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:00:20. > :00:26.Welcome to our look ahead at what the newspapers will be bringing us

:00:27. > :00:32.tomorrow. No muddled thinking tonight, please, we will be speaking

:00:33. > :00:38.truth to power... Crystal clear! Some of the front pages: the

:00:39. > :00:41.Financial Times, top spies in the US are on a collision course with

:00:42. > :00:45.President-elect Donald Trump, two weeks before his inauguration, after

:00:46. > :00:50.they rejected his dismissal of his findings that Russia interfered with

:00:51. > :00:56.the election. Sex assault campaign and rates survivor Jill Saward has

:00:57. > :01:01.died at the age of 51, the newspaper calls her bravest of the brave. The

:01:02. > :01:05.mail also pays tribute to Jill, and leads on a story that civil servants

:01:06. > :01:09.working on Brexit have asked for a pay rise due to unsustainable

:01:10. > :01:13.pressure. Investigation into new homes built on flood plains, saying

:01:14. > :01:18.it has found that 1200 properties have been built in what it calls

:01:19. > :01:20.danger areas. The Telegraph's top story, the admission by the Bank of

:01:21. > :01:25.England chief economist that warnings of an economic downturn in

:01:26. > :01:31.the wake of the Brexit vote were wrong. The Times also leads on

:01:32. > :01:34.optimism regarding the British economy and news that Theresa May

:01:35. > :01:38.will visit Donald Trump next month after her two most trusted aides

:01:39. > :01:42.began what it calls a secret mission to build bridges. The express leads

:01:43. > :01:49.on the six-day run of highs of the FTSE 100. We will start with the

:01:50. > :01:52.times, Britain has the world top economy after Brexit, starting with

:01:53. > :01:58.Mystic make, Lord Digby Jones... LAUGHTER

:01:59. > :02:02.You said, Brexit is where we should be, it is going to be amazing and

:02:03. > :02:11.wonderful and so far, you may be proven right. I hate to say I told

:02:12. > :02:16.you so. Taking you back to early June... Not too far back, because we

:02:17. > :02:20.only have 15 minutes. LAUGHTER The day after "Brexit", the world

:02:21. > :02:23.was going to end, death of the first-born, all these economist, the

:02:24. > :02:32.Bank of England, all of them saying the same thing. I wanted to stay in

:02:33. > :02:38.a reformed Europe, I am no swivel eyed Brexiteer, but I would prefer

:02:39. > :02:44.to have stayed in a reformed Europe, I am not an ideologue, but I could

:02:45. > :02:57.not see it at the time. The British economy has been really resilient.

:02:58. > :03:01.Fundamentals of the British economy are actually in a good place.

:03:02. > :03:19.Inflation will rise. This is a snapshot, Britain has the

:03:20. > :03:29.world's top economy after "Brexit", six months after "Brexit". Business

:03:30. > :03:37.activity has hit a 17 month high. I want the best for Britain and all

:03:38. > :03:44.who sail in her, say a week is a long time in politics, this is just

:03:45. > :03:48.the brilliant. To Armageddon...? To what happens when we trigger Article

:03:49. > :03:51.50 and during the two years of negotiation and what happens

:03:52. > :04:03.thereafter, a lot of potential shocks may come further down the

:04:04. > :04:07.road. The reason why this story has made the headlines, not just the

:04:08. > :04:12.figures, the chief economist of the Bank of England, who had predicted

:04:13. > :04:17.doom and gloom, he admits that maybe, is industry, economics, is in

:04:18. > :04:28.crisis. And he compared the forecasting performance to Michael

:04:29. > :04:36.Fish's infamous... This is where he said they -- there would not be a

:04:37. > :04:48.hurricane. But they bring up this point. Dire predictions were

:04:49. > :04:52.predicated on David Cameron triggering Article 50 the day after

:04:53. > :04:56.the vote. They were not, a lot of this was alarmist, to frighten the

:04:57. > :05:01.British voter in devoting to remain, a lot of this had a political

:05:02. > :05:06.undercurrent. Some of it was economics. Where we are going to be

:05:07. > :05:10.in violent agreement is... I would say three to five years, I would not

:05:11. > :05:14.say six months, years "Brexit" negotiations, this is going to be

:05:15. > :05:19.choppy water. The problem we have as a nation at the moment is you have

:05:20. > :05:28.the EU remains propaganda sheet, the Financial Times... Tried to destroy

:05:29. > :05:38.it that stage. Trying to rip it up? Any time you get bad news, it is

:05:39. > :05:43.always... The fact is, so far, the doom mongers are wrong. For now.

:05:44. > :05:47.From the Bank of England they say, business as usual, the spending

:05:48. > :05:51.power in peoples pockets was not materially dented, that is a key

:05:52. > :05:58.point, because... You don't hear the word sorry. Interest rates are

:05:59. > :06:00.historically low. People still spending on the never-never,

:06:01. > :06:06.big-ticket items, the cars. Very crucial, crucial to remember that

:06:07. > :06:19.people still have money in their pockets. Why will they rise, because

:06:20. > :06:30.the pound has collapsed. No, that is the issue where you are both wrong.

:06:31. > :06:36.I spend money, I live in Britain. If you actually have... Through a

:06:37. > :06:39.porous change rate... The pound collapsing... It does not

:06:40. > :06:43.necessarily pass to consume inflationary pressure. Lots of

:06:44. > :06:47.people are saying that it may, including the chief economist... So

:06:48. > :06:51.often the middle person absorbs the profit. Gentleman, if I can come in,

:06:52. > :06:58.if I can come near. You have got your gavel. You are going to need

:06:59. > :07:02.it! Companies have absorbed the shock, they have hedged, the

:07:03. > :07:07.prediction is by many that they will not be able to hedge for ever. I

:07:08. > :07:10.agree but there is another point. They will not be able to do it

:07:11. > :07:14.forever, I agree, but the other point is that there is a whole world

:07:15. > :07:18.out there and if you have a component suppliers saying prices go

:07:19. > :07:24.up because of currency, go and find another supplier. We will end that

:07:25. > :07:29.discussion there. Thank you. Financial Times, financial Times, US

:07:30. > :07:35.by chief rejects trump doubts over Kremlin interference from the

:07:36. > :07:38.election. We had Senator John McCain, armed services committee

:07:39. > :07:47.Republican chairman, telling the intelligence committee when he took

:07:48. > :07:49.evidence from James Clapper, and Admiral Michael Rogers, head of the

:07:50. > :08:02.national security agency, and each of them, both pretty angry.

:08:03. > :08:08.Seeming to prefer the advice and evidence of Julian Assange to his

:08:09. > :08:11.own intelligence officers and they are doubling down, as the American

:08:12. > :08:15.say, in their belief that the Kremlin interfered at every level,

:08:16. > :08:23.regularly, and that this is a form of warfare. Lloyd Jones... He has

:08:24. > :08:26.two double down, if he admits, if he says there is clear evidence that

:08:27. > :08:31.the Russians interfered with the election, that delegitimise is his

:08:32. > :08:37.job, or at least it delegitimise is him in that job. -- delegitimises.

:08:38. > :08:41.The process by which he got it. I agree, the answer to this by Henry

:08:42. > :08:47.is very good, and where the problem Trump has worked in into... --

:08:48. > :08:50.worked himself into... I understand this new paradigms, constant tweets,

:08:51. > :08:54.he is connecting with the people who voted for him, making it clearly

:08:55. > :08:57.understood where he stands on many issues, a very good example would be

:08:58. > :09:02.that this man has not yet been elected and yet he has forward to

:09:03. > :09:08.say, we are not going to invest in Mexico, we will do it in Detroit.

:09:09. > :09:10.1000 jobs saved in Indiana by an air conditioning factory. These tweets

:09:11. > :09:16.are connecting with the very people who elected him, but the downside,

:09:17. > :09:20.if he's not careful, is of his own volition he's been forced into

:09:21. > :09:27.positions from which we cannot grow back. This one... It is one thing

:09:28. > :09:31.when you put out a view and a company response, it is another game

:09:32. > :09:38.when you take side internationally, with rather unsavoury figures. On

:09:39. > :09:42.that basis, where Henry... Not that nail on the head, he's in charge of

:09:43. > :09:51.the two agencies. -- knocked the nail on the head. They will leak

:09:52. > :09:53.vigorously against him. I do believe... INAUDIBLE

:09:54. > :10:04.Going back to the Daily Mail, the picture there are, Jill Saward, who

:10:05. > :10:08.has died at the age of 51, she was attacked, sexually assaulted, rigged

:10:09. > :10:15.in 1986, the first British rate victim to actually waive anonymity.

:10:16. > :10:20.-- raped in 1986. To highlight not just what she went through but also

:10:21. > :10:28.to put victims at the centre of any future prosecutions. All about views

:10:29. > :10:32.and ideas, takes second place to the grieving that the family must be

:10:33. > :10:37.feeling, 51, brain haemorrhage, this is awful. Even more sad of course on

:10:38. > :10:42.a national level that it has taken her death to bring this up to the

:10:43. > :10:45.point where the Daily Mail are saying in their headline, what a

:10:46. > :10:49.disgrace that she never received an honour. Whether they are right or

:10:50. > :10:52.wrong, whatever the honour may be, take out the word honour and use the

:10:53. > :10:58.word recognition because actually what she did... The establishment,

:10:59. > :11:02.the right word? Certainly, the judicial system, anyway, tended to

:11:03. > :11:10.be on the side of the accused, not on the side of the victim. During

:11:11. > :11:16.the period of life on Mars, where the police, the judiciary did not

:11:17. > :11:22.pay attention. What she did, because daughter, virgin, 21, raped, and she

:11:23. > :11:26.came out of a September X into system that was saying, the quiet,

:11:27. > :11:29.and she said, I will not, this is my name, this is my photograph and this

:11:30. > :11:34.is what happened to me. -- vicar's daughter. And people to then this

:11:35. > :11:38.happened should have the courage and society should support the courage

:11:39. > :11:43.to do that. -- came out of a system that was saying, you be quiet, and

:11:44. > :11:47.she said, I will not. We have seen the bravery of the footballers that

:11:48. > :11:51.have come out, victims who have come out, with Jimmy Savile, this is

:11:52. > :11:58.where putting the victim at the centre of the case, this is where it

:11:59. > :12:01.started. Protecting identity, initial stages, very important,

:12:02. > :12:04.tough enough for men to do it now, when they are talking about what

:12:05. > :12:08.happened 20 odd years ago, but this woman did it in 1986, the country

:12:09. > :12:14.with very different back there. Tesco says the John the band...

:12:15. > :12:20.Lloyd Jones, you have got your pyjamas on, I know that you sneak

:12:21. > :12:25.down... -- Tesco says that pyjamas may be banned. I only wish they did

:12:26. > :12:28.not take the photograph they have of not take the photograph they have of

:12:29. > :12:33.me... LAUGHTER I am convinced in my indecision, at

:12:34. > :12:36.one level, they are trying to say, there is a standard here, whatever

:12:37. > :12:45.that standard may be, or the benefit of everyone, not just Tesco, there

:12:46. > :12:54.are a few standards, we... We do not want to see Digby wandering around

:12:55. > :12:59.in his onesie... That is a site! The problem is, we do live in a free

:13:00. > :13:04.world, and as long as... Within the bounds of decency. If you want to

:13:05. > :13:08.wear your onesie ads Tesco at three in the morning, why not! It is not

:13:09. > :13:10.the kind of thing that I would do, and I have never seen people

:13:11. > :13:15.wandering around in their onesie or their pyjamas, but there is lots and

:13:16. > :13:21.lots of supermarkets which may say, Tesco does not want you, we will

:13:22. > :13:27.take your business. It is the old idea between freedom on one hand,

:13:28. > :13:30.freedom on one hand, human decency, and... Time, time! LAUGHTER

:13:31. > :13:43.Gentlemen, please! LAUGHTER

:13:44. > :13:49.You are avoiding it! Just the thought of what you are talking

:13:50. > :13:55.about! Onesie! Peter Stringfellow... LAUGHTER

:13:56. > :13:59.Just run the title, I can say goodbye! LAUGHTER