08/03/2018 The Papers

Coming up in a moment, The Papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Jack

Blanchard, the Editor

of Politico and Kate Andrews,

News editor at the Institute

of Economic Affairs.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in -

let's take a look.

The Metro has a picture

of the 38 year

old police officer -

Detective Sgt Nick Bailey -

who is being treated in hospital

after being exposed to the nerve

agent used on the former Russian spy

and his daughter in Salisbury.

The Sun reports that the police

officer is "sitting

up chatting" in hospital.

Fears of a global trade war

lead the front of the FT

as President Trump imposes

new tariffs on steel and aluminium

entering the United States.

Half of adults could be put on blood

pressure drugs under

new proposals being considered

by NHS watchdogs -

according the Telegraph

The Guardian reports the Government

is set to offer 1.3 million NHS

staff a 6.5% pay increase over the

next three years and return for a

day's holiday.

And the Mirror

reports the death of a CD or rapist.

The poisoning of a former spy leads

the papers with a few other studies

also making the lead but let's start

with that story and in many of the

front pages as you would imagine the

picture of Detective Sergeant Nick

Bailey who is in hospital recovering

everyone hopes from what happened to

him. People talking about him as a

hero but also a decorated officer.

It turns out he was already a legal

policeman before this, what on a

important case and now appears to

have been first on the scene when

this happened and has injured

himself pretty badly in the process.

It sounds from the report that he

domains conscious and speaking,

perhaps not in a very good read but

it is the human angle of this

incredible story we will be talking

about for the rest of the year that

the sky was on the front line.

It

gives another dimension. There will

people watching this to think that

is the Russian former spy but this

is one of our guys, a cop doing his

duty and that emphasises how the

rush into situations without a clue

what they are facing.

And Nick

Bailey was so brave to do so. It is

an important human development

because 21 people are being treated

for possible poisoning and he gives

a face not just to the forces who

are rushing to the situations but

those who are not being named. These

are people who are suffering because

of a terrible attack and they think

usually helps to give the impression

and our thoughts should be with him.

Living to the story and the Times, a

different angle, traitors are not

safe on British soil says Russia.

State TV mocking Britain and saying

you should not go there because it

is not a safe place because the

people who keep dying.

There the

famous by Street investigation which

liked 14 different deaths on British

soil to Russian assassinations which

is astonishing when you think about

the country we think we live in and

amazing that this is happening here

with apparently such frequency. It

is pretty black and white when you

have someone on Russian state TV

making the sort of comments. The

times says Theresa May is expected

within days to name Moscow as the

chief suspect in this and I do not

think that will come as much of a

surprise to anyone.

Amber Road more

careful today than Boris Johnson

about making the link to my school

but saying if it is proven that

Moscow is behind it then that will

be a robust action and retaliation,

what can they do?

With the use of a

nerve agent we're talking about a

chemical attack and the fact it has

jeopardised not just people they

were trying to attack but lives

around them, this has to be taken

very seriously. If there were

guidelines when chemical weapon

attacks were taking place in Syria

then surely in the UK as well. But

it looks to be in talks with the

United States and need to about a

co-ordinated response. Russia has

shown its aggressive side and this

can be building up to a boiling

point. It is hard to see whether it

will go and I do not think anyone

wants to directly engage with Russia

and such a hostile way but these

kinds of attacks cannot be

acceptable.

It is difficult.

President Putin knows he can push

things and is anyone wants to go to

war with Russia? Of course not and

he knows that very well which is why

he has been able to get away with so

much of the last five or ten years.

I suspect we will see the same thing

again, more sanctions, expel some

diplomats but is that really going

to have an impact on the president?

I doubt it. It is difficult for

Britain at a time when we're pulling

away from our closest allies

politically, a United States

president involved in a Russian

scandal, it is a difficult time for

something I was to be happening.

One

conservative former minister said we

should cut off diplomatic ties with

Russia but that is just not going to

happen because an ideal world it has

to a relationship doesn't sand wedge

and we do not cut off diplomatic

ties with fire dictators.

Despite

the political turmoil with Brexit

and the very bombastic nature of the

president of the United States I

would think these talks they are

holding would be very serious and no

one is going to want these kind of

attacks to continue.

Talking of the

present we can move on to the

Telegraph and the story about steel

and President Trump delivering on

what he promised during the election

to bring in tariffs to protect the

American steel industry. He is

talking about exemptions, we don't

know that will include the UK but

maybe Mexico and Canada. He is

delivering on what he said he would

do to voters.

I understand why

people do not like the policy but I

went to a couple of rallies during

the election campaign in America and

he was absolutely all over this,

this is what he was going to do and

he won the election. This applies is

that it is a surprise. He doesn't

always done on his promises. The

interesting thing is not so much she

has signed this body has given the

indication that there may be

exemptions initially he has

mentioned Canada and Mexico but he

seems to bill and King at two

defence spending which is

interesting how he is going to put

pressure on countries he thinks are

not pulling their fair share and

Nato.

The sense that the GDP is

supposed to be the aim the UK does

deliver that could if we...

The

president has a funny way about

going about negotiations. He slams

on the tariffs on steel and

aluminium and if you days later he

figured out what he really wants

other looks like eagerly is willing

to grab lots of exceptions, for

Canada and Mexico on the condition

that they really go see at the North

American Free Trade Agreement more

to his liking. He is suggesting you

will do it for other countries if

they step up to that 2% so he could

end up with a situation where these

tariffs are mostly China which is

probably what he mostly wanted to do

but wait about in an aggressive way

that threatened to slap tariffs on

his allies.

I think you will find

countries like Canada and not

responding well to that very upfront

blackmail approach, it is not how

you do diplomacy.

The front page of

the Financial Times has the same

story talking about fears mounting

of a global trade war but the point

you're making is that it is at China

it might be quite targeted.

I think

it is going to be wider than that.

Some does not like the EU and he has

made the point he feels he has been

hard done by by Europe who have not

been very friendly towards him since

he has, and, he does not much like

Angela Merkel and I would be very

surprised if he made an exception

for the whole of the EU. Once

Britain pulls out of the EU of these

tariffs were to stay in place for

some years after Brexit and that is

another story potentially quite a

long way away and there are a lot of

water to go under the bridge before

that.

Another story about the Brexit

divorce payments. We have had about

£39 billion it may be over decades,

said to be made public next week by

the Chancellor. The goal may be

layered to the payments over the

years?

For the first time for the

effect of the EU divorce payments on

public finances will be delivered by

the Chancellor which is essentially

a mini budget review will promises

he will not propose anything

radical. I think what is new about

the study as many people have been

wondering where the money will come

from for that upfront payment every

do not have enough in the public

finances to be putting more into

welfare of the NHS, with his coming

from? What this lays out as the UK

plans to continue to make these

payments of years and actually the

very end of the article some of it

may never be paid, admitted so long.

Which will make if you Brexiteers

feel pleased about that. The highest

level in any years would be the

summer spent the country have won

the EU summit is already taken into

account.

There's another dimension

which is that Theresa May said he

would end this thing of making big

payments to the EU every year

whether to looks like next week,

going to get a document that says

Britain is going to be paying to the

EU for many years after Brexit.

People are confused about what is

going on. The divorce Bill

terminology has never been quite

right, it is was been a series of

payments but the idea we're severing

ties that has not been quite borne

out by this.

The public willingness

to accept the arrangement will make

them more understanding about these

two full years of the big payments

at.

Let's go on to the Guardian

because it is a story not about

Brexit but NHS set to be offered a

6.5% rise over three years if they

give up the day's holiday.

It is

honestly a huge row about public

sector pay dominating last year

domestically and it seems the

Guardian have got the scoop on what

the Government is going to offer. We

have a reaction yet from the health

unions as to what they make of this

but it is worth remembering that is

over three years and inflation is

currently 3% a year so it looks like

a below inflation offer to me on the

face of it all I am not a genius at

maths. It is not a huge thing but it

is certainly a lot better than what

NHS staff have been getting so you

might find this is somewhere very

end up.

It will be good news for

people who feel in the public sector

their pay has been kept very much

pretty low over the years.

The

public sector pay cap has not been

popular and people having to

campaign outside Westminster and go

on strike to get a pay raise as to

be popular. I am disappointed we are

not just lifting the public sector

pay cap and sugar looking and more

flexible with sitting by the seems

to be cautious optimism here from

health unions hoping they can get

the members to endorse it. Some

employees particularly in the lowest

bands of people see the biggest

reason I think that will help.

It is

important to see that 20 public

sector pay cap was blocked and we

were in a different world, posterity

and Britain had the budget deficit

and it was necessary to avoid

massive job losses. We now know the

deficit has been closed, the budget

is going back into surplus for the

first time and that is no way the

Government will be able to justify.

They have two shift on this and will

be hoping to get some positive

headlines.

Finally, fake news

travels faster than the truth, is

that because it is more interesting?

Basically. Scientists noted that

sentiments were likely to include

supplies and discussed with fake

news whereas the truth was

characterised with sadness and

anticipation. Fake news has been

around for centuries, it is not

particularly new. My deepest concern

is that the institutions that used

to be considered to be credible so

you knew whether or not in use was a

real consistently being undermined

for people like the president of the

United States to many others and I

think that is where it is getting so

dangerous.

Anyone who spends too

much time on twitter which a few

other journalist you are forced to

go now that is, things being

retreated and you know that is not

true because people wanted to be

true of the think it is amazing

because it is not true, this is the

stuff that gets shared and it is a

perpetual problem with social media.

No fake news from you too.

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