03/02/2018 The Papers

On meet the author next week, #

Today, my guess is Leo Benedictus

with his book that starts off as a

creepy thriller and then turns into

a contemporary horror story.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

to what the the papers will be

With me are economics commentator

and author Dharshini David

and broadcaster and former

Fleet Street editor Eve Pollard.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Observer leads on comments

from a former head of the civil

service, who makes a scathing

comparison between some Brexiteers

and German nationalists

between the world wars.

Theresa May faces a coup

from Cabinet Brexiteers,

if she persists with plans to remain

in the customs union,

according to the Sunday Times.

The Sunday Telegraph leads

on the Prime Minister being urged

to invoke the example

of Margaret Thatcher

to defy her Chancellor over Brexit.

The Express accuses Jeremy Corbyn

of environmental hypocrisy,

claiming he left a diesel car

waiting outside his house for 40

minutes before getting in for

a six-mile trip to Westminster.

Meanwhile, the Mirror has an image

of the Health Secretary,

Jeremy Hunt, taking a nap

in a hotel, which the paper claims

was taken while thousands

marched through London

calling for more NHS support.

Let's start with the times. As you

would expect, an awful lot of Brexit

stories going on. Not a massive

surprise considering what is

happening next week. We might get to

a crunch moment when members of the

cabinet have to decide what form of

relationship they want with E you

afterwards. Let's start with the

Sunday Times story. Depending on how

you look at it, the dream team are

set to go into Number Ten. Boris

Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Read

more. What you make of that.

Interesting, a lovely mock-up

picture of them as the three

Musketeers. It is looking like

all-out war. They will start

discussing what the trade

relationship will look like.

Interesting whether they come up

with anything as a result. Probably

nothing. We are looking at the

biggest risk to Theresa May's Prime

Minister ship.

It looks like they

will have to make decisions. It is

impossible to square those two

views.

I also think that this

happened in Davos because in the

end, the sharp point of all this is

going to be business and businessmen

who are, I'm afraid mostly men, a

few women, who will have to work and

still making a living if we can't

export to the EU. And in Davos,

Trump, for all his many

extraordinary abilities, like

tweeting from dusk to dawn, invited

a lot of European companies to

dinner. He walked around and shook

their hand and asked them what they

could do with United States. Theresa

May had dinner with her aides. The

whole point is to go and whip up

trade. There was this trip going to

China, which was fascinating. China

has an enormous population and could

change the world for Britain if we

got down to it seriously. It looks

like there are figures coming out,

leaked by various people. We know

that the figures you get out are as

good as the figures you put in. We

are being kept in the dark. There is

a frustration that things are not

more open. I was for staying in, not

being the first to come out. I am no

love of the youth. But now that we

have made the decision, we have to

get on. -- I am no lover of the EU.

We would have to keep people in

jobs, key factor is going. At the

moment, we sell everything to VE

you, what we're going to do?

The

main thing is the customs union. The

international trade secretary says

that he will resign if the customs

union is agreed. But mainly because

his job is to drum up trade. And he

would not build today that with

other countries.

Exactly. It is more

complex, if we stay in the customs

union, we will have to make

sacrifices regarding free movement

of people. It is not mentioned on

these pages that immigration is the

key factor. The whole idea of trade,

at Davos it was noticeable that you

saw the Prime Minister of India and

Trump's delegation touting for

business, everywhere was open for

business. Not the UK. This strange

position that Theresa May is

thinking I have to keep the EU happy

and on the other hand, I have all

these Brexiteers snapping at my

heels.

And there are very noisy

Brexiteers, some of them very able,

but I have no idea how many of the

Tories in the House of Commons pro

Brexit or not. But we have voted.

Everything seems to be so secretive.

Let's see the figures. Then let the

Brexiteers, these three brilliant

men, say what is wrong with the

figures and what is should be done

rather than just having a go at all

treasury economists.

Another Brexit story here. Brexit

attacks on civil service worthy of

1930s Germany. Jacob Rees Mogg has

accused the civil service of only

leaking memos which show that we

should stay in the customs union.

The ex-Cabinet Secretary making the

comparison with knotty Germany.

Pretty incredible stuff. It must be

quite frustrating if you are a

politician and you deal with an

unwieldy, slow civil service. And

when they come up with figures that

you don't agree with. I think going

to 1930s knotty Germany is rather

strange and over the top. But

obviously, -- 1930s Nazi Germany.

But obviously, this is the week that

will decide.

Theresa May says this

is a negotiation and you don't tell

everybody what your bottom line is.

But there have to comment point

where you show leadership and show

some parameters and there is a

vacuum.

And unfortunately for her,

we are used to 24-hour news. We are

used to things happening quickly. We

have been going on about this for

ever and we are impatient.

Wrongly

all rightly. There are impact

studies, let us judge. Rather than

Jacob Rees Mogg, the man who might

be Chancellor, complaining.

And

where are the CBI on this?

Talking

to the Chancellor.

The Sunday Telegraph says, don't let

Hammond ruined Brexit. This is

Philip Hammond, the main remain a

voice in the cabinets. People are

saying they have to stand up to him.

But he may be talking to the CBI who

are saying that if we walk away, we

don't know where we will sell our

goods, we don't know if factories

will close down. This can't be done

without that other side, which is

business.

Ultimately, it is all

about business and livelihoods. But

one group want to go alone and do it

in isolation.

Do you sing she was

Sako Chancellor?

She might, but I

get nowhere that will get her.

That's this is about the facade and

how it looks, or perhaps it is about

indecision or being 50-50 in a

situation when you can't decide.

Another story in the Sunday

Telegraph. Women given cancer all

clear misdiagnosed by test blunders.

That is the kind of story that makes

people fearful. You go for those

test and you assume that they are

getting a clean bill of health. What

is the story here, Dharshini?

This

is worrying. 900 sample check for

Sir Michael cancer. And a percentage

of those had been cleared, people

told they were negative and in fact

there was something. Something not

quite right about them. But this lab

in Basildon, people are now saying

that they will have to investigate

the results of 60,000 women.

That's

terrible.

And they are trying to

encourage younger women to go for

some ears and the idea...

And truth

is, if you ask most women who have

had a dodgy smear test, most women

have. You need to go back and to

check. And it's hard to get a test

in the first place, to persuade your

GP. And the relief of somebody

saying you are OK, and then you

discover your not. I can't

understand how they can be so inept.

Let's have a look at the Times. This

is, women's refuges may get

transgender staff. This sounds

similar to a story about a woman who

complained that she asked for a seen

a member of staff and somebody was a

transgender member of staff.

Potentially rape and abuse victims

in women's refuges and this is the

story about whether transgender

people will be able to deal with

women who have been the victim of

violence from men.

The fact that you

have gone to a refuge. Arda and so

old I can remember when the first

women's refuge was open. I remember

sitting there with ten women and

they told what they had gone

through. And to actually pick up and

take almost nothing with you, often

they have fled in the middle of the

night when their husband was out

when he was drunk and they thought

she would wake up, to actually leave

and go to the refuge is a big thing.

And I think the idea of not being

looked after by women is quite

scary. I'm sympathetic to

transgender people, but this is one

case where you actually want the

opposite of the person who has

abused you.

And it is a balance

between equality and sensitivity to

transgender people.

And this is just

a review of the policy.

Let's move on to the Sunday

Telegraph. Uma Thurman, on the front

of lots of Sunday papers because she

is alleging that Harvey Weinstein

attacked her as well. We should say

here that he has said he is

considering legal action following

Uma Thurman's allegations, according

to his attorney. They are saying

that Mr Weinstein is stunned and

saddened by what he claims to be

false accusations. This carries on,

we have heard two more women are

leading against him in this country

as well.

Quite a long interview she

has given with the New York Times

went goes into detail over what

happens over a number of years. She

said this happened before she made

El Bill. And she says that perhaps

her agency may have been in some

ways complicit in all this and she

feels something about the fact that

she didn't speak out and there are

other girls or women.

Some people

will say wide and she speak out

before?

And I'm told that Harvey

Weinstein has a lot of e-mails from

women who have accused him saying,

glad to see you Harvey, I will see

you for my screen test next week.

She then carried on making films

with him, which I find

extraordinary. Because she is not a

new girl on the block. If she was an

18-year-old looking., we understand

how this thing works. She is Uma

Thurman and then she carries on

working the man who she says has

behaved so badly. I haven't read the

New York Times interview but it is

extraordinary. And of course, the

agency is probably guessed things

were going on because of gossip.

It's a small community in Hollywood.

But she is complicit if she carried

on working.

But on the other hand,

she talks about things that she went

through on L Bale, that Quentin

Tarantino made a drive a car that

she knew was unsafe and she ended up

crashing it and that is symbolic of

the power that these men had.

Yes,

but she is a famous actress and she

is not broke. Turn and walk away.

The Sunday Express, Jeremy Carbon is

their headline. Labour leader leaves

car guzzling gas on yellow lines. We

cannot verify this, obviously. I

think this is a chauffeur driven

car, he has a driver and they say

this was left running outside his

house.

I'm just wondering how long

the photographer sat in his car with

the engine on waiting for that

photo!

Somebody in that street would

have said, come and take this

picture. But the truth is, it's a

nightmare if you are going to be in

the public eye, you have to watch

everything you do. But he talks

about using the train or using his

bicycle and he believes very

strongly in all of that. He will

have to get rid of the diesel.

It is

surprising that he has got a diesel

car.

It may not be his regular car.

Maybe he has no choice.

I think he

will be cycling everywhere from now

on!

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