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Hello. This is BBC News. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
We'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Four countries in Africa and the Middle East need urgent help - | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
the United Nations says 20 million people are facing starvation. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
A diplomatic row after Turkey's president calls the Dutch "Nazi | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
remnants" for banning his Foreign Minister. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
A judge has been criticised for warning women that they could be | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
targeted by rapists if they get very drunk. | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
And England crush Scotland at Twickenham, winning a second | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:47. | :01:04. | |
With me are Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday Mirror | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
and the Sunday People, and the political | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Some of tomorrow's front pages are already in. | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
The Observer says Theresa May is under fire by MPs who fear | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
she has no back-up plan if the UK fails to get a trade | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
The Mail on Sunday also leads on the Prime Minister's impending | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
plan to trigger Article 50 - the says she'll fire | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
The Sunday Telegraph's top story is what it calls a war | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
in the Cabinet over the Budget - with ministers reportedly furious | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
at the Chancellor for not warning them that he was planning to break | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
a manifesto promise with a rise in National Insurance | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
The front page of the Sunday Times has rugby hero Danny Care flying | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
through the air as scores in England's victory against | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
And The Sunday Express reports on a potential new lead in the hunt | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
The paper says police have been given extra | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
let's delve a little deeper. We start with the Observer. I feel we | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
need a drum roll. Tuesdays when we are likely to see the Prime Minister | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
triggering Article 50. Or Thursday. It is also triggering lots of | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
accusations of, do we really know what we are doing? Good question! | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
What the papers are full of tonight is a foreign affairs select | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
committee report which absolutely slams the government. It was chaired | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
by Tory Crispin Blunt. But he is broadly saying is that if we don't | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
plan for failure, then that would be a dereliction of duty. That is what | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
he is accusing the Prime Minister of. What has really got the gold of | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
MPs is they made the same kind of warning to David Cameron, saying, | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
you may want a referendum, you don't have a plan. Where is the plan? They | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
are saying this is similar. They think the negotiations may well | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
fail. What are we doing for planning if they do fail? At the moment we | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
can't hear anything from the government. We are going to stay | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
with this story. The Mail on Sunday, dereliction of his duty. Savaging | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Brexit Minister David Davis, suggesting there is no plan. As | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Nigel said, they had already been very critical of David Cameron, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
accusing the government of gross negligence, of never having a plan B | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
for the result of the referendum, which resulted in a Leave vote. To | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
do it again would be absolutely appalling. They use this phrase, | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
mutually assured damage, which is a throwback to mutually assured | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
destruction, a Cold War term used by Russia and America. It is absolutely | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
damning. It is chilling for the government. It is chilling to | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
business. It is chilling to the country. If there is no deal, and | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Theresa May has said we will walk away because no deal is better than | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
a bad deal, they have got this idea in their heads it is possible there | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
is not a deal they can agree to. What is the plan? If she does | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
trigger it on Tuesday or Thursday, they have two years to come up with | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
something. Politically, if there is a plan B that is being configured, | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
they don't want to make too much of it because they wanted to succeed. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
What if it doesn't succeed? There needs to be a contingency plan. The | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
chaos that gripped Whitehall Atherley referenda must because | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
there was no plan for leaving in the first place. -- after the | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
referendum. Because we were caught out that time, the argument from MPs | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
is that we should be making plans for that. David Davis tells us he | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
has a plan A, plan B, plan see -- plan capital see... You get the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
feeling they do not know what they are doing. Do you get the impression | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the Parliamentary committee are giving guidelines as to what they | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
think the back-up should be? No, I don't think they are. They are | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
saying it is a possibility, so you can't pretend it may not happen. It | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
is an insurance. It is the duty of government. What they are saying is | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
you can't be negligent. I think what they are saying is that obviously | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
everybody involved is going into completely uncharted territory. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Probably the only people who have any idea of what it means and what | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
the deal will be will be the many lawyers working through. Nigel | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
touches on what David Davis is saying, and we make come on to that | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
in a bit, because he has written an article in another Sunday paper, but | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
you can't talk this up because it may not be down to us in the end. It | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
will be about what the other 27 countries are offering. Hiding | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
behind the claim that negotiations are not working. She wouldn't say | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
anything to begin with. Then she admitted we were going to be in the | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
single market. Other things are obvious, too. She must be more | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
honest. The Sunday Times has a headline that suggests she is clear | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
on some of the money payback. This sounds like a very jolly good story, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
that we will be sitting on ?9 billion coming our way. The argument | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
seems to be that we have got 9 billion sitting in the European | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
investment bank. Our money. Theresa May, when she finally gets to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Brussels to start the negotiations, will say, before we start, can we | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
have the dosh back, please? The idea seems to be to spike the European | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Commission's guns about starched -- charging us ?50 billion for leaving | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
the EU. Where they got this figure from seems to be a mystery. We're | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Prattley oh a lot of pension contributions and so on. Good luck | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
to. -- we apparently owe a lot of pension contributions. This says | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
that ministers are confident they can reduce the size of a Brexit bill | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
to something more politically palatable. This goes back to talking | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
up. They may be confident but they don't know what the bill would be | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
yet. If we're going to get his ?9 billion back, allegedly, is the EU | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
going to ask for money back that it has already for farming subsidies or | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
other grants and things we benefit from. It is a bit like a Moroccan | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
Bazaar, isn't it?! This is an ugly divorce, isn't it? Somebody will end | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
up in a cold, chilly Park. Before we get too depressed, take us onto the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
other story in the Sunday Times, a Russian cyber threat to UK | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
elections. This story has been running around. I have to confess I | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
was taking the Mickey out of Nigel last time we were on talking about | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
the spies in your cattle. -- kettle. Now your TVs! People at GCHQ, the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
listening spying station, and what they are basically doing, they have | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
got a story which is that GCHQ are offering and calling for a summit. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
They are calling on all political parties, the leaders of all | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
political parties, because political parties hold an enormous amount of | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
personal information online about their members and things, and they | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
are very concerned, GCHQ, lured the possible disruption to the next | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
general election -- to the possible disruption. They have intervened and | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
they have stopped apparently a cyber attack on the BBC election coverage. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Did you know that? I did not. By a gang of hackers known as the fancy | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
bares. They sound rather fond! Deliberately cuddly! Because of | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
what's happening, all the concerns about fake news and weather the | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Russians were involved in the American election, it will fuel the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
thing that we don't want to go down the route of online voting. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
Old-fashioned as it may be, the paper and pencil works. That is | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
years away if it ever comes at all. It is a ramping up, telling people | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
to take it seriously. We were mentioning the parallel with the | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
states and that the Russians somehow had a hand in the American | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
presidential elections. The focus very much on Russia? Yes, they seem | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
to be the ones doing it. We have the same discussions going on in France | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
with the French elections. It does seem when you talk to people who | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
know about these things in Whitehall, it is always Russia. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
China is pretty interested but they want to steal technology, really. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
The Russians want to mess around with democracy. We are fearing that | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Russians are actually doing this. It seems perfectly sensible. Have a | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
summit, swapped what you know, how you can protect yourself. The Sunday | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Telegraph. Let's return to politics. This takes us back to the budget. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
The suggestion that the Cabinet is now at war over a shambolic decision | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
by the Chancellor. Does this sound vaguely familiar, rows between the | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
Chancellor and MPs?! That old one. This is a story that claims that | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, failed to brief the Cabinet on the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
fact that the introduction of the increase in national insurance for | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
self-employed people was breaking the Tory party manifesto before the | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
last election. It does rather beg the question, if they were briefed | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
on it, do they not remember what was in their manifesto? This is a blame | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
game. Clearly that was an absolute error. It is a bit like George | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Osborne's pasty tax. It is a nonsense that somebody in the | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
Treasury should have worked out what was going to happen, there was gone | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
to be this absolute uproar on the very people who are just about | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
managing, the self-employed, the entrepreneur ors. Whether or not, | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
reality is that all of those people would be affected, having the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
resolution foundation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, they | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
actually say it will not affect people on the very low level. It is | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
a way of levelling income tax and making it fair. If you are going to | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
do it, why not go on the winter fuel allowance for wealthy pensioners, or | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
bring prescription charges down? It is a good job you are not on Twitter | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
because you would get lots of tweets about that. I know but don't just | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
pick on one easily identifiable group. Does seem a particularly Daft | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
decision. I was astonished when I heard in the budget. When you read | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
the Cabinet didn't notice it was breaking a manifesto commitment, I | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
found that hard to believe. One of the things we give the week before | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
the budget is we work out our predictions. This is one that had | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
been around. The reason we threw it out was on the basis that, hang on, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
it is a manifesto commitment, surely they won't break it? Surely the | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
Cabinet know about it and if they don't, why not? Let's return to the | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
Observer. Tucked away down the side. You made reference to fake news, a | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
very zeitgeist thing. This is the web creator himself, Sir Tim | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Berners-Lee, who says the Internet is broken. Perhaps he is going to | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
unplug it! This is one of these stories were the headline looks as | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
if it is an interesting story. When you look into it, there isn't | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
actually a story. He is meant to be unveiling a plan. He has unveiled a | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
radical plan to combat fake news 28 years after he created the Internet. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
But what happens is he has written an open letter to the observer | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
talking about the chilling effect on free speech, Internet blindspots | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
that corrupt democratic process. But he says with public support he hopes | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
to comp up with policy solutions. -- to come. We want his solutions and | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
then we will support it. Did you come up with any solutions? Not yet! | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
Give us in minutes! This is not on our list. But knowing that you are a | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
fan and Nigel not so much, let's pay a little tribute to England's | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
victory in the Six Nations at Twickenham. They have lovely | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
pictures. We have Jonathan Joseph, man of the match. Got a hat-trick. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
The Sunday Times with Danny Care. It is fantastic. 18 wins in a row for | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
the England team, which I think they are very close to beating New | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Zealand's record. They have to play Ireland next week. That will be a | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
walk in the park. And this was the Calcutta cup. After we finished | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
this, you take Nigel away and give him a briefing and we will question | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
him at 11:30pm! It is an exam now! Very many thanks to Nigel and to | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
Joe. We will be back with more at half past 11. Coming next, it is | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
time for Reporters. | :16:32. | :16:36. |