04/03/2018 The Papers

middle of the night we should get

the definitive results but we expect

a hung parliament here in this

Italian general election.

We are all sitting very straight

because I have been warned about my

posture! Welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing

tomorrow. We probably would very

snooty. Caroline frost the

journalist is here as is

parliamentary journalist, the right

things. Many of the front pages

already in come at the Financial

Times features a warning from Donald

Trump's most senior trade adviser

there will be no exemptions from

proposed metal import tariffs. The

Times also leads on tensions over

proposed charges for Stelling steel

to America boxing on Theresa May's

opposition to the President's plan.

On the front of the i reports that

US lobbyists are urging the Metro

leads on the primers to promising to

overhaul planning rules to

kick-start what it calls a housing

revolution. The express reports

millions are facing an expected tax

bills after not taking advice before

accessing a pension pots. It also

carries a picture of Sir Roger

Bannister who has died at the age of

88. The Guardian carries claims that

the government missed an opportunity

to juice losses at Carillion. It

also features allegations that

Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky abused

doping rules to secure his 2012 Tour

de France. Let's begin with trade

because it is everywhere. This is

the times, Theresa May telling

Donald Trump not to launch trade

war, tariffs risk devastating

British Steel industry. The other

day he was seen trade wars are good.

He seems to be somewhat changeable.

He is effectively igniting talk of a

trade war by saying he will impose

tariffs on exports, sorry imports

into the United States of steel and

aluminium. This is concerning for

the British government who have

presented Brexit as an opportunity

for Britain to be a champion of

global free trade and countries like

America, Canada and Mexico have been

working for decades any free trade

area. Trump taking a different tack,

saying he wants to make America

great again and that involves

putting America first and in that

mind it involves putting tariffs on

goods coming in he feels are harming

American industry.

You can imagine

his supporters will say this is what

we voted for.

Absolutely he came

into power on this platform of

protectionism and what the EU have

prepared a list of retaliatory

tariffs which will encompass things

like Harley-Davidson, bourbon

whiskey, I am listed bourbon

biscuits, and these things they have

said that if that happens they will

start thinking about the car

industry so this risks escalating

into a tit-for-tat protectionism on

both sides of the Atlantic. That

will leave everyone in a spot of

bother.

Similar sort of story to do

with trade but not tariffs, i, a

push to sell Cornish pasties from

America in the UK. We have certain

products which are sort of protected

because they are associated with

certain parts of the country.

We

disagree about this because it

transpires he has a higher taste

than me, I am a blue stripe lady

myself.

What does that mean?

It

means I don't mind if something

doesn't have a brand on it.

Like

buying generic goods?

Yeah. If it

looks like a nice strong cheese and

smells and tastes like a cheese that

suits me, I realise certain people

don't feel the same.

This comes back

to the argument about Brexit and

what it will mean for the UK. This

is a US lobbyist has realised that

some travel trade deal may be on the

cards with the UK and they have got

a very early to say all this stuff

about protecting the Scotch whiskey

and Cumberland sausage you need to

drop all that and that could mean

America could introduce cheaper

exports and that again could make

food cheaper but our Environment

Secretary Michael Gove has said

there will be no fall in UK food

standards. A lot of American food

cannot be imported because it does

not meet EU standards.

The other

thing is manufacturers, if you are

producing stilton and you don't want

anyone else in the world to be able

to make something branded as

authentic. I picked stilton because

it is made in Leicestershire.

Here

is the point, a free trade argument

that would be that if your stilton

is the highest quality in the world

it is a premium product and you

should be able to tell sell it three

or four times what the local, not

very good, pretend cheese which is

not stilton but is branded as, you

should be able to sell your quality

product anywhere in the world at a

higher premium but the EU has

brought in territorial designations

and protections because they don't

think that works.

Other types of

cheese are available!

If you have in

America you would notice a

significant difference.

And

chocolate too. In the Metro, a

housing revolution. Quarters will be

imposed on councils that fell to

build as many homes as the

government thinks they should.

It

seems a reasonable solution to be an

ongoing crisis in this country. We

know there are not enough properties

to house people and no Theresa May

has put forward what seems to be a

perfectly reasonable solution on

paper which is to spread the

responsibility into different

councils so each will have the make

their own quarters and build

accordingly.

It's a lot of houses to

build and there are so many barriers

to getting them built, land being

held and not developed.

Land banking

is a major issue and there is a

concern people like Network Rail who

are a major landowner in the country

are not freeing up enough land and

it's a similar issue with Transport

for London. But the brass neck of

this woman, it is unbelievable. She

stands up in March 2018 and accuses

councils of not doing enough when

4/2 decades councils have been told

to sell council houses but not build

replacements, that is why we have

such a horrific crisis.

Is it about

the council building houses or is it

making sure developers get planning

permission.

That is also part of it,

councils are restrained from

building themselves so it ends up

being developers and the third issue

we have particularly in London it is

not matter if you build these houses

they will be bought by foreign

investors as property is investment.

This is not a central London issue,

it's becoming a problem in the outer

boroughs of London. Imposing a

quarter get you a nice headline but

let's see how many we get.

Overseas

developer buying this real estate

and then leaving it vacant.

I think

bringing in ownership rules is far

too radical for the Theresa May

government.

It's also against the

free market.

But once we leave the

EU we might be able to make our own

rules!

That is what sovereignty is

all right. Roger Bannister has died

aged 88 and this extraordinary

outpouring of admiration for a man

about his achievements.

The

difference between sporting icons of

yesteryear when it was not even a

full-time job, we know the method of

completing the four-minute mile, the

first man to ever do it but what is

part of that is the casually he went

down to Oxford, it seemed like a

good idea and he was determined to

do it because he lost out on medals

in Helsinki. He had pacemakers who

he was always absolutely intent on

sharing the credit and he just

carried on his working life and

ended up deleting the majority of

his professional working life to

medicine and he said he was more

proud of everything he achieved in

medicine. It's the right stuff, it's

the equivalent of someone like Neil

Armstrong, a quiet hero.

So many

people who are now, have gone on,

Tanni Grey-Thompson, elephantine and

Olympic medallist seeing how much he

inspired her when she was growing

up.

The interesting thing about the

story is that it's a lens through

which we can see how much sport has

changed, you talk about the casually

he went about it but there was not a

lot of sponsorship or training

pressure on him which is what is

expected of athletes these days.

Just look at issues, very low-tech

but it didn't stop him.

They have

become iconic sporting motifs which

are imitated throughout the world.

The way it works. Let's look at the

Oscars. That is happening tonight in

Hollywood. Here we have a picture of

Margot Robbie nominated for her

Petrillo Tonya Harding. You have

seen that film, issue worth the nod.

Definitely, in 2010I interviewed her

on the set of neighbours, we all

said she has got it, whether she

does next she has got it and who she

is on the Oscars red carpet with the

best actress nod. But she's up

against a strong field not least

Frances McDormand and she is the

favourite and she wins it will be

her second Oscar.

Do you stay up and

watch it?

No. Another one of the big

ones is The Darkest Our, but as a

Parliament geek I found it very

difficult because it's full of

mistakes.

Is it?

Of course it is, it

is a Hollywood movie.

It's got a

different fuel this year.

Yes, it

leaves a nasty taste in my mouth, I

think they are having to balance

this now, the ladies most of all how

to step forward and the herd, the

badges on display overnight, we will

see anti-gun freedoms, also to

things being discussed, but these

actresses have to do is conspire

that this is the fairy tale worth

celebrating. It's a bit of a

tightrope that all these stars are

walking.

We will be back later, a

few more, it was a rather short

review this hour because of coming

on late but back again and have

passed 11 for another look at the

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