12/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Susie Boniface, columnist at The Mirror,

The Telegraph says people will be able to use voice mail and text

messages to make their wills under a proposed radical overhaul

The I says there's been a pensions victory for gay couples,

after a former Calvary Officer won a Supreme Court case

for his partner to receive payments following his death.

The Metro also headlines the story, suggesting the ruling could open

the floodgates on hundreds of millions of pounds of claims.

The Times claims that internet giant Google has paid British and American

academics millions of dollars for research that it hoped

would sway public opinion in support of the tech behemoth.

The Mirror splashes that the Royal Navy will source 65%

its steel from Sweden to build eight new battleships, much

The Guardian writes that the Prime Minister is facing

a revolt from Labour on Brexit, specifically her Great Repeal Bill,

if there aren't concessions on workers' rights.

The Sun leads with Johanna Konta's success at Wimbledon and it has

an exclusive interview with the Prime Minister,

in which she asks for enough time in Number Ten to complete Brexit.

Pensions victory for gay couples. Landmark ruling means the couples

have the same rights. We have civil partnerships, gay marriage, why has

it taken so long? You may ask that. That is what this former cavalry

officer was asking. Spending years, and lawyers racking up bills are

millions of pounds, including government lawyers fighting this,

and pension companies. Though we had civil partnerships, and gay marriage

introduced by the Coalition Government in 2010. If you have a

civil partnership or gay marriage after those dates, with a pension

part built up before those dates. In the 90s, your new legal spouse could

not receive that pension. I think I'm right in saying if you decided

to make the beneficiary on the pension documents, it would go to

them. In terms of it automatically going to your legal spouse, taking

in account, not legally possible. In a country where the government of

the day has introduced gay marriage, where previous governments have

introduced civil partnerships, you would think it would be fairly

obvious at the same time you would cross the Tees, dot the eyes, and

say you inherit your dead spouse's pension. Who else would it go to?

Obviously something where finance companies have put their heels in.

It will cost them a lot of money? It It will cost them a lot of money? It

should do. This is money someone has built up over their lifetime for

their family to inherit over the end of the policy. Someone to get a

pension can it ever so spouse of the same sex, they should be able to

leave it to them. Whether you choose to. We are all agreed on that one.

Not a very good argument so far. You did say you are willing to argue

with yourself. I will try. Another aspect of the whole story, in the

FT, the pension changes George Osborne brought in when he said

pensioners could draw down any amount of the pension they chose to,

without buying annuity from a a few years ago, they have all started

doing it. Shoots worry and concern. The pension pots are disappearing.

Daily Telegraph. Draw up your will in a text message. Law Commission

says outdated system of inheritance and must catch up with the digital

age. Like Alan Partridge walking around the Travelodge. The trouble

with this, you need to update the inheritance and will system. I have

had to update mine, I have a daughter. Gone through the process

of having written, which took a couple of hours of conversation with

alloy offers not something you can do with a text message. Go through

your paperwork. Best will in the world! You have to work out your

debts. I have not signed it off, costs three in Japan is for a very

simple will. I have been spending money on the star. The idea is, it

will have legal voracity admissible, legally watertight, you can do all

of this in a text message and leave it. Not legally watertight. What

they're trying to do, someone at the end of their life in hospital, more

able to speak, type, then right. -- than writing. If you were to

communicate another fashion, it would have legal basis was the Law

Commission said it could add to family arguments. People would start

churning things up. A well written in the traditional manner six years

before you got ill, on your deathbed a change of heart, sending a text

message to your wife saying you cannot have anything can you have

not visited me enough, I'm living it to the dog same. Comparing a text

message to a voice mail with a well written six years ago in a normal

fashion. Causing chaos. You have to update the process, find their way

to make it not cost three edge of pounds for a simple will. My lawyer

was telling me most people do not update their wills. People have not

updated their will for years. Not when they have got divorced,

children, ten years past. They do it once and leave it. When they die,

ups and downs. The scope for abuse is huge. If you can make a change,

potentially on a phone first a text message. How do you prove the

deceased person made it? One other proposal, lowering the age from 18,

down to 16. What is a 16-year-old going to leave? Debts. Leaving

behind your student debt. At 16. Continuing with the Daily Telegraph,

lack of leadership putting Brexit talks at risk says a watchdog. We

heard what the chief negotiator for the EU said. He is hearing the clock

ticking. En us leaving Brexit. The European Union. We have not got

anything discussed. National Audit Office producing reports saying we

could not even get a plan out of the Brexit people. They could not give

us any reasons. You have a departmental government. If you tap

it apart like chocolate Orange. Basically between the lines, because

Theresa May is lacking leadership herself. Brexit is lacking

leadership. Some issues in the white departments. Everyone is lacking

leadership, there is a Prime Minister, as we get to the Sun,

hanging below the water line. How will she have power, negotiating and

get us through Brexit. From picture of the Sun, nice move, let me do

Brexit. Theresa May appealing for more time to get us through this.

She is the Prime Minister, she should deserve this. She did get

13.5 million votes. She has had to tear up the manifesto. She has

already lost her mandate, you could argue. Everything in the text of

this interview, done by Tom Newton Dunn. Seems to have stalled, she had

the flashy wheel going around. She says even calling a snap election,

she does not regret it. Even though it is left Britain tumultuous,

Brexit clueless, and her unable to govern. She can see why some people

say that, did not quite go to plan. Doing his best to hold serve further

under the water line, Liam Fox. Saying privately, she has made it

impossible for him to negotiate properly. If she stays in place for

them next two years, as she is saying, the poor woman will get

blamed for everything. Who is she talking to? Who knows. The Sun

readership are not going to change in that opinion of Theresa May. Good

or bad. Must be talking to backbench MPs, begging them for time. They'll

be a Tory party conference in October, where she will be walking

into a bearpit, feels a conservative activists, constituency chairmen.

People who've had a tough time on the doorstep, if she does not do

better than this before October she will get eaten alive. I doubt the

Tories will allow that. They are saying they need and want to stick

with her. David Davis says there is no need for a contest. Google pays

academics millions for key support in British and American researchers.

Good bit of investigative reporting. Showing scientists who have done

studies into the effects of Google, how it operates. The tech companies.

They seem to have been funded by Google, not declaring the fact they

pay for the research. I was speaking to scientists. If you want to do a

speck of this piece of research. I want to prove why you are good for

health. You cannot get funding. You would have to fund it, saying I have

the money for it. The scientists do not get to choose what the study. It

shows Clive Mhairi will put 15 years you're like the watch him every day.

The science, which could still be true, it could narrow the focus down

to one bit. Makes the fund findings more significant. All BBC

newsreaders are good for health of you watch them all. For example.

That is a problem with funding this research. Narrow. We will have to

leave it there. We know that watching news channel is good for

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