04/08/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the front pages will be

With me are two political commentators and former

Downing Street advisers, Lance Price and Giles Kenningham.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Daily Mail, which leads

with accusations that the National trust is exploiting the rights of

their volunteers by making them where gay pride badges. The Daily

Express was that millions of holidaymakers heading to Europe

-based big delays due to passport checks. The Telegraph headlines

claims from the Prime Minister format a Nick Timothy who says the

Conservatives lost their majority because the party abandoned Theresa

May's promise of change. The Guardian carries an interview with

one of the medical team who treated Charlie Gard, who blames politicians

and religious leaders with interfering in his case. The sun had

lined Prince Harry's visit to Africa with his partner where they will

celebrate her 36th birthday. And the Times headlines Mo Farah's triumph

in the 10,000 metres, it also warns of threats to holidaymakers

travelling to Spain where anarchists accused the travel industry of

destroying Barcelona and the Balearic Islands.

Let's begin the paper review, what shall we start with, Mo Farah? It's

kind of the big story of the night. I don't know if you saw the race but

it was really close in the end but it was pretty emotional stuff out

there and the crowd loved it. Sealing his place in history as

probably the greatest British athlete ever. Remarkable, retiring

on a high, which very people don't like few people do, fantastic, a

real feelgood factor for British sport at the moment -- which very

few people do. He hasn't been beaten in a global competition since 2011.

A fantastic record and I don't want to tell tales out of school, I come

into this newsroom quite a bit and I've never heard the news room break

out in applause very often but he did when he finished. It looked a

bit close towards the end. At one point he was being jostled. He

looked tired at one point. This is by viewers from when he won the gold

at the Olympics in 2012 -- five years. Phenomenal to stay on top for

that long. He's trying to do the double, the 5000 metres as well,

that may have taken it out of him a bit, brilliant to see him with his

little son on his shoulder who had been asleep two minutes earlier and

he was woken up and put on his shoulder with his crowd shouting at

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

This is Nick Timothy, who until recently was working with Theresa

May as one of the... He was the co- Chief of Staff. Giles, did you ever

worked with him? A bit, not massively. This is his first

so-called kiss and tell in a political sense except for it isn't

that amazing, there's no real bombshell in here whatsoever as far

as I can see, it seems pretty anodyne. The top lines out of this

are he says reports that Philip Hammond was going to get the bullet

are wide of the mark. That Theresa May will still walk away from Brexit

without a deal and the so-called dementia tax, which many people

claim cost of the Tories the election, was still the right thing

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

seem like he is trying to settle any old scores, but we haven't seen the

inside pages, now he's got a regular column in the Telegraph so perhaps

there's more to come. But based on this front page there is nothing

really we didn't know. Do you agree the Tories did well because they

abandoned Mrs May's message of change? I don't agree with that and

that is a curious conclusion for Nick Timothy, it's they abandoned

change but it was the wrong kind of change. They were proposing change

in a way that concerned the way social care was paid for in the

dementia tax, free school lunches for kids, proposing change to the

triple lock on pensions, they were proposing changes but people didn't

like the changes proposed. I think what he fails to face up to is the

fact the Conservatives went into that election convinced they were

going to win, taking the public for granted, it was the election nobody

needed, apart from Mrs May wanting to increase her majority and she

took the country for granted and the election for granted. What might be

interesting is so far we don't know what Theresa May stands for. She

hasn't defined herself, she didn't define herself at the start and

maybe some of these columns might shed some light on it but so far she

hasn't got a defining ideology. The only thing that will define her is

the election and Brexit. Waiting for Fiona Hill's version of events? I

suppose out of the two she has taken a lot more stick, the press has been

unrepentantly hostile towards her and I suppose the next big

flashpoint in this will be the two books on the election that come out

on the Yvonne conference, that will be incredibly problematic for

Theresa May. It's becoming an annual thing, the book just beforehand.

We've done this every night this week. You have come in from France.

I flew in from the south of France yesterday and I went through

passport control at Marseille airport faster than ever before. May

be the guy doing the passport checks has been watching the news channel

online and had seen what was going on. But they barely looked at my

passport on the way through. You look like a nice guy! Doesn't mean I

wasn't delayed by three hours but that was easyJet and their planes

breaking down. Who wouldn't want to be anywhere in southern Europe at

the moment? -- who would. If it isn't the delay is coming back it is

the threat of... That's the next story. Anarchists. I am going to

Spain next week. Good luck. Not looking good, is it? It will be so

hot I can't go out during the day and I could be stuck at the airport

and then anarchists protesting about what? Accusing you of wrecking the

island and saying tourists are destroying the pearler garlands and

Barcelona and Majorca. This coincides with one of the busiest

weeks when people go away so it adds to the chaos -- Bowie Eric Islands.

I think there's an element... I had a friend in one of those queues on

the front page of the papers and he said it cleared within five minutes

but at the moment they were bad -- that moment. There are a number of

issues here. Good luck. A bit more politics now. The Irish Prime

Minister coming up with a suggestion about what should happen because of

the Irish border, which is a problem both sides have said is a priority,

but there haven't been many concrete ideas coming up about what they do

about it. He is suggesting the answer is for Britain to stay in the

customs union or have a bespoke customs union. It underlines the

difficulties facing Theresa May, she has 27 other countries to deal with

in these negotiations. It's not unreasonable to say they wasted the

first year not doing that much, they were unremittingly hostile towards

business and now they are bringing them back into the tent and they are

paying the price and now it's a race against the clock. They are going to

get these negotiations done by March, 2018, but that would be

unprecedented. The EU Canada deal took seven years and it hasn't yet

come into force so we are living in cloud cuckoo land -- cloud cuckoo

land if we think it will be done and dusted in a year and a half. There

will be a transition period where nothing much changes, will that

happen? Certainly because there won't be the answer is in place for

so many of the complex problems. What they were saying was there's

frustration in Europe that people feel because so much time has been

wasted. This has been a difficult problem, the only land border

between Britain and the European Union, but it's not in tactical --

intractable and after 14 months they have said they are still unable to

come up with the he is suggesting he does. This is a story that has been

rumbling on, mutiny at the National Trust. Volunteers have accused the

national Trust of trampling on their rights by making them were badges.

They have been told they have to wear them to mark 50 years since the

decriminalisation of homosexuality. It seems bizarre you are told what

to wear? The National Trust I think is the biggest membership

organisation in the country, it has five millionplus members. It seems a

bit strange they are being forced to wear these badges. The majority of

people are 40 quality. But it seems like a strange row to kick off. I

can't quite know what to make of it all. The Mail and the Telegraph has

this story this morning, they are trying to make it a thing about gay

rights. It's almost a thing about the rights or the obligation of

employers to say to their staff what they can and can't wear when they're

doing their job and whether it would be supporting comic relief or

wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day. I agree, I hate being told what I

have to wear and I would much rather, much as I support pride and

all the rest of it, I would much rather the people at National Trust

properties were wearing the rainbow flag because they wanted to rather

than because they were told. A couple of Brexit stories, they are

everywhere, this is in the Daily Express. The fury at Michael Gove's

sell-out of the EU fishing, there is uncertainty about fishing, they are

concerned they might be used as a bargaining chip in all of this.

Bargaining fish and chip! Very good! . I should work for the tabloids.

You should work for the Sun! Do you think this will happen? It adds to

the whole sense of uncertainty and chaos. During the referendum debate

goes said we will take back control of our waters, now he is saying EU

countries can go into our waters -- both. To me it's not just about

policies, it's about the overall impression this gives of what's

going on at the moment and it feels like we are in a state of flux and

chaos and there's no real sense of certainty about what's going to

happen. What does it mean to say take back control? Michael Gove

seems to be saying it wasn't OK for European fishermen to be in our

waters because the EU says it's OK for them to be there but it is OK if

we say it. All take back control means is the same things carry on

happening but it is us that says it's all right rather than in

agreement with our European partners. The same thing I think

will happen on migration. I'm sure David Davis will say it's all under

control. These things will be negotiated in the coming months.

Let's look at the Daily Mail with our last couple of minutes, playing

with people's lives, a review into betting machines, which is being

abandoned because the Treasury are worried about the tax they won't get

in because of it but this is a problem for people addicted to

gambling. These are described as the crack cocaine of gambling. There's

been a huge campaign to stop them being in betting shops. It looks

like the government have done a U-turn or have taken the side of

betting shops. They contribute ?400 million to the extractor every year

and they feel they can't do without that cash. But it is a massive

source of contention. The Labour Party have taken it up as a big

issue, saying that we are going to get on top of gambling and we have

to crack down on it. The line is gamblers can waste ?100 every 20

seconds on this machine so it's alarming. The death of foreign

languages as schools drop French and German, did you do French and

German? I did and all my worst grades were in languages. I still

thought they were worth doing. One of the reasons some kids don't want

to do them is they say it is harder to be sure of getting a good grade

in French and German than in some of the sciences and maths and other

things and kids are now being driven to get the result to get into

university and to be focused on how they can use their education in

their employment future. Things like French and German are simply losing

out. That's it. Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers

online on the BBC News website and you can see us again on the iPlayer.

Thanks to Lance and Giles. Now a little later than usual, it is time

for Newsnight. COMMENTATOR: He's a one-man world

superpower, victory for Mo Farah!