10/03/2017 The Papers

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

With me Joseph Harker, Deputy Opinion Editor

at The Guardian and Melanie Eusebe, Executive Producer of the Women

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Mail says grieving families may have to take out costly loans to pay

for new probate fees - dubbed the death tax -

The I reports that Theresa May will trigger Brexit as soon as Tuesday,

as EU chiefs warn of 'torturous' negotiations for months ahead.

The FT also reports on Brexit, with a claim from one source

saying if not Tuesday, Article 50 would be triggered

The Telegraph also reports on Brexit.

It also reports on its own poll claiming the Conservative Party

is no longer seen as a party of low taxation, following Philip Hammond's

National Insurance rise for self-employed workers

New Migrant Crisis On Way, says the Express, which claims

a surge of people travelling to Europe has sparked fears

of another summer of chaos at Britain's borders.

The Times reports on grammar schools - saying they'll be forced to offer

lower 11-plus pass marks to children from poorer backgrounds,

or embrace similar moves, to end what it calls

And the Mirror has an interview with Paul Burrell, the former butler

of Diana, Princess of Wales, who he claims

We shall start with the I. Brexit may be triggered by Tuesday.

Surprisingly. That means technically we could be off on Tuesday. That is

a surprise, not in terms of our own action, but in response to the

European Council. They are saying we could clear an our side in 48 hours.

So by the end of the week, it could be in full effect. Then they'll say

you can come back at any point in the future, just to muddy the

waters. This is uprising. The Lords let to go through and then they sent

it back. And now it is back with the Commons and you would think if they

were going to send it back, some MPs who were wavering may start to

think, well, maybe there's a reason for us to rethink it. Especially on

the issue whether or not migrants in the UK should have the right to

remain in this country. But at least we have been told all briefed that

there is unlikely to be a Tory rebellion which means when it goes

back to the Commons, they will not get through. -- they will let it

through. And this is on the expectation that they will let it

through, even though last week there was a majority of hunger for sending

it back. It could be but who knows. We have the express on page five

saying that Eurocrats are hinting at a new deal in a sneaky bid to derail

Brexit. This has been doing the rounds for ages, this idea of an

associate EU membership for those who did and wants to leave. Britain

has said it will not be the single market or the customs union. And now

they are saying there's another way in which they could a connection.

But it will be a membership of the EU, rather, some arrangement. A

wooden derail everything, just an idea put forward some time ago by a

former Belgian Prime Minister? Well, there are some people say let's make

the break, but now all of a sudden we are hearing, well, we've received

thousands of applications and so if you want to stay, personally, in the

EU, then you can apply to do so. And then also saying oh, maybe we ought

to have a special relationship. You applied to leave the boat, but you

may be able to get back on it. So frankly, in combination with the

possibility may be triggered this week and also associate membership,

we are still just as confused. We are. Now the Telegraph. Tories are

they no longer -- no longer the low tax party. Philip Hammond announced

there would be an increase in some classes of National Insurance

contributions for self-employed people. They always prided

themselves on being a party of low tax. Yes, I always like to keep

these things in context. You'll find this a thousand people voted in it,

so one in seven of them are already conservative. We should look at

that, because it may not be a reflection of what the general

populace is thinking. They say you only need to poll a thousand people

and we know the proud record companies. I think even bigger

samples than that. The subheading says almost half of the public say

they are less likely to vote Conservative and in the Express you

got them sent our 19 points ahead of Labour, so who do you believe? It is

and editing tonight, says she always packs the running order with the

huge number of... I was just going to say that hidden in a Telegraph

story was an interesting point. It said Philip Hammond must first

survive a plot to oust him which have been brewing amongst Brexit

types. So seizing on this unpopularity of his Budget and

trying to get rid of the chancel altogether. Of course, it is a

remainder. He barely mentioned Brexit in the Budget. He's the one

person who seems to be trying to stay true to his belief it is better

for Britain to stay in Europe while working for a Prime Minister who

says Brexit means Brexit. Can we move on now? The Times. Established

grammar schools most of the lower pass marks to poorer pupils. This is

an established grammar schools. She wants to create new ones. Utah to

detoxify grammar schools in order to convince Tory backbenchers that

expanding them is good idea. The big myth is that grammar schools help

social mobility. They did once, didn't they? There was a time when

ordinary working-class kids could get a grammar school and move on and

break away from their background and take advantage of greater

opportunities. But since then, middle-class families have been

getting their kids tutored and this is a free alternative to private

schools. Hence grammar schools now have 3% of kids on free school

dinners. This is an attempt to detoxify in a way undermining what

grammar schools are meant to be about, which is by lowering the

marks for poorer kids. From the North American perspective, is this

baffling to you, Melanie? Yes, and it feels like that argument about

affirmative action and letters she was at women to put in our

boardrooms. I always say, I don't want to get a bigger you have

lowered the grade or the admission criteria or changed it, it is more

that you are focusing on getting me in in different ways. It does leave

a bad taste. It doesn't resolve anything and it's still a deeply

divided issue. Kids can be quite cruel. You don't want a situation

where the poorer kids are all perceived to have got in because

their marks have been lowered. So a secondary school with kids saying,

they'll be less clever ones. Picture of Jack Munro on the Guardian who

sued Katie Hopkins for suggesting she had vandalised or approved of an

act of vandalism of a war memorial. Difficult to win libel cases, but

she has. Yes, and I love it, because this picture... Everybody who told

me I couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't, I could, and I did. It is a victory

for us all. For? It signals the attention we should pay to our

brand. I would be very hurt and upset if someone thought I was going

around and defacing British memorials. The residue is still

there, when you Google it it will come up. So I'm glad she went for it

and forget the fact that Katie Hopkins is very controversial, just

protect your brand. Because the residue stays. It shows you social

media is not a free for all. And she did imply she had defaced a war

memorial and when Jack Munro said to her, well, can you apologise and she

would have accepted an apology, Katie Hopkins refused to do that and

she dug herself deeper in by calling Jack Monroe social anthrax. So it

got worse and worse and now she is faced with a bill of over ?100,000

and maybe she can I reflect on that she plays it back. We do not lie

about on our timelines, do we? Just be nice everybody. Ticket touts and

unlimited fines. Some companies bulk buy and use software to bulk buy

concert tickets and sell them are vastly inflated profits. Well,

hopefully this is one measure recommended by Professor Waterstone.

He published a number of proposals to prevent touting, because, quite

frankly, business has come again and still these tickets at a fairly

reasonable rate. That is to be debated. Ticket touts and the kind

of technology and the sheer power in personnel, they buy the tickets very

quickly and the reseller could be up to 400%, so that's why we are seeing

artists like Adele selling out in minutes and they are appearing for

thousands of pounds. The artist is on getting it, the venue is on

getting it, so who is getting it? Someone's getting very rich. And

it's not in the supply chain of the creation of the music. Joseph, talk

to us about broadband. BT forced a broadband firm and they can't be in

charge of open reach anymore in the way have been. There's an

interesting table they've got tea, the percentage of homes at

fibre-optic connections. 85% in Singapore, Macedonia, 8.7%, the UK,

2%! That is shocking. If it is accurate, it is quite horrific. The

idea is if BT are not in charge of open reach, there will be more

competition and it would be better for rivals if they are not having to

compete with BT up, up until now, have opened them. And they all rely

to a certain extent on open reach and BT has been prioritising their

own clients ahead of virgin, head of sky, and there's all these problems

coming out of the ownership of BT open reach. They also say that BT

are spending millions on Champions League football riots and this week

they spent even more while this service it should be offering to

people across the country is falling into decay. Especially in the

countryside where people wants to run businesses and are finding it

difficult. We were going to talk about robots with artificial

irreverence. These robots work out how to tell a bad joke. The jokes

are very good. I couldn't even decipher one. I would need help with

that. But is it for tonight. -- that is its for tonight.

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