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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
With me are Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday Mirror | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
and the Sunday People, and the political commentator Jo | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Some of tomorrow's front pages are already in. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
The Observer says Theresa May is under fire by MPs who fear | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
she has no backup plan if the UK fails to get a trade deal | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The Mail on Sunday also leads on the Prime Minister's impending | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
It says she will fire the starting gun on Tuesday. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
The Sunday Telegraph's top story is what it calls a war | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
in the Cabinet over the Budget, with ministers reportedly furious | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
at the Chancellor for not warning them that he was planning to break | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
a manifesto promise with a rise in national insurance | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
The front page of the Sunday Times has rugby hero Danny Care flying | :01:03. | :01:14. | |
through the air as scores in England's victory | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
against Scotland in the Rugby Six Nations. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
And the Sunday Express reports on a potential new lead in the hunt | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
The paper says police have been given extra funding to follow it up. | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
Let's began, and I think we can get the overall theme. There is a lot of | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
Brexit, of course, it is a big week ahead and the Mail on Sunday saying | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
that David Davis has been grossly negligent, dereliction of his duty. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
And in fact there are pages and pages of this and this is the report | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
from the foreign affairs Select Committee, and these committees are | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
very influential, as you know. If you cast your mind back, the same | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
committee warned David Cameron and criticised him for gross negligence, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
was actually the phrase they used, for not having put into shape or put | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
on the backburner a plan for if there was a live vote in the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
referendum. What they are saying now, it is possible that, because | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
Theresa May has set a bad deal is better than no deal, is worse than | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
no deal -- leave vote. It actually there might not be a deal, in which | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
case what is the plan? What happens? And they are absolutely not mincing | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
their words at all. The chairman of the Select Committee, Crispin Blunt, | :02:43. | :02:55. | |
was a very committed Brexiteer. But this is talking about what are we | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
going to do? Talking about it being destructive, talking about mutually | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
assured damage, a throwback to the Cold War phrase mutually assured | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
destruction, so it is absolutely damning and there are two very | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
significant votes coming back from the amendments from the House of | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Lords tomorrow, and possibly Article 50 being triggered on Thursday or | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Tuesday. So the fear is deadlock and then we don't know what happens. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
That's right. Everything now gets very complicated because the first | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
thing that Theresa May has got to do is get Article 50 passed by | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Parliament. So Monday we see a couple of votes in the House of | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Commons pinging back to the House of Lords, everyone hoping it will go | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
unamended from the Commons and the Lords will roll over and we're off | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and running. So technically she could trigger on Tuesday. She can't | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
do it on Wednesday because of the industrial action is and it might | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
interfere with those. The next date is Thursday, or she could surprise | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
us all by saying I will do at the following week and a lot of people | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
are saying the following week is perhaps more likely. Nigel, stay | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
with this one and move us on to the Sunday Times because we have had the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
devastation story of Brexit, tucked down in the left-hand column is a | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
little nest egg which might come to us if we leave the EU. ?9 million | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
down the back of the so. It is amazing that these figures, we used | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
to talk in figures if you remember not so long ago, and ?9 billion | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
which apparently we didn't know we had is sitting in the European | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
investment bank and so what Theresa May wants to say is that is our | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
money, we will have it back now, thank you, because we're leaving the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
EU. And what the Sunday Times is suggesting is that maybe on the | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
basis of doing that we will get a deal over their bill to us, where | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
they are talking in terms of perhaps up to 50 billion pounds. They will | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
charge us to leave. So it sounds like this is how the negotiation is | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
going to go on, that you have a bit of our money, we're not going pay | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
that money, Boris Johnson says don't pay any money at all but it is an | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
interesting bargaining chip to say we would like our ?9 billion back. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Especially when it is to plug the deficit in the EU's own pension | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
scheme. The pension scheme is a problem, we have an agreement that | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
we are going to pay the pensions until who knows when, that is where | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
the ?50 billion comes in. A lot of accountants are working this out | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
with their calculators before the negotiations began. It could be | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
worse, they could be self-employed! Let's move to a different story. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
This is the spooks. Apparently the Russians who may have it in for UK | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
elections. Yes, well this is following on from all the | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
shenanigans which have been going on in America during the elections of | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Donald Trump, and the claim that Russians, it is always the Russians, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
somehow or other were hacking the elections and this has actually come | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
from GCHQ, which is Britain's listening and monitoring post and | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
they have called an emergency summit with all the main political parties | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
in this country, to warn them. And I think this is unprecedented. Nigel | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
will know better than me but it is unprecedented to give a warning to | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
all political parties to say that, you know, you hold all this data and | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
all this information and party members, and their involvement in | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
various campaigns, and goodness knows what, and banks and families | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
and all that sort of stuff, policy interests, it would be very easy for | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
hackers to manipulating that. -- start manipulating that. It will be | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
interesting to see how the parties respond, but it is clearly a | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
warning. There are campaigns all the time for online voting instead of | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
going into the booth or doing postal votes, this will knock it on the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
head. Online voting is not on the cards now, and I don't think it will | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
be four years. In the Sunday Telegraph, we were making fleeting | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
references are moment ago to the insurance, and this is a suggestion | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
that the Cabinet is now in a war. It is such a shambles, this decision by | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the Chancellor. That is what the Sunday Telegraph is telling us. They | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
have hated this policy since it came up in the Budget. They have been | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
furious about it and have turned their fury on to the Cabinet because | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
they are furious with each other. What it is saying is that Philip | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Hammond had an hour-long briefing with his Cabinet colleagues but he | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
forgot to mention that if he hiked in a national insurance for the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
self-employed, he would be breaking a manifesto commitment, at which | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
point you would expect every Cabinet minister to how and say we can't | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
possibly do that. This is where it gets a bit confusing. -- how. It | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
looks like the Cabinet ministers, having not been told, didn't notice | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
and this is the part I find stretches credibility. If you are | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
telling Cabinet ministers who only last year or the year before went to | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
the polls based on a manifesto, that one would rather hope they knew | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
backwards, the first thing they would think of is, is this a breach | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
of a manifesto commitment? And by the way, look what happened to the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Lib Dems when they breached their manifesto commitment over tuition | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
fees. And certainly, myself and colleagues in the Parliamentary | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
lobby, we knew it was a manifesto commitment which was why we didn't | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
think he would ever do it. So it seems a little odd that the Cabinet | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
didn't actually point out themselves that something was awry here. And it | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
is a total shambles because nobody anywhere seemed to recognise that it | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
would be like throwing a hand grenade into the party. That there | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
would be this absolute fury. Two we are going to rattle on through, take | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
us a little lower. Talking about tuition fees and the Lib Dems, we | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
are now taking lessons from France as regards our MPs and what they | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
should and shouldn't do. Indeed. New rules are likely to come into | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Westminster about MPs employing wives and children, presumably | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
husbands as well. As you know, in France, Fillon is at the centre of | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
this controversy over having employed his wife and children for | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
not doing the job they are supposed to do, or not very much, allegedly. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
This will urge politicians to advertise all vacancies and a | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
blanket ban on hiring family members at Westminster, which is in place in | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Scotland. So it is bringing England in line with Scotland. Sunday | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
express delving a little deeper, and going inside 2-page format. A new | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
angle on the grammar school issue, perhaps. Yes, this is Theresa May's | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
pet project to create a new generation of grammar schools. This | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
is from the grammar school heads Association. So they are worth | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
listening to. What they are saying is when designing new grammar | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
schools has to be from the bottom up, not the top down. This is what | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
most people's concerns about the new grammar school, that in fact they | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
will become elitist and would be for everybody. The heads Association say | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
you can make it that, but what you have to do is, you have to start | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
when children are at primary school. You have two have the right primary | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
school is to -- primary school is to feed into the grammar schools. My | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
view of them is that they are not a problem in principle, but the | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
selection procedure offers me somewhat. Same with the Labour Party | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
and some Tories feel the same way. This seems to be a way forward. They | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
are saying no quick fix. A story about something which might be a | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
quick fix, this is a diet which reverses diabetes in ten weeks. This | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
is a story in the Sunday express, which one takes with a pinch of | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
salt. But this is type 2 diabetes, and this is based on a study in | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
America, a small study, just over 238 patients. But because type 2 | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
diabetes is a huge problem and is linked to obesity, and because the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
reason that happens is that carbohydrate intake is the single | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
biggest factor in blood sugar levels, and that is why people end | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
up with type 2 diabetes, what this study has shown is that over the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
course of ten weeks, with high-fat, low carb diet, they can actually | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
reverse it. If it is true, and there is a lot of work to be done, because | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
it is small, the implications for actually fixing Type II diabetes, | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
turning people's lives around, saving the NHS millions and millions | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
of pounds that it currently spends on drugs or surgery, and it hasn't | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
been rubbished. The charity diabetes UK is also funding a trial, and the | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
National Obesity Forum saying this is highly significant, and suggests | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
carbohydrates are damaging. It does tell us a little bit more about what | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
carbohydrates do, so it is good for diets. While we are talking about | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
fixing things, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
says there is some fixing to be done and we need help. He is not happy | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
with fake news and the way data harvesting goes on and what he says | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
is it is time to get whole thing sorted out. Unfortunately we are not | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
told exactly how he plans to do it, but he wants to do it with the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
support of the public. His idea seems to be to get back to his | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
original concept, which is a web that gives equal power to everybody. | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
So in other words, don't let the fake news jockeys go and take over | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
the whole thing. What will be interesting to see is what he comes | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
up with. I'm sure all of us, especially in the news business, we | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
would love to get fake news out of Twitter and Facebook and so on. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Given that he invented the thing, maybe he really has got some ideas, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
but at the moment he is just appealing for people to get together | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
and come up with something. To finish, anybody watching the last | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
hour will have seen that we set Nigel little challenge. I don't | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
think I will hold on to it but we have been having fun with the lovely | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
pictures on the Sunday Times and the Observer of the English victory in | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
the Six Nations. We have Danny Care with that wonderful flying... I | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
don't know if it was a Trihi was going for them. You are not a rugby | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
fan but you will pay tribute absolutely, it was quite brilliant. | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
England have equalled the world record for 18 consecutive wins, a | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
fantastic game. 18 consecutive wins in a row, 61- 21 over Scotland, they | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
have to play Ireland next week for the Grand Slam, which is Venice. It | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
is in the bag, so they have won the Six Nations. I am quite impressed. | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
Headlines coming up for you at the top of the hour. | :14:38. | :14:41. |