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