25/02/2017 The Papers

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.

First, the headlines: Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson says now

is not the time for a leadership contest, but warns the party must do

President Trump announces he will not be attending

the White House Correspondents dinner this year.

A man has died and two other people injured after a man drove a car

into pedestrians in the German city of Heidelberg.

Three men have appeared in court on slavery charges

after the discovery of a cannabis factory at a disused nuclear

And coming up after the Papers, we'll get Jason Solomon's take

on Patriot's Day, the Hollywood blockbuster based on the Boston

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

With me are Caroline Wheeler, the political editor

of the Sunday Express, and Anne Ashworth, assistant editor

Let's take a look at the front pages that have arrived

The Sunday Telegraph has an interview with

the new independent reviewer of terrorism

That's Max Hill, who warns that the threat of terror attacks

In the Sunday Times - changes to visa regulations

The paper says plans include limiting access to benefits

The Sunday Express has more details about the man who murdered

Kicking off with the Telegraph and the story about Brexit, Lord uniting

potentially to soften Brexit. That will pause consternation for some

people? Of course. It seems like this has been going on for ages,

these debates around Brexit, and we still haven't triggered Article 50,

the formal mechanism by which we leave the European Union. The

withdrawal from the EU bill has already been driven House of

Commons, it went through unamended and is now going through the House

of Lords, where the relationship is different and the arrangements about

patronage, they will get voted out if they don't follow the will of the

people as it were. It doesn't quite apply to the House of Lords, so of

course they are little bit freer to tinker with the legislation. They

have put through a raft of amendments. One of them concerns the

rights of Europeans over here and one is about having a vote on the

entire deal once we get there. These are the things the Telegraph is

telling us there will be some cross-party support for as they try

to have their influence over the bill. They are free to tinker, but

at the same time they have to be careful because this is a referendum

with a huge exercise in democracy. The House of Commons pass the bill

without change? You might say they have to be careful, but I don't

think they are minded to be. They are almost becoming like an

opposition party. They will be asking questions about migrants'

writes, about the very fine detail and under exactly what terms the

exit. I think it will be a very interesting process. Is that

democratic? They are there to review legislation and they see that as

being difficult in this crucial piece of legislation. They see that

as their role. Whether they have any great success with this is still

very much up for debate. There will be this process of ping-pong with a

meant legislation and it will then be cast again by MPs, who will

reject it, as they did beforehand, and of course the whole intrigue

around this is that it will affect the timing of triggering Article 50.

We have to get this bill passed before we get Article 50 enacted and

it was suggested that good we done as early as March the ninth, the

suggestion is now that it will be pushed later, possibly towards March

17. You wonder what Theresa May will think about that. She was there at

the beginning of the debate in the lords, looking at the peers as they

were debating it. Now of course Jean Miller, the businesswoman in the

Independent's front page. She is pictured and the Independent say

that she says the lords need to show backbone on the Brexit bill. She was

the woman who of course brought the original legal case, which then went

to the Supreme Court, that the parliament had to debate this and

pass this legislation. An extraordinaire woman in her own way

who has put herself into the limelight and received a huge

torrent of abuse over it, over her questioning of Brexit. She has once

more in merged to say that the lords must do their job. She sees it very

much as their role to be the irritant in this process. She is a

Marmite person. People are very divided about her, but on a lot of

people who really admire her for the Percat Henning on the amount we pay

for pensions. -- for all of the things she has done. People on both

sides of the debate. Nigel Farage says he can't go to the pub any more

because he gets a torrent of abuse when he goes out. But she is an

interesting figure because it takes an enormous amount of courage I

think on an issue as divisive as the one we've just seen in terms of the

referendum to actually then take up the mantle and take this to the High

Court. Then of course the government took it to the High Court. So a

great deal of courage. In many ways what she is saying is what we would

expect it to say. She is going to the lords to try to soften Brexit

and she sees the Prime Minister... Cheesy turning up in House of Lords

as somehow being a bully, breathing down their next. It will be

increasingly divisive. A quick look at the Sunday Times. They've got

another angle on the whole Brexit story. A story about an offence from

migrants and of this revolution. An interesting story that we just

seeing. Trade deals on the sidelines. What we are talking about

is the right to migrants, both those who might come in the future and

those who are already here, but we think this is most interesting for a

very interesting date. Is the cut-off date at which you can stay

here, if you are an EU migrant, the date of the referendum, or is it the

date on which we trigger Article 50? I think this is going to be a cause

of huge dispute. This particular article suggests that the lawyers

have looked at this and what they are saying is that it could be the

date that we trickle Article 50. Which could be a couple of weeks

away. Exactly. Much to be determined. If everything goes well.

Another story is about the Labour Party, which we have been discussing

since the fallout from the by-elections. Tom Watson, the deputy

leader, suggesting they could face wipeout in England as they have done

Scotland. Yes, the analysis, if you look at the level of swing we saw in

Koh plant, would suggest scores of Labour seats under threat. --

Copeland. Who will naturally be pooling their resources together. It

is interesting to see how Theresa May discussed the idea of the

Conservative Party now be the workers party. The Conservatives are

very much trying to... This is a major concern to those in the party

at the moment, especially the moderates who don't see any way out

of this. There is no kind of white knights charging to their rescue,

that anyone can see. Nobody really thinks that any candidate other than

another from the left will actually win out, should there be another

leadership contest. If David Miliband going to enter the fray?

Very big comment in my paper this morning, this is the darkest time he

has seen the Labour and he sees it as impossible. Will Tony Blair come

back? That's been another one around the fringes. Come back to rescue the

party. But with the party elect David Miliband? It would depend. The

interesting thing about this is the reason they want to Jeremy Corbyn to

hang around is because there is more change they want to instigate in

September, which is the John McDonnell rule, which will mean they

don't have to reach such a high threshold in order to get another

left-winger onto the ballot paper. Quick word. You got a story in the

Express. You have the summit up about Ukip. There were two

by-elections. The fallout from Labour. Paul Nuttall obviously

didn't win the seat of Stoke and basically party's biggest donor will

issue an ultimatum and say, there could be chairman, that's me

modernise the parties we can become electable and if you don't do that I

will set up a rival party that will basically destroy Ukip. He has set

up a rival log. But would he actually like to be Prime Minister?

Does he see himself as the leader of Ukip? And the Sunday Telegraph. The

terrorism chief, as they call him, talking about the threat of terror,

the worst in a generation. This is an extraordinary story. Max Hill,

the new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, the man who

keeps an eye on the people who keep us safe. He has said that the

terrorist threat is at its worst since the 1970s. Now, you might

expect him to say that he has a serious job and a great deal to do,

but it's a very, very sobering tale. However, there are lots of things

that they don't seem to ask him in the story. One of the things I would

have liked to have heard from this interview is what about all of the

Isis fighters who have returned to Britain? The people who have been

radicalised and returned? Is he going to be keeping a special eye on

them? Does he want new measures, new surveillance techniques? It is

interesting you should say that. One of the things I was saying before is

the reason terror is back on the agenda is because of the death of

the Guantanamo Bay detainee who had gone out and blew himself up in

Iraq. Of course I would have wanted him to talk more about surveillance

and what we are doing to make sure people don't give out of the country

when they have been a cause for concern. But from your point, the

thing that alarms me is that actually he talks about reviewing

terrorism prevention and investigation measures, which are

the most Draconian, although not as Draconian as the control orders,

because he thinks they are an extraordinarily serious infringement

on freedom. He seems to feel he will go the other way and actually look

at Civil Liberties, rather than looking at the angle of these people

posing a grave threat to us and what we can do to keep us safe. A quick

look at the Sunday Telegraph. The Oscars. La la land is tipped to

sweep the board. The picture of Emma Stone, the hot favourite to be named

best dress. You went to see it and you didn't like it? I didn't like

it, but I think the interest will be in what sort of level of virtue

signalling we see from the stars. How many impassioned anti-Trump

speeches will we see? Usually I can get really focused on the frocks.

That's what really interests me. But I will be wondering how beautifully

choreographed and scripted all of these impassioned, seemingly

off-the-cuff, speeches are. But, no, I didn't enjoy La La Land, but it's

a Hollywood film. There will be frocks and politics tomorrow. There

will be. We've seen a bit of that already. We've seen some protest

today with the likes of Michael J Fox and Jodie Kidd making speeches

about Trump. That will be a feature of the Oscars tomorrow. They will

probably be looking at the frocks. I don't get to go to the movies very

often. You haven't seen anything for ages, have you? No, very

disappointed. As I was saying, this is the best night out at had in

ages! Thanks very much. That's it for The Papers. Coming up next, The

Film Review.