:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:21.With me are Caroline Wheeler, Deputy Political Editor
:00:22. > :00:24.of the Sunday Times and Jason Beattie, Head of Politics
:00:25. > :00:34.The FT leads with a story that Downing Street has approached
:00:35. > :00:36.Britain's biggest businesses to publicly state their support
:00:37. > :00:41.for the government's approach to Brexit.
:00:42. > :00:44.Jacob Rees Mogg's bid to become the next leader
:00:45. > :00:50.of the Conservative Party has come under fire, says the Metro.
:00:51. > :00:54.He has drawn criticism after a TV interview in which he said he did
:00:55. > :00:55.not believe in abortion under any circumstances.
:00:56. > :00:59.The Express focuses on a new study which it says proves that statins
:01:00. > :01:01.can reduce the chance of an early death by 28%.
:01:02. > :01:04.Hurricane Irma is the lead for The i, with the warning that
:01:05. > :01:06.millions of people are risk in the Caribbean and US as
:01:07. > :01:14.The Telegraph claims that Theresa May's Brexit plans
:01:15. > :01:17.are in "chaos" as senior ministers distance themselves
:01:18. > :01:25.following the leak of radical plans for immigration.
:01:26. > :01:29.According to The Times, universities face being fined if they fail to
:01:30. > :01:34.justify paying vice chancellors more than the Prime Minister. The
:01:35. > :01:39.Guardian has revelations from leaked Brexit documents. And the mail says
:01:40. > :01:43.a survey from the British Medical Association found around half of GPs
:01:44. > :01:52.this book to our closing their lists to new patients. We will go straight
:01:53. > :01:57.to the eye of the storm, may God protect us, the front page here, I
:01:58. > :02:04.think that is a picture that has come from the international space
:02:05. > :02:09.station. It shows just how big, angry and whipped up Hurricane Irma
:02:10. > :02:13.is. Barrelling across the Caribbean from east to west and will probably
:02:14. > :02:18.hit the British Virgin Islands next ballot has caused damage to places
:02:19. > :02:23.like Antigua and Barbuda. And the fact that this is billed as the
:02:24. > :02:27.biggest storm we have ever seen is significant about just how
:02:28. > :02:32.devastating the impact can be and we already have the French President
:02:33. > :02:36.basically saying it is going to be hard and cruel. That is because we
:02:37. > :02:43.even see this gaining momentum as it goes across and it is only starting,
:02:44. > :02:47.this is the beginning. We will see this move and towards the end of the
:02:48. > :02:52.week it will move towards Miami and areas like that and already areas
:02:53. > :02:57.are on a high state of alert. People stockpiling food and getting ready
:02:58. > :03:01.for what looks like it is going to be the most devastating storms. And
:03:02. > :03:09.it comes hard on the back of Hurricane Harvey and there is
:03:10. > :03:13.another... Yes. Jason, lots of people's minds will turn to...
:03:14. > :03:20.Doesn't feel like more of this is happening? Are we just reporting
:03:21. > :03:23.that more? What are we reporting or not reporting? Over the past few
:03:24. > :03:32.months we have had floods in India and Bangladesh. 1200 people dead, 6
:03:33. > :03:34.million acres of crops destroyed and 14 million people affected and they
:03:35. > :03:43.have not seen this leading any news bulletin. We do have this almost
:03:44. > :03:49.West approach. That does not mitigate that the poorest people
:03:50. > :03:52.will most often suffer, we can remember what happened in the
:03:53. > :03:55.Dominican Republic. And a lot of people could lose their lives and be
:03:56. > :04:02.badly affected but I wonder why we focus on this and we have ignored
:04:03. > :04:08.completely almost what is happening in India. To be fair to the BBC, we
:04:09. > :04:12.have reported it quite extensively, the floods in South Asia. But I take
:04:13. > :04:18.your point as far as a lot of the newspapers are concerned. We had
:04:19. > :04:22.this horrible weather season that began with catastrophic flooding
:04:23. > :04:29.that caused amazing as dreadful landslides in Sierra Leone. And they
:04:30. > :04:36.were very underreported, those deaths. I will mention Martin
:04:37. > :04:40.Patience from the BBC right now. I will just throw that in. The
:04:41. > :04:48.Guardian. The new league of Brexit papers reveals fissures between
:04:49. > :04:52.Britain and the EU? We have a Brexit bonanza tomorrow, we have the bill
:04:53. > :04:59.having the second reading in the House of Commons, questions to David
:05:00. > :05:04.Davis to kick off and to make it more enjoyable we have Michel
:05:05. > :05:07.Barnier launching new position papers in Brussels and doing a press
:05:08. > :05:14.conference and the Guardian has an advance on some of those papers
:05:15. > :05:21.which he will put forward. David Davis has persuaded, begged Michel
:05:22. > :05:27.Barnier to show flexibility and imagination and he will come back
:05:28. > :05:31.tomorrow and say, we are not being flexible and we don't have much
:05:32. > :05:39.imagination. We are playing hardball. This is what the Guardian
:05:40. > :05:43.is saying. One suspects that a lot of people looking at these
:05:44. > :05:48.negotiations panning out, they might argue that the 27 through Michel
:05:49. > :05:53.Barnier are not saying anything that they had not telegraphed months ago?
:05:54. > :05:58.Equally, it does not feel like the message going the other way is
:05:59. > :06:01.changing either. Given the fact that all along David Davis said we're
:06:02. > :06:07.going to give them the mother of all frights in terms of changing the
:06:08. > :06:11.timetable and basically, the essence of this, they are talking about
:06:12. > :06:15.going in with the paper to be delivered on Northern Ireland to say
:06:16. > :06:21.the commission will say you sort it out, it is your problem. Whereas
:06:22. > :06:24.David Davis has consistently said, we cannot make progress on Northern
:06:25. > :06:28.Ireland if you are so focused on only talking about the divorce Bill
:06:29. > :06:34.and the withdrawal, we want to talk about our future relationship.
:06:35. > :06:38.Initially, David Davis accepted this timetable, we're just going to do
:06:39. > :06:43.with withdrawal and then the future relationship and towards the latter
:06:44. > :06:47.weeks of the summer, he then goes on this massive offensive, actually, we
:06:48. > :06:50.cannot solve the Northern Ireland situation unless you allow us to
:06:51. > :06:54.move forward and talk about other things. It is not just Northern
:06:55. > :07:00.Ireland, they are talking about legislating to make sure foods and
:07:01. > :07:06.things like Prosecco are protected so we cannot have cheap copies and
:07:07. > :07:10.other things. The essential message is, the commissioner is saying, you
:07:11. > :07:17.want to move on and talk about other things? No. We want to stick to the
:07:18. > :07:24.timetable, if you want to use imagination, use your own. The
:07:25. > :07:29.Telegraph, Theresa May's Brexit plans in disarray. I will return to
:07:30. > :07:34.the scene that some people are pointing to... The EU had
:07:35. > :07:41.telegraphed a long time ago that this was going to be their strategy
:07:42. > :07:46.and for some reason, it might seem that we have always believed that we
:07:47. > :07:51.can convince them otherwise. Why did we think that? Why did we believe
:07:52. > :07:58.that in the first place? That is an extraordinarily good question, why
:07:59. > :08:02.they were just so gung ho... It was not just the Brexiteers, some who
:08:03. > :08:10.wanted to remain are wondering why the EU is so steadfast in pushing
:08:11. > :08:13.this narrative? There are 27 of them and unless they have a clear line,
:08:14. > :08:20.it is easier for them to unravel. They have to act collectively and
:08:21. > :08:25.have one negotiator, Michel Barnier. What we're finding out is what was
:08:26. > :08:30.obvious in the beginning, this whole process is extraordinarily complex.
:08:31. > :08:35.Each question leads to another. This is why the problems are mounting for
:08:36. > :08:39.Theresa May. You have divisions in the Cabinet, probably in the
:08:40. > :08:44.country, on what sort of immigration controls we have. We have this
:08:45. > :08:47.constant unresolved argument, Northern Ireland cannot move forward
:08:48. > :08:53.on whether we should or not have a transition period and if we do, are
:08:54. > :08:59.we members of the single market or the Customs Union? And for how long?
:09:00. > :09:04.You have business saying, we want some sort of security so we can
:09:05. > :09:07.start investing again. And all of these issues are, because you have
:09:08. > :09:12.this internal conflict with the Conservative Party and in the
:09:13. > :09:18.Cabinet, they are mounting without any clear resolution, overseen by a
:09:19. > :09:26.Prime Minister whose authority has disappeared since the general
:09:27. > :09:30.election. This double dynamic, and the Labour Party is not immune...
:09:31. > :09:35.There are divisions in the Labour Party. On domestic policy... And
:09:36. > :09:44.then international relations, this is leading to an extraordinary lack
:09:45. > :09:48.of clarity. And the money issue. We are big net contributor to the EU
:09:49. > :09:51.budget and is a sense that if they let us off the hook in terms of
:09:52. > :09:57.talking about how much money we will pay them when we Brexit, that is
:09:58. > :10:00.somehow going to be lost in the wayside and they believe some of
:10:01. > :10:04.their bargaining position so we are at a massive impasse and it seems
:10:05. > :10:10.difficult to move beyond that. The interesting thing about this is
:10:11. > :10:15.actually, it is a Daily Telegraph that writing the stories, which are
:10:16. > :10:21.raising questions about the success of the Prime Minister and her
:10:22. > :10:24.ability to do with this. This is talking about the leak from
:10:25. > :10:30.yesterday, talking about the immigration blueprint and splits
:10:31. > :10:36.within the Cabinet over this, the likes of Amber Rudd and Damian Green
:10:37. > :10:40.being much more resistant to big curbs on immigration. Actually,
:10:41. > :10:45.there have been other stories today, if you wanted to do a negative
:10:46. > :10:50.story. We have seen a number of stories being done in The Daily
:10:51. > :10:54.Telegraph, probably a site from the express, the biggest flag waver for
:10:55. > :11:02.Brexit... They are looking at this and raising questions. The Financial
:11:03. > :11:07.Times, executives resist Downing Street's strong-arm bid for Brexit
:11:08. > :11:13.backing. This is interesting. Business leaders, perhaps not
:11:14. > :11:19.willing to give the kind of coverage that perhaps Number 10 would like?
:11:20. > :11:25.This idea of organising letters of support feels very retro, it was a
:11:26. > :11:31.tactic first used in the 1980s and dribbled into the 90s and we thought
:11:32. > :11:35.it had died. Now, it is not exactly surprising on the back of the league
:11:36. > :11:38.about the government's possible immigration strategy for Brexit that
:11:39. > :11:46.big business and small businesses, who rely massively on the flow of
:11:47. > :11:50.goods and people, are not exactly happy with the government's stance
:11:51. > :11:55.on Brexit. They made that quite clear for some time. These are
:11:56. > :12:00.number of leaks from within the business community and they seem to
:12:01. > :12:03.suggest that they are not necessarily onside and are some
:12:04. > :12:08.great quotes about saying, basically those who have been approached, you
:12:09. > :12:12.would have to be manoeuvring for a knighthood to sign this letter,
:12:13. > :12:17.somebody is suggesting! Another person from within the inner Downing
:12:18. > :12:22.Street circle says, I had no idea who in Number 10 thought this was a
:12:23. > :12:26.good idea. The Metro, abortion is wrong even after rape. This is Jacob
:12:27. > :12:34.Rees-Mogg, speaking on television today. Yes, he did an interview this
:12:35. > :12:36.morning he talked about his views on abortion and in some ways his
:12:37. > :12:43.position on this is not that surprising given he is very vocal
:12:44. > :12:46.about his ardent Catholic beliefs and he has voted pretty much in
:12:47. > :12:53.every division you can see against gay marriage. Why this becomes a
:12:54. > :12:59.story is that Jacob is being talked about more as a potential leadership
:13:00. > :13:02.candidate, when and if any vacancy arises, and how that will set him at
:13:03. > :13:06.odds with the modernising strand that was championed by David
:13:07. > :13:14.Cameron. The Daily Mirror, gender neutral role, school bands skirts
:13:15. > :13:25.and the head brings in a new uniform policy? This is fascinating. The
:13:26. > :13:33.debate about transgender, this is a very good way of illustrating this.
:13:34. > :13:37.It throws up so many questions, for example, they had the music awards
:13:38. > :13:45.last week and they did not have any male or female category. In the
:13:46. > :13:50.Olympics, if you transition, which category do you run in? Does this
:13:51. > :13:55.give you an advantage or disadvantage and should be respected
:13:56. > :13:59.or wish to do this? It is really quite interesting and not all these
:14:00. > :14:02.questions have an immediate answer. We will have to end things. Thank
:14:03. > :14:04.you both very much. Don't forget, you can see the front
:14:05. > :14:07.pages of the papers online It's all there for you, seven days
:14:08. > :14:12.a week, at bbc.co.uk/papers. And if you miss the programme any
:14:13. > :14:15.evening, you can watch it Thank you, Caroline Wheeler
:14:16. > :14:19.and Jason Beattie.