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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
There is quite a lot of us! Look who was passing and dropped in! | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
With me are John Rentoul, the Chief Political Columnist | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
at The Independent, Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser for | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Arbuthnot Banking Group and the broadcaster Charlie Wolf. | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
You are here to talk three 100 days of the Donald Trump administration. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
We are discombobulated by this new format! | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
The Observer reports on today's summit of EU leaders saying | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
they want the UK to provide guarantees to EU citizens living | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
in Britain before any trade talks can begin. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The Sunday Times also leads on the summit, | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
reporting that the other EU member states have rejected Theresa May's | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
negotiating position and accused her of living | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
The Sunday Telegraph says the Prime Minister has rejected | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
the demands coming from Brussels as politicians on both sides | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
of the Channel warned that the talks could turn nasty. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The Mail on Sunday reports that Theresa May will bring | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
in new laws to prevent a repeat of the Sir Philip Green BHS pension | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
The Sunday Express leads on the investigating | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
It says Scotland Yard's prime suspect is a woman. | :01:28. | :01:40. | |
Of course, we will start with Brussels. We would not expect | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
anything else. The Observer says the EU tells Theresa May, give us rights | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
for our citizens or no trade talks. They did not take long to decide | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
that negotiating position, considering there were 27 of them. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
It will not take long to sort out the citizens' rights question | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
because everyone is agreed that we will give reciprocal rights, EU | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
citizens here can have their rights and British citizens there can have | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
their own rights so we can get on with the trade talks. Cammy? There | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
is the exit Bill? Were making three points, one is citizens rights, that | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
could be agreed quickly and the financial settlement will be far | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
more contentious and they want 60 billion by the British government | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
says we will not pay anything like that and the third is about the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Irish border and it was in the notes of Donald Tusk, when he wrote to | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Theresa May at the beginning of April, he said that some progress | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
had to be made on those things before they could start discussing | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
the new relationship between the UK and EU so none of this new. It is | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
fake news! Or just a rehash? It is a fake rehash. This is a rehash. Is | :03:04. | :03:15. | |
that fake? I stung this with Andrew Neil a few years ago, this is Kabuki | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
theatre. The Japanese theatre. In America it means this posturing, | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
this little dance, this little show, and it is Kabuki theatre and these | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
are not issues, citizens' rights, yes. The Irish border? I don't see | :03:34. | :03:47. | |
that as an issue. Dear me! It is an island so if they are worried about | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
people getting into Europe, they will still have to go through a port | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
somewhere? But because of the history of Northern Ireland and | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Ireland, the heart border was a big issue. That is concerning. I see | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
this as a soft border. There has been a common travel area well | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
before the European Union. The Republic of Ireland will be staying | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
in the single market and that means the full freedoms of goods and | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
services and capital and Labour so anybody working in Ireland, if there | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
was no border controls, they could move to Northern Ireland, so that is | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
an issue and that is an issue on the tablets because if it happens that | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
we have tariffs against the EU, against Ireland, that could be an | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
issue. There are mince -- amends political sensitivities also. Those | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
are the specific things you can relate to the Republic of Ireland, | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
it will remain in the EU and we will leave so that issue has to be | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
discussed. It will not be straightforward. I think it could be | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
resolved whereas the exit bill could not be resolved because they want 60 | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
billion and we want to pay 10 billion or 5 billion, quite a big | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
gap. If that is not resolved then nothing else can be. You will come | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
back to that in a second but I want to do with the other story on the | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
front page of the Observer, Labour pledged to outlaw all zero hours | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
contracts, these have been very controversial, Charlie is saying! | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
Put a halt to unpaid internships. Ruth, with a business background, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
what is your view? I am not keen on zero hours contracts but if it is a | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
choice between a job and no job, I want a job, with zero hours. I have | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
never had one of those, I have always been lucky with my | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
employment, until I got the sack! But that is history. It was rather | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
unfortunate. When Labour puts all of these extra restrictions on | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
employment any to be careful, they are also talking... You say | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
restrictions but they are safeguards for employees? Do you have a job or | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
not? If you have the job, you have more rights and safeguards but if it | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
is harder to get into the Labour market, that is a problem. It is | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
always great to sit next to somebody like Ruth, an economist, I wish they | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
would teach more economics in schools, you can at ?15 every other, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
make it 50 of it ever, if you don't have a job, it doesn't matter. There | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
is a finite pot of money generally and a lot of companies, and | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
companies will pay you top dollar if they can. We'll be? All of them? | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
Those shareholders support that? I never chap who runs 30 McDonald's | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
restaurants and others discussing how you save money, with kiosks, he | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
says the way they do this, it takes more backroom staff, they want a | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
good product but you cannot pay more going out than what is coming in. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
With zero hours, we have to turn up for work and you are only paid when | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
you physically do the job. I agree with Ruth, they are not ideal but | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
for some people they are quite convenient. When McDonald's offered | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
employees the chance to switch from zero hours to fixed hours. That was | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
only taken up by a minority of the staff. It suggests that for some | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
people, at zero hours contract is preferred because it is flexible and | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
what they want. The Labour position used to be that it was against | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
exploitative zero hours contracts, I do not know how you define that. It | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
is the same with minimum wage. Especially if talking about youth, | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
you want to get onto the ladder. You want the training that you get from | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
these very good firms. I will mention McDonald's, they do a very | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
good job... Are they sponsoring new? Seriously, they have one of the best | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
training programmes in the world. I don't think we have time to delve | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
into McDonald's! If they had a chance from a company like them and | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
there are other companies that sell similar products, I would pay them | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
to get my first job because it gets you into the market and you rise up. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
We don't have time to do with the criticisms of McDonald's over the | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
years so we can look at the other Brussels story, Theresa May rejects | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Brussels, she is saying, she is laughing them off. I think this is | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
fake news. I think she is right, it is just politics. Posturing on both | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
sides. It is Kabuki theatre and I used to work for the Japanese so I | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
should know! Tough terms for Brexit? We know these terms. These were | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Donald Tusk's terms. There is no news. It is not news but it | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
illustrates something I have been talking about for years... Let | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
refinish! I think I have conked out! I have forgotten what I was saying. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
You said you knew this but what is new is they got together, the new | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
topline, 27 countries. That was expected, I didn't know anybody who | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
did not expect those 27 countries to reject the guidelines today. I don't | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
think anybody expected that to happen. The piece yesterday, very | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
interested in the project. And nothing else but the project. If | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
Greece goes down, big deal, what was a line from The Simpsons? - one | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
welcome our new alien overlords and I have always thought that about | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk. They did not let Greece go down. He | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
said I would never have taken the deal, they are interested in the | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
project and if they want 60 billion, I will tell them where to put that. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
If they want the project to survive, they cannot make it look too easy | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
for Britain? Even if they are not ganging up, as Angela Merkel said? | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
It is not in their interests to allow us to have as good a deal but | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
where I disagree with Charlie is the idea that it is going to be good for | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Britain, economically, to leave the EU, I do not think it is. Ruth will | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
back me up. Free trade makes you better off. And we're going to have | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
less free trade with the European Union. We may or may not, if we | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
leave without any agreement, it is feasible but not optimal and it is | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
much better if some sort of trade agreement is negotiated with the | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
European Union and I think there will be one. There is posturing, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
there is no doubt, they have to, but why do I think there will be a trade | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
agreement? Because it is in their interests, they have a whacking | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
great trade interest. And they are interested in the project, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
interested not in punishing us but in making sure we do not benefit. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
They are not going to bash their own export industries en route. If they | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
are economically rational and sensible... They may not be! | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
Nordstrom is the trade Commissioner and she said there will be a trade | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
agreement, for sure. I would take the record collection in the | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
divorce, I would take the other side's clothing and dump that on the | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
front lawn and say, I will keep the record collection, you can have the | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
kids and just end it! DME! Tories sidestep the Heathrow split, the | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Conservative manifesto will not mention the Heathrow third runway? | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Interesting, we're getting close to crunch day on the Tory manifesto, | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
that will be published on Monday week. Big decisions have to be made | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
as to what will be in it and it looks as if Theresa May has decided | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
not to mention Heathrow. That solves that. Do they need to? They don't | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
because apparently there is no decision that will be imminent about | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Heathrow but at some point I wish they would push ahead and get on | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
with this third runway. I know Boris was against this as the Mayor. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Sensible chap? I thought it was a jolly good idea to have a third | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
runway! I think this is very hopeful news for those who do not agree. The | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
sensor that it -- sensitivities of borrowers have been dealt with, they | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
want Zach Johnson to win Richmond. He was ousted not so long ago. Well, | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
he resigned in protest against Heathrow and he now wants to be the | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Conservative MP, even the policy has not changed. To me, this is not | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
necessarily an election, this is the second referendum in advance. This | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
is a one issue election, the Labour Party with Jeremy Corbyn, whatever | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
his visa on the runway, the least of his problems, and they are taking | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
advantage of this. The guy is like the Black Knight in the Monty Python | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
film, nothing but one arm left, fight me! Theresa May a saying, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
great, this will be a referendum, I have the ability to negotiate the EU | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
and Brexit however I want, why bring this up? Smart lady. Tactical. There | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
are other things she could have avoided mentioning, she has carried | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
on with the immigration cap. The Sunday Times... The 100 day salute | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
from the Chief. Donald Trump saluting a US Marine on his return | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
to the White House, he was addressing the National Rifle | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Association, who are very supportive of him. He has helped them out with | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
various executive orders to unpack some of the controls that President | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
Obama had. The one thing he has done and accomplished fully during his | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
100 days and it will be the thing that I'd last seven as a legacy is | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
getting him onto the Supreme Court, the original meaning will be kept, | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
that second Amendment is very important to a lot of Americans. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Overall, it is easy to make fun of the man, I no news broadcasters have | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
been having fun. As you know, from last night... She is the fairest | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
woman I know in all of broadcasting. You can put that in lights! Nice | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
lady! To me, what can you do in 100 days? FDR did quite a lot? I am sure | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
he did with the new deal but I was not there at the time, was that | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
1933? Lets just say the 1930s. Before my time. He is a bit random, | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
I am a statistician and we have random walks, where you do not know | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
where he is going and I think Donald Trump's policies are a bit of a | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
random walk, if you get my drift. Should you not given credit for | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
changing his mind? I do and he has changed his mind on a lot of things, | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
he has been obliged to do with Obamacare and the wall, I don't | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
think that is going up, Mexico will not pay for it, and the problem with | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
the visitors coming in from countries he did not like and that | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
has been stopped. He has changed his mind partly because people have | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
forced him to. He is very pleased with the results he has got and he | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
said he does not think anybody has achieved as much as he has in 100 | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
days. He is quite keen to blow his own trumpet. No pun intended. He | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
said 100 days as a target for achieving lots of things, which he | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
has not achieved, but that is Donald Trump, he is bluster and a jolly | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
good thing because it turns out that Donald Trump in his first 100 days, | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
if you push on, he will move. If he comes up against the con situation | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
and the courts in the United States, he will give way. He changes his | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
mind and do something more sensible and that is all very good news. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
There is definitely a pragmatism and thank God, when you look at | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
international affairs, it was right to address Syria, especially, and | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
address North Korea, that was not in his plans, he has gone back, his | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
America first policy is a more traditional, in other words, if | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Assad is gassing his own people, it is in our interest because we do not | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
want to see chemical weapons so that is part of America first. If he does | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
not succeed in achieving all of the things he promised his supporters, | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
when he comes up early election, if you bothered to stand again because | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
he has said he misses his old life, this is not like I thought it was | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
going to be, were they not have long memories and remember what he has | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
not done? As far as Syria is concerned, they are not interested, | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
they want to see the economy improved, these are people who are | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
blue-collar workers, it is different than working class, they own their | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
own businesses and they want to see the economy improving. Which it has | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
been doing. The economy is doing well? Bottas at dodger. If | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
incredibly low interest rates like everybody else and quantitative | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
easing and the economy has recovered. It was a very weak | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
first-quarter figure yesterday. Unemployment is very low. There are | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
a lot of people who say this is fake, the market is not sustainable, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
the numbers... If you have these absurdly low interest rates, what do | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
you expect? When interest rates Titan, you will find that you're | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
talking about equities, they will come off. If these 100 days of the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
golden period when you rush to get things done, he has a long time in | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
office still to deal with the rest of it. He might not find that is | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
easy because as we could see with Obamacare... He is not finding it | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
easy and he will not achieve many other things he set out to achieve. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Charlie and Ruth are right, his supporters are very much focused on | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
domestic American questions and the economy carries on growing he will | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
be fine and a few bills lots of airports and bridges, who knows | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
whether that will have enough of an effect by the next election? But it | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
will start to give the impression that America is moving again. In the | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
polling I have seen, it says that he has outgrown his audience but within | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
his constituency, something like 97% approval and if they held the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
election tomorrow, but only would he take the electoral college, he would | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
still beat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote as well. What is his | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
next priority? It is hard to say. He goes with whatever seems to be | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
there. Whatever is on television tomorrow morning. North Korea. That | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
cannot be ignored. It cannot, what he is doing with North Korea is | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
actually correct because Kim Jong-un is a madman and you don't want him | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
to have nuclear weapons somewhat Donald Trump is doing is correct and | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Obama did not think about that. It is marvellous to let you say that | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
without having to jump to his defence! Shall we talk about the | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
last thing, HS2 trains bulking up for the bulky? Heavier trains are | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
necessary because passengers are heavier? I am looking at you only | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
because I have trouble with Amtrak trains, which are so much bigger | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
than ours and extremely comfortable. So our cars. Big country with big | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
people. Lots of space. Yes, wide open spaces. Things must be doing | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
very good over here in the United Kingdom. People are getting fatter? | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
People are getting fatter. We will not have double-decker trains? You | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
will not have that. They will not go under bridges. Those lovely old | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
bridges. Most of HS2 will be in a tunnel as well. Not only do I not | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
agree with building a third runway at Heathrow, I do not agree with HS2 | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
either. I am hoping HS2 will not go ahead. The costs, having to build | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
bigger trains for bigger and taller, fatter people, then perhaps that | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
will tip the balance. The economics do not stack up? I think this is a | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
misallocation of scarce resources, to use a harmless phrase. I am | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
showing off! But joking apart, the money going into this, we do not | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
know what the final bill will be, 50 billion? It could be worse than | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
leaving the EU. That money would be better spent on other infrastructure | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
projects. It is a white elephant. A fourth runway? 28 runways at | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Stansted. The poor people of Essex. Why should they be so encumbered? | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Back to the story, the spill-over effect of passengers with two broad | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
standard six? This is a modern problem on planes? Apparently it is. | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
People can get squashed. One can get squashed in a plane, I have been | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
squashed on several occasions. Nowadays you just worry about not | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
getting dragged off! The aisles are wider to help them dragged off! | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
George the large rabbit? I was very upset. We always are with animals. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
That was quite a nice spread of stories, shall we see what we can | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
come up with that 11:30pm? We will see what we can find. That is it. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Charlie, Ruth and John will be back again with another look at the front | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
pages at 11:30pm. We will see you shortly. The weather is next. | :23:24. | :23:38. | |
Pretty quiet start to the Bank Holiday weekend, the | :23:39. | :23:39. |