:00:16. > :00:17.STUDIO: Hello and welcome to our look ahead to
:00:18. > :00:25.what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.
:00:26. > :00:27.With me are the author and broadcaster
:00:28. > :00:32.Deputy Political Editor of The Independent.
:00:33. > :00:38.Let show you what we have so far: the Financial Times reports that the
:00:39. > :00:39.UK's largest adult education provider faces collapse after a
:00:40. > :00:42.damning report by the education watchdog Ofsted. The Metro leads
:00:43. > :00:45.with the court case of an 18-year-old cyclist who killed a
:00:46. > :00:50.pedestrian and later went online to blame the victim. The i leads with
:00:51. > :00:53.the Government's publication of its blueprint for leaving the EU. The
:00:54. > :00:57.Daily Express says that research has found that a daily glass of wine or
:00:58. > :01:01.pint of beer can reduce the risk of early death. The Daily Mail leads
:01:02. > :01:03.with the decision to silence Big Ben for four years -- so that repairs
:01:04. > :01:15.can be carried out on its tower. The Daily Telegraph also leads with
:01:16. > :01:20.Mps' calls for a rethink about silencing the Big Ben -- MPs. The
:01:21. > :01:21.Guardian has in its front page Donald Trump's direct condemnation
:01:22. > :01:23.of far-right violence in Charlottesville, 48 hours after the
:01:24. > :01:40.events. So let's begin. Yes, independent,
:01:41. > :01:45.the i, they have your story, which is in quite a few of the other
:01:46. > :01:49.newspapers, which is about what we are going to do after Brexit and the
:01:50. > :01:54.idea of up to three years transitional period, still in the
:01:55. > :01:59.customs union...? Some viewers may be thinking, tomorrow is the day we
:02:00. > :02:04.get some clarity, but that would be a mistake. A little bit more detail
:02:05. > :02:14.is emerging but still far from clear. Some people may remember that
:02:15. > :02:17.only 24 hours ago, we were insisting we would leave the customs union but
:02:18. > :02:19.now, apparently we will ask for a temporary customs union, this is
:02:20. > :02:24.because the government has accepted the warnings from business that
:02:25. > :02:28.there will be chaos at checkpoints unless we have some kind of customs
:02:29. > :02:41.deal, too late to agree a permanent deal early. Transitional one. From
:02:42. > :02:46.there on, it still gets murky. Seeking trade deals from other
:02:47. > :02:50.countries, the day after we leave the EU in 2019, and the rules are
:02:51. > :02:54.that you cannot do that. We will be aligned to the customs union, you
:02:55. > :02:58.cannot seek outside trade deals. Even if the government is proposing
:02:59. > :03:02.this temporary customs union to take into the talks, which we resume at
:03:03. > :03:20.the end of the month, we do not know what the will say in response.
:03:21. > :03:30.Like any other victory, shall we do with the buckle, it feels like every
:03:31. > :03:35.single advance made by somebody is pushing somebody else down an
:03:36. > :03:41.enormous potholes. Hard to see this any other way, we have reached a
:03:42. > :03:45.level of vague liveness, as you can see, and I have a vague sense that
:03:46. > :03:49.if anybody mentions cake in the context of having it or eating it, I
:03:50. > :03:52.will reach down the Internet and I have slap them! You know that I
:03:53. > :04:06.adore you, but what were you thinking with that
:04:07. > :04:12.it is directly contradicted 24 hours later, every time, it is like being
:04:13. > :04:17.in Alice in Wonderland. We will get papers. Proposition papers. This one
:04:18. > :04:20.tomorrow, one on Northern Ireland next week, I don't know about
:04:21. > :04:24.anything more significant before the talks at the end of the month, we
:04:25. > :04:28.are getting more detail, but it doesn't appear to take it forward in
:04:29. > :04:34.terms of satisfying the EU that we have a workable proposal. The other
:04:35. > :04:37.thing is the attitude of the Prime Minister, so we learned in briefings
:04:38. > :04:41.at number ten today that, well, this woman called Theresa May is
:04:42. > :04:44.returning to Downing Street on Thursday, older viewers may well
:04:45. > :04:48.remember the name(!) she used to run the government, apparently... A
:04:49. > :04:57.little bit of sarcasm, but she has been away... Holiday... Three and a
:04:58. > :05:02.half weeks. You have been counting it! Brexit policy behind her back,
:05:03. > :05:05.as though they locked her up in a Swiss chalet, took away her passport
:05:06. > :05:10.and said, we are getting on with it in your absence, never before has a
:05:11. > :05:15.PMB so irrelevant to what is happening. Meanwhile, across the
:05:16. > :05:22.Atlantic, Donald Trump broke off his holiday,, after a lot of pressure on
:05:23. > :05:27.him, to condemn as evil racism what happened in Charlottesville. -- PM.
:05:28. > :05:31.First he manages to make his way to the US presidency, now, Fry 's
:05:32. > :05:36.membership of the too little too late club, international club,
:05:37. > :05:40.somebody has been slaughtered in the street by a car driven at them, he
:05:41. > :05:44.realises that Nazis are evil, I am sure that we can also, great, well
:05:45. > :05:49.done, will come to the party(!)... Enormous shame that in the 48 hours
:05:50. > :05:55.before that he has said almost nothing or has said, everyone has
:05:56. > :06:01.terrible, full seven is... 61, half a dozen of the other...! Two sides
:06:02. > :06:05.to every story... He doesn't seem to realise the difference between Nazis
:06:06. > :06:08.and people fighting against Nazis, there was a crucial distinction
:06:09. > :06:15.during a whole world war that we have. -- six of one and half a dozen
:06:16. > :06:17.of the other. He has the disposition of a particularly obdurate toddler,
:06:18. > :06:22.so as far as anyone with that disposition can be treasured...
:06:23. > :06:25.Encouraging aspect is that it appears to be that the president can
:06:26. > :06:36.be forced to do something, almost against his will. Including maybe
:06:37. > :06:39.his own daughter? Conversations with the Attorney General, the new FBI
:06:40. > :06:42.director, perhaps they have been important, the surprise is not that
:06:43. > :06:47.he has taken so long to condemn neo-Nazis but that he has done it at
:06:48. > :06:51.all because he is the man who displays clear fascist tendencies,
:06:52. > :06:55.openly racist. He was delighted to get the support of the Ku Klux Klan
:06:56. > :06:58.last year! They see him as one of their own, he has an unhealthy
:06:59. > :07:02.accession with going to war, possibly nuclear war! Around himself
:07:03. > :07:06.with the far right, not a surprise that he failed to condemn neo-Nazis,
:07:07. > :07:11.the surprise is perhaps that now, there is something positive, it is
:07:12. > :07:14.that he can be talked around, and I'm thinking about North Korea,
:07:15. > :07:22.obviously, hopefully saner heads can clear him -- steer him away.
:07:23. > :07:25.Interesting story about this... Facing collapse, learn direct...
:07:26. > :07:30.After they got a blasting from Ofsted for their training reform. --
:07:31. > :07:36.Learn Direct. We can only just now find out about it, heroically they
:07:37. > :07:39.have had a legal case against Ofsted to prevent this being released,
:07:40. > :07:45.which has only just been overturned. Remember this, Learn Direct, from
:07:46. > :07:51.the early 2000s, you could do apprenticeships, set up by a Labour
:07:52. > :07:54.government, privatised in 2011, to a company called LDC, private equity
:07:55. > :07:59.arm of Lloyds Bank, at the time, we owned it, as taxpayers, 40% of it,
:08:00. > :08:04.so you will be delighted to hear that very quickly, after that
:08:05. > :08:09.privatisation in 2011, 84% of its largely taxpayer provided cash went
:08:10. > :08:14.on payments to managers and financiers... We can all agree, the
:08:15. > :08:19.most important evil in any educational establishment(!), as
:08:20. > :08:22.well as loading with ?90 million of debt, and extracting ?20 million of
:08:23. > :08:28.dividends. Could they have a reason for this? That would be a ?500,000
:08:29. > :08:34.they decided to spend on a racing car for Formula 1... How is that
:08:35. > :08:38.going? It too is bankrupt...! YOU'RE WELCOME! LAUGHTER
:08:39. > :08:42.this is the most spectacular example of what happens when it goes wrong,
:08:43. > :08:46.privatisation, when it goes wrong, who bring money out of something
:08:47. > :08:49.that is meant to help young people get into jobs but they seem to be
:08:50. > :08:55.spending the money on each other, and a fast car...! Thing else which
:08:56. > :08:58.might be perceived as a waste of money, the Garden Bridge, which,
:08:59. > :09:03.according to the Financial Times, also on the front page, taxpayers
:09:04. > :09:07.have already paid about ?46 million, this is the idea of a bridge with
:09:08. > :09:09.lots of trees and stuff on it over the Thames, but it is not going to
:09:10. > :09:23.happen. The project died a few months ago
:09:24. > :09:26.when the Mayor of London said there would be no more funding, the reason
:09:27. > :09:31.we have a picture of the proposed bridge is because... The trust that
:09:32. > :09:44.was set up to push for the project has finally thrown in the towel.
:09:45. > :09:49.Would it not have been a beautiful addition to the capital city? No, it
:09:50. > :09:54.would have been a plaything for rich people and companies who would have
:09:55. > :09:57.paid huge money to prods about on it in the evening, when it would be
:09:58. > :10:01.close to the public, no public use whatsoever, and in the meantime,
:10:02. > :10:04.pulling the plug on these test really needed transport projects
:10:05. > :10:08.around the country, I dread to think what people in the North of England,
:10:09. > :10:21.you cannot have decent trains and electrification project... Boris
:10:22. > :10:28.Johnson may as well have dressed up as a shepherdess, gone out there in
:10:29. > :10:37.full Marian Kello net, really. Big Ben is silence. It is a national
:10:38. > :10:44.scandal! International scandal, if you check(!) -- Marie Antoinette.
:10:45. > :10:50.The Daily Mail seems to be in favour of people working on a bell tower
:10:51. > :10:52.being rendered deaf by bongs! Not on the member and state, not on New
:10:53. > :10:57.Year's Eve, people are working on the bell tower, because the bells
:10:58. > :11:03.have not been repaired for absolutely ages, there will be a
:11:04. > :11:08.live that will go part way up so that if people fall ill when
:11:09. > :11:13.visiting it, they can be taken down. But obviously, this is a national
:11:14. > :11:18.disgrace... They are saying that during the Blitz, it was not
:11:19. > :11:22.silenced. As though people were not up the tower during the Blitz.
:11:23. > :11:28.Health and safety has succeeded where the Luftwaffe has failed.
:11:29. > :11:32.Ridiculous. Nazi bombs could not silence the famous symbol, I'm the
:11:33. > :11:35.worst person to talk about this, I work at Westminster, I have done for
:11:36. > :11:40.many years. I thought you were going to say that you work in Big Ben! I
:11:41. > :11:43.never hear it... It is not even loud, look at these people
:11:44. > :11:47.complaining about their ears(!) I think that you stop hearing it, if
:11:48. > :11:59.you work so close. I'm not going to miss it. Might be a priority.
:12:00. > :12:03.Finally, good news in the daily stress, wine is the key to a longer
:12:04. > :12:06.life! And yet here we are, stone cold sober, it's like you secretly
:12:07. > :12:09.hate me and wish for me to die young, I don't understand it,
:12:10. > :12:13.thought we were friends. You can have a glass of wine and it will
:12:14. > :12:18.slash your risk... Not slashing your risk of early death, but it may, it
:12:19. > :12:24.may, May is the crucial word there, it may have protective health
:12:25. > :12:29.effects, and illustrated with a picture of the perpetually young Len
:12:30. > :12:35.Goodman. A pint of beer may have the same effect. The Daily Mail suggests
:12:36. > :12:38.coffee, so I say, maybe an espresso martini... Wine and copy... Booze
:12:39. > :12:44.and copy, that is what you need, booze and copy, that's what we're
:12:45. > :12:48.telling you, I'm not technically a doctor(!). We all need some good
:12:49. > :12:51.news from time to time, but I am conscious that in a couple of days
:12:52. > :12:55.there will be a story telling us the exact opposite. So, let's hold onto
:12:56. > :13:02.this one for as long as we can and believe it! People are fairly
:13:03. > :13:06.confused. Good of you to come in. Lovely to see you. That is it from
:13:07. > :13:10.the papers tonight, you can see the front pages of the papers online on
:13:11. > :13:17.the BBC news website. All there for you seven days a week will stop if
:13:18. > :13:20.you miss the programme, any even in, you can watch it again on BBC
:13:21. > :13:24.iPlayer. Thanks again to my guests and goodbye.