25/02/2018 The Papers

unity between North and South Korea

as the Winter Olympics

come to a close. Pyongyang says it

will sit down for talks with the

United States.

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

at what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With us, Charlie Wells,

Deputy SnapChat editor at the

Economist, probably the best job

title we have ever announced! And

Rosamund Urwin A close second,

financial services Chris Bond and

with the Sunday Times. Nice to see

you both. Many of the front pages

are already in. Let's start with the

Financial Times. It has a picture of

Ivanka Trump watching the closing

ceremony of the Olympics in

PyeongChang, alongside one of North

Korea's highest ranking generals.

The Guardian goes with Jeremy Corbyn

revealing Labour's Brexit policy

tomorrow, confirming he wants the UK

to remain in a Customs Union.

Concerns over the quality of milk

post-Brexit leads the front page of

the i. The metro has a picture of

the building fire in Leicester on

its front page. The Ambulance

Service say four people have been

taken Joss Buttler. A chilling

warning from the express. They say

temperatures in parts of the UK

could drop to -15 Celsius, with snow

and blizzards expected across the

country. While the Mirror says the

cold snap dubbed the beast from the

east could cause deaths and travel

chaos. So, a fair old mix. We'll

start with more Brexit. The Guardian

is where we'll begin. Corbyn Brexit

speech to put Theresa May on the

spot. We have Kier Starmer today,

the shadow Brexit Secretary,

Rossman, talking about the idea of

remaining within the Customs Union.

But not the current one, something

close to it.

The operative word

being a rather than the, verbal

gymnastics. What he is not saying is

that under Labour we would remain in

the Single Market, that will upset a

lot of his membership you obviously

not only backed Remain but would

like to stay in their -- who

obviously. This has put Labour in a

different position from the

Conservatives, and a lot of pressure

on Theresa May, because there are

plenty of Tory rebels who would

maybe be tempted to create an

alliance and not backed her approach

of taking us out of the Customs

Union.

Yes, and it wouldn't be the

same one we are currently in. You

have to be a member of the EU to be

in this one, but they can concoct

something similar.

What a difference

and a makes, talking about a Customs

Union versus the Customs Union! All

that said, customs unions are a good

thing for the economy. And the way

that they work is essentially they

allow goods to move between

countries without tariffs. And so

right now, Britain's economy is very

heavily linked with Europe's. And

introducing tariffs and that would

slow down manufacturing, it would

make places like Dover or

theoretically the Irish border hard

borders, and much more difficult for

goods to travel between, and it

would have a very negative effect on

the economy. This is positive news

that Jeremy Corbyn seems to be

moving in sort of a softer Brexit

direction. I wonder if this is a

turning point.

But, of course,

Labour are not in power. Although

Theresa May is running a minority

government, supported by the DUP.

Yes, and she is facing this sort of

really tricky week. I mean, it's the

big Brexit week. She's making a

speech on Friday setting out what

the future EU- UK relations look

like. On top of that, she's also got

the withdrawal treaty publication,

and we're going to see obviously the

conversation about the Irish border,

which I think we can get to.

We will

do in one second.

That will be

dominant as well. All of these

things that have been in the

background and we are all very aware

of will be right at the forefront

this week.

Let's look at the FT. EU

stands firm of Northern Ireland

border in Brexit withdrawal treaty.

Northern Ireland and the concern

about inflaming tensions if there

were to be a hard border between

Northern Ireland and the Republic of

Ireland, it comes back into the news

and then disappears again, doesn't

it?

Everyone can agree that nobody

wants to go back to the time before

the Good Friday Agreement, and

nobody wants to see a hard border

between the two countries. What is

really interesting that you mention,

this seems to be settled, and then

it's not. And that speaks to the

difficulty of securing this

negotiation between the UK and the

EU, it's a dynamic process that can

change over time.

I have to say, I

find it shocking that this wasn't

talked about more in the run-up to

the referendum. I know somebody who

went to a meeting before the

referendum with their Brexit

supporting Tory MP, and they asked

him, you know, what would happen if

we had a hard border between

Northern Ireland and the Republic?

And he said, I haven't thought of

that! I mean, this is extraordinary

to me. My family come from Ireland

originally, so it was very much at

the forefront of my mind, but I

really cannot believe it was not

talked about more.

I remember maybe

a year or two ago on this very

programme, we had a story on a front

page about Northern Ireland. And I

remember one of the commentators

saying, it must be a slow news day!

It is something people

underestimated, how big this issue

would be.

Here we have the European

Commission absolutely clear that

there needs to be sort of regulatory

alignment for Northern Ireland with

the EU to stop that hard border

reappearing. But for the DUP, of

course as a result of this

confidence and supply arrangement

with Theresa May's government, they

don't want Northern Ireland to be

treated any differently to the rest

of the UK.

That is utterly bizarre

to me, they say they don't want a

hard border but they are in favour

of Brexit and what appears to be a

pretty hard Brexit. You think, how

can those two things go together? It

doesn't make any sense to me, their

position.

Hopefully there are

lawyers that can work this stuff out

and it would be some kind of fudge,

wouldn't it?

One of the that I keep

hearing from Brexiteers is that

technology will solve this problem

and we will have very advanced

capabilities so even if there are

different regulations between the

two countries, a computer can check

through to make sure everything is

fine.

What about all the people... I

don't understand it, the people who

cross over every day who work on one

side and live on the other, or

people who own land on both sides,

farmers would land on both sides.

All of these elements that you

describe can be got around by some

creative thinking, can't they?

We

voted now in June 2016, and I

haven't seen that many bright ideas

yet being created on this.

Thank

goodness we haven't got to come up

with them! That is look at the Ahye,

another Brexit related story.

Britain may be forced to take

inferior US milk, white?

It sounds

like in a hypothetical free trade

agreement between the US and the UK,

the US, at least at this point,

seems to be lobbying, or at least

dairy lobbyists seem to be pushing

to have the ability to Selt lower

quality milk here in the UK. And

this is really interesting to me.

And it's something that has a lot of

Americans scratching their heads

about Brexit as well. I know we are

just talking Brexit, Brexit, Brexit,

but a lot of Americans look to the

EU as very beneficial, and the

regulations, especially related to

consumer products, food and other

goods that they put out keep

consumers say. In the regular so,

United States, our regulations are

not as strict and not as favourable

to the consumer. Here is an odd

circumstance, in a hypothetical

situation in which the UK and the US

have some sort of a trade agreement,

the UK is getting bad products.

Why

would we need to bother taking this

stuff?

We don't have to. We hear,

but my thought on this is that we

are getting Korine Geggan -- we do

not have the full Uri here, we are

getting Korine chicken, milk from

cows with other infections, this is

the Mad Max style world that David

Davis promised we were not headed

towards, the dystopian vision!

It is

a really effective talking point for

people who want to remain as close

to the EU as possible. I remember

during the debate in 2016 you would

hear these comments from Brexiteers

saying, oh, well like the EU can

tout us how curved our cucumbers can

be and how hot our testers can get.

Those are very specific consumer

issues. -- how hot our toasters.

Here we are seeing a very specific

consumer issue that will get people

to potentially thinking the other

direction.

Of course, we should have

seen that in advance of the

referendum.

The whole idea of curvy

bananas has never actually been

true, has it was this is really a

question of whether the American

dairy industry

is going to...

Lobbied us to change our rules.

The

Financial Times, President Xi Sinn

Fein hangs his grip on power -- Xi

Jinping. If they change the

constitution, he can go on longer.

He is doing a President Putin, he

did the exact same thing. In the

Russian Constitution, you were only

allowed bust my terms, eight years.

Putin took a little holiday and was

Prime Minister for a little while

and went back to the presidency. Now

we are seeing a similar attempt in

China, although not that route to

it. So, the president is going to be

formally re-elected this coming

week. And when the national people's

congress meets, and he now wants

obviously to solidify his position

there for a lot longer.

Yes, and a

lot of western democracies have

wanted to push China more towards

the sort of systems that we have. It

doesn't seem to be headed in that

direction at all-star law a lot of

China watchers were very hopeful

when Xi Jinping

took power, that he

would follow the course of his

predecessor and stick to them all

is. The rules answers session were

put in place to avoid chaos. After

Mars udon and a series of very

turbulent issues, it was agreed in

the late 80s that we need to have a

China, China needed to have two

terms, they needed to limit power

and have more peaceful transitions.

It seems like Xi Jinping, who has,

for most of his term, and his

predecessor has been talking about

how to create stability, trying to

avoid chaos and focus on building

the economy, this seems like

something of a shift, he is starting

to focus a lot more on power and

solidifying power. That is

disconcerting and also a little bit

scary, because now that he could

theoretically be president for life,

his policies might change. He is

more powerful than a lame duck

president who has one year left. He

can pursue different policies than

he could.

But the point is, this is

just one of his three jobs. He is

actively also party General

Secretary, which he could be for

life. And that doesn't have a term

limit. And then he is also top of

the military. It's only a limit on

this one.

He must have more hours in

the days and I have! Let's look at

The And the, an extraordinary blast

of cold weather.

It sounds like

commuters were angry to find that

their rail journeys were disrupted.

The figure that keeps being thrown

around is -15 degrees. Parts of

Britain are going to get very, very

cold. It sounds like transport is

certainly going to be effective.

The

hilarious bit is that they have done

this before, the snow has fallen

before it has even gone and 0

degrees. They have already decided

to cancel the trains.

Before a

single flake has fallen!

You can

understand why people are not happy

about that. It rather adds to the

feeling in Britain that our rail

services are not up to much if they

can't cope with leaves or snow or

any of the kind of normal things.

It

is dull better than American

trained!

The Daily Mirror is saying

the same thing, beware the beast

from the east, it will kill! This is

the other issue, the number of

winter deaths. It does cause...

Lets

not forget, this is going to be

pressure on the health service,

which has already had an incredibly

difficult winter. Well, you know,

people have been waiting on

trolleys. Obviously you would hope

that as the weather got better these

things with ease. But actually now

they are saying we are going to have

horrible weather, more pressure on

the NHS.

It speaks to this, the

gated issue of naming storms. There

is a public health and safety issue

that suggests that sometimes naming

storms is good, it causes more

public awareness, people can talk

about the beast from the east and

the newspapers can blast it across

their front pages. But you can't go

too far. If you create too much

awareness, it can look like an over

reaction and people will stop

responding to allow from safety

procedures.

It looks like it is

going to be pretty rough in some

places, whether it has got a name or

not. But the papers for this hour,

but Charlie and Rosamond will be

back again at 11:30pm for another

look at the papers. The camera is

quite busy tonight, isn't it?! Of,

it's deliberate, of course it is!

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