11/12/2016 The Papers

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment -

President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as "ridiculous" a CIA

assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election

You can switch off if you like, its the

After findings of Russian interference in election.

Reuters and others have reported that CIA sources have said no,

it's not the CIA, it's coming from Democrats and it's coming quite

soon because they will be briefed on the

Trump is continuing to provide the facts that he personally chooses

It'll be interesting to see if he can make decisions on that

On this alone, we are heading towards an interesting rest

John McCain wants an investigation into this and it's not

The other thing is who Donald Trump might be making Secretary of State

because he has connections to Vladimir Putin. He has no

connections to anything governmental but that doesn't stop you ending up

as president of the United States so why should it stop you from being

Secretary of State? This hasn't been decided. There are still two other

players mentioned. Bob Corker and obviously Mitt Romney as we have

seen in the last couple of weeks. Final decision hasn't been made but

it doesn't rather look like he is leading towards this man from Exxon

Mobil. He is incredibly close to Putin and. Not the sort of parties

where flight, oh, we have just met. It Internet gatherings. -- intimate

gatherings. His supporters don't care, though? Eleanor I think they

are happy to run with him on this but at the end of the day, he has to

govern. Whether he can effectively change things and fulfil the

promises that he made. His supporters won't be infinite. He

needs to deliver. Some of it undermines his attacks on Hillary

Clinton. For example, he gave speeches to Goldman Sachs -- she

gave speeches. He seems to have as pointed quite a few people from

Goldman Sachs. A warning bell might be going off even if they did end up

backing him. Labour's migration muddle. Tricky situation. They have

to tackle the immigration issue. Effectively what he is saying is it

would be nice to have curbs on immigration and the reason is that

immigration has depressed wages especially in the north where people

have not seen wage growth. The probe remained consistory and CE in London

is taking a more benign approach to immigration. -- pro Romain.

In a way, this becomes a proxy conversation about Brexit. It is a

difficult one to square. Labour has a massive problem because it's

incredibly strong in London. At the last election London was the only

place it could be happy with its performance was up 45 at 73 seats.

London is pro- immigration, pro-Remain. The Mayor of Manchester

is about to leave. We look at the shadow cabinet, there is a little

group of MPs. Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn. Constituencies are all connected.

There is a tiny bit of north London represented and of course, they are

all in places that tend to be pro- immigration and pro-Remain. I wonder

how on earth Labour is going to figure out what its case is when it

has two very bits of the country that it's representing and its

terrified of losing votes in the north to UKIP. Paul Nuttall is

thinking about running in Labour's old seat and it doesn't know-how it

affects that. Look at the Daily Telegraph. Home Secretary's strike

warning ahead of three days of strikes. Southern rail. Southern

Railway choose so horrendous that a colleague of mine dressed as

Southern rail for hollow win. A signal person. A big Southern rail

sign. It wasn't the hardest costume but yes, it drags on. Tuesday,

Wednesday, Friday and I think also early in the New Year, we are going

to have another strikes, potentially. This is a legitimate

strike, they have had the proper ballot, gone through the right

processes. They are allowed to do this will stop yes, but now tomorrow

they face an appeal as to whether the union was entitled. Tomorrow

they will appeal against High Court ruling which was last week which was

trying to stop the union from walking out. Yes, it's absolutely

legitimate but of course that's not much comfort of 2.5 million trained

customers. But for the Home Secretary yes. The comments were

quite bald. They are saying the union is wrong and they should go

back to work or stay at work. The question of the union are saying is

that this isn't safe. There really is not a lot of hard evidence out

there. The rail regulator doesn't support the union's view on this. It

is to be something that is indication of the way the world is

going. It does point to questions we need to be dealing with in the

economy. How do we increase wages, had we provide people with the

living that they want in this environment? This is extreme because

what they are asked to do, Theresa May and the transport Secretary,

urged to take positions similar to Ronald Reagan. That seems

extraordinary. Obviously, it is a call for it rather than actually

doing it. Staying with the Telegraph, Britain facing energy

crisis. We can't assume in the future, apparently, according to

Andrew Wright, that we will have an uninterrupted power supply. He is

making comments that one frequently hears in energy spheres. Not usually

as stated in such a frank way from somebody from this company. As you

move to set solar and wind, they don't flow all the way, they are

intermittent. That raises questions about lack of availability at times.

The way you would generally do that is have a backup generator,

something like that. The problem is, because the backup generator is

sometimes not been used, it is expensive because it is idle

sometimes. If you want to get power from this backup generator, you have

to pay more, that is what they are saying. I think you would expect

regulation to deal with this. It will be a question to the country as

to whether we want that to happen. I can't see us accepting a two tier

situation where the rich have the privilege. It shows that the issue

is of storing the electricity when you generate it. It's very difficult

to do that. You need the turbines to be going all the time. Batteries a

round solo, not just in electric cars, that might make these oil

issue go away but batteries are expensive and will be for some time

to come. Let's move on to the Guardian and a picture of Boris

Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, he is in Saudi Arabia, having to be

very diplomatic after saying a few days ago that Saudi Arabia was

involved in running proxy wars against Iran and various parts of

the Middle East, Yemen in particular. Tories are urging

Johnson. He was applauded by quite a lot of people were saying what he

said. As many people pointed out, he got into trouble for saying

something that was actually true and fair, in most peoples minds, about

Saudi Arabia when of he said some things in the past that have been

neither fair or true. It's fascinating and also that Theresa

May, sort of, she has appointed a loose cannon as Foreign Secretary

and that is becoming quite obvious. Obviously he is trying to patch

things up with the Saudis but is this the first gaffe of many? Well,

it's not even the first... How much will she put up with? We are an

important ally of them as well. They seem to have gotten over it was

Jamaat they have downplayed Boris Johnson's comments. The question is

how they feel about this. For example, our commercial

relationships with Saudi Arabia. It might find ourselves that we are not

at the floor of the hue for selling arms and so forth. -- fore. But as

Boris Johnson said, he says he has a job to do. It seems to be the

challenge that he faces. We saw them tried to build a bridge back with

Boris today. I think on Andrew Maher, wasn't it? He sort of said

people thought of slightly misinterpreted what he said. The

same line comes out of Boris Johnson. Big personality. Here we

are, you can go now if you have had enough of the leather trousers

story. Metro has the best headline. The wronged trousers. This is

Theresa May. She was wearing a very expensive para trousers, and 195

pounds. -- pair of trousers. Nicky Morgan was rather disparaging about

the cost of these trousers because, you know, we are supposed to be an

economy that is working for everybody and there is the Prime

Minister wearing trousers that cost ?195. -- 900 and I defy counts. --

909. It would be nice if other women

recognised it and didn't indulge in conversation. The reaction from

Theresa May is telling. It seems extraordinary. Nicky Morgan was

supposed to be going in for a meeting along with other pro- Remain

people who have been very vocal. Now Nicky Morgan has been axed from the

meeting. It is playground politics. There are bigger issues to deal

with. Absolutely. With this substantive issue, the trousers

themselves will stop I can understand Nicky Morgan's point stop

if you dig about David Cameron. On business or international meetings

would wear expensive suits but at home, would be deliberately

down-to-earth. Serving journalists from cartons of milk. The Daily Mail

has taken the story on. Nicky Morgan, top Tory that criticised 950

pounds. She could have got it on an outlet.

It is a ?950 Mulberry Bayswater handbag. You have some more to

spend, more shopping to do. That is it for the papers. Thank you to Tom,

thank you to Rosamund. Coming up next, the Film