0:00:00 > 0:00:04That is all the sport. Now it is time for the papers.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Welcome to our look at what the papers are bringing us today.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24With me are Katy Balls, the political correspondent
0:00:24 > 0:00:28at the Spectator, and the journalist, James Rampton.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33The Observer leads on the situation in Zimbabwe, with a picture of one
0:00:33 > 0:00:36of the thousands of anti-Mugabe demonstrators that lines the streets
0:00:36 > 0:00:39of Harare yesterday.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The Mail on Sunday reports on an apparent altercation
0:00:42 > 0:00:44between two Labour MPs in the Commons chamber.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48The Sunday Express claims that in Wednesday's Budget,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50the Chancellor will announce support for Britain's tech industry,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52which could mean we'll have driverless cars
0:00:52 > 0:00:54on our roads by 2021.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58The Sunday Telegraph also leads on a pre-Budget announcement,
0:00:58 > 0:01:01reporting that nurses are in line for a pay rise.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04And The Sunday Times says that the Chancellor will use
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Wednesday's budget to announce plans to build 300,000 homes every year
0:01:09 > 0:01:14So let's begin...
0:01:14 > 0:01:22Katie, do you want to kick off?Yes, it is the budget on Wednesday. We
0:01:22 > 0:01:27are all terribly excited. The Tories are more worried about. They try to
0:01:27 > 0:01:31trail it with the weekend papers. There appears to be good news.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Nurses will finally get a pay rise. The article does not say how big
0:01:35 > 0:01:42that pay rise will be. Presumably it will be a real terms pay rise.They
0:01:42 > 0:01:47want 3.9%?Yes. If it is less, there would be a big backlash. A change of
0:01:47 > 0:01:53June for Philip Hammond, who, a few grow months ago, said public sector
0:01:53 > 0:01:58workers were overpaid. He appears to be adopting a softer approach in a
0:01:58 > 0:02:05bid to win back voters from Labour. He has got a tricky job?He has. He
0:02:05 > 0:02:09has got 20 different ministers coming to him saying, my department
0:02:09 > 0:02:12is most important. I have got three children and they all want money and
0:02:12 > 0:02:22their claims are most important.Not billions? L!No. He has an
0:02:22 > 0:02:28impossible job. He cannot meet all their needs. Defence and housing on
0:02:28 > 0:02:32the agenda. The thing that is concentrating his mind is the threat
0:02:32 > 0:02:35of winter strikes. The winter is always a grim period for the NHS. We
0:02:35 > 0:02:43get stories about terrible pictures of people on trolleys in A&E. It
0:02:43 > 0:02:48becomes a real political hot potato. If he can mitigate against that of
0:02:48 > 0:02:58it by announcing an actual pay rise for nurses, he will avoid a
0:02:58 > 0:03:02difficult winter for the NHS.The Health Secretary would have been
0:03:02 > 0:03:05asking for that. Sajid Javid was asking for deeds, not action, when
0:03:05 > 0:03:11it comes to housing. There is a story about housing?Yes, Sajid
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Javid putting a lot of pressure on the John Torode to do something
0:03:14 > 0:03:21about housing. He has come up with something. They pledge for 300,000
0:03:21 > 0:03:31homes a year. I think the question really is, is this radical enough? A
0:03:31 > 0:03:36lot of people even in the party, never mind the country, probably
0:03:36 > 0:03:40want a higher number. The government are trying to be realistic. We see
0:03:40 > 0:03:42government after government saying they will do something about housing
0:03:42 > 0:03:47but never quite meet their targets. To do this they will try to
0:03:47 > 0:03:49different things. Easing planning laws. And also finding more money
0:03:49 > 0:04:02for it. But again, Sajid Javid has wanted them to borrow to the hilt.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Every government wants to stand up and say, we solve the housing
0:04:06 > 0:04:12crisis. Easier said than done, isn't it?Absolutely. The vast majority of
0:04:12 > 0:04:15young people voted for Corbyn in the summer. Young people are struggling
0:04:15 > 0:04:20in the housing crisis. One interesting stat is there are 200
0:04:20 > 0:04:21zombie thousand and build residential planning permissions in
0:04:21 > 0:04:28London alone. If you can find a legal mechanism for activating those
0:04:28 > 0:04:33planning permissions, it would make a huge addition to the housing
0:04:33 > 0:04:37crisis in London. He has some legal mechanisms he wants to install as
0:04:37 > 0:04:40well as injecting money. It is vital. The next generation is
0:04:40 > 0:04:49struggling.It is a real problem. Inevitably if you give to young
0:04:49 > 0:04:53people you are annoying older voters?Yes. It is difficult. I
0:04:53 > 0:04:58still around but I think that is one of the things you can do. We saw
0:04:58 > 0:05:03Sajid Javid with the younger voters, trying to appeal to them this week.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06He said, despite your thoughts in the papers, the fact you cannot get
0:05:06 > 0:05:14on the housing ladder is not because you eat too much avocado on toast.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19There is a perception that us millennials data go on holiday now
0:05:19 > 0:05:25and then and we drink too much per second. And actually, if you are
0:05:25 > 0:05:27saving for the deposit, it does seem near impossible. I don't see how
0:05:27 > 0:05:32you're supposed to get there. Anything they can do will help them
0:05:32 > 0:05:36with younger voters, and help them to stay in power. The younger voters
0:05:36 > 0:05:41will become the main voters. The Tories do well when you have
0:05:41 > 0:05:45property owners. They don't do well when you don't.They have to be
0:05:45 > 0:05:50decent properties as well?They have.There has been quite a bit in
0:05:50 > 0:05:54the press about problems with new-build housing. You need to build
0:05:54 > 0:05:58the houses but they have to be fit for purpose?UC garages in some
0:05:58 > 0:06:06parts of London going further insane money. -- you see. You can't
0:06:06 > 0:06:09alienate the older voter. The older voter traditionally votes heavily
0:06:09 > 0:06:15for the Tories. If there is an element of so-called NIMBY is here,
0:06:15 > 0:06:22house honours, house honours worried about their green belt land, he is
0:06:22 > 0:06:25in danger of alienating the very people who are is core voters. That
0:06:25 > 0:06:34is a real difficulty.And he is Prime Minister potentially?Yes. If
0:06:34 > 0:06:39they were speaking, maybe they could sort it out!Theresa May would not
0:06:39 > 0:06:44want to upset her constituents by doing too much. That is the
0:06:44 > 0:06:48opposition Hammond will have to face.Maidenhead hasn't changed
0:06:48 > 0:06:53forever those years and it won't because it is sort of set in stone.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58That is true. That will focus Mr Hammond's mind.He is looking
0:06:58 > 0:07:03towards younger voters. That in terms of tech, there will be
0:07:03 > 0:07:10investment in technology that will probably appeal to your people?!
0:07:10 > 0:07:19Yeah.The avocado generation. I don't trust them. They look
0:07:19 > 0:07:26suspicious to me. That defines me as an old person!We haven't got to the
0:07:26 > 0:07:32point of an avocado tax yet, so that is OK. He is announcing in the
0:07:32 > 0:07:35express the money they are going to put into technology to make sure
0:07:35 > 0:07:40that Britain is ahead in those industries. The thing that is kind
0:07:40 > 0:07:44of catching everybody's attention is the Hope to have driverless cars by
0:07:44 > 0:07:532021. -- is the pledge. Making sure Britain leads the way. It is quite
0:07:53 > 0:07:57hard. Electric cars, we have been hearing for so long they were going
0:07:57 > 0:08:02to be the main car.It takes a little bit more to get my head
0:08:02 > 0:08:06around driverless cars.Even electricals, it has taken so long to
0:08:06 > 0:08:13get there. Driverless cars is like a big step forward. If we are now
0:08:13 > 0:08:17getting to the point where electric cars might reach our target, it is
0:08:17 > 0:08:25hard to see how driverless cars will be ready. I believe in 2050 will be
0:08:25 > 0:08:36like, we're nearly there.Jeremy Clarkson has questioned them and I
0:08:36 > 0:08:41absolutely agree with him. I agree with Jeremy Clarkson! My name is
0:08:41 > 0:08:45James Rampton and I must confess that I agree with Jeremy Clarkson!
0:08:45 > 0:08:53He says that he has twice test driven, or sat there on the M4 in a
0:08:53 > 0:08:57driverless car, and he claims both times the car made a huge mistake
0:08:57 > 0:09:03which he had to rest -- rectify.It could have been fatal.Did he
0:09:03 > 0:09:07programme it? If it was programmed by Clarkson himself, it would've
0:09:07 > 0:09:14been like De Jim Carr! He is to the head of oldie, if you can drive this
0:09:14 > 0:09:18car over a death road in Bolivia, will buy one. Sit there with your
0:09:18 > 0:09:22hands folded and let it drive you there with half the tyrant hanging
0:09:22 > 0:09:28over 1000 foot drop...It sounds like a good feature for his
0:09:28 > 0:09:39programme?He has written quite a good piece about it in the magazine.
0:09:39 > 0:09:45Potentially exciting along that Cliff Road.They trailed this in Las
0:09:45 > 0:09:50Vegas and within two hours it had been involved in a crash. They
0:09:50 > 0:09:56blamed a human being. But you do have to wonder.I always say to
0:09:56 > 0:09:59people who are raving about the joys of technology, have you seen the
0:09:59 > 0:10:06terminator? It is a very prescient fable about the CIA and the Pentagon
0:10:06 > 0:10:09investing all the money in a computer which eventually takes over
0:10:09 > 0:10:15the world. It destroys the human race. I think there is a real...
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Stephen Hawking has said it is the biggest threat to humanity,
0:10:18 > 0:10:24artificial intelligence. There is a real danger we become so seduced by
0:10:24 > 0:10:27this that we forget about the human element and we forget that
0:10:27 > 0:10:32ultimately it must be human beings in charge or we are abrogating
0:10:32 > 0:10:37responsibility to human beings. Let's look at the Observer. Is that
0:10:37 > 0:10:46right? Yes. Robert Maghaberry. -- Robert Maghaberry. Things moving on
0:10:46 > 0:10:53swiftly in Zimbabwe?We have the beginnings of a soft coup in the
0:10:53 > 0:10:58week. It was very calm. On the streets when we worked out that
0:10:58 > 0:11:03McGarvey was to be overthrown, there was no panic. Now it is stepping up
0:11:03 > 0:11:08a gear. It now seems like the crowds are ready for him to go. They are
0:11:08 > 0:11:13beginning to celebrate. If he doesn't chose to go, police believe,
0:11:13 > 0:11:19it could take a turn for the worst This is an extraordinary picture on
0:11:19 > 0:11:29the front of the Observer.This woman on the grounds where Mugabe...
0:11:29 > 0:11:36She is now standing there in a hat, hash tag, stepped down. This idea
0:11:36 > 0:11:41that it has united all generations of society. There is a woman quoted
0:11:41 > 0:11:46in The Sunday Times whose husband was a farmer who was beaten up by
0:11:46 > 0:11:51war veterans. She has been quoted as saying, welcome to the happiest day
0:11:51 > 0:11:57of our lives. I am 67 and my kids say I am acting like I am 17. She is
0:11:57 > 0:12:02so delighted. The war veterans are behind this overthrow, and the
0:12:02 > 0:12:06military, and the tiny proportion of white farmers still there. It shows
0:12:06 > 0:12:09the way in which for the first time in his life he has united people
0:12:09 > 0:12:13with his departure.We will move on because we will have more on
0:12:13 > 0:12:20Zimbabwe through the morning. Page 13 of the Sunday Telegraph, my
0:12:20 > 0:12:27personal favourite story.On News at ten we used to end with a
0:12:27 > 0:12:31skateboarding dog. Now we have a scooter in Monk.Henry Wadsworth,
0:12:31 > 0:12:4283-year-olds.The poor monks of Ampleforth have lived in relative
0:12:42 > 0:12:48misery. They have leaky rooms. Their windows don't shut properly. The
0:12:48 > 0:12:52pipes make a dreadful noise. They have to queue for the bathroom. For
0:12:52 > 0:12:55the first time in more than a century they're having a
0:12:55 > 0:12:58refurbishment. 58 months will be treated to modern facilities. But
0:12:58 > 0:13:05being monks and very serious, they are worried. They are saying, is an
0:13:05 > 0:13:09ensuite bathroom too much? Are we baking our vows of simplicity? --
0:13:09 > 0:13:16Brett King. I do sympathise with them. If you have had to queue for
0:13:16 > 0:13:20the bathroom in the morning, I live with three daughters, so I have to
0:13:20 > 0:13:24queue for the bathroom all the time, but they have to do it as part of
0:13:24 > 0:13:37their monkey 's existence.Not only do they have to consider ensuite
0:13:37 > 0:13:42bathrooms, but Molton Brown products.They have gone very ritzy!
0:13:42 > 0:13:47They have overstepped the mark.They are talking about how they are
0:13:47 > 0:13:51paying for this.They are looking for ways to fund raise the money for
0:13:51 > 0:13:56the refurbishment. They have done their bit by saying some things they
0:13:56 > 0:14:03don't need. Monks have clutter, too. Brilliant story. Almost out of time.
0:14:03 > 0:14:08Tell us about the last thing we are going to look at. A Royal story.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12There must be armies of journalists out there employed on Meghan Markle
0:14:12 > 0:14:18stories. You might possibly say this is a bit tenuous. I am going to add
0:14:18 > 0:14:24to the EU mountain of Meghan Markle stories. This is an Australian
0:14:24 > 0:14:27genealogist who has discovered that a very distant relative of the
0:14:27 > 0:14:33girlfriend of Prince Harry was a close confidant of Henry VIII but he
0:14:33 > 0:14:37was locked in the tower and beheaded. That family's relationship
0:14:37 > 0:14:41with the Royal family has not always been great but it is wonderful now.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45They will all live happily ever after.Maybe not something to bring
0:14:45 > 0:14:49up at the Christmas lights. Thank you very much indeed. That is
0:14:49 > 0:14:54it for this hour. You are coming back in an hour.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Whether next. -- the