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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
With me are Caroline Wheeler, political editor at the Sunday | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Express, and Joe Watts, political editor of the Independent. | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, starting with... | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
The Mail on Sunday leads with a story about former education | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
minister Nicky Morgan being banned from meetings in Number 10 | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
for criticising Theresa May's choice of trousers. | :00:48. | :00:59. | |
The Express warns of a ?100 council tax rise. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
AA Gill, very well-known TV critic and restaurant critic. The really | :01:04. | :01:25. | |
tragic thing about this is he was only 62 when he died. He had not | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
known for long that he had cancer. It was only a month ago that he let | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
slip he had cancer in an article he wrote. Very painful reading, reading | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
about the fact he had been told that the drug that could potentially save | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
his life was one only available privately and he laments in this | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
last article, which the Sunday Times published today, that he has come | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
from a fairly humble upbringing, this was a shock to the system and | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the worst thing he has had to face in his life, the fact it was losing | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
a battle against cancer but also a life-saving drug was unavailable to | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
him and you cannot imagine that. That must be something many people | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
do face. He explained that stress and strain on him join the last days | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
of his life. And you admired his writing? When I was young, a lot of | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
us a university doing journalism, we would be gripped by his stuff. And | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
even though it had that element that divided opinion, his style really | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
gripped you, that is why I'm really looking forward to reading his piece | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
tomorrow. Quite an acerbic style. He was one of those critics that | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
transcended the critiques. We read his stuff to read his writing. Let's | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
stick with the Sunday Times. Their main story is about Brexit and | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
another court case. We have just had the supreme court case all week so | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
tell us about the other one. There are a number of court cases going | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
on, a couple in Ireland, the main one you have had the good fortune to | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
be covering all week, and this one. This is a new court case. This is | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
about a challenge to the idea we will either single market. And a new | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
development in this is that the campaigners who will press for this | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
court case or write to the government tomorrow to basically say | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
they are taking their case to the High Court in an effort to keep | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Britain in the single market. The interesting thing about this court | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
case is this is not brought by remainders, this is brought by | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Brexiteer 's. In fact, peter Wilding, the chairman of the | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
pressure group, has been leading the case for a smart Brexit. And another | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
conservative activist, who also voted to leave, it is the idea that | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
it is Brexiteers who also bring court cases. Do you think it will | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
slow the Brexit process down or has that timetable been set now? I don't | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
think anything is set at the moment. Things change very quickly. Before | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the Supreme Court case was going on, Theresa May was going to trigger | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Article 50 without consulting Parliament that was change very | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
quickly. She said she was still stick to the schedule she has set | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
up. But Article 50 is just the start of that negotiating process. There | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
is talk of a transitional deal. But there are going to be the court | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
cases and what this really shows is that every little chink in the | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
legislation, and it is very chunky legislation, this whole process is | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
full of holes, nobody knows how it will work or well it will take us, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
and it was never really written in the knowledge would be used any time | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
soon. It is open to interpretation and that means there are lots of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
angles that people can bring these cases from. This is my favourite | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
story tomorrow, The Mail on Sunday. Toxic texts over Theresa May's | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
trousers! We have these incredible decisions being made about leaving | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Europe but the story that has gripped the imagination of The Mail | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
on Sunday is this row over Theresa May's leather trousers. This is a | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
pair of trousers that the Prime Minister is fond of wearing. They | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
cost ?995. The former Education Secretary has been rather mean about | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
these particular trousers, suggesting they cost too much money, | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
and the Prime Minister ought not be wearing this. It has precipitated | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
this incredible rather has ended up on the front page with this feature | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
link exchange of messages between Fiona hill, who is basically one of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Mrs May's chief of staff who works closely with her Downing Street, and | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
Mrs Morgan, who has now been unceremoniously uninvited to an | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
event at Downing Street. We were just looking at the story about the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Brexit court case and that shows how divisive Brexit has been at the very | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
top technical level and it goes right down to the trousers, at every | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
level! The government, the Tory party in people's homes talk about | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Brexit and that is reflected in this story as well. Readers the texts | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
though. Let's here a flavour of these extraordinary texts. The hill | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
first sent this text to Alistair Burt, a former minister. So, after | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
Nicky Morgan made her comments about the leather trousers, Fiona Hill | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
said, don't bring that woman to Number 10 again, which is quite a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
pointed phrasing there. Nicky Morgan got wind of this and texted back, if | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
you don't like something I have said or done, please tell me directly. No | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
man brings me to any meeting. Your team invites me. If you don't want | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
my views in future meetings, you need to tell them. The reply was, so | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
they're! It is playground stuff but it shows how he did an acrimonious | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
it is getting. When Nicky Morgan was in government, she had this | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
reputation for being nice and soft touch, but she has emerged in this | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
whole new Brexit world as the sort of polar opposite to Theresa May, a | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
fiery and hard-headed person. Trouser gate is what The Mail on | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Sunday is calling it! Your paper, the express, a story about a council | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
tax rise. Following the Autumn Statement, there was a big Guha at | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
the time because what Philip Hammond did not mention was the NHS and in | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
particular social care, which is this major crisis that seems to be | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
ballooning every day, which is the councils are saying they do not have | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
enough money to look after the elderly and the disabled within | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
their care. We have the local government settlement coming up, one | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
of those events we all look forward to in the Westminster calendar, and | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
one of the things I have learnt that the government is considering is | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
putting up that part of council tax which George Osborne introduced to | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
ring fence money for social care. It is currently set at 2%. The | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
suggestion as it could be raised by as much as 5%, which would push | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
council tax bills up to 7%, which is about a ?107 increase next year. It | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
is one of those things where the government has got to do something | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
about it. My thought is that what they will do cleverly is what they | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
have done with the police precept, which is to put on councils and say | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
to them, we will give you this flexibility to raise the bills by | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
this amount, but you've got to make the decision about how much you will | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
raise it, and they would do that very quickly. This was a great trick | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
of the Conservative government's great devolution plan. They passed | :09:44. | :09:55. | |
are not supposed to councils. But they have also thrown upon them the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
responsibility of making these huge cuts over the last several years. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
That has put a huge burden on councils and has caused a lot of | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
anger amongst local residents as well. Let's return to the Sunday | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
Times because another interesting story they have got is about child | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
refugees vanishing. Some of the children brought to Britain from the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Calle jungle six weeks ago have apparently disappeared, they are | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
saying. Fears they have been drawn into prostitution or slavery. I | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
think this is very worrying. This is exactly what we were saying was | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
happening in the jungle, that these children had gone missing from | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
within the jungle. Now they are brought over to the UK and it seems | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
their plight here has been no better than it was over there. The | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
suggestion here is they may have been drawn into slavery or | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
prostitution and David Simons, a spokesman for the local council in | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Kent, is saying that traffickers have been pursuing these young | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
vulnerable refugees, often via social media, for the money that | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
previously they had agreed to pay to the UK. These children have been | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
through enough. Surely, they don't deserve to come to these shores and | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
then find they are sucked into the same old racket? Beggar's believe | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that the British authorities had not been able to keep track of them all | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
protect them. There were huge numbers. Join the debate in | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
Parliament there was an underlying assumption that when they are in | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
Calais, they were in a terrible state, huge danger, we would bring | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
them over here and look after them and they would be rehoused. But it | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
turns out that pretty quickly, we have lost track of the situation | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
over here as well and they may have been sucked back into these awful | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
modes of life. If that has happened, there will have to be some kind of | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
Parliamentary inquiry. Theresa May has led a lot of debate around the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
amendment in getting those children over here in the first place. But | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
there has always been stories about our own children going into care in | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
this country and there are often statistics which suggest that | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
children taken from this country are going missing. So it seems to be | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
part of a wider problem. Care doesn't always mean care. Thank you | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
so much to both of you for looking through the papers as we have them. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
It is still quite early and we will get more front pages in when we see | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
you again at half past 11 and stop that many thanks to both of you. | :12:48. | :12:54. |