09/11/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Kate Proctor,

political correspondent

at the London Evening Standard

and the broadcaster John Stapleton.

The Daily Express says that EU

membership is costing the UK nearly

£1 billion a month -

almost treble the amount quoted

by the leave campaign.

The Metro has more on the removal of

Kevin Spacey from an upcoming film -

as the controversy continues

over his alleged sexual misconduct.

Priti Patel's replacement

Penny Mourdant's leads on The FT-

which has according to the fuelled

pressure on Theresa May to carry out

a big cabinet reshuffle.

The Telegraph reports

that the Prime Minister has told

pro-European Tory rebels

that she will not "tolerate" any

attempts to undermine Brexit -

as the Government tables

Brexit is also the lead for The I -

which talks about Brexiteers

acceptance for a bigger divorce

settlement and Downing Street's

worry about voter backlash.

The Guardian has more on Brexit -

but also features a picture

of Donald Trump and the Chinese

President Xi Jinping

on his tour of Asia.

Kevin Spacey's career is in tatters

according to the Times

following the director

Ridley Scott's decision to erase him

for his new film only six

weeks before its release.

Let's start with Kate, talk to us

about the Financial Times. Penny

Mordaunt is on the front page as she

is on a lot of the papers. As the

replacement for Priti Patel after a

very difficult week for the Prime

Minister.

It has been a torrid

couple of weeks for Theresa May.

A

good week for a political journalist

like yourself!

It has been a busy

time for recess. Penny Mordaunt has

come in and she is supposed to be a

breath of fresh air. New blood

coming into the cabinet. By all

accounts she is well liked by her

colleagues. She was working as a

disability is minister beforehand.

Now she takes the role as

International Development Secretary.

I think it will be really

well-suited to her. I think there

was a little bit of disappointment

that there was not a wider

reshuffle. There is concern about

Boris Johnson still and we still

have some of those allegations from

the sexual harassment.

We will talk

about Boris Johnson in a minute. But

John, the express has a picture of

Penny Mordaunt in her swimsuit. That

is the picture they have chosen to

use, what do you make of that?

A lot

of this is why not? She went like

this, but she is probably better

remembered for her appearance on

Splash than anything in politics

which is probably unfair but true.

It was for charity which shows her

as a good egg to raise money for a

good cause. Why not I suppose? But

the express being the express are

using it as an excuse to run a

headline making a splash penny and

slash foreign aid. Something else

they are very keen on and they can

advocate on now she is in the job

but I doubt very much it will. What

she does is even up the balance of

Brexiteers and remain voters and

also keeps up the female camp to the

Cabinet.

The swimming costume is

unfortunate because of this

international role where she will be

visiting countries all over the

world where modest dress is more

appropriate. I'm sure it is very

unfortunate and she would not think

hurts in days would end up on the

front page.

We mentioned Boris

Johnson, the other Cabinet minister

who has been in some trouble over

the last few stays. The Mirror say,

sack him, a minister on the brink.

Eating she is still on the brink?

Yes. There are such anger about his

comments and I speak to her husband

all the time and they are very

concerned. He's misspeaking is very

serious. The conditions that she is

being held in our horrific. He did

he did issue a qualified apology.

He

needs to explain those remarks at

the very least. When he said she was

their training journalists which

have now been seized on by

journalists in Iran as guilty. He

needs to explain that remark. His

so-called apology was so

half-hearted. He said I appreciate I

could have been clearer. It was

abundantly clear what he said, she

said she said was their training

journalists.

He did not say she was

their training journalists, but he

did say she was training...

But

those remarks were taken out of

context... What context?

Teasing he

can survive this? Busy too big for

Theresa May to fire?

She is still

wedded to the idea that Boris is a

figurehead of books that and needs

him because he has that power to

draw people to Brexit and keep

people thinking that it will be OK.

-- figurehead of Brexit. Right now

she thinks he is in asset.

And how

many sackings can she afford right

now?

We now have the Telegraph, I

suppose this goes to how strong she

is at the moment, or how weak is

she? The word in Brussels is that

she is being viewed as increasingly

weakened...

This is a move by the

Government to say we will not

tolerate any backsliding here. We

have set a date and time believing

and that is it. She does not want

anyone to create amendments to the

withdrawal bill, she does not want

anyone using that to slow the

process. She is saying, we want to

emerge from this is a strong, united

Government and we don't want any

backsliding is.

She is trying to

assert her authority in a difficult

time. Even if this amendment goes

through and we have the Brexit date

put into law. We still have to

content with the fact of deadlock in

Brussels. We're not hearing any more

positive noises from there.

On that,

also in the terror group, Irish

border demands threaten trade talks.

It is pressure now from another

country, Ireland is saying they want

to know what is happening between

the border. They want clarity on

that before Britain continues with

the talks. We have the EU wanting to

talk about the divorce Bill, you

have Ireland wanting to talk about

the border, and right now we are

still in a position of stalemate. It

is another headache for the Prime

Minister.

Still on Brexit... It is

hard to get away from it!

What would

you do without a?!

The express is

talking about our true Brexit bill.

This is done by a high-flying city

analyst who says the true cost of

Brexit per year is 1980 million.

Don't forget of course

a week...

A

week, sorry. He says the actual cost

is 980 million. I suspect that

figure will be challenged. To arrive

at that figure he is thrown in

everything but the kitchen sink. He

has talked about adding the 12

billion a year lost to the Exchequer

of legal tax avoidance which would

wouldn't happen if we were in the

EU. He talks about the cost of

migrants, a lot of people will

challenge this, once the tax they

have paid from the benefits, that is

£30 billion a year for migrants.

He's even throwing in the 2 billion

that tax wastage of the EU foreign

aid budget. Many people argue that

many of those things should not be

in there anyway and what about the

rebate we get?

On to the Metro,

Kevin Spacey was once a Hollywood

icon, and now seems to be a pariah.

He is cut out of this film only six

weeks away from release. He has been

really edited and seminars brought

into play his part.

I do not have

much sympathy for Kevin Spacey. The

allegations are ongoing and he is

being investigated. It this phone

company had the means to write him

out then you should do. How can you

have a lead character with all those

allegations hanging over them? That

it's just the consequences of what

has happened. I think they have made

the right decision.

It is probably a

financial decision as well as a

moral decision arguably because they

do not want it on to lose money.

I

do not want to sound too

controversial, I agree with you. But

on the other hand we still had Woody

Allen making films and Roman

Polanski is barred from America but

he still makes films that people

watch. You wonder...

Would you

boycott Harvey Weinstein films?

I

probably would. I have spoken to

other people my age who are unhappy

with what has happened and it will

factor into decision-making about

going to the cinema. They will not

see a film where someone has been

accused of sexual harassment.

Cinemagoers will make their views

known and you may see impact on

revenue.

A quick word on the

Financial Times, they have got

Prevent. The Government's

anti-radicalisation policy.

This is

a interesting story. New figures

show that 7600 referrals were

made...

One boy was nine years old.

A lot of these referrals are by

people in the teaching profession

and not the police. They are

spotting signs of youngsters who are

perhaps showing tendencies. You will

also have to point out that this is

not just people sympathising with

so-called Islamic State, but also

neo-Nazis as well. What they are

actually doing... They can give you

too much detail.

Also in the

Financial Times, diesel getting a

tax rate in the budget?

The budget

coming up on this 22nd of November.

Philip Hammond has got a big

decision to make on how he goes

forward with diesel cars. And the

idea is that there might be higher

taxes. That might be a higher rate

tax or a different levy altogether.

Or it might be a tax on

point-of-sale, those are all his

considerations for the budget which

will no doubt interviews diesel car

owners even more!

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