:00:00. > :00:08.well, 12 to 14 for Cardiff and London.
:00:09. > :00:15.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment -
:00:16. > :00:21.The Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has dismissed as "reckless" calls
:00:22. > :00:28.for him to increase spending in his first Budget on Wednesday.
:00:29. > :00:31.We are spending over ?50 billion a year on just paying
:00:32. > :00:34.the interest on our debt, more than we spend on defence
:00:35. > :00:42.The White House demands that Congress investigates
:00:43. > :00:45.whether Barack Obama ordered wire-taps on President Trump before
:00:46. > :00:51.A former director of National Intelligence denies the claims.
:00:52. > :00:54.There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the
:00:55. > :01:03.president-elect at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign.
:01:04. > :01:06.The French centre-right presidential candidate Francois Fillon says
:01:07. > :01:08.he won't withdraw his candidacy - but he admitted to
:01:09. > :01:12.misjudgements in dealing with allegations of corruption.
:01:13. > :01:15.The Iraqi army says it's close to recapturing the main government
:01:16. > :01:24.building in western Mosul from the so-called Islamic State.
:01:25. > :01:36.This week how would Jacobson, master of the art of serious but hilarious
:01:37. > :01:39.writing -- Howard. On his latest collection of newspaper writings and
:01:40. > :01:47.a fairy tale inspired by Donald Trump.
:01:48. > :01:51.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:01:52. > :01:54.With me are the Mirror columnist Susie Boniface,
:01:55. > :01:56.and the Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley.
:01:57. > :02:06.The FT, which says the Chancellor's due to unveil tax rises
:02:07. > :02:08.in Wednesday's Budget, as he looks to protect
:02:09. > :02:12.the country from "unexpected challenges" from Brexit.
:02:13. > :02:15.The Times also looks at the budget - and it pictures French presidential
:02:16. > :02:18.candidate Francois Fillon and his wife at a rally in Paris,
:02:19. > :02:21.amid calls for him to quit the race after fraud claims.
:02:22. > :02:25.The I also looks at the Budget - it says Philip Hammond has been told
:02:26. > :02:30.by doctors that the NHS needs billions of extra pounds.
:02:31. > :02:33.The NHS also makes The Telegraph - which claims more than 600 bosses
:02:34. > :02:35.are earning six-figure salaries, as the health service
:02:36. > :02:40.The Metro has a warning about the mental health
:02:41. > :02:42.of university students, reporting that suicide numbers
:02:43. > :02:49.The Express reports research claiming a Mediterranean diet
:02:50. > :02:52.of fruit, vegetables and oily fish could slash the risk
:02:53. > :02:59.The Mail has an investigation into abortions, claiming some
:03:00. > :03:04.doctors have signed them off for women they've never met.
:03:05. > :03:06.The Guardian investigates sexual harrassment and misconduct
:03:07. > :03:07.claims in universities, saying cases are at
:03:08. > :03:24.Who would like to start? We will start with the Financial Times. We
:03:25. > :03:27.are looking at the business of tax increases, something that most
:03:28. > :03:32.people, this has escaped their attention. It is a bit of a
:03:33. > :03:37.surprise. Philip Hammond's first proper budget and it is a Brexit
:03:38. > :03:41.budget. He faced a choice, he could have decided to spend and invest in
:03:42. > :03:45.infrastructure and he could have decided to cut spending and cut
:03:46. > :03:52.taxes to turbo-charge the economy, or he could do what he is doing,
:03:53. > :03:56.essentially create a nest egg to get the country through Brexit if the
:03:57. > :04:00.fiscal situation is difficult so it is more about saving money with a
:04:01. > :04:05.bit of spending on technology and science. What this means is an
:04:06. > :04:10.actual tax rise, the Treasury has declined to comment, but one option
:04:11. > :04:15.according to the Financial Times is raising the national insurance class
:04:16. > :04:22.paid by the self employed by 3p in the pound. If you bear in mind last
:04:23. > :04:26.year was a record year for start ups and many of those are self employed
:04:27. > :04:32.people, that is what has got us through the recession, people
:04:33. > :04:35.working for themselves. To punish those people with a tax rise, that
:04:36. > :04:45.seems extraordinary. Very bad judgment. Putting off entrepreneurs.
:04:46. > :04:53.Yes, but enough self employed journalists, as well. LAUGHTER
:04:54. > :04:58.We know about how it works, but most people know they have to do a harder
:04:59. > :05:03.job than we do. There are no the 5 million people in the UK who are
:05:04. > :05:06.self-employed. -- there are nearly. These are people who are plumbers
:05:07. > :05:11.and electricians, builders, many other people. To raise their
:05:12. > :05:16.national insurance rate by a certain amount, it pays into this idea that
:05:17. > :05:22.if you are paying the self-employed rate of tax you are paying less tax
:05:23. > :05:26.than someone who is PAYE. We are looking for fairness. It doesn't
:05:27. > :05:31.take into account the fact that you don't have holiday paid for and you
:05:32. > :05:33.don't have any kind of medical benefits paid for when you are
:05:34. > :05:38.self-employed and most people don't have pensions and you don't take
:05:39. > :05:43.time off or have sick pay. I have a child Bhajji and I was back at work
:05:44. > :05:49.week later. -- I had a child last year. The Chancellor feels he needs
:05:50. > :05:52.to get money from somewhere. He has to pay for a couple of things and
:05:53. > :05:56.the reason he will be spending is because of political embarrassment.
:05:57. > :06:01.He has to pay to alleviate some of the problems with small businesses
:06:02. > :06:06.who will have bubbles with the business rate hikes, most of who are
:06:07. > :06:10.conservative voters -- who will have problems. And he needs to do with
:06:11. > :06:17.the social care crisis and that has got to come from somewhere. He has
:06:18. > :06:19.got to do something, then. But to take money from people who are
:06:20. > :06:22.self-employed, to make up for those who are running small shops in
:06:23. > :06:26.central London, that is robbing Peter to pay Paul. It is not
:06:27. > :06:35.encouraging investors and drivers. It is not the right approach when
:06:36. > :06:38.you are trying to tackle Brexit, to raise taxes for those who are paying
:06:39. > :06:43.such an important role in the economy. I think that is a mistake.
:06:44. > :06:56.And now to the Daily Telegraph FrontPage. Mobile World -- mobile
:06:57. > :06:59.web revolution. This has been money which has been announced before in
:07:00. > :07:04.some instances, ?1 billion investment into Brexit proved
:07:05. > :07:12.Britain, one of the things they will try to roll out is super fast 5G. I
:07:13. > :07:17.live in a rural area and I haven't even got 3G. This is the
:07:18. > :07:28.self-employed having another problem. Exactly! If you live out of
:07:29. > :07:34.London, you need to get 3G or 4G working first. The people who would
:07:35. > :07:39.provide 5G, they are not very keen on this kind of idea. It is a
:07:40. > :07:45.difficult business. It is all very well to say roll it out. Very
:07:46. > :07:48.expensive. I don't know how you go before you hit hate, it is beyond my
:07:49. > :07:54.understanding with it comes to the internet. -- H. He's putting a lot
:07:55. > :07:58.of money into research and development in universities which
:07:59. > :08:02.ties in the announcement from yesterday, creating tea levels which
:08:03. > :08:06.are the technological and vocational version of A-levels, so clearly they
:08:07. > :08:10.are putting emphasis on vocational training and research and
:08:11. > :08:14.development. The government has also committed itself to dominating 10%
:08:15. > :08:18.of the global space market by 2030 and they are opening a new space
:08:19. > :08:26.research centre. This is very bright and bold. They will be spending ?500
:08:27. > :08:31.million on helping universities to create robots who will be deep space
:08:32. > :08:36.mining. We went been putting man interviewed others, we are going to
:08:37. > :08:44.be sending robots. -- man into the universe. We are leaving the EU and
:08:45. > :08:50.going up into space. Maybe there is a bigger market than the EU out
:08:51. > :08:56.there. People might wonder about the viability of leaving Earth what is
:08:57. > :09:05.going on. Now Donald Trump, sighing Barack Obama ordered his phone to be
:09:06. > :09:09.tapped -- saying. It is not clear what the accuser is actually talking
:09:10. > :09:16.about, the first scandal in history. Remarkable, just a couple of days,
:09:17. > :09:26.635 Saturday morning, the president said on Twitter that Obama had put a
:09:27. > :09:29.wiretap on Trump Tower. Sean Spicer said they demand that Congress
:09:30. > :09:34.investigates this accusation that his boss has made. But they won't
:09:35. > :09:41.comment on that until Congress has, which is a way of trying to wrap the
:09:42. > :09:45.thing up in one go. Donald Trump, they are being investigated for
:09:46. > :09:49.supposed contacts with Russia, and he is serious about that in he feels
:09:50. > :09:55.his agenda of fielding a wall and protecting jobs should be dominating
:09:56. > :09:58.-- building. He is trying to turn the story into a story of the
:09:59. > :10:02.establishment trying to deny him the election by wiretapping and
:10:03. > :10:11.besmirching his election. Despite the fact he won. Yes, he is fighting
:10:12. > :10:15.the election that he won. Donald Trump says many things in these
:10:16. > :10:21.comments on Twitter. When he is on the toilet, first thing. Let's not
:10:22. > :10:25.worry about the circumstances! But in this case it is probable that a
:10:26. > :10:29.committee will probably say there is no evidence, but he is counting on
:10:30. > :10:35.events having rushed past. And people having forgotten about it. He
:10:36. > :10:46.has been called the deflector in chief. By some of his opponents.
:10:47. > :10:53.Yes, and Obama does not have the power to order a wiretap on any of
:10:54. > :10:59.his citizens. They would need to be a paper trail, disable is going on.
:11:00. > :11:04.This seems to be how Donald Trump is governing, to say something mad and
:11:05. > :11:13.then to go onto the next thing. -- to show what is going on. What he
:11:14. > :11:16.says changes every day, and although we pay interest to it, and it is
:11:17. > :11:23.fascinating in its data, it doesn't help anybody cover and analyse what
:11:24. > :11:26.his presidency is doing. But it appeals to his supporters and they
:11:27. > :11:33.love it. He is speaking their language. That is important. This is
:11:34. > :11:37.a theme in conservatism that has been going on now eight years, the
:11:38. > :11:41.press, Democrats and federal agencies have colluded in a grand
:11:42. > :11:44.conspiracy to stop the advance of Conservative ideas and this is a
:11:45. > :11:50.similar accusation to the suggestion that the federal tax department
:11:51. > :11:53.targeted conservative groups under Obama, the idea that the whole
:11:54. > :11:58.constitution has been perverted and undermined by liberals. It is
:11:59. > :12:03.possible there is some truth in it, Marco Rubio said the president maybe
:12:04. > :12:08.knows things that we don't know. He's the Republican governor from
:12:09. > :12:13.Florida. But it is governing by creating a persecution complex will
:12:14. > :12:21.and eventually this will be manifest in something else. They will turn
:12:22. > :12:26.against somebody. And out of France. The front page of the Financial
:12:27. > :12:31.Times. -- now to France. Francois Fillon at a big rally in Paris. It
:12:32. > :12:38.was important that a lot of people attended and they did. What is going
:12:39. > :12:44.on? It is complex for new readers. The French political system, it has
:12:45. > :12:49.a series of run-offs, everyone comes forward and says they would like to
:12:50. > :12:56.be president, they vote and it is the last two who go into the final.
:12:57. > :12:59.At this stage Francois Fillon is the principal conservative contender but
:13:00. > :13:04.it turns out he has been paying his wife and two children, ranging for
:13:05. > :13:08.them to be paid for jobs they might not have done, via the taxpayer.
:13:09. > :13:19.That has caused a scandal forced he doesn't deny that it. -- he doesn't
:13:20. > :13:22.deny that bit. He says there is a political assassination against him,
:13:23. > :13:25.as opposed to something which any modern political debate would focus
:13:26. > :13:32.on because your wife and children have been paid for work they have
:13:33. > :13:35.not done by the taxpayer. They need a standard bearer in French politics
:13:36. > :13:40.because they have Marine Le Pen coming up on the bike hand side and
:13:41. > :13:50.Michelle Wie one on the left. -- right hand side and then we have
:13:51. > :13:55.Macron on the left-hand side. It is likely that Marine Le Pen will get
:13:56. > :13:58.to the final round, and so it is important that the right candidate
:13:59. > :14:04.makes it to the final round, as well, the one who can beat her.
:14:05. > :14:08.Francois Fillon was regarded as the candidate but now he is tainted. So
:14:09. > :14:14.who is going to run against Marine Le Pen? It could be someone like
:14:15. > :14:20.Macron, who is regarded as a Blairite, many socialists don't like
:14:21. > :14:24.him. They need a candidate who is right wing, and who can take her
:14:25. > :14:32.voters and defeat the Front National. Francois Fillon has lost a
:14:33. > :14:35.lot of support and he's quite painfully fairly unelectable, you
:14:36. > :14:41.would imagine, but if Marine Le Pen is the one who gets into the final
:14:42. > :14:44.run-off and is against Emmanuel Macron, it is likely that even
:14:45. > :14:49.conservative voters would vote with the Blairite in order to vote
:14:50. > :14:54.against her. You vote against the person you don't want to get the
:14:55. > :14:56.job, fundamentally, in France, so the Conservatives are pushing
:14:57. > :15:02.Francois Fillon to go through because they don't want Macron to go
:15:03. > :15:07.through. It is a long game of chess. Our politics is a bit mild, I
:15:08. > :15:13.suppose, but the Daily Telegraph has a story about Jeremy Corbyn, under
:15:14. > :15:19.attack from his own side, but this is about his tax returns. Reportedly
:15:20. > :15:23.he released his tax returns to put pressure on the government when it
:15:24. > :15:27.comes to the issue of tax, but it is suggested not all of his income has
:15:28. > :15:31.been declared on his tax returns. It looks as though his income as an MP
:15:32. > :15:35.has been and his pensions and everything else but not his income
:15:36. > :15:40.as leader of the Labour Party which is entitled to. This is probably a
:15:41. > :15:49.clerical error. How much does he get? ?40,000, and that should be
:15:50. > :15:52.declared. No one is suggesting he is dodging anything, but this is a
:15:53. > :15:55.political case of shooting yourself in the foot. It was a stunt too
:15:56. > :16:01.embarrassed the government but instead it has embarrassed him.
:16:02. > :16:06.People say Jeremy Corbyn is always attacked by the media, and maybe
:16:07. > :16:10.they have a good point, but when they said that he has not declared
:16:11. > :16:14.his own income properly in this tax return, that is outrageous. It is
:16:15. > :16:20.not just a piece of paper where he has missed something off, this is
:16:21. > :16:26.his actual tax return. Oh right, we get into trouble if we do that.
:16:27. > :16:29.Exactly. He has been taxed at source for that money and he did take it,
:16:30. > :16:34.but he did not put that on his declaration. That is an oversight,
:16:35. > :16:38.but someone should have checked his tax return before it went out. There
:16:39. > :16:44.has been incompetence, but aside from all that, his income includes
:16:45. > :16:51.?77,000 basic MP salary and also ?36,000 in pensions income. He is
:16:52. > :16:57.entitled because he is over 65 to draw a pension for that job, but as
:16:58. > :17:01.Leader of the Opposition and someone who is talking about wealthy members
:17:02. > :17:05.of society who should be maybe not take the benefits they are entitled
:17:06. > :17:12.to, like free TV licences, winter fuel payments, why is he taking the
:17:13. > :17:18.?36,000 pension? It is not like he is a poor man, he already has
:17:19. > :17:24.?118,000 income without it. Is that not enough for him? What is he
:17:25. > :17:32.spending his money on? Drink? We will leave it there. Thanks for now.
:17:33. > :17:37.You will both be back for another look at the front pages at 1130.
:17:38. > :17:44.Coming up next it's time for Meet the Author.
:17:45. > :17:49.Howard Jacobson is a master of the art of serious fiction