23/08/2017 The Papers

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papers... Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Lucy Fisher,

Senior Political Correspondent at The Times and Hugh Muir,

Associate Editor at The Guardian. The Financial Times lead

with a sales warning from one of the world's biggest advertising

agencies and the news that the euro has hit an eight-year

high against the pound. Metro's front page features

the story of cyclist Charlie Alliston, who has been

cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of wanton and furious driving

after he hit a pedestrian who later The i leads with claims that

Theresa May is softening her stance on Brexit and that, despite today's

claims, European judges will take The Telegraph looks at migration

figures, saying numbers are far lower than previously thought

because most foreign students go The Sun claims that 1,800 BBC staff

have been given a 10% pay rise. While The Mail's top story

looks at what they call "Britain's laziness epidemic",

claims that half of all adults on the UK go for a brisk walk

less than once a month. The Times also leads with migration,

claiming that most rejected asylum seekers are never sent home

from the EU. The garden leads with the UN warning

to the US over racial tensions. -- the Guardian. That was a warning

last given to Kurdistan. Apparently... Not a shred of

remorse, the cyclist faces jail after the crash that killed a

mother. This young man crashed into a mother crossing the road in London

and he had a bike that was for a velodrome and not the street and had

no brakes? It was a lightweight, incredibly fast bike with the young

man obsessed with dangerous bicycle riding videos and is incredibly

tragic, this accident. It has captured the imagination of the

public partly because with 400 pedestrians knocked down on the

roads, but it is so rare for it to be a bicycle, so much less kinetic

energy from a bicycle and such a terrible story. Also, I think the

fact that straight after this happened, this woman ended up in

hospital, this man was posting stuff on social media saying it was her

fault? That is extraordinary, it makes it very much a story of his

generation that somebody would be involved in something as terrible as

this and then goes on to social media and then sent on social media

as he did and to some extent, that is why he is in this position, with

the child she was convicted on, he was cleared of manslaughter but

convicted of this rather archaic charge of wanton and furious

driving, dating back to the 19th century. He can still get two years

for that and they are sentencing him in one month in the last person

convicted of that offence was jailed for seven months so it is very

serious and he seems to have exacerbated that by his reaction.

The judge said he has not one iota of remorse from you at any stage. It

is not just a terrible incident but also the reaction to this. We are to

some extent a cycling nation, authorities around the country are

trying to adapt the roads to persuade us to cycle more and that

is a good thing, I cycled myself but you cannot go onto the road with an

illegal vehicle, whether it is a car or bike. It is illegal to have one

of these, I think they are fixies? They are illegal? But you see them

everywhere. They should not be on the road. Part of his argument was

the accident could not have been avoided, even if I had brakes as

with the normal bike. We will never know. It does not matter, if you

drive an illegal vehicle... I have been told there are fixies with

brakes, which means they are not fixies? Confused? You are! The Daily

Telegraph. Migration figures, far lower than that, a review into

official data as the exit checks by the vast majority of foreign

students go home. We did not know this before? This is a new system of

checks that have come in, a fairly small scale passenger survey at

airports that shows that some of the assumptions built into the current

modelling of net migration figures which presume that many non-EU

international students overstay their visa are in fact wrong. Most

of the students are going home at the end of the university term and

this passenger data suggests this. Fascinating findings and migration a

political issue, Theresa May says she was to get a dime from the

current rate of 284,000 inward migrants down to tens of thousands

and even if it is a bit lower, she will not get anywhere near that

target. How much do these figures alter what everyone perceives as

being the 6-figure number four net migration in the country? Doesn't

bring it down significantly? It is a very small survey here so it is only

an indication that it does tell us that they could have headlined this

another way, ways in which you were misled over Brexit. So says the

associate editor of the Guardian! We know what we're told about, taking

back control from the European Court of Justice, not quite as advertised.

We were told the Brexit thing was predicated on large-scale

immigration and students reported that, that does not seem to be as

advertised. The longer this goes on, the more that case seems to be

unravelling and the government will have to answer for some of the

assumptions that they left us with. Rooney -- is a point we're having a

debate about what Brexit should or will mean. We are having that after

the vote on whether or not we should leave? We should have had this

debate in the middle of the voting? Is that not part of the problem? The

campaign was about the headline topics, taking back control,

arguments about sovereignty and immigration seeming to win through.

Of course, the low-level, nitty-gritty, the weeds of the

system which can combat these topics and give people what they were

promised in the field, is something that perhaps we might have thought

Whitehall might have planned more for but that is not the case and we

are where we are and the time is ticking. We were talking about Big

Ben but of course the real clock that is ticking is on the Brexit

negotiations, which have to be completed by March 20 19. In the

Telegraph, it says one of the repercussions is a government might

abandon or water down restrictions on student visas. How long do they

spend talking on the fact they needed to do that? And they may not

have to do that at all? Many people might be thinking we were wrong.

Others might feel that this is the way forward? I feel I must add

that... And continuing the theme that the euro claims an eight year

high against the pound because the euro economies are doing very well?

Converter hours. It is 1.8 and people say that by the time of

Brexit who could be parity because compared to the performance of our

own economy, the euro zone seems to be going pretty well and we have

been struggling, we have been down 9% since April. For people who

listen... We did have a very minor total Eclipse! The whole screen went

black! We are back! And we are good. That was not an indication of the

economy! If we can agree on the interpretation of what the fall in

the pound means, George Osborne said the UK's systems, it is going to

cost you more abroad and in the G7, were one of the weakest now. On the

other side, manufacturing is up. Easier to export if the pound is

weak. Absolutely. It is difficult for anyone to really win the

argument on this. It is a many sided coin. If you are trying to buy

things in Spain or France and dining out and you are being asked for more

money than you thought you might, this is not a good development. If

you can afford to go on holiday in the first place! The Financial

Times, the Home Office admits losing -- threatening to deport thousands

of foreign nationals by mistake. The decision was made under your status,

it said, and you have to go home. Completely sent by mistake, which

has caused a huge worry for these individuals, it came to light after

a Finnish academic post of this letter on social media and as Yvette

Cooper pointed out, if the Home Office is making these kind of

mistakes with just 100 EU citizens, doesn't have the capacity and

capability to do with processing the status of all 3 million EU citizens

in the UK presently when it comes to Brexit? I think I know Hugh's

answer! It is a scandal, this is a political story but around the

country there are EU nationals who are unsure of their status, really

worried, people travelling around the country to register and get the

information they need, just to reassure themselves that they are

going to be able to continue their lives as they have done. It was a

mistake and they will rectify it? It is symptomatic of the kind of

treatment feel they are getting. But only does it seem that the policy is

chaotic but the application of the policy seems to be chaotic as well.

On the end of that, there are people who are unsure whether or not their

family will be able to continue as they have done, their careers can

continue. It is absolutely scandalous. This should be a huge

story because this is a human story. Millions of Britons go without a ten

minute walk every month. We are a nation of couch potatoes. Completely

extraordinary and I say this as somebody who was not the most active

but 45% of 46-year-olds do not manage just one ten minute walk

every month. Fascinating. We have the stories every year showing how

our health and Kennedy levels are and Public Health England by giving

in the reality and plans to overhaul the current advice, it is not

realistic. And telling people to aim for half of the recommended level of

activity. Something is better than nothing. Very quickly... Someone who

runs a lot but not for England any more. Wayne Rooney is retiring after

scoring 53 goals in 119 games. Willie Mason? I will. Even though he

never played for any of my favourite clubs. I support West Ham. Jesus!

Sorry, I do apologise. He was more comfortable playing for England. I

think the tragedy of Rooney is that he was a world-class player. He did

not have a world-class team. And with other great players around him,

he could be talked about as one of the all-time greats, really. I have

a particular fascination with his wife, Coleen Rooney. I loved her

description, she was described as an English product endorser. That is

what she is described as at the top of a Wikipedia page. She is the

ultimate WAG. Will she get a WAGdom? Thank you so much.

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