29/03/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Henry Mance, Political Correspondent

For the first time, enjoying his momentous day, the first appearance

on the Tapers! It's supposed to be fun!

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Telegraph reports jubilation as Article 50 was triggered,

but it reports immediate tension between Britain and Brussels.

The Metro reports on the Prime Minister's warning that failure

to reach a deal with the EU within the two-year time limit

could "weaken" cooperation in the fight against

crime and terrorism. The FT says Theresa May's letter

was seen in Brussels as conciliatory and flexible.

The Mirror reports on the tension, with Germany's Angela Merkel

rejecting an early start to talks on a new trade deal.

The i has a picture of Britain's ambassador handing over the Article

And Nigel Farage beams from the front of the Express

on security cooperation were seen by many in Brussels as blackmail.

And Nigel Farage beams from the front of the Express

Beginning with the Express, he looks very happy. No turning back on EU

exit, 2316 days after the Express started its historic crusade to free

Britain from Brussels, Theresa May insists there is no turning back.

Caroline, this is your sister paper. They have said this several times,

once we get going we are not going to change our minds, and Theresa May

said the same. What they are drawing attention to is that the Daily

Express and to a lesser extent the Sunday Express really led the agenda

on Brexit. If you look at that 2316 days, that is eight years plus it

has taken them and they have been calling for the withdrawal of the UK

from the EU from all of that period of time. Today they see this as

being in momentous occasion. We are scratching our heads and wondering

what changes today other than the fact that those divorce papers in

effect have been delivered to the EU. This is the day we are all going

to Mark, some people are calling it Brexit date. You know, fair play,

campaigns are what newspapers live and die by and this has been a very

successful campaign by the Daily Express which culminated in that

vote on the 23rd of June. Henry, let's talk about the Daily

Telegraph, it says it is a magnificent moment, an interesting

choice of photographs that have appeared on various papers, some of

them showing that moment that the letter was handed over. Others

showing Donald Tusk and Sir Tim heading in other directions. It was

an interesting performance by Donald Tusk. He is not a big federalist,

not the kind of Eurocrat that you might think of, like Jean-Claude

Junker or someone. His tone was a slightly sad one. The photos on the

Telegraph suggest that, even if the headline is triumphant, Boris

He has written a piece, it is time He has written a piece, it is time

to back Britain and go lowball. It is very positive. We were just

reading it. -- go global. We are going to blast off for an

extraordinary voyage. He talks about it being historic and, as I see it,

a magnificent moment. We can only see some of his comment piece, but

he looks more balanced towards the end, acknowledging that not

everybody in the country is voting for Brexit. He talks about what we

do now in terms of pulling together and kind of achieving this great

moment is future for the country. The i treats us to goodbye in many

of the languages that are spoken across the European Union. I won't

even attempt to pronounce some of them! There we have the picture of

the moment that the letter was handed over to Donald Tusk, as

talking for three hours. I was talking for three hours. I was

impressed. It marked a week since the terrorist attack advertisements

do. It was a really strange occasion this afternoon. Theresa May took

questions from 113 MPs. Some of them are in the papers. She also went on

to do interviews afterwards. It was quite an exhausting start to two

years of negotiations. Onto your paper, the Financial Times. Donald

Tusk again looking forlorn at one point. He said, we are missing you

already. Do you think? We seem to relish the theatre of it. Did they

have the handover this letter in full view of all the cameras was

white of course they did, surely! They hand delivered it, they sent it

was quite theatrical. There has been was quite theatrical. There has been

lots of this, talking about missing you already, the Treaty of Rome

celebrations overshadowing the negative, Jean-Claude Junker talking

about it being a tragedy, how he was heartbroken that the UK weren't

there to celebrate with them. It is more of that kind of narrative. You

have written a sketch piece here called, dear Europe. Such letters

have a tainted history. What are you comparing this to? This has a couple

of references, one to Neville Chamberlain's message to Adolf

Hitler, a personal message. And also the nobleman surrounding Henry VIII,

trying to ask for an annulment to his marriage from the Pope. This is

a very current situation and we have moved on but we don't always seek

the world from the point of view of Europe. Both Neville Chamberlain and

Henry VIII were very optimistic about what they could achieve just

by writing to Europe and get their way. It is going to be wrote tough

and there are going to be things that they don't like. We were told

at one point this letter was consolatory and shows that civility

and yet there are tensions emerging already, as you would expect. The

papers have picked up on this notion that what Theresa May is in effect

saying is that, while we want to have a kind of nice divorce, a Team

Zoeller to divorce, at the end of the day we have something that they

want, which is that we are a key player in Europol and we have a much

more significant security service and we play a huge role in the

fighting of crime and terrorism across Europe. That point was made

very much on the Daily Mirror. Brexit battle begins, trading blows,

security threat to EU if UK cannot secure a deal. Theresa May did not

make many speeches in the run-up to the referendum, but she did talk

about the importance of the EU and our relationship for security. Would

she do anything that brilliant danger the lives of British

citizens? I think it's unlikely, but this is a negotiation and you have

to pretend you are willing. The counterargument is, why not show

some goodwill? Why not say, we definitely won't put in danger

European lives, British lives, given what has happened in Brussels, Paris

and London. Let's talk about the Westminster attacks which you

mentioned, back on the i. Thousands joined hands as the inquests hear

how they die. A week on ordinarily from that her attacks it would have

featured much more. But because of the timing of it it is only an very

few of the front pages. But again, it is extraordinary that this only

happened one week ago. It really struck me, being there today, that

it was just one week ago, because we it was just one week ago, because we

were all there last Wednesday. In a funny way, you know, the whole

Brexit thing has overshadowed the attack story today in the same way

that the attack massively overshadowed what the Goverment's

was expecting to be a full one week leading up into Brexit being

launched, certainly in the Sunday newspapers we pencilled in that it

would be a Brexit splash across the board, aeons of pages on Brexit on

Sunday, but actually what we did was beyond the pages on the para packs

instead. The notion that everybody was in that packed chamber today,

there was no room for anybody else to get in, as you say, more than 100

MPs actually spoke. They were sat in the chamber where they have been

locked for five hours just one week ago. I mean, it seems... It was

reminiscent of when Jo Cox was murdered. We had a very sombre day

in the House of Commons, and then a few days later you could remember,

given how fierce the debate had become. And here it is, if events

take their course and these guys are very busy now. It was the point they

made after the terrorist attacks. You know, as much as this was a

terrible shock for those there are, ultimately it is the seat of

democracy and life must go on. We cannot let the terrorists stop this

very important occasions and discussions that politicians are

having about the very future of this country on the future of the country

inside and outside of European Union. What is obvious is that the

police of course and many members the public haven't forgotten that it

was one week on and did turn out. I think there are still questions to

be asked about the attacker, about the impact it has on community

relations, what happens to Westminster security. Those things

are happening in the background. Jeremy Corbyn as the Prime Minister,

are you sure the police have the resources, given the cuts that

happens to budgets? It literally was the thing before dinner, we were

waiting from the historic announcement. Contrary to the trail

we showed before we came on air, we will be back with a much longer

review, 24 minutes Rob tells me, at 11:30pm. A bumper edition! Coming up

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