0:00:00 > 0:00:03taking in more than a billion US dollars at cinemas worldwide.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26With me are the political editor of the Sun on Sunday,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Dave Wooding, and Owen Bennett, deputy political
0:00:28 > 0:00:29editor of HuffPost UK.
0:00:29 > 0:00:38Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The Metro leads with the ongoing investigation into the poisoning
0:00:41 > 0:00:44of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48The Express asks why it took authorities so long to issue advice
0:00:48 > 0:00:51to anyone who was in the area where the pair were poisoned.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56The Telegraph says hundreds of people have been warned
0:00:56 > 0:00:58to wash their clothes and clean belongings with wet wipes.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03The i also leads on that story, saying the Chief Medical Officer has
0:01:03 > 0:01:13told residents there is no cause for alarm over the advice.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18The Times reports that the Prime Minister is on the verge of issuing
0:01:18 > 0:01:21sanctions against Russia if it is proved that the country was behind
0:01:21 > 0:01:24the poisoning.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Meanwhile, the front page of the Financial Times features
0:01:26 > 0:01:28analysis that shows multi-national companies are paying significantly
0:01:28 > 0:01:31less in tax than they were before the 2008 financial crisis.
0:01:31 > 0:01:36Not surprisingly, lots about the poisoning in Salisbury. Let's take
0:01:36 > 0:01:41out closer look at that story and in particular how the Times is
0:01:41 > 0:01:47reporting it. Theresa May set to hit back over spy death, it says,
0:01:47 > 0:01:53prepared to announce sanctions - but they haven't proved it yet?No, in
0:01:53 > 0:01:57fact it takes ages to prove any of this stuff. What happened last time
0:01:57 > 0:02:03with the polonium poisoning? It took about ten or 12 years and we still
0:02:03 > 0:02:07haven't pinned it down on anybody. It was traced rack to Russia,
0:02:07 > 0:02:18though.It was but it takes so long. The Times is reporting that there is
0:02:18 > 0:02:23some irrefutable evidence which links it with Russia and that she is
0:02:23 > 0:02:27ready to act. There was a report today that in Cabinet, Boris Johnson
0:02:27 > 0:02:34had dared to mention it was the Russians and got slapped down rather
0:02:34 > 0:02:37firmly by the Prime Minister. But it looks like she has now come round to
0:02:37 > 0:02:42thinking what all of us suspect, which is that Russia is behind, is
0:02:42 > 0:02:46going to take some action.It is a nerve agent, we haven't been told
0:02:46 > 0:02:51which one it is, much more difficult to trace than something which is
0:02:51 > 0:02:54radioactive like polonium?It seems that that is why they are being
0:02:54 > 0:02:59cautious. The Times have gone for Theresa May to hit back over a
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Russian spy death and I don't think anybody has actually died yet! So I
0:03:03 > 0:03:06think The Times have got a little bit ahead of themselves with the
0:03:06 > 0:03:11headline. Talking about Boris Johnson in Cabinet, we know when he
0:03:11 > 0:03:15gave his statement to the House last week he was keen to point the finger
0:03:15 > 0:03:20at Russia. Theresa May is trying to be a bit more tactful. Not difficult
0:03:20 > 0:03:25to be more tactful than Boris Johnson, I guess. The action they
0:03:25 > 0:03:31protect - expulsion of diplomats and spies, things like that. The idea
0:03:31 > 0:03:34that we are going to not have any official representation at the World
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Cup in Russia I don't think will cause them to many sleepless nights.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43The alarming thing is that as is mentioned in here, stepping up our
0:03:43 > 0:03:49military presence in Eastern Europe. Which of course would be the biggest
0:03:49 > 0:03:57escalation of facing down Russia since the Cold War.But the more I
0:03:57 > 0:03:59think about it, your observation about the headline is really very
0:03:59 > 0:04:04troubling, isn't it? They have sent a correction apparently, so it was a
0:04:04 > 0:04:12mistake. But the government has got to say that it will do something if
0:04:12 > 0:04:16it is irrefutable?Absolutely, the former ambassador to Russia was on
0:04:16 > 0:04:19BBC Radio 5 Live earlier and he said that in the clamour to do something,
0:04:19 > 0:04:25you end up making statements which actually cause longer term damage to
0:04:25 > 0:04:29your relationship with Russia and we need to work with them on things
0:04:29 > 0:04:31like Islamic fundamentalism and the Middle East. We cannot learn every
0:04:31 > 0:04:36single bridge with them. Of course people will say they started this
0:04:36 > 0:04:40because they are the ones who it is believed carried out this action.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44But people say if you start putting more troops on the border with
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Estonia, it only takes a couple of planes to crash in Syria for these
0:04:48 > 0:04:52things to escalate.The other side to that is that if you do nothing,
0:04:52 > 0:04:57you send the whole message to the whole world and to the EU when
0:04:57 > 0:05:00negotiating Brexit that we are just a pushover and if you want to come
0:05:00 > 0:05:05and wager a war on our streets, then you can.Let's have a look at this
0:05:05 > 0:05:11one. This is the advice, if you are one of these 500 people in this
0:05:11 > 0:05:17restaurant or pub in Salisbury, you need to clean your stuff?Yes, this
0:05:17 > 0:05:20advice should have gone out within a couple of hours perhaps but it has
0:05:20 > 0:05:25taken them over a week and now, the advice is, wash your clothes. And
0:05:25 > 0:05:29wipe your mobile phone down with a wet wipe! Is that really our best
0:05:29 > 0:05:34line of defence against this kind of potential nerve agent? It seems like
0:05:34 > 0:05:38they've really not grasped the severity potentially of this. On the
0:05:38 > 0:05:44other hand you could say that there have not been people getting rushed
0:05:44 > 0:05:48to hospital with symptoms, so maybe it is safe. But I think if I was
0:05:48 > 0:05:52living there I would be a bit worried.Imagine if you lived there
0:05:52 > 0:05:57in the area and you see these police officers walking round in those
0:05:57 > 0:06:01suits like we can see on the front page of the Telegraph there, it is
0:06:01 > 0:06:04quite alarming. It shows that it is quite serious threat if these
0:06:04 > 0:06:09officers are wearing this gear, and, of course, ordinary members of the
0:06:09 > 0:06:12public are not wearing that stuff, they're just being told, wipe down
0:06:12 > 0:06:20your phone!Let's have a look at the statement, the spring statement, the
0:06:20 > 0:06:24litter levy, anything which ends up in landfill causes rubbish?Yeah,
0:06:24 > 0:06:30this is wonderful. I think this is about the second or third
0:06:30 > 0:06:34announcement talking about doing something over plastics are. Trying
0:06:34 > 0:06:39to reclassify chewing gum as a single use plastic, because
0:06:39 > 0:06:43apparently that is what it is classed at in some countries. But
0:06:43 > 0:06:46this is not legislation, it is just a consultation which has been
0:06:46 > 0:06:50announced before. It makes Michael Gove look very good, which Michael
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Gove is happy to have, a bit of stardust, but it is not a new
0:06:54 > 0:06:58announcement.Apparently it costs Ken Pisi for a piece of chewing gum
0:06:58 > 0:07:01to be scraped off the floor. According to the Telegraph.
0:07:01 > 0:07:09Disgusting habit!What I would come down really hard on is when you are
0:07:09 > 0:07:20eating in a restaurant, maybe Zizzi...Don't mention that, please!
0:07:20 > 0:07:23And you put your hand under the table and somebody has left a piece
0:07:23 > 0:07:28of chewing gum there.Don't put your hands under the table! Goodness me!
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Keep your hands above the table! There is nothing under here, I can
0:07:33 > 0:07:38assure you!It's clean, I've just checked!Huffington Post, here is
0:07:38 > 0:07:44your take on it, Owen Bennett, like at the end of the has to tunnel
0:07:44 > 0:07:49we're still in the tunnel? Absolutely, this was trailed in
0:07:49 > 0:07:54David's paper but he was quick to point out today that we are still in
0:07:54 > 0:07:57the tunnel. I think for Philip Hammond it is a problem, because
0:07:57 > 0:08:01they're saying that we are about to leave this tunnel but we do not know
0:08:01 > 0:08:06where we are going to end up. What they would do once they are not
0:08:06 > 0:08:09doing austerity. We've had eight years of it with them in government.
0:08:09 > 0:08:15It has been their policy basically for ten years and they need a new
0:08:15 > 0:08:18one. Because everyone is thinking about Brexit, there is and this big
0:08:18 > 0:08:25debate about what they're going to do now.How excited are you about
0:08:25 > 0:08:28the spring statement?I just can't wait, I will be springing out of bed
0:08:28 > 0:08:33very early for it! I just think he needs to give us some hope because
0:08:33 > 0:08:37at the moment it is generally be called in who is giving people hope,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40and the Conservatives are aware of this. But it is still very, very
0:08:40 > 0:08:44cautious language. For a chap who is known as the victor Meldrew of
0:08:44 > 0:08:54politics, or Eyore after the moaning % from Winnie the Pooh, this is
0:08:54 > 0:09:03quite upbeat for Philip!Let's look at the Guardian. We knew that some
0:09:03 > 0:09:08university bosses are earning hundreds and hundreds of thousands
0:09:08 > 0:09:14of pounds and this tries to put into some kind of perspective?This was a
0:09:14 > 0:09:20story about the expenses they're claiming, £7 million any one vice
0:09:20 > 0:09:25chancellor had his pet dog flown over from Australia, at the cost to
0:09:25 > 0:09:29the taxpayer of £1600. So, they're really raking it in. What the
0:09:29 > 0:09:35Guardian have done on this story is to compare their salaries with those
0:09:35 > 0:09:39of senior leaders in the same area. They've looked at the chief
0:09:39 > 0:09:43executive of Birmingham City Council, who earns £185,000 a year.
0:09:43 > 0:09:49You think that is not about salary but when you compare it with Sir
0:09:49 > 0:09:55David Eastwood, vice chancellor of the university of Birmingham, it is
0:09:55 > 0:09:58dwarfed - £378,000. It is just giving you the comparison between
0:09:58 > 0:10:02senior people in different top jobs in the same area.What could be done
0:10:02 > 0:10:09to bring down that level of pay?It is interesting, the Guardian have
0:10:09 > 0:10:12come out on attacking public sector pay almost, which is unlike them!
0:10:12 > 0:10:17The people at the very top, the Universities Minister has given a
0:10:17 > 0:10:21statement, this should be looked at, but not actually said what is going
0:10:21 > 0:10:25to happen. The new regulator, the office for students, will require
0:10:25 > 0:10:29universities to publish the justification for salaries and most
0:10:29 > 0:10:35of them will probably say it is the market rate! The public service --
0:10:35 > 0:10:40public shaming doesn't seem to be working.Let's have a look at the
0:10:40 > 0:10:47picture story of the Guardian. It says this is going to be a statue of
0:10:47 > 0:10:50somebody who is covered in the most extraordinary tattoo is, and this is
0:10:50 > 0:10:54going to be a work of art based on him?It is a work of art based on
0:10:54 > 0:11:00someone who is a work of art. Marlon Brando, Apocalypse now perhaps!
0:11:00 > 0:11:05Apparently it is going to be 3.5 metres tall.So, something to have a
0:11:05 > 0:11:11look at.It is quite striking picture.And he is a very striking
0:11:11 > 0:11:14man as well if you look him up online, some extraordinary tattoo
0:11:14 > 0:11:23is. Let's go to the FT, China votes to amend constitution, allowing Xi
0:11:23 > 0:11:29lifetime rule. He is due to step down in 2023 as the Chinese premier,
0:11:29 > 0:11:34but not any more if he doesn't want to?No, it seems he is going to be
0:11:34 > 0:11:38able to stay on indefinitely. Apparently this was passed by 99.8%
0:11:38 > 0:11:48of the 3000 votes people's Congress in Beijing. I kind of get why it is
0:11:48 > 0:11:54a big story but I also get that this is a country which doesn't practice
0:11:54 > 0:11:57democracy is doing something undemocratic! I know there is
0:11:57 > 0:12:02something to see but I struggle to get the shocking aspect of it!There
0:12:02 > 0:12:06is of course a foregone conclusion but I wonder who the two people were
0:12:06 > 0:12:11who voted against! And the three who abstained! I wonder whether they are
0:12:11 > 0:12:16still around whether they have been put up to it to try and make it look
0:12:16 > 0:12:20balanced coverage that was suggested to light that you could not have a
0:12:20 > 0:12:23unanimous vote because it would not look could. I think we should send
0:12:23 > 0:12:28Gina Miller, the anti-Brexit campaigner, out there to have a look
0:12:28 > 0:12:34at this!Andrew Adonis can see how much he is earning and have a crack
0:12:34 > 0:12:40down on that as well!Get them all over there! Apparently a lot of
0:12:40 > 0:12:43people, ordinary member is of the public in China, it won't make any
0:12:43 > 0:12:46difference to them who is in charge because the state is so pervasive
0:12:46 > 0:12:54anywhere.Exactly, it doesn't matter who is in charge, because it is not
0:12:54 > 0:12:57a democracy. So I guess it doesn't matter to the ordinary man and
0:12:57 > 0:13:01woman.But there were excesses when Chairman Mao was running China, and
0:13:01 > 0:13:06I think that is why the law was changed, to try and stop a repeat of
0:13:06 > 0:13:09that, so only time will tell whether he behaves himself.Shall we move
0:13:09 > 0:13:15onto oppressing matter, in the Express, on page three, no less...
0:13:15 > 0:13:22Clotted cream clots Cornish fury at tea-time treat blunder... You just
0:13:22 > 0:13:26know where this is going. It is all about which order you put your cream
0:13:26 > 0:13:35and your charm on your scorn. Now, you are from Devon, so which is the
0:13:35 > 0:13:42correct way?The correct way, for everybody, who is cream and then
0:13:42 > 0:13:45jam. I will not have those people in Cornwall telling me otherwise!
0:13:45 > 0:13:49Basically there was a National Trust house who put on their Facebook page
0:13:49 > 0:13:53a picture of the Devon way of doing things and in Cornwall they got lots
0:13:53 > 0:14:00of people very angry saying, it was wrong! And they put out a very good
0:14:00 > 0:14:05statement to say, we would like to sincerely apologise, the person who
0:14:05 > 0:14:09made this error has been marched back over the river. Saying rest
0:14:09 > 0:14:13assured, your mothers are safe here! Do you think it was a Devonian
0:14:13 > 0:14:20interloper?I can't comment on what our Devon spies do, it would be
0:14:20 > 0:14:24inappropriate for me to do that!You are not from Devon or Cornwall but
0:14:24 > 0:14:29which way round do you do it?It has got to be jam first because if you
0:14:29 > 0:14:33think about it, you put the cream on and then try to put the jam on it,
0:14:33 > 0:14:40it doesn't work.You see, that's how I do it as well, from a purely
0:14:40 > 0:14:43practical reasons.But aesthetically it looks better because you have the
0:14:43 > 0:14:47nice...Look at that beautiful... That's probably why they've done
0:14:47 > 0:14:53that picture, because it shows the cream and the John, but it's not the
0:14:53 > 0:14:59right way to do it.And what about butter?I am for as many things that
0:14:59 > 0:15:05will give you a heart attack in your food as possible.No butter.I don't
0:15:05 > 0:15:10agree, you have to gild the lily, it has to be salted butter as well!
0:15:10 > 0:15:14Shall we do that for the second half, can we get it?I think we
0:15:14 > 0:15:19should, can anyone send one in?! Wouldn't that be wonderful?! If
0:15:19 > 0:15:27anybody had thought ahead. That is The Papers for this hour. Dave
0:15:27 > 0:15:31Wooding and Owen Bennett will