09/01/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Charlie Wells,

deputy Snapchat editor

at the Economist and Hugh Muir,

associate editor at The Guardian.

Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with...

The Metro says Theresa May

is planning new measures

to help the UK cut down

on its throwaway culture.

There's also a picture that of

Meghan Markle on her visit to

Brixton.

Following her reshuffle,

the Mail says the Prime Minister has

made the cabinet more inclusive

and representative of the UK.

There are now more women and MPs

from minority backgrounds.

Warnings from EU regulators

on the consequences of a no-deal

Brexit, is the lead in the Financial

Times.

Meanwhile the Telegraph says Germany

is planning to scupper plans

for a bespoke UK trade deal.

The Express highlights

the plight of some pensioners.

It reports that many are struggling

to live on £7000 a year.

The Guardian says Donald Trump wants

to loosen the rules regarding the

use of nuclear weapons. A hospital

in Oxford which is delaying

treatment for terminally ill cancer

patients is the Times' top story.

The i focusses on the gender

pay gap at the BBC,

following the corporation's decision

to take Winifred Robinson,

off Radio 4, after she posted

her views on the issue.

We are going to start with the

Financial Times. Brussels serves

notice of no Deal Brexit for UK

industry.

Say this is an interesting

and probably frustrating strategy

for Brexit supporters in the UK.

Essentially what has been going on

is the EU has been telling business

leaders in a very wide array of

industries ranging from pig breeders

to drug makers that they need to be

prepared for a no deal Brexit.

Theresa May isn't doing this, this

is the European Union century

speaking to Sara gets in some sense

here in the UK and telling them they

need to be ready. This seems to

indicate that the EU is much more

prepared to negotiate than the UK

is.

It would seem prudent, wouldn't

it, that British industry, farming,

whatever, British society, is

prepared for a possible no deal.

Yes, but the significance of this is

that all through the negotiations so

far we've been led to believe that

the no deal Brexit is almost a joke

in the pack and our secret weapon

here and if we deploy that Europe

will be completely befuddled. This

is saying, no they won't. They know

that's an option and they are

preparing for that very well. The

Financial Times says David Davis is

very angry about the warnings the EU

have been giving to people to be

prepared for the no deal Brexit. He

seems surprised that some British

companies might have to decamp to

the continent if there isn't a deal.

Didn't we know all that already? It

does seem to be something dawning

upon the Brexiteers and the

government that just seemed obvious

to begin with. There's a quote here

from the Brussels to spokesman

saying we are surprised the UK

Government is surprised that the

commission is preparing for a no

deal scenario. I think you can add

me to that, I'm surprised too.

The

front page of The Daily Telegraph on

a similar thing, German threat to

Brexit trade deal. Angela Merkel

strong opposition may torpedo

blueprint. There were some who were

hoping Angela Merkel doesn't form a

coalition and doesn't get back into

power.

What we've seen since the

election in Germany is that Angela

Merkel is somewhat diminished. What

we see with this story being on the

front page is that she still does

hold a strong degree of sway. What

she seems to be doing here and why

Brexiteers are probably worried, is

that she and her German allies are

taking issue with this three baskets

approach that Britain seems to be

trying to pursue with Britain, in

which Britain would look at areas

where it wants to a line with

Europe, areas where it wants to

diverged with Europe, and areas in

the middle. Angela Merkel is saying,

that is cherry picking and it's not

going to happen.

Precisely the kind

of deal if the UK got it that might

make it rather nice for other

countries to leave the European

Union.

Which is why in the cold

light of day Europe aren't

necessarily going to play along with

that. This is all about the imagery.

They are saying you won't get this

free basket scenario because it

sounds like another version of

having your cake and eating it.

Aspiration that you foist before.

Again, it just seems that in a way

they are kind of ahead of us in

terms of where we want to go

strategically. I'm not sure that we

are springing many surprises on them

at all.

I wanted to talk about

negotiating which you were getting

at. Over the past few days we had

seen Theresa May struggle to get

what she wants from members of her

own party or in her own government.

I can only imagine what it might be

like behind closed doors when

Theresa May is sitting down with EU

negotiators trying to get what she

wants from the second-largest

economy in the world, with 27 member

states who are likely in opposition

to her position, that worries me.

We

almost seemed to be proceeding as if

all of the shenanigans that we have

here, the farce, the comedic nature

of the reshuffle that we seen in the

last 48 hours, doesn't translate

itself across the water. If they

don't know what's going on and on

saying here is another illustration,

the fact she's not in control.

To be

fair with the massive loss of

authority that she ended up having

as a result of the election last

year, she still managed to get

through to the second phase of talks

with the European Union. She still

managed to find her feet and move

forward.

She's clearly limping.

She's still on her feet, but

limping. LAUGHTER

There's an

interesting point in the sense that

EU ministers seem a bit optimistic

that some countries, the Nordics,

the Netherlands and what have you,

might not be completely on-board

with Germany's position. I think if

I were a Brexiteer which I certainly

am not, that might be some room for

optimism. If the 27 member states

start afraid, then there potentially

is some room in the negotiations for

Britain but that's probably quite

unlikely.

Brexiteers would say to

you, be positive, that's the point.

The front page of The Telegraph has

a cartoon with a lovely take on it.

A guy comes in and find a dog on the

sofa. He says to his wife, I'm not

going to ask him to move because

when he refuses my authority will be

weakened.

Staying on the front page

of The Telegraph, a quick look at

this. Black cab rapist could be free

to contact victims after his

release. This is John Warboys who

was given parole.

This is startling

and is a story we've been seeing in

the papers over the weekend. Just

the fact that Mr Warboys potentially

could be free within a matter of

weeks, it sounds like it's going to

be up to his parole officer whether

or not he can contact his victims.

That seems incredibly problematic to

me. Sexual abuse is a huge issue.

It's an emotional issue and it can

trigger people. I'm highly concerned

that someone could contact someone

who had had that sort of experience

and something needs to be done about

this.

The problem is not necessarily

those women involved in the cases

that brought convictions, it's those

women who came forward afterwards

because he can't necessarily contact

those involved in those cases, but

there is no prohibition on him

contacting those who were making

allegations after. It is a serious

thing. It will be a big thing for

the Justice Secretary to sort out.

He's already called an enquiry. The

Financial Times, Pyongyang and 's

hole seek to ease tensions with

Winter Olympics thaw.

It's about the

healing power of sport in that the

bridal area, there are talks between

North Korea and South Korea and on

the back of a promise that North

Korea might be able to send athletes

to next month's Winter Olympics in

South Korea, they seem to have gone

on and are now talking about holding

military talks. Which is, in a way,

quite heartening. The tensions there

have been so worrying for a while.

But not good for President Trump

because of course he's been trying

to enlist South Korea to try and

freeze out North Korea and one of

the repercussions of the talks might

be that South Korea might actually

relax some of the sanctions in

particular to allow athletes to come

to the Winter Olympics. There are

many reasons The Donald Trump not to

be too happy to night but there's

another one.

Let's go straight onto

The Guardian, US to loosen rules on

use of nuclear arms. Proposal raises

fears of conflict amid concerns over

Trump's temperaments stop -- Trump's

temperaments stop yellow nuclear

powers have needed to update their

rules for a long period of

they need to be updated, nuclear

technology has certainly changed and

a lot of the capabilities of certain

countries especially in the US need

to change. A lot of these nuclear

weapons are ageing. That said, this

piece speaks to some experts who are

concerned that some of these rules

go a bit too loose. So that the

United States could theoretically

use nuclear weapons in moments when

they are not being attacked by

nuclear weapons themselves. The fear

is that this could change how other

countries think that they could

potentially use their nuclear

weapons and theoretically could use

us to a state where we are closer to

a nuclear confrontation which I

think nobody wants.

The context is

that all the while, while we are

having these discussions and talking

about maybe using a low yield

nuclear warheads, we are normalising

the idea of a nuclear conflict.

We

are talking about it constantly.

If

it happened it will be bad, it might

not be terrible, we would survive

that...

The proposed bloody nosed

strategy that America is talking

about in terms of a strategic attack

on a North Korean installation if

they had another test.

There is no

way the United States could conduct

a bloody nose attack or a stealth

strategy into North Korea.

It would

leave Seoul pretty open to attack.

Steve Bannon, the intellectual

underpinning of the populist

revolution in America and just a few

months ago the chief counsellor to

the president is out of Breitbart.

The right-wing website that really

put him on the map. Extraordinary.

This is a story that changes day by

day and the allegiances seem to

change Day by day. Steve Bannon of

course was quoted extensively in

that book, the Michael Wolff book

Fire and Fury. He said some things

which I think he tried to row back

on yesterday.

Editing some people

who helped to fund Breitbart which

was a big supporter of Trump and the

word was that they were threatening

to withdraw their funding. They had

talks about Steve Bannon and what to

do about him and it looks as if he's

out.

It means that Donald Trump is

the intellectual force behind this

populist revolution now. When it

always was Steve Bannon, yet he's

gone and is Donald Trump really that

kind of person?

Donald Trump was

registered as a Democrat for a

while. I think you have your answer

from that. I think it speaks to the

fact that Donald Trump's base once

words. They like the things he says.

He has a track record of saying

things that they want to hear and

they don't really care about

policies. They don't even think

government should do things. And a

peripheral figure, granted Steve

Bannon was quite close but has gone

into the periphery, I don't think

that base is going to care much

about a satellite getting loose.

I

think the chaos could be important

depending on what happens with

Robert Mueller's investigation.

Finally on the front of some of the

front pages, The Daily Mail has a

picture of Meghan Markle. The crowd

shout, we love you, as she visits

Brixton. Apparently a lots of them

were saying we aren't interested in

Harry, it's Meghan we want to see.

As a fellow American who lived in

Britain, I'm happy to see that. I've

been a fan of hers since her early

days on TV and I have Meghan mania

also. I'm a big Suits fan.

Thank you

so much for looking at some of the

stories behind the headlines.

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Thank you Charlie

Wells and Hugh Muir.

Goodbye.