20/11/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers

will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Jim Waterson,

political editor at BuzzFeed,

and Larisa Brown,

defence editor at the Daily Mail.

Tomorrow's front pages...

starting with Brexit...

Brexit really means

Brexit, says the Metro.

They are quoting EU

negotiator Michel Barnier

on their front page.

The FT leads with German

Chancellor Merkel's vow

to stand firm despite the collapse

of her coalition talks.

The Express

reports on a so-called breakthrough

in the treatment of high blood

pressure.

The i claims that the Prime Minister

will offer £40 billion

for the Brexit divorce bill

in the hope of progressing talks.

The Telegraph suggests that tests

for cancer could be offered

in supermarket car parks in order

to reach people who might avoid

going to the doctor.

The Times claims Tory Brexiters are

telling the Prime Minister to take

advantage of Chancellor Merkel's

domestic problems and reduce

the amount offered in

a divorce bill.

The Guardian leads with the inquiry

into the spending of the Vote Leave

campaign and whether it

broke finance rules

during the referendum campaign.

The Daily Mirror's front-page leads

on Great British Bake Off Judge Paul

Collingwood's marriage break-up. --

Pol... Paul Collingwood.

Let's start with the Brexit tots and

the divorce Bill.

Theresa May member of the Cabinet to

discuss tactics on Brexit ahead of

the European Council meeting in

December. It was widely anticipated

she was going to discuss the crucial

issue of the divorce Bill.

Yesterday, we were told it would be

40 billion and that is what the i is

reporting this evening. Critchley,

she has been given the green light

by Michael Gove on Boris Johnson,

who are very sceptical. It looks

like she will increase the UK offer.

But it is going to come on the

condition that there will be some

headway with the EU and they will

actually progressive trade talks and

authority over Britain.

Clearly

desperately hoping to get a bit of a

breakthrough at the summit in

December, whether EU leaders have to

decide whether they are prepared to

begin talking about trade.

It is now

one ever. You have no option. They

have to push ahead in the next stage

of the docks by the start of next

year rows with as much as a deal

being struck by the time we get out

of the EU. So this is not so much

that Britain has a chance to

negotiate, we have to start offering

what the EU is willing to take.

Theresa May talked about 20 billion

and now seems 40 billion is a thing

that will get the sign. The

interesting thing is that Boris and

golf has said, we see the situation

as it is, we're willing to push

ahead. Right project, move onto the

next stage because otherwise the

Brexit deal will be a disaster.

They

have to hope it works, because of

the torment and CNET is enough

progress on a few other things, they

will have thrown away the best

negotiating card.

A lot of

Brexiteers have come out in light of

this and are furious that we would

increase our divorce Bill. They say

that we should not have to cough up

much of it.

This money has to come

from somewhere. 40 billion, if you

sign that offers an ongoing cost and

it ends up in the Treasury book on

the finances is a bit more

competition and initially think, but

this is money that could be spent on

something. It could be spent on

domestic priorities and the NHS and

hospitals. There is enormous

pressure for Robert -- public

spending. Selling this to the public

will be quite hard, that we are

still being monitored EU, that will

not go down well. Hamida is under a

lot of pressure on Wednesday to

cough up cash for infrastructure to

the NHS and defence. -- Hammond.

Whilst also sorting out the deficit.

We have a huge debt crisis at the

moment. National debt is something

like 1.8 jillion pounds. --

trillion.

A Chancellor is going to

be saying, well, there's not much

money to spend, we have to keep a

tight on public spending, one

suspects there could be more of this

row to go.

Let's have a look at the Metro.

Michel Barnier, speaking earlier,

saying that Brexit really means

Brexit.

The telling thing for this

is that he has spoken in English. He

is normally quite... Your whiskers

answers at press conferences in

French and is always reluctant to

engage in English back and forth

with John Oster press conferences.

-- he always answers. He has

delivered this foreign English

reading audience and skier the

average reader and make them realise

the situation's gravity. Two big EU

agencies based in London, an auction

process like the Eurovision Song

Contest, the medicines agency will

go to Amsterdam after the vote and

the bank agency will go to Paris.

This is the real effect of Brexit

and we are already seen it at home.

The government said it wants to

promote global Britain after Brexit.

But those agencies moving is not a

great diplomatic sign. Michelle

Bachelet is wanting to play hardball

and his comments are showing us that

things will not be easy after we

decide what this divorce is going to

be.

He was talking about a trade

deal and said that the dome happened

so long as Britain stays very close

to the EU on a lot of those

regulations on food standards and

social roles and environmental

protections and so on, which a lot

of the Brexiteers want to...

That

seems to my mind to be increasingly

the way things are going. We will

have a technical Brexit and

definitely come out of the year but

the reality for a terms of their

relationship with other countries

and how they work in terms of

regulations is going to stay pretty

similar. We're just going to copy

and paste everything across and

technically we will be out but in

reality we will be pretty much on a

lot of the same regulations.

Of

course, all this is complicated by

the situation in Germany. A lot of

the newspapers picking up on Angela

Merkel's difficulties in forming a

coalition.

The Times talking about, Theresa May

told to exploit the metal prices and

exploit the Brexit Bill.

Germany in

a great time political turmoil and

that, why don't the UK use this

opportunity and say, oh, actually,

we should not be giving billions and

try and force the EU's and. Germany

and France are the two countries

that have been quite tough in this

process. We are told other countries

are quite willing to let the talks

progress onto trade. By taking

advantage of this, it is hoped that

the UK can move forward without

putting up too much cash.

It is

telling that this is the same way

that no-one expected Theresa May's

election gamble to feel so

dramatically. Merkel was supposed to

easily win her fourth term in office

in Germany. The opposition said they

would not go into another grand

coalition, will have attempts to

form coalitions with other parties

has failed, it seems. That is not

how German politics works. We have

had Brexit there was not supposed to

happen, Donald Trump's victory, was

not supposed to happen. Things that

are not supposed to happen in

politics keep happening.

Although

the Times are quoting some of the

ardent Brexiteers saying, well, if

the E is weakened by Merkel's

plight, we could reduce the Brexit

Bill, it might make things more

contributed in terms of getting

progress.

The argument is it could

prolong the Brexit talks. How can

they discuss it with Germany doesn't

have a functioning government? It is

worrying because they need at least

a sort of government to represent

Germany on the table.

Several of the

other papers have variations of

those very telling pictures of

Angela Merkel. Another one on the

front page of the Daily Telegraph.

The difficulties and the anguish

etched on Angela Merkel's says.

As

we said, this was not supposed to

happen. When we think about the

Brexit Bill, we think of it has one

set of negotiations that when it is

concluded with toxin brussels, we

have a deal. This needs to be signed

off by other nations. It is not as

simple as on the eve of Brexit, we

sign a bit of paper a bit like

ending a war of something. This is a

lot more complicated and needs to be

signed off by all the Parliaments.

Merkel being in an unstable position

is not good for that.

The caption

says Merkel faces battle for

survival. She said today she would

not resign and that she would rather

have another election than try and

form a minority government. We will

see what happens.

But that could

take months, of course.

Another story on the Telegraph...

Cancer tests at supermarkets.

This

is the idea that Britain actually

isn't that great at long-term cancer

survival rates. One of the problems

is getting people tested, getting

them to go to the GP and checked out

at hospital. Maybe, if you start

doing the tests in as of market car

park will people do their weekly

shop, you could pick things up early

and treat them and get better

survival rates. Make sure people can

live slightly longer and happier

lives. There was a telling stat

there which is -- statistic in the

other the UK isn't the worst -- is

the one of the worst countries in

terms of these rates.

And you might

get the more quickly than you can at

most GPs!

People are frustrated that

they try and get an appointment and

can't actually get one. The chief

Executive of NHS England is also

confirming plans that there will be

home testing for bowel cancer

screening. A lot of people don't

even want to leave the house to deal

with these issues and the idea that

you can do this at home would be

very welcome for a lot of people.

The Telegraph has another story

about the Eurotunnel changing its

name to create what it calls a more

Anglo-Saxon identity.

Goodbye

Eurotunnel plc, hello... I have lost

the name! It is in tiny text on the

Telegraph front page. It is

apparently a more Anglo-Saxon name.

Getlink four. It is a bit of a silly

story but you will see more of this,

corporate businesses trying to work

out their identity after Brexit.

How

many people will use the term

Getlink instead of the Eurotunnel?

We should also just look at one

another story express has on its

second page.

The Queen presenting a rare gong

develop before a party at the

castle. -- to Philip. Celebrating 70

years of marriage. Really is an

extraordinary achievement.

Very long

time.

We don't see Prince Philip

burial -- very often any more. Quite

a nice picture of them all out on a

trip.

I like the idea of the Queen

giving her personal honour to him

two 70 years of marriage, which is a

bit of a strange relationship.

Congratulations for putting up with

me for 70 years, have a nice little

metal, darling.

Yes, here you are

darling, the Knight grand Cross of

the Royal Victoria in order for

services to the sovereign.

How has

he gone 70 years without getting

this so far? What is wrong with 60?

Cash she been dangling this in front

of him, waiting until he hit his 90s

to get it? Why did he have to wait

so long?

You wonder if that is what

usually open to get as they

celebrate their 70 years together.

Exactly.

Quite an achievement when

you consider especially so much of

the time spent here in the public

eye, even though as you said Prince

Philip taking a slight back seat now

that he has stood down from his

formal public duties.

I like the

fact that he took out his nephews,

which conjures up the idea of

smokers are clear. When you're 96,

his nephew Maximillian is 84. Less a

sort of energetic family reunion,

Maura Gentle carry right through

Windsor Park by the looks of things.

-- carriage ride.

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