19/03/2018 The Papers

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Polly MacKenzie,

Director of Demos.

And Kevin Schofield,

Editor of Politics Home.

Welcome to both of you.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

So let's take a look

at them, starting with...

The i, which leads with

the agreement reached in Brussels

today on the Brexit transition

period, highlighting that

a deal on the Irish border

is far from settled.

The Metro calls the deal

a "breakthrough", saying both sides

had to make compromises to reach it.

But the Telegraph says it's a

betrayal for fishermen as the EU

will maintain fishing rights in UK

waters during that transition

period.

The Financial Times features

a picture of the agreement

being announced, but its lead

is the news Uber has

suspended its driverless cars

programme following a fatal crash

in the US.

The top story in the Express

is a new treatment for age-related

blindness which it claims could be

a sight-saver for thousands.

News of TV star Ant McPartlin's

arrest on drink-driving charges

and the announcement he'll be

stepping down from his

presenting duties for alcohol

treatment is The Sun's lead.

The main story on the front page

of The Times is the claim a British

company accused of interfering

in elections is also facing

accusations of blackmail and bribery

against politicians -

claims the firm strenuously deny.

Whilst the Guardian features an

image taken from secret filming of

Cambridge analytical's Chief

Executive talking about the firm's

operation. Blog about. Brexit

dominating the front pages in the

light of the agreement reached in

Brussels. Kevin, take us to the

Telegraph. They are going big on the

fishing deal, what the deal that

isn't, at this point.

Yes, the deal

that they have agreed is essentially

that Britain will remain to all

intents and purposes within the EU's

fishing rules, essentially, through

the transition period, which runs

until the end of 2020. Now, this has

caused a massive backlash,

especially among Scottish

Conservative MPs. If you by the

election last year, the did well in

Scotland. They got 13 MPs in total.

It is worth remembering that there

are more Scottish Tory MPs than

there are do you -- DUP MPs. They do

wield quite a lot of power if they

are upset, which they clearly are,

on this. One of the great slogans in

Scotland during the general election

last year was, vote Tory, get fish.

The whole point was that they would

go down to Westminster and fight

hard to make sure that after Brexit

Scottish fishermen would get access

to their own waters without EU

fishermen coming in as well. This

transition deal clearly is not going

to happen at least until after...

It

might change in a year and 18

month's time.

Clearly the Prime

Minister will be saying to the

Conservative MPs, and Jacob

Rees-Mogg on the heel is threatening

to do a protest of throwing fish

into the Thames tomorrow, a sight to

see! She will be saying it is a

temporary extension. But by the time

you go back to the polls we will

have those fish that we promised all

constituents.

The Tory MPs met with

the Chief Whip Julian Smith this

afternoon. If he had been intending

to calm them down and get them back

on board, I don't think it went very

well! Apparently he completely lost

the room. At one point said, well,

there's nothing worried so much to

worry about, the fishermen are going

to vote Labour anyway, that went

down very, very badly, especially

amongst Tories who see the SNP as

the main rivals north of the border.

When the Prime Minister meets with

MPs tomorrow she has a lot of bridge

building to do in terms of trying to

win them round on this point.

Put us

into another perspective on the

Brexit deal, this is from the Times.

And their front page, it's not the

lead, we will talk about that

shortly, but the transition deal

over Brexit is held by businesses,

they are taking a more positive

view.

Yes, businesses seem to be

pleased. Although there is a massive

gap over the border with Northern

Ireland, and really until that is

resolved, this is just, you know,

words. But the CBI is please. We

have another quote from Jacob

Rees-Mogg, who seems a lot happier

than he was about the fish. The key

argument is that this is just a

temporary transition, and they are

wielding with great pride this idea

that they can negotiate trade eels.

But of course, if those trades eels

require regulatory death alignment,

I don't and that's one of the words

were allowed to use -- if these

trade deals. That causes a problem

with Northern Ireland, so until that

is fixed you can't do innovative

trade deals at all, and trade deals

don't cover services, so the economy

is still a mess!

It has written into

the backstop suggestion that the EU

have, if all attempts to not having

hardboard fails, Northern Ireland

will remain in the Single Market.

That has been dismissed by Downing

Street.

DUP clearly don't want that

either, but the EU or insisting,

both sides have said, we don't want

it hardboard, but that's just words.

Saying it is fine but meaning --

making it happen is something

different.

David Davis as the

argument today, if a very good

you'll ends up being done, then the

border issue to an extent goes away

because the relationship will still

be so close between one side, non-EU

and the other side that is still the

EU.

Absolutely, if there is still a

deal whereby our regulations and

economies remain closely integrated.

The problem is if we want to start

letting in American chlorine washed

chicken or doing what the Labour

Party was talking about, banning FOI

grass from the UK market as an

animal rights policy. How do you

talk -- stop that coming in over the

border?

Is that the biggest

challenge in these talks?

Without a

doubt, that is the one thing... They

have managed to reach agreement on a

lot of the big things, EU citizens,

the divorce bill, other aspects. But

the one thing that has been front

and centre of the discussions from

the very beginning and they are

still no closer to reaching an

agreement, it is the Irish border.

This is why you get a hard

Brexiteers saying, the Irish should

leave the Customs Union as well,

forgetting that we haven't ruled

island since 1916. That move on to

Uber, in the light of this

pedestrian being killed in the

United States, Kevin, they are going

to suspend self driving tests.

Yes,

you can see why, this poor woman was

crossing the road when she was hit

by a driverless Uber car. This is

something that has always concerned

me about driverless cars. Will it be

a real rush towards heading in that

direction, ultimately all cars being

driverless, if you put all your

faith in a machine, it's very easy

for it to go wrong. It clearly has

come with tragic consequences. They

have decided to pull the plug.

The

idea is that self driving vehicles

will be safer because they behave

predictably. The problem is that

they are starting to react with all

sorts of unpredictable things, like

other drivers on the road or in this

case a pedestrian, and training the

machine to gradually recognised that

is proving much more difficult than

the sort of technology pioneers

imagined it would be.

It raises

questions as to how far forward

other countries move. There is a

reference in the piece to Gatwick

Airport planning to test self

shuttle buses this summer. -- self

driving shuttle buses. The move is

in one direction, it is a question

of how it is regulated and

everything that goes with it.

Thing

that Brexiteers have said, we can be

a place like Arizona that deregulate

in order to enable more technology

innovation. In some ways that is a

compelling argument, we can have the

flexibility of a smaller market and

allow people to do things like

health driving cars. The problem is,

that comes with real risk and a

political cost as well. The real

cost of human life.

And shuttle

buses at an airport, it's a Muller

to be self-contained space. When

cars are on the open road driving

for miles and miles and in heavy

traffic, stop and start and the

pedestrians, it is brought and full

of danger.

Take us to the Guardian,

this is the Cambridge Analytica

story, the files, as the Guardian is

calling them. Data firms caught

boasting about tricksters swing

elections.

This is the third day the

Guardian has been headlining on this

story, they have done some

impressive longform journalism and

have been pushing this story for a

year, basically. We have now had

these revelations, an undercover

recording, of these data firms

executive making extraordinary both

about plans to basically blackmail

politicians with honey trap

prostitutes in the Ukraine. It feels

like a thriller. But it feels really

quite real.

We should say that they

deny any wrongdoing and this is very

much reported, as you say, and this

is day three. Interesting, actually,

because Facebook have become caught

up in all of this because of the

suggestions that names were

harvested. And the New York Times,

this is Reuters reporting the New

York Times and I think we might be

able to show this, with the Facebook

security chief Alex Stein Moss, who

is said to leave after classes of

disinformation. You can see that

page from the New York Times. --

clashes over disinformation. It's

all very conjugated.

Billions were

wiped off Facebook's shared price --

are complicated. That is... What

this guy has boasted about is

shocking, but it's the fact that

millions and millions, tens of

millions of people's Anzor Gubashev

is what harvested -- personal

details were harvested against the

law by Facebook. It throws up all

sorts of details as to how this

could possibly happen, Facebook was

Maqsood ready measures, and then how

this information was used perhaps to

steal election results. Certainly

Trump has said that thanks to this,

this was part of the reason that he

managed to get elected, it makes you

wonder what influence they have.

We

have got a couple of minutes left

and I want to try and squeeze two

more in. Polly, we have the front

page of the Son. As you might

imagine, they are talking about an

argument -- the sun.

It is a

horribly tragic story. With a clear

need for him to take some time off

and seeks treatment. You know, I

think like more and more people,

this addiction to painkillers is

something where, just like in the

US, we need to look really carefully

at what policy we have doesn't want

people, it sure that we invest in

rehab services. It's all right for

Ant McPartlin, he can probably

afford rehab and we hope it really

helps. The tragic thing is there are

thousands of families who will be

affected by addictions like this who

just aren't actors those services.

And also the impact it will have on

ITV local who can't afford those

services. Ant and Dec come without a

pair, you can't have one without the

other. They are buffets of Saturday

night TV all round the it's not just

Saturday night takeaway -- they are

the face of Saturday night TV. They

are very key to the whole ITV

market. If one of them isn't very

well, sadly, the whole thing comes

crashing down.

Let's conclude with

the Daily Express, which has

certainly an arresting headline.

Miracle cure for sight loss, Pollock

was -- Polly?

I don't know about

medical claims, but it is a module.

You. Open -- it is a module. You.

Now we have got themselves helping

to cure blindness, it feels like a

miracle cure narrative about

themselves might be coming true. I'm

a medical perspective, that is very

exciting.

It is very exciting to

think that we have seen conditions

that previously nobody thought were

curable. Thanks to the

ground-breaking medical

breakthroughs, it yours can be

found. It shows the importance of

funding -- a cure can be found. It

shows the importance of funding

research as much as possible, there

are sure is out there for lots of

conditions.

Two patients

miraculously regained their vision,

an 86-year-old man and a woman in

her early 60s were suffering from

age-related macular degeneration and

they are not suffering from back any

longer.

More than 600,000 people are

affected by this condition.

That is

a result of great investment in

research and development and

regulations to support its.

As you

rightly pointed out, we have ended

up on a more uplifting note!

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Thank you, Polly and Kevin.

From us all, goodbye.