11/03/2017

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:00:00. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:23. > :00:26.With me are Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday Mirror

:00:27. > :00:28.and the Sunday People, and the political commentator Jo

:00:29. > :00:32.Some of tomorrow's front pages are already in.

:00:33. > :00:35.The Observer says Theresa May is under fire by MPs who fear

:00:36. > :00:39.she has no backup plan if the UK fails to get a trade deal

:00:40. > :00:47.The Mail on Sunday also leads on the Prime Minister's impending

:00:48. > :00:51.It says she will fire the starting gun on Tuesday.

:00:52. > :00:54.The Sunday Telegraph's top story is what it calls a war

:00:55. > :00:56.in the Cabinet over the Budget, with ministers reportedly furious

:00:57. > :01:00.at the Chancellor for not warning them that he was planning to break

:01:01. > :01:02.a manifesto promise with a rise in national insurance

:01:03. > :01:14.The front page of the Sunday Times has rugby hero Danny Care flying

:01:15. > :01:17.through the air as scores in England's victory

:01:18. > :01:20.against Scotland in the Rugby Six Nations.

:01:21. > :01:24.And the Sunday Express reports on a potential new lead in the hunt

:01:25. > :01:33.The paper says police have been given extra funding to follow it up.

:01:34. > :01:42.Let's began, and I think we can get the overall theme. There is a lot of

:01:43. > :01:48.Brexit, of course, it is a big week ahead and the Mail on Sunday saying

:01:49. > :01:52.that David Davis has been grossly negligent, dereliction of his duty.

:01:53. > :01:59.And in fact there are pages and pages of this and this is the report

:02:00. > :02:03.from the foreign affairs Select Committee, and these committees are

:02:04. > :02:08.very influential, as you know. If you cast your mind back, the same

:02:09. > :02:12.committee warned David Cameron and criticised him for gross negligence,

:02:13. > :02:17.was actually the phrase they used, for not having put into shape or put

:02:18. > :02:21.on the backburner a plan for if there was a live vote in the

:02:22. > :02:28.referendum. What they are saying now, it is possible that, because

:02:29. > :02:32.Theresa May has set a bad deal is better than no deal, is worse than

:02:33. > :02:37.no deal -- leave vote. It actually there might not be a deal, in which

:02:38. > :02:42.case what is the plan? What happens? And they are absolutely not mincing

:02:43. > :02:55.their words at all. The chairman of the Select Committee, Crispin Blunt,

:02:56. > :03:00.was a very committed Brexiteer. But this is talking about what are we

:03:01. > :03:04.going to do? Talking about it being destructive, talking about mutually

:03:05. > :03:09.assured damage, a throwback to the Cold War phrase mutually assured

:03:10. > :03:13.destruction, so it is absolutely damning and there are two very

:03:14. > :03:16.significant votes coming back from the amendments from the House of

:03:17. > :03:22.Lords tomorrow, and possibly Article 50 being triggered on Thursday or

:03:23. > :03:28.Tuesday. So the fear is deadlock and then we don't know what happens.

:03:29. > :03:33.That's right. Everything now gets very complicated because the first

:03:34. > :03:37.thing that Theresa May has got to do is get Article 50 passed by

:03:38. > :03:41.Parliament. So Monday we see a couple of votes in the House of

:03:42. > :03:45.Commons pinging back to the House of Lords, everyone hoping it will go

:03:46. > :03:50.unamended from the Commons and the Lords will roll over and we're off

:03:51. > :03:54.and running. So technically she could trigger on Tuesday. She can't

:03:55. > :03:58.do it on Wednesday because of the industrial action is and it might

:03:59. > :04:03.interfere with those. The next date is Thursday, or she could surprise

:04:04. > :04:06.us all by saying I will do at the following week and a lot of people

:04:07. > :04:12.are saying the following week is perhaps more likely. Nigel, stay

:04:13. > :04:15.with this one and move us on to the Sunday Times because we have had the

:04:16. > :04:20.devastation story of Brexit, tucked down in the left-hand column is a

:04:21. > :04:27.little nest egg which might come to us if we leave the EU. ?9 million

:04:28. > :04:31.down the back of the so. It is amazing that these figures, we used

:04:32. > :04:35.to talk in figures if you remember not so long ago, and ?9 billion

:04:36. > :04:39.which apparently we didn't know we had is sitting in the European

:04:40. > :04:43.investment bank and so what Theresa May wants to say is that is our

:04:44. > :04:47.money, we will have it back now, thank you, because we're leaving the

:04:48. > :04:51.EU. And what the Sunday Times is suggesting is that maybe on the

:04:52. > :04:55.basis of doing that we will get a deal over their bill to us, where

:04:56. > :05:03.they are talking in terms of perhaps up to 50 billion pounds. They will

:05:04. > :05:07.charge us to leave. So it sounds like this is how the negotiation is

:05:08. > :05:11.going to go on, that you have a bit of our money, we're not going pay

:05:12. > :05:15.that money, Boris Johnson says don't pay any money at all but it is an

:05:16. > :05:21.interesting bargaining chip to say we would like our ?9 billion back.

:05:22. > :05:26.Especially when it is to plug the deficit in the EU's own pension

:05:27. > :05:30.scheme. The pension scheme is a problem, we have an agreement that

:05:31. > :05:35.we are going to pay the pensions until who knows when, that is where

:05:36. > :05:38.the ?50 billion comes in. A lot of accountants are working this out

:05:39. > :05:43.with their calculators before the negotiations began. It could be

:05:44. > :05:47.worse, they could be self-employed! Let's move to a different story.

:05:48. > :05:55.This is the spooks. Apparently the Russians who may have it in for UK

:05:56. > :05:58.elections. Yes, well this is following on from all the

:05:59. > :06:02.shenanigans which have been going on in America during the elections of

:06:03. > :06:07.Donald Trump, and the claim that Russians, it is always the Russians,

:06:08. > :06:12.somehow or other were hacking the elections and this has actually come

:06:13. > :06:16.from GCHQ, which is Britain's listening and monitoring post and

:06:17. > :06:21.they have called an emergency summit with all the main political parties

:06:22. > :06:27.in this country, to warn them. And I think this is unprecedented. Nigel

:06:28. > :06:30.will know better than me but it is unprecedented to give a warning to

:06:31. > :06:34.all political parties to say that, you know, you hold all this data and

:06:35. > :06:38.all this information and party members, and their involvement in

:06:39. > :06:43.various campaigns, and goodness knows what, and banks and families

:06:44. > :06:50.and all that sort of stuff, policy interests, it would be very easy for

:06:51. > :06:54.hackers to manipulating that. -- start manipulating that. It will be

:06:55. > :06:58.interesting to see how the parties respond, but it is clearly a

:06:59. > :07:02.warning. There are campaigns all the time for online voting instead of

:07:03. > :07:07.going into the booth or doing postal votes, this will knock it on the

:07:08. > :07:11.head. Online voting is not on the cards now, and I don't think it will

:07:12. > :07:15.be four years. In the Sunday Telegraph, we were making fleeting

:07:16. > :07:20.references are moment ago to the insurance, and this is a suggestion

:07:21. > :07:25.that the Cabinet is now in a war. It is such a shambles, this decision by

:07:26. > :07:29.the Chancellor. That is what the Sunday Telegraph is telling us. They

:07:30. > :07:33.have hated this policy since it came up in the Budget. They have been

:07:34. > :07:36.furious about it and have turned their fury on to the Cabinet because

:07:37. > :07:40.they are furious with each other. What it is saying is that Philip

:07:41. > :07:45.Hammond had an hour-long briefing with his Cabinet colleagues but he

:07:46. > :07:49.forgot to mention that if he hiked in a national insurance for the

:07:50. > :07:53.self-employed, he would be breaking a manifesto commitment, at which

:07:54. > :07:57.point you would expect every Cabinet minister to how and say we can't

:07:58. > :08:05.possibly do that. This is where it gets a bit confusing. -- how. It

:08:06. > :08:09.looks like the Cabinet ministers, having not been told, didn't notice

:08:10. > :08:12.and this is the part I find stretches credibility. If you are

:08:13. > :08:17.telling Cabinet ministers who only last year or the year before went to

:08:18. > :08:20.the polls based on a manifesto, that one would rather hope they knew

:08:21. > :08:25.backwards, the first thing they would think of is, is this a breach

:08:26. > :08:29.of a manifesto commitment? And by the way, look what happened to the

:08:30. > :08:35.Lib Dems when they breached their manifesto commitment over tuition

:08:36. > :08:39.fees. And certainly, myself and colleagues in the Parliamentary

:08:40. > :08:43.lobby, we knew it was a manifesto commitment which was why we didn't

:08:44. > :08:46.think he would ever do it. So it seems a little odd that the Cabinet

:08:47. > :08:51.didn't actually point out themselves that something was awry here. And it

:08:52. > :08:55.is a total shambles because nobody anywhere seemed to recognise that it

:08:56. > :08:59.would be like throwing a hand grenade into the party. That there

:09:00. > :09:03.would be this absolute fury. Two we are going to rattle on through, take

:09:04. > :09:06.us a little lower. Talking about tuition fees and the Lib Dems, we

:09:07. > :09:13.are now taking lessons from France as regards our MPs and what they

:09:14. > :09:17.should and shouldn't do. Indeed. New rules are likely to come into

:09:18. > :09:20.Westminster about MPs employing wives and children, presumably

:09:21. > :09:28.husbands as well. As you know, in France, Fillon is at the centre of

:09:29. > :09:32.this controversy over having employed his wife and children for

:09:33. > :09:36.not doing the job they are supposed to do, or not very much, allegedly.

:09:37. > :09:40.This will urge politicians to advertise all vacancies and a

:09:41. > :09:44.blanket ban on hiring family members at Westminster, which is in place in

:09:45. > :09:50.Scotland. So it is bringing England in line with Scotland. Sunday

:09:51. > :09:54.express delving a little deeper, and going inside 2-page format. A new

:09:55. > :10:02.angle on the grammar school issue, perhaps. Yes, this is Theresa May's

:10:03. > :10:06.pet project to create a new generation of grammar schools. This

:10:07. > :10:10.is from the grammar school heads Association. So they are worth

:10:11. > :10:13.listening to. What they are saying is when designing new grammar

:10:14. > :10:18.schools has to be from the bottom up, not the top down. This is what

:10:19. > :10:24.most people's concerns about the new grammar school, that in fact they

:10:25. > :10:27.will become elitist and would be for everybody. The heads Association say

:10:28. > :10:33.you can make it that, but what you have to do is, you have to start

:10:34. > :10:44.when children are at primary school. You have two have the right primary

:10:45. > :10:50.school is to -- primary school is to feed into the grammar schools. My

:10:51. > :10:53.view of them is that they are not a problem in principle, but the

:10:54. > :10:58.selection procedure offers me somewhat. Same with the Labour Party

:10:59. > :11:02.and some Tories feel the same way. This seems to be a way forward. They

:11:03. > :11:07.are saying no quick fix. A story about something which might be a

:11:08. > :11:11.quick fix, this is a diet which reverses diabetes in ten weeks. This

:11:12. > :11:17.is a story in the Sunday express, which one takes with a pinch of

:11:18. > :11:23.salt. But this is type 2 diabetes, and this is based on a study in

:11:24. > :11:30.America, a small study, just over 238 patients. But because type 2

:11:31. > :11:33.diabetes is a huge problem and is linked to obesity, and because the

:11:34. > :11:37.reason that happens is that carbohydrate intake is the single

:11:38. > :11:41.biggest factor in blood sugar levels, and that is why people end

:11:42. > :11:46.up with type 2 diabetes, what this study has shown is that over the

:11:47. > :11:52.course of ten weeks, with high-fat, low carb diet, they can actually

:11:53. > :11:56.reverse it. If it is true, and there is a lot of work to be done, because

:11:57. > :12:00.it is small, the implications for actually fixing Type II diabetes,

:12:01. > :12:05.turning people's lives around, saving the NHS millions and millions

:12:06. > :12:10.of pounds that it currently spends on drugs or surgery, and it hasn't

:12:11. > :12:17.been rubbished. The charity diabetes UK is also funding a trial, and the

:12:18. > :12:20.National Obesity Forum saying this is highly significant, and suggests

:12:21. > :12:26.carbohydrates are damaging. It does tell us a little bit more about what

:12:27. > :12:34.carbohydrates do, so it is good for diets. While we are talking about

:12:35. > :12:39.fixing things, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web,

:12:40. > :12:44.says there is some fixing to be done and we need help. He is not happy

:12:45. > :12:48.with fake news and the way data harvesting goes on and what he says

:12:49. > :12:53.is it is time to get whole thing sorted out. Unfortunately we are not

:12:54. > :12:57.told exactly how he plans to do it, but he wants to do it with the

:12:58. > :13:01.support of the public. His idea seems to be to get back to his

:13:02. > :13:08.original concept, which is a web that gives equal power to everybody.

:13:09. > :13:12.So in other words, don't let the fake news jockeys go and take over

:13:13. > :13:16.the whole thing. What will be interesting to see is what he comes

:13:17. > :13:21.up with. I'm sure all of us, especially in the news business, we

:13:22. > :13:28.would love to get fake news out of Twitter and Facebook and so on.

:13:29. > :13:32.Given that he invented the thing, maybe he really has got some ideas,

:13:33. > :13:36.but at the moment he is just appealing for people to get together

:13:37. > :13:40.and come up with something. To finish, anybody watching the last

:13:41. > :13:45.hour will have seen that we set Nigel little challenge. I don't

:13:46. > :13:48.think I will hold on to it but we have been having fun with the lovely

:13:49. > :13:57.pictures on the Sunday Times and the Observer of the English victory in

:13:58. > :14:01.the Six Nations. We have Danny Care with that wonderful flying... I

:14:02. > :14:05.don't know if it was a Trihi was going for them. You are not a rugby

:14:06. > :14:13.fan but you will pay tribute absolutely, it was quite brilliant.

:14:14. > :14:18.England have equalled the world record for 18 consecutive wins, a

:14:19. > :14:23.fantastic game. 18 consecutive wins in a row, 61- 21 over Scotland, they

:14:24. > :14:28.have to play Ireland next week for the Grand Slam, which is Venice. It

:14:29. > :14:37.is in the bag, so they have won the Six Nations. I am quite impressed.

:14:38. > :14:41.Headlines coming up for you at the top of the hour.