31/01/2018 The Papers

Coming up in a moment, The Papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Jack Blanchard

from Politico and Lynn Davidson,

Whitehall correspondent at the Sun.

Greetings to you both.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The FT leads on the problems

at outsourcing firm Capita.

Their shares have tumbled today.

The i's splash is a warning that

record numbers of over 40s

are suffering from strokes.

The Metro has a story

about an alleged benefits fraudster.

The Telegraph's lead

is the BBC pay dispute,

and the picture is of a group

of female BBC presenters.

Carrie Gracie pictured on a

front-page.

The Daily Express says

the Prime Minister trying

to end freedom of movement

during the Brexit transition period.

The Guardian's front page has

the news that MPs have voted

to leave the Palace of Westminster

so it can undergo

urgent restoration.

So, a wide fun I tell stories making

the front pages there, with no

overwhelming agreement on the lead.

-- a wide variety of stories.

Let's get started and discuss the

FT. EU banks to be tested against

impact of the doomsday Brexit. This

sounds dramatic. Is it?

It does seem

dramatic. We haven't held doomsday

Brexit before. That might be the

worst one we have had! This is a new

one. Doomsday Brexit. It's

interesting because what we are

seeing is banks in Europe testing

their own systems for what they

would see as the worst case scenario

Brexit. The reason they're doing

this is because we're getting closer

and closer to the moment when all

the stuff we've been talking about

the last couple of years is actually

going to be a reality. It's

interesting that they are now having

to put their systems reviews

processes to see exactly how big the

impact will be. Of course, people

supporting Brexiteer have been

saying for a long time that with all

the doom and gloom, the wrong sort

of Brexit would be bad for Europe as

well and cost Europe badly and

therefore we would get a good deal

in the end. This plays into the idea

that banks are having to test their

systems in this way.

I read this and

thought, wouldn't you hope and

expect this is being done anyway?

That is exactly what I would say and

every member of the public would be

thinking. I hope this is what the

banks are doing regardless! We

should be looking at any scenario,

whether clashes imminent or for any

other reason. I think this is one of

many stories B will see over the

coming months in a similar vein.

Let's move to buy seed -- Buzz feed.

It has led the way in Brexit

analysis reports that ministers

announced today would be released.

The headline, leaked Brexit analysis

shows how cutting immigration will

at the UK economy. It sounds like it

has seen these reports.

This is

another line may have taken from the

same report that the story broke

from on Monday. This angle is ruling

on immigration and chimes with

comments Theresa May has said today

in Beijing, where she is on a trip

to China for the next few days. Now,

what they are saying is that

actually the cost of cutting the

immigration to Britain would...

Donald Trump has spoken about very

positively recently. There would be

a 2% boost and they are saying the

loss of migration would detract from

that. Yet to see the details because

we have not actually seen it

ourselves. We are just reading your

version.

It is interesting again

because Theresa May's policy is very

much, after Brexit, we will cut

immigration. It is what people are

voting for. This is our own senior

officials in Whitehall saying, OK,

it'll cost the country money and

that is the opinion of the most

senior experts in our government. It

doesn't mean we shouldn't do it but

they are saying, there is a

financial hit to this and you need

to bear that in mind if you pursue

this course. It is a really

important point. If people want to

put immigration in front, that is

their choice but they need to know

what the impact of that will be.

They might still want to do it but

if you want more facts in front of

you, this is ultimately what this is

about.

David Cameron and Theresa

May. Only refused to move the tens

of thousands target in previous

manifestos. It is something they've

always stuck to end it is something

she is saying again. Theresa May

said today there is a difference

between coming to Great Britain

prior to March 29 and after that.

There is an issue about classifying

people coming to Britain.

Some

people will look at that and say, I

don't care if GDP smaller would have

been. AB InBev the country to take

that it because I want this to

happen. That's people's individual

choice, I guess. But you have to the

facts to understand it.

Let's move

to the Daily Telegraph. BBC women on

the march in a story accompanied by

a picture of high-profile women who

turned out today to support the

BBC's former China editor Carrie

Gracie, giving evidence to select

committees. They can be rather dull,

but this was anything but.

This was

very dramatic. Almost five hours.

Carrie Gracie gave evidence for 2.5

hours and it was very passionate and

emotive. She was obviously talking

about her own personal experience

and she has really put her career on

the line for it. She clocked about

her grievance and her grievance

procedure, and about how she had

been told she was receiving a much

lower salary. With someone with a 30

year career in John Osman, speaking

Mandarin Chinese, that is an insult.

-- in journalism. You can see the

likes of Kate Silverton, Mariella

Frostrup and others in the picture.

The bosses came after 2.5 hours for

another two hour roasting

themselves.

Jack, you worked at the

daily miller formally. -- Daily

Mirror formerly. What was that the

situation like the?

My experience in

newspapers across-the-board is that

it is a very male dominated

industry. Certainly at senior

levels. And companies are going to

be forced to publish equal pay

information, as I understand it,

later this year. It will just be the

BBC on the rack. Lots of newspapers

and businesses across the country

have this issue and it is now

starting to come to a head. The BBC

has been pushed to publish this data

before that but I am sure this is

not the end of the story.

Also in the Telegraph, news that the

Commons have voted to move out of

the Commons. I think this is the

first time that they have had to

move out since the blitz. So it is

quite a big. Do you think they

actually will move out?

Yes, it is a

huge deal of you work there. We both

have offices in the House of

Commons.

With the mice. And

asbestos.

Nonetheless, it is a

privilege to work there in a

fantastic old building. It is a

palace and it is amazing. People who

work here don't really want to work

on some boring office block down the

road. I suspect that the sum of the

resistance some MPs have shown to

the idea. They like the idea of

working in this grand old seat of

power. As we say, like anyone who

works there knows, the place is

falling apart.

You have visitors

coming as well, tourists. People

have previously said it was a risk

like Grenfell. Wiring and everything

else.

There is a responsibility to

the building as well.

They're going

to move out until 2025.

It takes

seven years to get to the point

where we move out. At least had

taken the decision today. Compared

with the options put in front of

MPs, this was the most immediate.

The one put forward by the

government last week was

effectively, oh, let's make a

decision in another however many

years' time. At least admit some

decisions.

It is a hard sell to

taxpayers to spend millions of

pounds on a refit of the office,

essentially.

If it fell down or

burned down, no-one would be happy

with that. There should be an

acceptance that this is a building

that needs to be looked at.

Let's

move to a warning for all of us over

40. Stroke warning. It recognised

people are having strokes. Why is

that? -- a record number of people.

These figures are coming from

England Public-health today. One of

the factors is we are drinking more

than we should be and we are not

aware of the units. If you're

drinking at home, you're not all was

aware of what you're drinking. And

obesity of course is another

principal factor will stop we are

all much fatter. Younger people are

much more aware of health. What they

say now is that the stroke rates for

younger people are much higher than

they were before. And people aged

40- $69 into the will of the risks.

One in six people have a stroke in

their lifetime.

It is against that.

It is not happy reading. You get

used to the idea we're getting

healthier. You don't expect to read

that this sort of preventable

condition is hitting people younger

and rubber. But it seems to be the

case. -- younger and younger.

Moving

to the Daily Express, and actually,

we touched on this when talking

about BuzzFeed earlier. At last, me

gets tough on migrants. The question

is whether she succeeds.

She can

talk about migrants all she wants

but as we have seen so far in Brexit

negotiations, Britain starts off

with the proposition that the

newspapers like the Express like,

and then in the end they have folded

on the vast majority of things the

EU want. The US is saying that

people who moved here after leaving

the EU during a transition period

should have all the same rights as

people are now. The government says,

no, we do not agree. We will see

where we end up after the next round

of talks but from what we have seen

so far, the EU holds all the cards.

Businesses threatened to leave if we

don't get the deal we need.

The

numbers have gone down in a last

couple of years, quite

significantly.

The picture on the

Daily Express leads us to our final

story in the Metro. Formula 1 scraps

the great girls. -- the grid girls.

Is this a good thing?

It is a sign

of The Times, I would suggest. As a

society, we seem to be moving away

from this. I would suggest that if

girls... There's people losing their

jobs and I don't think there is

anything to celebrate in that. Kelly

Brown, who started off as one of

these girls, talked about how she

managed to buy her own flat at age

20. She is a working-class girl from

Kent and that started off her

career. Katie Price would probably

see a similar thing. She started off

glamour modelling. This seems pretty

harmless. It was dark cellar in the

week and in Britain, we seem to be

abandoning it. In Holland, Germany

and Belgium, they think we are soft

touch.

Harmless?

I think it is

outdated and the world has moved on.

The important thing to remember is

that the reaction from some of the

newspapers is as if government is

stepping in and banning this thing.

That is not what has happened. These

are commercial decisions made by

Formula 1 and the darts because they

have seen that people don't want

this any more. This is a business

decision by them and the reasons

people don't want it any more. Some

people do, but it is a commercial

decision and that is how they see

it. That judgment reflects where we

are is a society now.

Time is up for

the grid girls and us, I'm afraid.

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