:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:28.With me are Tim Collins, a former MP and Director
:00:29. > :00:30.With me are Tim Collins, a former MP and director
:00:31. > :00:32.of the Bell Pottinger communications agency, and Paul Johnson,
:00:33. > :00:39.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:
:00:40. > :00:41.The Daily Express says new snow chaos is on the way.
:00:42. > :00:44.It predicts Britain will be plunged into the deep freeze next week.
:00:45. > :00:46.The Metro also leads on the snowy conditions.
:00:47. > :00:49.Its headline is "White Out - travel misery as snow sweeps Britain".
:00:50. > :00:52.The Telegraph leads on Britain's role in the Trump dossier.
:00:53. > :00:54.It quotes an American source as saying the British government
:00:55. > :00:57.gave permission to the FBI to speak to the former British spy
:00:58. > :01:00.The Financial Times says that just one day after heavily fining
:01:01. > :01:03.Volkswagen, the US government is turning its fire
:01:04. > :01:07.The Daily Mirror leads on the NHS, and a photo of a boy
:01:08. > :01:20.His case was referred to by Jeremy Corbyn yesterday.
:01:21. > :01:24.The time gives a warning that any transitional Brexit arrangements
:01:25. > :01:30.could leave Britain under the rule of European judges for years. -- the
:01:31. > :01:41.time. The Daily Mail: Trump blames Britain
:01:42. > :01:50.for sex storm. Russia's really unhappy with how this is panning
:01:51. > :01:53.out. -- Kremlin blames Britain. Russia is delighted, particularly if
:01:54. > :01:58.they can drive a wedge between the United States and the United
:01:59. > :02:03.Kingdom. The trouble is of course, these are things where there are
:02:04. > :02:07.some presidents. Back in 1992I remember there was a totally
:02:08. > :02:11.inaccurate report that John Major's Government had helped the critics of
:02:12. > :02:21.Bill Clinton, and that coloured and damaged the US and UK relationship.
:02:22. > :02:24.I suspect Mr Trump will be hopefully being advised that Theresa May did
:02:25. > :02:29.not authorise all this sort of stuff, but the last thing we need is
:02:30. > :02:37.the sense that the UK was complicit in some way in trying to damage Mr
:02:38. > :02:43.Trump. Same thing on the Telegraph. The British role is fascinating
:02:44. > :02:47.here. The person who put the dossier together, he is ex-MI6 and the
:02:48. > :02:55.Russians say, you are never XML -- ex-MI6. He left the service is about
:02:56. > :02:59.seven years ago. He once said to a journalist, do you know who I am?
:03:00. > :03:02.The journalist said, no, he said that is the way I like it. But
:03:03. > :03:08.illusion has gone for ever! Eye-macro the suggestion here is
:03:09. > :03:13.that he was hired to find information, and what he found was
:03:14. > :03:18.so important, he thought, but that is what he passed it onto the FBI.
:03:19. > :03:24.One of the things that to be honest honest doesn't seem to be right to
:03:25. > :03:27.me is that Donald Trump has done something in his private life that
:03:28. > :03:31.is so scandalous that he would be subject to blackmail by the Kremlin.
:03:32. > :03:35.Have you ever found anything that Donald Trump has done that he is
:03:36. > :03:37.ever embarrassed about? There are huge numbers of things much more
:03:38. > :03:43.damaging than what is supposedly in this dossier, and he is totally
:03:44. > :03:48.shameless. He cannot be blackmailed because he has no sense of shame.
:03:49. > :03:53.This British element, with an MI6 officer, who has a track record,
:03:54. > :03:59.there is also the involvement of an ex-British ambassador to Moscow. You
:04:00. > :04:02.can see that this is how the document got through the hands of
:04:03. > :04:08.John McCain and into the FBI and onto the table of Barack Obama,
:04:09. > :04:11.because of this credibility of the figures who are involved, and they
:04:12. > :04:17.are British figures. I'm not saying about the contents of the dossier,
:04:18. > :04:21.but is a different thing. But again, if you remember George W Bush ten
:04:22. > :04:25.years ago made a statement to the US Congress relying on British
:04:26. > :04:29.intelligence, -- allegations about people scurrying around trying to
:04:30. > :04:35.get you -- nuclear capability in Africa, it turned out to be false.
:04:36. > :04:38.We have to be careful but the relationship is not dented. And we
:04:39. > :04:46.have to be careful about which figures we referred to, it is also
:04:47. > :04:57.difficult to tell the moment. No doubt the most famous dossier since
:04:58. > :05:04.2003's "Dodgy dossier". This is the" dirty dossier". The Daily Telegraph,
:05:05. > :05:08.first snow, then floods. Stand-by for tidal surge. Parts of the East
:05:09. > :05:18.coast, people are having to leave their homes. For most people this
:05:19. > :05:24.winter's been pretty mild so far. Two we have this sequence of army on
:05:25. > :05:29.stand-by, army on alert. But it's also been the first time I've seen
:05:30. > :05:34.the phrase "Thunder snow". As in like thunderstorms but snow instead.
:05:35. > :05:39.Although it's got the usual sort of reaction from north of Scotland etc
:05:40. > :05:46.and the north of England, saying, gosh, call but snow? It is more like
:05:47. > :05:55.mild sleep. We don't count it as snow until it is up to knees! --
:05:56. > :06:02.mild sleep. I am with Paul on this, I've lived in Cumbria. This is the
:06:03. > :06:05.sort of stuff that the south-east appears unable to cope with, the
:06:06. > :06:10.sort of stuff but the North of England and Scotland deal with all
:06:11. > :06:13.the time, and it is actually winter. Why do we get shocked but January
:06:14. > :06:18.and Fabry are called months and we get floods and snow? What is
:06:19. > :06:22.important though is that some people will be worried about the hamster
:06:23. > :06:29.like, and hope they will be able to cope. -- January and February. The
:06:30. > :06:32.Guardian, Europe awaits as Theresa May commerce 's keynote speech on
:06:33. > :06:42.Brexit. I wonder how much better informed they will be afterwards?
:06:43. > :06:46.Theresa May has promised a speech next Tuesday on Brexit, so we will
:06:47. > :06:54.get clarity perhaps. Perhaps we would go beyond "Brexit means Brexit
:06:55. > :07:06.close quote. And we might even go beyond "Red, white and blue Brexit."
:07:07. > :07:10.We might get Britain's position. But the other 27 members might save you
:07:11. > :07:15.can think what you like, but it depends what we are prepared to give
:07:16. > :07:19.you. But she has given some pretty strong indications already. If your
:07:20. > :07:22.bid to insist on taking back control of your borders and not being
:07:23. > :07:26.subject to the European court of justice, that means it cannot be in
:07:27. > :07:30.the EU single market. I hope she will say we will bring back
:07:31. > :07:34.democratic self-government, but we are still going to be European and
:07:35. > :07:41.eat French cheese and eat at Italian restaurants. The reality is we will
:07:42. > :07:49.still be Europeans. The important thing is the price of Mr Kipling
:07:50. > :07:52.cakes and Marmite is going up! By now we were supposed to have the
:07:53. > :07:59.global recession, world War three, house prices collapsing... Where we
:08:00. > :08:05.will -- when were we going to have world War three? Prime Minister at
:08:06. > :08:12.the time, who seemed oddly incapable of saying anything that was true.
:08:13. > :08:28.And last week the chairman of HSBC said we are going to see a Jenga
:08:29. > :08:32.type collapse of financial jobs. If Europe is silly enough to cut
:08:33. > :08:34.themselves off from the only financial services sector on the
:08:35. > :08:40.side of the Atlantic, it will do more damage to them than to us.
:08:41. > :08:46.Which is why it won't. I'm not sure that is what I said, but thank you!
:08:47. > :08:55.The daily Mirror. Picture of our little boy on the front page, "Five
:08:56. > :08:59.hours in a knee without a bed". -- A This is a message from this
:09:00. > :09:03.little boy's mother after her son had to wait many hours to see a
:09:04. > :09:12.doctor even though it was suspected he had meningitis. I think this
:09:13. > :09:17.illustrates something that is very stark, there is a real problem in
:09:18. > :09:20.the NHS. Apparently there are proposals from a number of people on
:09:21. > :09:25.a cross-party basis that there should be a cross-party analysis of
:09:26. > :09:28.the NHS, because there is a fiction that is going around for a lot of
:09:29. > :09:31.people on both sides of the political debate that somehow there
:09:32. > :09:36.is plenty of money, the Tories said there is plenty of money because the
:09:37. > :09:40.economy is so strong, the Labour Party say the Tories are too mean to
:09:41. > :09:44.spend the money, but in reality there is not enough money to go
:09:45. > :09:49.around. We need a fundamental look at the principles of the NHS on a
:09:50. > :09:52.cross-party basis. However, that story is a victory for Jeremy
:09:53. > :10:00.Corbyn. He raised this issue at Prime Minister's Question Time, and
:10:01. > :10:04.he raised it. Simon Stevens have been saying this, yet he woke up to
:10:05. > :10:08.headline saying that Number Ten was losing faith in him and he's had to
:10:09. > :10:12.come out and be quite explicit about the amount of money, he says there
:10:13. > :10:16.are financial pressures, and in 2018, 2019 we will have even less.
:10:17. > :10:22.In a macro but there will never be enough for the NHS, its demand is
:10:23. > :10:25.infinite. Two the Government will say we've given them all the money
:10:26. > :10:31.they've asked for, but the NHS and others will say it is still not
:10:32. > :10:35.enough. Don't taxpayers have to make a decision about whether they are
:10:36. > :10:39.prepared to pay more tax specifically for the NHS if you
:10:40. > :10:45.could ring-fenced it that way? We change the balance between the
:10:46. > :10:55.generations. There are many perks for pensions that perhaps should be
:10:56. > :11:00.saying. All we look at the option, can we really continue to afford to
:11:01. > :11:04.have by far the largest overseas aid budget in the Western world? Maybe
:11:05. > :11:08.we should look after our own first. We could talk about but a bit
:11:09. > :11:16.longer. But we haven't got time. The Financial Times, M leads UK
:11:17. > :11:20.retailers' strong season. A number of them doing very well over
:11:21. > :11:26.Christmas. Some are doing very well. The food file has been well, the web
:11:27. > :11:38.sales have been good, and some have held up very well. -- footfall.
:11:39. > :11:43.Union-macro we haven't had Brexit yet...
:11:44. > :11:51.It may be spending world because of the gloom that is over the horizon.
:11:52. > :11:55.The grey dawn of an isolated UK! A self-governing country is always
:11:56. > :11:59.good to be more prosperous, and we seem to be likely to be a more
:12:00. > :12:05.prosperous in the very short term as well. How fabulous is that? Fab --
:12:06. > :12:09.finally, scientists hunt down the switch that turns mild-mannered mice
:12:10. > :12:16.into killers. Your subject for the next two minutes is this. This is
:12:17. > :12:23.all about lasers and what happens in the brain. But what we really need
:12:24. > :12:28.to do is dashed back to tell a mild-mannered man into a killer is
:12:29. > :12:38.to tell a garden editor that exit is working! -- Guardian editor. I'm not
:12:39. > :12:44.sure what this technology is, but it's about moving your runs about.
:12:45. > :12:48.But you can switch it on and off. -- moving your runs about. You can
:12:49. > :12:57.encourage the mice to attack both animate objects and inanimate
:12:58. > :13:00.objects -- moving neurons about. It's not obvious what the practical
:13:01. > :13:08.use of this would be, but it's interesting nonetheless. The last
:13:09. > :13:18.sentence, "The production of killer zombie mice is not on the agenda".
:13:19. > :13:21.Thank heavens, we say! It does say there will be practical applications
:13:22. > :13:24.such as treating neurological diseases. The Prime Minister was
:13:25. > :13:28.talking earlier this week about mental health, if some chemical
:13:29. > :13:35.solution could be found about it, that's got to be a good thing. Will
:13:36. > :13:44.you both come back on and be on together? Yellow macro we would love
:13:45. > :13:48.to. -- we would love to. The market and the other economic edit --
:13:49. > :13:57.indicators will be turning towards... Who will have the last
:13:58. > :14:01.laugh? Will pick it up in a couple of weeks. You can see the front
:14:02. > :14:08.pages of the papers online on the BBC website.
:14:09. > :14:11.And if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it
:14:12. > :14:31.Thank you Tim Collins and Paul Johnson, and goodbye.
:14:32. > :14:32.It's a wintry night out there, some of us have seen snow, but