19/12/2015 The Papers

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

With me are the political commentator

Jo Philips, and Nigel Nelson, politics editor of Sunday People.

The Observer reports that leading Conservative Eurosceptics have

branded David Cameron's attempts to reform

the UK's relationship with the EU as a farce, and warned that the new

National Living Wage will undermine efforts to cut immigration.

The Mail on Sunday leads with the resignation

of the chairman of the influential campaign group Conservative Way

Forward - a victim, it says, of the bullying row sparked by the apparent

The Sunday Express carries the news of the death of Jimmy Hill on

its front page, while also detailing the number of household guests the

The Independent on Sunday says as many as 50,000 children

in the UK are being home-schooled, and warns that many may be

Women will be allowed to take part in frontline combat within months,

according to what the Sunday Telegraph says are radical

Let us begin. Who wants to start? The Observer, the story that has a

familiar feel to it. We are getting back to yet another what is the

Labour Party going to do with Jeremy Corbyn? I think it is being slightly

reheated. Quite an important person saying things today. It is a

speechwriter and strategic for Tony Blair who is now a headmaster, and

he wrote an article for the Observer today, which is a mouthpiece to get

to the Labour Party. He says the demise of new Labour and the

election of Jeremy Corbyn will kill the Labour Party unless there is

something, a new progressive project. Where have we heard that

before? We heard it before with Tony Blair, Mendelssohn, and it is a

devastating critique of Labour's use and values. I think it is more

interesting than the stuff about Jeremy Corbyn, where he says Tony

Blair squandered the chance to wrap the Tories out of power and ensure

the 21st-century was a Labour century. That is perhaps more

instructive. He says labour under Jeremy Corbyn is to parties, and

there is no way they can come together. There are the Jeremy

Corbyn supporters, and then the rest, a moderates. Not happy. The

last thing the Labour Party want is to have another election. The

Parliamentary party are determined not to do that. But it seems to be

is a gamble on Jeremy Corbyn getting fed up and quitting, and there is no

suggestion he will do that at the moment. He seems to be loving the

job. He will stay at least until 2020, I think the man himself is

saying. I believe that. I think he is enjoying himself. His smile has

gotten a little bit ago. He does not smile often, but he is a bit more

cheerful. -- a little bigger. Labour MPs can't do much about him. They

can nudge a leadership challenge, pass a vote of no-confidence, but

they cannot keep him off the ballot paper, so the membership and letting

in again. It comes back to the same thing. Do you want to be in power,

would you want to carry on being ideological leap perfect? I work for

the Liberal Democrats, we are much more comfortable opposition. Let's

move on to the Telegraph. The headline says it all. Women soldiers

to go into combat. We think we know what this is

new determination it should happen. The idea is that will happen to get

there we thought. The Telegraph is talking about within the next few

months, rules will change allowing women to serve on the front line. To

my mind, it seems entirely sensible. If you decide to join the army or

navy or air force or whatever, I would think it is not the whole

range of jobs to be there for you. Maybe you want to be a medic, but if

you are a bloke medic and want to serve on a front-line, you can.

Women can't. In the age of equality, they must have the right to do that

job if they want to. It seems to be eminently sensible, and it has taken

too long to come around. This is David Cameron are going to Ministry

of Defence to do this, apparently. Are you happy with this's yes. It

seems anchors but if you join the force you cannot go into combat. --

bankers to me. Some people say it is not such a good plan. A lot of

people do think that. They need a good reason. Women are police

officers and go into extremely enters situations risking their

lives. There are an endurance crews, fire crews. -- endurance. We are

talking about picking up guns and shooting. Isn't it just about

employment rights? It is a special drug, but the fact that it is part

of the job, should not both genders be allowed to do it equally if they

choose? It is like saying if you want to work with a bus company, you

can only be a bus conductor. I know they don't exist any more. There are

plenty of women drivers. But once upon a time, people said women could

not concentrate in traffic. Drivers facing tougher fines in the Daily

Telegraph, if they want to cut mobile phone accidents. I agree. I

am sick and tired of seeing people drive with a mobile phone in their

hands. This is saying drivers who flout the law will be fined ?150,

and will have no points added to their licence. This is not

hands-free, this is holding it in your hand. Lorry drivers will see

the maximum number of points double up to six, and others will face a

driving ban. This is coming from the government and is going out to

consultation next year after not very many, 500 accidents, but it is

that level of irresponsibility that people think the car is then living

room. It is comfortable, it is nice, they have navigation, they can play

music, and they are in to other drivers. You only have to stand

outside a school and see that people ignore parking restrictions are now

on their phone. -- immune to other drivers. I am happy for a crackdown

on this. But you are talking about banning them. I would like to see

that. It makes a nonsense of the that. It makes a nonsense of the

justice system. People go to jail for longer for murder than

burglary. The same thing must apply for drink-driving where it is in

immediate then when you are caught. If we decide about phones are up

there with drink driving and are as bad, they should say so and have the

identical penalty. I was reading headlines that the police say we do

not have enough officers to enforce this. That will be a difficulty.

There is a perfectly valid argument to say, do you want to use police

resources, who are already stretched, and other it now

important things, but a short and sharp campaign of instant burns or

an instant six points on your licence, that... -- bans. It is the

degree of the offence. A survey showed recently if you are using a

mobile phone while driving, you are more distracted than if you are

drunk. In which case, they should change the offence and make it the

same. Let's move on. Sorry about that. Good to hear a vigorous

expression of views. The front page of the Sunday express. A very famous

face, to me Hill. Dying at the age of 87. -- Jimmy Hill. I remember him

mostly for much of the day, and reading the obituaries that of, at

today, it was starting to find out how much he did for football. --

match of the day. They say he created the modern game of English

football. Things like doing union work when he took on the maximum

wage which was at one time ?20. Now they get ?20 per second. That was

who did yours, and he paid the way that be raised. He introduced three

points for a win, making the game more interesting. It seems so

obvious now, and yet obviously he was the pioneer for this whole

thing. And football pundits, he got retired football players into the

studio, which we take for granted now. It was his idea. He changed the

way we broadcast and cover football in the same way Cliff Morgan did. I

think it was in charge of outside forecasts. He was part of the fabric

of our Saturday afternoon on Saturday evenings on the television.

-- outside broadcasts. It is sad someone so vigorous and inventive

and pioneering should be struck down with Alzheimer 's disease and uses

lie. A lovely men. He grew a beard, didn't he? It was a trademark in a

way. He recognised one of our sports experts were saying that football is

part of entertainment, entertainment for the whole family. That was his

biggest contribution. Yes, and it was things like back when he first

started on match of the day, he had to see the game and then fly back by

helicopter to do it. That was part of the entertainment value, as well

as introducing games on Friday. One must throw. A lot of papers talking

about this. -- one last story. There is a picture of Cambridge that could

be spring. What is going on? Who knows? I have people coming for

drinks and I am thinking about not serving motorail or stop it is dark

at 3:30 PM, but it is as warm as summer. -- mulled wine. It is

exceptionally mild, and it is playing havoc with guidance. It is

incredibly wet. ! Gardens. People in Korea and Scotland know that. It is

playing havoc with farming. Vegetables are rotting in the

ground. Gardens open to the public have nothing to show in March

because the daffodils will have been and gone.

I was a bit of a climate change sceptic for a while. All you have to

do is look at the climate has become to know there is something really

happening out there. We have to leave it there.