25/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are are Rob Merrick, the deputy political editor

at The Independent, and the author and broadcaster,

We only have ten minutes, so we better be quick.

The Telegraph leads with the ongoing Brexit talks, saying British

tourists would be guaranteed free health treatment in the EU under

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 for the Daily

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

saying the Russian government is suspected of being involved.

The Daily Mirror front page also focuses on the concerns over tower

block safety saying fury in mounting after all cladding

tested so far fails to meet standards.

And the Daily Mail says Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has

been accused of exploiting the Grenfell tower tragedy

after saying the victims were 'murdered by political

Some Brexit issues to start with. Foreign criminals to be thrown out

after Brexit? Quite a lot of them, it seems, are waiting to depart

these shores? Yes, according to the Times, there are thought to be about

13,000 foreign criminals in Britain. There are thousands who have served

sentences and are waiting for deportation. In 2014, only 44

criminals were repatriate it. We obviously have a larger number of

6000 people waiting to be deported, but only 44 people actually being

deported in a recent example. This does not seem like the biggest part

of the Brexit negotiations, I would say. I do think that 13,000 foreign

offenders is quite a lot, relative to the number of EU nationals

waiting to find out about their potential future. It is quite a

small number of people. It does affect our rules about deciding who

gets to coming in the first place? Most people claim they should be

doing more to gig at foreign criminals. I don't know whether the

viewers can see, the headline here, as you are saying, the big issue is

not foreign criminals. It is that tomorrow, the government has to

produce detailed plans for the right of EU citizens after rape Grexit and

securing the rights of -- after Brexit, and securing the rights of

UK citizens inside the EU. Before they do that they will not be able

to get stuck into the trade talks, which they are desperate to do. The

Telegraph, government facing ?600 million after tax to flats. Given

the scale they have got to carry out, it is not surprising -- checks.

We don't know how many of the 600 towers that are suspected of having

some of that cladding are going to come back and failed the tests. 60

have failed so far, so this ?600 million figure is an extrapolation

of ?1 million that is needed terrific the cladding. Even if it is

600 million, I actually think it is a very small sum next to what the

government is really going to have to spend if they are going to change

housing policies. The Prime Minister said last Thursday that she

recognised that the country had not done enough for people in social

housing. If she means that, the government should end this loss of

social housing. They need to pay for other aspects of the housing policy.

They will end a ban on social housing building which is

effectively in place at the moment. Any rental housing that is supposed

to be a affordable is not affordable, social rent is going to

cost a lot more money. If she means for that sort of change, then at the

end of the process, ?600 million is going to be a very small amount.

Elliptical fallout from some comments after the great bell tower

fire. -- Grenfell tower. He had a rant in Glastonbury? He called it,

murdered by political decisions. I would say it is probably not a great

usage, slaughtered would have been another more accurate descriptor. It

is hard to suggest, I would suggest that the people who put up the

cladding, those who pay for it and find it off, they did so thinking,

hopefully people will die because of this. I am certain that did not

happen. So it is a very unfortunate turn of phrase. Obviously the Daily

Mail had a different idea. It is not the first time that politicians have

accused each other of capitalising on tragedies. John McDonald has made

a career out of saying outrageous things. He made a joke about a

fascinating Margaret Thatcher, P had a suggestion about combining the

bomb in the ballot. One of the interesting things about this

comment is that he referred to decisions made over many decades.

The Labour Party was in charge for 30 years in recent decades,

therefore if he is accusing politicians off in his words,

murder, he is implicating his own side as well. Looking at the

Guardian, DUP deal to prop up the Theresa May government. We thought

it was all kind of done and dusted? But we still haven't got the detail?

Who knows? These leaks appear to be coming out of their talks on a very

regular basis. Downing Street seem to think that the DUP are

responsible, perhaps that has held things up. Given that you have

people like Chris Patten appearing on these programmes today, saying,

they will make us look like the nasty party, I think that probably

Theresa May's biggest problem is within her party. Do we know what

kind of special treatment, special favour is the DUP would have won for

northern Ireland? Every street in Belfast is going to be paid in gold

by the end of the year, or something close to that. It was rumoured to be

?2 billion for infrastructure, they have also talked about education.

Spending in Northern Ireland is already much higher than spending in

England. We will see John Major's phrase, cash for votes. It provides

Theresa May with some sort of solidity and a majority this week,

hopefully, from her point of view, other key votes in the future. Once

they've got that deal in place, it may be that they can get on with the

serious business of studying the other officers. The Guardian has a

story on a suspected Russian hack Lacy I thought it wasn't the

Russians this time? The headline says it is a Russian hacker, but

then there are sources who have said it appears to be state-sponsored. It

is notoriously difficult to attribute an instance to a specific

actor. You put Russia in the headline, everybody will associate

it with America. The Russians are strongly suspected of interfering,

as we well know. I don't know what they would had to find out by

hacking into that. Maybe they hope to find out who is standing for the

chairmanship of the rural food and pasture office. Yes, good question.

Finishing with the sun, can we please get onto the property news?

Look at the headline. There is an eight foot shark. I have set you a

task... I ask you to find out how common sharks of this size. It is a

blue shark, and they are seen as far north as Norway. 10- 20 million blue

sharks are killed every year. For shark fin soup. Overall, I think in

the last 500 years, they have been four reported cases of somebody

being eaten by a blue shark. We kill about 20 million per year.

Apparently this shark has been caught and injured with a harpoon.

No! If you are injured with a harpoon, but is not like a small...

I think the shark might have had a worse state than many of us did.

Putting nets in the sea? It didn't sound like they need to. Everybody

was swimming as fast as possible in the opposite direction, but she

would have been going, no! It's a blue shark. Wouldn't you, Natalie?

Did you do any research that I asked you to do? We should all be worrying

about the poor sharks. They are worried about whether it is going to

put people off, this summer. A very popular place. You sound like the

mayor of Amity. That is all I'm going to say. We've got the wrapup

music. The's it for the papers. Natalie and Rob, a treat as always.

Next, the film review. -- Film Review.