Transcripts For BBCNEWS The Papers 20240713

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Thats all from sportsday. Thanks for watching. Coming up in a moment, the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are anna isaac, reporter at the wall street journal and john rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. Lets start with the daily express, it says Boris Johnson is tantalisingly close to a brexit deal, after last minute negotiations with the eu. Optimism in the daily mail as well, over the prime ministers likelihood of clinching a deal although it warns he could still meet dup resistance. A more cautious tone in the i. It claims borisjohnsons hopes of securing a brexit deal are hanging in the balance, ahead of thursdays crunch eu summit. The metro reports that the race for a deal has stumbled, over the issue of Northern Irelands vat status. According to the telegraph, mrjohnson has compared the brexit talks to the prison break drama, the Shawshank Redemption, in which an escaping inmate has to crawl through a sewer to reach freedom. And, away from brexit. The Financial Times says Investment Firm hargreaves la nsdown has come under fire, after almost 300,000 of its customers were embroiled in the collapse of woodford investment management. So, brexit dominating most of the front pages, lets see what our reviewers make of it all. Lets start with the express. We have heard that there will be no deal tonight. And that is how it is looking for some optimistic in the daily express closing in on a deal. We are starting to see details of what is up for prescription discussion and its in pieces of doctrines are coming out on twitter. There are some bigger terms of framework with people saying that we will keep eu standards in certain areas to try and placate a pot having special treatment in Northern Ireland versus the rest of the uk. It does look closer than we have been before but we still face various issues about whether or not the dup and Northern Irish Unionist Party is going to be prepared to back something where Northern Ireland is treated differently to the rest of the uk. Those long standing issues still remain and that is crucial for getting a vote through parliament. Your phone must been going off nonstop with m essa 9 es must been going off nonstop with messages and what separates this evening. It is been like that all day. Its on, its off. Clearly, the deal is about to be struck. I think it is, it must be there. I did predict that some of the headlines would be on the knife edge and i think the mirror has got on the knife edge at the time. The express has captured pretty well against all odds. It wasjust has captured pretty well against all odds. It was just ten days ago that we thought Boris Johnson odds. It was just ten days ago that we thought borisjohnson had no chance of securing a deal. We were all discussing what was going to happen when he was forced to go and ask for an extension and what would happen in the general election that would follow. Tomorrow everything is going to look complete the different if there is actually a deal although there are so huge questions about whether there is going to be a 500 page text actually available for the leaders to sign off on and then mps being givena leaders to sign off on and then mps being given a few hours to decide what they think before they vote. We know these leaders like to have the text well in advance of the summit, pour over it and get their advice is to look at it. Not a chance with this presumably if there is a 500 page document still being written as we speak. I think it must be finished by now but there is an article about the political decoration which is the nonbinding bit. Which was only a few pages last time. A handful of pages last time, very vague but in that vague wise a great deal of politics. Because it is that ultimate relationship that is going to lead to the very heart of brexit things like the erg for them it is all about future relationship and how that works and thorny issues around how Northern Irelands consent will continue throughout this process because we know stormont isnt sitting at the moment. It is devolved assembly it is not sitting at the moment Going Forward how to manage a situation like that when you have to have some kind of ongoing consent mechanism saying yes we agreed to remain in this slightly odd arrangement where you have an all ireland ireland regulation different. From various front pages, it was the bars in the photos. The telegraph has put Boris Johnson in front of the bars rather than behind them. Liking it to the Shawshank Redemption and breaking free. A very strange reference. Borisjohnson appeared free. A very strange reference. Boris johnson appeared in front of the 1922 committee which is tory backbenchers and was only there for about five minutes and gave them a pep about five minutes and gave them a pep talk saying we are not quite there yet but we nearly are. And then talking about the Shawshank Redemption which he mentioned apparently to the cabinet as well to met hancock saying that he had seen it. Someone said that they would have seen it so he was 19 at the time so he would not have done. Interesting i do think its great about the story is there isnt detail in the process we can expect over the next few days. Moving on from the Shawshank Redemption, and hopefully theyll get stuck in the sewer as it were. It offers a lot of detail in the process. If this document does get to the european leaders, this council meeting, and they approve it, than this vote on saturday which is the first Time Department will have sat on a saturday since the falklands war, thenit saturday since the falklands war, then it becomes a really important vote on saturday. Saturday is going to be huge. Really important day. If they dont approve it at the European Council than that is just an indicative vote and the need to have another council before the end of the month to and try get over the line. Which they are talking about already. Running it right down to those last few days which will mean a lot more things like natural markets, more uncertainty and a lot more opportunity i suppose for consensus to build and then fall apart again stop with that then triggers the been asked if nothing is done this week. The benn act. It thats why i think there will be a definitive effort to get that vote on saturday. At the same time people demanding a referendum which the independent supports and there will be an attempt by mps i think before the final vote on the deal to attach an amendment ora the final vote on the deal to attach an amendment or a referendum to it. The independent. It is going to bea the independent. It is going to be a pretty big decision taken on saturday. I suppose something has got to give. Not my department. Credit the metro for that one. For some that covers a lot of economics and finance i have to say how exciting is to have on the front page. We have been waiting for this moment. I dont understand the vat prom because it is a national competence. Ibc are not allowed to increase or decrease it beyond the limits. Obviously you are not. What difference doesnt a makeweight zero it makes a big difference because there is a lot of manoeuvre within the eu to standardise certain taxes. And this is one of these taxes. And this is one of these taxes theyre trying to standardise across the eu so that you can try to have more equal competition between countries. You cant have a super low vat country and then another one that has been in the Single Market because elements of the Single Market are being retained in Northern Ireland in order to keep for goods and trade with minimal friction between the south in the north. That means you could have a sort of east west down the irish sea vat border and that becomes a issue with businesses being competitive with businesses being competitive with one another if those vat covers we re with one another if those vat covers were to be slashed. And that will happen. Well, and i suppose the theory of that happening is what could. Could meet resistance from the dv which is why Northern Ireland is being treated different into the rest of the uk and that is where the guardian picks up on, the crucial element that Boris Johnson needs guardian picks up on, the crucial element that borisjohnson needs to get the dup to support whatever deal if one is agreed at the summit stop with yes, but i am not so well versed in the technical questions here. But the politics of it are very clear that the dup i think has decided that it wants a deal. It doesnt want to be held responsible for a nojoe brexit at such point in the future. That is not imminent but it does not want to be responsible for that. A no deal brexit. In Northern Ireland brexit is very unpopular and the ha rd brexit is very unpopular and the hard border is very unpopular. They wa nt hard border is very unpopular. They want to get some things sorted out. There is an important point to make if the dups argument to make if they dont want Northern Ireland to have different treatment versus the rest of the uk under any deal. Under a no deal, they are under a very difficult position of no deal tariffs, whereas if you are sending a good from belfast in dublin, you would face an important levy once a hit ireland. The other way, you would not. Northern ireland would be ina very would not. Northern ireland would be in a very difficult position in terms of remaining competitive in all ireland trade. There are some issues that cut both ways that would make life put up the uncomfortable for the dup Going Forward. And there is something that always comes up well why not set it to zero . The most favoured nation rule where there had to apply that to everyone and then goes into freefall and they worry about undermining. The node you tariffs to make that problem. Lets go way from bursa for now. This on the Financial Times, the Neil Woodford fun collapsing. And on the face of it, you might think that this is a story for the financial world but this, the Ripple Effect of this go far and wide because of peoples investments, they may not even know. This is where the a bstra ct even know. This is where the abstract can feel very distance around finance and goes right down to how people manage their retirement because there were a lot of Pension Funds that looked to Neil Woodford as a rock star asset manager to get them a good return where it is hard to get much back on those investments. And one of the parties that has back to woodford, kent county council, and there a lot of questions being asked about how we mention manage Pension Funds not because people did not realise they had never heard of woodford before. You would have no idea that some of it might be tucked away in an abstract fund. There were questions about how close description he was of his performance versus others, he is a very charismatic individual. People had seen him make certain moves in the past and they put a lot of faith in that kind of personality. But actually his performance versus peers was over several years not very good. And the reason why and joannes prayers caught on all this. Why another was caught up in all this was it was one of his funds of his caught up in this stop emma and its like. They help them navigate this difficult were the facet management to get their funds up. Lets finish with a nice picture story, the front page of the daily mail, feather in your cap. The royals on tour to pakistan and using it, they had the cameras and the press as a chance to draw attention to Climate Change stop was still in pakistan, i cannot find it now. There we are. They are on the metro as well. Having flown by aircraft presumably to pakistan, lecturing the world on how we need to do with Climate Change but i think people understand that you still have to travel. It is a question of how much you have to do it and how much you pay whether it will be taxed more heavily. I think it is good that they should be trying to get that message across. | they should be trying to get that message across. I did have a look around to see if there was anything about them offsetting them. Perhaps they did. Two Carbon Offsets is a form of cheating, isnt it was white john, play along i love how williams fashion choices are dominating this world tour rather than kates. I went to star trek jacket, sort of a narrowjacket. Than kates. I went to star trek jacket, sort of a narrowjacketm was a genuinely interesting thing to have people commenting on what he was wearing when all the time has been on women in the royal family and what and who they are wearing. Its nice to see a bit of equality on that front to. On that note, anna and john, thank you very much. You thought the paper review would be before brexit. Thats it for the papers this hour. We will be back at 11. 30 for another look at the papers, and dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you seven days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers. And if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc. Hello there. We saw sunshine today and there will be sunshine at times over the next few days but there will also be rain as well in the former showers so the downpours will be localised. Saturated ground across many parts of the country, some flood warnings and parts of the amendments and it will stay very u nsettled. Amendments and it will stay very unsettled. That was the area of cloud that brought us the rain earlier on but look at this swirl out to the west, this is marking what is at the moment a deep area of low pressure. That will bring longer spells of rain and over the next few days it will gradually drift right over the top of the uk. As it does so over the top of the uk. As it does so the low weekends, pressure or stress to build during the second half of the weekend and into the start of next week. Perhaps then we could have a couple of days of dry and quiet weather away from the far northwest. A few showers arriving across western parts of england and wales up through the irish sea as the bees begins to pick up. Further east a chance you stay dry, the wind will be lighter, clear skies, cold with a touch of frost in eastern parts of scotland. Milder further west with the breeze beginning to pick up and those showers beginning to arrive as well because closer to that area of low pressure and through the day on thursday we have to find more showers developing across the western side of the uk. Some of them heavy and some rather strong and blustery winds too which will bring a few showers through the English Channel and blow them in land into the south east of bingen and across the midwinter but there isa and across the midwinter but there is a chance he will stay dry in the north east of england and northeast scotland. Temperatures are 13 15 degrees which is normalfor this time of year. As we head towards the end of the week, that area of low pressure getting close to the uk. The winds will probably be lighter for many areas except towards the far south west of england and wales where we will have the strongest of the winds and we could see fairly frequent and at times heavy showers at well. Showers elsewhere but also at well. Showers elsewhere but also a few showers with the details likely to change, captures about 1214 likely to change, captures about 12 14 degrees. Again that is friday as we head into the weekend a lot of showers to come. Slow moving thunder read downpours across england and wales. When speaking up in scotland and Northern Ireland. And that will probably see those temperatures beginning to fall away just a little bit. As we head into the beginning of next week, we have the chance of High Pressure only briefly and that will bring dry weather some sunshine. This is bbc news, im ben bland. The headlines at 11 00pm hopes of finalising a brexit deal by midnight tonight fade, as officials continue to work on the Technical Details in brussels. The uk and eu had been hoping to reach an agreement in time for tomorrows eu summit. In brussels, the eus chief negotiator says were working. The task for downing street to persuade some prominent conservative brexit supporters to support the terms of a new deal. I have absolutely every confidence in the prime ministers intent. The big question is, whether the clock ticking, will everybody choose to make a deal possible . And i really hope they do. With the clock