25/02/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With us, Charlie Wells,

Deputy Snapchat Editor

for The Economist,

and Rosamund Urwin, who's

Financial Services Correspondent

at the Sunday Times.

Welcome to you both.

Many of the front

pages are already in.

Will start with the Guardian.

It looks ahead to Jeremy

Corbyn's Brexit speech

tomorrow, where he'll outline

Labour's Brexit policy.

Concerns over the quality

of milk post-Brexit leads

the front page of The i.

The Metro has a picture

of the building that was

on fire in Leicester

on their front page.

The Ambulance Service say six people

have been taken to hospital.

A chilling warning from the Express.

They say temperatures in parts

of the UK could drop to minus 15

with snow and blizzards expected

across the country.

While The Mirror says the cold snap

dubbed the "beast from the east"

could cause death and travel chaos.

A colourful picture

from the Closing Ceremony

of the Winter Olympics

is on the front of the Telegraph.

The Times shows a beaming

Ivanka Trump representing the US

alongside a less cheerful looking

North Korean General

at that closing ceremony.

That's how the papers are looking.

We are going to have a look in

detail. First of all, the Guardian.

Corbyn, Brexit speech to put Nate on

the spot. A bit of a change in

policy here. A customs union now

appealing to them.

So Jeremy Corbyn

is finally getting off the awkward

fence that he has been sitting on

for months and saying we are going

to state in a customs union in the

European Union. That is going to

happen tomorrow in his speech at

Coventry. And what this seems like

it's a shift for Labour. And

essentially a signal to many of

Labour's voters who backed Remain by

quite a large margin that

potentially, Labour will be

following a soft Brexit strategy. A

customs union as part of a soft

Brexit strategy.

Anything new

customs union. We cannot be in the

one we are currently in.

And he

is... There are plenty of people in

his party who will say it did not go

far enough and the Guardian have

broken I hear the 80 Senior Labour

figures emerged and made a statement

that Britain stays in the single

market. Of course, Jeremy Corbyn was

elected by his membership with an

emphasis on his membership... His

membership not only overwhelmingly

eroded Remain, but they also would

like to a different approach on

Brexit. I think this is putting

clear water between Labour and the

Tories in terms of the policy but at

the same time, there are people in

the party who think this is not go

anywhere near far enough.

Corbyn

accused of selling snake 00 over

Brexit. How is it snake oil? That

sound like a fake suggestion.

That

select a fake use of phrase... That

comes from David Davis. What he is

here is that this, obviously he

claims it betrays labour's

supporters who voted Leeds. He says

is actually breaching the Labour

Party manifesto of 2017 and putting

jobs at risk by surrendering one of

the chief prizes I Brexit. His

argument is Labour may think they

have found this simple solution but

there is a lesson that are yet to

learn. It looks like snake oil, it

smells like snake oil, don't expect

it to make you feel better. Of

course, David Davis is a man who

said way back when we will be

signing all these deals, that

leaving the EU will be very easy and

he is obviously saying you cannot

find a simple solution to this. That

sound like he's changed his tune

rather a lot.

For some but,

remaining in a customs union which

is a replica of what we have

currently got is not what Brexit was

about.

Who can really say what

Brexit is about when it was a very

simple vote with very simple

language describing an incredibly

competent procedure? Something I

really want to focus on... Remaining

in a customs union, the United

Kingdom could not strike trade he is

on its own. What the story does not

bring to the fore is the fact that

the UK already enjoys some four

dozen free trade agreements that the

EU has already negotiated. And

negotiating that many free-trade

agreements with other countries

outside the EU, a very different

negotiating position, is not going

to be easy.

And with future deals,

would you rather if you are another

nation, sign up with the EU and all

those member states... That selling

Britainshort. Let's look at the FT

and his take on Brexit. Northern

Ireland... Preventing the return of

a hard border but when the North and

the Republic.

With the EU is

essentially saying is that if there

is not going to be a hard border

than Northern Ireland needs to

maintain the regulations that the EU

has. Because the European Union does

not want the Irish border to become

a sort of free-for-all for products

that do not have the same sort of

regulations that the EU upholds. And

so they're essentially saying this

just to stay in place -- needs to

stay in place.

Is also historical

tensions with that border.

Of

course.

The Good Friday Agreement

has been successful in the large

part...

One of the scariest things

Brexit calls into question is the

Good Friday Agreement. The DUP,

obviously in conference with the

Conservatives. Arlene Foster said in

December that any form of regulatory

divergence between Northern Ireland

and the rest of UK was unacceptable.

This is going to be a big problem.

And if you remember, she kicked up a

bit of a stink to Theresa May, which

set back this issue of them finding

agreement over its.

Also, Rosalind

and I were talking about eight

Twitter comments Enda Kenny from a

viewer. Talking about how maybe

Theresa May should take on the

rambling border... -- a Twitter

comment came in from a viewer.

Lots

of roads keep crossing over, was the

points. And there are farmers would

land on both sides and there are

people that work on one side and on

the other across over every single

day.

Jeremy, thank you for your

tweet. Let's look at the times.

Embattled universities face limits

on powers. They're really under the

spotlight at the moment.

And with

good reason. All these vice

chancellors Arnie crazy 6-figure

salaries. There is reason to think

that we should look at many of these

issues. However, I would add this

looks like government meddling in a

way that seems really quite

questionable to me. Essentially, the

new office for will tackle not only

management issues such as salaries,

which has risen to... Also academic

matters including interest of

degrees and the number of contact

hours. That does seem sort of

micromanaging of universities. One

of the things it mentions here is

whether students get any value for

money. And of course, you might say

that over £9,000 is an awful lot of

money to pay each year for a degree,

but it wasn't universities who

changed the policy there, was it?

It's still quite cheap in comparison

to go to university here.

I don't

want to talk about my student debt

that let me just say there is

significant amount and it's a

problem. Student debt adds to the

risk of pursuing a degree for

students. And the point that I am

struck by here is the story gets

into the idea that sometimes

expanding and expanding and

expanding higher education is not

actually beneficial. There are a few

studies that actually show a strong

link between more people going to

university in a decrease in social

mobility. It sounds like a great

idea but there are other things that

people can do to to help people.

Let's have a very quick look at the

Financial Times again. China seeks

to extend presidency. Due to step

down in 2023, but could go longer.

A

lot of China watchers thought that

Xi Jinping would follow the rules to

achieve. And would step down after

two terms but it'd look like he

could potentially be something of an

Emperor full stop and theoretically

stay in for much of his life. And

that is concerning, as China becomes

wealthier, as he tries to exert

power on the world stage. If it has

what seems to be an unchecked ruler

who has spent the past term and a

half so applying -- solidifying his

power, he can essentially do what he

wants with the world's most powerful

militaries and largest economies.

Russia used to have a 2-term limit

on its presidency and of course, one

of the things Putin about to do is

get rid of that.

That's what it

looks like.

Let us look at the

Guardian. Social media firms failing

to protect young users. Harassment,

cyber bullying, affecting mental

health. Really damaging to young

people's self-esteem.

If you are

using one of these tools and summary

from your school or somebody did you

do not know send you harassing

language or negative comments, that

hurts, especially when you are 12

years old, 13 years old, maybe 14

and you're just starting to get a

sense of how social interactions

work stop it's hard enough for

adults, isn't it?

It is very

draining getting abuse online. One

of the things mentioned here that I

think it is worth a think about is

young people feeling let down by

social media platforms and they want

companies to take a much harder

line. I've talked at great length to

all the main Internet companies

committee big social media giants

about what they do and I just do not

think that they have enough

mechanisms in place to remove users,

to stop users. Order is particularly

bad because what it says for his

freedom of speech. -- Twitter is

particularly bad. If you are woman,

from an ethnic minority, you will

find that you get a level of abuse

on there if you have a sort of

public platform that is very, very

hard to deal with and it stops you

saying what you think.

Let's finish

with a quick mention of the weather.

Trains asked as UK braces for big

chill.

You can see why train users

have not been happy. They faced

astronomical figures and they have

been told on top of that there train

has been cancelled and the still has

not even come yet.

And tomorrow is

Monday, which is always...

These are

the Monday morning papers. Talking

about trains being cancelled for

tomorrow night aren't they? Make

other plans or work from home if you

possibly can. We would struggle here

to work from home.

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