11/03/2018 The Papers

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the Political Editor

of the Sun on Sunday,

Dave Wooding, and Owen Bennett,

Deputy Political Editor

of HuffPost UK.

Welcome, both. Sorry there's no

scones or scones. We'll explain in a

minute.

Many of tomorrow's

front pages are already in.

The Metro leads with the ongoing

investigation into the poisoning

of former spy, Sergei Skripal,

and his daughter, Yulia.

The Express asks why it took

authorities so long to issue advice

to anyone who was in the area

where the pair were poisoned.

The Telegraph says hundreds

of people have been warned

to wash their clothes and clean

belongings with wet wipes.

The front page of the Guardian leads

on research that shows

University Chancellors'

pay far exceeds that

of their public sector counterparts.

The Times also leads

on the poisoning in Salisbury,

saying the Prime Minister

is on the verge of publicly hitting

out against Russia if it is

proved that the country

is behind the incident.

The Financial Times claims that

multi-national companies are paying

significantly less in tax

than they were before

the 2008 financial crisis.

The Daily Mail has more

on an alleged child grooming

ring in Shropshire.

And the Mirror reports

ex-Liverpool footballer,

Jamie Carragher, has apologised

after he spat at a 14-year-old

Manchester United fan from his car.

So, not suprisingly,

lots more on the events in Salisbury

on the front pages.

That is where we will begin.

The Daily Telegraph says officials

are facing a nerve agent backlash. A

week has gone by and public health

information is only just being

issued.

The information people need

to wash clothes they are wearing if

they are around Salisbury, wipe down

mobile phones with wet wipes if they

have been exposed. It is a week

after the incident. You can see

people wearing suits, contamination

suits. It is quite a juxtaposition.

Most people would think it is fine

otherwise they would not tell us,

but they are telling them now. It

seems awfully late to do this.

But

don't panic. No alarm.

500 people

would have visited the restaurant,

pub, where the two or three victims

of the attack visited. But if you

lived in Salisbury and saw military

personnel and police officers on the

front page of The Telegraph, with

these and -- anti-contamination

suits, you'd think something was

wrong. You would wonder what you are

wearing, what you touched, and every

cough and sneeze, you would think,

in my contaminated? I can see people

are rushing to the NHS with

complaints on this.

Look at the

Times. Theresa May to hit back at

Russia over spy attack. That is the

suspicion. Have they got the

evidence to chase it back to Moscow?

It is a Russian double agent who is

the victim of the attack. It is a

state which has the capability of

delivering, and only states have the

capability of delivering attacks of

this nature. If they have found out

what the agent is, that makes it

easier to draw a conclusion as to

which stated would be. We all

suspect it is Russia. -- state it.

Theresa May has been cautious about

saying so. The suggestion is that

tomorrow she is going to, umm, say

that Russia was behind this. We will

see what happens.

It is much more

difficult to trace a nerve agent, a

radioactive powder is easier like

Litvinenko.

The fact this has

happened, it is almost to send a

message. If it was Russia, Russia

would not do much to hide it. They

want people to know that if you

betrayed the Kremlin, this is what

happens. If you want to take someone

out, there is an easier way to do

it. This is part of the message.

This has a degree of symbolism.

Let's go to the Spring Statement and

the Sun. Losing your belts, they

say. -- loosen. But austerity

continues.

The question The Sun is

asking is now that the Times is

talking about turning back

austerity, people are £4 better off

than in 2010 according to the Joseph

Rowntree Foundation. Many of the

Tory MPs I am speaking to,

especially backbenchers, they feel

they need something they can put on

the doorstep to sell, more good

news, a public sector pay increase,

more money for local councils. They

need to give the Chancellor

ammunition.

This was a story that

was around a year or so ago, it was

revealed that those who have gone on

to jobs get pay rise from extra

hours and then lose in work

benefits, tax credits, which makes

them worse off. Iain Duncan Smith

and Johnny Mercer have seized on

this, saying you have to make this a

priority when you start dishing out

some of the... Turning on the

spending taps at the end of the

tunnel.

The Daily Telegraph says

there could be a litter levy.

It is

all part of the... The government is

getting quite green. The coffee

cups, plastic...

Levis on crisp

packets, take-away cups, and chewing

gum. It costs 10p to pick up chewing

gum. It will be announced at the

Spring Statement on Tuesday, levies

will be considered.

Some things are

happening.

The Chancellor has

announced this before, the plastic

levy, takeaway containers, that kind

of thing. The Tories have hit a

sweet spot now, especially because

of the Blue Planet series, they

realise people are tuned in, not

just young or old voters. They see

this as a way of talking not just

about Brexit or Geraghty, there are

things we are four, like leaving the

environment better than we found it.

-- austerity. Michael Gove has a lot

of energy and wants to get on with

things. It is a sweet spot.

Have you

not noticed in the last few days we

have seemed... Brexit has done on

the backburner.

Shh!

You have jinxed

it! Common infections may raise the

risk of strokes, more than obesity,

says the Telegraph.

Apparently there

is a 40% greater risk of heart

attack and stroke, 150%. These

infections are quite serious often.

If you have a propensity towards a

stroke or a heart attack, they will

increase the chance of it happening

quite substantially.

What can you

do? Obesity is something we are all

encouraged to tackle, but a common

infection...

It is strange,

correlation, causation, is it

because you keep getting infections,

that leaves you having a stroke, I

am not sure what to take away from

this.

It is like people living in

certain towns more likely to die

young. It is often because those

towns have poverty, the healthcare

and the food and the lifestyle makes

the more healthy.

The Guardian. Vice

chancellor pay eclipses public

sector. They have done research,

trying to compare what university

bosses are earning compared to the

Chief Executive of the council.

Even

if you argue they work in the public

sector and there is competition,

comparing it to... They have said

the Chief Executive of Birmingham

City Council pockets £500,000 a

year, a pretty good job in terms of

his salary. This has been around for

a while. There is no sense of

anything changing. The minister said

it is something we need to look at

and put this in the light.

Students

are paying hefty fees these days.

People are starting to ask questions

a bit more about what the quality of

the courses are like and also why

these people at the top are earning

such big money.

A quick question on

the picture. A 2.5 metre statue

based on a real-life man in the

Science Museum as part of the

medical galleries. Zombie Boy. These

are his tattoos. This piece of art

will be in homage to art all over

their body. A bit meta.

It does not

say what it is made out of. It looks

like brass. I would not want to

clean it.

It would take a while.

Page three of the Mail. The best

headline. Scone of Contention.

National Trust in a Jam. It needs

explanation.

It is whether you put

your cream or jam on your, can I

correct you, "Scon."

"Scoen" doesn't

work.

People living in Cornwall put

the jam on first and the cream on

top by people in Devon do it the

other way. The National Trust, in

trouble for many things, hunting on

its land, drag hunting, I think they

call it, or making the staff to wear

Gay Pride badges, which caused a

row, always getting in trouble, they

put up a picture of the jam on top

of the cream, which is the wrong way

round.

They made a Devonian scone,

scoen, look like it was in Cornwall.

The person that posted the offensive

advert has now been suitably

re-educated in the ways of the

Cornish, which I feel sorry for,

being a Devon lad.

It comes up so

often.

Meanwhile, UNICEF dieback on

the menu. We tire of plain plates.

It is a full dinner service,

elaborate ones are being auctioned

off. Is to be the mainstay of your

wedding list. -- It used to be.

Eternal Bows, it used to be. The

Willow pattern as well.

Used to have

a nice one on Christmas Day,

especially elaborate.

I only ever

saw them as part of the conveyor

belt.

I have nice plates for my

scones.

We tried to supply a scone

as a prop but the cupboard was bare

in the kitchen downstairs. That is

it for the night.

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