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