:00:14. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:20.With me are the author and former Conservative advisor Jo-Anne Nadler,
:00:21. > :00:31.A warm welcome to both of you. Good to have you with us. Let's bring you
:00:32. > :00:33.up-to-date on what the front pages are saying so far.
:00:34. > :00:39.The Express leads with new figures that suggests house prices have
:00:40. > :00:41.soared by ?10,000 on average since last year's Brexit vote.
:00:42. > :00:44.The I claims the Government is to announce there is be to no
:00:45. > :00:51.land border with the Ireland after Britain leaves the EU.
:00:52. > :00:56.The Guardian say that the plan is already being ridiculed in Brussels.
:00:57. > :00:59.The FT carries a picture on the Indian Prime Minister
:01:00. > :01:01.celebrating the 70th anniversary of his country's independence.
:01:02. > :01:02.The Mirror headlines calls from campaign groups
:01:03. > :01:05.for the government to freeze rail fares after an increase of 3.6%
:01:06. > :01:09.The Telegraph claims the number of babies left brain damaged by NHS
:01:10. > :01:18.blunders has increased by almost a quarter in one year.
:01:19. > :01:37.The Daily Mail says that they could reconsider the decision to stop Big
:01:38. > :01:38.Ben for four years, as some did not know that it would be silenced for
:01:39. > :01:44.that time. After many months of the Government
:01:45. > :01:50.being somewhat low paid about their intentions for Brexit, we are now
:01:51. > :01:56.going through a deluge of hopefully clarifying information about what we
:01:57. > :02:01.may all be dealing with over the next few years. Of course, today, we
:02:02. > :02:06.have had a lot of discussion about customs unions and tomorrow we will
:02:07. > :02:12.be hopefully finding out more about how this issue of the border between
:02:13. > :02:23.northern and southern Ireland will be handled after Brexit. What the I
:02:24. > :02:30.will be saying is there will be no land border. We have only seen the
:02:31. > :02:35.front pages and what I found amusing about this front page is that it
:02:36. > :02:39.says, Brexit blueprints, we beat them so you don't have to.
:02:40. > :02:44.LAUGHTER -- we read them.
:02:45. > :02:49.Hopefully we will have more detail and tell people slightly more detail
:02:50. > :02:55.on this. That is the critical point, it looks as though the proposal will
:02:56. > :02:59.be no land border as such. This is particularly sensitive for the Irish
:03:00. > :03:08.Republic because they will continue to have the relationship with the
:03:09. > :03:13.European Union but have this island in the way! It is important for the
:03:14. > :03:20.U and the Irish Republic, at a red line as well for the EU, you
:03:21. > :03:24.suspect. How this... There is a whole and of history now resting on
:03:25. > :03:30.this, the legacies of John Major and Tony Blair and the Good Friday
:03:31. > :03:34.Agreement and all of the rest of it. If they had gone down, or were
:03:35. > :03:42.considering going down the road of a hard border and all the checkpoints
:03:43. > :03:50.that some of us remember driving through, which were awful, then you
:03:51. > :03:57.would be quite fearful of the direction of travel. The difficulty
:03:58. > :04:01.is the and practicality of this was the technology means you could drive
:04:02. > :04:05.a lorry through and you could sweep it with a radar gun and know what
:04:06. > :04:08.products were in there and whether ever thing was being properly
:04:09. > :04:14.declared. But then you have got to answer that with free movements,
:04:15. > :04:19.which is supposed to end for the UK. There is talk of free movement
:04:20. > :04:25.within the island of Ireland. I don't agree third any senior
:04:26. > :04:31.Conservative politicians seriously talk about the possibility of there
:04:32. > :04:35.having to be a land border. This would appear to confirm that that is
:04:36. > :04:41.the case. We look forward to the detail of that. What we don't have
:04:42. > :04:47.is the detail of what happens at the external border. Northern Ireland
:04:48. > :04:55.voted to stay in, did it not? That was an important vote. These
:04:56. > :05:04.problems were an inevitable result of the vote. An interesting link
:05:05. > :05:08.here because she could almost suggest that all of these papers
:05:09. > :05:13.coming out were an answer to the story about your namesake at the top
:05:14. > :05:17.of the Times today. My namesake indeed, without the E, indeed. It
:05:18. > :05:22.doesn't spell it properly! Isn't politics a lovely business? You have
:05:23. > :05:28.the former chief of staff accusing the Brexit secretary of leering, of
:05:29. > :05:34.bullying and laziness, on the very day that this morning... I couldn't
:05:35. > :05:43.turn on a television and listen to radio without him popping up. He
:05:44. > :05:46.will deal with it. I do know him a little, I suspected of him
:05:47. > :05:52.reasonably well, and he will be all that in that fairly jolly way,
:05:53. > :05:59.whatever he thinks privately about what his former chief of staff is
:06:00. > :06:02.saying. The only thing I would say is I think I'm right in saying he
:06:03. > :06:09.has not had a holiday, and is not having a holiday in the month of
:06:10. > :06:13.August. Without any question, whatever you think about the EU and
:06:14. > :06:17.staying in or coming out or whatever, David Davis has got the
:06:18. > :06:25.most wretched job in government, trying to satisfy... It is a job he
:06:26. > :06:28.has wanted for any years was up in many ways, he is supremely qualified
:06:29. > :06:33.because of his detailed understanding of how boot he was
:06:34. > :06:38.Europe Minister 1000 years ago, in political terms. If there were any
:06:39. > :06:47.truth in this that he only works three days a week, it could be that
:06:48. > :06:52.he knows what he is doing. 26 countries placating the European
:06:53. > :06:58.Commission, the parliament, that is before you get to the Tory party. He
:06:59. > :07:05.will need to lie down for the other four days! The Telegraph now. This
:07:06. > :07:11.is a disturbing one about brain injuries in newly born children. It
:07:12. > :07:17.is. This is a story that the Telegraph seem to be running
:07:18. > :07:20.exclusively, and they have looked into a rather alarming increase in
:07:21. > :07:30.the number of babies being born with brain damage. It has gone up from,
:07:31. > :07:32.or medical claims for damages have in the last year gone up from
:07:33. > :08:05.something like 180 up two 230. What is called here
:08:06. > :08:09.normal birth, or what might have been referred to as natural birth.
:08:10. > :08:20.That seems to be the suggestion that that is partly behind this obviously
:08:21. > :08:22.rather disturbing trend. It's a hugely disturbing trend. It is a
:08:23. > :08:30.horrendous story for those of us who have seen the fantastic pressures on
:08:31. > :08:38.medical staff, be they doctors or whatever in these units who, in my
:08:39. > :08:45.case, brought two children and one grandchild into this world, they
:08:46. > :08:51.owed them everything. I can only imagine what it is like. The skill
:08:52. > :09:01.and care that they show. It was only last week that the Royal College of
:09:02. > :09:06.Midwives dropped its campaign for normal births and abandoned the use
:09:07. > :09:11.of the term. Maybe we are heading in a different direction, and that is a
:09:12. > :09:15.turning point. A lot of pressures which will come up as part of the
:09:16. > :09:20.NHS review as well, with the moves towards specialism and fewer but
:09:21. > :09:27.better sites, as the Government is hoping for. That is a story that
:09:28. > :09:31.will have disturbed people. This is one that will anger people, which is
:09:32. > :09:39.the rail fares. An annual treat for journalists. The rail fares, the
:09:40. > :09:44.expected rise of 3.6% is running across all of the newspapers.
:09:45. > :09:52.Especially alarming headline in the Telegraph, saying that the soon to
:09:53. > :10:00.see ?10,000 rail tickets for people on particular routes for the annual
:10:01. > :10:04.season ticket. Clearly, as you say, this is going to infuriate people
:10:05. > :10:07.because not only are they paying a great deal more but in many cases,
:10:08. > :10:11.the service seems to be wholly inadequate. Some of the
:10:12. > :10:16.modernisation is having to be put back and delayed because it will
:10:17. > :10:24.cost more money. Am I not right in saying that government... There has
:10:25. > :10:26.been a Conservative led government since 2010, governments can control
:10:27. > :10:30.fares. It will be interesting to see in the budget in the autumn whether
:10:31. > :10:37.anything is done about this. If you can control fuel, presumably you can
:10:38. > :10:41.control rail fares. There have been increases for seven years. That is
:10:42. > :10:45.what some of the papers will be alluding to. There will be an
:10:46. > :10:50.argument about this. The good news is, if you need your ?10,000 to pay
:10:51. > :10:54.for your rail fare, you might be able to sell your house to pay for
:10:55. > :11:01.it according to the daily express. That is extrapolating! Indeed. The
:11:02. > :11:07.express have got a story that seems to fly against some of the other
:11:08. > :11:15.trends around house prices. The average price of a house has gone up
:11:16. > :11:20.by ?10,000. I think the interesting thing, reading between the lines is
:11:21. > :11:27.how they are presenting this as a sign that Britain after the vote to
:11:28. > :11:31.leave the European Union has got a healthy economy. Some people would
:11:32. > :11:36.suggest, and I have a lot of sympathy with it, that just stating
:11:37. > :11:40.the health of the economy on ever rising house prices is not a healthy
:11:41. > :11:48.way to look at it. In fact, the threat that George Osborne made
:11:49. > :11:53.about house prices falling, would not necessarily have been a bad
:11:54. > :11:57.thing. Call me old-fashioned, but are house prices that carry on going
:11:58. > :12:04.up for ever and a day, is that good? Possibly not for your son's
:12:05. > :12:10.generation. Or your grandchild's generation. It is unsustainable,
:12:11. > :12:19.isn't it? This is a story that might have been seen earlier. A lot of the
:12:20. > :12:28.papers got excited by this story of Millie Forrest, described as a
:12:29. > :12:33.cloakroom girl turned overnight singing sensation. What a
:12:34. > :12:42.patronising way of putting it! It is a classic August story, and that
:12:43. > :12:45.your dream comes true. You start off handing out the cloakroom tickets
:12:46. > :12:50.and you end up standing in for the top soprano of the night. That
:12:51. > :12:56.appears to be the story. It is a view weeks old, apparently, as
:12:57. > :13:02.well(!) She ended up singing Schubert and Vaughan Williams and
:13:03. > :13:09.Purcell. Let's hope it plays on for her. Any publicist is good
:13:10. > :13:10.publicity. We will be back in under an hour's time.
:13:11. > :13:16.Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online