26/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Rosamund Urwin, Columnist at The Evening Standard

and Dan Bilefsky, Staff Writer at The New York Times.

Welcome both of you. We will talk to them in a moment after we bring you

up-to-date with the front pages for tomorrow morning. These are the

first editions. 'Thanks a billion' is the headline

on the front page of the i - referring to the Conservative-DUP

deal with Northern Ireland getting The price of support for the

minority government. The Telegraph says the agreement may

come at an even greater cost with the DUP possibly coming

back for more. The Mirror splashes with the deal

and shows a picture of Theresa May and Arlene Foster shaking hands

outside Downing Street. The Metro says the three million EU

citizens living in the UK will be required to apply for ID documents

to stay after Brexit. One of the stories in the Guardian

is the US Supreme Court's decision to partially allow Donald Trump's

travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries to take place.

The Daily Express reports an operation, using a plastic liner

in the gut, could cure Type two diabetes.

And the Times shows a picture of HMS Queen Elizabeth,

Britain's new ?3 billion aircraft carrier, which passed

through the River Forth before starting trials in the North Sea.

Let's get straight down to it and let's begin, I think, with the DUP

deal, the front page in most of the papers. Yes. Photos, which, it's

almost as if Theresa May's shaking hands with Arlene Foster and Arlene

Foster is the dominant character in the picture on the front of the i.

It does but Theresa May didn't sign the document herself, she didn't

lower herself to that. This is what the DUP is good at. They radically

underestimated them, they thought, well, they have ten MPs. A pushover.

Yes. On the Friday after it turned out we had a hung parliament they

thought they would get the deal quickly. I was writing about it at

the time and everything was frantically changing and it has been

18 days now. This is what the DUP has done for many years. They are

good at letting negotiations go down to the wire because they know that

squeezes out more of what they want. And actually they have an awful lot

of what they want. The headline is the 1 billion figure but there is

actually so much more. Various things about the triple-lock, on

pensions, Theresa May already committed it wouldn't happen for the

next two years but now it is pushed back. They have a veto on government

legislation effectively because they will see anything before it goes to

Parliament, so on legislation. They actually have a huge amount here for

what seems like quite small. Yes, ten MPs, it's an extraordinary price

to pay. From an outside perspective is this not classic pork barrel

politics and will there be a backlash against Theresa May? Some

of her critics already say she has bought each of the ten MPs for 100

million apiece. She has bought her own career surviving. In the

short-term but these are social Conservatives against gay rights and

abortion, precisely the people Corbyn has been appealing to

recently and will then not the long-term political consequences for

this decision? Yes, I think so and even the DUP knows that Theresa May

is toxic, so that's why they have tried to squeeze so much so it isn't

so bloody body anyway. The Tory board the DUP votes with us and they

expect lots of motorways and things. The Telegraph says it is just the

start. In other words, they could come back for more, if there is some

critical vote, they might say we are not sure we can support you on this

any longer, they might be a bit of desperate... You called it pork

barrel politics, the US phrase, which I think the Welsh First

Minister called it a bung. We had it in the 70s when the Labour

government tried to survive and it was paying for electricity cable to

be run under the North Sea to connect Northern Ireland with the

mainland of the rest of Britain. On that basis presumably there is a

risk in the rest of the UK to say, hang on a minute, where's our money?

Your broadband will get faster in Northern Ireland, you will get new

motorways and better hospitals and and Wales, maybe even London

complaining the money is being given away. In terms of the power-sharing,

because there is so much money at stake, Sinn Fein may come back to

this table, they already don't have a seat at Westminster because they

choose not to take up their seats. Think what they could have extracted

to get in a Labour Dermot Drummy Corbyn government if they MPs took

their seats. What about the language used? I think The Daily Mirror talks

about crackpots, they have their word bungs, some people call it a

bribe, comfortable with the way this was written up? Some people think

crackpot is offensive. I was quite surprised to see that word but there

is plenty to criticise about the DUP's policies, to put it bluntly.

The DUP did not turn to typical nationalist ideology in making the

deal, they went away from bowler hats and parades and stuck to the

nitty-gritty of economics and money so in a way they were quite astute.

They played their hand well. They were not crackpots at all. Let's

moved down to the Telegraph, to the column on the right hand of the

front page, tower fire tests ignore combustible instillation. What do

you make of this, Dan? United States builds a lot more high-rises than

Britain does, bigger population and a very urbanised country, lots of

big cities. How shocked were people by this fire when they saw the

pictures? I noticed the New York Times has a picture of Grenfell

again in the middle of it. The charred inferno of Grenfell Tower on

a human level was absolutely shocking regardless of your

nationality. From the American perspective what was also shocking

was the laxness of the regulatory framework in this country. In the US

if you have a building that is higher than a fireman's the ladder,

two stories, there is mandatory testing for the cladding and no

flammable padding of the type used in Grenfell has ever passed that

test. People in the US context were quite surprised at the regulatory

system here at and that it was so lax and the cost-cutting seems to

have been prioritised over human lives and safety. What do you make

of this story about the doubts of the whole testing process, whether

before or now? Even the minister said today it is taken too long for

the testing to go under way. They should be able to do 100 a day and

so far they only have 75 and all 75 have failed the tests. They would

start with the ones, it is appalling, but they start with the

ones that seem most likely to fail. Yes, sure. There is also a story in

the FT tomorrow saying the US engineering group which makes the

cladding panels is no longer selling the flammable version for

high-rises. They announced today they are halting global sales. That

seems obviously a good thing but clearly too late. Better late than

never, I guess. Metro, Ura must show ID papers. -- EU. I thought we had

killed off the idea of identity cards in the UK but for some it

might be coming back. This is a Home Office policy paper, I think. It is

all very provisional. Elsewhere they are saying this might mean identity

cards but it might just mean a central database and it isn't

actually clear yet which of those it means. But actually there is an

awful lot that this policy document suggests. EU nationals could

potentially be losing. It isn't clear whether they will be allowed

to vote in local elections which obviously they can at the moment,

yet they would be paying tax. Sounds unlikely if the EU Court of Justice

will be upholding this. When you look at this and look at the offer

coming from Britain, all right, a bit late again, but people saying

there is room for compromise. There is goodwill on this question. From

what I hear from people in Brussels they are saying thank you so much

that you will not deport us, we appreciate that, generous

negotiating position. The Europeans are saying there is not enough

clarity and it is too little too late. There was a tweet that said it

was not ambitious enough and not enough clarity. I think we risk,

with all these people who are looking at it on a purely economic

basis, we are going to lose the people we want to hold onto most and

that is mad. Is this not Alan Duncan because there are lots of parts of

the country where there are not many EU nationals working and bringing

high skilled jobs and experience to London. It is where the media is

based in London. They are working in farms. Without the seasonal workers

from Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries. And any rational

arrangement we could continue to invite people to work for short

periods of time for specific things like that. But if you don't have

free movement of people then how can you have Eastern European is coming

in? People who voted leave who are in the agricultural sector say they

regret it because they may not have Eastern European is to employ to

pick their goods. There was a man who employed 5000 EU nationals. And

he voted for leave. Let's pop inside the Daily Express, nothing exciting

us on the front cover but we were interested by this. Nice to see a

picture of Donald Trump smiling since becoming President. He has a

reason to smile today. The Supreme Court decided to hear the case of

his travel ban which was a ban against people from six majority

Muslim countries, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran etc, owing to the United

States. Donald Trump declared victory because the Supreme Court

has decided to hear the case and to stay part of the original order,

meaning that if you try and go to the US you have to serve dumb show

some kind of bona fides Link, such as a job or a parent who is there

for a student visa. This will test the limits of the executive order in

the United States and it remains to be seen whether he will be able to

claim victory. U-turn and general described it as a triumph for the

separation of powers. Since Trump entered the presidency the court

system has been raining him in and there were two court decisions

against the travel ban already. This is a test case and so far the

American system has shown that one man cannot overcome the division

between different parts of government. The constitution works.

We will see, let's hope so. Let's look finally at the front of the

Telegraph. I don't think we can pick this up, but I am going to put it

there. That's the cartoon. I don't think we can quite so clearly see

from the front of the Telegraph, there is a better picture on the

front of the times, just how enormous HMS Elizabeth is. It is

enormous. The cartoon is making a connection between this enormous new

naval vessel and the DUP- Tory deal. Explain. His big gift is tying

together two big stories of the day in a way you have not thought of and

he has done it with aplomb here. It is two people standing on this

enormous ship saying, this is an very impressive, thing how many DUP

MPs we could have brought with the money. Because as we know 1 million

gets ten of them. We can see on the front of the times, this really gets

the scale of this ship. It is a big ship, wherever you look at it but it

is next to the bridge there and suddenly you think that is not a

ship, that is a small city afloat. It's an amazing site. There were

lots of grumbles in the military thinking we are getting this big

ship and there isn't much money for anyone else or any of the small

boats. What a shame! For any cartoonist complaining about the

fact that Matt gets on all the time it's because he's on the front of

the paper, get your edited to put you on the front paper and you will

make it onto tomorrow's Papers. Thank you for joining us. We have

rattled through a lot. Thank you for your company.

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