09/12/2017 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the political

commentator Jo Phillips

and Nigel Nelson, political editor

of the Sunday Mirror.

Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with...

The Mail on Sunday reports that

Theresa May had to intervene

in a stand up row between

the Defence Secretary

and the Chancellor in

the House of Commons.

The Observer leads with a warning

that the EU is under pressure not

to give the UK a better trade deal

than other non-member countries

get after Brexit.

The Sunday Express says leading

Brexit supporting Mps want the UK

to make clear it will walk away

from any trade deal they don't think

is good enough.

The Sunday Telegraph goes

with tensions within the Cabinet

over the meaning of the commitments

the Prime Minister made to move

the Brexit talks on.

And the Sunday Mirror reports that

some delivery drivers are working 14

hour days, it claims they're earning

less than the minimum wage.

Let keep off this hour with the

Sunday express front page.

This is a

report that the Brexiteers are

demanding the Theresa May should

have demanded goldplated trade deal.

If we don't get one then we say no

more money and that's the end of it.

In other words, a straightforward no

deal and we would walk away. I'm not

sure you can get away with doing no

money. You can probably do less

money. On the basis that if we did

walk away, we would have to do it

before 2019 when we're due to leave.

One assumes the transition period

wouldn't go ahead, you would save

£20 billion that way. We would

probably have to carry on paying for

pensions as part of our obligations.

Interesting about the story is we

are getting to the next stage,

really, which is what we actually

want? The one thing Michel Barnier,

Jean-Claude Juncker, Donald Tusk,

all of them have been frustrated

that Britain won't come forward with

actually what we think the endgame

is. Theresa May has a Brexit walk

cabinet coming up to thrash it out

but it is quite important now that

when we go back to Europe, we have a

clear idea of how we see our

relationship after Brexit which we

haven't got.

The Sunday Express is

quite a leash. They have them over

of Durrell. -- bullish.

This is what

the Eurosceptics are clinging onto.

-- barrel. That we did show signs to

collaborate after the collapse of

the TU P. That is to be welcomed if

you to anything in an negotiation.

-- DUP. They seem to think that just

because we have got to this stage

then we can turn around to the EU in

six months or 18 months' Time and

say actually we won't pay you. This

is already cementing, as if it needs

any more cement, the hard lines

between the Brexiteers and the

Remainers. It all comes down to this

thing, in the event of no deal, the

UK will maintain full alignment with

the customs union and the single

market when it comes to the Irish

border. And continuing to abide by

all of the EU's will. It is all

about semantics. It is a positive

headline for the Prime Minister,

probably, but very...

The full

alignment phrase, moving on, Texas

to the Sunday Telegraph. Much

reference there about the talk in

the Cabinet. -- takes us to the

Sunday Telegraph.

If you can say

that by sending Boris Johnson to

Iran, that keep him out of the way,

that is one way of looking at it.

There is a problem between the

Brexiteers and the Remainers. The

Brexiteers are so keen to walk away

from Europe that they would almost,

you know, do anything just to be

able to say, we have done it, we

have done it, we are out of Europe,

regardless of the consequences. That

comes back to the point that Nigel

made that it is difficult for the

Prime Minister and the negotiating

team and it is not just David Davis,

it is an army of civil servants and

lawyers and what have you. It is

difficult for them to go there if it

is not clear what we want.

Now we

get to the next stage which is we

ought to be honest because if we can

lay on the table, at the moment,

we're not saying anything. We are

arguing that we must keep

negotiating position close to a

chest. Now we are moving into trade

talks and the question is why should

we? Let's say this is what we want,

we then negotiate to get there and

see how far we go but at least if

you utterly knew what we were going

towards... We would speed up the

negotiations but it would be the

best way of helping both sides come

to some kind of deal.

Because they

have been negotiating on these three

issues which we have gotten past, to

a degree, only now would it be the

right moment to say this is what we

want in the future. If that is their

argument? S there is a point you

have to take it step-by-step and I

always knew Northern Ireland will be

a major sticking point.

-- there is

a point you have to take. You have

to do a bit by bit but you have to

know what your endgame is.

Talking

of truces or not, Nigel, this is the

Mail on Sunday which is talking

about a bust up.

This was an all out

war and it was between the Defence

Secretary David Williamson and the

Chancellor Philip Hammond. According

to the Mail on Sunday, their

simmering feud, as they put it,

turned into a full-scale shouting

match. Dependent on which side you

listen to, it seems that Gavin

Williamson thinks the Chancellor

wants to cut the army down to

50,000. The chancellor says he

doesn't want to do this at all. We

then get insults thrown both ways.

They went toe to toe in the Commons.

It sounds like dancing.

The

Chancellor calls Gavin Williamson...

I don't think it is the Chancellor,

I think it is people in his

department.

This is his description

of him.

Pike as in Dad's Army.

The

stupid boy. We have this full-scale

row and the backdrop to this, of

course, is whether or not Gavin

Williamson is thinking in terms of

succeeding Theresa May when she

finally goes.

Well! And neat segue.

Simon Walters, political editor of

the Mail on Sunday has actually done

exactly this and point out the

remarkable similarity between the

Gavin Williamson's meteoric rise

into the Cabinet to that is John

Major in 1990. Then you had Margaret

Thatcher with the blonde bombshell

Michael Heseltine seen as her net --

natural successor. She would have

rather had anything happen than

that. Now you have the same with

Gavin Williamson. Interestingly, it

is said in other reports that he has

now aligned himself with Boris

Johnson and Michael Gove, giving a

majority, albeit a slim one, to the

Brexiteers in the Cabinet. You know,

he is siding with dubious people.

Let's move on and talk of other

things. Among them, fast tracked

degrees. It takes us back to the

Telegraph and it is the suggestion

that they ought to be two-year

degrees rather than three.

Yes, I

think a lot of people would think it

is a jolly good idea. Now, this is

not least of all, it would save a

considerable amount of money. It

would also get people into

employment a lot quicker. But I

think what is significant is that

this is about universities having to

offer more value for money.

It is as

well as three.

Exactly. But it is a

choice you can take and it will be

unveiled by the government tomorrow,

and Joe Johnson who is the

universities minister thinks it is

skewed in favour of traditional

degrees and offers a pitifully low

number of courses. This comes at a

time when there is an enormous fury

over the vast salaries being paid to

vice chancellors and senior

university staff. Because if you

introduce fees, you are then putting

students in the role of consumers

and therefore they will expect more

for their money. This is a good way

of seeing whether they can get it.

The figure suggested is quite

significant.

It is suggesting that

it would save the students £25,000.

It is a bit of a sleight of hand

because you would save 5500 on

tuition fees although you would be

paying 20% more for each year. That

it still gives you 5500 and you get

this extra money besides you won't

have to take out a maintenance loan

fee of third-year is the fact that

most students get a job afterwards.

19,000 is the average amount.

I will

squeeze to mooring in the last 2.5

minutes. Civil partnerships to go

straight. Something that has been

speculated upon for a while.

Indeed.

Again, absolutely right. A private

members bill. The idea is to try and

basically bring the law into line

for both heterosexual and homosexual

couples. Very sensible. It should

have been done a while ago. The only

reason that heterosexual couples

couldn't enter into civil

partnerships was the argument that

gay couples were in civil

partnerships because they couldn't

get married and of course now they

can get married and this is simply a

matter of equality so everyone's

then can either have a civil

partnership or get married.

And it's

sensible for all those reasons but

also it actually makes it a lot

easier for cohabiting couples to put

things on a much better footing in

terms of pension rights and wheels,

property. -- wills to stop people

make the mistake that because people

have lived together for 100 years

they are treated as a married couple

and they are not. -- wills. It is

Charles Keaton and Rebecca Stone

fell to have their case held next

year. I know we shouldn't promote

other channels but those of us in

political circles are familiar with

the political editor of ITN. On

first-class, I thought this was Tom

Bradley. I'm sure it's not, but it

is a man dressing after apparently

emerging...

Thomas is that mad.

He

was probably looking at Brexit. Why

would you go into the Serpentine in

Hyde Park in any freezing

temperatures yesterday in London? I

don't know but it is a good

photograph and the lady next to him

looks like she is ignoring it and

she is quite used to seeing it.

She

is more appropriately dressed.

Have

either of you being tempted at this

time of year?

Know but I do live on

the coast and date to have a friend

who goes swimming at least once a

week regardless of the weather.

Hasn't appeared yet on the front of

the Sunday Times.

It is not

newsworthy.

That is it for the

papers this hour. Thanks to Jo and

Nigel.

Coming up next, it's

the Film Review.