26/11/2017 The Papers

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stories of MR James.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

They have no better offers, so here

they are.

The Political Commentator,

Jane Merrick,

and the Deputy Head of Sport

at The Sun, Martin Lipton.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting

with the I picks up on a story

about a the Irish border which,

the paper claims, could derail

Brexit plans.

Also on Brexit, the Financial Times

reports on two large pharmaceutical

investments into the UK,

providing a boost to Theresa May's

vision for post-Brexit Britain.

The Metro reports on the story

of a stolen car killing five people,

including two schoolboys.

The Telegraph claims that a security

review will recommend prioritising

investment in cyber security, rather

than the traditional Armed Forces.

The Times runs with an investigation

into children that are being used

by criminal gangs as drugs runners.

The Guardian leads with a report

that patients' lives are being put

at risk as inexperienced doctors

are being left to run A&E units.

The Mirror reports on claims that

Russian cyber units are spreading

false information about flu jabs

in the UK.

And the Express claims that Britain

should brace for a month of icy

weather in the run-up to Christmas.

So let's begin.

Something not on the list but on the

front of the FT. A Saudi Prince

pledges to root out Islamic Islamism

in the world.

pledges to root out Islamic Islamism

in the world.

Everybody would love the world to be

rid of Islamic terrorism. He wants

Saudi Arabia to be a much more

moderate state. He's also being

quite assertive in the region. This

is obviously quite disconcerting if

you are thinking about peace in the

region, and obviously it is a threat

to Iran. But he is saying that we

need to rid the world of Islamist

terrorism but obviously it doesn't

bode well for the stability between

Iran and all their states nearby.

Talking about a pretty big military

alliance.

Yes, here we are the

Sunni-Shia split was has been in

Islam for hundreds of years, once

again ruing its head. Saudi Arabia

is a Sunni state and it is the Sunni

states which include Iraq, Syria

lobe yob and Yemen as a bloc here to

the root out Islamic terrorism which

happens to be pointed at Iran and ka

too, the founding places of this.

And there have been very good

reasons for that to be stated but I

think it reinforces this schism

within the Islamic world,

particularly the powerful states

within that part of the Middle East

and it'll be interesting to see what

happens. Clearly there has been this

change within Saudi Arabia in the

last month or two in which there's

been a very aggressive

anti-corruption or nominal, at

least, anti-corruption effort being

put in by the Royal Family there.

We'll come back to the FT in a

minute. Look at the I. A rift with

you do Lynne puts the Brexit deal in

danger. The EU 27 saying - we have

to sort the border out first and

Liam Fox now saying - Martin, no,

we'll sort the trade deal out first

and worry about the border.

The

The

problem is everyone is arguing their

particular corners and no-one is

appearing to join up the argument.

So you have the issue about the hard

border between the republic of

#50ir8d and Northern Ireland, when

we fall out of the EU, and the

various...

It could be an ordinarily

departure if we get our skates on.

We are talking about hard Brexit and

the we are going to do it, it is not

going to be that orderly. It is

going to happen, some what may. The

issues are so vast, you do wonder

how we ended up with a deadline

which is making everything more of

concern. If we are going to leave

the EU, the decision of the 52% that

voted, maybe we should have been

more sensible about how we got to

that he end game. The issue for

Ireland, the DUP are keeping

Government in Government and whilst

the DUP were a very pro-Brexit

party, they also can't afford to see

the economy of Northern Ireland

undermined totally. Therein lies the

danger.

This is really serious for

Theresa May. Actually she must be

winds again wondering why she held

an election, if she hadn't and lost

her majority she wouldn't have the

DUP in this game and it would be

much more simple but obviously

Ireland are upping the ante because

they have their own possible general

election looming. Are we seriously

looking at stability in Ireland,

with the UK, in danger because of

Brexit? That's what is at stake

here. There's no way that the

deadline is going to be met by

mid-December for this to be sorted

out.

Back to the FT.

Big pharmaceutical groups to provide

a boost for May's post-Brexit

vision.

Yes, she needs something

more positive. What is interesting,

in the Budget last week, Philip

Hammond was talking about

post-Brexit UK and what the UK can

get from where its progress can be.

He was talking about driverless

cards and technology and it seems

like science and technology is their

kind of answer as to how Britain

moves forward outside the etch uchl.

So this is good news if you hoped

for this post-Brexit vision

pharmaceutical companies will invest

£1 billion, which could bring 17,500

high street jobs, which is really,

you can be really positive about

this, because this is where Britain

does do well in science and things

like that.

But a lot of scientists

were saying that we've got to have

this cross EU community network,

free movement of travel, movement of

personnel, because a lot of research

is not done in just one country.

No,

a lot of research is over a number

of countries, they come together.

There's also - you know people from

all over Europe who come to work,

who are scientists come to work in

the UK, and if they're feeling

uncomfortable they may want to go

back to wherever they originate

from. We've got to find a way of

changing the economy. Quite clearly.

We've go the to find new fields and

new areas and if science is the way

forward, then let's embrace this.

I'm a bit worried about driverless

cars, the idea of a future without

Jeremy Clarkson is probably good

news, though. I think we've got to

try to explore everything. It's

interesting that clearly Hammond was

talking down this path last week in

the Budget and while one would say

£1 billion is not a huge amount of

money, given we have agreed to £3

billion to help us out Brexit-wise

and 1700 jobs is not a lot

Don't

forget we are using the European

Medicines Agency. I'm trying to be

positive but we've lost that.

Telegraph, reasons why Christians

back Trump? This is the Archbishop

of Canterbury? We hadn't spotted

this before?

All we have here is a

paragraph on front. Trump has a huge

- 85% of the evangelical Christian

vote in the US. It's a huge part of

his - despite all the issue, which

you might thought would be

counter-productive towards their

support.

It is particularly

attitudes towards women that this

attitude picks out, because they are

completely unacceptable in

Christian... . It's good to hear the

archbishop say this and he is on the

more progressive side of the Church

of England

But he talks about, yeah,

he has talked that they are

completely unacceptable. This is

interesting, because there is a

state dinner on the cards but not a

fixed date. It is a dinner at which

he will have to meet the US

President. So, it is interesting how

he is laying down a America,

possibly and the President will

probably respond in his usual way in

a...

In a tweet.

The Times - thousands of children

groomed as drug mules. This is a

Times' investigation. This is taking

place here, on an enormous scale

according to this article.

This is

really the most appalling story, a

really important investigation that

the Times has done. I didn't know

anything about this before, but it's

this thing called - county lines,

where children are groomed to take

drugs between, around the country.

They are talking about coastal

towns. The investigation is talking

about thousands of children being

used as drug runners and they are

using very similar techniques,

grooming techniques to those in the

Rotherham and Rochdale scandals. We

are talking about children as young

as 12, in care, so obviously more

vulnerable and it really is an

appalling story but it's very good

that it's having a light shone on

it.

Yet another dimension to child

exploitation.

Absolutely. It is

interesting here that the line in

the second half of the story on

front page of the Times talks about

the prosecution, the police changing

their tactics and charging the

people behind this with human

trafficking, under modern slavery

legislation, which has much more

significant penalties. It's a very,

very worrying - actually quite

chilling story to read and

incredibly concerning. I think of

all the front pages we have seen

thus far, it's by far in a away the

most important story by a very long

way. I mean, you don't want to

believe it is as big as this. But if

it is, it is horrendous and chilling

and, you know, as ath fare of young

kids, it's a pretty scary prospect,

I have to say.

And also questions

for the care system once again.

Again.

That this is being allowed to

happen and the most vulnerable

children in our society are being

exploited in this way.

And it veils

like across a huge part of the

country. A a network.

We need to...

Not one particular city or town.

We

need to know a lot more. This will

be, I'm sure the start of this story

because I can't believe it is a

one-off hit. This is going to run

and run and run. There are real

issues that have to be addressed and

uncovered and we need to know

exactly what this is all about, but

it is, as soon as we saw t the pair

of us thought - we were shocked

almost...

It seems to have come out

of nowhere. The Telegraph again -

Armed Forces lose out to cyber war.

When you've got limited funds you've

got to make some difficult decision.

An interesting scenario. A new

Defence Secretary in Gary

Williamson. His first major issue is

an absolute war, it appears with

Philip Hammond over the funding for

the Armed Forces. The suggestion

here is that the national security

advisor has said it is more

important to increase the funding to

fight cyber attacks than to bolster

the conventional Armed Forces. There

is a £2 billion short fall t would

appear in terms of what the MoD

thought it needed and what it is

going to get and it is not going to

get that money because owe parts of

our Security Services feel they have

a bigger fight to fight over

radicalisation, Isis and also, who

knows potentially what the Russian

threat actually is but there is a

concern of criminal involvement in

all sorts of evidence there.

Will

this money, though be regarded by

Nato of the 2% of spending that

we're supposed to give to defence

That's separate, isn't it? I think

what they are saying is that they

need this to fund a short fall and

actually this is interesting because

it is sort of a new twist on an old

story that the MoD have been

underfund Ford years, say the

defence and says the minister

involved has always complained of

going back decades of saying there

isn't enough money. But we do need

money for cyber terrorism, though.

The threat is huge. Actually I think

Britain has been slightly behind the

curve on funding for this, on

funding for the Security Services.

Slightly behind. We do need money

for that. As you say, it is the

Russian threat that is quite

important.

It is interesting here

that Philip Hammond is getting

involved. He has been forced to step

down two weeks ago. Apparently -

well obviously the ex-Defence

Secretary likely to speak out on

what is the right level of defence

spending. Shouldn't he have been

doing that when he was Defence

Secretary.

That's the papers for this year. On

Twitter we have a person looking

forward to Andrew's papers stack.

They have toed and froed a bit

tonight. Maybe you