19/11/2017 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Henry Zeffman,

Political reporter at the Times

and Public Affairs

Consultant Jacqui Francis.

A flavour first of all of the front

pages as a whole. The Financial

Times reports that ministers are

expected to give Theresa May the go

ahead to increase the Government's

Brexit divorce bill offer to move on

EU negotiations. There's the Times.

They say Robert Mugabe's refusal to

resign as Zimbabwe President has

left the country in despair. The

Metro also leading on Zimbabwe,

describing Mugabe as "clinging on to

power". And the Daily Mirror says

former defence chiefs have accused

the Government of damaging front

line by cutting funding. And the

Daily Mail says that universities

have used wealth screening to look

at students' earnings.

In the Guardian, they look at the

chaos in Zimbabwe following Robert

Mugabe's decision not to Republic

sign this evening.

And the Sun claims victory in the

campaign on energy tariffs reporting

that changes to Rates could save

households £75 a year.

Let's begin with a closer look at

some of the front pages and we'll

start with the Guardian and the top

story is Zimbabwe after that

surprise decision, to most people,

that Mugabe is not resigning after

all.

It was the most extraordinary

speech. Robert Mugabe who has ruled

Zimbabwe for almost 40 years,

flanked by the military. Quite clear

who was in charge now, delivered

this 30-minute speech - a ramble is

a fairer thing to say. But even

while watching it, you were

expecting the ramble to come to a

close saying - and here's how I'm

going to Republic sign. And it --

resign. And it just didn't happen.

Now it's chaos in Zimbabwe. People

trying to work out whether he missed

off a bit of the speech, which was

meant to say he was resigning or

whether this is a plan to reassert

control, or whether the military for

happy for him to stay in charge as

long as some of the people around

his wife, Grace, have less

influence, but it is the most

extraordinary spectacle.

What did

you make of it? It when on for 20

minutes saying, it will come, it

will come, and it just never did.

I

think something else is going on in

the background and in this

particular article, it said the

South African development community

is to meet in Angola and they're

talking about the possibility of

letting him stay and letting things

naturally come to an end. So the

idea that you would impeach him,

that still would take months. So

he's not going straightaway, if you

go through a process. If you tell

him to go, fine. But if you want the

constitutional process to take

place, it does take time to do that.

And it sounds like there is now a

disonance between - you've got to go

now, the people on the streets want

you to go, this is what we've been

negotiating but constitutionally,

and in the speech, he seems to be

talking about the constitution to do

things properly. So I think if he's

clever enough, he's put them between

a rock and a hard place, really.

And

a lot of commentators even talking

about the fact that Mugabe, at the

age of 93, is quite a wiley player

in all of this.

Certainly. And

although he did seem quite doddery,

as you might expect for someone of

his age. And at some points, he

fumbled on the words and one of the

generals who led the coup turned the

pages for him. But he talked at one

point about presiding over Zanu-PF's

forthcoming party Congress, even

though they kicked him out from the

leadership position and are going to

start impeachment proceedings

tomorrow, so clearly he has a way,

in his mind, a way that he's going

to stay on top.

If we look at the

Times. Their angle, "Zimbabwe in

despair" as Mugabe clings on. And

we're expecting then to see more

demonstrations on the streets

because of course this, although

it's a political story, it's very

much a story of what the people of

Zimbabwe are looking for as well?

Yes, the war veterans. Everything

pointed at the fact that he was

going to go. No negotiations about

how long he was going to go. And it

just seems that there's a huge

disappointment in the air and that

is a really dangerous thing, because

people are taking to the streets.

They're going to want to say - but

the military, you said this was

going to happen, and it hasn't. And

it's a coup, but it's not a coup.

And that is the tipping point where

it could turn into violence, and

that's what everybody wants to

avoid.

Yes, it was noticeable, I

thought, in his speech, he referred

several times to the track record of

Zimbabwe as a peaceable people, as

if almost saying - this may not be

what you're expecting everyone, but

let's not get carried away and turn

into riots on the street?

This

started as a palace coup, if it

were. It wasn't a ground-up thing,

although we've seen protests of that

sort in Zimbabwe before. But now

that the generals have started this

process, even if they think that

they can control it by putting

someone else from Zanu-PF, Mugabe's

former deputy in charge, actually,

what the people on the streets are

asking for is much more profound, a

change in the economy, a change in

how the country works. And that's

quite different, and those two

visions might be hard to reconcile.

Take us back to the Guardian but

we'll drop back to bottom of the

page now. Hammond rules out £4

million cash emergency boost for the

NHS. This looks at a lot of

mutterings in there about what may

or may not be in it, and the

suggestion is that money for for the

nation -- for the NHS, not.

At this

time, everybody brings out the

begging bowl for something. And this

seems from Simon Stevens is head of

the NHS, who had said it needs the

cash injection of $4 billion. And

he's saying, no, I want reforms

first - you should have done more to

get the NHS in better shape. So it's

kind of tit-for-tat. "You said you'd

do something about social care, you

said you'd get the NHS in better

shape and then we can give you more

money." And Simon Stevens says, you

haven't done any of that. I suppose

he's saying, why should I not ask

for more money because you haven't

done what you were supposed to do.

So it is the toing and froing, but

Hammond says everybody does this at

this time of year.

It's true that

the horse trading is starting at

this time of the budget and talking

about house business and other

things we might expect to see.

The

story shows how constrained Philip

Hammond is coming into this. A lot

of the MPs, bruised by the election

result, say you need to loosen the

belt a bit, particularly when it

comes to the public sector, but

Philip Hammond, leaving aside the

fact that he's probably more

economically dry than some of the

MPs doesn't have that capacity and

he seas saying to the NHS, you've

got to find savings yourself because

I've got a lot of other stuff on my

plate.

Let's stay with Philip

Hammond because the Daily Telegraph

over on the side there, he may be

under pressure on one front, but

also putting pressure, he says on

Theresa May. And this is to do with

money for the EU and specifically

the divorce bill and the shenanigans

going on about how much.

We're back

to this thing of - what do we want

first. There's no "show me the

money" which is what Brexit and the

EU is saying. First of all, Philip

Hammond and the rest want to know,

what exactly are we going to be

getting out of this? When then we

can start talking about how much

we're going to get. It's the

ordinary people who are concerned.

The money is large amounts of money,

but this has been going on for so

long and people are wondering - when

are you going to talk about

substance? Real issue that is impact

upon us? People are making decisions

about whether to stay in this

country. Businesses, in particular,

are making decisions, while they're

still saying - well, we're not going

to negotiate this until you tell us

exactly how much money you're going

to give us, and we're not going to

give you as much money as you want

until you tell us what you're going

to get out of it. Stalemate,

impasse.

And the FT choosing to

explore this story. May set to

secure Cabinet support for a higher

divorce bill offer and she may have

her work cut out with some of the

characters in her Cabinet?

What this

story explains well is that this

isn't just a question about how much

Britain is going to offer the EU,

it's also a question about how

divided Theresa May's Cabinet is, on

Brexit but on much else. So there

are basically two factions on the

Brexit war Cabinet subcommittee that

will decide whether they'll approve

Theresa May doubling the offer from

£20 million to £40 million. And on

the one hand, Philip Hammond wants

to make a generous offer and stay

close. But on the other hand, you

have Boris Johnson, the Foreign

Secretary, and back in alliance with

Michael Gove, the man who crushed

Boris Johnson's hopes of leading the

Tory Party. It is a multisided

scenario. It's a psycho drama, some

might say. And Theresa May, a more

skilled politician than Theresa May

would struggle to solve it. But she

is certainly struggling.

It's

interesting, coming back to what you

were say, Jacqui, about the politics

of it, for the Westminster geeks,

it's all very exciting for a lot of

people watching and thinking - how

is it that all these months in,

we're still at stage one and the EU

negotiators are saying, until this

is sorted, we can't move on and we

just seem to have got stuck?

I think

we got stuck because the division is

- is our heart really in it? And the

EU, I suppose, sent that. And maybe

they are on our side, trying to make

it as difficult as possible,

thinking - they'll come to their

senses. Once we've discussed this,

they'll go - maybe. And then another

thing, another thing. And then,

Theresa May has this fractured

Cabinet, which are pulling her this

way and that way. And she's trying

to negotiate her way through two

things and finding it increasingly

difficult. And Europe are just

pulling their hair out going - look,

we're talking about money. If you're

not talking about anything else, we

don't want to discuss it. Money

first. Show us the money.

While

you're saying show us the money, the

is beautiful there for Henry on the

Daily Mail. Millions spied on by

greedy top universities. What's this

all about?

It's a really interesting

story, actually. So the Mail says

that top universities, 24 of them,

all of them in the Russell group,

the top group of universities, have

hired investigators to basically

find out how rich all of their

former students are. But it goes

well beyond just income, it's also

their investments, their pensions,

who their friends are, the value of

their homes. Now, on the one hand,

this is a story about universities

trying to get money to fund research

and new buildings and all the stuff

they do in the 21st century, but

it's also a really interesting story

about how much we put online these

days. The Mail says there is a

suggestion that some of them might

have broken the law, but some of

them, a sophisticated person with

access to Google could find out

themselves. So there is the question

of - what are we putting out there?

It might be just the universities

trying to fine out, but there are

other people who might like to know

sometimes.

Did this surprise you,

Jacqui?

No, it didn't, because

universities have always used their

alumni to try to fundraise, and in

America, it's a very, very big

thing. You know, if you've got very

famous and very important alumni,

you can build amazing things. So

this is no surprise. I suppose, my

one surprise is that they paid a

firm to do this, when, as we said,

there are a number of social media

organisations that you could just

quickly go online to tell you

everything you need to know about

these individuals.

It's interesting

that parallel you draw there with

the States, because it's a huge

thing in America. There's an

expectation really that you give

back to your old alma mater and I'm

not sure that that is transferred

across the pond there?

I went to

university in America and yes, you

constantly get letters saying that

now you're an alumni, would you

consider making a monthly or

whatever donation. So it is big

business for the institution.

We're

going to finish with money, as well,

because this is money for all of us,

not just those who are being

targeted by their old universities.

The Daily Telegraph - Black Friday

deals are not always what they seem.

Are we going to be disappointed?

The

concept of Black Friday is an

American import as well, so I

suppose being doubly shafted by

American culture tonight. This

actually doesn't surprise me too

much. It basically says that

shoppers are predicted to spend £2.6

billion, or £1.8 million per minute

this Friday as part of Black Friday

but some of the discounts aren't

what they seem. That's not just the

case on Black Friday. Sometimes in

supermarket, you might see wine

marketed at 40% off, but when you

look into it, it was only that

higher price for 15 minutes on the

previous Friday. So it's basically a

call on all of us to wise up and not

necessarily get carried away with

when we're told to shop and work out

when's best to buy what you need.

Because this is Which, the consumer

group, who have looked at prices

around Black Friday 2016 and

monitored the prices up to Black

Friday. Do we need to be a little

bit less gullible?

I think we do,

but there are some savvy shoppers

out there. But yes, you're right, we

all look at something and go -

great, 40% off. But sometimes

there's a little in the small print

that will say - from this period to

this period, at some point, it was

this price, so there's always been

the issue that the price had gone up

and then they discounted it, so were

you getting a good deal? Just be

careful what you wish for because

it's not always correct.

In two

words, are you looking for anything

on Black Friday?

Possibility!

Not

saying what?

Possibility a phone!

OK, phone for Jacqui. Where will

your bargain be?

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favourites.

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Browny points. That's it for the

papers. Thanks to Jacqui and Henry.

All the front pages are online on

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there shortly after we've finished

and giving Henry a very large drink.

Thank you, that's it from us for

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