12/03/2017 The Papers

Bad luck to them. That's all this board. Now on BBC News, here is the

papers. -- that is all the sport. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what The Papers will be With me are Dave Wooding, political

editor at the Sun on Sunday, is under fire by MPs who fear

she has no back-up plan if the UK fails to get

a trade deal with the EU. The Mail on Sunday also leads

on the Prime Minister's impending it says she'll fire

the starting gun on Tuesday. The Sunday Telegraph's top story

is what it calls a war with ministers reportedly furious

at the Chancellor for not warning them that he was planning to break

a manifesto promise with a rise in National Insurance

for self-employed workers. The front page of the Sunday

Times has rugby hero Danny Care flying through the air

as he scores in England's victory against Scotland

in the Rugby Six Nations. And the Sunday Express reports

on a potential new lead in the hunt The paper says police have been

given extra funding to follow it up. Right, so let's begin and we are

going to start with the mail on Sunday and Brexit has got all the

headlines. A dereliction of duty if there is not a plan. It is all

Brexit, Brexit. This story is about the House of Commons Health Select

Committee report, chaired by a conservative, who have put out a

report that there is no plan B for Brexit. In other words, what do we

do if there is no deal? The Prime Minister has said she is prepared to

walk away if there is no deal. She has used the phrase no deal is

better than a bad dill. There are reasonable point is what contingency

planning have you done about this? They say there has been no

contingency planning as far as evidence suggests and they say that

is a dereliction of duty if you were not to plan for the worst-case

scenario and they are recommending, this all-party committee, that every

department in government should be looking at contingency plans in case

we go over a cliff edge. What we do about Northern Ireland with the

Borders? What do we do about trade? The trade being it exactly right.

Workforces, but Andre said this year it would take them ten years to get

a workforce that was entirely British and one out of 50

applications came from a British person. These are things which are

really going to hit straightaway, aren't they? -- a sandwich shop said

this week. Even looking at copyright for music, written pieces, and

tangling all of that is really difficult. I think that brings home

how many things there are. Also, this arrogance. We can't decide this

deal. This is a deal which will have to be agreed with all the nations in

the EU and they have oversimplified everything here for the people of

this country. The deal has to be made would the agreement of other

people. And getting that amount of agreement could be difficult? The

difficulty here, I can see the government's side and also the

all-party group's perspective as well. If you go to buy a car, you

never show your hand when you are negotiating. We don't know what

Theresa May's is and where she will go. She needs to be prepared to walk

out. If you are buying something and want to drive a hard bargain, you

need to drive a hard bargain. Should we know these publicly already? Yes,

or at least the MPs should. Parliamentarians are there to make

sure that whatever happens, whether it is internally, with foreign

affairs or with this deal, that what happened makes sense in the

long-term. There has been such an emotional rise long-term pro and

against Brexit that I think good sense is very difficult to bring

back to the table. Let's move the times and this is the headline,

may's EU payback. This is more of the nitty-gritty of the

negotiations. Theresa May is saying that Brussels should hand back ?9

billion worth of British assets which are held by the European Union

bank. This to me sounds like another bargaining chip. She is saying, we

have got this and the European Union are saying you have to keep paying

until 2020, and if they say that, she will say, we want this back.

This is all to do with jockeying and positioning when we come to a deal.

It's going to get really interesting. She has fired an

opening salvo. I think she wants to be, she is modelling herself on

Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher got back this rebate and the picture

-- the people cheered. I think she's subconsciously modelling herself on

national memory up to a point. It's a bit of PR as well. She comes over

a bit as shy vicar's daughter. What? She is not a shy person. She is

arrogant! People I spoke to when she worked at the Home Office, they say

what a tough cookie she is. She doesn't take any messing. If people

get things wrong, their beat don't touch the ground. She will be a

formidable negotiator. David Davis is talking about the Brexit rebels,

isn't he? The times -- timetable this week is that tomorrow, the two

amendments from the Lords go back to the comments, they will be shoved

back to the Lords, then if it gets put through, they will get royal

assent and Theresa May could be triggering Article 50 by Tuesday.

She probably won't do it on Wednesday because there are the

Dutch elections. Do you have secret information? No, we have all tried

to find that out because knowing what day she will trigger it would

be a great Sunday paper story but Downing Street are not telling us. A

lot of people have used the phrase, as early as Tuesday. Do you reckon

it will definitely come this week? It could be Tuesday or Thursday. It

is the Dutch elections on Wednesday and she has a speech on Friday. She

has got to get Royal assent, so Tuesday could be early. What about

this report? Would she not pay any attention? She responded last night

saying that they have got contingency plans, she does not

telling anyone what they are. Now, a Cabinet war over the budget? There

is a lot of bad feeling because this is felt by a lot of Tories to be a

very un-conservative thing to do, putting up taxes, particularly for

those striving. I think they're well have to be a rethink. Something very

slow and it will be kicked away. I don't think they will go ahead with

this. The more important things in the budget are being ignored.

Creating a whole education system which is completely going to divide

out as -- our children into fragments, sections of society, is

the more worrying thing and there has been no comment on that. The

national insurance contributions of course have taken the headlines. The

Tories are saying that the election pledge was actually bore people who

were employees and not the self-employed. Well, a bit of rowing

back on this. What happened effectively is that Philip Hammond,

the Chancellor, outlined the plan is to be Cabinet on Wednesday morning,

hours before he delivered the budget and his people are saying, we did

not hear a peep from any of the Cabinet group or the Prime Minister.

Then all hell breaks loose quantities delivered it. But they

are saying, what good we do at this late stage? They are also saying, he

didn't make clear it was a manifesto pledge. You do wonder why the

Cabinet didn't know what was in the manifesto. Exactly. And remember,

the tuition fees. The Lib Dems were unforgiving because of that failure.

This is a very fundamental thing. White Van man, as we call it in the

sun, these are the grafters, these drivers. Me! I was reading at being

in the week about start-ups and the higher percentage at the moment is

women with start-ups. We also don't get the benefits because they are

saying they are trying to make it fair because PAYE employees pay a

certain amount, but you don't get the holiday, sickness pay, maternity

pay. Well, you get maternity allowance because of Europe. But

it's a very unfair comparison, it seems to me. Just a quickie, yes or

no public view, will this the party? Yes, it's his first budget. Remember

he pointed out Norman Lamont was gone a few weeks afterwards. Newman

-- we heard from Norman Lamont yesterday and he said this was a

huge mistake. I think so too. It's an unforced error. Now, Prince

Philip. I love this story. Prince Philip meets Prince -- meets Philip

Hammond. The papers have been having fun. Yes, Philip goes up and he is

never one to miss sticking his oar in. He pulled his leg, a bit of

joshing about the budget. We don't know what he said but we can

probably guess. There is a rather funny caption in there. Yes, it

says, you will never find yourself a plumber now. We were all trying to

work out what was said but they were keeping tight-lipped about what was

said between these two Phillips. I suppose one good thing is that they

are all laughing. That is quite good. Moving along, a Russian cyber

threat in the times. What is this one about? We have heard recently

with the US presidential elections that the Russians were involved in

hacking into the campaign and maybe even swaying it. And there has been

a conference call by GCHQ cheats, these by leaders that are listening

as opposed in Cheltenham, to discuss the real and present threat of

Russians hacking political databases during the next general election and

actually influencing the result. There is a guy called Kieran Martin,

chief executive of the National cyber Security Centre, who will be

warning that it poses a threat to the democratic process in this

country. It seems to be something that is spreading and worldwide? It

is and I don't think it's just Russia. There is a lot of hacking

going on. A kind of the world in which we think we have early element

of privacy -- any element of Properzi and we don't. Everything

from wiki leaks to Russia's games, I think they are weak, and the far

right in America, who are very, very rich people. There is a new book

about this and Western democracies are under severe attack and we

should worry very much about it. Does this report give us an answer

as to what a solution to this might be? No, it says it's about outlining

the potential for hostile action and saying what political parties can do

to make their systems more robust and how to protect and safeguard

everything, but it's just a case of being one step ahead. It's like

terrorism. You have to be one step ahead and as they progress, you

progress. It's a very sophisticated area. It's kind of back to the Cold

War but with more sophisticated technology online. Let's have a look

at the Observer and this is an interesting story about how Finland

deals with homelessness. Yes, they have a system in Finland called

Housing first. What they do is rough sleepers are sent into

accommodation, they are given accommodation. The government do

deals with housing companies and they move them in without any of the

restrictions that people have when they try to get on the housing

ladder. Sometimes people who are rough sleeping have mental health

issues, drug issues, alcohol issues, and their lives are rock bottom and

they don't have the necessary paperwork to get housing. They shot

them into this housing, get them treatment and it has dramatically

reduced rough sleeping in Finland as a result. The Centre for Justice has

done a very thoughtful report on this and says it would cost ?101

million a year but the money would be recouped after three years and

Sabbir Javed is so impressed by this, he is going to go to Finland

to have a look at this and is considering doing this in Britain.

It has become a huge problem in Britain. Everywhere. I saw a couple

sleeping on the streets not far from here in Oxford Street and I am very

pleased to see the gentle side of the Tories emerging, finally, and of

course Finland has some really brilliant ideas. I think Finland has

this national income that they give everybody. Is that right? Yes. And

they have found extraordinary benefits coming from that. It's a

whole different way of looking at it, isn't it? I have never known the

Tories to go to a Scandinavian country so it's a very good thing. I

want to pop to be mirror and Paul Burrell now. What is he up to? What

would we do without him. He is would we do without him. He is

coming up with more and more allegations about what the Queen

told him and these strange goings-on on a yacht. They love him in America

because he's like a living soap opera and they love the family. He

gives them all this stuff. And the thing here is that the Queen told

him to find a woman, because of course he came out, Paul Burrell, a

view years back. But it's just fun to read. At these times we need

fantasy. He was in a view stories this week, wasn't he? He said Diana

talks to him at night. Yes, I think he has a book coming out. He was

never off the front pages if you years ago. Diana famously described

him as her rock. And he doesn't age. How? Maybe he will tell us in the

next instalment. Thanks to our guests today -

Dave Wooding, political editor at the Sun on Sunday,

and journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown. Just a reminder we take a look

at tomorrow's front pages every