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Welcome to look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
I'm joined by a former political adviser to the Labour Party, and the | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
editor of politics home. They look at the front pages. We start with | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
the Telegraph. It leads the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. She | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
will deliver tomorrow. He says there will be ?1 billion boost to | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
alleviate the effect of the government's previous benefit cuts. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The Financial Times says the Chancellor will put housing at the | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
heart of the Autumn Statement but will push back the goal of a fiscal | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
surplus into the 20 20s. The eye, it leads with what it says its fury at | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
number ten adult on's suggestion that Nigel Farage should be British | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
ambassador to Washington, the Metro reports on a man extradited to | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Greece for running a ?7 million people smuggling racket. From inside | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
an asylum seeker's hostel in Liverpool. The Guardian front page | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
has the story of another footballer, Steve Walters, alleging he was | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
abused by coach, Barry Bennett, and the Times, sing at a meeting between | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
EU foreign ministers and the Brexit secretary was bad-tempered, but that | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
quote Mr Davies is saying it was great fun. Will you be calling this | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
bad-tempered or great fun after the papers? Great fun, I sincerely hope. | :01:37. | :01:52. | |
Loads of banter. We're going to start with him and's ?1 billion | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
boost to benefits. We have heard a lot about chance this week. They | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
squeezed middle. Was that your phrase that you gave Mr Milliband? | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
It was a good phrase, it captured a moment in time. It was a good | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
analysis. But they are just about managing, this group of people, | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
whether you call them we squeezed middle, the jams, alarm clock | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Britain, whatever you want to call them, these are the people that | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
politicians in particular, chancellors, always try to send a | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
signal to in these moments, and the interesting thing is the Telegraph | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
have decided to lead on the fact that he is going to try to make some | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
of the cups to universal credit which are helping people who are | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
already in work or on low pay, and they get a bit extra, so it looks | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
like he is going to be giving about ?1 billion back in terms of the cup, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
but I suppose the question that a lot of people will be asking is, | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
this is obviously to be welcomed, but is this going to be enough, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
because people are really feeling the squeeze in terms of family | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
finances, and I would argue that if you really want to help the just | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
about managing, two errors will make a big difference, one is childcare, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
loads of families really struggle with childcare, and the government | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
has not been able to honour... They made a promise to give everyone a 30 | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
hours, that is struggling. Under the other end of the family scale, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
caring for older people, social care is really crying out, I think this | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
little bit for universal credit, but there's much more that can be done. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
The problem is he has no money, he is skint. He is, this is more of a | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
signal than a tangible benefit. What they are doing is reducing what is | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
known as the tape parade. Currently claimants can lose 65% of their | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
universal credit for every pound that and once they get a job, that | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
has been reduced now to 63p. It is not an awful of money. Not a lot of | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
people would notice that in their pay packet. And it is ?1 billion | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
over five years. You are not looking now at massive amount of money. It | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
will not cost him an awful lot, he does not have much money, but it is | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
more of a signal so that they can turn around and say, look, we hear | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
that people are suffering, here is a gesture, really rather than | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
anything... I don't know if that is anything that will be enough, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
particularly after Brexit people are really angry about the | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
circumstances, about how things have not got better since the financial | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
crash, so I don't know if this will be enough, remember, this is a group | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
of people who are already working on finding it difficult to make ends | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
meet, lots of people having to go to food banks, that sort of, you know, | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
tough times they are facing, I don't know if they will feel that this is | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
enough to believe that the government is really listening to | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
them. What is interesting is that suddenly it is a break from the | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Osborne - Cameron Iraq, they announced swingeing cuts in March in | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the budget and this is a departure from that. What about Kevin the | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Guardian? The Chancellor to crack down on letting fees. A ban on | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
agency charges. He is intending to help Jams? Will this help? Again, | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
the Jams again. I think it will be a low-key Autumn Statement tomorrow. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Philip Hammond is a low-key... He's not the most demonstrative of chaps. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
That is safe to say, he's not flamboyant in the George Osborne | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
sense in that he always pulled a rabbit out of the hat, something | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
they kept under wraps that was a surprise and would grab the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
headlines. This is one of the announcement his company tomorrow, | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
administrative fees that letting agents charge to tenants, can be few | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
hundred ?44 on average, they say it is need for inventory costs and | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
things like that, people say, really? Does that really cost ?300 | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
to carry it out? So the government will ban it and say you can't do it. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
The counterargument is that these costs are passed on in rent. Funnily | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
enough that is what the Tories were saying just a couple of months ago | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
because this was a labour idea. Which the Conservatives are | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
basically stolen, Lock, stock, and barrel. Despite, as I | :06:04. | :06:16. | |
say, a couple of months before, saying this was a disaster, it would | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
never work, they have decided to do it, again, it is another gesture | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
towards those who are just about managing to show that the government | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
is hearing their concerns and trying to help and... It is eye-catching | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
and definitely a good thing that will be popular because Labour and | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
the Liberal Democrats have campaigned, but it is very small, | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
when there is a massive issue with affordable housing, social housing | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
in this country, and also, a lot of people think, OK that is fine, it's | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
quite small, but they are going ahead with the cup to inheritance | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
tax. Which is going to benefit very wealthy homeowners. They are raising | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the threshold for 40p tax payers as well. So a slight tax break for | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
middle earners as well. If we go to the Financial times, a fiscal | :06:49. | :07:00. | |
sweetener, help for Jams, again. Clearly he has not got much room for | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
manoeuvre. But he has got to be seen to be doing something. And it we | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
have seen so far on the front pages suggest it is going to be fairly | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
piecemeal, little bits here, but it is the kind of stuff that says, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
longer term, stick with this government? Don't think things... | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
You know, things are under control. It is going to be tough, but it is | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
worth staying with us for the long haul. I think they are in a very | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
difficult position. Because I think you are right, that is the message | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
they want to send out, the Prime Minister made a very bold speech on | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the steps of Downing Street when she became Prime Minister saying I'm | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
going to be a Prime Minister for everybody, the many, not the few, | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
she very much wanted to make a break from the Osborne- Cameron years, but | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
the proof will be in the pudding, and people will judge them on their | :07:49. | :08:00. | |
action, not just the rhetoric, so this is a very important outing for | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
them, but what is interesting is they are already doing a lot of | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
expectation management because as you say they have got a massive | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
financial problem, Brexit, they think that will constrain how much | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
money they will be able to spend, and they are also doing a lot of | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
interesting down spin, a Theresa May ally said, this speech is going to | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
be sombre and short, there will be no rabbits, and it will be no | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
rabbits, and the deadly dull. And that is one of her friends. That is | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
like a big supporter. That is like somebody who is a... I think | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
actually be quite a single rule in the Autumn Statement. I think | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
everything is being spun out as much as possible. I think the big | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
elephant in the room will be Brexit. Staying with the Financial Times, | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
talk about deadly dull, maybe that is quite good, compared with the USA | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
at the moment. Donald Trump's free path to power creates friction with | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
media and number ten. I mean, he is breaking all the rules, and it seems | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
to be working for him at the moment. Well, yes, we got this morning at | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
number ten waking up to quite a shock, he had treated in the middle | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
of the night, not the middle of the night there, Lucan never rule | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
anything out Donald Trump, but he treated in the middle of the night | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
saying that Nigel Farage should be the UK ambassador. But who else is | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
he going to suggest? Why is this story...? Why suggest anyone? It is | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
not usually the done thing for the US president to suggest to the Prime | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
Minister who the ambassadors. It is not usually the done thing, but who | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
cares? It is just unusual. We are living in this kind of mad world | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
where that sell they often will Trump and Nigel Farage in that | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
golden elevator, it has done more to break the Internet since Kim | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Kardashian put that glass of champagne on her posterior, never | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
has a selfish and spun out for such a long time, but the problem is, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
there are no rules now, Donald Trump, and there's a great quote in | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
here from a media commentator saying, he got to be the president | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
elect by breaking all the rules and he has clearly got no intention of | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
sticking to the rules now, so I think you will be tweeting left, | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
right and centre, I think you will make pronouncements on, you know, | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
probably he will wade into the French and German elections, and... | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
And we will all dutifully jump on every tweet. He knows how to wind up | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
his critics. He will be well aware that there are people within Downing | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Street who criticised him before, and he... And don't like Nigel | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
Farage. And don't like Nigel Farage. And he will know that by doing this | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
he is winding them right up and he enjoying it. They have been quite | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
effective as well because it has got to the stage where number ten have | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
issued a defence of the existing ambassador, saying we have full | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
confidence, but the one note of caution is, you know, Trump is going | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
to be Trump, we can expect that, but I think Downing Street is creating a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
vacuum for Nigel Farage and Trump, because they are really letting | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
these stories... Because they been quite quiet about a lot of on Brexit | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
and not giving a running commentary, there is a vacuum, and nature was a | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
vacuum, and newspapers especially abhor a vacuum, and the four Irish | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
are seeing the opportunity and going for it. Trump calls for for. Kevin, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
the fact of the matter is, he has got an in to the Oval Office, no | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
question about that. And we need as many friends as we can get in a post | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Brexit world and we need a damn good trade deal with everyone including | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the Americas, why not? Because he is so diametrically opposed to Theresa | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
May and just about everything. Every possible way. And so the notion that | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
she is going to put this guy in there as her man in Washington who | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
she cannot stand, and yet he is more likely to be working in Donald | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Trump's interest than Britain's interests, it is absolutely for the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
birds. And it put number ten in an impossible situation because I'm the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
one hand they did not want to be seen to be criticising Donald Trump | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
because they are desperate to have a good working relationship with him | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
but at the same time they had to make it perfectly clear that what he | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
was saying was complete nonsense and is a complete nonstarter, so that is | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
why they come out and said, the ambassador at the moment, | :12:13. | :12:49. | |
Kim Darragh, is doing a great job, and they tried to shut down that | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
way, but at the same time they were stopping short of directly | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
criticising Donald Trump, it does not help as well that there are | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
loads of tweet still around from the Chiefs of staff, you know, sort of | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
putting the boot into Trump, calling him a chump, in the run-up to the | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
election, and I believe that people in the White House now are not best | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
pleased about those tweets, so I mean this rela tionship was going to | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
be... Look, one thing is clear, the special relationship is not between | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
Theresa May and Donald Trump, it is between four Irish and Donald these | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
are different readouts of the meeting. David Davis says that the | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
meeting was great fun, such fun, everyone else said it was a | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
nightmare. It seems that the humour and the wit and the banter of Boris | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Johnson, and all of these jokes he has been making about trade deals, | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
they are not travelling particularly well to our opposite numbers. They | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
are sort of saying that they summarise view of Mr Johnson is | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
mercurial with a wit that does not always travel well across the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Channel. And this is an attack from Manfred Webber, who is a very senior | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
politician in Germany, and an ally of the German Chancellor, and | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
usually having a big go at Boris Johnson, he highlights the leaflets | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
that Boris Johnson used during the campaign about Turkey, and all that | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
sort of thing, and he also says, look, he thinks that Boris Johnson | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
has been very provocative, and also says that, you know, they don't | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
really feel that there is a clear plan from the UK about what it wants | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
from Brexit so I think it is just more evidence that our relationship | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
and our negotiations with Europe are definitely going to be pretty | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
choppy. Kevin, the suggestion from European ministers, those on the | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
other side of the debate, I suppose, they are making it clear that they | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
don't think we know what we actually want from Brexit? What could | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
possibly given that idea? All this stuff about now running commentary, | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
that is because there is nothing to commentate on. Well, quite, we have | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
briefings of day with Downing Street and we often ask, what is the plan? | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
And what they basically do is tell us what they have been doing up | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
until now. So it is not really a plan. They really don't have a plan. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
And nobody knows how it is good to play out. And I have since and | :14:48. | :15:12. | |
they with them, because it is right when they say that you cannot show | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
your hand when the other side across the table, you can give away | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
everything that you want, but I think at the moment... They are not | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
sure what they want. Also, as a former spinner, there are certain | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
lines of communication, like, now running commentary means, we don't | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
have a clue. That is basically code for we don't have a... That is your | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
routine? I am here all week. Stay with us on BBC News. All the front | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
pages are online. And as a deed of papers there for you. BBC .co .uk/ | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
papers. And you can see us there also. Each night's vision of the | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
papers. Posted on the page shortly after we finish. Many thanks. The | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
stories behind the headlines. Stay with us on BBC News, more coming up, | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
goodbye for now. Some of us have endured some rather | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
wet and windy weather again today but not the severity of weather we | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
have seen over | :15:54. | :15:54. |