:00:00. > :00:00.My guest is wholly McNish, one of most popular performance poet. We
:00:00. > :00:00.will be talking about her new collection, in which she revisits
:00:00. > :00:15.her adolescence. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:16. > :00:19.to what the the papers will be With me are Reuters Business
:00:20. > :00:22.correspondent Tom Bergin and Kate Devlin, Political
:00:23. > :00:35.Correspondent at The Herald. Tomorrow's front pages,
:00:36. > :00:37.starting with The Times. The front page of the Times
:00:38. > :00:39.says that relief efforts at Grenfell Tower have descended
:00:40. > :00:42.into chaos, with reports of survivors being rehoused
:00:43. > :00:44.hundreds of miles away. The Daily Telegraph focuses
:00:45. > :00:46.on the Conservative party leadership, reporting that
:00:47. > :00:48.David Davis is emerging as a unity candidate to become interim party
:00:49. > :00:53.leader if Mrs May steps down. The Financial Times concentrates
:00:54. > :00:56.on the Brexit talks due to start tomorrow, reporting
:00:57. > :00:58.that the Chancellor is urging The Guardian reports that European
:00:59. > :01:05.leaders fear the fragility of Theresa May's government makes it
:01:06. > :01:07.more likely Britain could crash out The Independent also looks
:01:08. > :01:15.at Brexit, and a report which suggests that plans to cut
:01:16. > :01:17.immigration could have a double But the Daily Express
:01:18. > :01:21.says confidence is high And the Sun has more on the news
:01:22. > :01:28.that the TV presenter Ant McPartlin checks into rehab for
:01:29. > :01:43.alcohol and drug problem. with the Metro, which has a picture
:01:44. > :01:51.on the front page showing the inside of one of the flats at Grenfell
:01:52. > :01:55.Tower following a flyer, -- following the fire, similar to the
:01:56. > :01:58.footage that police have released. It says it will extend of the blaze
:01:59. > :02:03.damages revealed and talks about the money the survivors will get. And
:02:04. > :02:09.also MPs condemning the treatment of those people who lived here as
:02:10. > :02:14.Victorian. Kate, it is hard to think that just a few days ago this was
:02:15. > :02:19.someone's home. Yes, and I'm not surprised the Metro has put this as
:02:20. > :02:28.a huge picture on their front page. It really shows the absolute
:02:29. > :02:31.devastation. That apartment, someone was living in it, had belongings.
:02:32. > :02:38.You can see things that were burned in a fire, and it really...
:02:39. > :02:44.Obviously we saw very horrible pictures from the outside a few days
:02:45. > :02:51.ago. I think this brings home again just how terrible it must have been
:02:52. > :02:56.to be inside that tower. It is David Lambie, the Labour MP, who is quoted
:02:57. > :03:01.here. He had a friend in this blog. He says while we behaving like this,
:03:02. > :03:05.this is Victorian England. We don't have local government able to
:03:06. > :03:12.coordinate. It did seem that the British Red Cross had come in to
:03:13. > :03:16.fill the gap. Theresa May has said that the response was not good
:03:17. > :03:20.enough, there is an article in the Financial Times today talking about
:03:21. > :03:25.how the effort is being coordinated by executives from other local
:03:26. > :03:27.authorities, effectively the Kensington and Chelsea local
:03:28. > :03:34.authority has been sidelined in its own borough. So I seem to be serious
:03:35. > :03:37.questions being raised about the effectiveness of that effort, and we
:03:38. > :03:43.have of course this mention of people receiving ?10 to help them
:03:44. > :03:49.tide them over. This is Kensington and Chelsea, that gets you caught
:03:50. > :03:59.the underclass and if you're lucky. -- that gets you a copy and paste
:04:00. > :04:06.review are lucky. I have seen fatal fires before, but never seen
:04:07. > :04:10.anything like this. The leader of the council says that they are
:04:11. > :04:13.involved, they are leading this effort, and he rejects the criticism
:04:14. > :04:21.they have received. Let's look at the Telegraph. Let in turn are
:04:22. > :04:25.victims of season ending arms, says Jeremy Corbyn. If you read, it says
:04:26. > :04:34.Jeremy Corbyn appeared to suggest that families could live in empty
:04:35. > :04:40.properties. This is a subject he referred to during the week, it was
:04:41. > :04:45.about empty homes. This is a long-running issue. We have a glut
:04:46. > :04:50.on the market of luxury apartments in London. The prices are weakening.
:04:51. > :04:56.Many of them lie empty for long periods of time, if you go by these
:04:57. > :04:59.buildings much of the year at night time you don't see any lights on.
:05:00. > :05:03.This is what economists were considered to be a market
:05:04. > :05:07.inefficiency. Jeremy Corbyn, not usually a fan of many economists,
:05:08. > :05:10.but he agrees on this point. He thinks they should not be the case,
:05:11. > :05:14.we should bring these into use. The question is how to do that. He does
:05:15. > :05:18.mention the term occupy here, I think anybody who is concerned about
:05:19. > :05:24.property rights would not like to see that word. But he also use a
:05:25. > :05:26.word that anyone concerned with public finances may be worried about
:05:27. > :05:32.a doctorate content compulsory purchase. I'm not sure many people
:05:33. > :05:38.would consider buying multi-million dollar apartments, single bedroom
:05:39. > :05:42.apartments, those kind of sums would release of any problems. Even with a
:05:43. > :05:48.surplus that we understand that Kensington and Chelsea are running.
:05:49. > :05:54.But it is possible for properties to be commandeered, sequestered for a
:05:55. > :05:56.short period, isn't it? Yes, and when Vince Cable was Business
:05:57. > :06:01.Secretary he was banging on about this problem a good couple of years
:06:02. > :06:08.ago, there are actually an awful lot, a growing number, of London
:06:09. > :06:13.apartments being bought unbelievably to remain empty. They are just
:06:14. > :06:16.investments. There is no real financial incentive. These people
:06:17. > :06:20.are so rich that they effectively can't even be bothered to get
:06:21. > :06:31.renters in there, so they just sit empty. As Thomas suggesting, this is
:06:32. > :06:36.cheek by jowl with, in a borough that has high inequality as well.
:06:37. > :06:41.Five days in the job and I was called to Grenfell Tower of is a
:06:42. > :06:46.young firefighter, 26, and emits catty, and less than a week as part
:06:47. > :06:51.of the Fire Service and yet she gets sense to this extraordinary fire,
:06:52. > :06:57.which sees and firefighters said they had no missing the likes of
:06:58. > :07:04.before. Yes, and she says it is her first proper job in which she saw
:07:05. > :07:09.actual flames. Hats off to all the firefighters who did such a great
:07:10. > :07:15.job. And she saved lives. Yes, that is certainly one area that Theresa
:07:16. > :07:20.May was quick to point out, that the emergency services getting a lot of
:07:21. > :07:25.plaudits. We will come back to the Telegraph. The Guardian, PM orders
:07:26. > :07:30.cash payment for Grenfell Tower move is. We know it is around ?5,500.
:07:31. > :07:36.They'll get some in cash and some into bank accounts. People's bank
:07:37. > :07:41.card cards will have gone up in flames. When you lose nothing, you
:07:42. > :07:45.need to buy the most basic things, so having a cash infusion like that
:07:46. > :07:51.just helps you to get by. It is not compensation, by any means. The
:07:52. > :07:56.other thing is this is Downing Street still scrambling to catch up
:07:57. > :08:00.to try to get on the front foot. It has faced an off a lot of criticism
:08:01. > :08:03.about how it has been handled. Theresa May herself was common for a
:08:04. > :08:07.lot of personal criticism about how she has handled this. It still seems
:08:08. > :08:13.as if they are not quite on the front foot. Still with the Guardian,
:08:14. > :08:17.fragile Tories warned over brittle Brexit. We have soft and hard, and
:08:18. > :08:23.now a brutal Draxler. The argument is that they have got such a slim
:08:24. > :08:26.grasp on power, not even a majority, some people saying they don't even
:08:27. > :08:31.have a mandate to go into the negotiations. The problem from the
:08:32. > :08:34.point of view of Brussels and European partners is that there is a
:08:35. > :08:40.slim grasp on reality. Basically because Britain may have a week
:08:41. > :08:45.government, when people come to Brussels to negotiate, if anything
:08:46. > :08:47.is agreed the concern on the part of Brussels is that this will not be
:08:48. > :08:54.backed up by government, because government will not be in a position
:08:55. > :08:57.to follow through on anything. Again the perception of Brussels is that
:08:58. > :09:01.the UK does not know what it wants. It has so many contradictory aims,
:09:02. > :09:04.it wants to participate in regulated market without following the rules,
:09:05. > :09:09.she was just something that is hard to get your head around. From
:09:10. > :09:13.Brussels' perspective, they don't know how they can make the UK happy
:09:14. > :09:21.with the many things it seeks to have. But they don't care about
:09:22. > :09:23.making us happy, do they? At the end of the day the European Union wants
:09:24. > :09:26.to keep itself together. This is one thing that Brussels thinks that the
:09:27. > :09:32.UK does not get, because the idea that it is in Brussels' interest to
:09:33. > :09:38.give the UK special deal, that is not something that European partners
:09:39. > :09:43.would agree with. They say the most important thing is to keep the
:09:44. > :09:46.European Union together, and a way that you do that is by not giving
:09:47. > :09:51.any party special deal because then everyone will ask for it. But their
:09:52. > :09:55.trade with us will concentrate some minds. Any trade deal with us would
:09:56. > :10:00.not be unique, they have two negotiate them at all countries
:10:01. > :10:04.outside the EU. Indeed, and it is important to understand that there
:10:05. > :10:07.are 27 other nations here. Tom is right, they agree on an awful lot of
:10:08. > :10:11.stuff but there will be times when they have to sell it to their
:10:12. > :10:16.electorate that they're giving us a very bad deal, but at the same time
:10:17. > :10:19.one of those countries that is remaining in the European Union is
:10:20. > :10:26.the Republic of Ireland, does have a land border with us, it has a lot of
:10:27. > :10:32.trade with us, and it has to at least look as if it is getting an OK
:10:33. > :10:41.deal out of this. And the DUP, of course, will have a say in the kind
:10:42. > :10:47.of Brexit. They don't want a hard Brexit because of that land border.
:10:48. > :10:51.They are Eurosceptic party and have been for decades. The interesting
:10:52. > :10:53.thing is how close the DUP are to their voters, and that is because
:10:54. > :11:01.the reporters are very hardline Eurosceptics. -- in their voters are
:11:02. > :11:07.hardline. That is one reason is the top very tough on this. It is a huge
:11:08. > :11:12.problem, the border. Tom, the Daily Express is more confident. They have
:11:13. > :11:19.been optimistic about Brexit throughout the period and see we
:11:20. > :11:24.want a deal that makes both sides strong. I go back to this point,
:11:25. > :11:29.Europe is clear what makes Europe strong, it is having a system that
:11:30. > :11:32.works together on common rules. And those common rules are at the basis
:11:33. > :11:37.of the European Union. If you start to have on common rules, a different
:11:38. > :11:42.set of rules for each party, then it all falls apart. I had a
:11:43. > :11:45.conversation with the head of the Swedish is in this lobby group and
:11:46. > :11:49.she said to me, it is very appealing, the idea of giving
:11:50. > :11:53.Britain a special deal where it can have unfettered access without
:11:54. > :11:55.membership, but she said the problem is, as soon as we give this
:11:56. > :12:00.accommodation to Britain, someone else looks for a different kind of
:12:01. > :12:03.accommodation, and suddenly we don't actually have a single market, we
:12:04. > :12:09.have many different markets. That is the difficulty and something that
:12:10. > :12:14.seems to be in fields to be grasped by many of our negotiators. But the
:12:15. > :12:17.back to the Daily Telegraph. The plight of the Conservative Party and
:12:18. > :12:21.the threat of another General Election is never further away.
:12:22. > :12:28.David Davis tipped to be interim Tory leader as the Cabinet turns on
:12:29. > :12:34.Theresa May. Interim, the war that nobody would want to read. I think
:12:35. > :12:41.you're the perfect person to keep the seat warm for me. I thought this
:12:42. > :12:47.was interesting, but then you look at it and it has lots of ifs and
:12:48. > :12:51.maybes. The thing is we know that the position of Theresa May is
:12:52. > :12:53.weakened, and the hour after we started to see the exit polls
:12:54. > :12:57.everybody was talking about her future being limited. It's
:12:58. > :13:03.inevitable this will come up. David Davies is popular. Six months or
:13:04. > :13:08.year ago he was talking about returning to the backbenches. Maybe
:13:09. > :13:15.that is why Boris likes the idea of him as an interim seat warmer. You
:13:16. > :13:22.said it! But whether this is to flush out David Davies... The source
:13:23. > :13:27.of the story is interesting. It was tipped by allies of Boris Johnson,
:13:28. > :13:34.who journalists would like to describe us on manoeuvres. But he
:13:35. > :13:38.has the line that. If anybody would want to be interim leader, it is a
:13:39. > :13:41.poisoned chalice, it will be incredibly difficult for the next
:13:42. > :13:47.two years. The argument about just sitting about until the Brexit deal
:13:48. > :13:53.is done and dusted is attractive, and that's why Theresa May is still
:13:54. > :13:58.where she is today. They'll tolerate it for as long as it suits them, I
:13:59. > :14:06.suppose. Let's go to the Financial Times. Parliamentary wing, different
:14:07. > :14:10.things are cross the Channel. Decisive poll victory of Emmanuel
:14:11. > :14:14.Macron paves the way for reform. He has got the parliamentary majority
:14:15. > :14:19.easily that he needs, even though a lot of people who stood for his
:14:20. > :14:23.party have never held office before. And his party barely existed a year
:14:24. > :14:28.ago. This is one of the most astonishing stories in politics.
:14:29. > :14:32.There were some who suggested even when he won the top job last month
:14:33. > :14:39.that he would be unable to pull this off. Like you say, getting a lot of
:14:40. > :14:45.people who have never been in office before into jobs is quite difficult.
:14:46. > :14:48.But he has done it. He has, and now he has to use that majority and
:14:49. > :14:54.follow through with the reforms he has promised. Absolutely. Theresa
:14:55. > :14:57.May, we saw the honeymoon period, she was strong and stable for a
:14:58. > :15:01.period of time, the question is whether Macron can follow through.
:15:02. > :15:06.He has the majority to do that. Some of the things he wants to do our
:15:07. > :15:11.controversial in France. Already we have the far left candidate
:15:12. > :15:16.threatening protests if he tries to change the Labour code. One of the
:15:17. > :15:22.main things that Macron wants to do is make the economy more flexible,
:15:23. > :15:24.especially around hiring and firing and issues around redundancy
:15:25. > :15:30.payments, to make the labour market work better so that this high
:15:31. > :15:34.unemployment rate that sticks at around ten percentage fans can come
:15:35. > :15:41.down to around the 5% we have in the UK. It'll be tough to do, but he has
:15:42. > :15:51.the majority that on paper at least should make it possible.
:15:52. > :15:55.Thank you Tom and Kate, you'll both be back at 11:30pm
:15:56. > :15:58.for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.