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president trump has insisted that the actions of his former national security adviser, michael flynn, were lawful — but he had to sack him because he had lied to the vice—president and the fbi. the family of a 14—year—old boy who died after he was hit by a car on the m67 motorway have said they are "completely heartbroken". the members of the border of the government's social mobility commission have resigned. the day i pray they have cited a lack of leadership. —— they have cited a lack of leadership. the family of a 14—year—old boy who died after he was hit by a car on the m67 motorway have said they are "completely heartbroken". samuel berkley was found critically injured nearjunction three at hyde yesterday afternoon. barclays bank says it will no longer offer a russian anti—virus software programme free to customers after warnings it could be exploited by the kremlin. kaspersky lab denies any links to the russian government. and meet the author this week i'm
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joined by the author kate mozley. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the economics commentator and author dharshini david and the us broadcaster and commentator charlie wolf. tomorrow's front pages. the observer leads with the news that alan milburn has resigned in protest at the government's policies. the sunday times goes with the same story, reporting that mr milburn accused ministers of betraying the people who voted for brexit. the mail on sunday says a labour peer has been wrongly claiming expenses — the peer says he will pay
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some of the money back. the sunday telegraph reports on dissent within the conservative party over the role eu courts will play in the uk after brexit. and the sunday express claims the upcoming royal wedding will lift the economy by half a billion pounds and boost the uk‘s diplomatic relationship with the united states so let's begin. will you start us off, the observer and this front—page story. remind us, social mobility, what does that mean? it means you start in one place and can you end up better off than your beginnings suggest. to be honest, this is alan milburn, it's not just honest, this is alan milburn, it's notjust him. he's saying all three of his fellow commissioners are quitting because they feel frustrated. not enough is being done and it is being sidelined because of
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brexit. ironically they say the people who they should be focusing on the people who aren't seeing social mobility and are disproportionately located in areas who voted for brexit and they are missing out. the statistics are pretty bleak. if you look at someone born in the 1980s, the first generation who aren't expected to be better off than the generation before them. real earnings are going to flat line in the next 20 years. one wonders if this is more because they have so many other priorities, they've got brexit to worry about and other economic things and this has been pushed the background, or is this a longer term thing?” has been pushed the background, or is this a longer term thing? i am surprised they are over occupied with brexit, as much as i am in favour of it. it's harder than they thought. i guess the thing for me is, brexit actually should be
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helping pick a social mobility is based on productivity and... forgive me, my mind has gone... getting work and progressing and what have you. making progress. and opportunity to make money. that's what's missing. i think it's easier solved if you can just get it out of the way and let companies grow and expand. we'll be talking about trump's tax plan. one of the things is dropping the tax rates and getting it to where businesses can hire. let businesses be profitable. dharshini, alan milburn being quoted the saying setting out a proposition to do something about this and then not doing it is almost worse than not doing it is almost worse than not doing anything about it at. yellow theresa may came into office and said she was all about creating britain for everyone. acknowledging
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some people feel left out of the progress being made. what hearing here is we need to hear about abe britain that is going to be successful in the long and social mobility is part and parcel. on the other hand these are people who are well qualified to do the job, why resign? prosperity is a circle, it leads to productivity which leads to... and that leads us to what donald trump has been doing. the sunday telegraph says his joy at fight for the biggest tax cut... it's not perfect. anything is a step forward. the tax system in america as it is here, i do know how many hundreds of thousands of pages in the uk tax code? a huge number of
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books. no one wants to do a tax return in the us. not at all. it shouldn't be that way... charlie, corporation tax, that's the tax companies pay. it's going to be dropped from 35 to 20%. it's incentivising some perhaps but that's an enormous cut the business. what about the small man as they used to cool it in america, the ordinary people? companies effectively don't pay tax. what happens if tax is figured out by your accountants and everything goes into the final cost. most of it get past onto the consumer. so you say you love it so people will pay it? you can hire more people be prosperous. the other thing is when trump asa
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prosperous. the other thing is when trump as a candidate was talking about 6 trillion offshore... this isn't people hiding it away, this is money they would like to bring back to businesses but it's too expensive. it doesn't serve them to keep their businesses based in the us. dharshini, it says the move past pressure on britain to increase its competitiveness. there could be a race to the bottom in tax terms. there always is a race going on. we are due to cut our corporation tax rate down to i7% in the next couple of years. on the other side the argument is can we really afford this? do we really want to be cutting our tax rates now knowing that the coffers are looking threadbare. going back to the situation in america, what about the people. it suggested they will get some but they aren't going to be as good as they think they are. in a couple of years' time, i was
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speaking to a professor in virginia earlier on, he said people will realise mr trump didn't deliver what he said he would. the big story i'm getting is people complaining it will increase the debt, i don't think it will because if you look back to the ronald reagan years, businesses grow so much that you're bringing in more revenue at a lower rate. let's stick with donald trump. the sunday times front page. it's not the main story. it's a reference in the cartoon. i expect charlie knows the answer. what is happening on february the 26th? working visit, is this what's going on? there's no details on this. the working visit being the
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opening of the new american embassy. that is ostensibly what this is all about. there have been rumours for a few days and this will be hugely controversial for all the reasons... if he coming? i don't find donald trump to be someone who's going to be scared of a protest or two. it probably protest back at them. knowing donald trump you'll say it was the biggest, beautiful protest, the biggest protest i've ever had. he went to france of course. on the other hand he hasn't been attacking the french the way he has the british in the last few days and social media. this has been so overplayed and it's such a shame.
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he's retweeting them... what he's retweeted has been from ann coulter. i don't expect him to know what britain first is. why not? he's the president of the united states. we seem to be going back over an old story. surely he could have said i'd slightly misunderstood the thought of people they are, nevertheless there is a problem. but he went on to insult our prime minister. the prime minister, with all due respect, tweeted to him. i would have thought they could have picked up have thought they could have picked up the telephone and said donald, maybe you didn't realise this group is and what you think it is. maybe she won't get through to him. maybe! we are speculating about
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conversations we don't know much about. the sunday telegraph again. charlie, tories at war over european judges. theresa may is heading towards a rift with some of them because she's trying to make this grand compromise, part of which would be to allow european judges on the ec] which is the european court ofjustice, a the ec] which is the european court of justice, a separate the ec] which is the european court ofjustice, a separate entity from the eu, that they would be able to rule on certain immigration... and trade disputes. if you are a sovereign nation you are a sovereign nation. you don't want to be answering to the european union at the back door. the first paragraph
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talks about effectively failing to withdraw britain from the european union, that's a bit of a stretch. withdraw britain from the european union, that's a bit of a stretchm isa union, that's a bit of a stretchm is a bit ofa union, that's a bit of a stretchm is a bit of a stretch. but it is a big issue. it is a huge issue and is one of the iain duncan smith. very much a leading brexiteer. said he would say that. but it is quite a stark warning when you put it like that. that's why it appears there on the front page. is this just a warning shot and another stage in the war of words? probably. this business about the laws that have come in from europe, it is central to brexit for many people. it really is. when you ask people what they voted for when they voted brexit i'm sure that would come into it. there's been all these arguments about what we are going to get economically, no one would have known. even if we lost it all, to me the central argument was is that i
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wa nt the central argument was is that i want to be a sovereign nation. it has been a sovereign nation. i don't expect anybody from europe to be ruling on british law, i wouldn't expect anyone from america to be ruling on british law. it may seem small but it's an important point principal. i guess it depends which side you voted for how you perceive this. let's move on, dharshini start—ups and this one. this is the observer front—page story about momentum and observations from roy hattersley saying it's leading to labour's worst crisis. is important to say roy hattersley very much on the left of his party in his days. this is another blast from the past. we had alan milburn and now roy hattersley. warning that perhaps we have got momentum trying to undermine what's going on in the labour party, trying to force up the
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moderates. notjust mps but councillors as well and therefore somehow edged the party further to the left, effectively manoeuvre a takeover. this is right next to the story about the social mobility tsar quitting. this is about both parties... momentum organisations need diversity. they need a culture that holds them together but at the same time they need diversity so you have different points of view. the strength of the labour party itself, if everyone is thinking like a radical momentum member, first off i don't think that's going to garner votes. it wouldn't sway me. also i did think it's going to help a party to grow and be able to challenge itself. if
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you have different wings of a party, at least if you are discussing an issue i want to hear from the left—wing side of the conservative party but they have to say on an issue versus right—wing and be able to debate within a party. if momentum is going to take over... lets end on a cheerful note. if the royal wedding upcoming. lets end on a cheerful note. if the royalwedding upcoming. everything we just said was the minor stories, this is the bulk of the news! the mail on sunday says it has meghan‘s unseen family photo album. we cheerful about this? this is the greatest economic side ever seen. meghan's wedding president will boost the uk economy by £500 million. it's a lovely feel good

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