28/08/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

With me are John Crowley, Managing Editor of Newsweek Media

Group and the broadcaster Lynn Faulds Wood.

Lovely to see you. We will get on with our chat in a moment. First

off, a reminder of what some of the front pages will look like tomorrow

morning. The Telegraph says that the Brexit

talks between the UK and the EU have descended into a slanging match

with the EU's Chief Negotiator, Michel Barnier being

called 'unhelpful'. Whereas The Times picks up

the frustration of the other side in its headline: 'It's time to get

serious, Brussels tells Britain'. The FT says that Theresa May is set

for disappointment this week so the paper claims,

the Japanese government won't rush The Metro reports that the driver,

accused of killing eight people in a motorway crash on the M1,

was twice over The lead in the Express is that

arthritis sufferers, who take Ibuprofen for pain relief,

are greater risk of high blood who take Ibuprofen for pain relief,

are at greater risk of high blood The Daily Mail highlights the case

of a five-year-old Christian, The Daily Mail highlights the case

of a five-year-old Christian girl, who it says, was forced to live

with Muslim foster carers. That is some of our front pages.

Let's kick-off. We start with the Telegraph. It has all been about

Brexit today, it is round three of the talks and Britain is not happy

with Michel Barnier. I don't think this has descended into a slanging

match, it started off a slanging match, remember Boris telling them

they could whistle for money and Michel Barnier, who strikes me as

being a very urbane, great example of somebody who is calm under

pressure, he said the only sound I can hear is the ticking clock. We

don't seem to be getting anywhere any fast -- very fast command to

have yet another slanging match, there is also tough words being

used, such small print on the front of the Telegraph I have to put on my

glasses. A senior source in Britain says Michel Barnier's attack is

inconsistent, ill judged, ill considered and unhelpful. What cards

have we got to play in this game at the moment? It seems to me that

Michel Barnier is saying, show us your hand, and we are saying, no, we

can't show you are a handful stop what was the phrase David Davis

used? Constructive ambiguity. The news is taking a pop at him because

he accused Britain of ambiguity today. I think there is a bit of

mudslinging going on. We were told last year to take back control, we

didn't quite realised that this hard negotiating phase which we are in

now, it is tricky, and whether you are a Brexiteer or remain, whether

you agree or not, there is two very men staring at each other down the

barrel, it is not thinly veiled taunts, they are stabbing each other

in the front and it is all rather unseemly, to be honest. But also

they should do it away from the public gaze, if humanly possible,

because this doesn't strike me as helpful. I don't know what our cards

are and I'm not absolutely sure we've got too many, because we've

come at this unexpectedly and we were not really prepared for it, and

they are saying things like, Michel Barnier is saying, we will be less

secure because of Brexit and a British voice is saying that is

risible nonsense. I don't think it's a risible nonsense. We will have to

give leave the European defence agency, Europol and then all the

French have to do is say we're not going to look after Calais and

Dunkirk, we are just going to open the gates and let them all come

through to Britain and it's your problem of the migrants want to come

to Britain. You mentioned Boris Johnson and Wesselingh. I don't know

if you picked up on the interview on radio for them I think it was

yesterday, where he did concede, did say that Britain would have to meet,

we will have to meet our legal obligations when he was pressed,

bike, I think it was Mishal Hussein, about the divorce Bill. What do you

make of that? There seems to be an acceptance that we have to pay. Will

that open up the negotiations and the EU will say, let's move ahead.

Michel Barnier is saying there are three pillars, three separation

agreements that need to be done, the first on the divorce Bill, which has

ranged from 100 million euros, the FT reported a few months ago, which

is clearly not acceptable for the UK Government, coming down to 30 or 40.

There is also the issue of Northern Ireland, the 310 miles border that

the EU says must be solved before you get into the nitty-gritty of

association, and that is obviously very close to the heart of people in

Northern Ireland. My family come from there. People are extremely

worried about it. The last thing, one more thing, they want to agree

on, the EU says they want to agree on the fate of the citizens here in

the UK from the EU and I think there is 1 million Britons in the EU, what

happens to their status as well? It is unseemly. This is really... This

is mudslinging. They should come it all down. Let's turn to The

Huffington Post because we continue with Brexit. The headline here is

this idea of a messy divorce. Barnier has always said we are going

too slowly and I think having an election that cost us 120 million or

something in the middle of all of this when we should just have been

cranking on, the decision has been taken, get on with it, don't keep

looking, which is the way it looks to me is happening in Britain as if

we are not really getting to the point. And, of course, we don't

blame them for saying, right, we want you... At the moment you pay

towards a lot of the European institutions and projects we are

working on and you can't suddenly cut off, you agree to them so you

should pay towards them and the British are saying we are being made

to pay twice because we are trying to leave the Single Market and we

are still being made to pay into it. At the moment there is a stalemate.

But who blinks first? That is what the constructive ambiguity phrase

that David Davis has come out with is true, you don't want to reveal

all of your hand all at once. This is a hard negotiating phase now.

DfT, this kind of continues again, this is a Brexit trio for us here on

The Papers, because Theresa May is hoping to start building trade deals

in the background, but it seems as if she is hoping for Japan to meet

her halfway. She is just about to go there. Yes, she is, two days. The

big problem is we were helping Europe to have an agreement with

Japan, and now we are saying actually, we are going out and we'd

like to have the same agreement as we work helping Europe to have with

Japan command Japan are saying we are a bit busy at the moment. This

could be a good leak that we're not going to get very far with Japan,

because the Financial Times is now owned by a Japanese company, so this

could well be true and it seems perfectly plausible to me. If you

are doing a deal with Europe, wait, join the queue, Britain, and then we

will talk to you. I think she could come back empty-handed the way David

Cameron came back virtually every handed from Europe. Japanese

officials say their priority is completing the deal with Brussels,

as you say, and they also say we can negotiate until Britain is out of

the EU. I think this is what Shinzo Abe, Theresa May's counterpart,

wants to hear from Prime Minister Theresa May. Very quickly, let's

stay with the front page of DfT. I don't know how many housewives will

be able to afford nearly $40,000 for a plastic bag. What is happening in

Kenya? I am a bit allergic to the word housewife. I can multitask! But

basically Kenya has become the fourth country to ban plastic bags

and they have banned them, you get banged up in prison, $38,000 fine

for something. They are talking seriously. Rewinder, a country that

has had so much strife, has already banned them. And then I look at the

high street and I still see people staggering about with plastic bags.

For goodness' sake, people, get ones that you can put inside your bag

that is reasonable, not plastic! Let's move quickly on to the Times,

Christian girl with a Muslim family. Christian girl with a Muslim family.

It sounds like a horrendous case. Apparently the child was sobbing and

begging to be returned to the foster family because she doesn't

understand Arabic. The girl is also understood to have said that she was

regularly expected to eat meals on the floor. This story has been done

by Andrew Norfolk, an award-winning journalist who broke the story on

what is happening, and what happened in the child sex ring in Rotherham.

We don't have an insight into what was said. There is a statement from

Tower Hamlets. My only insight is what on earth is a council doing not

spotting this one coming? Warning klaxons should have been sounding.

We contacted Tower Hamlets council and they go back to us, and just to

read out the statement: we are unable to comment on individual

cases all those subject to court proceedings. The council's fostering

service provides a loving and stable home for hundreds of children each

year and in every case we give absolute consideration to our

children's background and to their cultural identity. All of our foster

carers receive training and support from the council to ensure they are

fully qualified to meet the needs of the children in their care. That's

the statement but something has gone wrong here. I'm going to guess this

is happening all over the country and let us know if it does. This is

one of the questions that the Times asks, if it is a one-off or if it

goes further. I view pro Frank on the front of The Express, are you a

fan of IB preference? No, there is a wonderful conference in Barcelona at

the moment with the top people in the world talking about their

research, but for the public this is so baffling. Only about two years

ago we were told not to take these other painkillers because they have

too many side-effects, just paracetamol, and now they say

paracetamol has side-effects. We have got to be told as the public

and what are the right... Wipe clean the board, on a piece of paper in

every home, what are the best painkillers to use if you have got

common conditions, and which ones you should not touch with a barge

pole. John, surely most tablets taken to excess are bad for you? You

don't even have to take them to excess, by the way. I'm totally

confused I don't know which ones to take. That is my point. You do not

know where to stand with these pills, you read that one is good to

take one week and then that it is bad for you the next. There is

something called Cochrane collaboration, the scientists review

everything in the world, they should tell us what is safe to take. The

Times, maybe this is the responsible we don't need painkillers, we don't

need drugs, we just need to start getting fit and there is hope. And

EU are never too old to get fit. Everyone should be out there doing a

bit of something or other, and most people in Britain don't do much.

What do you both do? I run and I walk. I walk, I have a fitness

tracker that tracks my walking and I play football to a very bad standard

occasionally. It says getting fit in your 40s and 50s could half your

long-term risks of stroke, so some body at the younger end of that,

that gives me hope that I can get off the sofa and perhaps even the

more encouragement to get more fit. It says 100,000 people a year in

Britain suffer strokes either through disruption of blood supply

to the brain or bleeding within it. We can laugh and joke about our lazy

lifestyle but it's important and you can do it now. What was that

well-known... The Baker on the high Street. For breakfast I went to a

baker that is popular in the North of England and is growing in

southern England and had a coffee and sausage roll this morning. How

many steps have you taken? 8000 steps running up-and-down the stairs

here between different shows. Do you know how many flaws we have got?

Just 2000 to go. It's not like the old step counters that sitting at

your desk and you moved and it was half a mile. That is cheating. We

will find out how many steps you have done. I will give you an

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