02/12/2017 The Papers

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There's growing criticism over

the actions of two former police

officers who leaked allegations that

pornographic images had been

found on a work computer

of the Cabinet minister,

Damian Green.

Mr Green has denied looking

at or downloading pornography.

President Trump has insisted

that the actions of his former

national security adviser,

Michael Flynn, were lawful -

but he had to sack him

because he had lied

to the vice-president and the FBI.

The family of a 14-year-old boy

who died after he was hit by a car

on the M67 motorway have said

they are "completely heartbroken".

The members of the border of the

government's social mobility

commission have resigned. The day I

pray they have cited a lack of

leadership. -- they have cited a

lack of leadership.

The family of a 14-year-old boy

who died after he was hit by a car

on the M67 motorway have said

they are "completely heartbroken".

Samuel Berkley was found critically

injured near junction three at Hyde

yesterday afternoon.

Barclays Bank says it will no longer

offer a Russian anti-virus software

programme free to customers

after warnings it could be

exploited by the Kremlin.

Kaspersky Lab denies any links

to the Russian government.

And Meet The Author this week I'm

joined by the author Kate Mozley.

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the economics

commentator and author

Dharshini David and the US

broadcaster and commentator

Charlie Wolf.

Tomorrow's front pages.

The Observer leads with the news

that Alan Milburn has resigned in

protest at the government's

policies.

The Sunday Times goes

with the same story,

reporting that Mr Milburn accused

ministers of betraying the people

who voted for Brexit.

The Mail on Sunday says

a Labour peer has been

wrongly claiming expenses -

the peer says he will pay

some of the money back.

The Sunday Telegraph

reports on dissent within

the Conservative Party over the role

EU courts will play

in the UK after Brexit.

And the Sunday Express claims

the upcoming royal wedding will lift

the economy by half a billion pounds

and boost the Uk's diplomatic

relationship with the United States

So let's begin.

Will you start us off, The Observer

and this front-page story. Remind

us, social mobility, what does that

mean?

It means you start in one

place and can you end up better off

than your beginnings suggest. To be

honest, this is Alan Milburn, it's

not just him. He's saying all three

of his fellow commissioners are

quitting because they feel

frustrated. Not enough is being done

and it is being sidelined because of

Brexit. Ironically they say the

people who they should be focusing

on the people who aren't seeing

social mobility and are

disproportionately located in areas

who voted for Brexit and they are

missing out. The statistics are

pretty bleak. If you look at someone

born in the 1980s, the first

generation who aren't expected to be

better off than the generation

before them. Real earnings are going

to flat line in the next 20 years.

One wonders if this is more because

they have so many other priorities,

they've got Brexit to worry about

and other economic things and this

has been pushed the background, or

is this a longer term thing?

I am

surprised they are over occupied

with Brexit, as much as I am in

favour of it. It's harder than they

thought. I guess the thing for me

is, Brexit actually should be

helping pick a social mobility is

based on productivity and... Forgive

me, my mind has gone... Getting work

and progressing and what have you.

Making progress.

And opportunity to

make money.

That's what's missing. I

think it's easier solved if you can

just get it out of the way and let

companies grow and expand. We'll be

talking about Trump's tax plan. One

of the things is dropping the tax

rates and getting it to where

businesses can hire. Let businesses

be profitable.

Dharshini, Alan

Milburn being quoted the saying

setting out a proposition to do

something about this and then not

doing it is almost worse than not

doing anything about it at. Yellow

Theresa May came into office and

said she was all about creating

Britain for everyone.

Acknowledging

some people feel left out of the

progress being made. What hearing

here is we need to hear about Abe

Britain that is going to be

successful in the long and social

mobility is part and parcel. On the

other hand these are people who are

well qualified to do the job, why

resign?

Prosperity is a circle, it

leads to productivity which leads

to...

And that leads us to what

Donald Trump has been doing. The

Sunday Telegraph says his joy at

fight for the biggest tax cut...

It's not perfect. Anything is a step

forward. The tax system in America

as it is here, I do know how many

hundreds of thousands of pages in

the UK tax code?

A huge number of

books.

No one wants to do a tax

return in the US.

Not at all. It

shouldn't be that way...

Charlie,

corporation tax, that's the tax

companies pay. It's going to be

dropped from 35 to 20%. It's

incentivising some perhaps but

that's an enormous cut the business.

What about the small man as they

used to cool it in America, the

ordinary people?

Companies

effectively don't pay tax. What

happens if tax is figured out by

your accountants and everything goes

into the final cost. Most of it get

past onto the consumer.

So you say

you love it so people will pay it?

You can hire more people be

prosperous. The other thing is when

Trump as a candidate was talking

about 6 trillion offshore... This

isn't people hiding it away, this is

money they would like to bring back

to businesses but it's too

expensive.

It doesn't serve them to

keep their businesses based in the

US.

Dharshini, it says the move past

pressure on Britain to increase its

competitiveness. There could be a

race to the bottom in tax terms.

There always is a race going on. We

are due to cut our corporation tax

rate down to 17% in the next couple

of years. On the other side the

argument is can we really afford

this? Do we really want to be

cutting our tax rates now knowing

that the coffers are looking

threadbare.

Going back to the

situation in America, what about the

people. It suggested they will get

some but they aren't going to be as

good as they think they are. In a

couple of years' time, I was

speaking to a professor in Virginia

earlier on, he said people will

realise Mr Trump didn't deliver what

he said he would.

The big story I'm

getting is people complaining it

will increase the debt, I don't

think it will because if you look

back to the Ronald Reagan years,

businesses grow so much that you're

bringing in more revenue at a lower

rate.

Let's stick with Donald Trump.

The Sunday Times front page. It's

not the main story. It's a reference

in the cartoon.

I expect Charlie knows the answer.

What is happening on February the

26th?

Working visit, is this what's

going on? There's no details on

this.

The working visit being the

opening of the new American embassy.

That is ostensibly what this is all

about. There have been rumours for a

few days and this will be hugely

controversial for all the reasons...

If he coming?

I don't find Donald

Trump to be someone who's going to

be scared of a protest or two. It

probably protest back at them.

Knowing Donald Trump you'll say it

was the biggest, beautiful protest,

the biggest protest I've ever had.

He went to France of course.

On the

other hand he hasn't been attacking

the French the way he has the

British in the last few days and

social media.

This has been so

overplayed and it's such a shame.

He's retweeting them...

What he's

retweeted has been from Ann Coulter.

I don't expect him to know what

Britain First is.

Why not? He's the

president of the United States.

We

seem to be going back over an old

story. Surely he could have said I'd

slightly misunderstood the thought

of people they are, nevertheless

there is a problem. But he went on

to insult our Prime Minister.

The

Prime Minister, with all due

respect, tweeted to him. I would

have thought they could have picked

up the telephone and said Donald,

maybe you didn't realise this group

is and what you think it is.

Maybe

she won't get through to him.

Maybe!

We are speculating about

conversations we don't know much

about. The Sunday Telegraph again.

Charlie, Tories at war over European

judges.

Theresa May is heading

towards a rift with some of them

because she's trying to make this

grand compromise, part of which

would be to allow European judges on

the ECJ which is the European Court

of Justice, a separate entity from

the EU, that they would be able to

rule on certain immigration...

And

trade disputes.

If you are a

sovereign nation you are a sovereign

nation. You don't want to be

answering to the European Union at

the back door.

The first paragraph

talks about effectively failing to

withdraw Britain from the European

Union, that's a bit of a stretch.

It

is a bit of a stretch.

But it is a

big issue.

It is a huge issue and is

one of the Iain Duncan Smith.

Very

much a leading Brexiteer.

Said he

would say that. But it is quite a

stark warning when you put it like

that. That's why it appears there on

the front page. Is this just a

warning shot and another stage in

the war of words? Probably.

This

business about the laws that have

come in from Europe, it is central

to Brexit for many people.

It really

is. When you ask people what they

voted for when they voted Brexit I'm

sure that would come into it.

There's been all these arguments

about what we are going to get

economically, no one would have

known. Even if we lost it all, to me

the central argument was is that I

want to be a sovereign nation. It

has been a sovereign nation. I don't

expect anybody from Europe to be

ruling on British law, I wouldn't

expect anyone from America to be

ruling on British law. It may seem

small but it's an important point

principal.

I guess it depends which

side you voted for how you perceive

this.

Let's move on, Dharshini

start-ups and this one. This is The

Observer front-page story about

Momentum and observations from Roy

Hattersley saying it's leading to

Labour's worst crisis. Is important

to say Roy Hattersley very much on

the left of his party in his days.

This is another blast from the past.

We had Alan Milburn and now Roy

Hattersley. Warning that perhaps we

have got Momentum trying to

undermine what's going on in the

Labour Party, trying to force up the

moderates. Not just MPs but

councillors as well and therefore

somehow edged the party further to

the left, effectively manoeuvre a

takeover. This is right next to the

story about the social mobility tsar

quitting. This is about both

parties...

Momentum ...

Organisations need diversity. They

need a culture that holds them

together but at the same time they

need diversity so you have different

points of view. The strength of the

Labour Party itself, if everyone is

thinking like a radical Momentum

member, first off I don't think

that's going to garner votes. It

wouldn't sway me. Also I did think

it's going to help a party to grow

and be able to challenge itself. If

you have different wings of a party,

at least if you are discussing an

issue I want to hear from the

left-wing side of the Conservative

Party but they have to say on an

issue versus right-wing and be able

to debate within a party. If

Momentum is going to take over...

Lets end on a cheerful note. If the

royal wedding upcoming.

Everything

we just said was the minor stories,

this is the bulk of the news!

The

Mail on Sunday says it has Meghan's

unseen family photo album. We

cheerful about this?

This is the

greatest economic side ever seen.

Meghan's wedding president will

boost the UK economy by £500

million.

It's a lovely feel good

story. I find this funny, think of

the number and put a couple of zeros

on the end and that's how much

better we are feeling. This is

something that is going to run and

run but when you look at the stories

across the rest of the pages...

The

Americans will come over for that.

The hotels are already booked up in

Windsor!

LAUGHTER Thank you both.

That's it for The Papers this hour.

Thank you Dharshini and Charlie,

you'll both be back at 11.30

for another look at the stories

making the news tomorrow.

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