:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:23.With me are Susie Boniface, columnist with the Daily Mirror and
:00:24. > :00:24.the Public Affairs Consultant Alex Deane.
:00:25. > :00:31.The Financial Times, which leads with Donald Trump's
:00:32. > :00:33.tax reform plans - saying that the President is hungry
:00:34. > :00:39.The Mail reports on plans to prioritise vulnerable people
:00:40. > :00:42.who have been victims of crime - claiming that people who speak good
:00:43. > :00:50.The Times claims that private schools are encouraging pupils
:00:51. > :00:56.to learn a trade rather than go to University.
:00:57. > :00:58.The Mirror leads with a weight loss story -
:00:59. > :01:01.Loose Women presenter Lisa Riley has had loose skin removed
:01:02. > :01:09.The I features a story on queues at airports -
:01:10. > :01:13.both for British citizens and foreign tourists.
:01:14. > :01:16.The Express warn their readers that a heatwave is on the way
:01:17. > :01:29.The Telegraph say that Buckingham Palace is in lockdown tonight after
:01:30. > :01:31.a knife attack on police officers on the model.
:01:32. > :01:42.Donald Trump, front page of the Financial Times eyeing an ambitious
:01:43. > :01:47.tax reform agenda. This is a man, not much of what he promised has yet
:01:48. > :01:51.come to past. He wants to get on the front foot and tax reform is the
:01:52. > :01:57.issue which has been number one on the agenda for the Republicans.
:01:58. > :02:00.Personal tax, income tax as well. It is the big challenge for this
:02:01. > :02:06.President moving beyond declaration to actually deeds and changing
:02:07. > :02:08.things. That is why as the Financial Times identifies, he is going to
:02:09. > :02:14.come into difficulties that the arguments he has been having with
:02:15. > :02:17.his own party, with the Speaker of the house, Paul Ryan and the Senate
:02:18. > :02:20.majority leader Mitch O'Connell because he will need their help in
:02:21. > :02:24.delivering tax reform and to state the obvious given what has happened
:02:25. > :02:28.in this country, we have lowered corporation tax and our corporations
:02:29. > :02:34.pay more tax than ever. We have lowered our higher rate of income
:02:35. > :02:37.tax. It is that kind of basic reform that Donald Trump wants to deliver
:02:38. > :02:41.in the United States. He is having the wrong kind of argument about
:02:42. > :02:46.whether debt ceiling is and whether it has to go up yet again. No easy
:02:47. > :02:51.thing with the Senate and the house poised as they are for real tax
:02:52. > :02:55.cuts. This would be job's first real reform and he is not helping himself
:02:56. > :02:59.at the arguments he has against his own side. The Financial Times is
:03:00. > :03:05.right, he is making his own life more difficult. The reason that he
:03:06. > :03:10.is hungry for a legislative win is because all he has had its losses.
:03:11. > :03:14.Tax reform was one of the big planks he campaigned for, it is also
:03:15. > :03:18.something which his businesses that he has not divorced himself from
:03:19. > :03:23.entirely stand to gain from quite a lot. His own children will probably
:03:24. > :03:25.gain hundreds of millions if not billions from suggested reforms of
:03:26. > :03:29.the inheritance tax that they have in the US, which is one of the
:03:30. > :03:35.things he wants to put forward and Alex has referred to, he is having
:03:36. > :03:37.big arguments with Paul Ryan, the leader of the Republicans in
:03:38. > :03:41.Congress and also with the Senate leader Mitch O'Connell and if he
:03:42. > :03:46.wants to get tax reform through the house, he needs their help to do it.
:03:47. > :03:50.If he is going to do this and try and push, one of these big cells he
:03:51. > :03:53.made to the American people through, he has to do it before he upsets
:03:54. > :03:58.them any more than he already has. Time is of the essence. What is the
:03:59. > :04:06.argument against these? I take your point about raising revenues, not
:04:07. > :04:10.everyone agrees, but still, where does Trump get the opposition? It is
:04:11. > :04:14.contentious because there are some who think we ought to make the
:04:15. > :04:17.wealthy pay their share and becomes an ideological point, almost I do
:04:18. > :04:21.not care what your statistics say, I know we should have a higher rate of
:04:22. > :04:24.tax to make people pay more. You almost do not care whether it
:04:25. > :04:28.delivers more money, it is to be able to say that you are taxing the
:04:29. > :04:30.wealthy more. Inheritance tax is a special point in that many people,
:04:31. > :04:53.even those who never realistically Payette,
:04:54. > :04:56.resented, because they aspire to have the kind of estates where they
:04:57. > :04:58.would pass something onto the children. It is taxing you on
:04:59. > :05:01.something you have already been taxed on. It is taxing you when you
:05:02. > :05:03.try to hand something onto your children, it is a tax on love. It is
:05:04. > :05:05.a tax that redistributes through society. It attempts to. The
:05:06. > :05:08.American system is slightly different to ours. When someone has
:05:09. > :05:10.a huge amount of wealth, like Donald Trump, he has billions of dollars
:05:11. > :05:13.worth of tax and property, it gets taxed at such a rate that it gets
:05:14. > :05:16.broken up and get spread around. Donald Trump inherited a lot of
:05:17. > :05:18.money from his father. Probably more than he has ever made. You get taxed
:05:19. > :05:23.on everything in life, taxing your new death seems pretty cheap. Let us
:05:24. > :05:28.move to this side of the Atlantic. The Times main story. Top schools
:05:29. > :05:34.push bubbles away from university. The privately educated advice to
:05:35. > :05:39.learn trades. Not what you expect. The Times is trying to say that posh
:05:40. > :05:43.pupils are doing the tags and they have been doing vocational courses
:05:44. > :05:47.and they're going to be plumbers. Because degrees are so overrated and
:05:48. > :05:51.cost too much. There are several points in the story that are
:05:52. > :05:57.fascinating. The first is that what has happened is that this has
:05:58. > :06:00.happened in independent schools since tuition fees came in and
:06:01. > :06:02.because the eventual lifetime cost of repairing some of those fees for
:06:03. > :06:06.people who are going to be doing well will be more than ?100,000 over
:06:07. > :06:14.your lifetime and people are starting to think, do a need to get
:06:15. > :06:19.a degree? Am I going to be a lawyer or a teacher or something or am I
:06:20. > :06:24.going to be working on my father's large country estate 's work I need
:06:25. > :06:26.to know about animal husbandry? They're stopping to ask themselves a
:06:27. > :06:30.question because of the costs involved and I'm sure this is
:06:31. > :06:33.something that pupils at normal state schools are doing in far
:06:34. > :06:39.greater numbers. The other thing that is interesting is of the 452
:06:40. > :06:45.independent schools who have submitted how many pupils are
:06:46. > :06:52.getting the text and A-levels, only 700 -- 603 of them took the text.
:06:53. > :06:59.603 pupils in the schools is a tiny proportion, and across the country,
:07:00. > :07:03.376,000 state school pupils are taking BTECs. There may be a bit of
:07:04. > :07:08.a trend, but it is not swamping us... The numbers are relatively
:07:09. > :07:13.small but there is a trend in that direction and I for one welcome it.
:07:14. > :07:18.For some time in our country we had a perverse belief in arbitrary
:07:19. > :07:20.numbers and saying, 50%, as the then Labour government said, should go to
:07:21. > :07:26.university. There are problems at both ends of the spectrum, I went to
:07:27. > :07:28.a normal state school and a university, by no means the
:07:29. > :07:38.cleverest person at my school, some people did not have the aspiration
:07:39. > :07:41.to go who probably should have. We do have in our country and British
:07:42. > :07:44.people have it worse than many other countries, in Germany if you are an
:07:45. > :07:47.engineer, but the something of great pride but in this country, we treat
:07:48. > :07:52.those sorts of skills as slightly below the salt. We encourage people
:07:53. > :07:56.to pursue university degrees who frankly should never go. In a lot of
:07:57. > :08:03.Europe, it will go to university for longer. That is the strange thing.
:08:04. > :08:06.Long education. I did not go to university, didn't do me any harm.
:08:07. > :08:09.Before we leave the subject, you would have thought the sort of
:08:10. > :08:14.people who can afford to send their children to posh schools would not
:08:15. > :08:18.worry too much about universities. The reason that those families have
:08:19. > :08:21.perhaps more money to dispose of it is because they are more careful. It
:08:22. > :08:24.is not just about affording the fees, it is about whether going is
:08:25. > :08:31.the best thing to do for you and your future and for many young
:08:32. > :08:46.people, doing a BTEC and going the vocational route is better for you.
:08:47. > :08:50.Let's move on. EU warns Britain against playing the Northern Ireland
:08:51. > :08:56.card and Brexit talks. Please, just quickly, new viewers here and tell
:08:57. > :08:58.us about this. Interesting story from the Financial Times, the
:08:59. > :09:02.European Union is saying do not think you can claim that your
:09:03. > :09:06.special relationship with Ireland means you can somehow circumvent
:09:07. > :09:10.normal relations with the EU in the course of negotiations. The EU's
:09:11. > :09:13.point is that you have decided to leave, knowing full well you have
:09:14. > :09:18.this land border EU country, you have to play by the rules and
:09:19. > :09:21.understand that are going to not do this as an extraordinary situation
:09:22. > :09:24.with the norms are circumvented because you have a special
:09:25. > :09:28.relationship with Ireland. The United Kingdom's prospective is
:09:29. > :09:35.first of all, the most vital thing is to ensure that we do not really
:09:36. > :09:38.stymie activity and cross-border trade on the island of Ireland and
:09:39. > :09:43.that we are able to ensure that the peace process continues. I think
:09:44. > :09:46.those things do add up to a special circumstance and I think that not
:09:47. > :09:51.only is that the position of the UK, I think it will also be Ireland's
:09:52. > :09:55.position as well. I understand that the EU is saying to the UK, do not
:09:56. > :09:58.think you can use the Northern Ireland situation as a bargaining
:09:59. > :10:06.chip to undermine normal processes, as reality bites and we go further
:10:07. > :10:09.down the track, I think it will come about, whether or not they think it
:10:10. > :10:14.is right. Yet another complexity in this Brexit business. In shorthand,
:10:15. > :10:19.the EU is accusing the UK of using the Northern Ireland situation as
:10:20. > :10:22.emotional blackmail, to get us the kind of Brexit, the EU will agree
:10:23. > :10:27.with anything to suit us otherwise there will be some terrorism and
:10:28. > :10:30.Britain are saying to the EU, it is all very important and we do not
:10:31. > :10:36.want terrorism and if there is, we will blame you. It is almost
:10:37. > :10:40.impossible to divorce the issues. You cannot say, Brexit is entirely
:10:41. > :10:44.separate to what you do in Northern Ireland and the peace process and
:10:45. > :10:46.the border and everything and you cannot agree it separately and it is
:10:47. > :10:52.also slightly unreasonable to say that they are dependent one upon the
:10:53. > :10:55.other because if you are in negotiation, saying we would like to
:10:56. > :11:00.sell your machine pies and it all depends on what we agree over here
:11:01. > :11:04.and it is unrelated, it is madness. It is a fair point, Ireland is an EU
:11:05. > :11:07.state, but the Irish to more of their trade with the UK than anyone
:11:08. > :11:11.else and you could argue the Brexit is more of a problem for the Irish
:11:12. > :11:16.than the UK Government in trade terms. I think, we have regulated
:11:17. > :11:18.travel between the United Kingdom and Ireland under Common travel
:11:19. > :11:33.area, well predated the European Union, we do
:11:34. > :11:35.not need EU to tell us what to do on that and furthermore, there is a
:11:36. > :11:37.special relationship, Irish citizens vote in our elections... What you
:11:38. > :11:40.will have is that Northern Ireland will have to have a sort of separate
:11:41. > :11:42.Brexit arrangement to the rest of the United Kingdom, because it has
:11:43. > :11:45.that land border with the Republic of Ireland because there is no
:11:46. > :11:49.appetite for customs checks on the border, then it will effectively
:11:50. > :11:54.maintain or continue as it is now worth Scotland and Wales will not.
:11:55. > :12:00.They tend to brag about with there will be systems for doing it. There
:12:01. > :12:11.are roads, border which crisscross the border of three or four times.
:12:12. > :12:16.The border is madness. Some people are suggesting that the UK will have
:12:17. > :12:22.this back door into the EU or vice versa. If you wanted to come
:12:23. > :12:29.illegally into the United Kingdom and you are an EU citizen, come on a
:12:30. > :12:31.tourist visa and then overstayed legally rather than going via
:12:32. > :12:40.Ireland where it will be more difficult. Let us move on, the Daily
:12:41. > :12:44.Telegraph, they have moved very specially because we were here just
:12:45. > :12:48.this evening about events at Buckingham Palace. You were close to
:12:49. > :12:52.it. I was. You do not know much about it. On my way to the studio,
:12:53. > :12:56.all I saw was what is in this picture, lots of blue flashing
:12:57. > :13:03.lights, the police cordoned off the whole area and we were diverted very
:13:04. > :13:06.quickly away through west London. Incredible really, the speed at
:13:07. > :13:10.which the police responded to this incident. It is one of the busiest
:13:11. > :13:16.areas of London and traffic was packed. They had very efficiently
:13:17. > :13:20.and calmly manoeuvred traffic in this incredibly busy London area,
:13:21. > :13:23.mostly calm, while they themselves propelling themselves down London
:13:24. > :13:29.Street at a very high speed. That is what they are trained for. A lot of
:13:30. > :13:33.people I know come to us at this time, just to explain what we know
:13:34. > :13:37.which is not a lot. What we know at the moment is that a man with some
:13:38. > :13:41.kind of blade, eyewitnesses say a sword and police confirm it is a
:13:42. > :13:45.knife of some kind, we do not know whether it is a pen knife or a great
:13:46. > :13:50.big samurai sword, anything in between the two, has attacked some
:13:51. > :13:56.police officers. Too early to say if it is terror related, even if it is,
:13:57. > :13:57.there is a Venn diagram were madmen and terrorists cross over, there is
:13:58. > :14:29.a big link between the two. We know the man who has been detained
:14:30. > :14:32.has been detained on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assaulting
:14:33. > :14:34.police, that is quite a serious kind of assault, it is not common. They
:14:35. > :14:37.might move the charge down from that. We also know that two male
:14:38. > :14:40.police officers sustained minor injuries to their arms. That would
:14:41. > :14:42.imply it is a defence of wind. It is not because they have been punched
:14:43. > :14:45.in the face. The Queen is at Sandringham at this time of year.
:14:46. > :14:48.Balmoral, sorry. Let us hope it was nothing too dreadful. Let us move
:14:49. > :14:50.on. Susie, the Daily Mail has the story and others do as well, the
:14:51. > :14:53.headline, police saying we may not come out if you speak English. That
:14:54. > :14:59.is a wonderful bit of headline simplification. Explain what this
:15:00. > :15:04.tells us. And you're not in any danger. What we are talking about,
:15:05. > :15:10.the second-in-command of the country's biggest for say callers
:15:11. > :15:14.will be prioritised. If you have a vehicle theft, perhaps a bicycle has
:15:15. > :15:18.been stolen from outside your home and the police, it happened a week
:15:19. > :15:22.ago while you are holiday, the police will not turn up and look at
:15:23. > :15:25.the empty railings, if you are perfectly able to speak to them over
:15:26. > :15:28.the phone and file your insurance claim, that is the end of it. If
:15:29. > :15:32.however you have learning difficulties, if English is not your
:15:33. > :15:35.first language or if you are elderly, they might come out to see
:15:36. > :15:40.you and Wood the person because you will need that extra face-to-face
:15:41. > :15:44.interaction. It is entirely reasonable prioritisation of calls.
:15:45. > :15:49.That sounds fine, except it says in the Daily Mail, last night MPs and
:15:50. > :15:53.campaign groups hit out at the police man involved saying that
:15:54. > :16:00.these proposals were utterly bonkers. Do you have some sympathy
:16:01. > :16:04.with that? I am about as police sceptic as you get in the political
:16:05. > :16:09.mainstream. I ran Big Brother watch for a couple of years, I think our
:16:10. > :16:13.police force is covered up a paedophile ring in South Yorkshire,
:16:14. > :16:17.they behaved disgracefully over things like Hillsboro, I am very
:16:18. > :16:21.police sceptic. This is not really a story in my view and people who have
:16:22. > :16:23.attacked it had done so on the basis that they were asked to give a quote
:16:24. > :16:39.that they then gave without really thinking about
:16:40. > :16:43.what the story men. For me, this is a story about the police saying if
:16:44. > :16:46.you're able to expect the situation over the phone, we will take it over
:16:47. > :16:50.the phone and if you're not able to do that, we will come and see you.
:16:51. > :16:52.If you phone up and say, I speak English, I am middle class and
:16:53. > :16:55.middle aged I appear to be being stabbed in the face, the police will
:16:56. > :16:57.still turn up. People are sceptical when you hear the word might. One MP
:16:58. > :17:03.blames it on political correctness which is insane. Silly season. When
:17:04. > :17:06.the police come and arrest the householder who sat on the burglar
:17:07. > :17:10.rather than arresting the burglar, that is the sort of story that the
:17:11. > :17:15.Daily Mail should be making their meat and drink on. Gates of hell,
:17:16. > :17:23.the neck story. Actually, what is this. This is about Heathrow. I fly
:17:24. > :17:26.a lot for business, when you come through Heathrow, by the third of
:17:27. > :17:30.the gates are working, that is true, the sun has spotted this and ran the
:17:31. > :17:33.story because at the same time, they point out, Bank Holiday cost for
:17:34. > :17:36.rail travel are going up because our transport system is trying to
:17:37. > :17:41.discourage people from travelling, even though everyone travels on the
:17:42. > :17:52.Bank Holiday to see their families and it will be busy on the roads. It
:17:53. > :17:57.is a bit of a dog bites man story. We have more people flying, so there
:17:58. > :18:02.are increasing queue length and Theresa May as Home Secretary was
:18:03. > :18:06.busy cutting numbers of border force agents. It is like the self-service
:18:07. > :18:09.talent supermarket, you need someone there to supervise because they get
:18:10. > :18:13.chewed up and they need someone to reset the whole thing. We have to
:18:14. > :18:15.leave it there. Don't forget you can see the front
:18:16. > :18:19.pages of the papers online It's all there for you - seven days
:18:20. > :18:23.a week at bbc.co.uk/papers - and if you miss the programme any
:18:24. > :18:47.evening you can watch it Good evening. Mainly quiet weekend
:18:48. > :18:48.of whether on the way here at