:00:00. > 3:59:59appearances. All that and much more coming up in Sportsday in 15 minutes
:00:00. > :00:17.after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:18. > :00:20.to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are
:00:21. > :00:22.the former State Department official Colleen Graffy and Kate Devlin,
:00:23. > :00:29.political correspondent at the Herald. Good to have you with us.
:00:30. > :00:32.The Independent reports that David Cameron has threatened to veto the
:00:33. > :00:36.admission of new members to the EU unless they accept controls on their
:00:37. > :00:39.citizens moving to the UK. The Mirror claims Nigella Lawson has
:00:40. > :00:44.reacted furiously to her former aides being cleared of fraud.
:00:45. > :00:47.It's going to be a white Christmas, according to the Daily Express.
:00:48. > :00:49.The Financial Times is calling the festive period a tale of two
:00:50. > :00:55.Christmases, comparing buoyant consumer spending with declining
:00:56. > :00:57.incomes and savings. And the Telegraph's top story is The Met
:00:58. > :01:00.Police Commissioner's decision not to investigate Nigella Lawson's
:01:01. > :01:04.confession to taking class A drugs. The paper questions whether it
:01:05. > :01:12.amounts to a drugs amnesty for the middle class.
:01:13. > :01:16.And the Sun reports on Nigella's funerary after the court case
:01:17. > :01:22.involving her former assistance. -- her funerary. And it is with the
:01:23. > :01:29.Nigella story that we will begin. There are a couple of strands to it
:01:30. > :01:34.in different newspapers. The Mirror says the TV star is furious over a
:01:35. > :01:40.sustained campaign, as her aides are cleared of fraud. It seemed at times
:01:41. > :01:45.that we had a mine ourselves while the case was going on that it was
:01:46. > :01:52.about fraud and it was not my Jell-o was on trial. -- we had to remind
:01:53. > :02:00.ourselves. It was not my Jell-o that was on trial. Absolutely. I think
:02:01. > :02:04.she has not really understood what the British public has thought of
:02:05. > :02:08.the trial. She is saying it was part of a sustained campaign to attack
:02:09. > :02:15.her. I think most people came out of the trial on her side, even the
:02:16. > :02:19.Prime Minister. Much to the annoyance of the judge, having the
:02:20. > :02:25.Prime Minister making any comments while the trial was underway.
:02:26. > :02:30.Americans have a new series coming on ABC that Nigella Lawson is part
:02:31. > :02:36.of, a second series in January. And the view appears to be that they
:02:37. > :02:40.like her and it will be fine. It has been surprising that this was a
:02:41. > :02:44.trial for fraud that turned into a trial on Nigella Lawson. She spent
:02:45. > :02:51.as much time in the witness stand as the sisters. One of the ironies is
:02:52. > :02:55.that the idea of a cross examination on bad character that the judge
:02:56. > :03:01.eventually allowed, he had initially not agreed with, but it was the
:03:02. > :03:06.e-mail from Charles Saatchi that came out that changed his mind. And
:03:07. > :03:11.we later learned that Charles Saatchi never heard of her taking
:03:12. > :03:15.drugs for ten years and did not believe it. It is unfortunate that
:03:16. > :03:20.she ends up the victim. I agree that this is how she will be seen. She
:03:21. > :03:24.lost her sister, her mother, her first husband. I think there is a
:03:25. > :03:29.big sympathy vote for her, and it looks like her marriage to -- it
:03:30. > :03:33.looked like her marriage to Charles Saatchi was brilliant, but it looks
:03:34. > :03:38.like the marriage was not the best and it looks, perhaps out of spite,
:03:39. > :03:42.that he sent this e-mail which allowed her bad character to be
:03:43. > :03:46.introduced. He said he regretted that the e-mail had come to light.
:03:47. > :03:51.Is there not a certain naivete that it would not get nasty? You will
:03:52. > :03:56.throw whatever you need to at a case, if you are being charged with
:03:57. > :04:01.something. This is part of the problem. The criminal justice system
:04:02. > :04:06.is not easy, not simple, not smooth. Even the witnesses, as she was in
:04:07. > :04:10.this case, will find that lots of things that perhaps they do not want
:04:11. > :04:14.to come to light will come to light. It is unfortunate. I am not
:04:15. > :04:18.sure there is any way to make sure, in this kind of case, when it is
:04:19. > :04:22.about fraud and these kind of allegations, that you can not have
:04:23. > :04:28.this kind of thing happen. Also, I doubt Charles Saatchi knew there was
:04:29. > :04:35.section 100 of the criminal Justice act in 2003 that allows for this bad
:04:36. > :04:39.character aspect of the case. I am sure he had no idea of what that
:04:40. > :04:44.would cause. But certainly it seems he regrets it. And it will be
:04:45. > :04:49.interesting, but at the moment the public seems to be rallying around
:04:50. > :04:54.her. She is beautiful, talented, she has been through a lot in her life.
:04:55. > :04:59.Someone wasn't suggesting that one of the things Americans love is
:05:00. > :05:04.transformation, someone who says, yes, I did drugs but I have stopped
:05:05. > :05:11.that and I am clear cut again. Do you think that would go down well in
:05:12. > :05:17.the US? I think it is more, what did she call it, intimate terrorism,
:05:18. > :05:21.something along that line. I think there will be an understanding of
:05:22. > :05:25.being trapped in this marriage that was not fulfilling perhaps to either
:05:26. > :05:33.one of them. That will also be an angle. A final thought on this, she
:05:34. > :05:38.made the point that her children were effectively put on trial. That
:05:39. > :05:42.idea that, hang on, I am not the guilty party, not the person on
:05:43. > :05:47.trial, because the Grillo sisters have been found not guilty. But many
:05:48. > :05:50.people who have been through the court system will feel they have
:05:51. > :05:56.been through the ringer, even though they were only a witness. This was
:05:57. > :06:00.supposed to be a fraud trial. I am sure she did not expect to be on the
:06:01. > :06:05.witness stand. She did not have council to come back with. Some are
:06:06. > :06:10.suggesting that for a section 100 ad behaviour, bad character, rather,
:06:11. > :06:16.that there is a counsel for the witness that is allowed in to cross
:06:17. > :06:23.examine on her behalf. Let's move onto the Telegraph macro. Nigella
:06:24. > :06:29.legacy, drugs amnesty for the middle class. This is after Britain's most
:06:30. > :06:33.senior police man said there would not be an investigation following
:06:34. > :06:37.Nigella Lawson's confession to taking class a drugs. Does it amount
:06:38. > :06:41.to an amnesty for the middle class? Would it be different if you were
:06:42. > :06:48.not beautiful, successful and not known to everybody on TV? I think it
:06:49. > :06:54.absolutely would be different. To be honest, if you were not middle aged
:06:55. > :06:59.as well. If you were a teenager, and perhaps you do not have a job yet,
:07:00. > :07:03.or you are wearing a hardy, these things do tend to influence it. I
:07:04. > :07:10.think there does need to be a much more honest discussion about trucks
:07:11. > :07:14.policy in the UK, about what we want our drugs policy to do. At the
:07:15. > :07:18.moment, to my mind, it is not unlike the Vatican policy on contraception,
:07:19. > :07:23.where something is decreed from the pulpit but the flock is not quite
:07:24. > :07:26.agreeing on most of it. I think a lot of people would not be surprised
:07:27. > :07:32.that a television presenter does drugs, but whether they want them to
:07:33. > :07:37.or not is a different matter. This is also at odds with Sir Bernard
:07:38. > :07:44.Hogan-Howe's normally tough stance on drugs. It will smack of double
:07:45. > :07:49.standards if they are not careful. Much of it has to do with the fact,
:07:50. > :07:53.where is the evidence, what has happened recently, who will testify
:07:54. > :07:59.against her? She has said so herself, but that is not something
:08:00. > :08:04.you prosecute someone on. That would be tough for them. I like the
:08:05. > :08:10.cartoon. This year, I am doing a Nigella Lawson Christmas. Whatever
:08:11. > :08:13.that means. Moving on to the Independent, talking turkey, a
:08:14. > :08:19.seasonal headline but nothing to do with what will be on our tables. It
:08:20. > :08:24.is Cameron's biggest EU gamble yet, the idea that David Cameron will use
:08:25. > :08:32.a bit of a threat, will only allow expansion of the EE you if numbers
:08:33. > :08:33.of people who can migrate from those countries is curbed. -- expansion of
:08:34. > :08:44.the youth. He has to have something in his
:08:45. > :08:47.promised referendum, and in-out referendum on Europe. He needs to
:08:48. > :08:51.show that he has got them to change something. So far, he has not really
:08:52. > :08:56.got anything. This seems to be the kind of thing he is going for. What
:08:57. > :09:00.this seems to be as well, and I do not know if you would agree, is a
:09:01. > :09:08.failure of diplomacy. According to the Independent, there was silence
:09:09. > :09:14.whenever he suggested this. No one came to his aid saying, we will
:09:15. > :09:19.agree. He said quite a similar thing in Lithuania two weeks ago, so it
:09:20. > :09:22.should not come as a surprise. Obviously they are not particularly
:09:23. > :09:28.keen to get behind him at the moment. But the European Union needs
:09:29. > :09:33.to solve this problem somehow. They need to keep this ship on the seas.
:09:34. > :09:36.The problem is that he is going against the foundation of the
:09:37. > :09:42.European Union, free movement of goods, services and people. If you
:09:43. > :09:46.start saying, free movement of some people, some time, that will be
:09:47. > :09:50.difficult to sustain. On the other hand, it looks like Germany,
:09:51. > :09:56.Netherlands and Austria are also saying, we have sympathy with this,
:09:57. > :10:00.and we are potentially online. But how do you do that when it goes
:10:01. > :10:05.against a main principle of the European Union? The potential new
:10:06. > :10:09.members they are talking about, Albania, one of the poorest
:10:10. > :10:11.countries in the region, which is something David Cameron has
:10:12. > :10:18.highlighted, that we should only allow unfettered movement once your
:10:19. > :10:23.economy has reached 75% health of the recipient country. Also, Serbia,
:10:24. > :10:26.Turkey and the Ukraine. Turkey will not be that much of a hard sell,
:10:27. > :10:32.because there has always been disquiet about Turkey joining. The
:10:33. > :10:37.United States is very supportive of Turkey being a member. The US does
:10:38. > :10:43.not have a vote, but it is seen as the linchpin between the Middle East
:10:44. > :10:47.and Europe. That could be an ongoing influence towards the Middle East. I
:10:48. > :10:51.think the rest of the European Union is not so keen on that. In any
:10:52. > :10:57.case, I think the idea of saying that there will be a certain period
:10:58. > :11:00.of time before you can accrue for benefits, other European Union
:11:01. > :11:05.countries do that I am not sure why the UK cannot do that. That would be
:11:06. > :11:10.one aspect. The other is that the economy 's reach a certain standard.
:11:11. > :11:13.Unless they do it with support from other members, and there is radio
:11:14. > :11:22.silence from many, they are open to legal challenge. The EU is a strange
:11:23. > :11:26.organisation. On the one hand, everybody has to agree - on the
:11:27. > :11:32.other hand, well, actually on the same hand, if one person or one
:11:33. > :11:36.leader of one country says he is going to veto something, that really
:11:37. > :11:39.is that. The other leaders may not like what with David Cameron has
:11:40. > :11:43.said but they can't ignore T The other thing is, they might agree but
:11:44. > :11:46.they are staying sigh epted for political reasons. They might be
:11:47. > :11:52.hiding behind the skirts of David Cameron in saying - we agree with
:11:53. > :11:58.this, but politickedically... Let's move on to the FT - Britain's tale
:11:59. > :12:02.of two Christmasses, people have been spending money but incomes and
:12:03. > :12:07.savings going down. Does that sound like people are wracking up debt? A
:12:08. > :12:10.good Christmas for George Osborne, Britain's economy roared into the
:12:11. > :12:14.Christmas holiday on the back of stronger spending and faster growth.
:12:15. > :12:19.Ed Miliband and Balls perhaps will be a little glummer. But I also like
:12:20. > :12:23.the fact of what people are expecting now are sales. So - I
:12:24. > :12:29.couldn't believe going into the shops now, everything has 50% off,
:12:30. > :12:33.60% off. Usually you will have to wait until the new year. You will be
:12:34. > :12:37.kicking yourself if you did your shopping early. Exactly. A different
:12:38. > :12:42.type of spending one, we look for the deals and the other, is foe
:12:43. > :12:47.cousin on children, electronics, headphones, and away from clothing.
:12:48. > :12:51.And people easing off in the last three or four Chris masts and
:12:52. > :12:56.feeling they can be more optimist why about how they can spend. --
:12:57. > :13:00.Christmases. They are a bit more, not very. And probably right. We saw
:13:01. > :13:03.unemployment figures which suggested unemployment was going down, more
:13:04. > :13:06.people in jobs, you would think that's a good thing but Mark
:13:07. > :13:10.Kearney, the Bank of England governor has suggested if it gets to
:13:11. > :13:13.a certain level, which we are not far off, he might look at interest
:13:14. > :13:16.rates and a lot of people have managed to keep their household
:13:17. > :13:19.economies going because their mortgage has been pretty low for the
:13:20. > :13:23.past couple of years. A lot of people are close to that margin f
:13:24. > :13:26.that starts to go up, even just a little bit, they are starting to not
:13:27. > :13:30.be able to make their monthly payments. Let's lack at the Daily
:13:31. > :13:34.Express - Christmas day, snow is on the way. We know the Express loves a
:13:35. > :13:39.weather story and we like the idea of a white Christmas, or do we?
:13:40. > :13:42.Would you welcome it? I would absolutely love a white Christmas
:13:43. > :13:46.day, as long as it is not a white Christmas Eve or white Boxing Day. I
:13:47. > :13:50.think it's part of the problem with this, the UK infrastructure just
:13:51. > :13:55.grinds to a halt if we have any kind of snow at all. Not something you
:13:56. > :14:01.are going to have to worry B I will be missing that in Santa bar,
:14:02. > :14:05.California, where we have palm trees and walking around with spray snow
:14:06. > :14:11.on windows. I would enjoy a white Christmas. I think the last one was
:14:12. > :14:15.'76. I can't remember that. I should be able to. I think it is beautiful
:14:16. > :14:20.with the snow. I will miss it. We feel jealous you are having to two
:14:21. > :14:28.Santa bar a bra for Christmas. It must be awful. A hardship -- Santa
:14:29. > :14:34.Barbara. We'll have more later on the
:14:35. > :14:41.controversy surround surrounding Nigella Lawson as a witness in a
:14:42. > :14:53.fraud trial. Now coming up it's Sportsday.
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