23/01/2017 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

With me are Peter Spiegel, the UK news editor of the Financial Times

and the broadcaster and campaigner Lynn Faulds Wood.

Good to have you both. Let's look at some of the front pages.

Peter's paper, the Financial Times, leads with Donald

out of a free trade deal with Pacific Rim countries.

The paper says he's signalling he will put protectionism

The Telegraph says the new US President has vowed

to make the special relationship between Britain and

The 'i' concentrates on the political row

following reports that a Trident missile test went wrong last year.

It says the whole thing has descended into farce

to discuss the matter in the Commons.

The Metro quotes a White House Official who has

apparently told CNN that the unarmed missile DID blow itself up off

The Guardian also focuses on that missile yet looks ahead to

tomorrow's Supreme Court judgment as to whether the government needs to

consult MPs before invoking Article 50.

And the Express goes it alone, hailing a revolutionary

It is not ladies first tonight, its Americans first tonight. Peter,

we'll start with you. Sorry! Trump's Pacific trade exit, putting

protection at the heart of policy. If I may say so, your spin on it,

he's putting America first. That's right. It's not just the specific

trade deal, he announced today, he gathered a group of CEOs at the

White House, the first official meeting of his presidency and says

that if they move their plants overseas he will tax them. He said

he would call the Mexican and Canadian Prime ministers and

renegotiate Nafta. He has signalled that this is the most important

thing he will do. Economic experts are worried about this. This is how

the great depression happened, imposing tariffs up front. There's a

lot of nervousness in this global system which has been established

since World War II, being at risk and it is symbolic that he has made

this his first action. Lynn, experts don't matter, do they! It's America

first and he is the American president. This guide, if so clever,

he can't put figures, he says it will be a major border tax and then

says to these elite business people, almost all men, come on, let's get

some women in, trump. Clever women. I don't see that happening... One of

them, named Dale, he turned to him and said, Dale, you can build

monstrous... I wouldn't to the American accent, you can do

monstrance buildings, we will fast track you. Monstrous? What is this

for a president to talk? It resonates with voters, simple

language using small words, when you talk to political communicators in

the US, they say he's quite effective at this. A lot of

criticism comes from his own party which is interesting because it has

advocated for free trade the generations. One thing that one

previous Republican nominee for president said was, this is as much

about geo- strategy as trade, getting our allies in Asia,

Australia, New Zealand, against the Chinese. The argument is that he

doesn't see that bigger picture, everything is transactional for him.

It's all about him and his business. He will be filthy rich. One point

that I agree with him on, one criticism I made, it's all about and

save dangerous products and recourse, we have neglected

business, I think because every single thing I seem to buy is made

overseas, we don't have manufacturing any more so to that

extent I agree with him. That's the point, Peter, I was in Los Angeles

correspondent for the BBC in the 1990s, Nafta came in and jobs went.

Nothing was done about the communities with their jobs went

from. Like Scotland. There is a sense from his supporters that he is

on their side. He talked about Pennsylvania, Ohio. States that he

won because of these voters, working class white voters. Those who lost

their manufacturing jobs since Nafta. There is no doubt that even

people who are against Trump agreed that there are problems with local

trade policy. It's the same type of voter in middle England who voted

for Brexit, you see the same voters in France supporting Marine Le Pen.

This is a problem they have not addressed. That's the problem with

Scotland because the industry all went. Thank God for North Sea oil,

some would say. Interesting that you say that the workers work up to the

problems of globalisation. At Davos that did not look like it. Mainly

blokes again having a nice time. Right! Staying with the FT. Looking

forward to a pledge to nurture worlds leading industries. --

lukewarm welcome. Jumping to the end of it, one woman, Director General

of the CBI, Caroline Fairburn, said it was better than not to have an

industrial strategy. It's been done by all sorts of problem, praising

the industrial strategy, giving that industrial spending accounts for 43%

of gross domestic product we need a plan on how to invest that money.

This does not look like a new plan, it looks like a mishmash of old

stuff. According to business sources, this has been hyped to the

hilt. It basically was a warmed over announcement of things announced

before. I think it was important to have that upfront, this is our

response, to the same voter that we're talking about with Trump, this

middle England voter, this response seems a bit empty. I think we had a

caller on that. You compare it to Trump. Would he call it a discussion

document? He would not come he would say, we are having this and then

argue about it later. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Sometimes a

good thing when you get a mealy-mouthed piece of stuff like

this which is only on your front page, no one else's. Let's go to the

Daily Telegraph. Trump promises closer ties with UK. They are making

it clear that this bilateral relationship is going to be

pre-eminent. But it's going to work. Your view? Interesting that they

have invited Theresa May is the first foreign leader to come over.

It is symbolic. The Brits are obsessed with this special

relationship. We are deluding ourselves by thinking that we will

be at the front of the queue, we have to years before Brexit happens,

we're talking about specific trade deals, other things high on the

agenda now when it comes to trade, suddenly turning round and asking

what will happen, even two countries that like each other, these things

take almost a decade. We saw it with Canada, this evil trade monster! I

think we have a lot of nice words coming out of the White House today

and Sean Spicer said nice things about the Prime Minister but...

Lynn, how does that square with what you said earlier, I win, you lose,

how will we get a great trade deal if he's looking out for American

workers? If you look at the bottom line we've never had a great trade

deal with the United States. We deal more with Scotland which is 5

million people than we do with 300 million people in the USA. We talk

about the special relationship, they never talk about it in the States,

do they? Honestly. I would say, on trade and economics, No. I spent

years in the Pentagon and frequently you would go in and see people in

senior positions, and they would be British. So on military intelligence

there is that special relationship. There is intelligence sharing

between two countries that no other two countries share. Liverpool we

all speak English. About Michael Fallon he says he can't say anything

but Americans are spilling the beans. I did actually watch this.

Michael Fallon, is see a Sir, or a lord, I don't like titles I will

call Michael. He was talking in the House of Commons today, and

apparently not knowing that the Americans were spilling the beans

because one backbencher stood up and said, do you know there's an

American spilling the beans? Why were they not better briefed and

also yesterday when you saw Theresa May when she was asked four times on

the Andrew Marr show, that was a pathetic response for a minister who

still enjoys some credibility from us. She's got to sharpen up act and

get PR advisers. The Trident missile system is from the USA. The US Navy

has two overs either testing because it was in Florida. I do have some

sympathy that the government because first of all missile failures

happen. This just happened to be very badly timed. The other thing

is, if you are having a nuclear deterrent don't tell the world it

doesn't work! I have some sympathy with the Prime Minister, you don't

go public about this. I suppose the point is, for national security

reasons... We don't fire these missiles often because they are very

expensive. We have a huge investment in something, we are not even sure

it works that way. Crash test dummies, the USA trips up Theresa

May and Michael Fallon. The Metro is showing the other papers the way. We

are running out of time so I think we will be going to, a very quick

look at the Daily Express. Main must fast-track Brexit, a big decision

from the Supreme Court tomorrow morning. This is one of the routes

we expect the government to go down, if they lose, and the High Court

says, you must go to parliament before you invoke the divorce close,

they will put out a one sentence law, which says, we give the Prime

Minister the right to trigger Article 50. That's basically what

Tory backbenchers are suggesting. The Guardian has an interesting

story which makes the point not very convincingly that legal advice says

you cannot go that way. Not very well drafted legislation and we

could end up with more. You need to go to a longer process than a one

sentence piece of legislation. Now we will link two stories, Trident

and another story that has been running throughout the day, problems

potentially with browning your food a bit too much and the possibility

that it might show signs of cancer in a test animal. This is the Matt

cartoon. The latest submarine, armed with lethal overcooked roast

potatoes. There is a real sense that the roast potatoes might work better

than the rest. I think this is a terrible story, in a way. We've got

to stop battling people with all the things that are bad for them because

they just give up, smoking, drinking too much and being overweight. If

you can crack those three things written would be much happier.

Peter, you weren't brown your toast too much tomorrow? I've stopped.

It's got to be gold. Thank you both for joining us for a look at Fleet

Street's finest work. That's it for the papers, many thanks to our

guests, Peter and Lynn. Much more coming up. Now it's time for the

weather.