16/03/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor

at The Evening Standard, the broadcaster Lynn Faulds-Wood.

Tomorrow's front pages now, starting with...

The Daily Telegraph said a Scottish referendum may be put off six years.

The Guardian leads a Nicola Sturgeon's assessment that the Prime

Minister's stance may have sealed the fate of the union. Metro has the

same story. "Brexit comes before Scotland"

is how the i sums up Theresa May's response to the calls

from Scottish nationalists. Claims that taking statins increases

the risk of diabetes dominate Let's start with a story dominating

quite a few of those front pages. And that is Scotland. We have

triggered Brexit which is what the Prime Minister announced and then

immediately off the blocks comes the little box that is Nicola Sturgeon.

I know her and an incredibly brilliant politician, but I think on

this one, if you don't mind me saying so, Nicola, you've just gone

a bit over the top, because she is provoking Theresa May she is

provoking her back and now the Prime Minister is Saint we have to wait

six years if Scotland wants a referendum. That seems an

extraordinarily long time. I she said it would have to wait until

after Brexit. Why six years? The big problem is that the Scottish will

not stand for it. If you want a war, that is it. She hasn't quite said

six years, this is an extrapolation. She said it is not before the Brexit

vote or not before this and then is to be time for Scotland's assess the

Brexit deal. It is suggesting here it would need a new mandate in the

2021 election and therefore would stretch on for another 18 months.

That's all conjecture. What is happening is there will not be an

instant referendum, because the Prime Minister doesn't want to

interfere with the Brexit negotiations. Sturgeon has said

light have one as early as next year. Yes, but she knows that's

impossible for the Prime Minister to agree to. Well, she will not want to

come aboard a Scotland in the meantime? They don't have a vote in

the Scottish Parliament next week. How can they keep two warring

factions, because that's what will happen, how can you keep them apart?

My front are very excited about what is happening now. Scotland could

easily swing behind Nicola Sturgeon. Because last time, in the last

referendum, and the Scots voted to stay in because they were promised

that way we would stay in Europe and get all this lovely Carbon capture

and billions for wind farms and then it disappeared afterwards. They felt

betrayed. So no wonder Nicola Sturgeon is fighting for it. They

didn't although because they wanted to remain in Europe are the last

referendum. But now they don't trust what is coming up. If they want to

leave, it is up to them ultimately, but it can't actually happen when...

If it does wait six years, they could potentially then vote them,

and that's up to the Scottish people to decide. Be not to jeopardise the

Brexit negotiations, that is the principal point. The Guardian has

picked up on this same story. Sturgeon may have sealed the fate of

the UK. A slightly different take. That is Nicola Sturgeon's argument,

that by rejecting what she sees as a legitimate demand for a referendum

more or less immediately, therefore, that will do what you say can

galvanise support for independence. That might happen. It is a risk for

Theresa May, but she was not a position where she could do anything

else because Brexit. Every single Council in Scotland, I think I've

read, voted to Remained, because they want to stay closer to Europe

and if they're going to have any chance of that, they want to get out

of the United Kingdom. I think is the most... It is like some kind of

nightmare I've landed on. Who would have bought five years ago we would

be in this mess? The Prime Minister of the employed to gather to the

Brexit, Scotland will come out of EU anyway. But they will. Most of them

want to stay in though. Because they like to blame others for all their

ills, don't they? Roger-Yves Bost no! No! The Metro again picking up

on this real row going on between a Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May, two

very strong women. Scots fury as they blocks referendum. Both sides

seem to be rushing up the rhetoric? Particularly from Sturgeon's

viewpoint, I understand why she's doing it. It plays the advantage to

do it. Whether in the longer and if push comes to shove she actually

think persuade people of the economic risks and someone and the

real prospect of what will be like being part of a small country in the

European Union as opposed to... Small countries do very well. Look

at Slovenia. But as you are saying, this is a classic... It is what is

called a face that sandbox. In the Glasgow edition should be smiling.

-- she will be smiling. Letters have a look at some other stories in the

papers in the morning. Martin, The Times. They be running some

investigations and what they been pointing out is that when adverts

placed by all sorts of businesses, including the Cabinet Office which

is pulled many adverts from the Internet because Google and other

Internet providers are placing their adverts alongside extremist content,

which is allowing extremists, reverent or racists, to raise money

off the back of advertising. When I was doing a independent

review for the Government, which they still haven't done anything

with, when I look to the recall website across Europe, you would

find there were loads of them and they had got all sorts of Thai

massage parlour adverts and sorts of ads and I'm glad that Google is

being hauled in and Twitter as well and being as what they are doing.

Yes, placed alongside other unsavoury content of an advert is

viewed, it generates revenue for the person putting up the unsavoury

content. Another example of how difficult it is to police the

Internet. Another interesting story, going back to the cover-macro

Telegraph fear about the role of GCHQ in this spying on the other

side of the Atlantic. Trump my like to come up with some evidence for

saying that Obama spied on him and they seem to think that GCHQ are

spies and somehow or other they held a bomb to spy on Trump in the

Telegraph. It is claimed they got intelligence agencies to spy on him

and that has been roundly rubbished by his owner agencies so easy now as

the final of justifying this, so the new argument is is that we were

doing at our behalf of the Americans, because you can't find

our fingerprints on it in America. We have actually had a statement

from a GCHQ tonight saying that recent allegations by media

commentator judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct a

wiretapping against the then President-elect Art nonsense. They

are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored. An extremely strong

statesman. Whenever Trump seems to get in trouble, he comes up with

some angle for getting him out of there by distracting you. And this

sounds like a classic distraction. OK, so Trump was not there, Obama

wasn't doing it, but perhaps the British were doing it for him. And

there was a reference to the original allegation which was

repeated by Trump's press secretary. Letters touch on a couple of other

slightly lighter stories in the papers in the morning. The Bake Off.

The new line-up. , Well, we've got a fascinating... Sandy toxic and Noel

Fielding. You normally see the latter on satirical shows.

I don't know whether either of them can cook. It could be quite

entertaining. This new line-up, do you think you

will be a success, Martin? It'll be hard to recapture the success of the

original, who knows? Channel 4 doesn't begin to get the audience

that the BBC do, so they won't get 40 million or whatever the BBC was

getting. -- 14 million. Won just time to look at a terrific picture

on the front page of the Times. It's a pitch of the Downing Street cat,

Larry. Apparently, the mouse ran away and escapes and therefore the

cat is obviously not very good. One of the photographers there in

Downing Street of those the big battle between Theresa May Nicola

Sturgeon, but of course, Larry the cat has stolen the limelight for a

moment. Sometimes give his incriminating documents they

shouldn't be displayed, but this is a beautiful photo. At the next time

you're standing at Downing Street, you need to look for this mouse.

Thank you both. Don't forget you can see the front

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