:00:00. > :00:00.reason to pretend this is a happy day in Brussels, nor in London. --
:00:00. > :00:07.member state. One week on from the terror attack in Westminster, a
:00:08. > :00:22.vigil has been held for the victims. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:23. > :00:27.to what the papers will be pretty tomorrow. We are joined by Henry
:00:28. > :00:31.Manse, political correspondence with the Financial Times. He has taken to
:00:32. > :00:37.this on his first occasion like a duck to water. And alongside him,
:00:38. > :00:43.Caroline Wheeler, the political and outer of the Sunday express. The
:00:44. > :00:47.Telegraph reports jubilation as Article 50 is triggered, but reports
:00:48. > :00:51.immediate tension between Britain and Brussels. The Metro focuses on
:00:52. > :00:55.the Primus to's warning that a failure to reach a deal within the
:00:56. > :00:59.two-year time limit could weaken cooperation in the fight against
:01:00. > :01:02.crime. The Financial Times said Theresa May's letter was seen in
:01:03. > :01:09.Brussels as conciliatory and flexible. The Mirror reports of the
:01:10. > :01:13.tension, with Angela Merkel rejecting an early start to talks on
:01:14. > :01:18.a new trade deal. Nigel Farage beams from the front of the Mail with a
:01:19. > :01:21.celebrant replied. The Times says the row over future security
:01:22. > :01:26.co-operation might attempt by Theresa May to build ridges with the
:01:27. > :01:31.EU. The Guardian says her, as was seen by many in Brussels as black
:01:32. > :01:37.mail. And Nigel Farage is also on the cover of The Express. Let's
:01:38. > :01:42.begin with the Metro. It covers the moment that the letter was handed by
:01:43. > :01:51.Tim Barrow to Donald Tusk. The simple headline is Adieu. It was a
:01:52. > :01:59.bit of a theatre, the way it happened, wasn't it, Henry? It was
:02:00. > :02:06.hand-delivered, Tim Barrow, a lovely bearded man. There was a bit of
:02:07. > :02:10.theatre therefrom Donald Tusk as well, he said that they could not be
:02:11. > :02:13.happy in London or Brussels. This day, which nobody would have looked
:02:14. > :02:17.forward to, they would have looked back to the referendum date as
:02:18. > :02:22.another day. But this is an important staging post for people.
:02:23. > :02:27.And there was a moment where Donald Tusk looked a little flawed. He did.
:02:28. > :02:31.Different papers have used different pitches, some of them with them
:02:32. > :02:36.looking at each other, some walking away from each other. In others they
:02:37. > :02:40.look like they would what having a reprise, without handshake. -- The
:02:41. > :02:44.Express. And there are other pictures of him looking forlorn.
:02:45. > :02:52.There has been some change in sentiment in some way since the
:02:53. > :02:56.attack. -- in the different pictures. We have this Treaty of
:02:57. > :03:04.Rome celebration when it Jean-Claude Juncker who has not been terribly
:03:05. > :03:08.conciliatory to the UK, has said that they are heartbroken that the
:03:09. > :03:13.UK is not there with them for the celebrations of the 60th birthday of
:03:14. > :03:17.the EU. In some ways, they going to miss us, but in other ways, they are
:03:18. > :03:20.still crossed with us for voting to leave and starting the process
:03:21. > :03:27.today. So a mixed message coming from these European leaders, today.
:03:28. > :03:34.Let's look at the Telegraph. They have a bit of the letter there. It
:03:35. > :03:44.starts dear Donald Tusk, a here by notified the council of the UK's
:03:45. > :03:48.intention to leave the European Union. It was such a small thing to
:03:49. > :03:52.say. And they were always the strokes after the referendum, saying
:03:53. > :03:57.could we actually trigger Article 50? But no, it had to be a proper
:03:58. > :04:00.letter, and here it is. And of course, this is the significant
:04:01. > :04:06.paragraph that the Telegraph picks out here. In essence, we declare
:04:07. > :04:09.that we are divorcing ourselves from the European Union. But of course,
:04:10. > :04:16.this was not just a one paragraph letter. It was eight pages? Six
:04:17. > :04:21.pages. Six pages. In that, she was trained to strike their tone. A bit
:04:22. > :04:25.of a divorce, I think. On the one hand, she was saying we don't want
:04:26. > :04:28.to be with you any more, we accept that we have children, we have two
:04:29. > :04:32.have some kind of future together, and actually these are the terms by
:04:33. > :04:36.which we can exist, while at the same time starting negotiations
:04:37. > :04:43.formally by almost putting her first... Laying the first car down.
:04:44. > :04:46.Sorry that the gauntlet by just saying just to remember that we are
:04:47. > :04:50.significantly comes to the security services, and police, and
:04:51. > :04:55.counterterrorism. We played the role in that and we are just remind you
:04:56. > :04:58.about. So anything about potentially punishing us for leaving, think
:04:59. > :05:03.about what you need from us, in the same way that we need things from
:05:04. > :05:07.you. There was a difference in what she said in a letter, which was
:05:08. > :05:11.watch out, our security information is very useful, and what she said
:05:12. > :05:16.the Parliament, which is now, more than ever, we need European values.
:05:17. > :05:21.Sort of telling MPs not to get too snobbish about Europe and save we
:05:22. > :05:26.are above them and can just deal with it India, China, and the US. It
:05:27. > :05:30.just shows that that sort of tension between one audience and another,
:05:31. > :05:36.and having to say different things to keep everybody happy. Clearly on
:05:37. > :05:39.this point. Let's look at the Financial Times. There is Donald
:05:40. > :05:43.Tusk again looking at the letter that he is just received. The clock
:05:44. > :05:49.is starting to take. These two years that we had to sort out a great of
:05:50. > :05:56.highly complicated pulling apart of this 44-year relationship. You have
:05:57. > :06:09.written a sketch peace, Henry, which was called Dear Europe: Tainted
:06:10. > :06:13.Letters. The other Henry VIII and Edelman around him asking for a
:06:14. > :06:16.divorce from the Pope a few centuries earlier was the engineer.
:06:17. > :06:21.What these letters have in common with Theresa May is that we thought
:06:22. > :06:26.on the side of the channel that we could get our way and influence
:06:27. > :06:33.leaders in that way. It might not play out like that way. It certainly
:06:34. > :06:38.didn't work that way with Neville Chamberlain with Adolf Hitler, and
:06:39. > :06:44.Henry VIII. We have started the process with no understanding the
:06:45. > :06:50.full understanding of the details. You think that they have not
:06:51. > :06:55.understood the details? We have had semi- lawyers talking about how
:06:56. > :07:01.difficult it will be to untangle all the ways we are bound to Europe at
:07:02. > :07:04.the moment. -- so many lawyers. I think understanding that will be
:07:05. > :07:09.required is still an ongoing process. We have had voices in the
:07:10. > :07:14.Cabinet. We had Boris Johnson sang we need no deal, will be fine
:07:15. > :07:17.anyway. And his optimism is on the front of the Daily Telegraph.
:07:18. > :07:22.Something about Britain going up into space in a rocket. So you could
:07:23. > :07:26.not ask for a bigger, more brash metaphor. And then Philip Hammond
:07:27. > :07:30.said yes, actually, we need a deal or we're going to get a deal. And
:07:31. > :07:33.let's not talk about the scenario of not getting a deal. So yes, there
:07:34. > :07:45.are less optimistic voices around Theresa May. On pages eight and nine
:07:46. > :07:51.of the Sun, they have little teams of who the main players are. Some of
:07:52. > :07:57.whom I'm sure we will not be very familiar with. It just shows how
:07:58. > :07:59.many people are going to have to be part and parcel of these
:08:00. > :08:05.negotiations. And that does not include all of the negotiations that
:08:06. > :08:08.are going to be required for the aspects of law and immigration,
:08:09. > :08:15.trade, and so on, eventually. Exactly. And here we have the main
:08:16. > :08:22.key players, a lot of the Cabinet ministers, but a lot of the mark in
:08:23. > :08:26.Theresa May's in a circle. You have Philip Hammond, and he's had a
:08:27. > :08:31.distinct voice in terms of fostering bride-to-be to ring of Article 50,
:08:32. > :08:36.much more subdued than the likes of, for example, Liam Fox or Boris
:08:37. > :08:45.Johnson, who were all sort of hooray, it will all be fine. Philip
:08:46. > :08:49.Hammond had always tried to strike a more conservative estimation of what
:08:50. > :08:56.their prospects might be. On the other side, you have Angela Merkel
:08:57. > :09:01.and -- Jean-Claude Juncker. And that is only a tiny part of the picture.
:09:02. > :09:04.At the end of the day, it also involves all the other countries,
:09:05. > :09:08.and they have their own voices and want different things from the UK in
:09:09. > :09:13.terms of what their Brexit will look like or what they want to establish
:09:14. > :09:18.in any ongoing partnership with them. So this is tiny. The other
:09:19. > :09:23.thing is, the negotiators themselves, we have the Department
:09:24. > :09:26.for International trade basically hiring hundreds of trade
:09:27. > :09:32.negotiators, boring zone from Canada. There is a whole to people
:09:33. > :09:35.that will be in this, many of whom we will not see their faces, but
:09:36. > :09:44.there will be flying around Europe and to other parts of the world. And
:09:45. > :09:50.of course, Francois Hollande is about to lose elections. He is
:09:51. > :09:58.definitely out. Angela Merkel has a yellow card that because she could
:09:59. > :10:02.be out as their election is coming up next year, I think. There will be
:10:03. > :10:10.interesting who becomes a household name amongst the European players.
:10:11. > :10:14.People know Jean-Claude Juncker, but perhaps not Donald Tusk as much.
:10:15. > :10:19.Will they do it every two year process, I think they should become
:10:20. > :10:26.familiar to readers of British newspapers. Yes, let's look at the
:10:27. > :10:32.Daily Mail, and this is a man we are familiar with. Nigel Farage they're
:10:33. > :10:40.holding a pint, and cheers to a great British future. But he is
:10:41. > :10:48.ready whaling on day one about the prime and so's letter. This could be
:10:49. > :10:55.a photo from any time in the past ten years. But we assume it is from
:10:56. > :11:06.today. I think Theresa May has two set out the few strength of the has
:11:07. > :11:10.-- that she has in this situation. -- to set out. Security information
:11:11. > :11:14.that British agents have a great trepidation for and do great work in
:11:15. > :11:19.the Middle East and elsewhere, that is a another card you can play. When
:11:20. > :11:23.you see that as blackmail or if you CV European Union's response as
:11:24. > :11:28.whaling, that is up to you. But I think it is not surprising that she
:11:29. > :11:32.is mentioned it. It is not a trump card to start off with in terms of
:11:33. > :11:36.saying actually, trade negotiations are going to be about give-and-take,
:11:37. > :11:40.and what have you got that we want, and what have we got that you want?
:11:41. > :11:45.And what she is saying here is that our security services and our sort
:11:46. > :11:49.of import to make input is substantial, and sort of trumps
:11:50. > :11:56.those of neighbouring countries. -- sort of input is substantial. Nico
:11:57. > :12:02.describe it as blackmail. Simile, on the other side, what we are hearing
:12:03. > :12:07.from Angela Merkel and the French government, this is the sort of
:12:08. > :12:15.thing where if we do not settle the Brexit divorce deal, where all sorts
:12:16. > :12:20.of figures have been banded around. -- And you describe. Similarly. You
:12:21. > :12:30.could say that what they are saying is blackmail, too. EU warns, it
:12:31. > :12:34.don't blackmail us. That is because of the security issue. We have
:12:35. > :12:38.security cooperation with all sorts of countries, though we? The idea
:12:39. > :12:42.that it would automate and not continue if we were outside of the
:12:43. > :12:46.EU, as you said, there is more at stake than membership of the union.
:12:47. > :12:50.I figure is difficult for Theresa May, who is a Home Secretary by
:12:51. > :12:55.background, and said that politics is not a game. Think it is I hard to
:12:56. > :13:06.make difficult for her to play this card too strongly to early. Given
:13:07. > :13:11.what has happened in London, Paris, Brussels, and so on. And then that
:13:12. > :13:15.we have British citizens living in these countries, and you've been a
:13:16. > :13:18.dicey situation if you did that and ended up inadvertently with your own
:13:19. > :13:21.British citizens being injured in those attacks, should they happen on
:13:22. > :13:25.foreign soil. That was the last bargaining chip. This is the new
:13:26. > :13:30.one. I think there are enough for them to raise it, but they have to
:13:31. > :13:38.be catalogued the tone, and I think that the Daily Mail's idea of
:13:39. > :13:41.whaling is the Guardian's idea of a normal part of negotiation. We can
:13:42. > :13:48.see where the blackmail line has come from.
:13:49. > :14:00.He said he was being nice so he did not use the word blackmail. Maybe it
:14:01. > :14:04.was an inaccurate translation. You would have to be naive to think they
:14:05. > :14:13.did not think about it. The Guardian, page three, the diplomats
:14:14. > :14:20.of Tim Barrow. He held Theresa May's handbag. Can we also showed the
:14:21. > :14:30.picture and draw a parallel, look at his legs! Look at his derrier. Even
:14:31. > :14:39.in up the sexism? A nice suit. What do you think? That is standard EU
:14:40. > :14:52.issue? Do you think is legs are nicer than his? I'm glad mine are
:14:53. > :14:56.under the desk. Strike a deal. The Chancellor rejects call for early
:14:57. > :14:59.trade talks. I wonder if they are going to get any traction with this
:15:00. > :15:05.idea of starting trade talks before the terms of our exit are really
:15:06. > :15:10.settled. It has always been said that you cannot have that in tandem,
:15:11. > :15:13.you have to wait for any new trade deals to be... You cannot start
:15:14. > :15:21.talking about them until we have left. There will be lots of fudging
:15:22. > :15:27.around even these headlines, they say Angela Merkel rules out this and
:15:28. > :15:31.we have to pay X by X day. What Angela Merkel said on the Brexit
:15:32. > :15:36.bill is let us get clarity on the kind of principles you have to abide
:15:37. > :15:40.by as a member leaving the club. What things have you committed to
:15:41. > :15:47.paying that you are going to keep an? The same with trade talks. --
:15:48. > :15:53.paying. Formal discussions. And like Brazil and India. You cannot talk
:15:54. > :15:56.about it. We have seen a lot of it already. We have set up working
:15:57. > :16:01.groups through the country already including in the US where Theresa
:16:02. > :16:05.May went to see Donald Trump and a working group was set up in America.
:16:06. > :16:09.There were raised eyebrows, saying, hang on, were we supposed to not
:16:10. > :16:15.formally set up any formal trade links? Is this going against that?
:16:16. > :16:22.Who turns what has formal and informal? -- terms. In terms of
:16:23. > :16:26.trade deals in general, we obviously have to start the negotiation with
:16:27. > :16:30.the EU because we want a trade deal and Theresa May said that very
:16:31. > :16:34.clearly again today. But at the same time, there is the rest of the
:16:35. > :16:38.world. I suppose we have to do something while we wait for the two
:16:39. > :16:45.years to pass. Brexit begins, trading blows, Theresa May and her
:16:46. > :16:49.early talks on the single market. So much to talk about in terms of
:16:50. > :16:53.immigration and freedom to travel. It will all have to be dealt with.
:16:54. > :16:59.That will surely affect the nature of trade and the nature of labour
:17:00. > :17:03.movement. The government does not like the idea of a transition deal
:17:04. > :17:07.and like to talk about things being phased in. Actually, for all the
:17:08. > :17:15.talk of a two year period, being out in the 29th of March, 2019. There is
:17:16. > :17:21.a lot of continuity. The Sun is talking about the European Court of
:17:22. > :17:26.Justice and the obscurity of what will happen with that. At what point
:17:27. > :17:30.do we were talking about this before. How do you decide today we
:17:31. > :17:36.will talk to this country about this issue. About whether it is about the
:17:37. > :17:42.rights of EU citizens and trade deals We know there are many battles
:17:43. > :17:45.going on, we can see that in the papers today, about trade and
:17:46. > :17:50.security. But what about when do you even consider the rights of EU
:17:51. > :17:57.citizens, whether they stopped today, Brexit Day, or the day that
:17:58. > :18:01.we formally Brexit. A poll suggested many people thought that as of
:18:02. > :18:08.today, if you were British you would need a visa to go and visit France
:18:09. > :18:12.or Germany. No, really, it is all fine, you are still free to go. The
:18:13. > :18:16.Daily Express. No turning back on EU Brexit. I wonder how true that is.
:18:17. > :18:20.If they were to turn their back on Brexit there would be an outcry as
:18:21. > :18:27.people feel that is what they voted for. But technically, as remote a
:18:28. > :18:31.possibility as it is, Article 50 is a grey area, isn't it? It is such a
:18:32. > :18:35.small clause. There is not complete clarity on whether you couldit or
:18:36. > :18:42.reverse it. Nobody thought this clause was going to be needed. They
:18:43. > :18:46.thought the EU would get bigger and incorporate places in Eastern Europe
:18:47. > :18:51.and maybe even Turkey. This is a grey area. In these places of law,
:18:52. > :18:56.if there is a political will to make something happen, it can happen. The
:18:57. > :19:00.difficulty is seeing how in a very short period, well, it is a short
:19:01. > :19:04.period, British politics could turn on its head and there could suddenly
:19:05. > :19:08.be a kind of vote which would override the referendum last year.
:19:09. > :19:12.And of course it would be seen as a massive slap in the face of those
:19:13. > :19:17.who voted for the referendum, the suggestion being that the elite that
:19:18. > :19:20.they like to talk about so much is not listening to the voters and
:19:21. > :19:26.their expression of their will, trying to negate what they are
:19:27. > :19:30.voting for. It would be hard to do that with the General Election.
:19:31. > :19:38.Another party would use that has a mandate. Prime Minister Tim Farron
:19:39. > :19:41.or something like that. To say no turning back is wrong, because we
:19:42. > :19:48.are turning back the clock in doing this. We decided to join, we held a
:19:49. > :19:52.referendum to go into Europe, and we are turning back the clock and going
:19:53. > :19:56.out of it. Over a long period of time. Of course. The reason they
:19:57. > :19:59.said no turning back as the headline is because that is the actual
:20:00. > :20:03.language she used today, almost reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher.
:20:04. > :20:08.Trying to go with that. It is worth pointing out that in terms of the
:20:09. > :20:12.Daily Express, the reason it uses these headlines day in and day out
:20:13. > :20:16.is because it started these headlines in the first place. Others
:20:17. > :20:21.picked it up along the way and supported Brexit, but the Daily
:20:22. > :20:26.Express with its 213 days after it started its campaign it has
:20:27. > :20:33.succeeded in this pointing out it was the original champion of this
:20:34. > :20:38.issue. They will be very pleased, won't they, without comment? And The
:20:39. > :20:51.i has different versions of the -- goodbye from different countries.
:20:52. > :20:58.Jeremy Corbyn backs referendum. Just briefly, the ramifications for the
:20:59. > :21:05.different parts of the United Kingdom are immense in leaving the
:21:06. > :21:08.EU. Indeed. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, there is a greater
:21:09. > :21:12.possibility they will be leaving the UK in some way. The clear
:21:13. > :21:17.possibility is with Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May still
:21:18. > :21:23.disagreeing on when a referendum for Scotland should be held. Probably
:21:24. > :21:26.after Brexit. And whether enough people want independence in
:21:27. > :21:30.Scotland, even now. The polls do not suggest there would be enough...
:21:31. > :21:35.Well, it is a dangerous game for her to play as topic she knows the
:21:36. > :21:40.second numbers of SNP voters actually voted for Brexit
:21:41. > :21:45.themselves. It is not a given that necessarily she would get enough
:21:46. > :21:49.votes. She is putting it on the table, why wouldn't see, it was
:21:50. > :21:52.clear she was going to do this all the way from the beginning, because
:21:53. > :21:57.she felt that because Scotland was not as supportive in the main Brexit
:21:58. > :22:03.as England, that gave a mandate to support a referendum. It was two
:22:04. > :22:08.years ago she said she would not call for another referendum in a
:22:09. > :22:12.generation. I am not sure if I am counting correctly, but two years is
:22:13. > :22:21.not a generation. One more story before we finish. The i. Thousands
:22:22. > :22:33.join hands in a Westminster vigil as the right inquests into how people
:22:34. > :22:37.died a week ago as Khalid Masood did what he did. Ordinarily there would
:22:38. > :22:42.be much more coverage of this. By the coincided with Article 50.
:22:43. > :22:50.Exactly right. We were thinking about the ramifications of whether
:22:51. > :22:54.it was a cell or a group of people acting in a particular way. There is
:22:55. > :23:01.still a large ongoing enquiry into that. But there are questions about
:23:02. > :23:08.how are you detect Parliament and -- detect Parliament. You are both in
:23:09. > :23:16.the Houses of Parliament last week, where are you? Of course, it was an
:23:17. > :23:19.attack on our seat of democracy. But today it was absolutely full of MPs
:23:20. > :23:26.and years hearing statements he made about triggering Article 50. --
:23:27. > :23:33.peers. That is right. What was significant was we were locked in a
:23:34. > :23:37.secure zone, I don't know where you were, but we weren't able to get out
:23:38. > :23:41.because we did not know who was out there and we were being kept safe.
:23:42. > :23:46.The fact that announcement came three even when we were leaving at
:23:47. > :23:50.eight o'clock last night and the announcer said both houses will sit
:23:51. > :23:53.as normal the next day, it was really a signal that we weren't
:23:54. > :23:58.going to let this particular individual disrupt our way of life
:23:59. > :24:03.and our British values. -- through. They are very much entrenched in our
:24:04. > :24:07.democratic processes. Thank you. That is it.
:24:08. > :24:14.That's it for the papers tonight. Don't forget you can see the front
:24:15. > :24:14.pages of the papers on line on the BBC News website.
:24:15. > :24:17.It's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers
:24:18. > :24:21.and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later
:24:22. > :24:23.Thank you, Henry, thank you, Caroline.
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