05/09/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the political commentator, Lance Price,

and Liam Halligan, Chief Economics Commentator

The Metro leads on the arrest of the four serving soldiers

on suspicion of joining an outlawed neo-Nazi terror organisation who

The FT focuses on the story that the Home Office

is developing stricter rules for EU migrants wanting to work

The Telegraph also leads with story about post

Brexit immigration plans, which it says will only allow low

skilled EU migrants stay for a year, before being sent home.

The Daily Express is predicting a royal engagement

as Prince Harry's girlfriend Megan Markle confesses

And the I sees the Archbishop of Canterbury

criticising the government over Britain's unfair economy.

He calls for higher wages, school reform and fairer taxes,

in what he says is the worst wage stagnation for 150 years.

The Times claims the Prime Minister is planning to abandon a manifesto

pledge to cut the number of MPs. And the Daily Mail goes with the

government proposals to restrict the number of low skilled workers

allowed into the UK after Brexit and the Guardian has pictures of the

leaked document containing the proposals. We will start with that.

This has been leaked by... Who knows! Not by someone... And who

benefits? And after a few weeks of not getting anywhere with Brexit, or

making progress on the tiniest technical details. This is a bit of

a fillip to those who voted Brexit. This is back-to-school, the Prime

Minister is revving up for a major speech on the exit. We don't know

when it will be, probably before the Tory party conference in the first

week of October. It makes the negotiations more difficult on the

one hand because it will upset the EU side is even during the

transition period for two years after March 2019, even in that time

the clamps will come down and low skilled workers will not be able to

come to the UK and there will be freedom of movement being curtailed.

On the other hand it will please some restive Tory MPs who want

Brexit, some Labour MPs who want it despite the position of their front

bench and it will do something to say that even though we have these

problems with the EU, we are getting on with it and there is a major

after Brexit legislation coming in during the autumn and we are

determined to get it through Parliament. That is what it feels

like to most observers I would suggest. And I think it also shows

that the Tories or certainly some of them think that if they are seen to

be tough on immigration which they believe was the real root cause

behind a lot of people voting to leave, they will be forgiven... For

handing over 60 billion? Whatever the divorce bill turned out to be.

Like so many of these papers, this is not clear. Some statements from

the Home Office suggest they have not seen it, the Guardian said that

is already causing disagreement between ministers. We don't know how

serious it is. But like so many of these position papers, it raises

more questions than it answers about whether it could be made to work and

the impact on the economy which people have serious questions about.

It onto the Financial Times, and Vladimir Putin is warning Donald

Trump that military hysteria risks catastrophe. This is a man who has

never had military hysteria in his life! This is the so-called brick

summit, the big four emerging markets, Brazil, Russia, India and

China, they formed an informal group and there is a summit going on in

China and we have had trouble saying that Pyongyang, North Korea having

carried out nuclear tests recently, I think the phrase he used was

begging for war. Putin has come back saying that Trump should not engage

in war hysteria. The key point being that of course if there are

sanctions by the US against North Korea, unless they are unilateral

sections, if they are UN sanctions, both Russia and China are able to

sanction them as permanent members of the Security Council. Given that

it is at a BRIC summit, there is no way that Putin would say that unless

Beijing was on site. And it helps us get into the mindset of the North

Koreans because Putin is saying they would rather eat grass than give up

their weapons programme. He knows what it is like to have the west

say, you can't do this, and also what it is like to use your military

might to force the West to take you seriously and give you a place at

the International table. He doesn't like being under sanctions either.

He said the sanctions regime has run its course, it is ineffective.

Exactly. And onto the the i, the Archbishop of Canterbury makes an

extraordinary political intervention. We are quite used in

the past two Archbishop of Canterbury having a go at the

inequalities of capitalism but I guessed Justin Welby as not being as

outspoken as in the past. He used to be a banker. He knows a bit about

how the economy works. How unfair society can be! He has been in the

trenches. It is good to have someone from the real world in such a high

ecclesiastical post. The actually says that Britain Boka economic

model is broken and it no longer functions but he is not proposing an

alternative -- Britain's economic model. I suspect he wants to make

this model work better and that the benefit of economic growth seem to

be going into profit rather than wages. He has aligned himself with

the IPPR think tank, which has come up with numbers showing that of GDP,

the whole economy, 80% was going towards wages in the 1970s and now

it is just 73% also another interesting thing, it is not just

the Archbishop saying I wish the world was a fairer place, he has

actually attacked the tech giants, Facebook, Google, Amazon, saying

they are too powerful and that is an important emerging theme in

political discourse around the world at the moment. In the past prime

ministers would be upset by this sort of thing and I remember

Margaret Thatcher getting very upset by whoever the Archbishop was at the

time for producing similar sort of quotes. Actually this unfairness in

the economy is something Theresa May as talked about when she first came

to Downing Street so let's see what notice she takes. Talking about

unfairness and pay and money, the BBC is to launch a major review of

salaries! Five! -- Clive... We don't need to go any

further on this! A major review of salaries. This isn't news, really?

We know what happened earlier in the year. Careful because your boss, the

great Tony Hall, of course this been a big story over the summer, 96 BBC

presenters have been named as earning more than ?150,000. The

majority of calls were men which led to some concern. White men. A lot of

the country is thinking they are all massively overpaid for reading out

loud for a living but now the BBC has said they want to bring forward

measures to address that gender a gap earlier. And of course all

organisations with more than 250 staff, I think by early next year,

are going to have to published figures on their gender pay gap. The

BBC is getting with the programme. Or rather everyone else is getting

with the BBC because they are way ahead in this field, even though it

is pretty awful. Not by choice but to their credit are keeping the

story on the front pages and we are talking about it. And by launching

the review they are raising expectations and something will be

done about it. Natural selection is reading Alzheimer's and asthma out

of the gene pool, this is on the front page of the Daily Telegraph. I

just don't get this story. I bet explain what it is, but apparently

natural selection means that Alzheimer's and asthma may disappear

because men with Alzheimer's tend to have fewer children. Alzheimer's is

normally a disease of the elderly unless I am much mistaken. By and

large, you can get early onset. Not necessarily at the time when most

people are having children will stop I don't quite understand how it is

just Alzheimer's and asthma that will be up for that we are not

clever enough to understand. The research is from the universities of

Cambridge and Columbia. It is a subtle signal, says one of the

researchers, but we find genetic evidence that natural selection is

happening in modern human populations. The only reason it is

not the lead story in the Daily Express... They couldn't understand

it either! I have done Brexit! Does say that it could be bred out of the

human species within a few thousand years. In time for the next

election! Dog walkers told to carry two plastic bags. Some don't carry

any and that makes me very angry, I have to say! I am a dog walker. We

are both dog walkers. And you both carry bags? If we said no on

television we would be arrested! And a plastic bag to pick up the poop.

All I can say about my dog, Jake, that is the third mention you have

that today. Sometimes two plastic bags is not enough! You have not met

my dog! This is Canterbury City Council, the story has emerged that

they may find dog walkers ?80 if they do not have two plastic bags

which led us to speculate, if one is used, do you have to carry it around

in its form? Just find the nearest bin! That is my message to dog

walkers. It has been described as using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!

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