:00:15. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our lookahead at what is going to be in the papers
:00:21. > :00:26.tomorrow. With me to discuss this in the studio we have got Caroline from
:00:27. > :00:30.the Sunday express and Joe from the Independent. Welcome to both of you
:00:31. > :00:34.and thank you for being here. Let's start with a quick look at the front
:00:35. > :00:38.page. The Independent has an interview with Jean Miller, the
:00:39. > :00:42.business woman who challenge the government's desire to begin the
:00:43. > :00:47.formal process of leaving the EU without Commons legislation. The
:00:48. > :00:50.Sunday Times also leaves with a story about Brexit saying the
:00:51. > :00:55.government is facing fresh legal challenges if it wishes to take the
:00:56. > :01:00.UK out of the single market. They also have a picture of the writer AA
:01:01. > :01:05.Gill who was a leading journalist for the newspaper. The mail says
:01:06. > :01:10.that Nicky Morgan has been banned from meetings at number ten after
:01:11. > :01:19.criticising Theresa May's choice of trousers. And millions of people
:01:20. > :01:26.could face a Council tax rise as the government looks to cover the cost
:01:27. > :01:32.of social care. So, Joe. You have a story. In the Independent it is the
:01:33. > :01:37.front page. The government says is threatening Supreme Court judges.
:01:38. > :01:41.This is the woman who brought the case that has now made its way to
:01:42. > :01:46.the Supreme Court. That case has been heard this week. People have
:01:47. > :01:50.been covering it. And the judges are now deliberating on making their
:01:51. > :01:55.decisions. One of the most important decisions in British constitutional
:01:56. > :01:57.history. She decided to speak out because reports appeared in which
:01:58. > :02:02.government sources appeared to be prejudging what the result of that
:02:03. > :02:06.cake is would be and in her words were trying to spin the result. They
:02:07. > :02:10.were saying it was not going to be as an impressive win for her side as
:02:11. > :02:15.expected and possibly because of that the suggestion was that that
:02:16. > :02:20.would mean the position of MPs would not have the justification to
:02:21. > :02:26.challenge Theresa May in the House of Commons. She was speaking out
:02:27. > :02:29.saying that it was completely started and has overturned
:02:30. > :02:33.considered reporting that we have had through the week. And with the
:02:34. > :02:37.articles appeared the list of judges with their background and links to
:02:38. > :02:43.the EU and she is suggesting that this is a sort of threat saying that
:02:44. > :02:51.you may have won the case were watching the judges' hands. And she
:02:52. > :02:59.has become a poster girl for the Remain supporters. Although she has
:03:00. > :03:02.had many death threats she says. On the opposite side, she is the
:03:03. > :03:08.villain of the piece trying to frustrate what we see or what the
:03:09. > :03:13.Brexit supporters say as being the will of the people. But if you think
:03:14. > :03:19.about this idea and the suggestion is that the government would still
:03:20. > :03:22.lose but they would lose 7-4 as opposed to 10-1. Somehow the
:03:23. > :03:27.suggestion there is that that gives, that is better for them because it
:03:28. > :03:31.means it is less decisive. When it comes to a court judgement it is
:03:32. > :03:36.like being a look pregnant. That just does not happen. Either win or
:03:37. > :03:41.lose. Instead of trying to spin it that way as they lost and we were
:03:42. > :03:45.talking about this outside, the government almost conceded defeat on
:03:46. > :03:49.this court case as soon as the High Court decision came out several
:03:50. > :03:53.weeks ago. Many ministers behind the scenes have tacitly accepted that
:03:54. > :03:56.they will not win and they have died to write the legislation that they
:03:57. > :04:01.need to pass. That begs the question, why have the case being
:04:02. > :04:05.taken forward and millions of pounds potentially being spent? And what
:04:06. > :04:12.you make the case on TV? Were you fascinated and gripped by every
:04:13. > :04:16.minute of it? I think court cases, apart from serial killers and things
:04:17. > :04:22.like that can be fairly dry. This was fairly dry. It was interesting
:04:23. > :04:27.to watch it being televised. Certainly. And this is the most
:04:28. > :04:32.fundamental choice facing this country in generations. The idea
:04:33. > :04:36.that, you know, it is being taken so seriously and we can see justice
:04:37. > :04:40.being done was a great thing to behold. I think we will have many
:04:41. > :04:44.more chances to see other cases being taken through the courts. This
:04:45. > :04:49.is not going to be the end one. Other cases will come. One from
:04:50. > :04:55.Northern Ireland. Staying with Brexit we have the Sunday Times who
:04:56. > :05:00.also have a story on that. I think the BBC reported on this a couple of
:05:01. > :05:06.weeks ago. The Sunday Times are doing it as well. The new court case
:05:07. > :05:10.is threatening to derail Rech said. Again we were saying that they seem
:05:11. > :05:14.to be many different court cases and it is a little confusing about which
:05:15. > :05:20.one was which and whether or not this was a new court case. It is the
:05:21. > :05:24.case you reported at the end of November. A court case that has been
:05:25. > :05:27.brought that in effect challenges the whole notion that we will leave
:05:28. > :05:33.the single market, actually saying was was that what we voted for?
:05:34. > :05:39.Therefore challenging the whole notion of what is going to happen
:05:40. > :05:43.next. The interesting thing is that this has been brought by two
:05:44. > :05:46.supporters of Brexit. Peter Wilding of the precious group British
:05:47. > :05:50.influence which has been calling for a smart Brexit, whatever that is,
:05:51. > :05:58.and a Conservative Party activist who also voted to leave. It is
:05:59. > :06:02.another machination of another type of challenge we will see. Everything
:06:03. > :06:12.to do with bricks and. We have a hard Brexit, soft Brexit and now
:06:13. > :06:15.soft -- smart Brexit. This case exposes the difficulties of the
:06:16. > :06:19.process of getting out but also some misunderstanding about what the EU
:06:20. > :06:23.was. Most people would say hang on, if we are leaving the EU are we just
:06:24. > :06:27.leaving the single market, isn't that the same thing question mark
:06:28. > :06:32.but that is not the same case. They are different constructs tied
:06:33. > :06:36.together. The customs union, the EA, various other parts as well. Each
:06:37. > :06:41.facet can be challenged in a different legal case if people want
:06:42. > :06:44.to bring the challenge. And Nigel Farage would say implicitly that
:06:45. > :06:47.when we voted to leave we voted to leave the single market but
:06:48. > :06:50.everybody offer different interpretations of Apsley what the
:06:51. > :06:54.question on the ballot paper meant. It does kind of leave open this
:06:55. > :06:57.whole can of worms that which can be debated and dissected with different
:06:58. > :07:01.court cases coming all the way up to my guess, until we actually leave
:07:02. > :07:07.which we still don't know when that will happen. And the referendum was
:07:08. > :07:13.only advisory.... Let's not get into that. But more important, trouser-
:07:14. > :07:19.gate has revealed by the Mail on Sunday. An extraordinary story of of
:07:20. > :07:28.a lot of alliteration. Toxic texts over to Reza's trousers. Caroline,
:07:29. > :07:31.can you explain this? This is an explosion of a particular row which
:07:32. > :07:36.has been rumbling for sometime now over to Reza may's leather trousers.
:07:37. > :07:43.You can see them in that picture there. She has a favourite pair of
:07:44. > :07:54.trousers. And they are quite expensive. Yes. Nearly ?1000. There
:07:55. > :07:58.was criticism of these trousers and their price may be Nicky Morgan. And
:07:59. > :08:02.now we see this amazing exchange of text which hinges on the fact that
:08:03. > :08:07.in essence Nicki has been going to Downing Street along with some of
:08:08. > :08:11.the other Remain supporting MPs to discuss the challenges of Brexit.
:08:12. > :08:15.And now because of unflattering comments she has made about the
:08:16. > :08:19.trousers and the decision of the Prime Minister to pay so much money
:08:20. > :08:25.for them, she has been uninvited but the chief of staff and some of the
:08:26. > :08:31.text messagesare absolutely brilliant. A message sent to another
:08:32. > :08:37.remained supporter in response to this whole argument that has taken
:08:38. > :08:41.place. Do not bring a woman to number ten again. Nicki Morgan gets
:08:42. > :08:45.wind of this and hits back to the chief of staff saying that if you
:08:46. > :08:51.don't like something I have settled done. Please tell me directly. No
:08:52. > :08:56.man brings me to a meeting. If you don't want my view at a meeting you
:08:57. > :09:02.need to tell me. And Nancy onus of respondents with a so there.
:09:03. > :09:08.Absolutely extraordinary. A great insight into the world of number
:09:09. > :09:12.ten. Assuming it is accurate. There is a suggestion implicit in the text
:09:13. > :09:16.to Fiona Hill but there is a sexist undertone to it. Quite interesting.
:09:17. > :09:23.A female Prime Minister against a former female minister and a female
:09:24. > :09:30.gatekeeper all sort of pulling the reins of power. And if you go right
:09:31. > :09:35.back to Nicki Morgan's original comment about the trousers one of
:09:36. > :09:39.the interesting things about that is though even they would have her
:09:40. > :09:45.Theresa May because of a personal nature, because Nicki Morgan said
:09:46. > :09:55.something like only ever spending ?900 on her wedding dress, it hits
:09:56. > :10:01.to the heart of to Reza may's political message of being part of
:10:02. > :10:05.the common man. And, everything, absolutely everything is about
:10:06. > :10:09.Brexit today. Everything must be seen through the prism of Brexit
:10:10. > :10:14.today. Nicki Morgan is on the remains site and to Reza may is
:10:15. > :10:17.trying to straddle both sides of that, that Brexit means Brexit and
:10:18. > :10:23.that makes this whole a powerful story. Safe to say that Nicki Morgan
:10:24. > :10:29.will not be returning to Cabinet any time soon. The express, Caroline,
:10:30. > :10:35.your paper. Talking about council tax rises. That is correct. We have
:10:36. > :10:45.known for a long time that there is a storm brewing even social care.
:10:46. > :10:49.George Osborne woke up to the idea that councils do not have enough
:10:50. > :10:56.money for this sort of thing. So a particular portion of your tax
:10:57. > :11:03.counsel Bill for such things. The council wanted fresh cash in the
:11:04. > :11:06.Autumn Statement that that was not delivered. And now it seems that the
:11:07. > :11:09.government is considering a new plan and with the local government
:11:10. > :11:13.settlement coming up the thing they are considering is whether they will
:11:14. > :11:18.raise that precept and make it even bigger. The suggestion being twerk
:11:19. > :11:25.from 2% to 5% which would mean council tax bills go up by 7%. Let's
:11:26. > :11:32.go to the Sunday Times. They have a story about refugee children. Young
:11:33. > :11:36.people who were brought over from the jungle camp in Calais. Some of
:11:37. > :11:40.them have disappeared once they got over to Britain. There are fears
:11:41. > :11:47.they have been drawn into prostitution and slavery? A terrible
:11:48. > :11:52.story this. Several weeks we had debate in the House of Commons and a
:11:53. > :11:57.lot of news coverage as well of how people were being treated in the
:11:58. > :12:00.Calais jungle. We saw how people, how children disappeared and there
:12:01. > :12:05.was a great push for British authorities to break through the
:12:06. > :12:09.stagnation of the French operation and take the children out of danger
:12:10. > :12:14.and bring them to the UK where we could house them. It is embarrassing
:12:15. > :12:18.for British authorities now to find that, yes, we could do that with
:12:19. > :12:23.some children at home now they have fallen into some of the same traps
:12:24. > :12:27.on the side of the channel is on the other. And let's end with the Sunday
:12:28. > :12:33.Times, paying tribute to their very famous TV critic and restaurant
:12:34. > :12:41.critic, AA Gill. He has died at, sadly, at the age of 62. A lot of
:12:42. > :12:47.cancer in his body as he told us. We had the full English of cancer. Only
:12:48. > :12:51.he would put it that way off course. He described it at the same way as
:12:52. > :12:55.he was reviewing a fish and chip restaurant in North Yorkshire. The
:12:56. > :12:58.revelation that he was operating from cancer. It was not that long
:12:59. > :13:05.ago that we first learned of that back. Only three weeks ago, I think.
:13:06. > :13:09.So it is sad that he has died so quickly. And one of the things that
:13:10. > :13:12.comes out is that he has written an article that I think was published
:13:13. > :13:17.today talking about his own fight with cancer and one of the things
:13:18. > :13:23.that comes out is that the drug that was recommended by his GP to combat
:13:24. > :13:26.this particular type of cancer was a drug that was only available
:13:27. > :13:31.privately the sort of makes his point that he has led a very
:13:32. > :13:39.middle-class sheltered anti- violent life so I didn't know how to deal
:13:40. > :13:43.with this particular thing that happened to him. I find that very
:13:44. > :13:49.sad. And, Joe, you enjoyed his writing? That is correct. As a young
:13:50. > :13:52.journalist growing up you would seek out people who inspired and
:13:53. > :13:57.captivated you and his writing could do that. I would read his reviews of
:13:58. > :14:02.TV shows and films and read them simply to taking his writing, not
:14:03. > :14:06.because I wanted to see the subject of what he was talking about. I
:14:07. > :14:09.think he was one of those people who could really transcend the form of
:14:10. > :14:16.writing that he was doing to just reach out to people and present them
:14:17. > :14:21.with a wonderful piece of poetry. A a Gill who has died at the age of
:14:22. > :14:28.62. Thank you very much to both of you. Coming up next on BBC News it
:14:29. > :14:29.is time for the film review.