24/11/2015 The Papers

team ahead of their final in Ghent and from David Kay. First, here are

Whitby is the political commentator Miranda Green and Chris Hope from

the Daily Telegraph, the chief political correspondent. Let's have

a look at the front pages. The Financial Times leads with

tomorrow's Autumn Statement saying the Chancellor will announce the

biggest house-building programme since the 1970s. The Guardian says

the axe is to fall on care and please. The Metro goes with the

Russian plane shot down by Turkey, quoting President Putin as saying

the action was a stab in the back. The Times says Putin is threatening

revenge. The Daily Telegraph has new guidance advising doctors to put the

protection of the public ahead of confidentiality and to report

elderly drivers who are not safe. The greater risks of having a baby

at the weekend are highlighted by the Daily Mail. The Daily Express

focuses on pensions and what could happen to pensioners who rashly cash

in their retirement savings. Let's begin with our selection and we are

starting with the Metro. It is a stab in the back, says Putin.

Although a lot of the papers might not have that as their main story,

it is dominating the news agenda. It is, absolutely. The dramatic footage

of the jet coming down in flames is on most of the front pages tonight.

It is used to great effect because the international news gets more

frightening by the day. This latest development is very worrying because

Turkey, which has shot down this Russian jet, is a member of Nato.

The great worry now is that Nato, and each Nato member has pledged to

defend another Nato member, if there is a stand of between Russia and one

Nato member, it is a stand-off between Russia and all of Nato. Is

that how you see it going? What we do not know is what this jet was

doing. The big problem the West has is what is Russia doing? It is

having a go at Assad's opponents, which are moderate, and also Islamic

State. That is a problem. We will never know who is in the right or

the wrong, but this is a dreadful concern. There are all these

different voices in such a small area of airspace. We spoke to an RAF

navigator who said the pilot would have known whose airspace he is in.

They need to know that. The last time we were on there was a warning

from Turkey that a Russian jet had been wandering into its airspace.

The Turks say this particular pilot sent 21 warning messages before the

shots were fired. It is very complex to work out what was really going on

at the time. But more important is how does Putin react now and how

does Nato react? Putin is here calling Turkey the accomplice of

terrorists in downing the jet. That is because Russia and the Nato

countries are targeting different groups within Syria. We have the

vote next week about whether we start air strikes ourselves in

Syria, so it is very complex. In the Telegraph another picture dominates.

But the story we are focusing on is a small one. Labour MPs are denied

free vote on air strikes with the comment that Jeremy Corbyn is

indicating Labour shadow ministers will not be allowed a free vote on

Syrian air strikes. The world's biggest rebel in politics is now

denying his own MPs a free vote. Had it been the other way round, he

would have demanded his right to vote against what the party wanted

him to do. We think the vote will be next Thursday. David Cameron will

sell his case for British military action. It will be about on camera

will try to get MPs to support British action. It will be very

interesting. Although the Conservatives have a majority, it is

pretty thin. How the other parties behave will be significant. The

Conservative Party will have rebels in bold and by the Select Committee

report which was very dubious about the effectiveness of air strikes by

the UK. Cameron will need enough Labour rebels, possibly some SNP, we

do not know how they will play it, to bolster the chance of getting the

boat through. When it is about something so serious like putting

British troops in harm's way, they will want to have an overwhelming

majority. You do not want to have a sliver. The point is how much is

enough? Before Paris you needed to have a lot of the House with you and

after Paris is shrunk because there was a feeling that we need to do

something in this country. A smaller majority is now probably acceptable

to the government. We have to see the effect of this jet being downed.

If that was a British jet brought down by Turkey by mistake or by the

Russians, in this crowded conflict area, and that is why they are

concerned. Another big story for Wednesday will be the Autumn

Statement, the spending review. Let's look at the FT. It is a

positive story and the Chancellor promises 4000 new homes, hoping to

appeal to those aspirational voters. George Osborne has an enormous

problem of his own making, which is that he has annoyed everyone with

his attempt to introduce these draconian cuts to working tax

credits. There was the great Rebellion in the Lords blocking the

cuts, even some of his own MPs were saying we cannot do this, we are

hitting blue-collar workers, our own people, and we should be protecting

them. Tomorrow he has to make it look as if he is once again on the

side of people in low pay who are trying to help themselves, this

drivers. The FT has portrayed it that some of the other big measures,

house-building for affordable homes, infrastructure for the North of

England, that is all supposed to be to say, I am still on your stride.

But you turn to the Guardian and they are concentrating on where the

axe will fall. They are suggesting it will fall on care and police. He

is intent on balancing the budget. He has to, the Tories have always

been strong and on law and order. To say they are cutting back on the

police is the opposite. It is all very well spending money on spies

and the SAS, but you cannot see them. He knows there has been a

battle going on for a while. It will be interesting to see Theresa May's

face as he goes through each department. To see her face when it

comes to hers. One assumes this has been thrashed out and it has been

sitting around for a few days. The Home Office? Everyone thinks that

Bernard Hogan-Howe runs the biggest police force in this country and is

saying I cannot cut any more. He and Osborne and the Tories are on the

wrong side of the debate in law and order. And any British response to

any potential terrorist attack and ministers need to make sure there

are sufficient funds for sufficient officers ready. The government has

tried to make lots of pre-announcements over the last week

since the Paris attacks to say we are putting more money into

intelligence and more money into the anti-terrorist infrastructure. We

will recruit more spies basically. But as Chris says, that is only one

part of the anti-terror jigsaw. The Home Office is under such great

pressure, as is the business Department which will also see big

cuts tomorrow because so many departments are now protected and

untouchable. The NHS budget is untouchable, overseas aid and

several others. Some have got really savage cuts. One that is not ring

fenced and it is another story with the FT and it is pay packages.

According to the FT it might just be that one senior boss has blown the

gaffe. What is this all about, Chris? Is boss is saying bonuses do

not make me work any harder. He is the CEO of Deutsche Bank, one of the

world's biggest banks. He says, I have no idea why I was offered a

contract with a bonus in it because I promise you I will not work any

harder in any year or in any day because somebody will pay me a lot

more or less. Shock, horror. It is wonderful. There is a wonderful

straight delivery that says, his view is not popular with his peers.

on this idea that astronomically on this idea that astronomically

high pay for some people in the city of London is a market and it is all

to do with market competition. They say they do not know what his

package was worth, but his predecessor was an 3-point million 8

million euros. He is a Yorkshire man from Harrogate. He said it. That you

both very much. Thank you to Miranda and Chris. We will be back at

11:30pm for another go.