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immortal. The Red Devils's spirit
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Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the papers will be | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
With me are Stephen Bush,
Special Correspondent | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
for the New Statesman,
and the Deputy Political Editor | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
at The Sun, Steve Hawkes. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
Welcome to you both. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:38 | |
The FT's leaders of volatility of
world stock markets complete with a | 0:00:38 | 0:00:43 | |
picture of frayed nerves on Wall
Street. The Guardian reports that | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
Tesco may face a £4 million bill for
back pay in what could become the | 0:00:46 | 0:00:52 | |
UK's largest ever equal pay claim.
It also has an image of so-called | 0:00:52 | 0:00:58 | |
Cheddar man, dating back 10,000
years. A planned reform of the gig | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
economy could lead to millions of
new work is getting better rights, | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
according to the i newspaper. The
top story in the Metro is the | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
jailing of a stalk of 26 years after
he murdered his former partner. The | 0:01:10 | 0:01:16 | |
Mirror features a pledge from the
mother of brain-damaged Alvi Evans | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
to never stop fighting to save his
life. The Daily Express claims | 0:01:20 | 0:01:26 | |
Britain could be forced to accept
new EU regulations after Brexit. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
That's according to a new report. In
the Times has a picture of the | 0:01:30 | 0:01:35 | |
Falcon Heavy rocket taking off in
Florida. A mixed bag of front-page | 0:01:35 | 0:01:40 | |
stories. Thank you both, Stephen and
Steve, for being here. Must begin | 0:01:40 | 0:01:47 | |
with the FT, Europe and Asia bearing
the brunt as stocks reel from | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
volatilities. All day I have been
hearing it as a correction and not a | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
crash but wide range of
repercussions for this. The Dow | 0:01:57 | 0:02:03 | |
Jones index was up 567 points so
this huge sell-off has already run | 0:02:03 | 0:02:08 | |
its course. My view is that we are
bound to see things like this | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
because the stock market has been on
such a boom, it's gone up 20 points | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
so that will always be a correction
if people get worried, is this note | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
the peak, do we stop selling, and if
someone does, it highlights a me two | 0:02:20 | 0:02:26 | |
things. An interesting paragraph
anywhere when a trader says this is | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
about the economy moving off life
support. People think interest rates | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
will go up a lot this year. In a way
that is a sign of good things | 0:02:35 | 0:02:40 | |
because we are coming off life
support from the credit crisis | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
almost a decade ago and returning to
normality. We should see it as a | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
good thing that the economy is
moving back into that normal cycle. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
Would you agree, Stephen? Yes, they
have predicted nine out of the five | 0:02:51 | 0:02:58 | |
last recessions and we know for the
last decade central banks have | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
created this parallel universe of
big businesses. The economy appears | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
to be recovering, still very low
wage growth and a slight worry about | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
what that means. The interesting
question is, it looks as if the Dow | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
Jones has recovered most of its
losses. I wouldn't be surprised if | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
on Friday Europe and Asia have
recovered most of theirs as well. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
Interesting. Notice, we didn't start
with Brexit! But we need to go to it | 0:03:23 | 0:03:28 | |
now. The EU six to limit UK's access
if Brexit terms are broken. We | 0:03:28 | 0:03:41 | |
likely to get any more clarity on
the direction we are going in? It | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
seems unlikely. According to this
story the EU wants a transition | 0:03:45 | 0:03:52 | |
period while it negotiates the trade
deals are effectively we would still | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
be members of the EU although
without a say. The EU is worried | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
that we will start to leave without
having properly left. What kind of | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
think the British government has
spent too much time worrying about | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
the transition. A bit like, if we
were a hermit crab, we would not sit | 0:04:07 | 0:04:13 | |
there going, this shell is not good
that Shell is not God, we would put | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
on a shell and look for the next.
The EU needs to stop fussing and | 0:04:17 | 0:04:23 | |
think about what had once the UK to
look like in 2030, 20 40. A | 0:04:23 | 0:04:28 | |
long-term vision as opposed to this
short-term one that we've got. Is | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
this not another example of the EU
flexing its muscles? It's another | 0:04:33 | 0:04:39 | |
well timed leak ahead of this
subcommittee meeting of the Cabinet | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
tomorrow when hopefully they will
spell out what kind of Brexit they | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
want which is taken far too long,
almost a year now, we still haven't | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
set out what we want to achieve. I
disagree in a way, the transition is | 0:04:52 | 0:04:57 | |
important to the government because
it helps them work out what they | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
want to do, it gives them more time.
Viewers will be happy because we are | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
into the endgame in a way so
hopefully in the next month in | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
Brussels and London will flesh out
where we are, there will be all | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
manner of arguments, stories about
who will do what still but I think | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
we are getting there! The front page
of the Daily Express claims the EU | 0:05:15 | 0:05:22 | |
is still trying to rule Britain.
This story was in the Telegraph last | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
night, new laws that may come into
force, we may have to have full | 0:05:26 | 0:05:33 | |
recycling bill steering this
transition period. Was it only | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
yesterday, now confirmed? It was a
leak obtained by the Telegraph, | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
saying the EU might do this, and now
they said they would. Except that we | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
know that this is what transition
looks like, the EU will continue to | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
evolve and change and do what it
once and after we leave will do what | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
we want but they will be a period
transition when we will still follow | 0:05:54 | 0:05:59 | |
the rules. It's a bit like if you
move out of a flat your flatmates | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
can repaint the walls while you are
still there and you don't get to | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
vote on it because everyone knows
that you are leaving and you won't | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
be paying the rent animal. This is a
product of the governments failure | 0:06:09 | 0:06:15 | |
to sit down and explain what Brexit
means to voters beyond saying, we | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
can't talk to you about that, Brexit
means Brexit, we haven't negotiated | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
the end state. This stuff about the
EU wanting to rule us is just not. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:32 | |
There's the fear among hard-core
Tory Brexiteers but they were told, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
the consequence of Theresa May
dithering as such, they were told, | 0:06:35 | 0:06:41 | |
2019, we will take back control.
Money, law and Borders, no it will | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
be 2021 because of this transition
phase, we have to accept everything. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
They have no say over what puzzles
does because we moving out. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:56 | |
Brexiteers are worried that Brussels
could force the laws that we need to | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
accept that might be to our
disadvantage, will have no say in | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
it. Ireland pushing for border deal
threatens to hit Brexit talks, says | 0:07:03 | 0:07:12 | |
this headline. Steve? If we have
said we are coming out of the | 0:07:12 | 0:07:19 | |
customs union it brings up the
question of what will happen on the | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
border between the North of Ireland
and the South. A massive issue, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:27 | |
Ireland squad we will say about it,
they want reassurance that button | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
won't have this hard border coming
back. It keeps coming back, this | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
argument. This will all hopefully be
resolved soon and we can move on. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
You look at it and think, I went to
the Brexit negotiations last year | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
and the civil servants, in a room
could sort this out easily and all | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
the politicians are all arguing they
feel like this. Any word to add on | 0:07:49 | 0:07:55 | |
that, Stephen, or would you like to
move on to the suffragettes? Ireland | 0:07:55 | 0:08:01 | |
is the big unsolvable issue for
Brexit. If you diverge from the EU | 0:08:01 | 0:08:06 | |
you'll have a hard border. If you
don't what is the point of Brexit? | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
The sensible solution is that
Ireland does not leave. The whole | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
Ireland does not leave. Sadly
Theresa May has lost a majority and | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
has to deal with the DUP and they
will never accept it. The only | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
sensible solution is either, we
don't leave order hard border. -- | 0:08:23 | 0:08:29 | |
either we don't leave or we have a
hard border. Theresa May has been | 0:08:29 | 0:08:36 | |
asked to consider posthumously
pardoning those suffragettes who | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
committed crimes in pursuit of the
vote. I wonder if this is right. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:44 | |
Perhaps the suffragettes wanted to
get arrested to draw attention to | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
their cause. They may not want to be
pardoned. I will plug my magazine | 0:08:47 | 0:08:55 | |
and said there was a great these by
Caroline creat or Peres about this. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
-- is a great piece in our magazine.
She says the government was wrong to | 0:08:59 | 0:09:06 | |
imprison them. The government did do
something wrong. Maybe a formal | 0:09:06 | 0:09:11 | |
apology but this idea that you
pardon somebody. I think if I was | 0:09:11 | 0:09:16 | |
descended from a suffragette I would
be quite proud to be descended from | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
someone who had been imprisoned for
breaking an unjust law. I think a | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
pardon is quite the wrong course of
action. It's one of those things | 0:09:23 | 0:09:28 | |
that happening now, like with Alan
Turing, people asked if he would get | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
a medal, would he be pardoned. What
was great today and what we should | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
focus on more is the enjoyment of
that centenary celebration and how | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
far have moved. One line in the
speech by Theresa May was the line | 0:09:40 | 0:09:46 | |
about moving on and talking about
online abuse. Nowhere near that | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
historic battle but another big
battle we have to win. Katie Price | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
was in the Commons today talking
about the violence directed at her | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
son Harvey. Abuse suffered by a lot
of female MPs on Twitter for | 0:09:58 | 0:10:04 | |
example. Let's move on to the i
newspaper. It's a policy from the | 0:10:04 | 0:10:17 | |
government, surprise surprise that
could do some good. Matthew Taylor | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
was sent to look at the gig economy.
You don't really have sick pay and | 0:10:21 | 0:10:28 | |
holiday day with these firms, it's a
massive review of what can be done | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
to help people in that gig economy.
The government may look at getting | 0:10:31 | 0:10:37 | |
these guys sick pay and holiday pay
and the chance to ask for a normal | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
contract which make them than with a
higher minimum wage. Great news for | 0:10:40 | 0:10:45 | |
the 5 million people in that. I
wonder if the sting in the tail will | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
be how the Treasury treats them tax
rise. Last year Philip Hammond | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
talked about raising national
insurance for self-employed workers. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
That might be the sting in the tail.
Stephen, does this link with the | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
story on the front page of the | 0:11:00 | 0:11:13 | |
Guardian, Tesco may face a £4
billion bill of equal pay claim, | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
would that be the biggest of equal
pay claim in the country? The | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
largest clawing back of money that
should have been paid. It turns out, | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
thanks to this law firms that Tesco
has been paying more to men who have | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
been working in its warehouse than
women in the same jobs and more to | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
men who have been working on tills.
People who work in Tesco's are not | 0:11:28 | 0:11:32 | |
self-employed, they have a
contractual relationship with Tesco. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:37 | |
It's part of the same pattern of big
firms are effectively saying, now | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
you work for us, the rights you had
in a small sum, you don't get those | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
any more. Interesting. Steve? Tuscan
needs this like a hole in the head, | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
the ex-directors are going through
the courts of the profit warning | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
from a couple of years back and now
business isn't food in the best of | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
light today what with the Carillion
story and Tesco on the front of a | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
national paper being told that they
pay women £3 an hour less, that's | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
not good for them. This striking
picture. We don't have much time. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:13 | |
Cheddar man, facial reconstruction
of Britain's oldest skeleton. How | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
does he look. Kind of how you would
expect! We know humanity began in | 0:12:16 | 0:12:24 | |
Africa. People arrived, fresh from
the boat as my grandfather was, you | 0:12:24 | 0:12:32 | |
intermarry and get a bit paler and
it appears this is what has happened | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
with Cheddar Man. Each generation
has become more accustomed to living | 0:12:36 | 0:12:42 | |
here, doesn't have to worry so much
about the sun, it's a reminder we | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
are all from the same place
originally. That's a wonderful way | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
to end, we've run out of time. Thank
you both so much. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:58 | |
That's it for The Papers tonight. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
Don't forget you can see the front
pages of the papers online | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
on the BBC News website. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
It's all there for you -
7 days a week at bbc dot co uk/ | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
papers - and if you miss
the programme any | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
evening you can watch it
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
Thank you Stephen and Steve. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:16 |