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:00:00. > :00:00.Coming up, song, dance and romance in La La Land. Could this be one of

:00:00. > :00:00.the big Oscar winners? We will get Mark Kermode's verdict in the Film

:00:07. > :00:14.Review. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:15. > :00:18.to what the papers will be With me are Rowena Mason,

:00:19. > :00:22.deputy political editor for the Guardian, and Jim Waterson,

:00:23. > :00:24.political editor of BuzzFeed. Tomorrow's front pages:

:00:25. > :00:29.The Financial Times focuses on the Government's approach

:00:30. > :00:32.to Brexit, ahead of the speech It says ministers are adopting

:00:33. > :00:45.an increasingly pragmatic stance. The Daily Express says Mrs May's

:00:46. > :00:48.vision will completely free Britain, once and for all,

:00:49. > :00:50.from Brussels rule. The Metro highlights

:00:51. > :00:51.the Chancellor's suggestion that Britain could become a tax haven

:00:52. > :00:54.if it is denied access The Times says US President-elect

:00:55. > :00:58.Donald Trump will offer Britain a trade deal within weeks of taking

:00:59. > :01:01.office, to help make Brexit The Telegraph has the same story,

:01:02. > :01:08.adding that Trump plans to invite Theresa May to the White House

:01:09. > :01:11.as soon as he is sworn in. The Guardian reports on the warning

:01:12. > :01:15.by the outgoing head of the CIA that Mr Trump must adopt

:01:16. > :01:17.a more careful approach The Daily Mirror reports that

:01:18. > :01:23.Jeremy Hunt will earn millions of pounds from the sale

:01:24. > :01:26.of an education website he co-owns, although he can't take the money

:01:27. > :01:30.at the moment as a serving Health And the Daily Mail has the story

:01:31. > :01:50.of a Nigerian woman who flew So let us begin. Let's go to this

:01:51. > :01:54.story in the Times. Quite an extraordinary story, an

:01:55. > :01:58.extraordinary front page it makes. A couple of people doing interviews

:01:59. > :02:05.and one familiar name, Michael Gove, who used to work for the Times at

:02:06. > :02:11.the leading Brexiteer, and someone called Oliver Wright. It is a

:02:12. > :02:15.remarkable interview, and you see Michael Gove quite obviously

:02:16. > :02:18.blurring the boundaries between journalists, politicians and

:02:19. > :02:24.campaigner. In the top line that the Times has picked out is that Donald

:02:25. > :02:28.Trump has said that he wants to do a fair trade deal with the UK almost

:02:29. > :02:35.as soon as he takes office, and that will help make Brexit a great thing.

:02:36. > :02:38.That is a really, really interesting line for a domestic audience, but

:02:39. > :02:43.possibly even more than that globally is this confirmation that

:02:44. > :02:48.he will try to seek nuclear weapons reduction deal with Russia's

:02:49. > :02:52.President Putin, in return for lifting US sanctions. That is a

:02:53. > :02:57.really significant diplomatic development, if he manages to pull

:02:58. > :03:02.that off. What we get here is such a spread of things. You mentioned two,

:03:03. > :03:06.there are more in this piece. There are so many that you can't put them

:03:07. > :03:13.all on the front page of the newspaper. There is the fact that he

:03:14. > :03:18.wants his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to find peace in the Middle East. He

:03:19. > :03:22.basically dismisses NATO as a spent force and wonders what its purpose

:03:23. > :03:26.is, along with the purpose of the EU. In the space of one hour-long

:03:27. > :03:31.conversation with Michael Gove he sets off several diplomatic problems

:03:32. > :03:35.which will now take a very long time for people to decode. I do sometimes

:03:36. > :03:40.wonder whether he is actually going to follow through on some of things

:03:41. > :03:44.that he says. When you see him saying I feel this way, is there in

:03:45. > :03:49.any thought behind it, is it calculated, or is it something that

:03:50. > :03:53.has just come into his head at this particular moment in time? He is

:03:54. > :03:56.pretty rude about Angela Merkel, saying she made a catastrophic

:03:57. > :04:01.mistake when she let 1 million migrants into Germany, but he goes

:04:02. > :04:08.on talking about her in warmer terms. Yes, slightly contradictory,

:04:09. > :04:12.as we have come to expect from Mr Trump. He says that Angela Merkel

:04:13. > :04:16.made a catastrophic mistake by leading refugees into Europe and he

:04:17. > :04:19.goes on to make some predictions about how this could cause the

:04:20. > :04:24.disintegration of the EU, and then he says he is going to start off by

:04:25. > :04:28.trusting her, even though that might not last very long. A little sting

:04:29. > :04:32.in the tail of that one. The same with Putin. He is saying he wants to

:04:33. > :04:38.do this deal with him, and then saying he will trust him for now,

:04:39. > :04:42.but potentially not forever. All the newspapers are going to scramble to

:04:43. > :04:48.catch up with this, of course. And the Telegraph has to give the Times

:04:49. > :04:53.the credit, but they point out the line about making Brexit a great

:04:54. > :04:58.thing. A great thing for who is what I want to know. Some of the guys on

:04:59. > :05:01.the US side I talked to recently said they are slightly less positive

:05:02. > :05:05.about the deal Britain will get from the trade deal with the US. They

:05:06. > :05:11.said everything will be on the table, things like pharma and

:05:12. > :05:15.agriculture, which were big, big things went Ttip was going through,

:05:16. > :05:19.ultimately scuppered by Mr Trump. They say Britain is going to really

:05:20. > :05:22.struggle with this one but journalistically what is interesting

:05:23. > :05:27.is that the Telegraph recognised that the Times front page is so good

:05:28. > :05:30.that they basically have to run it in full. Newspapers hate doing that

:05:31. > :05:34.unless they really have to. The other thing about the trade deal is

:05:35. > :05:37.that Obama said we would be at the back of the queue, so for reporters

:05:38. > :05:41.in newspapers like the Telegraph, this is a vindication of their point

:05:42. > :05:45.of view, the point of view from the Leave campaign is that Brexit would

:05:46. > :05:50.lead to trade deal and we would not miss out as a country. Very quickly,

:05:51. > :05:55.it is such a bizarre situation we're in, 12 months ago Donald Trump was

:05:56. > :05:59.not ahead in the polls on the primaries, he was still seen as joke

:06:00. > :06:02.candidate, David Cameron was secure as Prime Minister and going around

:06:03. > :06:06.Europe getting a renegotiated deal and the EU referendum was a long way

:06:07. > :06:12.off. It is absolutely mad. We stick with Brexit, let's go to the Daily

:06:13. > :06:16.Express but this is very much a domestic situation. Who starts us

:06:17. > :06:21.off? Theresa May due to make a big statement on Tuesday, everybody

:06:22. > :06:26.hoping for as I said before flashed on the bones of this thing. What has

:06:27. > :06:31.the express got to say? The Daily Express are probably the most pro-

:06:32. > :06:35.Brexit newspaper and its headline is thumbs up for Theresa May's Brexit

:06:36. > :06:39.plans. That is a signal that Brexiteers are going to be very

:06:40. > :06:43.pleased with what she has got to say, which we think is going to be

:06:44. > :06:47.that she wants to... She wants a clean Brexit. In order to achieve

:06:48. > :06:51.immigration controls she is willing to take us out of the single market,

:06:52. > :06:57.and we think also out of the customs union. At the same time we still

:06:58. > :07:00.want access to the single market. So we have also seen this weekend

:07:01. > :07:04.Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, out there saying well, unless you give

:07:05. > :07:10.us some access to the single market we would be prepared to potentially

:07:11. > :07:16.change economic model. That is code for cutting taxes, something which

:07:17. > :07:21.might frighten the rest of the EU. Encouraging them to come to the UK

:07:22. > :07:24.rather than other parts of Europe, absolutely. Interesting. I think the

:07:25. > :07:28.thing with the Express which intrigues me at the moment is that

:07:29. > :07:33.at the moment Theresa May has all the pro- Brexit newspapers behind

:07:34. > :07:37.them, the media on the whole are behind her, and she will keep that

:07:38. > :07:42.as long as she can keep proving that she is getting a proper Brexit. The

:07:43. > :07:45.moment the editors of the express and the Daily Mail start to see some

:07:46. > :07:50.give or some compromise, you could see the tone change. There'll be a

:07:51. > :07:54.lot of media influence in terms of what she is willing to compromise on

:07:55. > :08:01.and how hard she is going push it. That phrase Brexit means Brexit, do

:08:02. > :08:05.you think she will avoid that on Tuesday? I think she will need to

:08:06. > :08:09.give us a little bit more, but I think single market membership is

:08:10. > :08:13.probably for the chop. The Guardian, and it is your newspaper so you

:08:14. > :08:17.should probably tell us about this. This goes back to Donald Trump but a

:08:18. > :08:22.domestic thing for the Americans. This is the CIA getting involved.

:08:23. > :08:31.What are they say? This is the departing director of the CIA, John

:08:32. > :08:35.Brennan, who has issued a message to Donald Trump saying he should be

:08:36. > :08:39.more circumspect when tweeting, often in the early hours of the

:08:40. > :08:43.morning, his thoughts on anything and everything. Whether Donald Trump

:08:44. > :08:49.will listen to this chap remains to be seen. I think it incredibly

:08:50. > :08:54.unlikely. Intelligence agents are not exactly his favourite people. Is

:08:55. > :08:58.the outgoing? I think he is still in the job at the moment. Donald Trump

:08:59. > :09:02.in the Times interview in another section said he loves his Twitter

:09:03. > :09:06.account because as soon as he tweets anything all of the TV stations and

:09:07. > :09:13.the media rush to cover it. This headline reminds me of those

:09:14. > :09:19.careless talk costs lives posters from World War Two. Doesn't cost Mr

:09:20. > :09:24.Trump anything from his supporters. They go on loving him just the same.

:09:25. > :09:28.No, his team don't necessarily know what he is going to send out, he

:09:29. > :09:33.still has a mobile phone which he just stands out tweet, his random

:09:34. > :09:36.thoughts, he wakes up and sends out stuff that changes diplomatic

:09:37. > :09:42.positions and moves markets, no one in his team even has cited. Your

:09:43. > :09:47.organisation, in the modern way of disseminating news, is nice and

:09:48. > :09:52.small. A few words, you say it, it is irresistible. As a cynical

:09:53. > :09:58.product, it is absolutely brilliant. Everyone wants to hear about it, it

:09:59. > :10:02.is funny, rude, it gives you an emotional reaction, his tweets.

:10:03. > :10:07.Every is talking about them, whether they are on his side or not --

:10:08. > :10:12.everybody is talking about them. You can dominate the news cycle by

:10:13. > :10:23.sending out 140 characters when he wakes up. Brennan is stepping down

:10:24. > :10:27.so he can say things. He refers to Trump 's tweets about Nazi Germany.

:10:28. > :10:31.The insults are pretty nasty, aren't they? Yes, and he was pretty upset

:10:32. > :10:37.at the time about this controversial dossier that said various salacious

:10:38. > :10:40.things about Donald Trump that were supposedly written by a former

:10:41. > :10:47.British intelligence officer. And that caused a huge scandal last

:10:48. > :10:50.week. So I think it would have been a very emotional reaction to the

:10:51. > :10:55.things which were said about him in that dossier. Let's go on now to

:10:56. > :10:59.something which isn't about Donald Trump or Brexit, not directly,

:11:00. > :11:04.anyway. The Daily Mail, health tourism which is a subject they go

:11:05. > :11:06.for a big way. What is this particular story about? It is all

:11:07. > :11:10.about... Through Freedom of Information requests they have

:11:11. > :11:17.looked for the costs of maternity care for mothers who have flown into

:11:18. > :11:21.Britain or in some way ended up in Britain, despite being foreign

:11:22. > :11:26.nationals, and then gone back home having not paid their bills because,

:11:27. > :11:30.you know, they are not entitled to NHS care and yet they have left the

:11:31. > :11:35.hospitals with bills. The thing that intrigues me with this is that it is

:11:36. > :11:39.quite hard to argue on an individual case about the details on it, and it

:11:40. > :11:43.is also very hard to know, in isolation it is hard to justify.

:11:44. > :11:48.There are often circumstances... This is about one particular case of

:11:49. > :11:53.the ?350,000 bill, the person is not named. We don't have a context

:11:54. > :11:56.all-white has happened although the Daily Mail is certainly putting a

:11:57. > :11:59.context with previous cases where mothers have seemingly flown in to

:12:00. > :12:05.take advantage of superior healthcare in some respect. And as

:12:06. > :12:09.the paper says inside it, this all comes as... Journalists love to link

:12:10. > :12:14.these things up, we do have the story today about cancer operations

:12:15. > :12:18.being postponed. So it has managed to be blended in with the state of

:12:19. > :12:23.health service, the crisis in the health service. The NHS is under

:12:24. > :12:27.what are saying is unprecedented pressure at the moment and it is a

:12:28. > :12:33.little bit strange to me that the Mail is highlighting this particular

:12:34. > :12:36.problem so much when there are a lot of other things causing greater

:12:37. > :12:44.pressure on the NHS. As identified by doctors, cuts to social care, the

:12:45. > :12:49.ageing population, to name but two. They do go on inside, it has to be

:12:50. > :12:53.said, to go through a lot of the other issues as well. What is quite

:12:54. > :13:03.clever, I think, to give the Daily Mail bit of credit, what it could

:13:04. > :13:07.pay for, ?350,000. A good example of journalist digging in.

:13:08. > :13:11.Journalistically, you can imagine people talking about this down at

:13:12. > :13:16.the pub. It is a really good talking story, so there is an element of

:13:17. > :13:21.that. It is more influential than talking about billions of pounds in

:13:22. > :13:26.cuts to social care. Very quickly, I can't resist this. I don't know if

:13:27. > :13:30.either of you are dog lovers, but there is a story on the Daily

:13:31. > :13:34.Telegraph, the Queen's new role as a helpful dog walker. I'm not sure

:13:35. > :13:38.whether it is a Telegraph scoop or whether they have managed to confirm

:13:39. > :13:42.somebody else's world exclusive, but what is saying is that Her Majesty

:13:43. > :13:49.has spent last two years quietly acting as a dog walker for her

:13:50. > :13:53.former gamekeeper. His late wife was known as the keeper of the corgis,

:13:54. > :13:57.and presumably she died and so the Queen has got into the dog walking

:13:58. > :14:01.business. Another little nugget in here is that she is considering

:14:02. > :14:05.taking on two more dogs, having said that the current ones would be her

:14:06. > :14:10.last. What a thing to do when you are 90 years old. In a world of

:14:11. > :14:13.chaos, Brexit, Donald Trump, the Queen is walking some dogs. It is

:14:14. > :14:16.reassuring. It is, I like it anyway.