04/08/2017

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:00:18. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the front pages will be

:00:22. > :00:25.With me are two political commentators and former

:00:26. > :00:32.Downing Street advisers, Lance Price and Giles Kenningham.

:00:33. > :00:37.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Daily Mail, which leads

:00:38. > :00:40.with accusations that the National trust is exploiting the rights of

:00:41. > :00:45.their volunteers by making them where gay pride badges. The Daily

:00:46. > :00:48.Express was that millions of holidaymakers heading to Europe

:00:49. > :00:52.-based big delays due to passport checks. The Telegraph headlines

:00:53. > :00:56.claims from the Prime Minister format a Nick Timothy who says the

:00:57. > :01:01.Conservatives lost their majority because the party abandoned Theresa

:01:02. > :01:08.May's promise of change. The Guardian carries an interview with

:01:09. > :01:10.one of the medical team who treated Charlie Gard, who blames politicians

:01:11. > :01:16.and religious leaders with interfering in his case. The sun had

:01:17. > :01:20.lined Prince Harry's visit to Africa with his partner where they will

:01:21. > :01:24.celebrate her 36th birthday. And the Times headlines Mo Farah's triumph

:01:25. > :01:28.in the 10,000 metres, it also warns of threats to holidaymakers

:01:29. > :01:31.travelling to Spain where anarchists accused the travel industry of

:01:32. > :01:38.destroying Barcelona and the Balearic Islands.

:01:39. > :01:46.Let's begin the paper review, what shall we start with, Mo Farah? It's

:01:47. > :01:50.kind of the big story of the night. I don't know if you saw the race but

:01:51. > :01:54.it was really close in the end but it was pretty emotional stuff out

:01:55. > :01:57.there and the crowd loved it. Sealing his place in history as

:01:58. > :02:02.probably the greatest British athlete ever. Remarkable, retiring

:02:03. > :02:07.on a high, which very people don't like few people do, fantastic, a

:02:08. > :02:12.real feelgood factor for British sport at the moment -- which very

:02:13. > :02:18.few people do. He hasn't been beaten in a global competition since 2011.

:02:19. > :02:22.A fantastic record and I don't want to tell tales out of school, I come

:02:23. > :02:26.into this newsroom quite a bit and I've never heard the news room break

:02:27. > :02:31.out in applause very often but he did when he finished. It looked a

:02:32. > :02:35.bit close towards the end. At one point he was being jostled. He

:02:36. > :02:40.looked tired at one point. This is by viewers from when he won the gold

:02:41. > :02:44.at the Olympics in 2012 -- five years. Phenomenal to stay on top for

:02:45. > :02:49.that long. He's trying to do the double, the 5000 metres as well,

:02:50. > :02:53.that may have taken it out of him a bit, brilliant to see him with his

:02:54. > :02:57.little son on his shoulder who had been asleep two minutes earlier and

:02:58. > :03:02.he was woken up and put on his shoulder with his crowd shouting at

:03:03. > :03:08.him. Let's do a bit of politics given we have the two of you here.

:03:09. > :03:14.This is Nick Timothy, who until recently was working with Theresa

:03:15. > :03:18.May as one of the... He was the co- Chief of Staff. Giles, did you ever

:03:19. > :03:22.worked with him? A bit, not massively. This is his first

:03:23. > :03:26.so-called kiss and tell in a political sense except for it isn't

:03:27. > :03:30.that amazing, there's no real bombshell in here whatsoever as far

:03:31. > :03:34.as I can see, it seems pretty anodyne. The top lines out of this

:03:35. > :03:39.are he says reports that Philip Hammond was going to get the bullet

:03:40. > :03:44.are wide of the mark. That Theresa May will still walk away from Brexit

:03:45. > :03:47.without a deal and the so-called dementia tax, which many people

:03:48. > :03:53.claim cost of the Tories the election, was still the right thing

:03:54. > :03:57.to do. So far and we've only got the front page here is that it doesn't

:03:58. > :04:01.seem like he is trying to settle any old scores, but we haven't seen the

:04:02. > :04:05.inside pages, now he's got a regular column in the Telegraph so perhaps

:04:06. > :04:09.there's more to come. But based on this front page there is nothing

:04:10. > :04:13.really we didn't know. Do you agree the Tories did well because they

:04:14. > :04:18.abandoned Mrs May's message of change? I don't agree with that and

:04:19. > :04:27.that is a curious conclusion for Nick Timothy, it's they abandoned

:04:28. > :04:30.change but it was the wrong kind of change. They were proposing change

:04:31. > :04:35.in a way that concerned the way social care was paid for in the

:04:36. > :04:40.dementia tax, free school lunches for kids, proposing change to the

:04:41. > :04:44.triple lock on pensions, they were proposing changes but people didn't

:04:45. > :04:49.like the changes proposed. I think what he fails to face up to is the

:04:50. > :04:54.fact the Conservatives went into that election convinced they were

:04:55. > :04:58.going to win, taking the public for granted, it was the election nobody

:04:59. > :05:02.needed, apart from Mrs May wanting to increase her majority and she

:05:03. > :05:06.took the country for granted and the election for granted. What might be

:05:07. > :05:10.interesting is so far we don't know what Theresa May stands for. She

:05:11. > :05:15.hasn't defined herself, she didn't define herself at the start and

:05:16. > :05:19.maybe some of these columns might shed some light on it but so far she

:05:20. > :05:24.hasn't got a defining ideology. The only thing that will define her is

:05:25. > :05:30.the election and Brexit. Waiting for Fiona Hill's version of events? I

:05:31. > :05:35.suppose out of the two she has taken a lot more stick, the press has been

:05:36. > :05:38.unrepentantly hostile towards her and I suppose the next big

:05:39. > :05:42.flashpoint in this will be the two books on the election that come out

:05:43. > :05:46.on the Yvonne conference, that will be incredibly problematic for

:05:47. > :05:52.Theresa May. It's becoming an annual thing, the book just beforehand.

:05:53. > :06:02.We've done this every night this week. You have come in from France.

:06:03. > :06:04.I flew in from the south of France yesterday and I went through

:06:05. > :06:09.passport control at Marseille airport faster than ever before. May

:06:10. > :06:13.be the guy doing the passport checks has been watching the news channel

:06:14. > :06:18.online and had seen what was going on. But they barely looked at my

:06:19. > :06:23.passport on the way through. You look like a nice guy! Doesn't mean I

:06:24. > :06:28.wasn't delayed by three hours but that was easyJet and their planes

:06:29. > :06:33.breaking down. Who wouldn't want to be anywhere in southern Europe at

:06:34. > :06:38.the moment? -- who would. If it isn't the delay is coming back it is

:06:39. > :06:44.the threat of... That's the next story. Anarchists. I am going to

:06:45. > :06:49.Spain next week. Good luck. Not looking good, is it? It will be so

:06:50. > :06:53.hot I can't go out during the day and I could be stuck at the airport

:06:54. > :06:57.and then anarchists protesting about what? Accusing you of wrecking the

:06:58. > :07:03.island and saying tourists are destroying the pearler garlands and

:07:04. > :07:08.Barcelona and Majorca. This coincides with one of the busiest

:07:09. > :07:13.weeks when people go away so it adds to the chaos -- Bowie Eric Islands.

:07:14. > :07:19.I think there's an element... I had a friend in one of those queues on

:07:20. > :07:23.the front page of the papers and he said it cleared within five minutes

:07:24. > :07:30.but at the moment they were bad -- that moment. There are a number of

:07:31. > :07:35.issues here. Good luck. A bit more politics now. The Irish Prime

:07:36. > :07:39.Minister coming up with a suggestion about what should happen because of

:07:40. > :07:43.the Irish border, which is a problem both sides have said is a priority,

:07:44. > :07:47.but there haven't been many concrete ideas coming up about what they do

:07:48. > :07:52.about it. He is suggesting the answer is for Britain to stay in the

:07:53. > :07:57.customs union or have a bespoke customs union. It underlines the

:07:58. > :08:03.difficulties facing Theresa May, she has 27 other countries to deal with

:08:04. > :08:07.in these negotiations. It's not unreasonable to say they wasted the

:08:08. > :08:11.first year not doing that much, they were unremittingly hostile towards

:08:12. > :08:15.business and now they are bringing them back into the tent and they are

:08:16. > :08:18.paying the price and now it's a race against the clock. They are going to

:08:19. > :08:23.get these negotiations done by March, 2018, but that would be

:08:24. > :08:27.unprecedented. The EU Canada deal took seven years and it hasn't yet

:08:28. > :08:31.come into force so we are living in cloud cuckoo land -- cloud cuckoo

:08:32. > :08:36.land if we think it will be done and dusted in a year and a half. There

:08:37. > :08:39.will be a transition period where nothing much changes, will that

:08:40. > :08:44.happen? Certainly because there won't be the answer is in place for

:08:45. > :08:51.so many of the complex problems. What they were saying was there's

:08:52. > :08:56.frustration in Europe that people feel because so much time has been

:08:57. > :08:59.wasted. This has been a difficult problem, the only land border

:09:00. > :09:05.between Britain and the European Union, but it's not in tactical --

:09:06. > :09:10.intractable and after 14 months they have said they are still unable to

:09:11. > :09:14.come up with the he is suggesting he does. This is a story that has been

:09:15. > :09:21.rumbling on, mutiny at the National Trust. Volunteers have accused the

:09:22. > :09:27.national Trust of trampling on their rights by making them were badges.

:09:28. > :09:33.They have been told they have to wear them to mark 50 years since the

:09:34. > :09:37.decriminalisation of homosexuality. It seems bizarre you are told what

:09:38. > :09:41.to wear? The National Trust I think is the biggest membership

:09:42. > :09:45.organisation in the country, it has five millionplus members. It seems a

:09:46. > :09:53.bit strange they are being forced to wear these badges. The majority of

:09:54. > :09:59.people are 40 quality. But it seems like a strange row to kick off. I

:10:00. > :10:04.can't quite know what to make of it all. The Mail and the Telegraph has

:10:05. > :10:09.this story this morning, they are trying to make it a thing about gay

:10:10. > :10:14.rights. It's almost a thing about the rights or the obligation of

:10:15. > :10:17.employers to say to their staff what they can and can't wear when they're

:10:18. > :10:25.doing their job and whether it would be supporting comic relief or

:10:26. > :10:29.wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day. I agree, I hate being told what I

:10:30. > :10:36.have to wear and I would much rather, much as I support pride and

:10:37. > :10:40.all the rest of it, I would much rather the people at National Trust

:10:41. > :10:44.properties were wearing the rainbow flag because they wanted to rather

:10:45. > :10:49.than because they were told. A couple of Brexit stories, they are

:10:50. > :10:54.everywhere, this is in the Daily Express. The fury at Michael Gove's

:10:55. > :10:58.sell-out of the EU fishing, there is uncertainty about fishing, they are

:10:59. > :11:03.concerned they might be used as a bargaining chip in all of this.

:11:04. > :11:09.Bargaining fish and chip! Very good! . I should work for the tabloids.

:11:10. > :11:13.You should work for the Sun! Do you think this will happen? It adds to

:11:14. > :11:18.the whole sense of uncertainty and chaos. During the referendum debate

:11:19. > :11:24.goes said we will take back control of our waters, now he is saying EU

:11:25. > :11:29.countries can go into our waters -- both. To me it's not just about

:11:30. > :11:32.policies, it's about the overall impression this gives of what's

:11:33. > :11:37.going on at the moment and it feels like we are in a state of flux and

:11:38. > :11:41.chaos and there's no real sense of certainty about what's going to

:11:42. > :11:45.happen. What does it mean to say take back control? Michael Gove

:11:46. > :11:49.seems to be saying it wasn't OK for European fishermen to be in our

:11:50. > :11:54.waters because the EU says it's OK for them to be there but it is OK if

:11:55. > :11:58.we say it. All take back control means is the same things carry on

:11:59. > :12:01.happening but it is us that says it's all right rather than in

:12:02. > :12:05.agreement with our European partners. The same thing I think

:12:06. > :12:09.will happen on migration. I'm sure David Davis will say it's all under

:12:10. > :12:15.control. These things will be negotiated in the coming months.

:12:16. > :12:20.Let's look at the Daily Mail with our last couple of minutes, playing

:12:21. > :12:24.with people's lives, a review into betting machines, which is being

:12:25. > :12:27.abandoned because the Treasury are worried about the tax they won't get

:12:28. > :12:32.in because of it but this is a problem for people addicted to

:12:33. > :12:36.gambling. These are described as the crack cocaine of gambling. There's

:12:37. > :12:41.been a huge campaign to stop them being in betting shops. It looks

:12:42. > :12:46.like the government have done a U-turn or have taken the side of

:12:47. > :12:51.betting shops. They contribute ?400 million to the extractor every year

:12:52. > :12:58.and they feel they can't do without that cash. But it is a massive

:12:59. > :13:03.source of contention. The Labour Party have taken it up as a big

:13:04. > :13:07.issue, saying that we are going to get on top of gambling and we have

:13:08. > :13:11.to crack down on it. The line is gamblers can waste ?100 every 20

:13:12. > :13:15.seconds on this machine so it's alarming. The death of foreign

:13:16. > :13:19.languages as schools drop French and German, did you do French and

:13:20. > :13:23.German? I did and all my worst grades were in languages. I still

:13:24. > :13:28.thought they were worth doing. One of the reasons some kids don't want

:13:29. > :13:32.to do them is they say it is harder to be sure of getting a good grade

:13:33. > :13:36.in French and German than in some of the sciences and maths and other

:13:37. > :13:40.things and kids are now being driven to get the result to get into

:13:41. > :13:43.university and to be focused on how they can use their education in

:13:44. > :13:49.their employment future. Things like French and German are simply losing

:13:50. > :13:53.out. That's it. Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers

:13:54. > :13:58.online on the BBC News website and you can see us again on the iPlayer.

:13:59. > :14:00.Thanks to Lance and Giles. Now a little later than usual, it is time

:14:01. > :14:09.for Newsnight. COMMENTATOR: He's a one-man world

:14:10. > :14:15.superpower, victory for Mo Farah!