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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
With me are Christopher Hope, the chief political correspondent for | :00:12. | :00:23. | |
the Telegraph, and the political commentator Miranda Green. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The Guardian leads with the floods in Cumbria, saying that | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the Prime Minister is coming under pressure over the government's | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
The Times reports that ministers will review the country's storm | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
The Mirror claims there's fury over cuts to flood defences, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
and highlights that the damage could run to some ?300 million. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
The Metro warns that northern England could be hit | :00:49. | :01:00. | |
The Express thinks it is five inches. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
The Independent highlights the success of | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
the French far-right party the Front National in the country's regional | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
elections and says mainstream politicians are in "a panic". | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
The Telegraph says thousands of new homes are set to be built | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
on green belt land in what it calls "the biggest relaxation of planning | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
The Mail carries a criticism from the health | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
ombudsman that families affected by medical blunders are being fobbed | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Actually, it is you saying it is the biggest change to green belt | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
policies for 30 years. You wrote that article and we will dissect it. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
Starting with the Daily Mirror. Few we over Cameron's cuts to flood | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
barriers, as thousands of homes are hit. -- fury over. Is the government | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
looking vulnerable? They are. Labour says there is a 40% fall in flood | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
defences and that was the point made in the House of Commons today, but | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
this is a classic case when Fleet Street does our industry proud. It | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
is all about the people. On TV you get a bit of that, but look at the | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
detail. They've gone right into the heart of people in Carlisle. Someone | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
saying this person is paying ?98 per month for insurance with a ?6,000 | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
XS. The economics of living there are getting worse. On foot of rain | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
fell on them. This is meant to happen once in 100 years. There have | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
been similar events like this in the past ten years. I think really the | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Mirror looks great. They say water torture and this nails it. Your | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
horror. And that coming from a lead writer of the Daily Telegraph. Well | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
done to the Daily Mirror. It was touched on that this could be | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
difficult for the government. If it is confirmed that they are cutting | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
defences, clearly it seems that once they did put up won't any good | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
anyway. Well, some of them. That's right. As you said, some of the | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
broadsheet said the government is under pressure. But the daily Mirror | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
has told that story brilliantly through these pictures. If we go to | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
the inside pages of the Mirror, water torture. That's right. They | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
have run together many different interviews with the people affected. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Some of them are really hard rating. There is a woman who is heavily | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
pregnant and you really feel for these people. The point is, after | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the last floods, which was only three years ago, places like | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Carlisle and places across Cumbria were supposed to have been protected | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
with new flood defences. Clearly these are unprecedentedly bad | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
weather events, as the government calls them, but we are witnessing a | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
period in which climate change is resulting in these unprecedented | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
weather events, so we have to prepare for them. There is a | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
question of accountability, as you were saying, politically, about | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
whether the right protections are in place. Actually, David Cameron went | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
to visit Carlisle today and he has been quoted in this story as | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
saying, what more can we do, that they will re-examine the whole plan | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
for flood defences in these areas? Sit down with the Environment | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Agency, look at what has been built, look at the level of rainfall and | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
flooding, what more can we do? So, they have clearly realise that if | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
they are going to have these sorts of extreme weather patterns that we | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
have to prepare for them. It will be very expensive and not just for the | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
government. People who live in these areas, the sorts of insurance they | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
will have to pay will be astronomical. I saw one of the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
pictures from Danny Savage's peace yesterday, showing these flood | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
defences over the river. They are just bits of metal. And yet a foot | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
of rain fell in 24 hours. It overwhelmed it completely. Going | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
onto the Times, global warning warning. Floods caused by global | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
warning, says the minister. This is the Environment Minister Liz Truss. | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
It are saying this way of slightly deflecting some of the issue away | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
from, the government hasn't done enough on defences, or is she simply | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
stating what a lot of scientists are suggesting, that if the air is | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
warmer it holds more moisture? It is a really interesting question | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
because there might be a little bit of deflection. It's not our fault, | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
we couldn't legislate for this. At the God. But that is an interesting | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
question. Obviously the background to this is that in Paris with got | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
these big climate change talks going on, howl urgent does the British | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
government as an entity really see the Paris climate change talks, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
because they haven't really given the impression that written is | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
pushing on this issue at all. And yet here we have a part of our own | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
country seriously affected by climate change. -- Britain. But in | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
the Tory party there is quite a lot of scepticism regarding climate | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
change. Actually for the environment secretary, someone that clearly | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
saying this is caused by global warming, that's a bit of a moment in | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
the debate. I like the cartoon. It says, priority one from David | :06:50. | :07:02. | |
Cameron, have we got enough wellies? Yes, previously some of the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
ministers had to borrow than! But more than 40,000 homes are still | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
without electricity. Big problems there. And of course all of this is | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
happening one week, ten days, two weeks before Christmas? Yes and they | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
might get more flooding in the next few days. All we want is a fresh, | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
dry wind to blow through in the next few weeks and are probably won't | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
happen. You really do feel for people in that situation. Moving to | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the Independent. It is all happening in France. France's fascist | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
uprising. The Socialist party withdraws candidates. Key regional | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
battles. Yes, a situation that even the front mass -- Front National is | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
saying is the result of the shootings and the terror attacks. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
It's a massive worry. These are local elections. We are seeing a | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
rise in this kind of Front National, which is alarming. Here, UKIP | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
managed to new to the far right to a degree. This is a worry for France. | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
They still have emergency measures in place in Paris. There has been | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
this concern about their sanity is very alarming. Interesting how the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
French try to deal with this kind of uprising, as it were. The centre | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
right and the left come together usually and it is debatable as to | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
whether it will work. Absolutely. Next weekend will be the second | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
round of these elections. They need to engineer a tactical vote against | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
the Front National, which will mean already some of the Socialist | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
parties pulling candidates in certain areas, which will mean | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
probably the centre right party can defeat the Front National. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Interestingly, Nicolas Sarkozy is having a second coming in France, | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
but he isn't playing ball and he says he thinks this is wrong and it | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
is the kind of political stitch up which delivers the electorate into | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the hands of the Front National. It is a bit like what we have in | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Britain, the idea of the political establishment and people were | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
rebelling against UKIP. Not quite as extreme. UKIP is a different beast. | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
It is interesting and of course it isn't just a reaction to the attacks | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
in Paris, it is also to do with the migrant crisis over the last few | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
months, which has changed the political temperature across Europe. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
But there is the risk that if the centre right and left and sort | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
things out that the Front National could end up winning a substantial | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
number of votes. Whatever it is. Yes. It could. Also, what is really | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
interesting about it, and probably why the Independent has put it on | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
the front, is it may prefigure what happens in the presidential election | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
in France, because lots of people think that Marine Le Pen herself | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
will get through to the second round of the presidential race and then it | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
will be a question of who can beat her in the second round. So even | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
though this is not about controlling the government... It is 18 months | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
away. And famously her father did that and managed to get through to | :10:41. | :10:52. | |
the second round. Anyway, moving on. Explain yourself on this one. It is | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
at the top of the paper. People need to live somewhere and we need to | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
find more space. This is an interesting thing for the Tory voter | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
but the government says we should try to allow people to live on the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
green belt. It says younger people under 40 want to get on the green | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
belt. This is to protect the land around towns and cities that stops | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
urban sprawl. There has been a manifesto pledge from many Tory | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
campaigns, but they say perhaps we need to release some of the value | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
for these younger people. It might work just about. Is this a concrete | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
proposal? It's a consultation. Concrete is very nice. Ugly | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
concrete. It is an ideal, but it is one with feeling, because it's a | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
consultation. The question now is how people will be abated. There are | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
people who by this newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and one would have | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
thought they might be very anti- this kind of idea. One would, yes. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
But it is interesting, politically, because you reach the tipping point | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
when people support of the anxiety protecting their own lifestyle or | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
view turned into so much anxiety about their grandchildren never | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
being able to afford a place to live, that they start to sacrifice | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
some of their view for the grandchildren. That's why the | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
government is starting to test public opinion a little bit on | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
this. It is the moral case. If ministers were braver about making | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
it we might have a chance. I think if they took a chance they may find | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
it would yield a lot of dividend. They might want to do that. All | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
right. Going to the Guardian. Tyson Fury. How he picked a fight with the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
world. This is a man, the heavyweight champion of the world. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Undisputed. Is the undisputed? He has all three volts. OK. -- belts. I | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
have been told he is missing one. Not bad. You would think he would be | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
a national hero. He is a bit like Jeremy Corbyn. He has a beard and | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
nobody thought he would win. Now people are going over what he | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
said... Tyson Fury, Jeremy Corbyn, works well! Now they are thinking | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
some of his comments about a woman's Place is with a baby on her | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
back and he says he hates nobody and he stands by his views on anti- | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
women, et cetera. -- place. But 80,000 people have signed a | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
petition, saying he should be up for BBC Sports Personality of the Year | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
this year. Having heard him interviewed, he does seem to be | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
confusing a personality with a good personality. Do you know what I | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
mean? He says he won this fight and he has got a personality that is | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
bigger than life, but there is a personality and then a personality. | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
Is this award for sporting achievement, or is it for being a | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
role model in society and everything that brings with it? It is both. It | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
is the watershed. Thank you. That is what I was struggling towards. The | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
question is, according to the people signing the petition, that he could | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
potentially be the latter. I do not wish to insult the BBC sports | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
personality broadcast. But I have watched it and sometimes the people | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
who win it have no personality at all. A brilliant racing car driver. | :15:01. | :15:16. | |
Is it for a achievement? It is the whole package. You managed to get | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
yourself out of that hole. I think he had it all there, he should have | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
kept his mouth zipped. It is a bit of a problem. He was slagging off | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
somebody on the short list. It has been great having you. Stay with us. | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
Much more coming up on the top of the tower. It is | :15:49. | :15:50. |