21/01/2017 The Papers

by Labour since it was created in 1950. Nine people have been rescued

from an Italian hotel which was buried by an avalanche three days

ago. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be With me are Tony Evans,

Sport Columnist at The London Evening Standard and Anne Ashworth,

Assistant Editor at The Times. Nice to have you both here. I know,

Anne, you will treat our to your analysis of how well the pages will

put together. The Sunday Express is leading with news of the upcoming

meeting between Theresa May and Donald Trump. The protest against

the new president make the front page of the Observer, the Daily Mail

claims that the Prime Minister will use a meeting with Donald Trump to

tell him to stop insulting women, the Sunday Telegraph says they will

negotiate trade barriers and any position Nato, the Sunday Times

claims that No 10 covered up a Trident missile fiasco which

apparently veered off course in Florida and headed towards the USA.

Thankfully it was not armed. Let's start with the Sunday Telegraph.

Loads about Trump, would you believe. You have Trump's new Deal

for Britain, President Trump's new team working on a deal. You have to

remember that as soon as the president is inaugurated the

administration kicks into gear. Without a doubt they are up and

running already. In his speech yesterday he talked about America

first is that this but an interesting spin on it. Trump with

his new deal for Britain, Franklin D Roosevelt with his new deal brought

America and of recession in the 1930s, at least it helped to, and I

think it is a little bit overoptimistic to suggest that

Theresa May will be invited to a state visit and obviously we will

get all the benefits of the new Trump era. We did hear from Donald

Trump that he disagreed with Barack Obama's assessment that if we left

the EU we'd be at the back of the queue when it comes to a trade deal

with the US. Donald Trump has disabused us that idea. At the

moment Donald Trump is taking a totally contrary view on everything

from the previous president and says he will cosy up to Britain. He says

he will have a relationship with our Prime Minister akin to that of

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and he is in great hopes and

apparently plans are afoot for him to have a visit here, where he will

not only meet the Queen but also the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and it

will be a very fancy affair. All of this is being planned while he's

been talking about himself in that strange third person we that he

does, he doesn't say "Me", he says Donald Trump, rather like royalty.

While millions of women have been protesting against his policies

worldwide. It has been a truly bizarre day. And of course the Mail

on Sunday says Theresa May will use the opportunity, when she meets him,

to stop his sexist insults. Apparently he has been referring to

her as "Mike Maggie". The other thing of course is that Maggie May

was a famous liberal folk song about dirty Maggie May who was a lady of

the night. Maybe he doesn't get that link. It is interesting that, what

will be discussed beside her saying, please, president, mind what you

Americans call your potty mouth and talk about women with proper

dignity. They will get onto Nato and defence spending, and that we should

spend 2% of GDP. One of the interesting things he said in that

bizarre speech yesterday was this feeling that America is taking on

all the military responsibilities of the world and he will ask all the

other countries to do their bit. What did you find bizarre about

that? That strange lack of hope. An inauguration speech, I feel, should

have that hope, change, thing. But if he tells everyone, millions of

people think that America has to make a lot of changes and then he

can bring about that change that will reflect well... There were no

specifics, it was all generalities, I will make America great again. He

has an intellectual blandness that allows people to project what they

believe onto him. It was possibly the worst inauguration speech I've

heard, as long as I have been around. Is that really fair? To say

that there was nothing in it? He talked about wanting to eradicate

Islamist terrorism, I thought he repeated quite a lot of what he had

said during the campaign. He talked about wanting to invest in

infrastructure and bring jobs back to America and put America first.

That is relatively clear, is it not? And spoke to those towns with the

industry has gone, taking jobs with it, what did he say, the old

factories look like tombstones, so he reached out to the constituency

that put him in the job. He reached out to them in the campaign and like

the campaign there was a lack of specifics that worried me. Let's

look at the Observer. Hundreds of thousands of US women unite to voice

defiance over Donald Trump, protests all over the world, and there they

are wearing pink hats, these The pussy hats as they are called. With

a home made? Let's hope they were not made in China. This attendance

in Washington seems to have been greater than anyone expected and one

does not have to be Trump administration will react. I think

the preference is to say that this is the metropolitan liberal elite

protesting against the choices of opinion or is that the groundswell

of opinion? We have a president who we saw on television basically

gloating about being a sexual predator. Part of Donald Trump 's

appeal has been to people on the message boards, the Reddit message

boards, especially men who go on the pick-up sites. There is an anger

against women in America which is always staggered me. When I lived

there I could not believe it. Not just in America although it seemed

more pronounced in America. Strong women seem to attract anger from the

lower economic levels of American men. Frightening. And this is

important, we are moving forward, we cannot treat people like this. If

you think the presidency gives legitimacy to behaviour like that,

then it is wrong. The Sunday Times has an interesting headline which we

were commenting on, a moment ago, women diss the Donald as Theresa May

prepares to visit. Is that a proper word? It has to be the first time it

has appeared in a headline. I think that they would believe that they

were doing more than dissing the Donald, they were protesting against

every one of his policies. This is newspaper logic. The Trump triumphs

is at the top in big headlines, so they've come up with a clever way of

getting him in there and it has failed abysmally, I would have

thrown it back to the subeditor. So what is going on in this front page?

You commented on the fact that they have used the word, diss, meaning

disrespect. And then right at the top we have this super puff, as you

call it, Trump's Triumph. Is a mismatch? I feel a front page should

delight the eye and also be arresting. And we are thinking, is

it all a triumph, or is The Donald already a failure and an

objectionable person? I feel slightly confused by it. And also by

the fact that we don't know quite what the story is telling us. I

think it should have been, millions of people turned about marches in

Washington and London. Perhaps you could enquire for us. Finally, the

Sunday Times, a different story, No 10 covered up Trident missile

fiasco. Tell us in a nutshell, Tony, what is this about? In June they

tested the Trident missile. It was fired from a gym is Vengeance,

submarine, and it seems to have gone the wrong way.

-- it was fired from HMS Vengeance. What struck me about it was that

this submarine had a four year refit and has only been back and see for

seven months, it was the first time it had fired a missile in 16 years.

It is about whether we've got the infrastructure to actually use

nuclear weapons. The missile was not armed. It did veer towards America

which could have been a problem but it wasn't armed. I think the story

is more about that cover up, that wasn't mentioned before, there was

that key Commons vote on whether it would be renewed. This is the

central point of our defence system. The M O D and Downing Street have

visited a statement saying that the efficacy of the system is

unquestionable, in June, missiles were tested from HMS Vengeance. It

goes on to say that HMS Vengeance and her crew were successfully

tested and certified, allowing HMS Vengeance to return into service.

They are not concerned, they have every confidence. Finally, the

Sunday Telegraph, Paul Nuttall, all, we Ukip can win over betrayed Labour

voters. This is the leader of Ukip, not long in his post, going to

contest the Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency, the by-election

triggered by Tristram Hunt, the Labour MP, stepping down.

Extraordinary, Ukip positioning itself as the party of the working

class. It is not all saying, Labour are the working-class party, it

depicts Labour as a metropolitan elite party. I don't know if that

will appeal to the voters in Stoke but it is interesting as we have

said before, it has been a Labour seat since 1950s of the loss of that

street would be extraordinary -- seat. The problem is that Labour

will not accept the truth. It is fought on the Ukip battlefields all

the time. The reality is that the political discourse these days is

defined by xenophobia and racism. The Brexit Road was all about

xenophobia and racism. Labour, yes, we need to double red immigration.

Immigration is not the problem for the British working classes. The

problem is that the unions have been destroyed, all the protections of

workers taken away. It's not about Eastern Europeans coming in and

undercutting you, it is that this has been allowed to happen although

everyone is too frightened to say, you voted to leave Europe because it

is racist. There are lots of reasons that people might have voted to

leave. It was a big decision for a lot of people. A lot of people might

think differently about having voted Brexit but it is the rise of these

big politicians, the populist ones who say, I'm a different kind of

guy, Paul Nuttall is the mini me Donald Trump. Labour needs to say,

this is not about xenophobia, it's about austerity, and protection of

workers' rights and Labour have not done that because they have pandered

to people who say, immigration is a big issue. You have dropped these

bombshells at the last minute, we have to stop, we'll pick it up again

at half past 11 when Anne and Tony will look at the front pages. Coming

up next, Reporters.