30/03/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Paul Johnson the Deputy Editor of The Guardian,

and the former Conservative MP, Tim Collins.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Express reports on a study suggesting high doses of Vitamin C

The FT says a computer system used by HM Revenue

and Customs may not be able to handle the surge in workload once

The Metro reports on a fatal helicopter crash

in Snowdonia, in which five members of the same family died.

The i says it's victory for parents, after SATS tests

The Times claims the Armed Forces face a ?10 billion shortfall amid

escalating costs for new ships and jets. The Mirror says new plans for

the NHS to deliver more for parents that swagger patients will happen

without extra funding. HMRC warns Customs risks being

swamped by Brexit surge. But the downside to Brexit? Of course the

Financial Times must have a negative story about Brexit. There's a shop!

Even though you have to admit only about half of all imports from the

EU, well, under half of two the EU, and yet, we seem to be able to do

all that trade with the rest of the world without computers crashing and

too much red tape and all the rest of it. Yes, there will be issues and

the statement basically says we are on top of it and will sort it out

and the people crack on and stop moaning, we may get there. It is the

customs union, isn't it? Would be a huge burden? They benefit. The

reason for leaving us so we can do free trade agreements with much

faster growing parts of the world and have less red tape with the

parts of the world that represent 95% of the world population and that

is something that is going to produce benefits. So you can always

find negative stories if you want. And financial Times want to. Son was

the guardian always wants to, too. This is where Brexit begins to bite.

An authoritative paper like the Financial Times, I'm surprised. He's

got his Union Jack socks on. The reality is, because we are coming

out of the customs union and single market, we are talking 300 million

instances of customs clearances. They'll send you don't have the

software and it will be chaos. There will be a mountain of red tape. We

will be out in two years, I think. Continuing with the same paper,

Lloyds of Brussels it is now being referred to, because they're opening

up an office in a part of the European Union that they were

convinced would not be leaving! The deliberate Italy or France, they

went to Belgium. Another anti-Brexit story in the Financial Times. What's

astonishing is that what Lloyds are doing is moving out of their

thousand people who work in London, how many other moving to Brussels?

Precisely ten. That is ten people. Their global hub will remain in

London and they've made it clear that is their headquarters and

Europe's financial centre. Funnily enough, the Financial Times doesn't

have the news today about BMW and Ford will make Britain a hub self

driving cars which will create thousands of jobs. Not ten. Funny

that! Now for the Express. David Cameron,

cash before trade talks. We have several stories here. The former

Prime Minister in the Ukraine are making a speech in which he said he

did not like the European Union's flag or their parliament and thought

that was the view of most people in Britain, but he still thought it a

good idea to have the referendum and was glad he campaigned for Remain.

The thing about Cameron is he was someone who understood many of the

reasons why many people objected to the European project and yet, in the

end, you can persuade the majority of people in his country that those

reservations should be overcome. It is interesting he revealed that, but

I think it is perhaps that sends that at heart, it was a political

project and that people in Britain, whatever the economic benefits and

there will be some coming out of the union, do not subscribe to the

political project. But above all is why we left. He must think you

didn't like the flight, how is that going to affect his place in

history, given that he had the referendum that led to all this?

Indeed he did. It says may reject cash before trade talks. But I don't

think she's in a position to reject very much. We have the security

fiasco of course, where we threatened most of Europe and

there's been a drastic withdrawal today. David Davis being on the

phone to European capitals, ambassadors have been called in, it

is all OK, we didn't need to threaten you. Of course, the Asunder

so differently. I think yesterday what the Prime Minister Sevigny

parallel talks on Brexit and on trade. And what happened? They all

said no. It is not going very well so far.

The those sentiments that we hold all the chords and they will do the

bidding when the cards are placed on the table cop has already gone wrong

twice in 24 hours. This is a guardian fantasy. This idea that the

attitude of the Government as we hold the cards, well, it isn't, we

understand it has to be hard bargaining, but in the end, it is

overwhelmingly to the benefit of both the EU and the UK to get a good

deal. We need to trade with them and they with us. They do better out of

it than we do and we need to secure our borders with them and they need

our help to secure their borders and we benefit. Staying with Brexit,

page five of the express. Nicola Sturgeon signing the letter

officially requesting following the vote in the Holyrood parliament a

second referendum when she chooses. The picture there is interesting,

because she has her legs up on the sofa and she is not showing her

legs. After the debacle concerning her legs. Is that the right word?

This is potentially significant moment. Yes, it is. Cameron's legacy

may well be about coming out on Brexit, but also potential of the

break-up of the union and there is one of the first ages. This picture

looks as if it was modelled on a picture taken of Margaret Thatcher

in 1983 with the red box, in Downing Street in all must exactly the same

pose. But is also her response to the picture of the Prime Minister

early in the week signing the Article 50 letter, with all the

officialdom behind it. This is a very casual pose and I think the

risk for Nicola Sturgeon is many will understand she was not signing

a serious letter, this is not there to any difference, because Theresa

May has Medicare and I was not the time. It looks like the sort of

casual thing you do late at night after you've knocked back a field

and frankly, that is the impression most people have. I don't see any

wine glasses. I don't see any alcohol! It looks like it was done

informally and is not very serious. Now, The i, victory for parents on

school tests. These were the SATS brought in to some dismay by the

teaching unions. Now they are going to be replaced, the Government has

announced, by assessments. The assessments will be taken in the

first year of entry, so at four or five-year-old, the assessments will

be done without the children knowing others baseline assessments will be

built in to an assessment when the child leaves primary school. A much

more deliberate and time taken over that assessment, a gentler method.

The suggestion from Sun is back, the many parents think it's a great idea

and the teachers don't cause they think is not preparing children for

the world. Yes, our youngsters are going to be competing with the world

were in China and much of Asia and Latin America, there is much, much

more rigorous education than is usually the case in the UK. This is

a very bad move by the Government I think and the headline is victory

for parents, undoubtedly for some, but very bad news for them, because

those being tested about performances for seven-year-olds

when all the children, but the teachers. He was making sure they

are performing. And now, this new softer approach will be done by

teachers marking their own homework and that is not a good idea. Onto

the Guardian. 18 week target for operations. This is an important

story. Strictly speaking, this is one of the keystones of the NHS at

the moment, this pledge for 92% of routine operations, nip -- knee and

hip replacements. Hernias, cataract removal, all done within 18 weeks.

The NHS will announce tomorrow that that is being jettisoned. The idea

is to put more money into emergency Mac round into cancer research. --

A White is important is it is Simon Stephens trying to bend and

show public opinion that we have to be realistic about what we can

achieve with the money that is there within the NHS and he makes it clear

that there is only a small amount. Surely with a ?365 million coming

after Brexit from Brussels... Where is Boris? Behind the scenes. The BMA

oppose all change. They oppose the creation of the NHS back in the day

and I remember that when 15 years these targets are being introduced,

they said they were bad and we distort clinical priorities and make

less urgent operations take place before more urgent operations and

what I think is interesting about this is that it says on the front

page of the Guardian in may result in people having to wait. That was

after a decade of Labour Government. Most people will take the view that

when there are huge constraints, if we end up with that side of it being

no worse than it was a decade ago, but we are able to protect A and

other services, it will be an OK deal. City watchdog sends a clear

message as banker loses job. This particular bank lost his job. I'm

not sure it is because he used what's up or whether the message is

sent through it, because it does appear to have been inside

information that was passed on. And it was encrypted. He seems to make

the mistake of handing his phone over to his employer, because

otherwise they wouldn't have access. In future, people probably think

twice about and in the phone over to the employer. That could be the

long-term effects. Amber Road has been meeting tech companies there

may have agreed to agree. Thank you both. Goodbye.

The next few days looked to be a little cooler. Today was the warmest

day of the year so far. The warmest March day since