0:00:00 > 0:00:03contemporary Gothic novel reached the man Booker short list. This raw,
0:00:03 > 0:00:06powerful story, sometimes melodramatic, is her first novel.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:18 > 0:00:19bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22With me is the Deputy political editor of the Independent,
0:00:22 > 0:00:27Rob Merrick, and the Author and Broadcaster, Natalie Haynes.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Welcome. Nice to see you. Tomorrow's front pages...
0:00:31 > 0:00:34A number of tomorrow's front pages look ahead to the Prime Minister's
0:00:34 > 0:00:35meeting in Brussels tomorrow.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38The Times writes that a senior Brussels official says Britain
0:00:38 > 0:00:41and the European Union are "90 %" towards a deal that would open
0:00:41 > 0:00:45the door for transition and trade talks on Brexit this month.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The Independent reports on fears from MEPs that the future rights
0:00:48 > 0:00:51of EU citizens in the UK and Britons in the EU are being forgotten
0:00:52 > 0:00:54as a deal gets closer.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57The Express says Theresa May faces a backbench revolt if she gives more
0:00:57 > 0:00:59concessions to the EU.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01The Financial Times says the Prime Minister is set
0:01:02 > 0:01:04for a momentous day in Brussels.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06It also reports that there has been a surge in Swiss
0:01:06 > 0:01:11banks' reporting of suspicious activity by Saudi clients.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14The Telegraph focuses on the virtual currency, Bitcoin,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17saying there will be a crack-down amid concern it is being used
0:01:17 > 0:01:25to launder money and dodge tax.
0:01:25 > 0:01:31Natalie will give a masterclass in Bitcoin isn't she? She knows more
0:01:31 > 0:01:41than us. That start with Brexit. The Times, Brexit tilt 90% versus senior
0:01:41 > 0:01:47EU official, unnamed. But obstacles remain. 90% and yet we've heard
0:01:47 > 0:01:50nothing but problems about the border between Northern Ireland and
0:01:50 > 0:01:57the Republic of Ireland?Teams behind. It's D-Day tomorrow, the
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Prime Minister meets with the president of the European
0:02:00 > 0:02:05Commission, and if Britain doesn't satisfy the EU by tomorrow then it's
0:02:05 > 0:02:08made the necessary moves on these key issues that the talks can't
0:02:08 > 0:02:12progress to transitional deal in future trade, as you say, the
0:02:12 > 0:02:17biggest stumbling block has been the Irish border. On Friday the EU may
0:02:17 > 0:02:19clear it would stand united with Ireland which has insisted Britain
0:02:19 > 0:02:26is not satisfied. About the inevitable return to a hard border
0:02:26 > 0:02:29if Britain leaves the customs union. It seems strange we will be 90%
0:02:29 > 0:02:33there if it is not subtle but that's what the Times has then told.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37There's a desire on all sides to reach an agreement, you tend to hear
0:02:37 > 0:02:43a clear claim from the Brexiteers that the EU wants to punish Britain.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47But they want to get into a trade talks but on its term. Written as a
0:02:47 > 0:02:51concession after concession to get this far and many more come tomorrow
0:02:51 > 0:02:54to class telling either cross over the line.That was the warning from
0:02:54 > 0:03:02the PM today? That pro-Brexit MPs do not want her to give anything of the
0:03:02 > 0:03:07way.They are so destructive in their own party and her negotiating
0:03:07 > 0:03:10stance because it looks like she has no control over what's happening
0:03:10 > 0:03:14behind her at home while she goes out to Brussels. The one Saint I
0:03:14 > 0:03:22think they are hoping for is a vaguely orderly situation is this is
0:03:22 > 0:03:25traditionally the case with EU negotiations on a larger scale,
0:03:25 > 0:03:31there is no hope at all and then at 3am on the final morning after the
0:03:31 > 0:03:34final night, suddenly people claw their way to a deal. It means
0:03:34 > 0:03:39everyone can just about walk at home with a bit of dignity intact, we got
0:03:39 > 0:03:43what we wanted or at least enough. That's what we have to do, the
0:03:43 > 0:03:47alternative is live in a cave. I'm not ruling it out.Don't do that, we
0:03:47 > 0:03:54need you here.It says something about the state of the negotiations
0:03:54 > 0:03:57that Britain get into the estate of discussing our future trading
0:03:57 > 0:04:00arrangements is treated as a triumph. Even getting to talk about
0:04:00 > 0:04:07trade.The bar is getting lower and lower.Its fumbling to get your pads
0:04:07 > 0:04:11on before you face the fast bowlers. This is the easy part.But you're
0:04:11 > 0:04:15supposed to be at the wicket this month. That was the deal. The
0:04:15 > 0:04:21ospreys to negotiate.And if we're not then business will go bonkers.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25They have put in place their contingency plans to move operations
0:04:25 > 0:04:28out of Britain by the start of next year if they have no certainty that
0:04:28 > 0:04:35all will be well in the end.But look at the Independent. Rob Malik
0:04:35 > 0:04:44has a byline on the front. EU citizens' rights are at risk.The
0:04:44 > 0:04:49loss in issue that there are three divorce issues that the EU said we
0:04:49 > 0:04:54must make progress on. The EU citizens they said would be the
0:04:54 > 0:05:00priority at the start. When we picked up on meetings that MEPs have
0:05:00 > 0:05:03had with chief negotiator, there is a fear that the EU will give way to
0:05:03 > 0:05:07much an EU citizens because as I said, the EU also wants to talk
0:05:07 > 0:05:11about trade. Some of the issues about the guarantees that EU
0:05:11 > 0:05:14citizens will have about their rights will be shunted into the
0:05:14 > 0:05:22second phase of torque. It will be settled now, -- will not be settled
0:05:22 > 0:05:23now, thoroughly reunification, children born after Brexit might
0:05:23 > 0:05:30have a different legal status, overseeing the rights of EU
0:05:30 > 0:05:35citizens, and if they don't, those citizens will be subject to UK
0:05:35 > 0:05:38immigration law, the Home Office talked about a hostile environment
0:05:38 > 0:05:42and have started deporting immigrant. Those fears for EU
0:05:42 > 0:05:46citizens and British citizens in the EU. But there is no focus on this
0:05:46 > 0:05:52issue and certainly MEPs are worried that that is being sidelined because
0:05:52 > 0:05:56their focus is on the other two issues.This will affect millions of
0:05:56 > 0:06:02people here and across the EU.It's always the way with these kinds of
0:06:02 > 0:06:04big macro negotiations that actual individual human people. Get
0:06:04 > 0:06:10forgotten. While we are discussing with a border or trade deal might
0:06:10 > 0:06:13look like, that actual people who don't know whether will be able to
0:06:13 > 0:06:16live or have their children will be considered citizens. That is a huge
0:06:16 > 0:06:21amount of anxiety for millions of people to be living with on a daily
0:06:21 > 0:06:29basis. I feel it is one of the few things it what everyone wants which
0:06:29 > 0:06:37is what people to be OK and Britons in Europe to be OK. If it were me,
0:06:37 > 0:06:41and I wasn't sure whether I could stay, that wouldn't be good enough.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45I would be worrying all the time. And people are choosing not to say
0:06:45 > 0:06:48because of the uncertainty like businesses. This letter the
0:06:48 > 0:06:57Financial Times. French offer warship Burts if Marines and up
0:06:57 > 0:07:08marooned by UK defence. What are they offering?Rather sweetly,
0:07:08 > 0:07:12everyone is furious about the negotiations and it looks like we
0:07:12 > 0:07:18may cut our amphibious vessels which sounds more fun that it is. I think
0:07:18 > 0:07:23not sadly as also was hoping giant frog. But actually it's about. --
0:07:23 > 0:07:29boats. The Marines might not know where to train so they might have to
0:07:29 > 0:07:33stay on a French boat and the French as we desert if you need some
0:07:33 > 0:07:36training room, if you need a rapid response force to be trained and
0:07:36 > 0:07:40ready to go, we have boats they can go on. It remains to be seen what
0:07:40 > 0:07:46they then observe on if we've got rid of amphibious vessel.What do
0:07:46 > 0:07:49you use when you need to use them the real?A place for following
0:07:49 > 0:07:55goes?Camouflage they hope.That is a heron isn't it. Camouflage them
0:07:55 > 0:07:55and go
0:08:01 > 0:08:04we have three capable boats so different. They have
0:08:04 > 0:08:10anthropomorphised the boat. The skill of these particular vessel.We
0:08:10 > 0:08:17have two presumably boats but we might get rid of them. It is sport
0:08:17 > 0:08:22and HMS Albion. If it wasn't for Brexit and Damian Green pawn
0:08:22 > 0:08:28allegations, falling out with Donald Trump over the collapse of the NHS,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31the social mobility crisis, this would be a crisis facing Theresa May
0:08:31 > 0:08:34because backbenchers are furious about defence cuts. They are worried
0:08:34 > 0:08:38about them and I can only imagine the worries and response of those
0:08:38 > 0:08:41backbenchers and then let it is the French who might come to our rescue.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46I don't think that will improve their mood.It smacks of those
0:08:46 > 0:08:51concerns about having some kind of EU wide military force dozens at?
0:08:51 > 0:08:56Which are entirely against, it seemed to be the case months ago
0:08:56 > 0:09:03when the referendum is being done. And if we don't have somewhere else
0:09:03 > 0:09:06to put our Marines, we have to put them somewhere. If they can't wander
0:09:06 > 0:09:12around on demand...We spend our entire budget on Trident of course.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16It's a deterrent, Rob. A deterrent. State the facts.Samurai.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22That's an opinion isn't it group. And people don't agree with it. Not
0:09:22 > 0:09:34my opinion. The i. Pensioners face poverty time bomb. This is hot on
0:09:34 > 0:09:40the heels of mass resignation of the board of the social mobility.One in
0:09:40 > 0:09:43five, let's stop for a minute, there's 14 million people. That is
0:09:43 > 0:09:57an enormous number. People who are now at 60%, is that now poverty
0:09:57 > 0:09:58killing a median earnings.
0:10:01 > 0:10:09It's an enormous number of people living in the charity and it doesn't
0:10:09 > 0:10:17look like it will get better. The numbers or we we have seen this
0:10:17 > 0:10:22weekend is that people will not buy property, they will rent through
0:10:22 > 0:10:26their pension years and rents will not go down. The housings cost will
0:10:26 > 0:10:33stay much higher than traditionally. They will pay off their mortgage
0:10:33 > 0:10:34before the Messiah. -- not
0:10:36 > 0:10:40value is useful if you downsize but if you don't have a house you can't.
0:10:40 > 0:10:46Children are caught up particularly in this.The warning about
0:10:46 > 0:10:49pensioners might be more surprised. There are lots warnings there will
0:10:49 > 0:10:53be an explosion in child poverty but pension poverty has been the great
0:10:53 > 0:10:57success of the last decade. To go into reversal in that would be
0:10:57 > 0:11:06particularly depressing. I am less surprised to read about children in
0:11:06 > 0:11:10poverty and as the foundation points out, one of the reasons is the four
0:11:10 > 0:11:13year freeze on benefits, including tax the introduction of Universal
0:11:13 > 0:11:18Credit, these are the policies that Theresa May inherited from her
0:11:18 > 0:11:24predecessor and which he's done nothing to change. That is one of
0:11:24 > 0:11:27the reason why Alan Milburn and his team have had enough. When it comes
0:11:27 > 0:11:33to try to highlight the problems and improving social mobility, they see
0:11:33 > 0:11:37the direction it is going rate is going to make lots of people poorer.
0:11:37 > 0:11:43The Daily Telegraph, stretch your legs, Treasury targets Bitcoin
0:11:43 > 0:11:48criminals. Tell us briefly about Bitcoin.Bitcoin is crypto currency,
0:11:48 > 0:11:54you can spend online without people necessarily knowing who you are like
0:11:54 > 0:11:57a debit or credit card which are attached your name and address.It
0:11:57 > 0:12:01doesn't exist in notes and coins. There is not somewhere a little
0:12:01 > 0:12:07electronic coin. It is more like a commodity because it is created by
0:12:07 > 0:12:13people coding. Difficult and complicated coding which encrypts
0:12:13 > 0:12:17the transaction and the reward for that is a small fraction of a
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Bitcoin and by doing the thing that makes the currency usable you
0:12:20 > 0:12:24acquire a small matter of the currency. Does it make sense?Yes.
0:12:24 > 0:12:32That was a clever explanation.I short listed for the transmission
0:12:32 > 0:12:35buys, Jamie Butler was like a excellent book the .net.That's
0:12:35 > 0:12:42weird showing.I've read a difficult book.Another is a criminal concern
0:12:42 > 0:12:46about it.There has always been. It's on the front page of the Daily
0:12:46 > 0:12:54Telegraph.It's mainly used to going to launder money, buy drugs and
0:12:54 > 0:13:03dodge tax.The three main groups. The Telegraph has uncovered the
0:13:03 > 0:13:11Treasury plan to target Bitcoin and plans to regulate it. Amendments to
0:13:11 > 0:13:15regulation to make sure the digital currencies have to go through the
0:13:15 > 0:13:18same text as normal currency. What strikes me is its this information
0:13:18 > 0:13:20was buried in a recent written parliamentary answer from the
0:13:20 > 0:13:25Treasury. Last month. It seems that the government does not want to
0:13:25 > 0:13:29boast about these plans to regulate...Keep quiet.Not sure how
0:13:29 > 0:13:35confident they are. I gather it will be an EU wide arrangement so there's
0:13:35 > 0:13:40a quote from the Treasury expect these negations did include at EU
0:13:40 > 0:13:46level, 2017-2018. I went affect us for very long then. That will be
0:13:46 > 0:13:50depending on whether we crashed out with a deal or not.Final one, daily
0:13:50 > 0:13:58Star. All roads lead to Brexit. Strictly Alex in a race hate them
0:13:58 > 0:14:04down. Alexandra Burke finished joint top of the leaderboard in strictly
0:14:04 > 0:14:09but...Found herself in the dance off miserably because it's an
0:14:09 > 0:14:12ongoing accusation that has dog strictly over the years that viewers
0:14:12 > 0:14:19tend not to vote for the contestants who are not white. It's not always
0:14:19 > 0:14:25true, Alesha Dixon one and last year had a winner, but Alexandra Burke is
0:14:25 > 0:14:28an excellent dancer and has always been an excellent dancer, so some
0:14:28 > 0:14:32people perhaps not voting for her because they are certainly some
0:14:32 > 0:14:43people are not voting for her -- because they are racist, who knows?
0:14:43 > 0:14:48Others attacked Debbie McGee because she is not a trained dancer, she is
0:14:48 > 0:14:52also 59, it seems quite small. I don't get caught up in the previous
0:14:52 > 0:14:55training because many people on strictly have previous training but
0:14:55 > 0:15:02I fraught that lost because I am in the funereal black.You can't prove
0:15:02 > 0:15:11this though can you?Nothing must add unafraid, and not an expert on
0:15:11 > 0:15:17strictly.Fortunately we are out of time, you are safe. The papers will
0:15:17 > 0:15:23be back. That's all for this hour.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Don't forget all the front pages are online on the BBC News website
0:15:26 > 0:15:30where you can read a detailed review of the papers.
0:15:30 > 0:15:35So it away is my pen at you. See you both at 11:30pm.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Next, it's Meet the Author.