06/12/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Paul Johnson,

Deputy Editor of The Guardian,

and Lynn Davidson,

Whitehall Correspondent at The Sun.

Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with...

The Guardian leads with

Donald Trump's recognition

of Jerusalem as Israel's capital

and his plans to move the US Embassy

there from Tel Aviv.

The paper also looks at the growing

pressure Theresa May is facing

to strike a deal over Brexit.

Brexit is also on the front page

of The I which takes a look

at the ins and outs of the talks,

from Philip Hammond and the divorce

bill, to David Davis and his lack

of impact assessments.

The Telegraph says Jean Claude

Juncker fears the UK

Government might collapse next week,

if a breakthrough in

the Brexit talks isn't found.

The Metro leads with the story

of a man arrested after a brawl

in a Westminster bar

on the Parliamentary estate.

The Mirror leads

with reports of a plot

against Prince George

with a story about a man who's

appeared in court accused

of allegedly urging jihadis

to attack the young

Prince at school.

The Financial Times reports on plans

by a UK shopping centre owner

to mitigate against a high street

slowdown, as retail

sales shift online.

The Times has the story of a

shortage of medicines which is

forcing some cancer patients and

those with severe mental health

issues to be turned away from

pharmacies and the Daily Express is

concerned about the imminent arrival

of Storm Caroline and her 90 mph

gusts.

Let's start with the front page of

the Guardian, anger as Trump

declared Jerusalem as Israel's

capital. This was a story widely

anticipated but there has been

shocked nonetheless.

There has been

because it is an extraordinary

story. Who on the globe could unite

the Pope, the UN, China, Russia,

France, Germany, Britain, Egypt,

Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia? Only

one person and that is what Donald

Trump did today. One of our

commentators called it an act of

diplomatic arson and the KSR he is

potentially going to create, he has

fumbled his way into what is a

geopolitical hotspot -- the chaos.

There is an agreement on one side

about this needs to be approached

and done and he has driven a

bulldozer through it which is

extraordinary.

Any nuance to the

story?

If there is it is hard to see

it. We need to look at the immediate

reaction from world leaders that

came and it did not take our own

Prime Minister long to say she

disagreed entirely with the position

and it was really unhelpful to the

political process and the peace

process which is very delicate out

there.

And we have seen pictures

this evening of protests in Gaza,

peaceful protests that there is more

to come to a general strike

tomorrow.

Jerusalem is one of the

most sensitive spots in the world,

the holiest site in Judaism, the

third most important mosque and a

hugely significant place to

Christians. It was always proposed

during the peace process that it

would be a last stage negotiation,

direct party to party and Donald

Trump has ripped that up and walked

straight in. In our own story, this

will destroy any hopes that the US

has of being an honest broker and

the Palestinians have said that

tonight, you will not be up to play

as an honest broker and you are

throwing the whole region into

international chaos.

Moving on,

although that is a huge story, not

many of the papers have it on their

front page but what most of them do

have is Brexit. In the Daily

Telegraph, Theresa May will fall

without a deal once the EU.

The

Daily Telegraph have led with fears

of Jon Ford YouGov -- Jean-Claude

Juncker perhaps worrying about his

own position if he does not achieve

a deal with Britain, running up to

the December the 14th crunch summit.

What he is speaking about is his

fears about the position of Theresa

May in government here and the worry

is that the government could

collapse. We saw some bookies

yesterday slashing the odds of

another general election imminently

which I am sure will strike fear

into the entire country more than

anything! David Davis, there have

been rumours of him plotting to take

the top job with people giving him

support and some of his supporters

moving around but the butt and your

own paper has that story.

-- moving around...

Some people fear

she is a a precarious position and

I'm sure that the majority of Tory

MPs don't feel that as anyone else

to steer them through these times.

Many have said that her weakness is

a strength. The front page of The

Times, staying on Brexit, two big

cabinet ministers making the paper

and they concentrate on comments by

Philip Hammond.

Slightly curious in

that it is interesting that he has

got himself in a bit more hot water

which is becoming a familiar

scenario for him. Most of the other

attention today has been on David

Davis. There were some good quotes

from Jacob Rees-Mogg saying he was

worried on Monday, meltdown Monday

when we had a deal and then a leak

and then anger and recrimination and

then chaos and farce and he said he

was worried about Timmis a's

redlines so he got some paint out --

Theresa May's red lines. She does

not just have problems with the

Irish and the DUP who took 24 hours

to take a call from the Prime

Minister. She has got the EU

apparently bewildered over this and

real problems, mutterings from the

Cabinet, but city is trying to

stiffen her spine and the other

group who have come out tonight, 20

MPs saying don't walk away without a

deal -- Brexiteers trying. This is

all tightrope stuff.

The front page

of The Times as Philip Hammond's

comments that Britain could be

paying £40 billion even if the trade

talks fail, and you get the inside

page and his colleague, David Davis,

not looking too happy.

No! The

picture tells a thousand words as

they say also to hark back to Philip

Hammond, what he is guilty of is

being too honest. The problem for

him recently has been that he speaks

his mind and tell it as it is and

that is difficult in politics!

Sometimes you wonder how he has got

this far by being so honest. David

Davis was in front of the Commons

Brexit, he first thing this morning

and these pictures were on the

televisions from this morning. He

had a very difficult time when he

revealed about impact assessments

which I think a lot of people were

underway now it appears not so.

This

is completely bewildering, a

sequence of events where the

Secretary of State for exiting the

EU says we have done the impact

papers in fine detail and Parliament

says, can we see them, and he says

they are secret, and Parliament has

do see them but they relax them. He

hands them over and Parliament looks

at them and said you have not done

any impact assessment after all and

he says no, we haven't. The civil

service did not do a good job and we

will do them later. It is almost

like a scene from Yes, Minister,

apart from Brexit is the most

fundamental economic position we

will take in our generation and the

idea that these assessments are

drifting off and the government

doesn't really know what the impact

of Brexit will be or has not even

tried to find out sector by sector

is bewildering. He has been show up

today to be at best a bluff and

certainly people in Labour think it

is worse than that and are seeking a

condemnation within Parliament.

And

in a sense, what he was saying was

backed up by Philip Hammond who said

there had not been a full Cabinet

discussion of what the end Brexit

deal should look like.

We ran a

story a few months ago with James

Forsyth saying the same thing,

essentially that the Cabinet has not

set out their end state position. A

few months ago they had initial

talks and that was shelved for the

meantime and I think that is because

it is a pretty difficult one but it

would seem quite preposterous to

think that the Cabinet are not all

whole the United and with a vision

for Brexit and knowing what it is on

this position 18 months on from the

Brexit Road.

One more Brexit front

page on the Financial Times which is

the other dimension to the Brexit

Astori -- from the Brexit vote. This

is the Irish border with the Irish

premier raising the prospect of

Brexit divorce talks stretching into

the New Year if there is no

agreement next week. Some think that

means that the Irish premier is

threatening to use his veto next

week if he is not happy with the

plan for the border.

The phrase

regulatory alignment has been on

everybody's lips and many people

have been getting out the thesaurus

to see what it means but it seems

they had to persuade the DUP that

regulatory alignment is not the same

as being in the single market and

the customs union. Whether they can

do that or not is unclear. The DUP

usually comes to the table but we'll

sort of spin this out. They have a

great deal of trouble here in that

the longer you go on, it is

significant because the longer we go

in this phase, the shorter time we

have to do the other elements,

principally the trade deals also the

longer time it takes to do other

trade deals and move into that other

arena, the less confidence there is

about business and so forth and I

think there is a Lords report

tonight saying this could cost

75,000 jobs in the city and you have

to get on with this because

confidence is seeping away.

It is

easy to be gloomy, I don't think it

would be the end of the world if it

went into the New Year and I think

the DUP are on board now and we will

hopefully see some movement.

I can't

quite see it myself!

And the last

story in the Daily Express, the

where the 90 mph killer storm!

Perhaps their favourite story. The

weather! Killer storm?

Perhaps we

ought to wait for it.

This is Storm

Caroline which is on its way towards

us.

I prefer it now that they name

them. Scotland and northern England

will bear the brunt as always. It is

not generally until it comes down

south that it reaches the front

pages normally. -10 is chilly

enough...

Even for you Scots?

I

think so!

It is a bizarre front page

to be honest.

You think so?

Yes.

Look at the times, a terrific

picture of Judi Dench, on the

Telegraph that is an interesting

combination of stories, we have

Brexit, we have not seen the sun,

but I am sure two thirds of the

front page is not taken up by

predictions of what might happen

with a storm that might or might not

hit us in a couple of days.

People

do love the weather stories.

They

do.

Thank you very much indeed. That

is it for tonight, don't forget you

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Thank you to Paul Johnson

and Lynn Davidson.

Goodbye.