27/02/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Laura Perrins, Co-Editor of The Conservative Women

and Joe Watts, Political Editor at The Independent.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The i leads with John Major's first speech since the Brexit vote,

The Express reports reports that the government could announce

an end to the free movement of people on the day it

The Telegraph picks up the story that UKIP is facing civil war

after Nigel Farage called on the party to oust its sole

The Metro shows the shock that last night's Oscar

And the Daily Mail says that TV licence inspectors are targeting

vulnerable people. John Major's speech at Chatham

House. The i pretty summed it up. John Major is second-guessing the

British people as what the best way is to approach Brexit. We have moved

from project fear, to project smear and B are now at project pathetic.

We had Tony Blair last week. I think things are getting a bit desperate.

No one is showing contempt for the 40% who voted to remain. What's

important is the 60% who were polled last week who said they want the

Prime Minister to get on with Brexit, which is what she is doing.

It was suggested that in London, which voted Remain, they thought

immigration should be the priority and not trade. Was John Major out of

the public? I then think so. I think what we are seeing here... Let him

talk. I can feel the heat coming off of her. There has been some real

opposition and the government is being held to account in a way we

have not seen the elected politicians in the House of Commons

doing. We've had Tony Blair making a speech, Lord Mandelson has been

writing all over the place, now John Major. They are making real point

about the way the government is approaching Brexit, about the way

they are trying to railroad the Article 50 bill through without it

being amended. Now they are trying to suggest... I knew she would not

last long. Laurie, what -- Laura what is unhealthy about the country

debating what Brexit means? Nobody knew until the last few weeks what

it meant. They can continue to debate, I'd does them think people

will listen to him or Tony Blair or whoever they will at next week. They

are not very credible. John Major's record in Europe has been

disastrous. He railroaded Britain into Maastricht. It is not about

John Major or Tony Blair it's about the message. The messenger is very

important, as we all know in politics. These two former prime

ministers are discredited. If is the tactic, it's fine. Fill your boots.

If that is the best they've got, I will be sleeping easy tonight. I

would suggest that as time goes on and the economy starts to feel some

of the strain of Brexit, then the message will carry a bit more

weight. The Telegraph picks up on the fact that Mr major says leaving

the EU is an historic mistake. He did also say in his speech that he

accept the EU is not perfect. It's not all fantastic, but he was

highlighting what he felt were major concerns about the government's

handling of the Brexit negotiations and the dealings with EU leaders as

well. Quite a scathing attack. Its scathing and bitter. It says more

about him than it does about the Prime Minister, who I think is doing

a fantastic job. I think he is going to come out of this worse off than

the Prime Minister is. He is entitled to his opinion and people

like yourself like to hear it, but it's amazing how the BBC now love

John Major. When he was in power they hated him. They absolutely

slammed him. We absolutely never take sides. We are very impartial,

Laura. It is a cheek for you to say that. The government and Theresa May

are talking about what they want from the Brexit deal. They haven't

said anything about what we will have to pay. No one is being told

that at the moment. That is a massive black hole in the debate and

all he is doing is saying look, will be to start talking about this. The

Daily Telegraph also poses the question, what now. They've

interviewed Nigel Farage. How do you keep go forward now that Brexit is

happening. Nigel Farage suggesting they get rid of the only standing

MP. That is Ukip's problem. Theresa May is going forward with Brexit in

a coherent fashion. If there is any slippage on the part of May, they'll

be relevant and important again. I don't know how you can get rid of

Douglas Carswell. He is either unelected by his constituents or he

withdraws the whip from himself, which seems unlikely. It points to

the underlying ridiculousness of Ukip. They only have this one MP who

is a constant odds with other people in the party, people like Nigel

Farage and Adam Banks, who is always demanding to take over the party.

You never know with Ukip. At any moment Nigel Farage cle comeback. It

looks as if he had Aaron Banks on his side. Tough new migrant rules.

Free movement could be ended within weeks. This is something that may be

not everyone thought about, that the rules kick in when article $50. It

will be interesting to see if it is when Article 50 is triggered or at

the end of the negotiations. Whatever the migration rules are,

they need to be decided in Westminster and not Brussels. It's

decided by democracy as opposed to bureaucracy in Brussels. When the

bill goes through there will be suitable scrutiny and an examination

of what the law should be, which is how democracy works. Whether or not

it does happen when Article 50 is triggered, everybody... The

important point is that everyone is given adequate notice, it can be

done retroactively and if rules change when Article 50 is triggered,

that is there enough in terms of notice given to people coming into

the country. Let's move the Times. The headline there that will worry

many people. Don't lock-up loneliest paedophiles. This is a quote from

the police. The public will be horrified. Give us the background.

This is Britain's most senior child protection officer saying the police

have been inundated with investigations into child sex abuse,

into paedophilia and the rise has been 80% in three years. They are

getting 112 new complaint today and they expect a further 40,000 to the

official enquiry that is happening into historic child sex abuse. They

are saying they are over spilling and they can't do with it and

because of that some of the lesser offences will have to be

decriminalised. That is going to horrify most people and even he

acknowledges that this stance will horrified a lot of people. He is

saying we have no choice. The question seems to be of resources,

or at least he is raising that here. Is it the simply a question of

money? Can you solve this problem by hiring more police officers? I don't

know if it will be as simple as that, nonetheless it will be a

shocking story. In some ways it's reassuring that people are

overwhelmed with stories because people feel they can step forward

and report. It's not just the question of not locking them up

because if you are convicted of something you can also receive a

non-custodial sentence, but what worries me about this is that he is

saying they shouldn't be given any criminal sanction which could have a

knock-on effect. If it is not on your record you will be free to what

were children. That is the first issue, and also looking at indecent

images, it is wrong to say that this is a victimless crime. The poor

children in those images, and there is a scale from minor to incredibly

dangerous image eens -- images, and I think they are level five, to say

it is victimless is wrong. It points to this idea that they are trying to

slightly change the way society views these crimes and I think a lot

of people across the political spectrum will probably agree that

actually the way we see it as a horrific crime at the moment is

right. You can deal with the sentencing in a different way, but

there should be a criminal sanction. The Guardian. It devotes a lot of

hits from to politics in America, unlike other papers. Trump plans a

huge increase in US military spending. A wonderful you have to

give credit to Trump. He made a lot of promises in his election campaign

and he is delivering on his bonkers promises. He said he will remove

spending from environmental policy and from eight spending as well.

They're trying to redirect spending in those areas to be military. Trump

has promised to reinvigorate industry in a Rocca as well and it's

a very easy way to do that, by building new tanks, ships, whatever

the needs. Defending your country is not a bonkers promise. I like the

protection that the United States give us, as you do also. Italy take

advantage of it, even though they spent hardly anything on the

military. People are being protected by the American military, who

liberated Europe from fascism. Putting that to one side, he is

entitled to fulfil his electoral promise to defend his country and I

think anybody who doesn't think defending your own country, liberty

and security should take a long hard look at themselves. But it comes at

eight cost to other areas. It is causing a lot of concern. It's only

causing concern to those opposed to Trump. We have to leave it there,

but many thanks for the interesting discussion. We will continue that.

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