:00:16. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:23.With me are Caroline Wheeler, political editor at the Sunday
:00:24. > :00:34.Express, and Joe Watts, political editor of the Independent.
:00:35. > :00:42.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
:00:43. > :00:44.The Mail on Sunday leads with a story about former education
:00:45. > :00:47.minister Nicky Morgan being banned from meetings in Number 10
:00:48. > :00:59.for criticising Theresa May's choice of trousers.
:01:00. > :01:03.The Express warns of a ?100 council tax rise.
:01:04. > :01:25.AA Gill, very well-known TV critic and restaurant critic. The really
:01:26. > :01:32.tragic thing about this is he was only 62 when he died. He had not
:01:33. > :01:37.known for long that he had cancer. It was only a month ago that he let
:01:38. > :01:42.slip he had cancer in an article he wrote. Very painful reading, reading
:01:43. > :01:48.about the fact he had been told that the drug that could potentially save
:01:49. > :01:53.his life was one only available privately and he laments in this
:01:54. > :01:58.last article, which the Sunday Times published today, that he has come
:01:59. > :02:03.from a fairly humble upbringing, this was a shock to the system and
:02:04. > :02:08.the worst thing he has had to face in his life, the fact it was losing
:02:09. > :02:12.a battle against cancer but also a life-saving drug was unavailable to
:02:13. > :02:18.him and you cannot imagine that. That must be something many people
:02:19. > :02:22.do face. He explained that stress and strain on him join the last days
:02:23. > :02:30.of his life. And you admired his writing? When I was young, a lot of
:02:31. > :02:35.us a university doing journalism, we would be gripped by his stuff. And
:02:36. > :02:40.even though it had that element that divided opinion, his style really
:02:41. > :02:47.gripped you, that is why I'm really looking forward to reading his piece
:02:48. > :02:52.tomorrow. Quite an acerbic style. He was one of those critics that
:02:53. > :03:00.transcended the critiques. We read his stuff to read his writing. Let's
:03:01. > :03:07.stick with the Sunday Times. Their main story is about Brexit and
:03:08. > :03:11.another court case. We have just had the supreme court case all week so
:03:12. > :03:16.tell us about the other one. There are a number of court cases going
:03:17. > :03:21.on, a couple in Ireland, the main one you have had the good fortune to
:03:22. > :03:27.be covering all week, and this one. This is a new court case. This is
:03:28. > :03:32.about a challenge to the idea we will either single market. And a new
:03:33. > :03:35.development in this is that the campaigners who will press for this
:03:36. > :03:40.court case or write to the government tomorrow to basically say
:03:41. > :03:45.they are taking their case to the High Court in an effort to keep
:03:46. > :03:51.Britain in the single market. The interesting thing about this court
:03:52. > :03:56.case is this is not brought by remainders, this is brought by
:03:57. > :04:04.Brexiteer 's. In fact, peter Wilding, the chairman of the
:04:05. > :04:10.pressure group, has been leading the case for a smart Brexit. And another
:04:11. > :04:18.conservative activist, who also voted to leave, it is the idea that
:04:19. > :04:23.it is Brexiteers who also bring court cases. Do you think it will
:04:24. > :04:28.slow the Brexit process down or has that timetable been set now? I don't
:04:29. > :04:34.think anything is set at the moment. Things change very quickly. Before
:04:35. > :04:38.the Supreme Court case was going on, Theresa May was going to trigger
:04:39. > :04:42.Article 50 without consulting Parliament that was change very
:04:43. > :04:46.quickly. She said she was still stick to the schedule she has set
:04:47. > :04:54.up. But Article 50 is just the start of that negotiating process. There
:04:55. > :04:58.is talk of a transitional deal. But there are going to be the court
:04:59. > :05:04.cases and what this really shows is that every little chink in the
:05:05. > :05:08.legislation, and it is very chunky legislation, this whole process is
:05:09. > :05:13.full of holes, nobody knows how it will work or well it will take us,
:05:14. > :05:17.and it was never really written in the knowledge would be used any time
:05:18. > :05:21.soon. It is open to interpretation and that means there are lots of
:05:22. > :05:27.angles that people can bring these cases from. This is my favourite
:05:28. > :05:37.story tomorrow, The Mail on Sunday. Toxic texts over Theresa May's
:05:38. > :05:43.trousers! We have these incredible decisions being made about leaving
:05:44. > :05:48.Europe but the story that has gripped the imagination of The Mail
:05:49. > :05:53.on Sunday is this row over Theresa May's leather trousers. This is a
:05:54. > :06:00.pair of trousers that the Prime Minister is fond of wearing. They
:06:01. > :06:03.cost ?995. The former Education Secretary has been rather mean about
:06:04. > :06:08.these particular trousers, suggesting they cost too much money,
:06:09. > :06:13.and the Prime Minister ought not be wearing this. It has precipitated
:06:14. > :06:18.this incredible rather has ended up on the front page with this feature
:06:19. > :06:23.link exchange of messages between Fiona hill, who is basically one of
:06:24. > :06:30.Mrs May's chief of staff who works closely with her Downing Street, and
:06:31. > :06:36.Mrs Morgan, who has now been unceremoniously uninvited to an
:06:37. > :06:40.event at Downing Street. We were just looking at the story about the
:06:41. > :06:46.Brexit court case and that shows how divisive Brexit has been at the very
:06:47. > :06:53.top technical level and it goes right down to the trousers, at every
:06:54. > :06:59.level! The government, the Tory party in people's homes talk about
:07:00. > :07:05.Brexit and that is reflected in this story as well. Readers the texts
:07:06. > :07:11.though. Let's here a flavour of these extraordinary texts. The hill
:07:12. > :07:20.first sent this text to Alistair Burt, a former minister. So, after
:07:21. > :07:23.Nicky Morgan made her comments about the leather trousers, Fiona Hill
:07:24. > :07:29.said, don't bring that woman to Number 10 again, which is quite a
:07:30. > :07:34.pointed phrasing there. Nicky Morgan got wind of this and texted back, if
:07:35. > :07:40.you don't like something I have said or done, please tell me directly. No
:07:41. > :07:44.man brings me to any meeting. Your team invites me. If you don't want
:07:45. > :07:50.my views in future meetings, you need to tell them. The reply was, so
:07:51. > :07:56.they're! It is playground stuff but it shows how he did an acrimonious
:07:57. > :08:02.it is getting. When Nicky Morgan was in government, she had this
:08:03. > :08:06.reputation for being nice and soft touch, but she has emerged in this
:08:07. > :08:11.whole new Brexit world as the sort of polar opposite to Theresa May, a
:08:12. > :08:17.fiery and hard-headed person. Trouser gate is what The Mail on
:08:18. > :08:23.Sunday is calling it! Your paper, the express, a story about a council
:08:24. > :08:28.tax rise. Following the Autumn Statement, there was a big Guha at
:08:29. > :08:32.the time because what Philip Hammond did not mention was the NHS and in
:08:33. > :08:36.particular social care, which is this major crisis that seems to be
:08:37. > :08:40.ballooning every day, which is the councils are saying they do not have
:08:41. > :08:46.enough money to look after the elderly and the disabled within
:08:47. > :08:50.their care. We have the local government settlement coming up, one
:08:51. > :08:54.of those events we all look forward to in the Westminster calendar, and
:08:55. > :08:58.one of the things I have learnt that the government is considering is
:08:59. > :09:03.putting up that part of council tax which George Osborne introduced to
:09:04. > :09:08.ring fence money for social care. It is currently set at 2%. The
:09:09. > :09:15.suggestion as it could be raised by as much as 5%, which would push
:09:16. > :09:19.council tax bills up to 7%, which is about a ?107 increase next year. It
:09:20. > :09:23.is one of those things where the government has got to do something
:09:24. > :09:27.about it. My thought is that what they will do cleverly is what they
:09:28. > :09:34.have done with the police precept, which is to put on councils and say
:09:35. > :09:37.to them, we will give you this flexibility to raise the bills by
:09:38. > :09:40.this amount, but you've got to make the decision about how much you will
:09:41. > :09:43.raise it, and they would do that very quickly. This was a great trick
:09:44. > :09:55.of the Conservative government's great devolution plan. They passed
:09:56. > :09:59.are not supposed to councils. But they have also thrown upon them the
:10:00. > :10:05.responsibility of making these huge cuts over the last several years.
:10:06. > :10:08.That has put a huge burden on councils and has caused a lot of
:10:09. > :10:17.anger amongst local residents as well. Let's return to the Sunday
:10:18. > :10:23.Times because another interesting story they have got is about child
:10:24. > :10:28.refugees vanishing. Some of the children brought to Britain from the
:10:29. > :10:31.Calle jungle six weeks ago have apparently disappeared, they are
:10:32. > :10:36.saying. Fears they have been drawn into prostitution or slavery. I
:10:37. > :10:41.think this is very worrying. This is exactly what we were saying was
:10:42. > :10:43.happening in the jungle, that these children had gone missing from
:10:44. > :10:47.within the jungle. Now they are brought over to the UK and it seems
:10:48. > :10:52.their plight here has been no better than it was over there. The
:10:53. > :10:57.suggestion here is they may have been drawn into slavery or
:10:58. > :11:03.prostitution and David Simons, a spokesman for the local council in
:11:04. > :11:06.Kent, is saying that traffickers have been pursuing these young
:11:07. > :11:11.vulnerable refugees, often via social media, for the money that
:11:12. > :11:17.previously they had agreed to pay to the UK. These children have been
:11:18. > :11:22.through enough. Surely, they don't deserve to come to these shores and
:11:23. > :11:26.then find they are sucked into the same old racket? Beggar's believe
:11:27. > :11:30.that the British authorities had not been able to keep track of them all
:11:31. > :11:38.protect them. There were huge numbers. Join the debate in
:11:39. > :11:44.Parliament there was an underlying assumption that when they are in
:11:45. > :11:48.Calais, they were in a terrible state, huge danger, we would bring
:11:49. > :11:53.them over here and look after them and they would be rehoused. But it
:11:54. > :11:57.turns out that pretty quickly, we have lost track of the situation
:11:58. > :12:03.over here as well and they may have been sucked back into these awful
:12:04. > :12:12.modes of life. If that has happened, there will have to be some kind of
:12:13. > :12:16.Parliamentary inquiry. Theresa May has led a lot of debate around the
:12:17. > :12:20.amendment in getting those children over here in the first place. But
:12:21. > :12:25.there has always been stories about our own children going into care in
:12:26. > :12:28.this country and there are often statistics which suggest that
:12:29. > :12:32.children taken from this country are going missing. So it seems to be
:12:33. > :12:37.part of a wider problem. Care doesn't always mean care. Thank you
:12:38. > :12:41.so much to both of you for looking through the papers as we have them.
:12:42. > :12:47.It is still quite early and we will get more front pages in when we see
:12:48. > :12:54.you again at half past 11 and stop that many thanks to both of you.