.this boat. They are not out of the woods yet.
:08:45. > :08:49.The mention of the devolved nations, we heard from the lawyer for the
:08:50. > :08:52.Scottish Government, who is arguing that there should be a vote in
:08:53. > :09:00.Holyrood as well. Is that going to fly?
:09:01. > :09:03.We will have to wait and see. We are going to prejudge the most
:09:04. > :09:08.eminent minds in the Supreme Court, it is worth a go on the part of the
:09:09. > :09:13.SNP, no question about that. Let's go to Tata Steel. On the face of it,
:09:14. > :09:18.Ben, a good news story. Thousands of jobs look as though they will be
:09:19. > :09:22.saved. As with businesses up and down the land, the pension scheme
:09:23. > :09:27.has been the real stumbling block here. That seems to have been taken
:09:28. > :09:35.out of the equation now because the old scheme is the past.
:09:36. > :09:39.It is such a turnaround from when the announcement seemed sudden when
:09:40. > :09:43.the plant could be closed. The government was caught on the hop.
:09:44. > :09:48.Sajid Javid came in for criticism because he was abroad when the
:09:49. > :09:53.announcement was made. Critics said this looks fantastic on the face of
:09:54. > :09:57.it, 1 billion over the next ten years, 8000 jobs secured until 2021.
:09:58. > :10:02.The sticking point, I think, will be the pension scheme. Tata Steel are
:10:03. > :10:09.saying let's close the ?15 billion pension scheme that was spiralling
:10:10. > :10:13.away. Let's replace it with a new contributory scheme. It has not yet
:10:14. > :10:19.gone to the trade union, so we are only halfway there, which is why
:10:20. > :10:21.Greg Clark is cautious. Let's wait and see. On the face of it, very
:10:22. > :10:27.good news. Indeed. What the steel industry is
:10:28. > :10:30.saying is that Tata Steel have moved a long way here, secured some jobs,
:10:31. > :10:36.now the government has got to step in. Got to deal with Chinese
:10:37. > :10:41.dumping, deal with green energy, taxes, corporation tax, energy
:10:42. > :10:45.costs, a whole host of things. The head of UK steel was telling me
:10:46. > :10:49.tonight that he hasn't heard, as part of Theresa May's industrial
:10:50. > :10:51.policy, an idea of where steel fits in, and that is what he wants to
:10:52. > :10:57.hear. There has not been a huge amount of
:10:58. > :11:00.detail with strategy, as with the Brexit plan. Certainly, the
:11:01. > :11:04.government will be under pressure off the back of this because there
:11:05. > :11:08.is momentum with this. Theresa May has stood outside Downing Street and
:11:09. > :11:13.said she is on the side of ordinary, working people, as she called it,
:11:14. > :11:16.the people that are just about managing. These are the very people
:11:17. > :11:21.she is talking about when she says that. There will be pressure for her
:11:22. > :11:26.to do more. All right, OK. Back to the
:11:27. > :11:29.Telegraph, commuters on rail strike line lose job offers, what is this
:11:30. > :11:31.about? Extraordinary story, the problems at
:11:32. > :11:35.Southern Rail have been well but committed, terrible delays, people
:11:36. > :11:40.spending hours getting to work and getting home. We are seeing some of
:11:41. > :11:44.the terrible repercussions but that is having on people. Specifically,
:11:45. > :11:48.job offers are being removed when employees here that the people they
:11:49. > :11:54.were going to employ are travelling on Southern Rail. There is a woman
:11:55. > :12:05.who is an IT Trainer quoted in the paper, telling me could not have the
:12:06. > :12:09.role because users Southern Rail. This person has done nothing more,
:12:10. > :12:12.they may be perfectly qualified, the problems of somebody else, other
:12:13. > :12:17.than them, has stripped them of the chance of getting a is worrying.
:12:18. > :12:20.It is horrific. If you are a boss, the point of having a worker is that
:12:21. > :12:25.they will come and be able to do the job on time and when he you require
:12:26. > :12:29.them to do so. If that cannot be guaranteed because the trains are
:12:30. > :12:32.rubbish, what are you going to do? It does seem extraordinarily harsh
:12:33. > :12:35.that people are being dismissed as candidates, they might be the best
:12:36. > :12:39.candidate going, but may be dismissed because of this. If you
:12:40. > :12:43.are the boss, you are counting the pennies, and you have to make sure
:12:44. > :12:46.your employees are at work on time. In one sense, I guess, it could be
:12:47. > :12:50.perceived as reasonable. When I first read it, I wondered if,
:12:51. > :12:56.legally, employers can disconnect on this basis. I don't know if there is
:12:57. > :13:00.an illegal reason. Any lawyers out there, if Lord
:13:01. > :13:04.Pannick is watching, tell us what is going on with this story.
:13:05. > :13:10.The Metro, we have a little picture in the corner, Donald Trump, Person
:13:11. > :13:16.of the year on the cover of Time magazine. There he is on the front
:13:17. > :13:22.of the Metro. He is Person of the year. That picture is taken from the
:13:23. > :13:28.front page of Time. There it is will stop he is upset lips is who is that
:13:29. > :13:33.fellow? Is it a contributor from the United States? He is upset that at
:13:34. > :13:41.the bottom of Time magazine it says that Donald Trump is president of a
:13:42. > :13:45.divided States of America. He is suggesting that he did not divide
:13:46. > :13:47.America, he is bringing America back together.
:13:48. > :13:52.I don't think he would argue that it is divided, that is essentially the
:13:53. > :13:58.reason why he won. But he is taking issue with the reason, I guess,
:13:59. > :14:01.behind it. He did say it was a great honour, but has taken issue with
:14:02. > :14:06.that description of him, unsurprising really. It is like Time
:14:07. > :14:12.magazine having their cake and eating it, giving it to the
:14:13. > :14:15.controversial person and... the editor said it was a
:14:16. > :14:19.straightforward decision, and a choice of the person that has had
:14:20. > :14:24.the greatest influence on events for better or worse.
:14:25. > :14:32.If you speak to Nigel for while -- he beat Nigel Farage to the title.
:14:33. > :14:37.Donald Trump call the list a joke in 2014.
:14:38. > :14:40.No one is surprised any more. Thank you so much for the stories and
:14:41. > :14:45.headlines, many thanks for that. Stay with us on BBC News.
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:15:00. > :15:12.Thank you to you for watching. Goodbye.
:15:13. > :15:19.Good evening. The last 36 hours has felt like going from early winter to