27/11/2015 The Papers

sets. Kyle Edmund took two sets before losing 3-2. We will also have

a look at some winter sports action. That is after the papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

With me are David Torrance, columnist for the Herald and the

writer and broadcaster, Alice Arnold.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Independent leads

with claims by four senior Labour MPs that Jeremy Corbyn's

The same story is on the front of the Times, which says that senior

labour figures have sought legal advice as they plot

Shopping analysts are predicting that consumers will enjoy

unprecedented discounts until Christmas,

The Mail also focuses on Black Friday but says it was a flop on the

The Daily Mirror prints a letter to Father Christmas

from seven year old Christian Hickey who was shot on his doorstep.

Cuts to green subsidies are under the spotlight in the FT.

And finally The Sun's top story is that staff at Easyjet are

on high alert after Arabic writing was found daubed beside fuel tanks

We will be rather predictably with the Jeremy Corbyn issue and the

plot... So many plots tonight. The Independent, the foreign secretary

contradicting his stance on airstrikes. This story won't go

away, we might be talking about the potential action and what it would

look like in Syria? The actual issue might be talked about, but instead

we are talking about the Labour Party. I think that is probably an

agenda from some of the media outlets, to get at Jeremy Corbyn.

They will keep doing it and looking for his weaknesses. Helped by senior

figures. The deputy leader in the Shadow Foreign Secretary. Half the

shadow cabinets don't agree, but presumably the other half to. The

Independent isn't the most obvious paper to be picking at Jeremy

Corbyn? -- Cabinet. There is a question about whether the Labour

Party can form a solid opposition. That is a serious issue, because we

do need one. If the Labour Party is in a terrible mess, as it says on

the front of The Independent, maybe something has to happen. As an

opposition party, they do have to formulate policies. You have to

build a consensus around that. There doesn't seem to be one of these

airstrikes. The trouble is that even if there was a consensus, there are

divisions about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. I am sure that is true,

but inevitably any policy decision has a range of views. It is striking

thinking about those who opposed his stance are not really giving reasons

for that. It has become about the leadership, which seems a

distraction from issue. It will be interesting to see what happens on

Monday, the MPs have gone away on the weekends to talk to family

friends and constituents. The comeback on and feed weather that

has swayed them at all... The general feeling, and this is in the

mirror, they have done a poll to see whether people think that we should

have airstrikes in theory or not. -- in Syria. The general opinion is not

strongly in favour -- Mirror. Jeremy Corbyn is actually speaking for a

huge amount of the British population who do not want to see

extracts. They need somebody speaking for them. The Jennifer

Saunders has twittered, why is the news about Jeremy Corbyn rather than

rights and wrongs and airstrikes? People are clearly thinking about it

for themselves, this poll would indicate they are not convinced. If

you think back to Iraq, public opinion was initially in favour of

action. From this poll, which is quite comprehensive, appears certain

-- it appears that certainly divided. 59% of men support

airstrikes, only 38% of women. 59% of those questioned by the Mirror

think that sending in more planes would increase the risk of terrorist

attacks. I think that is a crucial consideration. It has been sold as a

matter of national security. Those attacks happened in Paris just a few

100 miles away. Jeremy Corbyn has always said, he thinks it could make

it worse. There have been other commentators who have said the

same? The attacks in Paris were also not from Syrians who had come to

attack France, they had only come from Belgium. I think we are all

aware that if a terrorist attack were to happen in this country, it

would likely come from within the country. That is why the

intelligence services are so important, they have stopped

attacks. I think it would rather we put our resources into that. The

reason people are sceptical is that it has happened in the past and it

has not helped situation. As with our international partners, don't we

have to be part of the group of allies? That is one element of

certainly the conservative argument, we cannot outsource foreign policy.

We have to stand with our allies. That was also Tony Blair's argument

with Iraq. It doesn't necessarily end up in a good place. Beyond the

security indications, there are the military objections. Many military

specialists say it but we would not make much of a difference in a

strategic sense. A secret bid to oust Corbyn, lawyers telling the

Labour MPs that they can dump their leader. Why does it need a legal

underpinning? They are trying to work out a voting strategy. The one

thing about all this story is that nobody is saying he should be the

leader. It is a bit like saying we want to get rid of Islamic State,

but we don't know what the final solution should be or what we want

in our. You need an alternative. Nobody has offered an alternative or

put their name forward. Perhaps Hillary and then might emerge,

probably his most prolific critic... He will emerge. The son of

Tony Blair, not known for being critical. Looking at the Sun, four

planes in a scare. Do we know what the Arabic sayyid? We don't yet. A

translation has not been released. -- said. If you think about it, for

someone to daub graffiti near fuel tanks, they need access to the fuel

tanks. It doesn't really matter what language it is an. Somebody knows

what they have written, but they haven't released it -- in. It is a

security worry. Something like 80,000 people work at the airport,

and you think, that's an awful lot of people to keep track of. Those

people have access to planes, the crew are complaining they don't have

long enough, they only have about seven minutes to go through a safety

check. Saying it is not nearly enough time to be safe. The pilot is

responsible for the internal parts of the plane. A slightly alarming

call from the aviation International, they said they know

there are people working in airports with extremist sympathies. If they

know that, you would think, surely they could get them a different

job. Perhaps they could work in the canteen or somewhere else. It is a

worry, I think everyone is terrified. It is so variable all

over the world. You realise how tight security can be in some

places, like Israel. The daily express, MPs pushing for a four-day

week on the same pay. That would be nice. Who is pushing for this? It's

coming from various quarters and for different reasons. At the moment,

Fridays in the Commons tend to be taken up with private members bills

and stuff that isn't really going to go anyway. A lot of MPs, for

different reasons, want to spend Fridays in their constituency. They

are in the Parliament in Westminster Monday to Thursday, but they want

Fridays to do other things. So, they wouldn't be working four days a

week, four days in London and one in their constituency. If it introduced

general idea of MPs being lazy, having lots of holidays. It's just

not true. Even when they're not at Westminster, they are still working.

The express says they want to take their first class flights home to

Scotland a bit earlier. Douglas Carswell said we need to change the

whole culture of MPs, they should just be part-time. Various MPs have

jobs as GPs as well. I quite like MPs to have a full-time job running

the country, I don't need them to give me my flu jab. I would rather

they were concentrating fully, once they are an MP, to have their full

attention. There was an argument that they could cut the recesses and

have shorter breaks, but do a four-day week so they could spend

the travelling time at home. That is the point the SNP are making quite

legitimately. They do have to travel a lot further to get home. The Mail,

and the Telegraph, the Black Friday flop. Deserted High Street stores

leave piles of am -- unsold goods. After the violence of last year, you

can't blame people? I did, I went online. There is a problem though,

because all the websites started crashing. Some companies have lost

about ?2.8 million in lost revenue. If this is going to be more an

on-line then, and I think the scenes last year really puts people off...

The cold and the weight. It was quite unseemly. Some people got up

overnight. Some got up in their pyjamas and when shopping in their

pyjamas. It's a little bit crazy. To save ?30 on an iPad. Not worth

losing your sleep over. I love the detail in the Mail, the only people

who ended up outside this flagship store in Oxford Street were

journalists. Should have stayed at home. The daily Telegraph says we

have sales until Christmas? Cyber Monday apparently. I don't know what

is super Saturday? This cultural phenomenon of shopping has passed me

by. I have a nostalgic fondness for the Boxing Day sales, but as the

Telegraph says it is now completely superfluous. We are spreading out

the sales from yesterday or today until after Christmas. It is about a

six-week thing. Price reduction. We will finish with a lovely picture.

This was requested on Twitter, we don't normally do requests but I

could not resist this one. John, you know who you are. This is a

hedgehog. Hedgehog numbers are in sharp decline, apparently we can

make simple changes to attract them to our gardens. You just said you

have them in your garden? I think it is because we never clear the

leaves. I don't think my garden is big enough. I was clearing the

leaves up and an enormous toad was underneath them. Not quite as cute

as hedgehogs. We mustn't feed hedgehogs milk. You can give them a

bit of dog or cat food. It is good to help the service broadcasting.

Don't give them bread or milk. I like the juxtaposition between the

hedgehog and Jeremy Corbyn. He is in a much better place, the hedgehog. I

knew that would be popular. Lovely to have it here.