25/06/2017 The Papers

immediate word on casualties. It happened in the north-west of the

country. We will have more details when we get them. Now it is

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

With me are are Rob Merrick, who's the deputy political

editor at The Independent, and the author and broadcaster,

The Telegraph leads with the ongoing Brexit talks, saying British

tourists will be guaranteed free health treatment in

Brexit negotiations also dominate the front page of The Times,

saying thousands of European criminals could face deportation

The i features a picture of workers removing cladding

from a high-rise building with the headline "100% unsafe".

The FT focusses on the Italian banking system, saying the country

has set aside billions of euros worth of taxpayers money

"Shocking Scale of Migrant Problem" is the headline

The Guardian leads with yesterday's cyber attack on parliamentarians,

saying the Russian Government is suspected of being involved.

So, the Times and the ramifications of us leaving Europe, whether it is

soft, hard or medium boil. Foreign criminals to be thrown out after

Brexit, it says. At the moment, I assume we cannot do that. It says

that in 2015, only 44 criminals from EU countries were repatriated, so

this is a great frustration to the Government that they cannot deport

more from non-EU countries. I'm sure it would be popular with people if

more people could be kicked out. I think this is an attempt to get a

cheap, Poplar headline, because this cannot be the big issue when the

Government releases the details of what it is going to do tomorrow. --

eight popular headline. What really counts is whether they are going to

be able to satisfy the EU over whether or not these citizens will

have the rights they expect when we leave the EU, and if they do not

have the rights they expect and that the EU wants, then Britain will not

get very far with Brexit talks. Able may remember on Thursday Theresa May

me tweet said that she had made a generous offer, but all we have in

front of us here is a tasty headline saying we will be tough on foreign

carols. That is not really the issue. -- foreign criminals. It

seems unlikely we could be sure of that at this point, and also, it

seems kind of strange that the numbers given by the Times, 6000

foreign criminals in British jails have served tendencies and are

waiting deportation. If they are awaiting deportation, surely we

could already deport 6000 people. It is already possible to get rid of

them. We may not have yet done it, but it is already an option. And yet

the numbers from 2015 are 44, which is a a lot fewer, and I am no expert

mathematician, than 6000. This implies to me a failure of process

rather than a failure of principle. It comes back to the immigration

system. And the Home Office. Who was running that for all those years(?)

The scale of it is enormous, then. Even though it is not the most

pressing issue, as you said, Rob. Even if it is 13,000 foreign

offenders, that is a lot fewer than 3.2 million EU citizens. What I see

is the Government getting a favourable headline in tomorrow

morning's paper and what really matters tomorrow as are the going to

provide finally, after one year, finally provide the detail on the

rights servant offered to EU citizens after Brexit. If it does

not, they cannot start the trade talks. There is a health care pledge

for UK tourists in the Daily Telegraph. Ministers are going to

keep paying, and again the seals are a relatively small story. It is

likely that when we go on holiday, we can take our cards with us, and

if it were to be injured on holiday in Belgium or Portugal, we can go to

hospital and be treated for free. In exchange, Belgian or Portuguese

tourists who get hurt in the UK would be treated for free. It has

been an excellent reciprocal system and of course it should be

continued. Lots of people go on holiday, so it makes sense.

According to David Davis this morning, on the Andrew Marr

programme, he has said the NHS will foot the bill if the EU does not. He

has now been derided for saying he will come from eyes if the EU will

not. It is only ?155 million. That is not much in the scale of the tens

of million pounds that are being talked about in terms of Britain's

divorce bill. That is not very much money. I would like to have it

myself, but it will not make much difference to the negotiations. This

is one of the many things people realised the day after the

referendum but would happen. Access to free health care abroad. Another

example would be the likelihood that we will have to pay to visit the

rest of the EU in future. Perhaps only a very small amount, but

certainly we will have to go through checks, so we will lose the ease of

travel that we currently have. The benefits that we have taken for

granted from EU membership, we will lose those. But it is most likely

that we can reach an agreement with the EU that we can continue this

system of subsidised health care for tourists and travellers. But in the

end, it will come down to negotiations if they ever get

properly started. But that will come down to how many people come here

and claim treatment on the NHS and how many others go there and turn an

ankle, and I suppose we will have to wait and see what those numbers are.

Most people take out travel insurance anyway, but that is my own

fault for running half marathons abroad. Better shoes? I have the

feet of a dead man. I am glad they are under the table. I do not want

to think about them. I wish I could not. Let's stay with the Telegraph,

the Government faces a six under million pounds bill after fire

checks at flats. -- a ?600 million bill. That doesn't sound that

unreasonable when you think of the scale of the problem. I think this

is an extrapolation. They have checked 60 blocks of flats and 60

have been found to be unsafe, which is in many ways, 100%. We think

there are 600 blocks of flats around the country which needs to be

tested, that is what Downing Street told us last week, and thus we are

suggesting that if all 600 continue in the vein of the first 60, it will

be ?1 million power block of flats. It is a huge sum of money, but not

relatively to people burning to death, so I think we are going to

have to just pay it. But that is just for the cladding. There are

other issues, sprinklers, fire doors, five extinctions. -- fire

extinguishers. Local councils have been given no assurances about

sprinklers and fire extinguishers. The fire in Lakanal House in

Camberwell. Yes, after that, the coroner recommended that sprinklers

be installed in all high-rise flats, but she only encourage that, it's to

not become law. The Government sent a very weak letter to local

authorities, said we had done that, and no sprinklers were installed. In

the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, I expect they will be. I am

surprised to see the Telegraph is focusing on the figure here, whether

it is ?600 million or less, there are hundreds of high-rise flats and

tens of thousands of people around the country living in circumstances

where there are do not know who are potential death traps and future

infernos. I think all of that is, at the moment, far more important than

whatever the bill will be down the line. This is just the figure for

high-rise blocks. And then potentially it will also have to be

paid for other public buildings. Yes, hospitals and schools, and the

Telegraph has the rather unnerving paragraph that plans to test every

hospital in the wake of Grenfell Tower has not yet happened because

they do not have resources to check every hospital, presumably because

they are looking at every block of flats in the country. Last week we

were told that they could test 100 tower blocks a day, so far 60, so

slightly fewer than 100 per day. That is a huge issue. The Government

said they would test 100 a day, 600 blocks, that is it, 60s, and the

tests started last Tuesday. They should have nearly finished, so what

is going on? And if the defined problems in schools and hospitals,

what will happen? Good news for these schools is that it is nearly

the end of term, so they only have a couple more weeks. Slightly more

difficult for hospitals which they cannot just evacuate for a period of

time. The i is looking at this story and seeing that all of the cladding

that has been tested so far has been judged to be unsafe. And of course,

the Camden issue, with hundreds of people who had to leave their homes,

they are uncertain how long they are going to be in temporary

accommodation. A friend of mine has been evacuated, he has been on the

news all week, because he is April active agitator, chair of the

residents association, and he has been evacuated. He was moved out on

Friday night, and he has no idea when he has grown to be back home.

It is terrifying, I have no idea what he can even aim for as a kind

of wish. Do you just wish that they will fix it in a matter of weeks and

you can with back on? Will be just fixed the cladding, or other issues

which rendered it urgently unsafe? I do not know, he does not know. And

some people have chosen even now not to leave. About one in five in the

Camden flats. Not everyone has somewhere else to go. We say choose,

but if you do not have anywhere else to go, and you have a pet and you're

not allowed to stay in a hotel with it, what are you supposed to do? I

am astonished by this headline, "One hundred percent unsafe," because I

sat through a couple of interminable briefings at Westminster last week,

we were told that many of the towers did not have the suspicious type of

cladding. We were very much led away from the idea that a huge number of

tower blocks were going to have the same similar disastrous cladding

that we had Grenfell Tower. And yet 60 tests come back, and all 60 have

failed. I find that astonishing. I think local authorities were

encouraged to put in samples from the cases they were most worried

about first, so it is possible they have done the most dangerous ones

first and the less injuries once later on, but as time goes on, it

does appear that we have been looking at a public health scandal

that only skilled because not have imagined when the tower block first

caught fire. Let's finish with The Sun this hour.

An eight foot shark at the beach in Majorca. It is only a shark! It is

not like it is a great white shark. What type of shark is it, Natalie? I

watched Jaws three days ago, but I'm not an expert. I watched it on a big

screen. It was a delightful night out. Anyway... Shark attacks not

withstanding. There was virtually no shark attacks, but there was all the

joy of watching people who have not seen Jaws before jumping in the

hour. There were children they are, and they were entranced by the idea

that people could smoke in a hospital. It seems mad. I do not

think it is a man eating shark. Would you like to try to find out? I

wouldn't. Normally when people see a shark, people punch it on the nose,

because it was in a survival book to do that. Sharks are much maligned,

and the? Hundreds of thousands get killed every year. Yes, and they are

beautiful machines designed for living forwards and swimming. When

the people, people are up in arms but it is because they are in the

water. You would scarper if you saw that found in the water. You just

make sure that someone is closer than you are. Oh, that is nice(!)

When people go through the forest, and there is a lying, one puts on

his trainers, and one says, you will never out on that line, and he says,

I don't need to, I just need to run faster than you. Remind me never to

go on holiday with Rob Merrick. I would like you to go away and find

out how common sharks are. Find out how common sharks of that size in

the Mediterranean around Majorca are, please. I will do that. We will

see you at 11:30pm when you have done your research.

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