17/04/2017 The Papers

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

With me - Kate Devlin, Political Correspondent

at The Herald, and the broadcaster David Davies.

Education correspondent, political correspondence. So a lot to talk

about. They have had a sneak preview, let's give you an idea on

what is in the front pages tomorrow morning.

'North Korea threatens Trump with nuclear war'

is the i's headline, after the country promised

The Times claims Europe is braced for a new migrant crisis,

after Turkey's President Erdogan indicated he may issue

Brussels with an ultimatum on visa-free travel.

The Guardian leads with a report from Afghanistan on the impact

of last week's bomb attack by US forces.

According to the Daily Telegraph, schoolchildren will be given better

The paper featured an exclusive interview with Prince Harry today

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail says the Duke of Cambridge will call

for an end to the UK's stiff upper lip culture, and encourage people

The Metro has fresh allegations about Facebook and the social media

Top story for the Express is 'Crackdown on foreign crooks',

with new rules to be announced by the Justice Secretary,

The Mirror has the latest speculation on the disappearance

Almost ten years since she vanished in Portugal.

Who wants to kick off with this? What has he got to be so cheerful

about, David? Well, I suppose we will have to get used to apocalyptic

headlines like this. North Korea threatens Trump with nuclear war.

This is what, in the past, I would have said, it is an exaggeration. It

is not now because it appears to me that we are in uncharted waters in a

very big way, and I have seen some of the interviews you have been

doing on the News Channel during the day. The most difficult thing seems

to me to be that there is no confidence at all that what is a

logical discussion that we might regard as logical, the Americans

might regard as a logical discussion between civil servants in Washington

and in Pyongyang is regarded in that way at all by those in North Korea.

So they are not talking the same language at all. Civil servants

don't understand each other in the same way and that is before you get

to the political leaders. Kate, I don't know if North Korea was on the

list of countries who might have a free-trade deal with us after

Brexit, I don't know if Boris Johnson David Davis fancy going! I

am sure we have something we could sell! We were talking not that long

ago, Britain's first Ambassador, in 2002, the first time we have had an

Ambassador there, and he says he had no sense that people in Pyongyang in

government circles had any idea of the UK thinking in the Foreign

Office, and in what used to be called the chancelleries of Europe.

It is quite terrifying and frankly, Britain's role is pretty marginal.

It is, and you are right. Most days, he looks like a smiling madmen.

Especially today. He is chortling. The contrast what you are saying

about this ministry we also have to look at Donald Trump and most of his

civil servants are still grappling with what he really thinks which

seems to be changing on a daily basis. There is so much tough talk

from both sides. It is apocalyptic language. I wonder if we are getting

hints... People are pulling back from it? It does seem the US is now

emphasising diplomatic routes and sanctions. This negotiation idea,

both of them, is it just tough talk is? I absolutely want you to be

right! The problem is, how much room for manoeuvre is that? We have had

sanctions for years. Years and years and years. And the truth is, they

have not worked. I would love to know what former President Obama

thinks about where we are today. And indeed, interesting to know what

Hillary Clinton thinks about it. Whether it would have been any

different to President Trump. Yes, had those things happened. We are

still just about at this stage of, well, if you do that, we will do the

other things. All the rest of it, that cannot go on forever. Shall we

move on the front the Express? What about Prince Harry in a moment and a

lovely picture of his brother and sister-in-law talking about praising

Prince Harry for coming out about his mental anguish. But this story

about a crackdown on foreign oil site like the stories we get at this

time of year when papers get given stuff before the bank holiday and

they think it will be a quiet run. The stay back at work. Tell us about

the story and how much do you think it stands? It is important to

remember this particular Minister needs a win at the moment, Liz Truss

has had a lot of difficulties in recent weeks, heavily criticised by

the judiciary, overruled in some of that initiatives she has tried to

bring in. So this is an interesting story and it does depend on what the

detail will be. As always! Who are these foreign crooks we are cracking

down on? The problem might be there not that many of them. There are

quite a lot of foreign crooks and people who have been turned down for

asylum. So it is that old thing of getting people out of the country

again? Yes, and putting the two together. Even the Minister of

Justice is suggesting this would be 2,000 cases a year and it would save

around 2.7 million. Which in the grand scheme of things is fairly

small. There is another figure in the middle of the story, the backlog

of cases of asylum seekers deemed subject to removal action,", stood

at nearly 27,000 last year, not including the thousands and Royal in

legal appeals against the rejection of their applications to stay. I

hate to be a sin at, but I have an instinct that this is more work. I

hate to be a cynic. More work than my loan and friends! Surely not,

there are quotes from Liz Truss saying it is vital and they should

be removed as quickly as possible. I feel I have heard this before, and

remember Charles Clarke and there was all that stuff about foreign

prisoners who should be kicked out after serving their sentences here

and they banished, and John Reid before he said the Home Office was

broken. It is now the Ministry of Justice. These stories seem to come

round on a regular basis. Yes, and it seems quite difficult to achieve,

so it seems as if they have narrowed the field of what they are doing.

Talking about Case reviews for each individual case and you can see why

they are only talking about 2,000 cases a year. In some ways, job

done. Front page of the Express, and the Telegraph. Good headlines for a

Minister in difficulty going back to work on Tuesday. We mention Harry,

the on the front of the Daily Telegraph and you cannot blame them

for milking this story. It is a cracker of a story. From their own

paper today, at watershed moment for the mental health debate, that is

top of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph and about time too. Let's hope

Prince Harry's revelation that he took counselling to come to terms

with his mother's death has the same effect that that same mother had

when she got involved in the HIV aid debate. Which was extraordinary. A

catalyst for so much in terms of changing attitudes. A lot of

hostility towards people with HIV and she became a reassuring figure

and a lot of people were very nervous about how we should deal

with it and react. Absolutely, but I could not help on the way in here

the studio, we saw the ten o'clock news stop and there we have, my

goodness, a change for children taking maths and that is, I think,

is that right? And the grading systems. Where is this coming from?

Politicians again. Some of us have lived through education revolution

of the education revolution. Going back 30 years or more! And you get

to a point, are our politicians in this country incapable of finding a

consensus, a consensus for a set number of years, from whichever

political party they come from. And letting the teachers get on with the

job. This is the teachers conference. I am sure you have spent

many happy weekends! Some of us have the wounds from the past. We were

talking about this then and we are no further. Kate, finally, do you

think something like this differently in schools in Scotland

in terms of issues like support for pupils in crisis and counselling,

compared to what has happened and in England? I think across the UK, all

schools are still struggling to understand the scale and extent of

the problem. And then to try and deal with a societywide stigma. But

it talks about depression and anxiety on the increase of 70% in

the last 25 years. Among young people. I don't think we have yet

grappled with how big a problem it is. Hopefully, we will talk about

this more at half past 11. That is a flavour of what is coming up.

You'll both be back at 11:30 for another look at the front pages.

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