02/03/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Ben Riley-Smith, Deputy Political Editor

of The Telegraph and John Crowley, Editor in Chief of

Tomorrow's front pages...starting with...

The Daily Express leads with a 'new tax on inheritance'.

The paper says a "death tax" is among policies being presented

to Theresa May to help combat the cost of caring for older people.

The lead story of the Telegraph explains that scientists have

successfully created an embryo using only stem cells

The Mirror leads with a report which reveals four in five

Guardian has an exclusive interview with the head of MI6. The Daily Mail

leads with the plague of the fly-tippers, an epidemic.

Snap's debut on the New York Stock Exchange is the top story

It says shares in Snapchat's parent company soared more than 40per cent,

'Pay as you learn' is the main headline in The I, which says some

schools are asking parents to pay ?600 to cover costs for course

The Times says British taxpayers will help to fund a private army to

protect NEPs as part of a record spending spree by the European

Parliament next year. What will we go with? The Tories said Nicola

Sturgeon should face bigger loss and second referendum. The suggestion is

from Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Conservatives in Scotland, that

if she pushes ahead with the second independence referendum, they will

lose even worse than they did before? We don't quite know what

basing this on. The Pauling doesn't suggest that? It doesn't. I don't

think she will be disappointed to hear this because she's taking the

battle on their ground. This was supposed to be put to bed fairly

generation in 2014. Two or three years later and here we are talking

about a "I don't think Nicola Sturgeon will mind the Conservatives

saying this. Brexit has opened this can of worms again, but Scottish

voters will probably have to look at the maths of the currency and

economy even more closely because they are not part of, leaving a

country that has already left the European Union. Absolutely and that

is sought-after till really second referendum would move up because it

is moving so swiftly right now that the Unionists would certainly say,

listen, 2014 when you lost you said you had billions of pounds of our

money and no you don't have that revenue, you said you were going to

be able to keep Scotland in the EU, we are leaving the EU but do you

want to break up a whole other union? Things have deteriorated in

Scottish finances over the last couple of years and those problems

remain the same, what currency would they use? What will happen on the

border where trade passes so freely? Those unanswered questions just a

significant. Does the possibility of a second vote figure in any way high

up the agenda for Theresa May, when she's going through the

negotiations, is that at the back of her mind? Possibly not high enough.

Theresa May says the first thing I did when I became Prime Minister was

go straight up to Scotland because I believe in it so much. When you talk

to Theresa May's ministers, very really do they bring up the fact

that they need to think of Scotland's interests and the

Scottish angle for every one of these moving parts, so they would be

but that, but you don't get that feeling walking around Westminster.

Artificial life created in the lab. Cracking story on the front of the

Telegraph. Probably scary for some as well? Yes. This is about managing

to create, and this applies to mice, a leading mouse embryo without using

spare or an egg, so a petri dish, even moving beyond spare and eggs

vary your fusing together sells, so what is interesting is that

currently leftover embryos must be destroyed after 14 days. This raises

the notion that if this is being done on an industrial scale, and it

may be an opportunity for the scientific industry to investigate

more, but it raises moral questions about life so it may be saving lives

by a world we want to? Exactly, because the ethical considerations

in all of this, scientists can do amazing things and the life without

sperm and eggs, but it raises so many more questions? It is mind

boggling so I will not be able to shed too much more light but judging

by the people quoted, this is a breakthrough and science at its

best. Cambridge scientists. Something hugely significant this

year and at the end of the article it actually talks about how good

Britain is that this kind of thing, we were the guys who created Dolly

the sheep and last year British scientists were given permission to

genetically modify human embryos, the first in the world. Something

fantastic. Scientists and priests may have something to say about it.

The story is getting hotter than America with the US law chief forced

out of enquiry into Russian links. Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General,

said in a confirmation hearing he hadn't had contact with the Russians

and it transpired he has and he has had to recuse himself from the

investigation into the links between the campaign and Russian... Spies,

ambassadors. All the above! It is an interesting story and reason so many

questions about what those links exactly are between the tram

campaign and Russia. Another of those jaw-dropping moments and at

some point you think the bandwagon will have to calm down, possibly

less conciliatory speech was the moment, and then this phenomenal

point where Jeff Sessions, his Attorney General, first under oath

when being tried out for the Yule said he hadn't had any contact with

senior Russians. Now it has emerged these two ambassadors he has had

contact with, he said he will recuse himself from any investigation into

the tram campaign, but interestingly he didn't say it was because he had

links, but because I was part of the trompe campaigns or should step

away. It feels like one who will run and run. You have got an alert that

plays the Star Spangled Banner whenever Donald Trump tweets and he

hasn't tweeted on this? He hasn't, and maybe that is the lack of

support you may looking for and we were looking and the way to check

that, has he tweeted it out? What was interesting about this is he

stood traditionally in front of a podium. Tonight. Donald Trump would

have done that, gone on to Twitter and shouted down, so 40 days into

Donald Trump's rain and it feels like a state of permanent resolution

where he is fighting battles all the time! First-day lead yesterday. He

has given up for Lent, that is at! That is he hasn't tweeted! Jesus

walked in the wilderness for 40 days, you have a president with a

messiah complex staggering from one thing to another. There is a

metaphor somewhere! You have it here first. In 40 days each week but you

might be late. Still with the Guardian, the new MI6 boss, less

white and less like James Bond. This is good. This is a very interesting

piece from the Guardian where they now think he should be able to do

the tap on the shoulder, but they want to get away from those Oxbridge

types in the old days. Now they want to broaden the Tote to the wider

community, and a good thing too. It makes perfect sense and the diverse

workforce is by a lot of measures very productive. Two really

interesting bits, the first is not saying they need to become more

diverse, he is actually seeing our normal system applications isn't

working. We need to go to wonder you tap people on the shoulder. Target

people specifically. The quote and not wanting these James Bond types

to come. He says you're getting this surge of people based on the James

Bond fantasy, he says they may well be witty as a revolver but that is

not we are looking for. People are coming up. As long as we still get

to have gadgets and use them. You can't be aspired not have an Aston

Martin! Onto the times. Taxpayers must fund Brussels Private army. A

spending spree, from the times, when it comes to Brussels. Before the UK

exits they want to get a bit more money out of this. That is the

implication. Estimates seen by the Times show the parliament budget

rising to, what is that figure? 2 billion. Above inflation increase of

3.3%, so you can imagine with 52% of the population how that will go

down. Indeed. We still face a bell. 40-60,000,000,000. That is what

Brussels are asking is for. They have left open the possibility we

will continue to pay something into the EU to get some kind of access,

so the idea that the minute Article 50s triggered we stop paying, that

will not happen. Even when we're out of the EU we may still be paying

and, her only demand that it will not be vast amounts. It says private

army, is that what they are really talking about. In-house unit of 46

bodyguards and security personnel. Hardly a private army. Sounds more

like a security unit. An entourage. The EU army is such a red flag!

Incredibly loaded. Onto the Daily Mail. Plague of the fly-tippers!

Cases cost ?1 million a year. Dumping on an industrial scale. It

is a very Daily Mail story. It is a scourge on the country and I don't

think you will find anyone disagreeing. There is another issue

where collections as well, every two weeks. Getting less and less than a

lot of people complaining about councils that when you want to drop

things off the not picking things up so people are falling back to this.

Onto one of the other red tops, I suppose. The Daily Express, a new

tax on inheritance, outrage at plans to help solve the social care

crisis. The Daily Mail with its little investigation and pet peeve,

the Daily Express with its own as well, this idea of a death tax.

Knocking around for a couple of days, something Gordon Brown pitched

in the 2010 election. How do we deal with the social care crisis? That

when a loved one passes away you can use some of their property and pay

back the social care they were getting before the Tories

successfully done this a death tax and hammered at home on the doorstep

and help them get over the line. Seven years later, the social care

crisis still remains unsolved. One of the idea is supposedly being put

to Theresa May is that possible you can do something in this bulk of

cash, but ultimately it is left behind when somebody passes away.

The idea is being put to Theresa May. I can't see the government... I

would be amazed at the Treasury is suggesting it. Certainly not on the

front of the Daily Express, the world's greatest newspaper! The

Financial Times, with two little boys snap chatting. Good headline

would have been snap, crackle and pop. Maybe not in the Financial

Times, but its IPO today, 40% leaked, everybody rushed in, so the

lady that looks after my children, in her early 20s, she sent me my

first snap chat last year, and we went OK, what do you mean by this?

She went, that is the message, it is the picture. We think in words and

they are sending orgies and emotions and it is all about images, and the

reason why everyone is piling into this is because we have seen 150

million people around the world you snap chat every day. 10 million in

the UK. Advertisers desperately want to get words in front of them. It is

losing money hand over fist but the idea is that then the line it will

make lots of money because young people are into it. It is losing

money every day. On the first day of Twitter's IPO they jumped by 73% and

they have fallen a lot more since then. Remember Bebo, that was the

great thing before Facebook. MySpace. I like old punchy

typewriters. Can't go wrong with that. And it doesn't disappear after

ten seconds either. Good to see you. Thanks for that.

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The winter months were quite dry, the 1st of March is trying to turn

that around and for Friday, rain spreading north to most areas as the

day goes on, looking pretty unsettled,