30/01/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Miranda Green from the Financial Times

the Assistant Editor at the Daily Telegraph and he's also

You straddle so many words like a colossus, Christopher!

Tomorrow's front pages starting with -

The Metro's front cover has a photo of the huge protest

in Whitehall this evening against President Trump's immigration policy

The Telegraph reports that a minister has told MPs that parents

have as much responsibility to care for their elderly parents

as they do for their own children.

The Independent is worried about a killer Arctic blast.

The Mirror says Mr Trump's hotels are fitted with products

imported into the US, despite his America first policy.

The Independent focuses on the question of when Theresa May

knew about Mr Tump's immigration policy order.

The Guardian says there is domestic uproar in Britain

The Times reports that a former senior official

at the Foreign Office says Theresa May has put the Queen

the offer of a state visit for Mr Trump.

We are going to start with the Metro, Miranda. Theresa May happy to

invite Trump. I'm not sure she said she was happy to invite Trump, she

said I have put the offer out there and it stands. That's right and also

today there was a rather strange kind of kerfuffle when Downing

Street said actually the responsibility for offering this

full state visit to President Trump lies with something called the state

visits committee and then there was everybody searching where this

committee lurks and who these people are, toing and froing between the

Cabinet and the Palace. Although this invitation to President Trump

very much stands, Downing Street want to make that clear, they don't

really want to sound quite so enthusiastic about it as they may be

worth a few days ago because of this reaction. Most of the British front

pages have gone with pictures of the demonstration tonight because, you

know, since he's been elected President, whereas during the

campaign for the presidency we were all told, don't take him literally.

You know, when he promises to ban Muslims. Build walls! Build walls

across the border with Mexico etc, these are symbolic gestures and it

is more a feeling he is giving his voter base. In fact, we would have

been right to take him literally because as he has been in power for

just over a week he's started to do all of these things. Everything he

said. Anger against him has mounted. He is doing what he said. The

demonstrations here are over whether we should give him a full state

visit because of his policies. People are shocked that a politician

is doing what he says he will do. Christopher, Sean Curran, our

Parliamentary correspondent this evening, during the debate in the

Commons, as to whether this state visit should go forward or not, he

said one way of signalling a sort of displeasure at what's going on with

President Trump is you should still invite him over, but potentially he

might not be allowed to address both houses of parliament. There is a

well of feeling about this gathering. I can tell you it is up

to the Speaker of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons, Lord

Fowler and John Bercow, to decide whether he gets the honour, which

has been accorded to the Pope, Nelson Mandela, the Queen and on

numerous occasions. And the American President. Otherwise they go to the

golden room at the back of the Lords which is a beautiful room but a lot

more low-key. But it's tucked away at the back. If he comes in summer

in June it is lovely and warm in Westminster Hall as opposed to

tonight, it could be accorded to him but it will be a democratic issue

and that is why the feeling of the house, there will be a debate on

whether Trump can come here on the back of this 1.5 million strong and

rising petition. So it is not in the bag yet and Sean Curran is right to

say that because it is not sorted out for stock so that decision would

have nothing to do with Theresa May? Nothing to do with the government?

No, the Queen Rumsby Palace of Westminster so essentially it is the

Palace, the Queen says what happens there but the invitation is extended

by the two speakers, I would imagine in conjunction with the Palace but

because at least one of those speakers is subjected democratically

elected MPs, it is quite hard if there is a big vote against him

coming to do so. Are they actually going to vote, or have they voted?

I'm suggesting that now but I don't know. I would imagine there would be

an adjournment debate or an opposition date debate which would

result in a vote at the end if I was Labour, but we're not there yet. It

gives people the opportunity to ask their own MP, for example. Exactly.

To block him being allowed to address both houses of Parliament.

If you were Labour you would do it and having everyone backing it, and

if the Tories didn't vote against it they would have to defend themselves

because there is strong feeling about this. The front page of the

Guardian, Christopher. Fight over Trump visit. We have discussed that.

This travel ban, seven predominantly Muslim countries, originally also

including people with green cards, but they realised there was a bit of

a step too far and caused a hell of a lot of problems, but has sort of

been thrown out. But still this is being seen by critics as an attack

on Islam and Muslims. Exactly and what you have here is President

Obama intervening in this debate literally a week after stepping down

from the White House. I was lucky enough to be there for the

inauguration and was looking down on the Obamas' last night in the White

House, amazing time to be there, peaceful night, and the next day it

has to just gone on since then. American values are at stake

according to this. Ex-presidents normally build a library and look

after their legacy and say nothing at all on politics and get seven

days in he is intervening. It's very interesting he has used that form of

words, American values. In fact, one of the row is brewing over the

travel ban is whether it is actually in line with the American

Constitution. Because, of course, American independence in breaking

from British rule was all about not discriminating against people on the

basis of their religion that they practice. And so actually deciding

to have a blanket ban on certain countries which are predominantly

Muslim, you see the whole of Islam as a security threat, threatens the

American Constitution. So that's very interesting. And, of course, on

the Republican side those Republicans who have to work with

the Trump administration have stayed pretty quiet so far. But there have

been senior Republicans from other areas who have also said similar

things to Obama. Even Dick Cheney has said this threatens to be

un-American to ban people on the basis of their nationality and their

religion. John McCain, of course, who has a kind of feud with Trump

anyway. So it will be interesting to see how this develops. It's possible

he is starting to do things which will cause a massive confrontation

over the American Constitution. He said he would do it and he did get

the votes. This is it, it is absolutely true. He is basically

standing on his electoral platform. No one called him out over the

constitution at the time, did they? If you live in a democracy you have

to operate within its norms, otherwise you are into an elected

dictatorship. If Trump starts saying l'etat c'est moi and I make the

rules you are in different territory and you would find the law gets

involved. The executive order refers to this band to stop events like

9/11 -- ban. Since 9/11 there has not been a terrorist attack on

American soil from a non-homegrown terrorist. What are they doing about

the proliferation of guns because if you are on the terror watch list you

can still get a weapon. Obama banned Iranians for six months at some

point during the middle of his first term. You're right, George W Bush,

who some people had question marks over his time in power never went

this far. He went and confronted the problem which also had its problems.

The Tories fear Brexit bill ambush as rebels are accused of abusing

trust. If they don't vote for the bill they are going against the will

of the people. Absolutely. Chris's story in the Telegraph dwells a

little bit on the potential Tory rebels, those who might vote against

the Government's bill to trigger the Brexit process, which is what this

is. But also it alludes to the problems in the Labour Party,

because Jeremy Corbyn who, as a backbench Labour MP, before he came

leader, had a record number, over 500, occasions where he himself

defied the Labour whip. Is it true David Cameron voted more times for

bills under Tony Blair than Corbyn did? I'm sure I read that. Tweet the

answer. Or is that fake news? I think it might be true. Corbyn is

facing a massive rebellion having ordered everyone to vote to trigger

Brexit, a lot of Labour MPs are unhappy about that and thought to be

voting against it. Could it fail? Of the bill fail? Almost certainly not

because the numbers are there. They have got the numbers? Yes. They are

worried overnight that they cannot have a vote at the end of the second

reading, tomorrow and then the next day. The concern is there might be

an ambush vote at 11 o'clock tomorrow night, they might not be

enough government MPs around. It is a headache for the whips. They have

a running whip. The front page of the Telegraph, your paper,

Christopher, good story. Care for parents like your children. On the

face of it the headline makes perfect sense. It is interesting,

Stephen Swinford, my colleague in the office got a great story. They

have became minister and he is saying we should take more care of

our elderly parents. For any person of my age and above we always worry

about our parents and increasingly so and he made a good point here

that hasn't been made yet. We can't always outsource it to the state and

we have a duty. You see when you have family members living with

younger families, we need to be more willing to look after our parents. I

think that is half the answer of the social care crisis, not the entire

answer but half the answer. Moving forward in terms of finding the

finances. Usually you would have to sell your parents' house, wherever

they lived, in order to care for them. To pay for the care home.

Maybe children should be going further than that and finding the

money themselves. It is a good talking point. Or have everyone

living together. If you look at human history, this period where we

all have these nuclear families and live in these quite small groups

rather than in one big family group, it is kind of an anomaly and I think

there is a very good argument for going back to how it used to be done

and having different generations living together. It's easier to

bring up the children like that. The old people and young people get on

very well and there would be less pressure on the sandwiched

generation in the middle who are the workforce and you wouldn't have this

terrible problem with elderly people very lonely, ill on their own,

really being farmed out to professionals rather than being

looked after by those who love them. Apparently we are all descended from

this thing on the bottom of the i. It says media answer Dominic answer

step, one millimetre long, this creature that we all come from. I

love the story. Because of world events recently, we have all thought

humanity can only move forward and progress. If we are going to start

going backwards this is our destination because we are

apparently all descended from this tiny little worm, a wrinkled old

sack, it is described in some of the papers, on the ocean floor wriggling

around. That is the organism from which we all spread. In the same way

that that wonderful ape that was found, Lucy. Even Lucy was descended

from this one millimetre long worm. It is not to scale! Not to scale but

it does make you think, absolutely. Miranda and Christopher, thank you

for looking at some of the stories behind the headlines.

Hello. Scotland had the best of Monday's sunshine but there will not

be much on offer during Tuesday as the weather front, very slowly edges