0:00:15 > 0:00:18Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:23With me are the Political Strategist
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Jo Tanner and Paul Johnson, Deputy Editor of The Guardian.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Welcome to you both.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36The Financial Times leads with trouble on the high
0:00:36 > 0:00:39street, as Toys R Us and Maplin enter administration, while New Look
0:00:39 > 0:00:43and Prezzo close outlets.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47The Daily Mirror dubs the situation "heartbreak on the high street,"
0:00:47 > 0:00:49as more than 5,000 jobs are put at risk.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Theresa May's opposition to the EU's proposals for the Northern Irish
0:00:52 > 0:00:57border features on the Metro's front page.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00It's also one of a number
0:01:00 > 0:01:03of papers to feature Prince Harry and Meghan Markle speaking alongside
0:01:03 > 0:01:08the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10The Daily Telegraph report claims that pro-EU politicians
0:01:10 > 0:01:20are exploiting the Irish border question as a means to stop Brexit.
0:01:22 > 0:01:28The Guardian features the pressure on the Prime Minister for Brexit and
0:01:28 > 0:01:32the disruption of the freezing weather. Plenty to keep us busy.
0:01:32 > 0:01:39Let's start with Brexit, it's on your front page, the Guardian. If
0:01:39 > 0:01:44this was an 800 meter dash, we just hope the bell and everyone is
0:01:44 > 0:01:47jockeying for position, into the home straight.The home straight...
0:01:47 > 0:01:54It might be... I don't think it will be straight, it will be a zigzag!
0:01:54 > 0:01:59Some people might fall over. Some people might be disqualified and
0:01:59 > 0:02:03injured! It won't be straightforward. An extraordinary
0:02:03 > 0:02:07day, a day when some people might look back and say that the blue
0:02:07 > 0:02:12touch paper was lit. Michel Barnier, the chief EU negotiator, came up
0:02:12 > 0:02:19with the 120 page draft and people focused on two pages, Ireland. It
0:02:19 > 0:02:22was him saying on behalf of the nations of the EU, if the UK doesn't
0:02:22 > 0:02:26have a bespoke plan, we'll have to revert to this, Northern Ireland
0:02:26 > 0:02:30being part of the customs union. Theresa May said we couldn't do
0:02:30 > 0:02:35that, no British Foreign Minister could do that, the DUP were angry
0:02:35 > 0:02:40saying it was a provocation and try to break up the union. The Irish
0:02:40 > 0:02:44were crossed because they don't see how you can square this circle. John
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Major popped up, as he does occasionally, not usually helpful to
0:02:49 > 0:02:55the current incumbent by Minister, and he said we need a free vote in
0:02:55 > 0:02:57parliament for a second referendum. Tony Blair is going to pop up
0:02:57 > 0:03:12tomorrow with the idea of a reformed EU is wooing the UK back in. Does
0:03:12 > 0:03:19Theresa May have a plan?There are a multitude of stories, Jo, an Brexit.
0:03:19 > 0:03:25-- on the Brexit. Boris Johnson says in the Daily Telegraph that the
0:03:25 > 0:03:28ultra-Remainers are determined to do everything in their power to stop
0:03:28 > 0:03:34the democratic will of the people's wished to leave.Allies of Boris
0:03:34 > 0:03:38allegedly say that the Irish issue is being exploited. I think there's
0:03:38 > 0:03:47a real danger, a lot of people don't remember the Troubles in Northern
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Ireland, and what went on. Years ago we didn't talk about Northern
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Ireland, politicians didn't because it was very sensitive, they didn't
0:03:54 > 0:03:59want to upset anybody but the issue of the border has become almost a
0:03:59 > 0:04:03free for all for everybody to have an opinion. It is dangerous because
0:04:03 > 0:04:07we have sensitive issues, the Good Friday Agreement in difficulty,
0:04:07 > 0:04:11power-sharing in the balance.Is there a danger for the European
0:04:11 > 0:04:15Union because they put out a strong line in this legal text that's been
0:04:15 > 0:04:18published. If the government continues saying we don't want a
0:04:18 > 0:04:22customs union and we won't have a border, do we force the European
0:04:22 > 0:04:29Union to unilaterally put a border there and they don't want to do that
0:04:29 > 0:04:33because of the Good Friday Agreement?It is a draft. I think it
0:04:33 > 0:04:37is an attempt to push. They say they haven't heard from the British
0:04:37 > 0:04:42government and that it hasn't done its job and come up with ideas. Some
0:04:42 > 0:04:47specious talk about knowledge even the they are saying, come on, let's
0:04:47 > 0:04:53see your ideas. I think this is show us what you've got on Friday.But he
0:04:53 > 0:04:56wouldn't unilaterally want a border in which case Northern Ireland
0:04:56 > 0:05:00becomes a good weight for the UK to get a free-trade deal. It becomes a
0:05:00 > 0:05:07huge issue,and this issue about ensuring that peace continues. It
0:05:07 > 0:05:11becomes such a big issue, it's almost a case of who is prepared to
0:05:11 > 0:05:17force the issue. Some concessions made today I think around people
0:05:17 > 0:05:22coming into this country and about their ability to apply for the right
0:05:22 > 0:05:27to remain, which had previously looked off the table. So we're
0:05:27 > 0:05:29looking to make concessions after this difficult discussion when we've
0:05:29 > 0:05:34had the back and forth. So it's going to play out. We've had an
0:05:34 > 0:05:37extraordinary week, starting with Jeremy Corbyn on Monday and we don't
0:05:37 > 0:05:44teach it ending. Theresa May has to do something big on Friday, a big
0:05:44 > 0:05:48statement.Because of these interventions, do you sense that
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Remainers and Brexiteers are becoming more hardened in their
0:05:51 > 0:05:56positions and people are now thinking in?A colleague said that
0:05:56 > 0:05:59but going back to the Boris Johnson story in the Telegraph, interesting
0:05:59 > 0:06:05story. I've seen a quote saying, one ally of the Foreign Secretary, that
0:06:05 > 0:06:11is Boris Johnson saying that! And he's come training -- he's
0:06:11 > 0:06:15complaining about ultra-Remainers but there have been two occasions
0:06:15 > 0:06:17when the main person destabilising the Prime Minister has been the
0:06:17 > 0:06:22Foreign Secretary.They say that the leaks over him saying there would
0:06:22 > 0:06:25need to be a hard border in Ireland was leaked by the Remainers in the
0:06:25 > 0:06:29Cabinet.There's clearly a lot going on, we heard this horey about
0:06:29 > 0:06:36Phillip Hammond talking about sleeping rough on a beach, in a
0:06:36 > 0:06:41discussion about homelessness. This briefing against each other, we know
0:06:41 > 0:06:44that there was this login at Chequers when they were in a room
0:06:44 > 0:06:48and we saw the pictures of everyone on their different shares discussing
0:06:48 > 0:06:55the issues -- there was a lock-in. Clearly tensions are boiling over,
0:06:55 > 0:07:00we saw it last year, the briefing starting, partly digging in, partly
0:07:00 > 0:07:05playing things out in the media to get what we want.There is a map in
0:07:05 > 0:07:15the paper, celebrating 25 years -- Matt in the paper. A snowman says, a
0:07:15 > 0:07:20little bit of Brexit and everyone becomes hysterical. Let's talk about
0:07:20 > 0:07:27a story that has caught my eye. By focusing my job a lock on American
0:07:27 > 0:07:33politics. A story on the FT about Jared Kushner and Ivanka club, both
0:07:33 > 0:07:46of them under fire -- Ivanka Trump. Gerard has had his security access
0:07:46 > 0:07:50withdrawn but the breaking news is that hope Hicks, the communications
0:07:50 > 0:07:54director and very much in the inner circle, is resigning.Very much in
0:07:54 > 0:07:59the inner circle, this is quite a surprise. The New York Times
0:07:59 > 0:08:02characterised her as the communications director who doesn't
0:08:02 > 0:08:05communicate in public which is probably a bit of a plus for Donald
0:08:05 > 0:08:11Trump. As journalists said, it is 29, it is a remarkable job to have
0:08:11 > 0:08:19done. Probably a better job to have done than it is to do. Trump is very
0:08:19 > 0:08:23warm, which he hasn't been to the several dozen people who have left
0:08:23 > 0:08:28over the previous year. She said this curious thing, she said there
0:08:28 > 0:08:31are no words to express her gratification to the president, so
0:08:31 > 0:08:37she didn't!That's the communications director, who had no
0:08:37 > 0:08:42words.Can she tell a committee yesterday that she told one or two
0:08:42 > 0:08:47white lies.White lies. That would have been an opportunity to tell
0:08:47 > 0:08:51another one. The house intelligence community.What do you think is
0:08:51 > 0:08:58going on, because these people are close to the President? His son in
0:08:58 > 0:09:01law and his daughter seemingly ostracised from the White House and
0:09:01 > 0:09:05his closest allies in hope picks. She has been one of his longest
0:09:05 > 0:09:11serving.From the beginning.She was brought in with very little
0:09:11 > 0:09:14experience to take the role and now there is a question about what's
0:09:14 > 0:09:20going on, is it... Who is going to be thrown on the bus, with these
0:09:20 > 0:09:26hearings going on? Is it clearing the decks, anyone who could be
0:09:26 > 0:09:31associated and may be perceived as wrong, inappropriate? It becomes
0:09:31 > 0:09:37less damaging. There's a lot of speculation, Twitter has become very
0:09:37 > 0:09:46active around people from the Unufe times -- from the New York Times
0:09:46 > 0:09:48regarding the intelligence committee today. We don't know, clearly there
0:09:48 > 0:09:53is more to it.A story on the Financial Times and the Daily
0:09:53 > 0:09:58Mirror, the heartbreak on the high Street, thousands of workers facing
0:09:58 > 0:10:07the axe at Toys "R" Us and Maplin and also this Italian restaurant
0:10:07 > 0:10:12chain Prezzo as well.There is a hurricane blowing down the high
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Street. The FT and the Daily Mail have dramatic presentations. Three
0:10:16 > 0:10:22particular trends. You bring it together, it is a generational shift
0:10:22 > 0:10:25to online shopping. People don't go to Maplin any more, they go to
0:10:25 > 0:10:30Amazon. Toys "R" Us was bought out and saddled with $5 billion worth of
0:10:30 > 0:10:36debt and couldn't survive we had a reporter who spoke to two people who
0:10:36 > 0:10:40said it was a trip down memory lane, like going back to the 90s, the last
0:10:40 > 0:10:46time they went there, said one of them. And Prezzo is a different
0:10:46 > 0:10:52reason, we've seen the casual eating, the glut of outlets for
0:10:52 > 0:10:58this, we saw the difficulties over Jamie's Italian. If you add them
0:10:58 > 0:11:02together, as the Daily Mirror has done, you have a very grim picture.
0:11:02 > 0:11:09Very sad for those workers.And these are shops, if you have a
0:11:09 > 0:11:13son... I have a son who is nine, look at the queues outside Hamleys
0:11:13 > 0:11:17in central London each year where people go for these spectacles,
0:11:17 > 0:11:21playing with the toys. These are big warehouses where you pick things off
0:11:21 > 0:11:26the shelves, but places like Marks & Spencer 's and other places that do
0:11:26 > 0:11:32other things now do other products home so you don't necessarily need
0:11:32 > 0:11:37to go to a shop like this any more. Places like the Entertainer,
0:11:37 > 0:11:42heralded as one of the stores doing well, they don't open on Sundays
0:11:42 > 0:11:48because of the owner's Christian beliefs. They didn't agree with
0:11:48 > 0:11:55Sunday trading laws and they have still done well.On the front of a
0:11:55 > 0:12:02lot of the papers today, the Royals, the new generation. In fact, let's
0:12:02 > 0:12:10bring you the Metro. It is a wider picture. I was struck them if you
0:12:10 > 0:12:14had gone back 20 years ago and the crisis the Royal family faced,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17especially post Diana, and now where they are, the Queen must be quite
0:12:17 > 0:12:24pleased with what she's seeing.Yeah but probably slightly nervous as
0:12:24 > 0:12:30well, an interesting dimension. A great picture that the Metro have
0:12:30 > 0:12:35used. Very different body language. There is even some affection that
0:12:35 > 0:12:41Meghan and Harry have all stop the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, we
0:12:41 > 0:12:45don't call them we and Kate any more. There is the informality about
0:12:45 > 0:12:55the couple, even the dress code -- Will and Kate. The future King of
0:12:55 > 0:12:58England is on the edge of the picture.Yes, that's quite
0:12:58 > 0:13:06interesting. He isn't aloof, he's very warm but metaphorically he is
0:13:06 > 0:13:11slightly aside from them, isn't he? But there isn't rivalry between them
0:13:11 > 0:13:16in the way that some families have, they seem quite happy, he seemed
0:13:16 > 0:13:22happy for Harry to have the limelight.Two interesting things.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26You describe the photograph well. It is part of the slimming down of the
0:13:26 > 0:13:32Royal family. The extras are now written out of the picture. There is
0:13:32 > 0:13:35something, clearly the attention to Meghan and Harry and William and
0:13:35 > 0:13:41Kate etc is enormous. There is a missing generation here. We talked
0:13:41 > 0:13:47about the next king, the future King, but there is Charles and
0:13:47 > 0:13:51Camilla, they are in the shade at the moment, aren't they?Let's talk
0:13:51 > 0:13:57about the weather, a lot of lovely pictures of the snow. I noticed that
0:13:57 > 0:14:08the new wave coming in is being blamed on storm ever. -- storm Emma.
0:14:08 > 0:14:20Why isn't it a man? It could have been Eric.I don't think this is
0:14:20 > 0:14:28Emma on the front of the i.The Met Office in 2015 started giving names
0:14:28 > 0:14:35to storms and they personalised them, deliberately. You get far more
0:14:35 > 0:14:41publicity.Tomorrow I think we are expecting to see the coldest March
0:14:41 > 0:14:47day on record, since 1965.That's it for the papers. Don't forget you can
0:14:47 > 0:14:56see the front pages on the website. If you missed the programme you can
0:14:56 > 0:15:03watch it on the BBC iPlayer. Thanks to Jo and Paul.