:00:14. > :00:17.We'll be looking at tomorrow's papers.
:00:18. > :00:19.With me are the home affairs editor of the Evening Standard,
:00:20. > :00:25.and the deputy head of sport at the Sun,
:00:26. > :00:36.The Observer claims Europe's leaders are to force the UK
:00:37. > :00:39.into a hard Brexit in a bid to see off any future
:00:40. > :00:43.populist insurgencies that might lead to the break-up
:00:44. > :00:49.The Sunday Times says the Queen is to invite Donald Trump to Windsor
:00:50. > :00:53.with ministers hoping she'll help cement ties
:00:54. > :00:59.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond will pledge to spend more
:01:00. > :01:01.than ?1 billion in a road-building bonanza
:01:02. > :01:05.in his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, reports the Independent.
:01:06. > :01:09.Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph warns that the Autumn Statement may
:01:10. > :01:12.include a tax raid on middle-class job perks,
:01:13. > :01:25.such as health checks and gym memberships.
:01:26. > :01:34.OK, let's begin with the paper review. We start with the Observer.
:01:35. > :01:40.It would be the lead story here. The hard Brexit. What other European
:01:41. > :01:46.leaders saying? They reported as thinking, although there are any
:01:47. > :01:51.quotes, that they want to not make any concessions on free movement and
:01:52. > :01:54.therefore force us into what is termed a hard Brexit. Why did they
:01:55. > :01:58.say they are going to do this? Because they are worried that if
:01:59. > :02:03.they make concessions, Angela Merkel said this week, if they make
:02:04. > :02:07.concessions to the UK, every other country will start wanting its own
:02:08. > :02:11.concessions and they don't want to go down that road. That is the
:02:12. > :02:14.argument. Obviously, we have to wait and see as to what actually
:02:15. > :02:20.transpires because the negotiations haven't started yet, there are
:02:21. > :02:26.elections in France and Germany, which this story refers to. Martin,
:02:27. > :02:36.we've got the Court of Appeal coming up in January. There is a thing
:02:37. > :02:41.about making the challenge before we can go trigger Article 50. It is
:02:42. > :02:49.interesting, the European leaders talking about a hard Brexit, at the
:02:50. > :02:53.same time, Brexit members like Liam Fox and David Davies art keen on a
:02:54. > :03:01.hard Brexit but Ford different reasons. Here, it's about trying to
:03:02. > :03:06.keep everything together. If Britain suffers going down that road, it may
:03:07. > :03:14.prevent Marine Le Pen women -- winning. We have a serious challenge
:03:15. > :03:20.by the AFD to Angela McCall coming up. It is true, the European
:03:21. > :03:29.leadership are trying now to make an example of the UK the Devon to run
:03:30. > :03:37.away from their grand scheme, others in this country suggest we did
:03:38. > :03:47.shouldn't be doing so. -- daring to run away.
:03:48. > :03:53.The article talks about Marine Le Pen. She must be grabbing her hands
:03:54. > :03:59.with glee. It depends with how the French people vote. Of course. What
:04:00. > :04:03.Nigel Farage is predicting here, and he did predict the Brexit vote and
:04:04. > :04:07.Donald Trump's victory, he is now saying that Marine Le Pen, the
:04:08. > :04:18.inconceivable could happen, she might winds. Most forecasts seem to
:04:19. > :04:27.suggest she will get to the run-off. Hitherto the centrists are. There is
:04:28. > :04:30.a big... But hitherto what has happened, exactly as you say, the
:04:31. > :04:37.left and right have come together, the hard right -- not the hard right
:04:38. > :04:41.but the Conservative Party and the Socialists have come together to
:04:42. > :04:45.stop the National Front winning. That is what is inspected to happen
:04:46. > :04:49.again if she gets through to the second round in this presidential
:04:50. > :04:52.election. He is suggesting all source of extra ordinary things have
:04:53. > :04:56.happened and this could be other one, in which case, she was today
:04:57. > :05:05.filed out of the euro and out of the EU. There would be no way you could
:05:06. > :05:08.hold it together. It is too unlikely, to be frank, that this
:05:09. > :05:13.would happen. There is an awful lot going on in Europe. It is quite
:05:14. > :05:19.dangerous to say that. All the unlikely things! Discount nothing!
:05:20. > :05:27.We are going to say with Brexit in a way and turn to The Times. An
:05:28. > :05:32.interesting story on the front page of The Times. It involves Mr Blair.
:05:33. > :05:40.What is the connection between Tony Blair and Brexit? Blair takes them
:05:41. > :05:45.you that he needs to come back from the self-imposed wilderness and take
:05:46. > :05:50.a pivotal role. Apparently, he thinks that Theresa May is a total
:05:51. > :05:56.lightweight and Jeremy Corbyn is an utter. I don't think that Mr Blair,
:05:57. > :06:02.who I think Robert Lee is quite toxic still, really would say that
:06:03. > :06:05.Jeremy Corbyn is a nutter, even though he might well think that.
:06:06. > :06:10.It's interesting whether Blair is the person who can bring together
:06:11. > :06:17.the country, I find difficult to believe. I think he is still seen as
:06:18. > :06:22.responsible for the chaotic mess that was the Gulf War and he will
:06:23. > :06:24.always be tarnished by that incident, irrespective of anything
:06:25. > :06:32.else he achieved in his 11 years as Prime Minister. He is certainly
:06:33. > :06:37.toxic for many of the Labour Party activist's point of view. It is hard
:06:38. > :06:41.to see him paying -- playing an important role there. Apparently, he
:06:42. > :06:47.is due to meet Theresa May soon, at the same time, his people are saying
:06:48. > :06:55.Theresa May is a light weight. That will go down well! He was to come
:06:56. > :07:01.back and play awhile -- play a role. Of course, at the same time, we have
:07:02. > :07:06.had suggestions last week that David Miliband might come back from needle
:07:07. > :07:11.where he is currently running an international rescue charity. I'm
:07:12. > :07:15.not go to quote exact what the paper says but essentially, the message,
:07:16. > :07:21.via the source, is that the Tories are messing up, not the word in the
:07:22. > :07:25.paper, messing up works it. And he is having meetings allegedly with
:07:26. > :07:33.George Osborne. With everybody else as well. Girard Krishna. Also, he
:07:34. > :07:39.has recruited Jim Murphy to become his adviser on how to get over and
:07:40. > :07:47.get back under the Westminster bubble, to a degree. He probably has
:07:48. > :07:51.more impact in the US than he is regarded here. He may actually have
:07:52. > :07:57.an important significant role he can play there. And behind-the-scenes, I
:07:58. > :08:02.think in public here it is problematic but behind-the-scenes,
:08:03. > :08:06.he probably can. Whatever one feels about the end of his reign and the
:08:07. > :08:14.fact that he was clearly tarnished by the Gulf War, he was a figure for
:08:15. > :08:19.the first part of the century, he was one of the dominant political
:08:20. > :08:21.figures on the planet. The paper associates currently looking for
:08:22. > :08:35.promises of round Westminster so we will see how fat backroads. -- how
:08:36. > :08:38.far that goes. Next, a stealth tax. We've got the Autumn Statement on
:08:39. > :08:43.Wednesday. Lots of significant financial detail is going to be
:08:44. > :08:46.revealed about the current state of the nations finances. There is some
:08:47. > :08:51.talk that the Chancellor was to make it less of an event than it has
:08:52. > :08:55.recently been and concentrate most things in the budget but what it is
:08:56. > :08:58.talking about here is that you can forego a part of your salary to
:08:59. > :09:06.receive things like private health and gym membership and so on. The
:09:07. > :09:10.salary sacrifice scheme, and play less tax. Basically, it is saying
:09:11. > :09:17.this is a middle-class perk, in effect, and he might be going to
:09:18. > :09:22.clamp down on it. Jam, just about managing families. I've not heard of
:09:23. > :09:29.that before. It's the new buzz acronym for the next couple of
:09:30. > :09:36.years. It is the same group of people being differently branded,
:09:37. > :09:40.oh, here we go again, more rebranding. But it will be
:09:41. > :09:43.interesting. If you have the Telegraph criticising, and I think
:09:44. > :09:51.they will do because it is their readers who are being targeted, the
:09:52. > :09:57.male will go down that path and I suspect but less aggressive. Of
:09:58. > :10:01.course, when the governors has limited money, it is bubbly right
:10:02. > :10:06.that people who are more affluent don't have as many tax benefits as
:10:07. > :10:13.when people at the bottom of the pile are perhaps not doing so well.
:10:14. > :10:18.Everyone believes that people should sacrifice, but they don't believe
:10:19. > :10:23.themselves should sacrifice. It seems that the Queen, not quite
:10:24. > :10:27.sacrificing, but she is going to be the secret weapon to bring in Donald
:10:28. > :10:32.Trump over onto our side, according to The Times. Talking about a state
:10:33. > :10:36.visit as soon as possible. That would make sense, whatever people
:10:37. > :10:40.think about him, he will be leading America bother next four years and
:10:41. > :10:45.of course we should do everything we can to cultivate good relations. The
:10:46. > :10:50.Queen camp where useful role in that. I got the feeling reading
:10:51. > :10:57.through this it was almost as if it was trying to get one over on Nigel
:10:58. > :11:02.Farage. The only quotes come from Nigel Farage. He has probably
:11:03. > :11:07.arranged it! He tried to position himself as the link between the UK
:11:08. > :11:10.and the US, Theresa May would not want that to be the case. There is
:11:11. > :11:14.all this talk of special relationships once again. Talking
:11:15. > :11:20.about the Thatcher Reagan relationship. The British government
:11:21. > :11:25.need to be close to the American government, even if it doesn't
:11:26. > :11:31.particularly like the American president, particularly in a post
:11:32. > :11:33.Brexit future. Of course. We have to expand the English speaking markets
:11:34. > :11:39.because they will be the easiest ones to get into. Another thing is
:11:40. > :11:42.there has been controversy about the refurbishment to Buckingham Palace,
:11:43. > :11:47.a slightly separate issue, but at the same time, the Royal family, the
:11:48. > :11:50.Queen, Prince Charles, and Prince William, they have a significant
:11:51. > :11:58.diplomatic role and they are quite useful to the country. They can do
:11:59. > :12:01.something that other people can't, sometimes. We will continue this
:12:02. > :12:08.conversation and pick it up at 11:30pm. For now, Martin and Martin,
:12:09. > :12:11.thank you. We will be back again at 11:30pm. Coming up next, here on BBC
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