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how England's cricketers beat Pakistan in Dubai. That is coming up | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
in Sportsday in the next 15 minutes, straight after the papers. | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
With me are Craig Woodhouse, chief political correspondent at | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
the Sun and Rowena Mason, political correspondent at the Guardian. | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Times, which leads on | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Labour's split over bombing in Syria. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
It says Jeremy Corbyn's opposition has plunged him into the biggest | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The Telegraph also splashes on the turmoil | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
in Labour over whether to back air strikes on Islamic State targets. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The Syria vote leads the Guardian too. They say David Cameron is | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
"Cameron's ready for war, but is Britain?" | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
is the question posed by the Daily Mirror. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
The Independent features the kneeling figure | :00:59. | :00:59. | |
of a man condemned to death in Saudi Arabia, one of 50 who will | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
"Will Britain protest?" the paper asks. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
In the Express, there is hope for sufferers of arthritis. An | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
injection to ease their agony could be on the way within five years. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
As net migration hits a record high, the Daily Mail says it could lead | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
to an out vote in the forthcoming referendum over | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
And the Sun says the increase in new arrivals mean our green and pleasant | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Let's begin with a couple of the papers which are leading on the same | :01:24. | :01:35. | |
sort of story, and that is the turmoil within Labour over this vote | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
on striking against Syria. The Times has it, Labour at war over vote to | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
bomb ISIS. Frontbench resignations threatened. Labour at war over | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
airstrikes in Syria. We have just heard as we were coming back on air | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
that Jeremy Corbyn has pulled out of visiting Oldham to campaign in the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
local by-election, this is because of necessary engagements in London | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
so we are all starting to wonder quite what these engagements are. I | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
wonder whether that consists of standing up and sacking all those | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
who opposed him, who say that he is utterly wrong and that they need to | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
keep written say. The strongest player he could make is to say you | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
guys don't agree with me, I'm the leader, few pop. Whether he could | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
fill all those chairs if he purged his Cabinet is another matter | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
because we're not sure how many agree with him or how many agree | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
with the rebel faction led by the Shadow Foreign Secretary and Tom | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Watson, the deputy party leader. It is an almighty mess that Labour have | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
managed to get themselves into the day when we are talking about | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
potentially going to war in foreign country. It must be an extraordinary | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
time to be reporting on politics for people like you. As Craig says, we | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
are not headlining the airstrikes itself but what is happening in the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
opposition. It is remarkable, and these two front pages are very | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
similar, The Times in the Independent are very similar, Labour | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
at war over the airstrikes. There is another possible way out for Jeremy | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Corbyn if he does not sack his Shadow Cabinet. He could just offer | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
them a free vote. That is potentially the best thing for him | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
to do now. Even though he has said he wants a collective position on | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Syria, he is not going to get it. So that is possibly his best option. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
The problem with a free vote is a lot of the Shadow Cabinet rebels see | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
it as making the Labour Party look like it can't make its mind up on an | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
issue of war, which is a terrible signal to send to the public. The | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
other thing is if he was going to offer a free vote he could have done | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
so three weeks ago, avoiding all of this mess. He was meant to be | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
believed in by his team, and they believe in him. Yukka of poll | :04:01. | :04:14. | |
suggested that 70% of Labour Party members -- A YouGov poll. The Labour | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Party should be listening to the membership, which would seem to put | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
them in line with the leader of the party. Yes, except to win the | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
general election you don't just need Labour voters. Let's not forget | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Labour had a terrible share of the vote in the most recent general | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
election and if the aim of a political party is to end up in | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
government it needs to reach out and if it is not prepared to do that and | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
it might as well go off into the fringes. We are 4.5 years away from | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
that. What? Find me a political strategist who thinks you can | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
rebuild the party's reputation on an issue of War and peace in four | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
years, I don't think it is possible. That is why we are still talking | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
about Tony Blair in Iraq. Labour Party is still tainted by that. But | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
they did go to war. But you can't turn this around in four years, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
impossible. Cameron is ready for war, is Britain? Commons divided as | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
case for war in Syria is raised. We have seen those conservatives oppose | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the airstrikes tee years ago now much more inclined to vote for them. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
We have an action got a vote yet, have we? That is absolutely true. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
One interesting case is Crispin Blunt, the chairman of the Foreign | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Affairs Committee. Only a few weeks ago his committee released a very | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
sceptical report questioning the justification for airstrikes and he | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
stood up in the Commons today and said he actually now believes the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
case has been made by Cameron. So that might have swung a few of the | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
waverers in the Conservative Party behind him, and also a few of the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Labour side as well. But when we had the debate at the UN, and that | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
resolution put forward by France, it was to use all means necessary to | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
combat Islamic State. At the moment we are talking about airstrikes, but | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
how much further might some kind of intervention have to go before we | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
get to a diplomatic solution? Cameron was clear in the Commons | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
today, as have been most experts, you are not going to defeat Islamic | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
State purely from the air. It will have to require some ground effort. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
The West are understandably incredibly nervous about launching a | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
ground operation in Syria. Indeed, David Cameron, as there are no plans | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
for British boots on the ground, nor will there be a plan for British | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
boots on the ground. The issue is, at the moment there are 70,000 | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
freedom fighters knocking around in Syria who might do the job for us. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Firstly, that is not quite enough, secondly, that -- they are not in | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
the right place, and thirdly, are they going to take our orders? Only | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
by building country by country are we going to get this. Let's move on | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
and talk about the Sun. I told you it might be all right once we got | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
started. Green and pleasant crammed. Immigration figures, net | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
immigration of 336,000 people, but they are coming from within the EU | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
so there is not much you can do about it even if you wanted to. This | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
is the most embarrassing him for David Cameron who promised to get | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
immigration down to the tens of thousands. As someone pointed out, | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
336,000 is lots of tens of thousands. More than half are coming | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
from outside the EU, but it we are meant to be able to control. So it | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
is a real mess, and very embarrassing to David Cameron. And | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
it is hard to see how this comes down. Because everything we have | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
tried so far isn't working. We need to make Britain less popular | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
destination, and that wouldn't be good for any of us, would it? I | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
suppose that is what argument, it is not an argument that is taken by | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
people in the tourist industry, I'm sure. Well, the truth of the matter | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
is most of these people are coming in for work. They are either coming | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
here because they've got jobs, about 64% of them, or they are coming here | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
to find work. It is because our economy is roaring ahead while other | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
economies are not doing very well. So that is the reason they are | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
coming here. The one thing the government will never tell you or | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
don't shout very loudly, but think-tanks do, is that actually | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
part of the reason our GDP is soaring ahead is because we have so | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
many immigrants coming here and working. So there is this kind of | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
bizarre thing that George Osborne might stand up and say our GDP is | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
going to be this much higher in the future. This is part of the reason | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
why. But the Daily Mail looks at the potential backlash, as it sees it. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Migration crisis could push the UK out of Europe. A stark warning from | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
the Foreign Secretary. Well, the thing about immigration is that it | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
is tied in so closely the arguments about the European Union now, and | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
there are definite worries in Number 10 and the wider Cabinet that the | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
migrant crisis in Europe, and the sort of breakdown of the sort of | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
freedom of movement throughout the EU is going to have a real effect on | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
the EU referendum when we have it in 2017. When we finally have it. It is | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
up to the politicians to make the argument whichever way, isn't it? | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
Yes, and this is what Hammond was saying in Rome yesterday. What he | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
was trying to say to other European leaders is look, if you don't give | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
us what we want in terms of tightening migrant benefits, then | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Britain might leave. He wasn't saying because 386,000 people were | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
coming to the UK we might leave, he was using this as a stick to beat | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Europe because they don't like our idea of blocking European migrants | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
being able to claim benefits for four years. Telegraph, patients | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
unable to claim benefits. What is new about this headline? Not a | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
massive amount, although the problem is getting worse. What is | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
significant is the row over the NHS. So this is a very timely | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
intervention from the National Audit Office who found one in ten people | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
can't get an appointment when they want to. There is a real postcode | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
lottery out there. Everard is finding it inconvenient, and GPs are | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
stretched partly because of the stories we are talking about -- | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
everyone. At the government will seize on this and say it is yet more | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
evidence about why we need to build a truly seven-day a week NHS. Is | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
that why? Many are leaving as well. That is part of the problem, and | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
there are huge strains on money in the NHS. George Osborne is trying to | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
head some of that off by promising extra billions for the service over | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
the next four years in his Spending Review. But there are sort of these | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
signs that things are very stretched at the moment. GPs, this is one of | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
them. There is also the risk of an accident and emergency winter crisis | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
which could happen later in the year. On the FT, ?1 billion raid | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
with move to make Whitehall pay market rates. If you are in a fancy | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
building you will have to pay more to use it, even if you are a | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
government department. That is the thrust of it, isn't it it is quite | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
an audacious thing for the Treasury to do, really. It is basically | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
asking its own departments to pay it back for the space that they use, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
which are government buildings anyway. You have to think that they | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
must be trying to make government departments downsize, make sure they | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
are using the space efficiently, perhaps even move out the outer | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
parts of London. They will all be squashed. It is one of the more | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
bizarre moves in yesterday's Autumn Statement, this creation of a | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
government property unit which is all of a sudden going to be granted | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
control over all of those marvellous ministries in a bid to make the | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
relevant ministers use their space more efficiently. Whether it means | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
renting out office space, I don't want to see all the government | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
departments move out to Croydon or Salford or whatever. I think there | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
is something quite special about them all being concentrated in | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Whitehall. And easier for you. Go back easier for me, but it adds a | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
special feel to the place. The voice in my ear wonders whether the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Treasury will charge itself. It is going to, to the tune of ?30 million | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
a year. There you go, you don't have to read the paper now, do you? How | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
long have we got? About one minute. The Times, ?1 billion Black Friday | :12:53. | :13:07. | |
hinge. -- binge. This is some kind of American invention that wasn't | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
part of British culture of years ago, and now we see people fighting | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
in the streets to get a TV they don't want. Some shops have written | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
back, having been part of it a few years ago, they now say they do not | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
want anything to do with it. I think ASDA brought it over from the UK to | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
America -- from America to the UK, and has cancelled it. Maybe that is | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
a marketing ploy in itself, some shoppers might had there to try and | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
get some peace and quiet. Exercise caution, we are warned, or avoid the | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
shops completely. Wear body armour, if last year is anything to go by. I | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
wouldn't go anywhere near it, a scrum for Christmas Hagens. So if | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
you were hoping for a present from Craig this Christmas you might be | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
out of luck. Even if you are busy on Monday, there is something happening | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
in the Labour Party. You are going nowhere. That is it for the papers | :14:03. | :14:16. | |
this hour. Coming up next, assume in Ollie is in his chair, Sportsday. | :14:17. | :14:17. |