13/11/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the political

commentator Daisy McAndrew

and the former trade

minister Lord Digby Jones.

Welcome to you both. Thanks for

being with us.

Tomorrow's front pages.

The Daily Mail has a headline about

the Prime Minister's Guildhall

speech where she accused the

Vladimir Putin regime of influencing

the West.

The FT says Theresa May has "bowed

to pressure" from her pro-Europe

colleagues by offering parliament

a full vote on the final Brexit

deal.

The Metro reports

on another Westminster

sexual harassment allegation.

Daisy Goodwin, creator of ITV drama

Victoria claims that a government

official groped her breast

when she was on a visit to No 10.

The Express newspaper's lead

is that the cost of a care home

place is rising at the fastest

rate on record.

The Telegraph also has

the announcement that Parliament

will get a binding vote on the final

EU divorce deal.

And the i talks about the threat

from Russia, highlighted by the

Prime Minister. The Daily Mirror

leads with Richard Ratcliffe, whose

wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is

imprisoned in Iran. He has

reportedly told the Foreign

Secretary to fix the mess he has

caused and bring his wife back to

the UK. The Guardian claims Tory

rebels are not satisfied with the

announcement that they will be given

a vote on the final Brexit deal.

Let's kick off. We're going to start

with claims on the front pages of

quite a few of the papers. This is

Daisy Goodwin, the TV writer who

created the kit, Victoria, saying

she was groped at number ten Downing

St.

On the front of many papers. She

wrote it in the radio Times but the

papers have got hold of it. She's

alleging that she was summoned to a

meeting at Downing Street not by a

politician but by an aide who worked

there to discuss a broadcasting idea

that they had had and while they

were in this private meeting, he put

his feet up on her chair, told how

great she looked and as they left,

groped her breast. C has written

here and said that she was firstly

shocked, but felt fully able to deal

with it and said, what do you think

you're doing, I think you did

something inappropriate, and stormed

out. She writes quite wittily about

it but she says it didn't occur to

her to report it and she didn't feel

that she'd been violated or anything

like that but she thought

afterwards, should I have said

something, because it wasn't

acceptable. Just because it didn't

make her burst into tears and be

very upset, is the kind of thing

that shouldn't be allowed to be

gotten away with and I think she has

a good point. Whether this chap

remains anonymous after this. We

know that everybody working in

Westminster is going to be digging

around trying to work out who it is.

I wouldn't be surprised if everyone

doesn't know who it is now.

It is

the latest saga in the so-called

Pestminster scandal.

It is an

allegation, it may be right or

wrong, we should make that clear.

But on the other hand, I think this

is right, people will say it was

ages ago, but the fact that she had

the confidence to think that this

man was despicable, she could get

away and get on with her life: but

there will be many young females in

the parliamentary environment who

won't have the confidence and

strength to walk away. If she's

doing it to ruin a career, that's

wrong, but if she's doing it to make

sure that a female who can't cope is

protected them I think that's spot

on. I like the quote, she says she

has previously met the official at a

dinner and was struck by the

atmosphere of testosterone, socks

and lust. I assume she means the

colour of there!

One thing she says

that shocked is that he was younger

than her. She had been used to

dealing with a generational

difference, groping from older men,

but she was struck by the fact that

this man was younger.

Take it or

leave it, a vote on the Brexit deal,

the Brexit secretary giving MPs the

final say. Is this a concession by

the government?

It's in quite a few

newspapers tonight. Is what I think

they are trying to do, they are

trying to do two things. Firstly to

say to the heart Tory Brexiteers,

look, we're going to engineer this

into a position where the choice

will be, that the deal we've done,

vote yes or no but if you vote no,

we are coming out with a hard

Brexit. There would be no deal and

we will rely on WTO, we won't pay

the money and we will come out.

So-called cliff edge.

On the other

hand, if you vote yes, you will have

the deal, some kind of Single Market

affiliation and there will be no

cliff edge, a transition. That is

the characteristic. Where is good, I

think it's politically trying to

sort out the hard Brexiteers. There

we are, we've looked after what you

want, and sorting out parliament who

say that we should have the last

say. Where I think it will unravel,

they don't have the political

influence, the government, to see it

through. A lot of members in both

Houses of Parliament will try and

see it down.

The Guardian front page

is that for the rebels are not

convinced by the Brexit U-turn, if

it has been one.

It depends on what

rebels you are talking about. If you

talk about the Remainer rebels,

there's another way to look at this

vote. Those who don't want Brexit to

happen could do the ultimate suicide

vote, vote it down and call a

general election, a vote of

no-confidence. Is basically

destroying their own government.

There is a possibility of that.

That's interesting because how many

people would vote to break down the

deal but then vote to have

confidence in the government because

Jeremy Corbyn is worse? Secondly I

think it is prime territory, which

would be good for the government,

for at last some centre-left people

to say actually we aren't Corbyn, we

are an alternative to your moderate

centrist person.

The Daily Express,

I know this is music to your ears.

Booming Britain's economy.

I'm

grateful that you are highlighting

this because what really annoys me

is when news coverage of all sorts,

and the BBC but lots of others, they

tend to start with the words, when

it is good economic news... In the

Financial Times it isn't covered at

all. But in other places it is"

despite Brexit". It says that the

economy is surging. I think that is

an exaggeration.

It is a bit. Blue

but the economy is being robust.

There are some default line. I know

that the biggest one is the

productivity of the nation which is

so low that you can't afford big pay

rises in the public sector, you

can't afford to do the things to be

globally competitive that you need

in a post Brexit environment if you

don't get more bang for your buck

and invest.

Something that the

productivity argument is a red

herring because the way we measure

it is outdated.

That's another

argument.

At least ours is true,

compared to France.

The Daily Mirror

talking about what Theresa May was

talking about in her Guildhall

speech, a strong attack on Russia

and by the mere Putin.

I know we

want to get away from Brexit but you

can't help but think that by turning

the gun is on Russia rather than the

chaos in her own government and the

Commons, it's handy -- Russia and

Vladimir Putin. It is true, Putin

has been running a cyber war on all

Western democracies for a long time

and there have been some appalling

examples. After the terror attack on

Borough Market it has been confirmed

that the photograph of a Muslim

woman which was tweeted over and

over saying, look at this woman

walking past dead bodies, she

doesn't care, was done by Russia and

was an abomination of the truth.

Call me a cynic but when I read

this, I'm glad the Prime Minister

called it out, I'm pleased, but what

can she do about it? Putin will be

sitting there going, oh, dear!

What

will the Iranian is be doing

because, your mess, you fix it,

Boris, the message from the Daily

Mirror. The continuing row over

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and how

the government and Boris Johnson

have handled it. Her husband Richard

Ratcliffe telling him, according to

the Daily Mirror, to fix the gas

that may double the prison term.

Boris Johnson has made a gaffe here,

there is no way of looking at it but

this is slightly unfair of the Daily

Mirror. I spoke to Richard Ratcliffe

and he isn't calling for Boris's

head because he knows it wouldn't be

in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's best

interests.

They are having a meeting

this week.

This is politicising the

issue. What he said in the meeting

was appalling and it has resulted in

this treatment. There are so many

diplomatic issues, things going on

that you don't know about.

When I

was a minister, one thing I learned

in short order, it's a bit like

property developers who always say

that they can make money, but you

can in the rising market but the

falling market is when the skill

comes in. Ministers in big

responsible posts like the Foreign

Secretary, and Prime Minister. You

judge them on how they deal with

crises, not the good times. I think

that Boris is caught up short here.

Can he cope with the big crises?

Boris's talents, of which there are

many, are Bobby not suited to the

stuff that goes on

behind-the-scenes, that the three of

us will never know -- are probably

not suited. That doesn't mean he has

suddenly got six heads, but he's not

suited for the job.

The Financial

Times, this awful earthquake,

hundreds dead and thousands may be

injured on the border of Iran and

Iraq.

Appalling story and telling

that it is on the front page of only

the Financial Times and not any

others. I understand the pressures,

foreign stories, no matter how

awful, rarely get on the front page.

But I think it is a sorry state,

with this death toll.

From a

financial point of view, these

isolated states, these totalitarian

states, a lot of them are in

earthquake zones. They can from a

financial point of view say, they

can look after themselves but in

terms of expertise and aid, not

financial aid, expertise and

handling it, being a member of Ennis

National community -- of an

international community really

helps. For the people to whom this

has happened, it is so bad that it

has happened in a country that has

cut itself off. They have a much

better chance of surviving if the

expertise and dealing with this is

open to them.

The last story, I

think we've got time for the

Guardian, Facebook personality types

revealed by one like.

Terrifying but

not unexpected, we all know that the

most valuable commodity in the world

now isn't gold or oil, it is data

and Facebook has as much data as

anyone.

Data about us.

It's a story

saying that online advertising

campaigns created by academics have

targeted people on psychological

traits generated by a single like,

showing the effects of mass

psychological persuasion. Similar in

politics. We talk about living in a

silo on social media and how it

affects everything you believe in.

On this night of news, that on the

front page of the Guardian, and the

business section of the Times, a

headline about Google is facing an

attack on the abusive dominance they

have. Years ago when we were in

short trousers it used to be the big

multinational, the big oil companies

and manufacturers and how they

bossed nations. Now it is three or

four of these enormously socially

influential businesses and none of

them pay enough tax.

This is

Facebook being powerful but it is

one reason why Putin is using it.

They don't pay tax because...

We

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Thank you, Daisy McAndrew

and Lord Digby Jones.

Goodbye.