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:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:22.With me are the the deputy political editor for the Guardian,

:00:23. > :00:25.Rowena Mason, and Christopher Hope, the Assistant Editor and chief

:00:26. > :00:27.political correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.

:00:28. > :00:31.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with

:00:32. > :00:35.the meeting between Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon makes

:00:36. > :00:38.Tt says the pair's talks on Brexit ended in stalemate.

:00:39. > :00:47.The FT leads on Tesco's bid to buy food wholesalers Booker,

:00:48. > :00:50.but also finds room on the front page for the failure to find

:00:51. > :00:53.a solution to Northern Ireland's political deadlock.

:00:54. > :00:55.The Express carries a claim from the former government minister

:00:56. > :00:58.Iain Duncan Smith that the EU owes the UK billions of pounds.

:00:59. > :01:01.And Mr Duncan Smith also makes the front page of the Telegraph.

:01:02. > :01:04.He's one of a group of politicians and business leaders calling

:01:05. > :01:06.on the government to sweep away European red tape

:01:07. > :01:19.The words of the mother of the Westminster terrorist

:01:20. > :01:21.Khalid Masood are highlighted by the Metro, she says she's

:01:22. > :01:24.shocked, saddened and numbed by her son's actions.

:01:25. > :01:27.The Mail leads with details of a cost-cutting plan for the NHS;

:01:28. > :01:30.it also seems to think the legs of the Prime Minister

:01:31. > :01:31.and Scottish First Minister are worth highlighting.

:01:32. > :01:34.The Guardian has pro-EU Conservatives urging Theresa May

:01:35. > :01:37.to concentrate on securing a good post-Brexit trade deal for the UK

:01:38. > :01:42.rather than the size of the bill for leaving the EU.

:01:43. > :01:44.While the Mirror leads with more on last week's

:01:45. > :01:49.terror attack in London, including the speed it's thought

:01:50. > :01:56.Khalid Masood drove on his murderous rampage along Westminster Bridge.

:01:57. > :02:07.Let's begin. We start with the i. This is the meeting between Nicola

:02:08. > :02:10.Sturgeon and Theresa May, fixed smiles on the front page there. I am

:02:11. > :02:15.not sure if those are genuine smiles. They are both managing to

:02:16. > :02:20.crack a smile, even though their positions are a long way apart at

:02:21. > :02:25.the moment. Nicola Sturgeon saying that Theresa May hasn't listened to

:02:26. > :02:31.her at all when she's trying to tell her that Scotland wants to stay in

:02:32. > :02:35.the EU. If not, stay in the single market. Because Theresa May hasn't

:02:36. > :02:37.listened to her, she says she will have another independence

:02:38. > :02:44.referendum. Theresa May on the other side is saying that now is not the

:02:45. > :02:49.time for that. There's very little overlap between their two positions

:02:50. > :02:53.at the moment. Christopher, what are the chances of both sides getting

:02:54. > :02:59.anywhere closer during the next 18 months? There's a chance, because as

:03:00. > :03:05.things stand, nothing has really changed. This is for the cameras.

:03:06. > :03:10.She is getting around the regions, or nations of the country, before

:03:11. > :03:15.Wednesday when she triggers Article 50. Shaking hands with Nicola

:03:16. > :03:23.Sturgeon in the Crowne Plaza hotel in Glasgow, rather unprepossessing

:03:24. > :03:30.utilitarian venue. That maybe describes why are there. Not

:03:31. > :03:34.particularly glamorous, I suppose. But the Daily Mail, let's go to

:03:35. > :03:47.that, they have found the glamour in the situation. Christopher, never

:03:48. > :03:54.mind Brexit, who won Legsit. It is the Daily Mail. They make the point

:03:55. > :04:01.that they are women in skirts and their legs are showing. That's a per

:04:02. > :04:08.-- profound point. It is unnecessary. You wouldn't compare

:04:09. > :04:22.David Cameron's trousers. It looks over the top. It looks a bit 1970s

:04:23. > :04:27.Dick ever read, showing lakes. I think ill it is they will be

:04:28. > :04:41.Playing devils advocate, will they be furious given that, at the end of

:04:42. > :04:51.the day, those four good pins? Clive! I'm playing devils advocate.

:04:52. > :04:57.Pins are allowed. What Theresa May would say is, I hardly noticed it, I

:04:58. > :05:02.am getting on with the job. She says that and has these glamorous shoes.

:05:03. > :05:06.No one is interested in your shoes, Christopher. The Daily Mail is read

:05:07. > :05:10.by a lot of women in this country. Do you think that the general

:05:11. > :05:14.perception is that this is totally unnecessary, why has the Daily Mail

:05:15. > :05:18.done this? I think it depends on your perspective. Some women will

:05:19. > :05:21.find it a little bit sexist to focus on their legs when they have got

:05:22. > :05:26.Brexit to be thinking about. Other women might think, well, that is the

:05:27. > :05:33.position they happen to be sitting in. All right. What could they have

:05:34. > :05:39.worn? Opaque tights, is that what you say? Trouser suits? Maybe they

:05:40. > :05:47.didn't realise they were going to be photographed from that angle. Let's

:05:48. > :05:52.move now onto some news. Funnily enough, news... It could be used,

:05:53. > :05:59.the Daily Express, the EU owes Britain billions. Is it true? What

:06:00. > :06:03.Iain Duncan Smith is saying is, we keep getting hung up on us paying

:06:04. > :06:08.money to the EU to leave in two years' time come Wednesday. What

:06:09. > :06:14.they are saying is that they should be paying us to leave. Iain Duncan

:06:15. > :06:19.Smith has told the express, while we go on about paying them money to

:06:20. > :06:24.this club, they owe us money. Why do they owe us money? We pay more into

:06:25. > :06:34.the EU budget and we get out every year. Right. That is it. Ongoing

:06:35. > :06:39.commitments for infrastructure, the other side of Europe will say to us,

:06:40. > :06:42.that is why we think you owe us money. It is access to the single

:06:43. > :06:47.market and access to the customs union. If we leave both, we should

:06:48. > :06:52.be paying extra money into that. It is a congregated matrix of different

:06:53. > :06:58.money flying around, isn't it? IDS, to his credit, is trying to address

:06:59. > :07:03.it on the front page of the express. There are liabilities that the UK

:07:04. > :07:09.has two pensions, or workers, bureaucrats or whatever it is, the

:07:10. > :07:15.operators of the European Union. There are obligations that we have,

:07:16. > :07:20.surely that can be offset with whatever Iain Duncan Smith reckons

:07:21. > :07:24.they owe us? It could be zero. It could be a balanced number... All

:07:25. > :07:30.the talk or 50 billion in the last few weeks has been nonsense? Or is

:07:31. > :07:36.this fake news? It appends on your perspective. If you are a die-hard

:07:37. > :07:40.Brexiteer, and you think the EU has been robbing us for years and years

:07:41. > :07:46.and you wonder why we should pay them anything at all. If you are on

:07:47. > :07:52.the other side, and maybe you are an official in Brussels, you think the

:07:53. > :07:55.UK has a lot of liabilities that still haven't been wound up and it

:07:56. > :08:00.needs to settle its debt. Nick Clegg was saying it was like we had an am

:08:01. > :08:03.a bar Bill with the EU, that is what he said this evening on Question

:08:04. > :08:14.Times And Is Mac. Does This Take Into Account The Final Numbers Of

:08:15. > :08:22.The European Union? EU have said they hope us. He is trying to say,

:08:23. > :08:26.looking at one side of the balance sheet, and not the other. OK,

:08:27. > :08:34.Rowena, whatever the right and wrong is of this fiscal issue, hope is,

:08:35. > :08:36.according to some within the Conservative Party, that this issue

:08:37. > :08:40.is sorted out quickly and fast, because then we can get on to the

:08:41. > :08:46.nitty-gritty of what Brexit really does mean. I think so. What some of

:08:47. > :08:50.these Tory moderate rebels, the people fighting within the

:08:51. > :08:57.Conservative Party to stay in the single market are saying is, if the

:08:58. > :09:01.EU might be better disposed towards us when it comes to negotiating a

:09:02. > :09:05.train real, if we have conceded a bit of it on the divorce Bill, so

:09:06. > :09:10.there is a price on everything, we want a good deal out of the EU. We

:09:11. > :09:14.might need to pay a little bit to get it. The two think not meant to

:09:15. > :09:23.be tied they probably will be. It will come down... David Davis on

:09:24. > :09:27.question Time said it could be zero. It could be zero. But once that is

:09:28. > :09:31.out of the way, Christopher, we can get into the meat of what this is

:09:32. > :09:37.really about. That is right. Europeans have made it clear this

:09:38. > :09:40.Bill needs to be sorted first. It is all leading to whether we have

:09:41. > :09:43.access to the supermarket, free movement of moving into the country,

:09:44. > :09:52.it is tied together by the number at the beginning. A big day on

:09:53. > :09:56.Wednesday. Huge. Momentous. Are you working on Wednesday? I don't know

:09:57. > :10:00.what I am going to be doing on Wednesday. Who knows where I will

:10:01. > :10:08.be! A letter delivered to the European Council president. OK,

:10:09. > :10:11.let's move on to the Telegraph. Red tape, Mr Duncan Smith again,

:10:12. > :10:16.figuring a lot in these papers. Top of the page there, Christopher. The

:10:17. > :10:21.suggestion that the great reform Bill will involve, what, 19,000 EU

:10:22. > :10:28.rules and regulations that will come onto our statute books. 600 wrecked

:10:29. > :10:31.its governance country, and that, 90,000 rules and regulations, which

:10:32. > :10:34.we will try to lift across this reform Bill on Thursday after the

:10:35. > :10:40.letter is delivered on Wednesday. The idea is, they are moved lock,

:10:41. > :10:44.stock and barrel into British law. After that, campaigners say that the

:10:45. > :10:48.Tories should say the next election, we get rid of the ones that are

:10:49. > :10:52.pointless and superfluous, and hold back business. That is the idea of a

:10:53. > :11:01.campaign. It is a good idea, trying to shape and look beyond exit and

:11:02. > :11:03.shape how might things progress. There will be a battle if there are

:11:04. > :11:12.some things that the government wants to get off the statute books.

:11:13. > :11:18.This is going to be a really huge issue in the coming years. It will

:11:19. > :11:23.be a big battle with the Labour movement trade unions who want to

:11:24. > :11:25.preserve things like health and safety legislation, environment and

:11:26. > :11:31.a decision, as well as workers' rights that the government has set.

:11:32. > :11:33.It will protect listing workers' rights, but there will be

:11:34. > :11:41.Conservative backbenchers that will want to in pic -- unpick some of

:11:42. > :11:49.these things. I think Chris has an example. Newts. It is a big issue.

:11:50. > :11:55.What do you mean? They are protected in this country, and there are more

:11:56. > :12:02.newts here than in other parts of Europe. Newts and road-building is a

:12:03. > :12:09.big issue. I am putting it out there! It has got to be interesting.

:12:10. > :12:15.Terra killer 's mother, I weep for the victims. The mother of this man,

:12:16. > :12:19.Khalid Masood, who went on a rampage last week. Christopher, you were at

:12:20. > :12:24.the Commons at the time, and members of his family have spoken now. It is

:12:25. > :12:27.back to normal at the House of Commons, but they moved the gates

:12:28. > :12:35.near to where the attack took place. It has really shocked the country.

:12:36. > :12:49.Personally, I feel sorry for her, for Janet Ojoa. It was brave for her

:12:50. > :12:52.to speak up this way. Rowena, is there a sense that have gotten back

:12:53. > :12:58.to normal? People carry on their daily business, the House of Lords

:12:59. > :13:04.and House of Commons business is carrying on as before. But people

:13:05. > :13:09.are still sad and traumatised by what has happened there. It is

:13:10. > :13:13.incredibly grim and sad for all affected. We saw people die outside

:13:14. > :13:19.my office window. There were bodies therefore many hours stop its

:13:20. > :13:22.unbelievable, not what you expect. Others went through to try and save

:13:23. > :13:27.lives, and it was worse on the bridge, but it is a difficult time.

:13:28. > :13:35.Absolutely. Finally, to end this edition of the papers, the Daily

:13:36. > :13:41.Telegraph, Rowena, calling time on his London cap. It says that the

:13:42. > :13:47.Duke of Edinburgh has used a green Metro cap for 18 years to travel

:13:48. > :13:52.incognito around London, but now he has called time on it. He has given

:13:53. > :14:02.it up. He has given it to the Sandringham Museum. He got in the

:14:03. > :14:05.back of a Greens taxi, didn't talk to anyone, just got a view of what

:14:06. > :14:13.London was like. Without having anyone looking at him. How many of

:14:14. > :14:17.us look at a full taxi, we look for empty taxis. Clever. Very clever.

:14:18. > :14:19.Rowena and Christopher, good to have you.

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