31/08/2017 The Papers

Good evening. Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring

tomorrow. I have a journalist from the London Evening Standard and an

editor from the Daily Express. The Metro leads with the Brexit talks,

saying a lack of progress led to both sides trading insults. The

Daily Express says Michel Barnier is to blame for the Brussels stalemate

because he refuses to discuss a trade deal. The Times reports the EU

wants billions of pounds after Brexit for aid to Africa and loans

to Ukraine. The Daily Telegraph says an investigation has been ordered

into alleged exam cheating at private schools. The "i" says

Theresa May faces from senior Conservatives over student loans. We

will have plenty to say on that. The Guardian claims the gambling

industry is using third-party companies to harvest people's data,

helping bookmakers and online casinos target vulnerable

individuals. And the Daily Mail claims one third of nurseries fear

going bust because of the Government's new childcare scheme.

Plenty to get our teeth into. Let's start with the story that has been

raging all through the day in your paper, Michael. You can't bully us,

Michel Barnier. You think a lot of feel that way? People like John

Redwood in the Tory Party... Express readers will be thinking, because he

doesn't want to talk about trade yet, they are still talking about

the divorce bill, and it is always about the money in any divorce, and

this seems to be the massive sticking point. It is not a fair

headline, because he has a mandate from the other you take -- the other

EU states to negotiate. He has to do this first before we can get onto

the trade deal, which was set out along. They have to talk about the

border with the Republic of Ireland and plenty of other things too, but

a trade deal is quite far down their list of priorities. I think we will

get this batting of heads anyway. They will say, you can't get past

that, but we have to settle on the bill first we don't even know what

the deal is. They haven't got a figure. We had a British trade

negotiator earlier, a former one, who said no one will tell us these

end points in the middle of a negotiation. You could argue,

everything is moving to plan. Except the tone is problematic. True. I

think the UK should have started, given that we kind of came quite

hostile to the table, and the history was not a good one, we could

have tried at the beginning to foster better relations there, and

we didn't. The Times angle, the EU wants billions in foreign aid. It is

part of the divorce Bill, things we have already committed to that the

EU say, look, you have already committed to this previous to the

vote and you should still pay the price for this. Apparently, our

negotiating team have been looking through it legally and saying, we

don't have to do this. Their site says we do. This is all coming to

the fact that we want to give them some money, because we want to stay

within the spirit of a new relationship, but we won't be held

to ransom, and that is what they are trying to do. At the moment we have

this batting of heads. While we are on the Times, look at that

photograph. Did you see the footage of that arrow coming in and one of

the Test match special commentators saying it had embedded itself in the

ground, the batters were running away from the scene, an astonishing

story. Rosamond, a story close to your heart. Yes, posturings. It's

not often you hear that! I think it's quite tough being a student

today. -- yes, poor students. If you are starting university now, this is

the right that you are accurate ring before you start paying anything off

whilst you are at university. 6.1%. Later, it depends what you are

earning, what the rate is. This is the ceiling rate. We are at a time

of low interest rates. 6.1%, I was going to say. Eye watering. They

could get cheaper money elsewhere, but no one would lend to them. The

student loans company say it gets written off if you get to a certain

age and it hasn't been paid off. I wouldn't want that hanging over my

head until a point in the future where it might go away. We don't

know what rules might change. I wouldn't have been able to go to

university if it had been like this. My family never wanted to get into

debt. This is a bad thing. We have educated people into debt without

educating them about debt. Lots of us have a natural aversion to it,

but we have told students, don't worry about it, and I think this is

worrying. The other point they are making that this is that it will

cause chaos in the Tory Party. Theresa May yesterday said she wants

to fight the next election, and there were hoots of derision from

people, such as Nicky Morgan, the chair of the Treasury Select

Committee, and she said this blow should have been soft and, and

they've not done that. -- softened. There has just been a poll of 18-24

-year-olds saying how few of them would ever consider voting Tory. Law

is the only thing they think the Tories are better on. Another

education story in the Telegraph, and this actually gets more

astonishing is the more you read about it. It really is only the

Telegraph that has been following it this week. Yes, there is an

investigation being ordered into what they are calling a cheating

scandal in private schools. Essentially, Annus put-mac an

extraordinary situation, the teachers were setting exams that

their pupils were taking. They were setting the questions. A really easy

fix. A teacher can set them for other exam boards, but not for the

ones that cover their own school. They are supposed to be a great part

of our education system, and for their integrity to be questioned by

this. They say this could spread to other schools. They don't know how

far it has gone. The likes of eating are involved at the moment, but it

could spiral out of control for them. With the amount of money

people have to put in them, it is not great for private schools. What

we think the parents are paying for? ! It is not the fault of the kids.

You have to wonder, at a time when we talk a lot about social division

in this country, you have got to wonder how large chunks of this

country are going to feel about this. It will confirm every

stereotype they have of these schools and the pupils who go to

them. If you went to a comprehensive school, you will wonder, how many

times has this happened before at a posh school? Lets do nurseries now.

The Daily Mail... OK, this problem, we knew it was coming for a while -

nurseries are facing a huge number of issues, and they had basic things

like rising rent, and on top of that, they have the rise in wages

they are paying because of what the Government calls the national living

wage, and then on top of that, the Government says, you've got to

provide an extra 30 hours a week, so they have raised the number of hours

they have to provide, and of course, actually, councils don't pay enough

to cover that cost. We know it is expensive for parents to use these.

If you then take a whole load at the market, its problematic. It is

almost as if it was done on behalf of. It was a great vote grabber, but

it shows that a lot of politicians don't think things through very

well, and this knock-on effect, which could knock out a few

nurseries, it will create more pressure and make the problem worse.

It drives up the cost of the other hours, because if they are providing

30 hours were free, it makes everything more expensive. What do

you think of Tony Blair and Jean-Claude Juncker having a kiss?

They are very close! It is a love in. Some people are saying that is

why we were right to get out - two men kissing. We have Michel Barnier

and David Davies going at it, then this happening behind the scenes, so

we may think something is going on that should not be. We all know what

Tony Blair wants. Yes, he doesn't want Brexit to happen at all. The

Financial Times, we shouldn't really, but we should feel sorry for

the Americans because of tropical storm hobby, but we shouldn't feel

sorry that their petrol will go up a few cents. A third of oil refineries

are currently out of action because they are mainly centred in Texas.

There is a huge one that will be shut for two weeks, so it will be a

huge knock-on effect. They won't go for emergency stocks hit, but I

remember in 2000, when there was a petrol crisis in this country, and

how close this country came to anarchy because we could not drive

around where we wanted to on demand. That happened in America... We might

need to rethink our attitude to cars. European traders are

scrambling to send more gasoline, and I have booked 45 enormous ships

to send it out there. And they are saying this is the worst event since

Hurricane Katrina. I doubt the price will soar too much for them from

such a low level anyway, but they do like to fill up as much as they

possibly can. We have about half a minute, if that, on the having to at

the end. Princess Diana's death, tributes left at Kensington Palace

on the 20th anniversary. Is the media getting the coverage right, 20

years on? There is a lot of it. It has tailed off this week. With

William and Harry doing things on Monday, it has been nice the last

couple of days. The public, paying their respects at Kensington Palace,

rather than all of us getting involved. We believe that there.

Thank you very much indeed. Forget, you can see different pages of the

papers online on the BBC News website. It is all there for you,

seven a week. If you miss the programme in the evening, you can

watch it later on the iPlayer. Thank you, Rosamond and Michael. From me,