27/07/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Joel Taylor, Deputy News Editor of the Metro

and Kate Devlin, deputy political editor of the Sunday Express.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

Brexit leads many of the front pages - the FT focuses on the Chancellor's

apparent plan for a two-phase, transition deal.

The Telegraph highlights assurances from the Home Secretary

that EU citizens will still be able to come to the UK.

Meanwhile, The Times takes a look at UK-Ireland relations,

saying Theresa May faces a new setback after

the government there called for a post-Brexit Sea border.

The Metro reports on the Grenfell Tower investigation,

as police tell residents there are reasonable grounds to look

further at possible corporate manslaughter offences.

The Guardian also headlines that story, and has

a picture of the new Swan Lake production starring Hull's

The Mirror has an interview with mother

of 11-month-old Charlie Gard, after a judge ruled he should be

The Express leads with research claiming drinking

alcohol regularly can significantly cut the risk of developing

The Sun reports on the upcoming sentencing of thieves who stole more

than ?400,000 from England star John Terry's home.

First to the Times and one of the Brexit related stories. Irish want

the border with Uganda Brexit. Dublin pushes for no controls that

land frontier. Why, Kate? There are a couple of reasons. One of them has

to be that we are dealing with a new Irish Prime Minister. He was elected

as leader of his party only a couple of weeks ago. He has installed a new

Foreign Minister and they are clearly flexing their muscles. But

they are also talking about a number of possible solutions that have been

suggested in the past, including technical solutions which they are

now rolling out. I'm not that surprised. There have been

suggestions that there would be huge difficulties in trying to patrol

that length of border with things like video cameras, and would just

be a return to the hard border of the past. This is also a huge

because the border, for a long time during the Troubles, was such a

difficult place to cross. It was the site of many atrocities. It was

where a lot of people lost their lives, but it was also symbolic of

lots of things. On the one hand, there will be lots of people in

Northern Ireland who will not want a return to a hard border and would

like this kind of solution. On the other side, where we are talking

about Northern Ireland and talk about the other community, there

will be people who look at this and say, we are as British as Theresa

May and this is imperilling our British identity. It is a big

problem. But you can understand why Dublin might think that a deal with

this at sea somehow is for some people a possible solution. You can

certainly see their perspective on getting away from a hard border in

Northern Ireland. But you can also see how the government has been

taken aback by this. There is a source from Whitehall here saying,

we are being as positive as we can, but their attitude has hardened,

which signifies that they are a bit shocked by this and not sure where

to take it. In part, this was supposed to be Project Fear. It was

supposed to be something that was never going to happen. David Cameron

mentioned it in Prime Minister's Questions about ten days before the

vote. It was supposed to be one of the last gasps, saying we can't

possibly do this, it would lead to dreadful things. When he suggested

that the border could be in the sea, I have relatives from the

nationalist community who would not particularly be that obsessed with

their British identity. They were all voting to stay in the EU, and

they were so annoyed that David Cameron would even suggest this and

would treat them differently than people in his Oxfordshire

constituency that they thought about voting no just to spite him. Freedom

of movement to continue after Brexit so EU citizens will still have the

right to work in Britain? Yes, this is a curious one because earlier

today the Immigration Minister was saying freedom of movement was going

to end in 2019, and now it is not. There is a lovely line here that

there will be a transitional period, which we had expected, because even

Michael Gove suggested that that would happen. But this source says

the transitional period may look like a similar arrangement to free

movement. So the Government has not quite made up its mind here. It

knows that it can't just stop free movement with a cliff edge, but they

haven't worked out how to frame the arrangement after Brexit. Kate, this

is to try to reassure businesses which rely on seasonal workers and

workers from outside Britain. But at the same time, it risks annoying

Tory Brexiteer MPs, one of whom is quoted here as saying we can't just

have the same thing, called something different. He says people

voted to take control and this would not be taken control. Staying with

the Daily Telegraph, Britain left reliant on allies to track Russian

buy crap. Why can't we do it ourselves? In part because we got

rid of a lot of maritime aircraft -- Britain left reliant on allies to

track Russian spy craft. It is mainly because the Russians are

buzzing us quite a lot. That is the phrase for them. They are bringing

over their spy planes and trying to destabilise us by hanging around the

area. Let's move onto your paper, the Metro. Grenfell - the net closes

in. This is the Met updating survivors. Yes, they have been

leading victims and families know they have reasonable grounds to

suspect both the Kensington and Chelsea Council and it and

organisation which deals with the council flats. They have reasonable

grounds to suspect them of corporate manslaughter, so they are going to

interview both. They will formally question representatives from both

and we could see charges following on from that. I don't think there is

much optimism yet that people are actually going to be brought to

account over this. David Lammy has been making the point that this is

punishable by a fine, but it is the start of something. It is not

individuals, though, it is clearly about the organisation rather than a

person. It is, and David Lammy has called for them to investigate a

different type of manslaughter which would not be punishable by a fine,

but could be punishable by a prison term. A long way to go. Let's look

at the #, page two - jails are an all-out scandal.

71 likes Lego by mistake. 20 guards beaten every day. The sheer number

of violent and self-harm is also going up. When you speak to the

Prison Officers Association, they say they are not surprised, because

they don't have enough staff. That has been a consistent line from them

for a long time now. Francis Cook from the Howard league for penal

reform is talking about chronic overcrowding in these jails, and the

new Justice Secretary David Lidington has admitted that prisons

are not yet safe or secure. The prisoners to be allowed to slip into

such a state is quite something. -- for prisoners to have been allowed

to slip into such a state. The government has promised that there

will be more as an officers, but it is whether you can attract people

into a career that is inherently dangerous? Yes, and pay seems to be

an issue as well. The government are looking at that. The figures are

astonishing. There were 15 prison escapes last year, bar and 73 people

were let out by accident, which seems to suggest that rather than

planning an elaborate escape, you should perhaps hope that they put

down nine months instead of nine years, as happened in one case,

which allowed a man to go free. Yes, the number of people being by

mistake is at an all-time high. Let's go back to the Times. Jeff

Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is briefly the world's richest man. Why

only briefly? Because Amazon shares were not quite as good as expected.

They went up in the day and then came back down. He had just gone

ahead of Bill Gates for about six hours. But now he has slumped to

$89.8 billion. I wouldn't have even noticed. You could ask what more

vindication this man needs than $90 billion in the bank, but he did

spend an awfully long time building his business. From his garage. For

years, people said, when is Amazon going to make any money? When is

this company finally going to turn it around? And he just kept holding

his nerve. It is a real story of one man's singular ability to continue

holding his nerve. Fair play to him. His has certainly done that, and he

might still head to head. The FT said he is tussling with Bill Gates

for the richest title. They could arm wrestle. Well, they both live in

Seattle. A sort of white collar boxing. Now, the FT Datawatch

column. This shows us the share of women who have been mansplained to

buy men at different times. This is where men patronisingly explain a

subject to women. Does this happen to you, Kate? Does it? I love this

story. We have all been there. But they break it down into when it

happens. People who have followed this phrase and where it came from

know that it came from a social event, so it is perhaps not

surprising that that is top of the list as to where it happens. But

second most often is from your husband and partner. I am sure you

never do that, Joel. I get into trouble if I attempt it. I wonder

why(!), but if you do accidentally slip into mansplaining, what is the

come # Normally being told off by my mum or my wife.

How do you deal with it, Kate? I deal with it the way the original

innovator of the phrase does, which is badly. I sit there and say things

like, yes, I know that. I am a political journalist. Or, I think

you will find I read that story. The problem is that quite often, people

can just be oblivious and they just continue because they don't want to

listen. Not life's listeners. Find a raised eyebrow is all you need.

Practise it. Quickly, moderate drinking reduces danger of diabetes.

How moderate is moderate, though? It is a rather subjective term. Men who

drink 14 units a week were found to have a lower risk of diabetes, and

women who had nine units a week had a 58% lower risk. So pretty

moderate. But before you raise a glass, you might get alcoholic

hepatitis, so it is not all good news. And if you believe, like

Graham Norton does, that he doesn't understand how people don't finish a

bottle of wine because how do they know when it is time to go to bed,

this is not the story for you. No. There are so many other reasons not

to drink, but that is one of the good reasons to do so.

Thank you, Joel Taylor and Kate Devlin.

There's something wrong with the weather at the moment.

Today was a mixture of sunshine and heavy April showers

and we have more showers this evening and overnight.

The heavy ones in the south-east should ease away, but we'll keep

them going in the west and particularly further north