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north-west of the UK by Christmas. -- which may nudge into. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
And a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. Here are the | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
headlines. David Cameron has hinted that the EU referendum may be held | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
next year seeing the UK will fundamentally change Italy strip | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
with Europe. The Prime Minister said he was a step closer to getting | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
their changes he wanted. 2016 will be the year we achieved something | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
vital fundamentally changing the UK's relationship with the EU and | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
addressing the concerns of the British people. The UN Security | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Council agrees a peace plan for Syria but without addressing the | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
future of President Assad. Britain's last deep coal mine | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
stopped production with the loss of 450 jobs. There was high emotion as | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
workers worked their final shift. Energy giant empower has to pay a | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
record fine. Half a million customers where wrongly billed. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Coming up in Sportsday, is this the man for the mean time at Chelsea? | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Guus Hiddink flies in for talks but not in time to take charge of the | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
match tomorrow. More reaction to the sacking of Jose Mourinho. And more | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
news about the European rugby. Welcome to our look ahead to what | :01:39. | :01:58. | |
The Papers will be bringing as tomorrow. | :01:59. | :02:11. | |
The Financial Times leads with the David Cameron EU negotiation story. | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
The paper says he has cleared the way for an EU referendum membership. | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
The Sun says the number of foreign passport holders living in the UK | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
has reached 5 million for the first time. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
The Times says doctors are handing out Botox perceptions without | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
face-to-face consultations with patients. | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
A mockery of justice is the headline in The Mail. | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
The Telegraph says leading academics are claiming British universities | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
have become to put it we correct. The Express claims some stores are | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
offering discounts of up to 80% for Christmas shoppers. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Let us start with the EU vote. Britain to decide in summer. Cameron | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
says referendum can be held next year after good process. I am sure | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
bookmakers are running audits on this about when exactly it will | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
happen. What intrigues me about this story is that David Cameron is not | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
daft. Ack walked about him is that he is a poker player. He only bets | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
when the Carter in his favour. He is not the kind of person who publicly | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
goes into a negotiation without knowing he is going to win it. And | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
yet these EU leaders are still coming out saying they will not give | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
him what he wants. How is he going to achieve this effectively by | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
February in order to get a referendum on the table in June? | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
What does he know that we do not? Do you know? I do not. This is part of | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
the thing. From the outside it looks that he has been cack-handed in his | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
negotiations and then suddenly he has pulled a rabbit out of a hat and | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
although he leaders have sat around. They are not going as far as he | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
wants them to go perhaps but he is definitely where he wants to be. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Maybe he does not what he is doing. What are you hearing. # | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
This headline that Britain to decide in summer seems fairly certain. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Earlier in the week I heard from Tory sources in Europe saying | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
September was the date. That was largely by a process of elimination. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
That is stretching some are a bit. They are saying June or July. There | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
are elections in May. It is very close to then have another thought | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
in June. In July you get into summer, people go on holiday. The | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Scottish school holidays start at the end of June. He will be in | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
trouble if he has to have it in July. The SNP will kick-off. Idea | :05:04. | :05:15. | |
not predict. I suspect it will be later than June or July. What about | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
the red lines on in work benefits for migrants? That four-year delay | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
between arriving in this country and being able to clean? No where near | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
doors. He has got an emergency brake. Donald Tusk has given him an | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
emergency brake summit of public services are going to be | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
overwhelmed, I do not know who decides that, he will be able to put | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
some sort of break on immigration. Is that a temporary measure? I am | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
not sure of the mechanics but it is something, moving in the late | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
direction. In February we have got the next European council meeting | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
and then he says that will be the deadline then we will find out if he | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
has been cack-handed. But legislation has got to be put in | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
place to allow this to happen. That is the other thing. Do we then have | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
a referendum based on an actual Agreement in stone or based on | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
promises that things will change? Then other countries have to ratify | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
it. That is a different proposal. Let us not get bogged down in that | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
just now. The Independent, we are looking at a | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
story here, part of our wider story about industry and the relationship | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
between the banks and Government. The picture is of one of the miners | :06:39. | :06:54. | |
after the last shift at the coal mine that closed today. There are | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
still a lot of coal but it is more expensive. It is a very sad story. | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
People of my vintage remember miners strikes. A huge union with huge | :07:08. | :07:20. | |
power. NUM is down to 100 members. It is poignant. Christmas is around | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the corner. It is a sad story. You wonder why so many redundancies take | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
place just before Christmas. Never a great time to lose your job, but | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Christmas as well? It is a great picture on the front of The | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Independent that such a sad story. We are reading elsewhere about mad | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Friday, people going out tonight and drinking lots and shopping lots and | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
at the scene time people are losing their jobs. If we can set aside the | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
devastation to that mining community for one seconds we now that the days | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
of coal are numbered. We were hearing in Paris on the last week. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
True, but we are still using an awful lot of it. But is still in the | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
ground. Let us look at The Telegraph. Politically correct | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
universities are killing free speech. Academics are speaking out | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
about censorship on campuses of anything that causes the slightest | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
bit of offence is what The Telegraph says. I am not sure who the student | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
centres are. They seem to be the spectral idea, people saying you | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
cannot do this or that, but they do not seem to pin down in this article | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
who these centres are. I am not sure about the work banning in stories | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
like this. I hear about this being banned from literally festivals | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
because of our character being too sensational, it turns out they have | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
not been banned, they have just not been invited. I often wonder idea | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
where that millions of other people also have not been invited to | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
address students or appear at a festival. I have been banned from | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
every university in the country in that case. Devastated. How far it is | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
a ban and how far it is just an exercise of wanting to see someone | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
speak or not I do not know. What are the up in arms about? Lots of things | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
apparently. Some vehicles. The Sun. David Starkey. Cecil Rhodes. A | :09:33. | :09:44. | |
statue of Cecil Rhodes. Indeed. Apparently some people want to take | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
down the statue of Cecil Rhodes. Historic Bingen see it as a subject | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
of historic interest. It is an object of historic interest. It is | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
the balance you have to meet. This is what we do in society, finding | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
the balance between something of historical interest, it just so | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
happened that has a statue of a man who did terrible things in South | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Africa. Maybe it should be taken down now. But if we together thing | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
down that cause somebody offence there would be nothing left. What is | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
the barrier? What is the benchmark for offence? That is what we do as a | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
society. We find that level. It changes over time. As banning | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
somebody from wearing a or because they are not Mexican racist? Were | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
they really banned? How can you bounce a buddy from wearing a | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
sombrero? Is there somebody at all police at East Anglia University? It | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
is an interesting issue but I never quite sure of where the actual | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
balance is. There is another aspect to this story which is glossed over. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
It is a line that says because universities increasingly see | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
fee-paying students as customers they do not bear to stand up to a | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
small and focal minority. I have heard of people teaching at | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
university who say that because students are paid so much money they | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
expect certain grades and certain achievement and they do not expect | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
their teachers to say, you have not earned through your work. It does | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
seem to be a difficult issue of balance. The students now think the | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
customer is always right. Something is going on on the campuses but at | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
the minute it becomes a story about banning somebody was it is reduced | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
to simplistic terms,. Boris Johnson could be made Foreign Secretary. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
When and why? Here is a man who knows about nuance. Boris Johnson. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
After he steps down from his term as London near in May it is expected | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
that David Cameron will give him another job in or around the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Cabinet. Foreign Secretary is a new one although The Telegraph generally | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
know what they are talking about. Do we really want Boris Johnson | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
stumbling around Europe as the face of Britain? But when he was mere of | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
London he did a good job. That he not embarrass us at the Beijing | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Olympics? He would certainly be memorable on | :12:27. | :12:43. | |
the world stage. If you have him in the cabinet you keep them close. It | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
would be a good platform to stand against George Osborne. Does David | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
Cameron want that? I am not sure. Daily Mail, riot suspects who | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
refused to give names in court have charges chopped. What do you do to | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
make somebody reveal who they are in court? I do not know what to make of | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
this story. He has not everyone tried that? How difficult can it be | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
to establish you sundered it is? A computer. Indeed. We are told to be | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
very careful about our identity, that people can piece it together, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
yet these people went to court and refused to say who they are. If that | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
is true it is outrageous. If you are somebody whose House or business was | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
smashed up in these rights, and presumably they are men, they turn | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
up, say they will not tell the name and walk out, that is outrageous. It | :13:49. | :14:01. | |
then Quartz and MP. If you have to go to Peter Bull for the court it | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
suggests your story might be desperate. Why? Be careful. He is a | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
great man and a great MP that he is quite easy to get Quartz from. But | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
this is the kind of thing you would expect to have a strong opinion on. | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
If it was a stronger story you might have a stronger court. Maybe he is | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
speaking up for a lot of people who could agree. Surely they could | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
prosecute at another time anything to these people are. It is not worth | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
the time to go after them and spent lots of resources. It needs more | :14:49. | :15:00. | |
flesh on the bones. Daily Express, January sales started today. I know | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
you cannot contain yourselves. Up to 80% of as stores/places. I cannot | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
stand shopping at the best of times. What are we doing? 80% off would not | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
tempt me to go to the shops today. I would not go near the place. I get | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
all the shopping done beforehand. What do they do in January or Boxing | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
Day? They will sell as bikinis judging by the weather. It gets | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
earlier and earlier. I can remember when the January sales were in | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
January. Then 20 Boxing Day. Now it is before Christmas. But a lot of | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
shops have there sales on. There were some quite strong fumes | :15:50. | :16:11. | |
on my train as I came into work. We will be back again at half past 11. | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
More on the UN Security Council adopting the resolution on a Peace | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Process in Syria. Coming up in the programme: | :16:24. | :16:38. | |
Hiddink's heading back | :16:39. | :16:41. |