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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the economics

commentator and author,

Dharshini David, and the Home

Affairs Editor of the London Evening

Standard, Martin Bentham.

Good to see you, thank you for

coming in. Let's have a look at the

front pages in brief before we

discuss them.

The Financial Times leads

with the Catalonia independence

crisis which goes on as the region's

government prepares

for its first day under

direct rule by Madrid.

The Metro says pressure

is being put on the Prime

Minister to reveal anything

she knows about alleged sexual

harassment in Westminster.

The Telegraph is leading

with the same story.

It says Theresa May will sack

any Cabinet ministers

if they are proven to have carried

out inappropriate behaviour.

The Times has the same story as well

as a picture of newly crowned

Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton.

Catalonia still gracing many front

pages. Still fascinating and

astonishing and perhaps a sign of

The Times, the FT leading with the

story, the first day of direct

Catalonian rule putting Madrid to

the test and also Catalonian is to

the test and also Catalonian is to

the test.

the test and also Catalonian is to

the test.

Things ramping up day by day and it

is not going away by any means and

it could be a very tense week.

It

depends how that was imposed. While

many countries including the UK

don't recognise independence they

have expressed concern about

possible unrest.

The problem is that

if Madrid, which I think has handled

this very badly by roughing up

people on the day of the election in

an appalling fashion, they have just

hardened the opinion of those who

were in favour of independence and

probably discouraged people from

agreeing with them, this must have

pushed people into the separatist

camp. By calling elections in eight

weeks' time, and the newspaper makes

the point that perhaps the first

sensible thing Mariano Rajoy has

done is perhaps wrong footing the

separatists a bit, he's the Prime

Minister of Spain, now they have to

concentrate on winning the election,

or whether to oppose direct rule, so

altering their focus. There is an

election to come theoretically in

eight weeks.

RAM error high is a man who likes to

do things properly, he likes to

channel things through the normal

formal wear dashed Mariano Rajoy. He

doesn't want this as much as anyone

else.

He hasn't faced a test like

this before. This is quite a gamble,

trying to split the Independence

parties.

And it is not clear if

people in Catalonia do want

independence. But those who do, if

response to it is to browbeat that

won't work in the long run, the

Spanish authorities need to try to

convince the population of Catalonia

that it is in the interests to

remain part of Spain. It may well be

but they need to convince them and

the Catalonian Snead to believe

that. You cannot just force them in

the long term just by pure weight of

military power -- the Catalonian

people need to believe that.

As we

saw with the referendum it may

backfire. Not a day goes by when

we're not talking about sexual

harassment in some institutions

somewhere, especially in the and

America, which is a bad thing but it

is a good thing that we are talking

about it, women are getting a voice,

this pressure now on Theresa May,

the front page of the Metro, the No

10 sleaze briefings, pressure on

her.

In some ways I feel for her

because clearly this kind of sleaze,

if going on in Westminster is

probably going on up and down the

country. She has denied it, these

briefings are taking place in

Downing Street, on the other hand

the Daily Telegraph reports that she

says she will sack any sex pest

ministers and the mother and much

more allegations doing the rounds

tonight once again. An unusual

situation when it comes to the ways

that MPs are...

It does perhaps

reflect society, and the way it has

been the too long but if it is

taking place in the corridors of

power it is no surprise it is

happening across the country...

Of

course people in positions of

authority, elected representatives

and so on should at least be setting

a good example, and leading, so they

need to set a bad example. The story

in the Telegraph about how she's

going to sack any ministers who have

carried out sexual harassment and so

on, the headline sounds impressive,

it depends what the evidence is,

there may be a long gap, but some

people would admit it, like Mark

Garnier, not harassment but one

incident, his secretary being sent

to baby sex toys which he suggests

was nothing to do with harassment,

at least he admitted he had done

that. But in of serious harassment

and sexual assault may turn out to

be alleged, unless somebody is

actually proved to do it, and those

allegations can be substantiated

which will take some doing,

potentially, and maybe some time

before we see sackings.

Indeed.

We

to remind ourselves, that these

allegations are not verified. They

need investigating.

Some may be

consensual affairs, quite different

to some of the other allegations we

have been talking about.

The good

thing with that ultimately will be

because the exposure of this is a

problem, as you alluded to at the

start, if proper channels can be up

and up so that victims of this type

of thing find a way that they can

talk in confidence to parliamentary

authorities, the system will be

setup to up those concerns, and

raise them publicly, then the people

carrying out these things, the

public shame will ultimately result

in them not carrying on for very

long and also potentially stop

people digressing in that way in the

future, hopefully.

You would hope so

but we were saying earlier that this

has come as a surprise in 2017

thinking that things like this are

going on in offices where you work.

The Daily Telegraph alleging that

some of these allegations affect

cabinet ministers so it's going

right to the very top.

And you would

very much hope that bringing it into

the public arena might change

things.

Let's stick with the Daily

Telegraph. Another story, Hammond -

getting tough on the NHS. Not the

first time.

He's in a bind. The NHS

has rising costs, rising demands.

This big financial pressure on it

immediately. Staff have been pressed

in terms of pay for a long time.

The

images says, we will implode if we

don't get more funding. It is a war

of words -- the NHS says this.

This

is a crucial issue because firstly

we have seen a pay freeze and the

public sector affecting NHS workers.

We know there is a huge problem with

recruitment and retention, and if

you start to give them pay rises you

set a precedent and you end up with

a bill of billions of pounds.

And

when they talk about it potentially

imploding, money is needed for

medicines, facilities and so on. Pay

is only part of the extra cost. All

the other aspects that need funding,

what Philip Hammond is trying to do

is balancing the books, his problem

is, saying, if you are going to find

more money to pay for better

treatments, we can't spend it all on

pay, that is his dilemma.

It's not

just the budget coming up, it's

winter. It is this time of the year.

When I saw this on the front page of

the Guardian I thought, move on,

Gordon, we have. Gordon Brown saying

he didn't show enough emotion to an

election. He must have a book coming

out.

I was with David Cameron do

think that 2010 election and what

was striking them was the fact that

it wasn't so much substance as

charisma that one of the voters on

the campaign Trail, that resonated

with Gordon Brown and he looks back.

Personality increasingly as

important as policy.

I agree and

disagree in the sense that I don't

think it was lost the election, it

was the financial crisis and if the

Tories would have done any better or

not if they had been in power, the

fact was that people thought that

there was this calamity, that

Labour, George, had mismanaged the

economic success which they had had,

and immigration was perceived by a

lot of people as too high. On the

other hand he is right that it

shouldn't just be about personality

and if someone is good and competent

even if they are not the most

flamboyant character, if they are

good we should vote for them and you

would want them to lead the country

will be the person in charge of your

country.

It does seem a bit strange,

this was two years after the

financial crisis, that he isn't

saying, I wish I'd handled the

financial crisis differently and

then perhaps I would have won the

election.

The other problem is a

classic politician's thing, we

didn't communicate the message was

the fail, not that the message

itself was...

Just a couple of

minutes, let's give one minute each

to the next two pages to talk about

these stories. The Daily Express,

stayed married to a halt to manager.

Close relationship reduces risk by

60%. The latest advice on how to

stay healthy.

That's just keeping a

mad active because you have to deal

with your other half! -- keeping

your mind active.

And what kind of

relationship? That can cover a range

of things. Is this correlation of

causality. Is that the fact that if

you stay in a relationship you are

less likely to develop dementia or

was it just the case that it's some

kind of coincidence?

I think you're

right, it's about keeping the mind

active. That is what we are all

told. Let's finish on a feel-good

story. Back to the Metro. Not just

leading, featuring a great

photograph of Lewis Hamilton, who is

now the most successful British

Grand Prix Formula 1 racer ever. I

saw an interview with him on TV

earlier today. He's pretty humble

about this. He was speaking before

the win but knew that he was close.

And he is humble about it. He's

overawed.

It is a great achievement.

This year there have been seasons

where the car is dominant and maybe

hasn't been as hard as it might have

been, this season is more often even

battle between him and Vettel. He's

triumphed in style.

Nice to see that

on a day that we are discussing

sleaze and Catalonia, a great story

to have.

The express calling him

King Lewis the fourth. He's got a

lot to be happy about and we have a

lot to be happy about for him and it

isn't over yet. He's still so young.

He started young, I forget how old

he was when he won it for the first

time, he was very young then.

Samaj

ahead of him.

Martin, Dharshini,

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