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messages of support for the former manchester united boss, sir alex ferguson, as he recovers from a brain haemorrhage. and the mother of a 17—year—old boy shot dead in south london appeals for an end to the violence in the capital. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the parliamentary journalist, tony grew, and the entertainment journalist, caroline frost. tomorrow's front pages, starting with: the financial times says the prime minister will risk the wrath of tory eurosceptics by pressing ahead with the customs plan. the times says brussels is preparing a tough line on brexit, fearing a future labour government lead byjeremy corbyn. grandparents could be given the legal right to see their grandchild according to the daily telegraph. the daily mail leads with their on—going plastic campaign, featuring a river in yorkshire, describing it
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as the "the river of shame that shames britain" the guardian leads with a new deportation scandal hitting the home office. "bloodbath on our streets" leads the express, after what they describe as a weekend of violence in the uk. the star leads with tributes from the footballing world to sir alex ferguson who remains seriously ill in hospital. and the same story leads the daily mirror, who feature an interview with tv host eamonn holmes, who asks "pray for my mate fergie". so let's begin. a couple of brexit stories, as i am sure you will be delighted to hear. the financial terms —— financial times is where we start. this is the idea of a customs partnership, whereby, potentially, any goods coming into britain which would then end up in the eu would have tariffs collected on them by us on behalf of
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the european union, not popular with leading brexiteers. it is not popular with a very small group of conservative mps, somewhere between 60 and 75. part of the problem with the prime minister's position if she is trying to seek a sensible pragmatic way forward that won't hurt the economy, what she has in her own party is a noisy but small group of mps who are demanding the ha rd est of group of mps who are demanding the hardest of hard brexit. what we will see in the next couple of months will be a reckoning, the prime minister will happy face down some of those hard brexit is in her own party and risk splitting her own party. though i think leadership is probably relatively safe because of the relatively small size of these, to put it another way, if she had to turn around, m26 then, after the referendum, and said we will go for some sort of continuing customs relationship with the eu, she had the votes for that then, she has the votes that now, and she will have the votes that tomorrow. she has
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remember is that the lords have defeated the government so many times on issues to do with brexit, and if they are not happy with the customs arrest and put for what they will do it again. this is the nature of our unique democracy in the world. we don't have some whimsical leader, benevolent, perhaps, but coming in with a brand—new plan. we see this ship slowly, very slowly, some may say majestically, i don't, sailing down the river. i have two things to say about this. one is that ijust don't, every day we get breast dramatic headlines like this, —— fresh dramatic headlines. people may see it as theresa may doing her job. she will risk wrath no matter what he says whether it is security, policing, education. these are tectonic plate shifting. because of the nature of the media it get
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shoehorned into a dramatic shuddering. i think we should wait to see what the plan, the proposal finally gets bashed out, hopefully in the privacy of cabinet, gets put out before the greater parliament and then hopefully, one hopes, if tony blair, et cetera, have their way, a vote at the end of it, with more information than we had previously. a look at the times, and other brexit story. fear ofjeremy corbyn prompts tough eu line on brexit. brussels wanting to protect the single market. they are concerned there could be a return of things like state subsidies. we have had a history of relatively left—wing policies in europe since the second world war. it says the eu fears, they fear that britain could still a competitive advantage. it looks like this would be a disadvantage to any kind of ongoing
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negotiations, but we hear it is because they fear that britain could do quite well if they subsidise their lot of the industries. it is a take, i guess. their lot of the industries. it is a take, iguess. it their lot of the industries. it is a take, i guess. it is quite good. it is quite a curious one. as you point out, it seems to be saying that the reason why they are insisting on the level playing field mechanism, part of the final agreement, the uk will guarantee to the eu that we will radically drop standards. that is predicated on the fact that there may or may not be a jeremy corbyn government at some point after we leave the european union and presumably after we have left the transition period, december 2020, but not talking about... what happened earlier today was that the business secretary went on television today and said that businesses such as kameni practice who rely onjust—in—time production will have to, if we don't come to a customs agreement, people will lose
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theirjobs. it is notjust theoretical issues. the battle lines are being drawn. this is an interesting tech from a european perspective of what may or may not be informing brussels that was position. bloodbath on our streets. this is after a weekend of violence in britain left three dead and two boys with bullet wounds. notjust in london, but other parts of the country as well. this violence is something police are going to have to try to deal with. the police obviously have fewer numbers, 22,000 fewer than when the dollar listing government came to power, england e—mails, not scotland or northern ireland. it might be a harsh thing to say, but if this was white middle—class people in surrey being stabbed, shot, having acid thrown at them, i suspect more would be done. i suspect that because these tend to be young people from ethnic minority
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as it is seen as a black on black problem. i think in terms of the focus, not by the metropolitan police, but in terms of the media focus it is seen in that sort of problem. we have had people coming out talking about the approach that the met no they have to take in trying to tackle violent crime. a lot of comparisons being drawn with the success they have had in places like glasgow. cressida dick you is that this person who has to be on—site in grenfell tower and the terror incident le sommer —— is that first person. it is only front of out first person. it is only front of our national media. i think it is the first stage. we have yet to see the first stage. we have yet to see the baby on the beach scenario. we haven't seen that shift. we saw that with the horrendous shootings in schools in america. we saw the thai turn with the most recent one when the school students themselves came out to speak —— tide turned. we saw
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a mother speaking about the effect of herfamily a mother speaking about the effect of her family life of this. it may ta ke of her family life of this. it may take one incident to symbolise, as we have seen so take one incident to symbolise, as we have seen so many take one incident to symbolise, as we have seen so many horrendous, chronic conditions in this country, we may need one horrendous story to focus everyone's attentions. we may need one horrendous story to focus everyone's attentionsm we may need one horrendous story to focus everyone's attentions. it has been on the front pages like it was last year and the before. if you cut your services and cut community policing, then it makes the job of the police more difficult in terms of intelligence and trying to bring young people away from crime. that engagement idea. let us look at the guardian. another deportation story. what is at this time? who was caught up what is at this time? who was caught up in it? as you say, and other week and other disaster for the home office, right on the back of windrush, which they thought had been put to bed with the resignation of amber rudd last week. this is a separate but related problem, it is migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain. we heartheir migrants seeking indefinite leave to remain. we hear their cases have been wrongly handled and they have
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gone to the court of appeal and many of them have been found to be unjustly attempted to be deported and this has proved to be, the guardian is calling it a new deportation scandal. these are skilled people who were supposedly, who were supposedly want to have in this country to fulfil certain jobs. it is another day, another scandal for the home office. one of the things i have comes out of brexit is we have a new department of citizenship and immigration and that no one from the home office is allowed across the door. as we have seen allowed across the door. as we have seen with windrush and this, a target driven culture within the home office means the only thing they're home office means the only thing they‘ re interested home office means the only thing they're interested in is how many people they can deport. if that means using antiterrorism legislation to try to get teachers, doctors, lawyers, and engineers out of the uk, the home office doesn't care, they will do whatever they can to meet the targets set for them by theresa may when she was home secretary. the telegraph, grandparents right to see their
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grandchildren may become law. as you say earlier, this has gone on for years and years. it is not in law. if families breakdown in any way off and it is the grandparents who suffer, who are not able to see their grandchildren for many reasons, financial, families moving away. a strange and family breakdown. there is now this seeking to somehow put it into law that there will be an assumption of a relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren, whatever has gone on with that in between the parent. again, my concern about that means that parents, at some point, are going to have two go into court to explain why they don't want their pa rents to to explain why they don't want their parents to have contact with their children. as a parent you could find yourself in a scenario we have to explain to a judge why you don't wa nt explain to a judge why you don't want your parents have contact with your children. i can think of many scenarios where they could have been incidences in their childhood of
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things that happen to them orjust that their parents were horrible people, that they don't want them to have co nta ct people, that they don't want them to have contact with their children, creating some sort of right will mean that parents now have to justify why they don't want their children to have contact with their grandparents. and the judge will have to decide between the two arguments. let us look at the daily mail. this is difficult to pick. we don't have all the details. they're with us. the river of plastic that shames britain. this is a river in yorkshire, not specified by the picture, but it is a mess. it is frivolous to discuss what is called a picture story. we don't know what it is. but i would point out 90% of thatis it is. but i would point out 90% of that is wood. single use plastic, the daily mail has been campaigning on this. there are a lot of things they could put on the front page today, but they have decided to lead on theircampaign today, but they have decided to lead on their campaign against plastic and single use plastic. we can all agree that we need to be smarter about how we can encourage people not to use single use plastic, but
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also how to recycle them. if you wa nt to also how to recycle them. if you want to buy certain products, they inevitably come in plastics and it is single use. even if you throw it in the recycling bin, you are not entirely sure it will always end up where you want it to. an actor made a film called plastic, a few years ago, a documentary, where he tried to live for a week without plastic. it is almost impossible. we have created a society where we are plastic dependent. it serves all sorts of very useful purposes that mikelas sorts of very useful purposes that mikel as convenient, easy for sub—letting recently one copyjane tried to install a system where if you turned up with your cup they would charge only 49p for a copy. you turned up with your cup they would charge only 49p for a copylj know that chain. i take my cup in and it is a fantastic saving. i read that they are thinking of stopping it because not enough people are taking up the offer. it is not serving the purpose. i am trying. single—handedly. serving the purpose. i am trying.
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single-handedly. keep it going. it needs a collective effort. i don't know how they go about that. the daily mail, hats off to them is starting. one thing i would say, whenever a 5p tax was wrought in on single use plastic bags, it had a transformed into effect on the way people used plastic bags. it is not beyond the will of man to come up with a system. it will need a modicum of compulsion anywhere that 5p is. let us look at the back page of the daily mirror. a lot of of the bat pages at thinking about sir alex ferguson —— back pages. this is the daily mirror. thank you, boss. this isa number of daily mirror. thank you, boss. this is a number of ordinarily rivals of manchester united paying tribute to the extraordinary success of sir
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alex ferguson when he was manchester united's boss all that time and now recovering, hopefully, from a brain haemorrhage. football is tribal. a bit like politics. and highly contested, but also light politics voters that our managers themselves realise what a genius he is. and it is heartening to see them pull around with messages of support for him. today was a big day for football. we saw arsene wenger's finale, saying goodbye to arsenal. arguably, sir alex ferguson's biggest rival turned friend. you have seen pictures of them over the years at loggerheads, and in latter years at loggerheads, and in latter years laughing and sharing jokes and having a great camaraderie. it was lovely that he took time out at his final match, equally, to pay great testament to his long—term rival turned friend. that is it for the paypass tonight. —— papers. thank you, caroline frost and tony drew. coming up next it's the film review.
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higuain will hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news, to take us the film review on bbc news, to take us through this week's cinema releases. could do see you again the topic what has caught your eye? we have a new film starring shelley is the rhondda. a very moving documentary from andrew haig. and mary and the witches flower. i am so looking forward
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