26/02/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers

will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Sebastian Payne,

Political Leader Writer

at the Financial Times

and Dia Chakravarty,

Brexit Editor at the Telegraph.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Metro leads on the story of the

five-year-old who died after being

turned away from a GP appointment

because she was late. Tamara's

express warns of the blizzards set

to sweep the country. So cold, the

sea has frozen at Weston-Super-Mare.

It is cold outside, but the

financial Times says there is heat

on Theresa May as Jeremy Corbyn

plans an alliance with rebel

Conservatives as he plans to keep

the country in a customs union with

the European Union. The Daily

Telegraph points the finger at the

rail companies, saying operators are

profiting from compensation and

counselling services -- compensation

from cancelling services for

passengers.

And the sun has gone with the great

British flake off as snow is set to

disrupt travel.

Let's have a closer look at those.

Welcome to Sebastien and ten two. --

and Dia.

Jeremy Corbyn's big speech

yesterday.

We now know that Labour

is supporting a position where we

are to remain permanently in some

sort of customs union. Jeremy Corbyn

said was to be some form of customs

union. Where we allow the EU to do

trade deals with the rest of the

world on our behalf. But as far as

Jeremy Corbyn is concerned, that is

one way of getting around the

Northern Ireland question, about

having a border between Northern

Ireland and the Republic of Ireland,

and also having frictionless trade

with the European Union. But it is

Sebastien's story.

Just looking at

this story here, do we think that

some of these rebel Tories will

really side with Labour? The FT

seems to suggest they will be.

The

story is whether this will mean

anything. Jeremy Corbyn is not in

power at the moment. The only way

this matters is because of the

Parliamentary arithmetic. Theresa

May has a gossamer majority, so she

has to do a deal with Labour leaders

and the DUP and so on. This is so

important for the future of our

country. That is for one approach EU

conservative, who said they would

vote for their conscience over the

party interest. If she was to make

it a confidence issue, she would

play chicken with her MPs, asking if

they were going to vote down, if

they did that they would bring the

Conservative government down. We

will be hearing from on Friday. We

will see how she responds.

Do you

see this as essentially a political

move by Jeremy Corbyn, seizing the

opportunity to make life more

difficult?

I see nothing wrong with

that. He is the opposition leader.

For a long time, the criticism we

had, or that we have heard quite a

lot, about Jeremy Corbyn is he is

not interested in taking power and

doing anything. He is always talking

the big talk and not doing anything.

Here he is, in a position where he

himself... I doubt whether he thinks

he can get this through the EU if it

came to that. It was an interesting

quote in that article from Frank

Field, who is also saying that he

doesn't think the EU will accept

this proposition, but he is still

liking what is beta is doing to

Theresa May, whose position is

weakened since the last election.

Just to add something, I wonder

whether if Jeremy Corbyn leases new

starts as well. He is an on reform

socialist who doesn't like the EU,

thinks it's a capitalist club that

is run by corporate interests. He

can see a political opportunity here

to put some water between Labour and

the Conservatives. I think that

makes sense politically, but in

terms of what he wants from Brexit,

one of the things he spoke about was

reforming state a draw. He wants to

prop up the steel industry, but the

EU won't countenance that at all.

The other Brexit story on the front

pages of the Daily Telegraph, saying

Brussels demand Northern Ireland

keys EU rules. This is part of the

technical text that will come out,

putting into legal terms the deal

that was done at the end of last

year.

in December, Britain said that

we were going to suggest

technological solutions to a

frictionless border, talking about

numberplate recognition and trading

schemes and so on. What we are

hearing is that, on Thursday, the EU

will publish... Will it be Wednesday

or Thursday? Wednesday. Publishing a

paper where the EU built them aren't

that essentially we leave Northern

Ireland in the EU when the rest of

the UK come out of the EU, because

Northern Ireland in that paper, it

will be demanded that it would be

under the ECJ jurisdiction, which

would essentially mean that it would

still be ruled by the EU while the

rest of us would not be. That would

create a huge problem for all of us,

but also specifically for the DUP,

who are propping up the Government

at the moment.

That is the Gordian

knot of this situation. Nobody knows

how to solve this. What

conservatives have not realised is

what they signed up to back in

December. And they should come up

with a solution that satisfies the

EU legal framework, it is the status

quo.

The same regulations north and

south of the border?

Exactly.

Trading and Customs can't change at

all. It is very much over to Mrs May

to say what she is going to do. What

the EU is doing here is crafty, they

try to move the border from between

Northern Ireland and the Republic of

Ireland two between the island of

Ireland and the UK. Some of the

consequences that could lead to are

unthinkable. It is certainly playing

with fire.

There is so much Brexit

to talk about as ever. Lots of other

stories to get through. Let's take a

book at the metro here, talking

about five minutes that cost my girl

her life, that is a dramatic

headline they come up with.

An

extraordinary story, a doctor has

been condemned for turning away this

girl who was five minutes late for

an appointment at her surgery, and

who then collapsed and died in

hospital. The doctor missed the

opportunity to provide life-saving

treatment. As with all these things,

you don't actually know what

happens. One of the things that

happens is when you have these

systems are trying to make targets,

trying to see times, it can have

unintended consequences. This doctor

will be living for the rest of her

life with the knowledge that this

girl could have been saved, had she

been seen, and recognise the fact

that she was wheezing and struggling

to walk into the surgery. It is a

sad one, but these things happen

when you have got very busy and

pressured health systems.

Let's take

a look at the Guardian. An

interesting story that we talked

about earlier here on BBC News, four

far right plots foiled in 2017, says

an anti-terror chief.

It is the

short version of the front page

here. Exactly as you said, the

outgoing assistant commissioner of

the Metropolitan police, saying that

some of the terawatts they had been

dealing with, four of those work

from far right extremists. Later in

the article, it says that a third of

referrals to the Prevent strategy

are actually aimed at reducing

terrorism all forms, were actually

referring far right extremists. In

effect, they are the same form of

terrorism. They are feeding off each

other and we are seeing organisation

on the part of the far right

extremists, which previously we had

not seen.

Until now, it has been

Islamists plots that have been

seizing the headlights. Behind some

of the serious attacks that we have

seen in this country as well.

If we

think back to Britain first, a far

right group in Britain, they were

very infamously tweeted by Donald

Trump. He was in a way giving

legitimacy to these groups that are

reaching into society. They are

organising so well, they are using

social media to spread their

ideology of hatred, and finding a

receptive audience. It is a

difficult one. We have had a lot of

stories about Facebook and Google

and Twitter doing more about these

things and working with the

authorities. I'm sure Mr Rowley

would like to see more corporation

from the social media companies.

They do need to take an active role

in that. The Government scheme is

something that is much criticised,

but it is doing a good job, clearly.

We are running out of time, but we

couldn't go without a quick mention

of the snow, which makes a few of

the front pages here. The daily

Star, one of many that has got a

picture that of a train in the snow,

just reflecting some of the

difficulties that there will be for

commuters in the morning, as well as

to night.

We have had quite a

difficult day today for a lot of

people who have suffered because of

this sudden snow that we have seen.

Often, we hear that we deal very

badly with a little bit of snow.

Look at how well Canada deal with

it. That is a little unfair because

we don't have to deal with it for

the rest of the year, so do but lots

of money into providing for these

few days that things could go wrong,

it is not the answer. It is also

interesting to see how we will

react. Apparently the snow has

sparked panic buying, with one

Sainsburys running out of bread due

to the snow.

As soon as one thing

goes wrong, we dashed to the petrol

stations, -- diverse chops to sure

everything will be fine. The next

few days will be interesting to

watch.

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Thank you to Sebastian Payne

and Dia Chakravarty.

Goodbye.