30/04/2017 The Papers

Pugh is being praised for her performance in Lady Macbeth. Find

out what Jason Solomons made of the film and the rest of this week's

cinema releases in the Film Review. Welcome to our look ahead to what

the papers will bring us tomorrow. With us Jim Waterson, political

editor at BuzzFeed and Fleet street Fox Suzy Boniface, columnist at the

Mirror. Tomorrow's front pages, bank holiday Monday front pages, leading

bankers are saying interest-free credit cards are ticking time bombs.

The i says Corbyn will pledge ?3 billion to education, reversing

Conservative pledges. Plans to make social media forms responsible for

digital crimes. The Daily Express focuses on the foreign aid budget,

?15 million is funding anti-smoking campaigns in some of the world's

most corrupt countries. The Guardian leads on Theresa May's comments on

tax, saying the Prime Minister has signalled a rise in National

Insurance and income taxed after pledging not to increase VAT. The

Times has a similar lead to the Telegraph, social media giants

failing to handle dangerous online content. The Mail is considering tax

breaks for elderly relatives -- the Mail says Theresa May is

considering. And the Sun says Anthony Joshua's not forgotten the

bill at his local launderette after his stunning victory. It won't

change him, it is like lottery winners, they always say that. The

Guardian, we will begin with what's been happening over the weekend in

particularly today. Theresa May ruling out an increase in VAT, as

Labour have as well, but National Insurance contributions and income

tax might be within her sites. Carefully not saying anything else

and it seems to be what they're saying is the overall tax take won't

increase, the Tories may fiddle with a few things within that,

interestingly some of the things Theresa May was talking about,

weakening the triple lock in pensions, making it a double lock,

someone figure that out for me, and reinvesting the money into long-term

social care, which will help some of the social care problems we've got.

There's a suggestion they are considering taxes on highly

expensive homes, the mansion tax, Ed Miliband's idea, massively derided,

and not liked at all, now it will possibly be in the Conservative

manifesto. A lot of these things are almost Labour policies. I'm not

quite sure that Labour would feel quite that way but you talk to Ed

Miliband and the team around him at the moment and they feel vindicated

all the stuff the last election was fought on being a risk to the

nation's wealth is now being adopted in part by Carizza made's team. The

bit to me buried in this is the triple lock pensions, which has been

a Tory policy for so long, Theresa May has basically signalled that

would be in the Tory manifesto this time round but Labour is going to

fight that as a key pledge. Labour will be the party giving far more

money to pensioners and the Conservatives are likely to say the

pensions are increasing at a lower rate. It's a topsy-turvy world.

There's one fascinating bit in here that people might find interesting,

internal Tory figures have Theresa May polling ahead of her party.

That's why she's not mentioning Conservatives and Tories very much

and a poster saying Theresa May in big letters and conservatives in

little letters, but Labour is the opposite, Labour has a brand not

quite so bad but Jeremy Corbyn is not polling anywhere near as well as

the party overall. But Jeremy Corbyn on the i is pledging ?3 billion to

close the education gap. We know a lot of head teachers are saying they

will really struggle over the next couple of years to make ends meet.

Friends who work in teaching say the same, they are looking at whether

they can lose a teaching assistant here or cut an entire teaching posts

here and cope with one fewer staff member. -- post. The interesting

thing is Jeremy Corbyn has made a pledge at a teachers conference but

because we don't have the Labour manifesto yet and everything costed,

the Tories are hammering him for saying this pledge without costing

it. Neither of the two major parties have released details of their

funding for their policies, it's allowing the Tories to once again

said Jeremy Corbyn will raise taxes. We're not going to have very long to

pick over the manifesto is when they are published. They didn't know an

election was coming so all the parties are drawing up one quickly

on the back of the nearest fag packet to find out what they can get

away with. It will be interesting to see. Because those manifestoes to a

degree would have been rushed out, more than normal if we had had the

election in 2020 as expected, they would have spent a year working up

to it, this time it is very quick. We know the conservative one will be

very quick and Labour one will be out three weeks before polling, they

were very much caught on the hop. The Daily Mirror has an ex-

premier's bombshell on the front, Tony Blair returning to politics to

help Britain says the Mirror in this exclusive. What is he going to do,

how is he going to help? It's not clear if you read the story, over

the past several months he has spoken to newspapers and given

interviews talking about setting up a think tank or institute that will

promote centre-left ideas and centre-left politicians, use some of

the money he has earned from after he was Prime Minister to fund that

and help Labour back to the centre ground. Inside the story itself it

talks about getting out into the country and reconnecting. He flatly

says he won't stand for Parliament, he's not going to reconnect with

anybody and he's actually saying there are ideas out there that

people will be interested in. He hasn't got long to get them out

there and talked about and will they be accepted by the current

Parliamentary party? When we write about Labour politics, certainly

online with a younger audience, Tony Blair is the one term that sets

people off, he's more hated by most of the left wing readers we write

for than figures on the Tory right. It's a total turnaround from ten

years ago when he left power. Might he have a constituency still in

people that do remember his days with affection perhaps and think

that he did do some good stuff. There might be the demographic that

is more likely to vote, slightly older people, the issue will be when

he says he's back and this is what he is going to do, what will he do?

All he has done so far is give a series of interviews giving his

opinion about Brexit and the Labour Party and that is all he is doing,

causing a fuss for others. Because of the baggage that comes with him,

there's the unfortunate truth whenever he makes an intervention it

doesn't help because he is trying to help. Whenever he says you should

back this moderate Labour politician, that's the kiss of

death. If he wants to help he should be as quiet as possible and use the

money for the things he wants to use it for but stop giving interviews.

Someone once their period of silence I think. The Telegraph, Facebook

must pay to police Internet. A tweet from Ian Finlay saying it is too

late, these are global phenomena, global companies, different rules

and standards apply all over the world. We saw this when Amber Rudd,

the Home Secretary, was trying to get WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, to

break its encryption essentially after the Westminster terror attack

and WhatsApp, which literally has 1 billion customers around the world

and has made a big deal about being encrypted from end to end, shrugged

their shoulders and said what are you going to do? This is what we

promised our customers. We are reaching the point the sites are so

big, three or four years ago we were talking about what's on the Internet

and all of us are on our phones all day checking Facebook, your

grandmother is on there as much as your little cousin honour at the end

result is the theme is basically the public sphere Daschle little cousin

and at the end. -- little cousin and at the end. If it's not possible to

police it in an old-fashioned sense, is this a threat just to get them to

tidy up their act? This is a report by the Home Affairs Select

Committee, which has no legislative power, saying they think something

should be done, I way to push the Home Office to meet Internet bosses.

The way these companies operate, if you defend somebody on the Internet

or Facebook or if you commit a crime, their argument is we are not

a publisher in the way the Daily Mail or the Daily Telegraph is. We

are effectively the medium, we are no more liable for the criminality

someone else has committed using our medium than the person who chop down

the tree that made the paper that printed the newspaper the Daily

Telegraph used to defame somebody. They say they are not a publisher in

law. At the moment they say they are publishers they have do accept

responsibility for everyone and that is their worst nightmare. That would

be a massive pay-out so they won't do that but if they going to be the

producer and the medium then they can't be involved in policing it,

that's not their job either. The Times, Wimbledon prize smashes ?2

million because the pound isn't worth what it was. With Brexit there

have been unforeseen circumstances, nobody told us about this when we

voted, because the pound has fallen significantly, the ?2 million the

singles winners had last year would now be worth a lot less so they are

having to up the prize money to at least 2.25 and to make it the same

as last year. Interestingly last year, Serena Williams, who won the

ladies singles on July the night, earned $340,000 less than if she had

had the final on June the 21st -- July the night. We deprived her of

340 US dollars due to Brexit -- July the ninth. She will be very pregnant

when she comes back. She will be about to pop so I don't think she

will be coming. I advise against it, Serena. BuzzFeed as promised. Who?

Some upstart website. Is it a newspaper? Let's read this, Theresa

May says there are complex reasons why nurses use food banks, and

interview this morning with Andrew Marr quoting figures from the Royal

College of nursing. A story a lot of our readers got excited about this

morning when she was on the Andrew Marr Show on the BBC this morning

and was repeatedly asked, you not concerned about the report from the

role College of nursing saying some nurses are turning to food banks. In

one response she said there's many complex reasons why people use food

banks -- Royal College of Surgeons. DG explain what they were? She

reverted back to her campaign pitch and avoided the question -- did she

explain. During the campaign she has reverted back to soundbites about

strong and stable leadership, whenever you drill down to key

issues, she has been reluctant and has gone back to talking points.

It's as much about her engagement with questions in interviews as it

is about the context of what was said. Social media had a field day

with this one. In order to use the food bank you have to have a letter

from a GP or some other authority figure that says you are hungry and

you anticipate you will soon be hungry or your children are already

hungry. You don't get to pop into a food bank because Waitrose could be

a bit busy. Going to a food bank you have to have an address, all the

food that is in there are things that are donated from good causes,

it's not exactly people benefiting normally from this. You don't have

complex reasons to go there. You are hungry, you are poor, you are

probably in work and that's not playing enough to get you to the end

of the week and you have children and you need nappies and someone has

been good enough to donate and you're able to access that charity

quite easily with a letter from your GP, that's the once and for reason

you use a food bank for. Thank you. -- once and for reason. The Sun,

Brit Champ's. A vowel to make ?1 billion, that would be something we

would all want to do -- Brit Champ's vow -- a vow. Unless he has got a

pretty big dry-cleaning bill he will be all right. Anthony Joshua, who

won the boxing at Wembley Stadium the other night, and he is now on

his way to all manner of pay-outs for getting hit very hard in front

of a lot of people. Doing lot nicer and a lot less controversial than

Tyson Fury -- a lot. In order to make ?1 billion he has to fight 67

such fights to make that kind of thing. We don't want to see him do

that because of his eye, which is a bit damaged today, as is Vladimir

Klitschko, who didn't even win. All of the front pages are on the

website, where you can CAD to a review of the newspapers, it is

there all week. -- where you can see a review. You can see us there two,

each night's addition of the Papers is on there after we finish -- there

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