:00:17. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:21. > :00:23.With me is Dia Chakravarty, Brexit Editor at the Telegraph,
:00:24. > :00:25.and John Rentoul, political columnist at the Independent.
:00:26. > :00:46.Let's show you tomorrow's front pages, starting with the guardian,
:00:47. > :00:52.Michael Bloomberg saying that Brexit is the silliest thing a country has
:00:53. > :00:55.ever done, apart from electing Donald Trump as President of the
:00:56. > :00:59.United States. According to the Daily Telegraph,
:01:00. > :01:02.some of the world's richest people are bracing themselves
:01:03. > :01:04.for their financial details to be exposed, after a major offshore
:01:05. > :01:06.company admitted that its computer The Financial Times highlights
:01:07. > :01:11.an estimate that multinationals avoided paying as much
:01:12. > :01:14.as 5.8 billion pounds in UK corporate taxes last year by placing
:01:15. > :01:16.profits in overseas entities, a 50 % increase over previous
:01:17. > :01:18.government forecasts. The Daily Mail says drivers
:01:19. > :01:21.are paying more than a billion pounds a year in fines
:01:22. > :01:23.amid claims they are being The Metro says the mother of a young
:01:24. > :01:29.Briton who died fighting so-called Islamic State,
:01:30. > :01:31.in Syria, has said she is The Daily Express says
:01:32. > :01:39.there's been a breakthrough in the fight against dementia -
:01:40. > :01:41.saying research suggests common blood-thinning drugs have the power
:01:42. > :01:44.to protect against the condition. And The Times highlights
:01:45. > :01:46.new research suggesting Gatwick has overtaken Heathrow as the airport
:01:47. > :01:48.whose expansion would bring the biggest boost
:01:49. > :02:01.to the economy and least damage Let's start with the guardian,
:02:02. > :02:05.Michael Bloomberg saying that Brexit is the worst ever decision. I
:02:06. > :02:13.suppose I can hear Brexiteers say, who cares? I think a lot of people
:02:14. > :02:17.might be thinking that, and this is precisely the sort of comments which
:02:18. > :02:21.have been made by a lot of world leaders, in the lead up to the
:02:22. > :02:26.Brexit referendum, which I would argue probably has changed more
:02:27. > :02:30.people's minds towards Brexit and away from it. People don't like
:02:31. > :02:36.these interventions. So mind your own business? A bit like that.
:02:37. > :02:42.Speaking on behalf of Remainer is, this is the sort of thing we could
:02:43. > :02:46.do without. Some incredibly rich American telling us how stupid we
:02:47. > :02:50.are averaging to leave the European Union. The single stupidest thing
:02:51. > :02:57.any country has ever done, that is quite a claim. Apart from electing
:02:58. > :03:05.Donald Trump, which is a good line, but front-page lead in the guardian?
:03:06. > :03:08.Please. It is just annoying, especially as this is the guy call
:03:09. > :03:15.one of the stupidest thing is a rich man has done is build that ghastly
:03:16. > :03:19.new headquarters in the, rowing a beautiful cityscape of St Paul's. It
:03:20. > :03:22.is hideous, go and have a look, and don't have a listen to him. Is that
:03:23. > :03:30.is the single stupidest thing that any man has ever done! The
:03:31. > :03:37.Telegraph, super-rich hacked in Bermuda data leak, what is that
:03:38. > :03:42.about? This appears to be another story where a company called
:03:43. > :03:47.Appleby, based in Bermuda, with offices in many tax havens, who is
:03:48. > :03:54.warning their client tonight that there has been a leak, and I think a
:03:55. > :03:57.lot of people are in desperate conversations with their lawyers to
:03:58. > :04:04.night trying to understand the damage. How sorry we feel for the!
:04:05. > :04:10.Are they quaking in their boots? The Panama Papers were very embarrassing
:04:11. > :04:18.to some people, including the then Prime Minister David Cameron, but if
:04:19. > :04:25.sunlight is the best disinfectant, maybe it is a good thing. Who knows.
:04:26. > :04:35.Is a data leak a good thing? The sunlight point is a good one, it is
:04:36. > :04:40.all out of the open. But the other side is the Internet security side.
:04:41. > :04:49.How safe is the private data, and how far do these leaks go? Ridgers
:04:50. > :04:53.makes it awkward if it is very rich people are not you and me, but from
:04:54. > :05:02.an Internet security point of view, who else might fall prey to it? It
:05:03. > :05:15.is a question to ask. John, Universal Credit is the front page
:05:16. > :05:19.in the Independent, selling three quarters of the public want the time
:05:20. > :05:31.cup for people have to wait before they get their benefit. The six-week
:05:32. > :05:34.delay built into the system is the focus now of intense pressure on the
:05:35. > :05:37.government, a lot of backbenchers are very worried about it, and this
:05:38. > :05:46.will add to the pressure on the government. The poll is interesting
:05:47. > :05:51.in that people are not persuaded of the benefits of Universal Credit,
:05:52. > :05:57.people wanted to be stopped altogether. What is the reason for
:05:58. > :06:02.this delay? Is it a computer? It is built-in. People are saying they
:06:03. > :06:10.have had to wait months and months. That is where it goes wrong, but it
:06:11. > :06:16.is designed to be your paid per in arrears, so when you first claim can
:06:17. > :06:19.wait six weeks because it is supposed to take into account what
:06:20. > :06:26.your circumstances are over the previous month. See you think it is
:06:27. > :06:29.flawed? I do, and purely for the purposes of saving money. It would
:06:30. > :06:35.cost a huge amount to have payment is made within two weeks, which is
:06:36. > :06:41.the existing... Iain Duncan Smith, the creator, says it is a great
:06:42. > :06:53.reform. He has been speaking out against the delay, actually? Really?
:06:54. > :06:59.It is his delay. They have had seven years to sort this out. We have
:07:00. > :07:04.heard these reports about these conversations going on, arguments,
:07:05. > :07:09.debates within the Treasury, and it was meant to be Iain Duncan Smith's
:07:10. > :07:12.baby, he was passionate about welfare reform, but what I heard was
:07:13. > :07:17.that the money was simply not forthcoming from the Treasury, which
:07:18. > :07:22.ended up in something massively problematic in the way it was
:07:23. > :07:27.finally delivered, and I think that is one of the reasons Iain Duncan
:07:28. > :07:32.Smith cited as the reason for him to leave that post, but it is
:07:33. > :07:35.unacceptable that you have this six-week wait, these are the most
:07:36. > :07:46.vulnerable people you are dealing with, and I cannot see how there
:07:47. > :07:50.cannot be a turnaround needed. It is a warning from the chief executive
:07:51. > :07:54.of Virgin Money on the Financial Times, saying that sexism is
:07:55. > :08:00.prevalent in the financial services industry. I missed this, I was in
:08:01. > :08:06.the House of Commons today but I missed this evidence. It looks
:08:07. > :08:11.interesting, and achieve executive of Virgin Money says that sexism is
:08:12. > :08:15.a real problem in City firms, and quoting someone she is to work with,
:08:16. > :08:21.a senior woman Royal Bank of Scotland who was upset because she
:08:22. > :08:25.was expected to sleep with her boss. It is astonishing that such
:08:26. > :08:31.attitudes are carrying on. To think in the wake of Harvey Weinstein that
:08:32. > :08:38.other industries are now looking to see how they can improve themselves,
:08:39. > :08:41.and this is one example? What became clear after the Harvey Weinstein
:08:42. > :08:47.scandal broke was that it wasn't anything to do with that industry at
:08:48. > :08:51.all, it seems like women found the courage to finally speak out, and it
:08:52. > :08:57.seemed as quite a prevalent thing in almost every industry, we have
:08:58. > :09:01.talking about it, parabili European Parliament is a hotbed of sexism and
:09:02. > :09:05.women have been putting up with this role on time. We were to give
:09:06. > :09:11.sunlight being the best disinfectant, this is one way of
:09:12. > :09:18.dealing with it, the more women who speak out the better. But the
:09:19. > :09:24.message needs to be very clever young girls considering careers in
:09:25. > :09:34.these industries. It is also a place for us to go and find Aaron feet.
:09:35. > :09:42.People have worked hard over the years so that women of my generation
:09:43. > :09:45.can find our feet in the world. And there is this women in finance
:09:46. > :09:52.Charter, the initiative to boost gender diversity in the city of the,
:09:53. > :09:57.but the chief executive Virgin Money was saying a couple of the big
:09:58. > :10:01.investment banks didn't sign up. I think the Bank of England only
:10:02. > :10:09.signed up just a little while ago, and this has been going on for some
:10:10. > :10:12.time. But I worry about these fancy signing up to charter is where.
:10:13. > :10:25.About themselves because they have ticked the box. And also in the F T,
:10:26. > :10:33.China, this Communist Party Congress, and President Xi Jinping,
:10:34. > :10:40.and Carrie Gracie, are China editor was saying he is the new red
:10:41. > :10:43.Emperor, he is the new Chairman Mao. And his name has been written into
:10:44. > :10:51.the Chinese Communist Party constitution, which is a big deal.
:10:52. > :10:58.Mao Zedong is the only other person who has been in his lifetime written
:10:59. > :11:04.into the constitution. I don't know enough about China, but I find that
:11:05. > :11:12.fairly reassuring in the sense that President Xi seems to be a fairly
:11:13. > :11:15.capitalist moderniser. Running, Ennis party! Who is bringing China
:11:16. > :11:26.into 21st-century. We were rather that
:11:27. > :11:32.they were democratic and liberal and respected human rights, especially
:11:33. > :11:33.in Tibet, but the system seems to be working, and
:11:34. > :11:37.it is extraordinary have this huge ComRes party Congress in a country
:11:38. > :11:44.with more billionaires than America, apparently. It is fascinating. One
:11:45. > :11:51.of the things I also find interesting is that it seems like Mr
:11:52. > :11:57.Xi has not pointed any officials young enough to be a guaranteed
:11:58. > :12:02.success as a president, anatomy would sooner he will hold office
:12:03. > :12:09.beyond 2022. He will be around for a long time, one would suspect. Last
:12:10. > :12:11.story, the Daily Telegraph. This is the controversy about Cambridge
:12:12. > :12:17.University replacing some white authors with black writers on
:12:18. > :12:25.English literature courses because of demands from the student union
:12:26. > :12:28.women's officer. It is a fascinating story. I'm sure Cambridge University
:12:29. > :12:34.would say they were responding just to an open letter from the women's
:12:35. > :12:41.officer of the student union, but it seems to me like it is broadly a
:12:42. > :12:44.good thing to have a more diverse curriculum. There are people quoted
:12:45. > :12:49.in the Telegraph article saying that this is a very worrying trend
:12:50. > :12:51.because you can't have the curriculum by some kind of
:12:52. > :13:00.statistical measure of ethnic diversity. But if it is just saying
:13:01. > :13:09.you don't just want the canonical dead white men, then that is a step
:13:10. > :13:20.forward. I think it is absolutely right that important BME authors
:13:21. > :13:26.should be included in curriculum. I think it is important that students
:13:27. > :13:29.don't miss out on reading the other classics. The responsibility to
:13:30. > :13:33.strike the right balance will be on the authorities, and they need to
:13:34. > :13:39.make sure they do a good job. Deduced the English at University? I
:13:40. > :13:45.studied English at Cambridge. So you are very well qualified! What
:13:46. > :13:50.authors warn your curriculum? Hardy, Dickens and Shakespeare! I remember
:13:51. > :13:56.choosing my own authors for a lot of the work that I did. But they'd
:13:57. > :14:00.tends to be white men, I do remember, rather embarrassingly.
:14:01. > :14:04.Well, interesting, good to talk to both of you. That's it from the
:14:05. > :14:05.papers for tonight. Don't forget you can see the front
:14:06. > :14:08.pages of the papers online It's all there for you seven days
:14:09. > :14:13.a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any
:14:14. > :14:24.evening you can watch it For the moment, thank you to both of
:14:25. > :14:43.you, and we will see you again soon. Good night.
:14:44. > :14:44.It's a cloudy evening out there, a spot or two of rain