:00:16. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our local head to what the papers will be bringing
:00:20. > :00:22.us tomorrow. With me are former Labour adviser
:00:23. > :00:24.and comedian Ayesha Hazarika and Neil Midgley,
:00:25. > :00:30.media commentator at the Telegraph. Metro leads with
:00:31. > :00:32.Boris Johnson's comments France's president was behaving
:00:33. > :00:40.like a WWII camp guard over Brexit. The same story is on
:00:41. > :00:43.the Express front page. The newspaper also
:00:44. > :00:44.quotes David Davis, the Brexit Secretary said
:00:45. > :00:47.he would stand up to the EU if it threatened Britain with
:00:48. > :00:49.retaliation over leaving. Britain's informal trade
:00:50. > :00:53.negotiations is a Telegraph lead. According to the paper's sources,
:00:54. > :00:55.ministers and officials are in talks with 12 countries,
:00:56. > :00:58.including China, India, Australia and South Korea,
:00:59. > :01:15.as well as Middle Eastern nations The Guardian leads on President
:01:16. > :01:16.Obama's explanation of why he commuted the prison sentence of
:01:17. > :01:25.former US soldier Chelsea Manning. We are going to get into that use
:01:26. > :01:32.conference in a moment, but first the Metro, Ayesha, EU fury at Boris
:01:33. > :01:35.Nazi dig, what on earth is this about?! Yesterday we were having
:01:36. > :01:38.Theresa May saying that we were going to take a very constructive
:01:39. > :01:46.approach with our Brexit negotiations. Right... That seems to
:01:47. > :01:52.have come to a bit of an abrupt halt today! Because Boris Johnson likened
:01:53. > :01:57.Hollande, President Hollande of France, to being like a World War II
:01:58. > :02:00.guard, and ministering punishment beatings to anyone chooses to
:02:01. > :02:05.escape. Has not gone down well particularly well with our friends
:02:06. > :02:15.in Europe, the lead negotiator has called his comments abhorrent, but
:02:16. > :02:20.Theresa May's people are saying it is all fine. We know they do not
:02:21. > :02:25.think it is all fine. I think they probably do think it is fine. I
:02:26. > :02:29.think they have taken a calculation that this will probably work for the
:02:30. > :02:33.people that they needed to work for, the people that they needed the
:02:34. > :02:40.speech to talk to yesterday. Only at the weekend we were still calling
:02:41. > :02:47.our esteemed president Theresa Maybe. She has shown in her speech
:02:48. > :02:53.that there is a Thatcherite backbone that we never knew she had. As she
:02:54. > :02:59.talks us out of the single market. And then Boris goes off and, you
:03:00. > :03:03.know, in votes World War II, it is a bit like Dad's Army, Union Jack
:03:04. > :03:10.arrows extending over the continent. So Theresa May has managed to get
:03:11. > :03:13.the 52% on board, that is what the speech did, and that is what these
:03:14. > :03:17.headlines suggest, that she has done well as far as the majority of the
:03:18. > :03:23.right-leaning press is concerned. But what about the 48%? I think she
:03:24. > :03:29.is making a very strong political calculation. She is not really that
:03:30. > :03:37.bothered about the 48%, she is very much sending a kind of
:03:38. > :03:40.patriotically, nostalgic, British message to those people. And she's
:03:41. > :03:44.trying to attract voters from different parties, sending a message
:03:45. > :03:48.to people in Labour heartlands that voted leave, that they can stick
:03:49. > :03:52.with their because she will deliver on immigration about everything
:03:53. > :03:56.else. And she tried to send a message to Ukip supporters as well,
:03:57. > :03:59.saying, don't go to Ukip, stick with the Conservatives, we will deliver
:04:00. > :04:06.on immigration. The only thing she cares about now is immigration, it
:04:07. > :04:12.is a political calculation. Neil, the Daily Express, we won't be
:04:13. > :04:16.bullied by EU, is what Ayesha is saying fair about the 48%? I
:04:17. > :04:25.disagree about the 48, there were some vox pops on the news last
:04:26. > :04:35.night, people from the 48, they were quite encouraged, because it is
:04:36. > :04:38.strong, it is patriotic, and people can see that there is a worst-case
:04:39. > :04:44.scenario where we just walk away with no deal, we go back to WTO
:04:45. > :04:51.rules, like the US and everybody else. They are not brilliant. The
:04:52. > :04:56.tariffs, as they keep telling us, will be cancelled out by the fall in
:04:57. > :04:59.the value of sterling for our exporters. There are all sorts of
:05:00. > :05:05.things like financial passporting in the City of London, but people are
:05:06. > :05:08.now seeing that Theresa May has now raised that, this is the prospect,
:05:09. > :05:19.we might have to walk away if our partners would do a deal. And the
:05:20. > :05:25.markets have not fallen, employment is OK, economic growth went up in
:05:26. > :05:32.the second half of last year. People are not feeling the Brexit disaster.
:05:33. > :05:41.My feeling is we have all got to calm down the rhetoric, that
:05:42. > :05:48.Remainers should not make everything a catastrophe, there has got to be a
:05:49. > :05:55.middle way. And also, I am not a Remoaner! This threat of walking
:05:56. > :05:59.away is what the 48 worried about, because Theresa May said, at the
:06:00. > :06:03.beginning of a speech, I am going to protect workers' rights, but, at the
:06:04. > :06:08.end, if we don't get a deal, we will walk away. You could be talking
:06:09. > :06:14.about a Britain that as the come a bit of a tax saving and cuts
:06:15. > :06:18.business regulation, red tape. -- that has become. She has said that
:06:19. > :06:23.she will protect them, are you calling her a liar already? I think
:06:24. > :06:29.she is facing in two different directions. The 48 were told before
:06:30. > :06:35.the vote that it was all going to come crashing down immediately after
:06:36. > :06:39.June the 23rd. George Osborne... People believe there are going to
:06:40. > :06:44.get that money for the NHS from the bus! I had enough of a headache
:06:45. > :06:51.during the campaign, not tonight, please! Let's go to the Telegraph,
:06:52. > :06:55.Britain on a trade crusade, the international Trade Secretary, Liam
:06:56. > :07:01.Fox, is already scoping out the lie of the land, you would expect that,
:07:02. > :07:06.wouldn't you? He's doing what is called trade audits, starting to
:07:07. > :07:10.prepare the ground for doing deals, in talks with about 12 countries,
:07:11. > :07:16.and EU leaders have tried to say, you can't start doing any trade
:07:17. > :07:22.deals now, but they are saying... It is a bit of a grey area, surely we
:07:23. > :07:26.can be talking to anyone we like. To me, that makes sense, I don't think
:07:27. > :07:31.that is unusual, and lots of sectors are doing trade emissions all the
:07:32. > :07:35.time outside the EU, so I don't think there is anything surprising
:07:36. > :07:39.in that. But later in the article, David Davis, the Brexit Secretary,
:07:40. > :07:46.says that the government is really keen to bring back that target of
:07:47. > :07:51.net migration to be low 100,000. It is quite a tortured history, these
:07:52. > :07:55.migration targets, and I think this is something that has coloured
:07:56. > :07:58.Theresa May's view of it, particularly having been Home
:07:59. > :08:03.Secretary, and it was said that she did not hit those targets. So make
:08:04. > :08:07.no mistake, immigration is absolutely central to this, they are
:08:08. > :08:13.making a calculation which says this is an argument about the politics of
:08:14. > :08:20.immigration, rightly or wrongly. Well, I think that there was, again,
:08:21. > :08:28.a viewpoint about by the Remain campaign, I am eight Remainer, by
:08:29. > :08:35.the way... Same as me! Part of the 48% and happy! I am happier... I am
:08:36. > :08:40.Scottish, I am never happy! There was this view that there will be
:08:41. > :08:45.this price that we would have to pay for entry, for access to the single
:08:46. > :08:49.market, once we leave, the Europeans would exact a price. And there was
:08:50. > :08:55.be a price the other way around. And be a price the other way around. And
:08:56. > :08:59.now, for access to our market, first of all, the fifth largest economy in
:09:00. > :09:03.the world, and now the government is getting, after months of paralysed
:09:04. > :09:09.indecision, is showing a bit of spirit and a bit of humour, with
:09:10. > :09:14.Boris's comments, and with Liam Fox, who was not really supposed to be
:09:15. > :09:18.doing trade deals when we are in the customs union, but what are they
:09:19. > :09:25.going to do, fire us? I was going to say, what are they going to do?! Two
:09:26. > :09:29.of these 12 countries, by the way, where he is doing early talks, China
:09:30. > :09:33.and India. If you get them, you are doing all right. And that is why
:09:34. > :09:44.Boris is there now, making comments about the Nazis! The Guardian, OK,
:09:45. > :09:53.Neil, justice has been served, Obama defends Manning leniency. Chelsea
:09:54. > :09:58.Manning is the former soldier who leaked classified documents to
:09:59. > :10:04.WikiLeaks and a Julian Assange's name at the time, sentenced to 35
:10:05. > :10:08.years in prison, and this is a thing that American presidents do as they
:10:09. > :10:12.leave office, they grant leniency to, I think it is 209 people that
:10:13. > :10:18.Obama has granted leniency to. So Chelsea Manning's sentence has
:10:19. > :10:23.ended, she will be freed, and people are up in arms, saying she got a 35
:10:24. > :10:26.year sentence because she did the biggest breach of data
:10:27. > :10:31.confidentiality, classified data confidentiality in US history. And
:10:32. > :10:34.there is a really interesting article in the New Yorker saying,
:10:35. > :10:39.when you look at it more carefully, she has already served a lot longer
:10:40. > :10:48.than anybody else has served previously. And we might need
:10:49. > :10:58.leakers in the Trump administration! That is a very good point! Ayesha,
:10:59. > :11:01.Julian Assange has said he would give him is of up to the United
:11:02. > :11:10.States if Chelsea Manning was released. Let's see if the honours
:11:11. > :11:13.his word. I did see somebody outside the embassy, no sign of life in
:11:14. > :11:18.terms of him, but the other interesting thing about this final
:11:19. > :11:24.press conferences, look, we are already mourning Obama not being
:11:25. > :11:31.there, his exit approval ratings are very high. 60% plus. We have become
:11:32. > :11:34.accustomed to his grace, his humour, but he said his daughters are not
:11:35. > :11:38.planning, very disappointed about the result, they are not planning to
:11:39. > :11:43.follow him into politics, but he doesn't say anything about his wife.
:11:44. > :11:48.I still wonder why you would want to do the job after you have seen your
:11:49. > :11:53.husband do it. What, be the most powerful person in the world? There
:11:54. > :11:58.is a bit of a downside to that as well! The Times, British bubbly, we
:11:59. > :12:05.have finally got... We can't call it champagne, that is already taken,
:12:06. > :12:11.Ayesha, we have got a name, it looks like. We have, it is called British
:12:12. > :12:19.phase, we have to have our names on everything. -- tempt the. I thought
:12:20. > :12:29.we could have called it something like brolly! I am not sure about
:12:30. > :12:36.British fizz. They have try to come up with also lots of names, one was
:12:37. > :12:40.named after a scientist in the 19th century. British fizz does what it
:12:41. > :12:47.says on the tin - or bottle, doesn't it? Apparently it sounds good to
:12:48. > :12:59.eight New York Wine merchant who came up with it. It sounds like the
:13:00. > :13:07.sort of thing you get in a can! Oh dear, OK, all right! Thanks very
:13:08. > :13:12.much indeed. Enjoy some British fizz tonight! That is the papers, you can
:13:13. > :13:19.see the front pages of all of them online.
:13:20. > :13:27.If you have missed the programme any evening, you can catch and later on
:13:28. > :13:30.iPlayer. Thanks to Neil and Ayesha.