20/01/2018 The Papers

at the Winter Olympics

in South Korea in February.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Kate Andrews,

News Editor at the Institute

of Economic Affairs

and Sebastian Payne,

who's Political Leader

Writer at the FT.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Times says allies of the Labour

leader Jeremy Corbyn are planning

to deselect 50 Labour MPs.

The Telegraph leads with comments

from the Foreign Secretary Boris

Johnson, arguing the UK should

welcome a visit from Donald Trump.

The Sunday Express says more

than a 100 Tory MPs will demand

the Prime Minister ends free

movement and leaves the single

market as soon as the UK exits

the EU in March next year.

The new look Observer

leads with a pledge

from the Prime Minister

to punish bosses who fail

to protect their workers

pension schemes.

And the Mail on Sunday leads

with an investigation carried out

by Channel Four into three former

Conservative cabinet ministers,

in what the paper calls a 'cash

for Brexit' controversy.

Well, as usual a mixed bag

of stories in tomorrow morning's

papers -

politics, celebrity weddings

and Donald Trump so let's take

a closer look with my guests.

Starting with the B new look

Observer. What we think of that?

Kate? It is quite smart.

It does

look very tidy and clean. The Prime

Minister has written in the Observer

tomorrow morning and in the wake of

the Carillion problems, she is

calling for a crackdown on bosses

who failed to protect pension

schemes. If you want evidence that

Jeremy Corbyn and his movement are

gaining traction, look to this story

right here. She is capitalising on

the left wing rhetoric that

companies are the problem in the UK

and government intervention will be

the solution. The rhetoric is empty

in some ways because when she talks

about finding companies who are

caught in cases of wrong doing, it

would almost suggest that these

companies need to go under to be

fined. It is unsure how this could

pan out in a meaningful way and in

the private sector, companies going

bust is not a story, that is what

happens when they are not

successful. But Carillion has

brought it to public attention,

particularly because of the

government contracts. It will cost

money to get new contractors. It has

made the public more concerned about

those sorts of collapses.

Sebastien,

it is not very conservative and she

has promised not to govern for a

bleached few. Labour put authors

simply?

Tony Blair said for the

many, not the few. I agree that this

new Observer looks very nice but the

language from Mrs May is empty and

populist rhetoric um the idea of

tackling executives to line their

own pockets and put the pensions of

workers at risk. It may be true but

it is not conservative than the

problem the party has at the moment

is that it is not speaking up on

behalf of markets and capitalism, it

is not saying that what happened

with Carillion is what is supposed

to happen. If a company is not

functioning it goes bankrupt the

shareholders suffer. This goes back

to the rhetoric of Mrs May before

the election, someone trying to

tackle this in society with

government intervention.

Moving on.

Sebastien again, Donald Trump, the

front page of the Observer still,

Trump plays the blame game.

We have

had this curious thing with a budget

was not passed on Friday so there is

no functioning US government on

Monday morning. Federal employees

will turn up and not get paid. It is

interesting how this has been framed

because Chuck Schumer, the

Democratic leader in the Senate

calls this a Trump shut down and

Donald Trump calls it a Schumer shut

down. Really it is extraordinary

that the Republicans control all

three branches of the US government

and this still happened. It shows

you the unpredictability of Donald

Trump. You cannot know what he says.

I agree to some extent that this

President is more difficult to deal

with than others but it is not the

President who determines budget, it

is Congress. The President does not

have as much power as those at home

I think. He'd does not get to set a

legislative position. This is the

19th shut down since the 1970s and

it is a lot scarier than it sounds.

As it continues more and more people

will see paycheques disappeared.

Benefits are still rolled out and

any meaningful service like the

military will be operating but

politicians need to get their act

together. One of the biggest

problems they have is that the

Republicans hold all the branches

that the Senate only by a few seat.

If they cannot get enough votes from

Democrats or they lose a few seats,

it all goes under.

Staying with

Donald Trump, the story from the

Sunday Telegraph about welcoming at

visit from Donald Trump. That's what

Boris Johnson says. OK, this is Mr

Trump himself who does not want to

come, rather than us not wanting him

here? That is asked in the broadest

sense.

I think the position of

Donald Trump has been affected by

the feeling of the British public

who made it very clear that there

would be mass protest if he showed

up. All of a sudden he is not

showing up because he is not happy

with the new embassy and it seems a

bit funny. Again, interesting that

the Foreign Secretary is writing

this article today but I think it

has to do with Rex Tillerson and his

counterpart from the United States.

He makes the point that it is to

think of Donald Trump as being what

we want to oppose but we need to be

careful not to oppose the Oval

Office overall. The relationship

between the US and the UK is so

crucial in terms of security and

history in terms of trade in the

future.

Yes, because once Brexit

happens we will need all the trade

we can get.

What Boris is trying to

do is pave the way for negotiating a

free-trade agreement with the US

because that will be the Republican

held Congress that make that happen.

Or as Johnson was once a big critic

of Donald Trump chip -- Doris

Johnson was once they'd need critic

of Donald Trump. He once said he

would never go to New York in case

he bumped into Donald Trump. Now he

is our best and greatest ally... In

geopolitics it is very much thinking

about the realities of this year and

the UK does need to get close to the

US and it needs to work with the

Trump administration. You need to be

careful that when there are moral

questions about things the President

has said about calling the Mount.

Theresa May got this completely

wrong when she ran off to Donald

Trump's side and did not take the

careful approach of France and

Germany.

Donald Trump has been to

France and Germany. He has said

hello to Angela Merkel and Emmanuel

Macron. There were no big

demonstrations there.

He seemed to

be welcomed. When he first met

Angela Merkel he refused to shake

her hand and that was terrible. That

was a terrible moment. It is not as

if he has been on this behaviour.

That the troops have gone smoothly

because they took the practical view

that you need to work with the

United States. Beading onto the

Sunday Times. I feel I have read

this headline before. Jeremy Corbyn

allies plot to oust Labour MPs. Is

that the new story, old story?

This

is something a lot of people suspect

is happening within Labour although

we do not act fully know. Last week

there were crucial changes within

labour when the national executive

committee, the all ruling body, was

taken over by an acolyte of Jeremy

Corbyn. And now the Sunday Times

reveals that hit list of MPs they

don't like or agree with and want to

get rid of. The former Shadow

Secretary -- for -- Foreign

Secretary... Other big names, they

are on this hit list. Is not lot

approved behind it. At the very end,

Momentum, they say they are not

campaigning to the deselecting of

any sitting MP. The keyword is

sitting. If the boundaries were to

change, there would suddenly be

trigger ballots for all MPs and that

is when they made use the moment to

get rid of people they do not like.

This is the first in many headlines

as Jeremy Corbyn gets more confident

and powerful within the party.

Yes,

interesting. What it says is that

they have been told not to rock the

boat. It is the Labour leadership

trying to impose discipline in its

party which is what all political

leaders want?

Certainly. If you look

back to the previous campaign, many

people within the Labour Party did

not think Jeremy Corbyn would get

any traction. They thought it would

be utter defeat. They were defeated,

it is important to remember, despite

the rhetoric we have heard, but they

did much better than anticipated and

now they are in a position to say to

moderate MPs that they have

traction, time to get on-board. If

they were to get some radical MPs in

we would have a radical manifesto.

The Sunday Express now. Their story,

they tend to stick to the weather

and royal family that this is a

straightforward political story. The

headline rather peculiar, Brexit

enforces.

Explained this to us. Over

100 MPs who are going to demand that

Theresa May take Britain out of the

single market when the UK leaves in

2019. Jacob Rees Mogg says he will

make her stick to her headline. This

stage to where the high Brexiteers

want a stronger voice. I think they

felt ripped off by phase one, that

they would pay too much money to the

EU, that the Irish border question

has fundamentally been sold, and it

takes is closer to the single market

rather than away. They are going in

early and strong now on an issue

that was a part of the referendum,

regardless of which side of the

immigration debate you are an.

Jacob

Rees Mogg is the cheerleader, the

man...

The man insisting on all

these. He is being celebrated

amongst the Right now. For him to

come out and hold Theresa May's

feature the is more meaningful.

It

does put more pressure on the Prime

Minister. What is the likely

reaction to be?

I think they are

worried about the story because so

far this 100 plus group of

Conservative MPs have been

protective of Mrs May and let her do

her best that strategy, make opera

misers, and over 45 billion euros.

The real thing is that they are

waiting for this fight on the Brexit

end state. That once we have left

the EU and transition, where will we

be? And people want a clean and

total break with the EU, control of

borders and control of everything.

The problem is that if they want

that in March 2019, that is no

transition. EU has been clear,

transition is the status quo. This

has been a shot across the bowels of

the Downing Street Brexit strategy.

Finally this one, Michael Gove a

senior Cabinet figure ramps up clock

watching civil servants. -- rants

at.

They are not working hard

enough. According to a cabinet

source, Mr Gove went off on a rant

in a Cabinet meeting where he said

does the Public service is to work

for five days? And he was told was a

flexible time. He goes in, rips up

government, tell citizen and clearly

he has ruffled a few feathers. He

has made great inroads in the

environment Department one year

after everybody thought his

political career was over but this

really shows that the Whitehall

machine may not be the biggest fan

of him and he is not the biggest fan

of them either.

I don't know if he

cares a lot about that. He lacks

efficiency. He likes to see public

servants held to account.

Importantly, he is highlighting the

Brexit glycol. All domestic policies

have been pushed aside to focus on

Brexit were still need to look at

like housing and NHS public servant

are doing that.

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