12/03/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Robert Fox, Defence Editor

and Esther McVey, former Conservative Employment minister.

The FT says Theresa May is on the brink of formally

launching Britain's exit from the European Union after rebel

Tory MPs admitted they were unlikely to have the power to block the move.

The i says Tory veteran Lord Hestletine who was sacked over

Brexit has accused Mrs May of treating colleagues

For the Metro, it's "March Madness", as strikes over driver-only trains

spread to three parts of the country.

The Telegraph has a picture of a serious-faced Nicola Sturgeon

behind Theresa May - it says the Scottish leader

is threatening to derail Article 50 with plans

for a second independence referendum.

Brexit preoccupies the Express again - it says MPs have been urged not

to wreck the bill's progress through Parliament.

And the Times says the heads of 35 Oxford colleges have signed

a letter, pleading with MPs to allow EU citizens already resident

in Britain the right to stay after Brexit.

The Guardian focuses on the possible trade implications for Britain

But its front page is dominated by Britain's youngest MP

Mhairi Black who says she "hates" parliament and might stand down

And the Mirror carries a picture of Madeleine McCann -

it says police want to talk to a former worker at the resort

The eye says the Tories are in turmoil ahead of Article 50 this

week. You wonder how much turmoil they are in because I do not know

how many will vote against the two line bill and keep the amendments

the Lords put through. It will go through. I do not think they will

get enough support for the amendment. I am afraid that thinks

the paper is in a little bit of a term because it is not clear whether

it is a row over Brexit all over the mandate is to know when he was

defence Minister of forensic fillip. And now raking a promise in the

manifesto - that has never happened before I am sure! The Daily

Telegraph says... We are getting rid of that one as a non- story. We can

look at other aspects of the Brexit issue. A little bit of a spat but

mainly from Michael has all time -- Michael Hazel time. He voted against

the government and he would be sacked but a short memory because he

was a senior member in John Major's team making short Conservative lost

the whip. He knows that should you vote against your party there are

consequences. Isn't David Davis being somewhat disingenuous of those

saying MPs would be trying to reverse Brexit if they were to

support the amendments. It is not to stop Brexit at all but bring in

safeguards for EU residents still here and also the idea of giving the

MPs vote on the deal when we finally get one. What is newish about this

is the shift in journalism. All of what you have both said is the post

truth phenomena in. Brilliantly described... Word of the year

according to the Oxford dictionary... Forget the fact of

what you have discovered by fact what you believe in motion --

emotionally to be true. I do find some of David Davis's pronouncements

extraordinary. Forget about the Lords. In saying you should not

attend to those two amendments at all which is what he seems to be

saying today, what is the point of the constitutional process... Should

it have been in the manifesto, you should not vote against it. When it

comes to ping pong what the Lords does is scrutinised but they do not

oppose what the elected chamber has done. They said this is what we want

you to look at. The comments will look at it again and then at

everybody agrees citizens of the EU should stay here and that will no

doubt be the case. The Tories may have said we need to have as much

concerned for our citizens in the EU as we have for EU citizens here but

you cannot keep having vote after vote after vote because it is about

not wanting Brexit not to happen. You cannot... At the people is not

going to be upended by having these two amendments. It is safeguards,

they are not going to stop Brexit. We have the fear over the finances

of what would be the punishment budget and now this fear about what

is going to happen with EU citizens because we have said we want those

people protected but we want to ensure British citizens are

protected in the EU. I have mentioned the Telegraph that have

barely looked at it. Sturgeon's last-ditch bid to ruin Brexit.

Again, the implication that it wants to stop Brexit. Alternative fax...

Not quite but we're getting there. We are getting into triumph true

thinness. -- Donald Trump truth. It is a rather tangled this story

because it suggests that Nicola Sturgeon looking daggers at that

very fine hat Theresa May is wearing and a fine photograph on the find

page, wants to undo Brexit. If you read the fine deal what she wants is

a fine deal which allows the Scots in on the negotiations. Mrs May had

pushed her back on that. The Telegraph makes a leap forward and

says she is threatening and independence referendum by the end

of next year so that by the time we get to the conclusion of the Brexit

negotiations, Scotland could be out on the United Kingdom. Could be. If

and buts. You can see from the look and body language that Nicola

Sturgeon is in a much tighter position, a different corner than

Theresa May because the polls are not favouring her for independence.

Scotland is so dependent on the English economy, are they really

going to bail out? Is it a desperate last-minute attempt and she has been

cornered... All these little details... You are going to look

after Scotland's best interest if you are its leader. We have to move

on. We do! The Times, EU workers must stay. Oxford heads tell Theresa

May. A great deal of universities came out in support of remaining in

the EU because of the benefits to research and this is our longer

those lines? Yes and I know that Oxford calculated within three

months after the except vote being taken -- Brexit vote being taken

they had lost grounds from the EU and a lot of staff, it teaches in

Oxford, in the sciences as specially, art European citizens.

They have 35 voting but three would not join this motion. I wonder who

they are. Let's look at The Guardian. Britain will be bottom of

the heap without a deal on Brexit. How can it be that David Davis and

Boris Johnson awaiting this away. That it is not matter about a deal.

How can you argue that is a good idea. Who was behind this piece of

research? They were all Remainers say you say, it has already been

written from a specific point of view so we look at it through that

lends and other people would say, you could not get a much worse deal

than 68th clean pound trade deficit. -- 68 billion pound trade deficit

deal. UKIP get car is against that market. -- tariff. It would enable

you to an short to get a good deal because every other country has to

make sure that when we leap we are the biggest export market. Would

people expect to cope with WTO and tariff? And a drop in the standard

of living. Even if you had to deal with the WTO rules, the amount of

money that has to be paid, you could still have a surplus. We have to

give Theresa May the best chance to get the best deal and be in the best

negotiating position. But you could not get much worse. I do not want to

sound like Ramona... Hold on, the people who were not happy with the

1975 referendum complained for years and years and... I am going to

complain about your bias here and it is about EU citizen. And your

buyers! Not at all. -- bias. What kind of a voice is it going to have

because if you say you are guaranteed this and --

disenfranchise Parliament, you're looking at a constitutional... That

is what MPs voted to do, to give the state to the people in a significant

way. According to Donald Trump, I am one of the bad people. I need to

move on. As long as we get back to the point that it was the people who

voted for Brexit. Within a margin of error. A waste of time, the youngest

MP, Mhairi Black, saying she may not stand for a second term because so

little gets done and yet we tried to encourage young people to engage and

go into politics. She has a point. The deliberations of Parliament have

very little effect. In the words of the late Lord Hailsham, we have an

elected dictatorship. If you are in with a solid majority, you can do

what all those what they like. We went into Iraq. There is something

flawed. It is not quite as broken as Mhairi Black says but it is

dysfunctional, you see it on all sides. That is not government vote,

where are we with democracy, that is what the slope process is. So many

people want to say, Opposition, stakeholder groups, individuals,

that is what slows down the democratic process not necessarily

what happens in government but making sure everybody has a say.

That is probably what she is frustrated about the cover-up over

dodgy pay-outs to peers. Apparently an informal probe, an unofficial

probe into tears whether they are turning up and doing their jobs

properly and claiming their money, all keeping a taxi parked outside

the front door as suggested in meet the Lords programme on the BBC.

Again, this is not quite what it says. It is largely based on the

programme is going out. On the House of Lords. It was an informal

enquiries but what the Baroness was saying is it is not an expensive

scandal she is driving at, she is driving at the regular ?300 tax-free

claim just for turning up. We are getting so little value for money

for many of them. She is questioning the productivity. You have created

far too many. A chamber nearly a thousand which is... Everybody is

coming to the conclusion, is it to many? Could we do with less?

I am being urged to mention the fact that in the Daily Mail, the and

eight-year-old author is on Tinder, and AppWare you can meet people and

get to them. Can we see the picture? Of the young man she is with? If you

are 80 and can get him on Tinder I think we would all be on here. I

have to speak up for my friend of many years ago, Ms Cooper, I think

this is merely essential research for a novel which she is undoubtedly

preparing. How deep is the research going?! That's it for the papers.

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