24/10/2017 The Papers

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

With me is Dia Chakravarty, Brexit Editor at the Telegraph,

and John Rentoul, political columnist at the Independent.

Let's show you tomorrow's front pages, starting with the guardian,

Michael Bloomberg saying that Brexit is the silliest thing a country has

ever done, apart from electing Donald Trump as President of the

United States. According to the Daily Telegraph,

some of the world's richest people are bracing themselves

for their financial details to be exposed, after a major offshore

company admitted that its computer The Financial Times highlights

an estimate that multinationals avoided paying as much

as 5.8 billion pounds in UK corporate taxes last year by placing

profits in overseas entities, a 50 % increase over previous

government forecasts. The Daily Mail says drivers

are paying more than a billion pounds a year in fines

amid claims they are being The Metro says the mother of a young

Briton who died fighting so-called Islamic State,

in Syria, has said she is The Daily Express says

there's been a breakthrough in the fight against dementia -

saying research suggests common blood-thinning drugs have the power

to protect against the condition. And The Times highlights

new research suggesting Gatwick has overtaken Heathrow as the airport

whose expansion would bring the biggest boost

to the economy and least damage Let's start with the guardian,

Michael Bloomberg saying that Brexit is the worst ever decision. I

suppose I can hear Brexiteers say, who cares? I think a lot of people

might be thinking that, and this is precisely the sort of comments which

have been made by a lot of world leaders, in the lead up to the

Brexit referendum, which I would argue probably has changed more

people's minds towards Brexit and away from it. People don't like

these interventions. So mind your own business? A bit like that.

Speaking on behalf of Remainer is, this is the sort of thing we could

do without. Some incredibly rich American telling us how stupid we

are averaging to leave the European Union. The single stupidest thing

any country has ever done, that is quite a claim. Apart from electing

Donald Trump, which is a good line, but front-page lead in the guardian?

Please. It is just annoying, especially as this is the guy call

one of the stupidest thing is a rich man has done is build that ghastly

new headquarters in the, rowing a beautiful cityscape of St Paul's. It

is hideous, go and have a look, and don't have a listen to him. Is that

is the single stupidest thing that any man has ever done! The

Telegraph, super-rich hacked in Bermuda data leak, what is that

about? This appears to be another story where a company called

Appleby, based in Bermuda, with offices in many tax havens, who is

warning their client tonight that there has been a leak, and I think a

lot of people are in desperate conversations with their lawyers to

night trying to understand the damage. How sorry we feel for the!

Are they quaking in their boots? The Panama Papers were very embarrassing

to some people, including the then Prime Minister David Cameron, but if

sunlight is the best disinfectant, maybe it is a good thing. Who knows.

Is a data leak a good thing? The sunlight point is a good one, it is

all out of the open. But the other side is the Internet security side.

How safe is the private data, and how far do these leaks go? Ridgers

makes it awkward if it is very rich people are not you and me, but from

an Internet security point of view, who else might fall prey to it? It

is a question to ask. John, Universal Credit is the front page

in the Independent, selling three quarters of the public want the time

cup for people have to wait before they get their benefit. The six-week

delay built into the system is the focus now of intense pressure on the

government, a lot of backbenchers are very worried about it, and this

will add to the pressure on the government. The poll is interesting

in that people are not persuaded of the benefits of Universal Credit,

people wanted to be stopped altogether. What is the reason for

this delay? Is it a computer? It is built-in. People are saying they

have had to wait months and months. That is where it goes wrong, but it

is designed to be your paid per in arrears, so when you first claim can

wait six weeks because it is supposed to take into account what

your circumstances are over the previous month. See you think it is

flawed? I do, and purely for the purposes of saving money. It would

cost a huge amount to have payment is made within two weeks, which is

the existing... Iain Duncan Smith, the creator, says it is a great

reform. He has been speaking out against the delay, actually? Really?

It is his delay. They have had seven years to sort this out. We have

heard these reports about these conversations going on, arguments,

debates within the Treasury, and it was meant to be Iain Duncan Smith's

baby, he was passionate about welfare reform, but what I heard was

that the money was simply not forthcoming from the Treasury, which

ended up in something massively problematic in the way it was

finally delivered, and I think that is one of the reasons Iain Duncan

Smith cited as the reason for him to leave that post, but it is

unacceptable that you have this six-week wait, these are the most

vulnerable people you are dealing with, and I cannot see how there

cannot be a turnaround needed. It is a warning from the chief executive

of Virgin Money on the Financial Times, saying that sexism is

prevalent in the financial services industry. I missed this, I was in

the House of Commons today but I missed this evidence. It looks

interesting, and achieve executive of Virgin Money says that sexism is

a real problem in City firms, and quoting someone she is to work with,

a senior woman Royal Bank of Scotland who was upset because she

was expected to sleep with her boss. It is astonishing that such

attitudes are carrying on. To think in the wake of Harvey Weinstein that

other industries are now looking to see how they can improve themselves,

and this is one example? What became clear after the Harvey Weinstein

scandal broke was that it wasn't anything to do with that industry at

all, it seems like women found the courage to finally speak out, and it

seemed as quite a prevalent thing in almost every industry, we have

talking about it, parabili European Parliament is a hotbed of sexism and

women have been putting up with this role on time. We were to give

sunlight being the best disinfectant, this is one way of

dealing with it, the more women who speak out the better. But the

message needs to be very clever young girls considering careers in

these industries. It is also a place for us to go and find Aaron feet.

People have worked hard over the years so that women of my generation

can find our feet in the world. And there is this women in finance

Charter, the initiative to boost gender diversity in the city of the,

but the chief executive Virgin Money was saying a couple of the big

investment banks didn't sign up. I think the Bank of England only

signed up just a little while ago, and this has been going on for some

time. But I worry about these fancy signing up to charter is where.

About themselves because they have ticked the box. And also in the F T,

China, this Communist Party Congress, and President Xi Jinping,

and Carrie Gracie, are China editor was saying he is the new red

Emperor, he is the new Chairman Mao. And his name has been written into

the Chinese Communist Party constitution, which is a big deal.

Mao Zedong is the only other person who has been in his lifetime written

into the constitution. I don't know enough about China, but I find that

fairly reassuring in the sense that President Xi seems to be a fairly

capitalist moderniser. Running, Ennis party! Who is bringing China

into 21st-century. We were rather that

they were democratic and liberal and respected human rights, especially

in Tibet, but the system seems to be working, and

it is extraordinary have this huge ComRes party Congress in a country

with more billionaires than America, apparently. It is fascinating. One

of the things I also find interesting is that it seems like Mr

Xi has not pointed any officials young enough to be a guaranteed

success as a president, anatomy would sooner he will hold office

beyond 2022. He will be around for a long time, one would suspect. Last

story, the Daily Telegraph. This is the controversy about Cambridge

University replacing some white authors with black writers on

English literature courses because of demands from the student union

women's officer. It is a fascinating story. I'm sure Cambridge University

would say they were responding just to an open letter from the women's

officer of the student union, but it seems to me like it is broadly a

good thing to have a more diverse curriculum. There are people quoted

in the Telegraph article saying that this is a very worrying trend

because you can't have the curriculum by some kind of

statistical measure of ethnic diversity. But if it is just saying

you don't just want the canonical dead white men, then that is a step

forward. I think it is absolutely right that important BME authors

should be included in curriculum. I think it is important that students

don't miss out on reading the other classics. The responsibility to

strike the right balance will be on the authorities, and they need to

make sure they do a good job. Deduced the English at University? I

studied English at Cambridge. So you are very well qualified! What

authors warn your curriculum? Hardy, Dickens and Shakespeare! I remember

choosing my own authors for a lot of the work that I did. But they'd

tends to be white men, I do remember, rather embarrassingly.

Well, interesting, good to talk to both of you. That's it from the

papers for tonight. Don't forget you can see the front

pages of the papers online It's all there for you seven days

a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any

evening you can watch it For the moment, thank you to both of

you, and we will see you again soon. Good night.

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