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Now on BBC News, The Papers. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:05 | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
With me are David Wooding, political
editor of the Sun on Sunday. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
And journalist and
broadcaster Penny Smith. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
Welcome to you both. Let's start by
showing the front pages. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:33 | |
Welcome to you both. Let's start by
showing the front pages. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
The Mail on Sunday reports
that Theresa May had | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
to intervene in a stand up row
between the Defence Secretary | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
and the Chancellor in the House of
Commons. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
The Observer leads with a warning
that the EU is under pressure NOT | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
to give the UK a better trade deal
than other non-member | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
countries get after Brexit. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
The Sunday Express says leading
Brexit supporting Mps want the UK | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
to make clear it will walk away
from any trade deal they don't | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
think is good enough. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
The Sunday Telegraph goes
with tensions within the Cabinet | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
over the meaning of the commitments
the Prime Minister made to move | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
the Brexit talks on. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:07 | |
And the Sunday Mirror reports that
some delivery drivers | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
are working 14 hour days,
it claims they're earning less | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
than the minimum wage. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
Let's kick off Brexit as so often
dominating the front pages. The | 0:01:19 | 0:01:26 | |
Observer has a new blow for Theresa
May as the EU gets tough over trade | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
deal. The focus moving onto phase
two now that they've won it out of | 0:01:30 | 0:01:36 | |
the way. The next thing is what we
do in terms of the future | 0:01:36 | 0:01:41 | |
relationship with the EU but also
trade. That is the big one, the | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
Goldman prize of getting a deal for
trade with the EU. And reaching out | 0:01:45 | 0:01:51 | |
globally to other countries. The
Observer Splash is telling us the | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
other countries, those we are
reaching out to two trade with, they | 0:01:55 | 0:02:00 | |
are saying to the EU "If you are
going to give a special deal with | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
the UK, what about us? We would
frown upon it if you give special | 0:02:04 | 0:02:09 | |
trade relationship with the UK after
they leave the EU. I would argue we | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
do have a special relationship with
the EU because we've been a member | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
for so many years. And all our goods
and so on are standardised to EU | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
requirements. Their regulations and
the various laws they have about the | 0:02:20 | 0:02:28 | |
standards. That should make a trade
deal on some days easier. Whether we | 0:02:28 | 0:02:33 | |
have tariffs on what is the bigger
issue. Lord Carr, the format | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
diplomat who drafted Article 50 say
the chances of getting a useful deal | 0:02:37 | 0:02:43 | |
of zero. That's not good either. We
could always go down the Norway | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
route. The Brexiteers do not want
that but there is a comment on the | 0:02:46 | 0:02:53 | |
Observer where there is a pro-Brexit
person who says very annoyed at the | 0:02:53 | 0:03:01 | |
how much has been seeded to Brussels
in the first round of the | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
negotiations and one prominent Tory
saying we are worried. One large | 0:03:04 | 0:03:10 | |
part says that, this is a divorce.
In a divorce there is give-and-take. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:16 | |
You can't say, we put all the money
in, I put all the money and so I | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
will have the house for the children
are living with you, I'm not giving | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
you all the money. And the other
person says "I gave up my job for | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
you, I'm looking after the children,
often the garden", it is | 0:03:27 | 0:03:32 | |
give-and-take, it split. But in a
way that is what we have seen? With | 0:03:32 | 0:03:39 | |
the deal Theresa May has done?
That's what I'm saying. The | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
Brexiteers saying we have ceded it,
what did you expect did you expect | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
to all the staff were not give
anything about the way, you're | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
having the children and taking them.
Boris Johnson was saying the | 0:03:51 | 0:03:57 | |
eco-could go whistle if it wanted
tens of billions and that's been | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
quietly forgetting? Owen Paterson
the former Environment Secretary in | 0:04:00 | 0:04:07 | |
our piece says if they don't give us
the deal we should say they can't | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
have the money, nothing is agreed
until it's all agreed. It will be a | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
long process. You have to think
about how it is in vitro, again like | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
a divorce, you have to look down the
line, the reason you're handing over | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
the money is because down the line
you won't be paying anything to it. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
Or a very small amount. The Sunday
Telegraph still on Brexit has | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
Cabinet Brexit truce threatens to
unravel. Why? This is about | 0:04:31 | 0:04:39 | |
language. A lot of people think that
the riders were expressed Brexit | 0:04:39 | 0:04:46 | |
breakthrough. Congratulations for
saying that. That was a bit of a | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
fraud. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:52 | |
And it had to be a bit of a bug -- a | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
-- a bit of a fudge. Someone has
allegedly said that from Downing | 0:05:01 | 0:05:11 | |
Street full alignment from the EU
regulations was meaningless and not | 0:05:11 | 0:05:17 | |
legally binding within EU law. In
other words, this is all just words. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:23 | |
Empty, meaningless word. But
important words in the sense that | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
they did secure that fudged
agreement which moves us onto the | 0:05:25 | 0:05:31 | |
trade talks. And we have to accept
that these talks about trade, there | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
has a lot of all the papers today
about how it probably won't be | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
sorted out, for five years that's
how much it takes. I think there | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
will probably be a lot of people who
feel they are spending far too much | 0:05:43 | 0:05:48 | |
time and far too many column inches
talking about Brexit have really big | 0:05:48 | 0:05:53 | |
problems we need to get sorted out
in this country. We were talking | 0:05:53 | 0:05:58 | |
earlier on about social mobility,
education, housing, health. So many | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
other things and they are getting
pushed off the front page. Those are | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
the things that affect people's
lives so much more than this. This | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
is going to be central to the
economy for decades or even | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
centuries to come. Of course. And we
know they are desperate for cash, | 0:06:13 | 0:06:20 | |
clawing back taxes left right and
centre to fund all this. But other | 0:06:20 | 0:06:27 | |
people's lives are going on and they
are trying to make ends meet. It's | 0:06:27 | 0:06:34 | |
not just the coverage, it's the time
all being focused on Brexit and it's | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
very difficult to focus on anything
else. You would focus on Brexit as | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
the PM because it's the biggest
thing to get right. There is little | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
time to do those other. In terms of
the timescale, people are saying | 0:06:47 | 0:06:53 | |
it's unlikely that that agreement
can be ranged by 2019. That's the | 0:06:53 | 0:06:58 | |
other thing, the time. We said they
couldn't do it by last Friday and | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
they did it. In a sense, some
observers said it was an easy part. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:09 | |
These trade talks are difficult to
work out. I don't know how we will | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
cover it in the media because it is
tedious and deep in detail. It's all | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
about services as well. The service
industry, we forget how big that is. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
How difficult that is going to be.
Goods is one thing. This is another. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:31 | |
We all thought she had won a big war
on Friday, but all we've done is the | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
right to enter the first
battlefield. On Theresa May, at one | 0:07:34 | 0:07:41 | |
stage after the election it look
like she could even not survive a | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
few more days, she still around. She
has got this success, victory if you | 0:07:44 | 0:07:50 | |
want to call it, a breakthrough.
She's done quite well? A colleague | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
of mine, I think this is a bit
optimistic, was liking her to Alex | 0:07:54 | 0:08:02 | |
Ferguson, the first three years of
his charge of Manchester United were | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
hopeless and they were nothing. He
was about to be sacked and then they | 0:08:06 | 0:08:11 | |
scored this last-minute goal against
Forest in the FA Cup, and went on to | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
great things. She could turn this
around and become Prime Minister | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
again but that's a long shot? There
are other people of course, | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
mutterings about people who were
were a bit stronger and charismatic | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
might have done it. That's the
trouble. Unless we have a parallel | 0:08:27 | 0:08:34 | |
universe, how can we tell quicker
than we have an extraordinary story | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
in the Mail on Sunday, claiming
there was pretty much a bust up in | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
the House of Commons. Theresa May
was almost like the referee was | 0:08:41 | 0:08:48 | |
separating the two prizefighters
slugging it out. This is Philip | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
Hammond, aged 62. In one corner. And
then Gavin Williamson, aged 41, in | 0:08:52 | 0:08:59 | |
the defence corner. And essentially,
they are just being a bit naughty. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:04 | |
My mum would say, bash your heads
together, not that she ever did, but | 0:09:04 | 0:09:10 | |
that is what it is. What actually
happened? According to one MP, the | 0:09:10 | 0:09:19 | |
Defence Secretary went for Philip
Hammond's throat. That sounds... Do | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
you believe that? There is a bit of
a history, he's not been Defence | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
Secretary for more than a few weeks
can make you may remember that Gavin | 0:09:27 | 0:09:32 | |
Williamson was the Chief Whip and
was quite an effective Chief Whip | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
because there was not a single
rebellion while he was Chief Whip. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:41 | |
He was made Defence Secretary and
then immediately comes up with big | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
mouths of what I bolster the defence
cuts, Philip Hammond then sneeringly | 0:09:44 | 0:09:51 | |
saying when he understands the
budget working. He likened him to a | 0:09:51 | 0:10:00 | |
character from Dubs Army. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
-- Dad's Army. Not taking on foreign
trips because we need to preserve | 0:10:05 | 0:10:14 | |
resources, there is a tit-for-tat
war going on between them, and the | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
one thing is that Gavin Williamson
is seen as an outsider for the | 0:10:16 | 0:10:25 | |
Conservative leader. He's gone into
the job and people think he may | 0:10:25 | 0:10:31 | |
succeed Theresa May. Like John Major
came from nowhere to be Michael | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
Heseltine some of the favourite at
the post. And the Mail actually have | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
a profile on page five, the outsider
with his sides zeroed in on number | 0:10:38 | 0:10:44 | |
ten. Penny, do you think he could be
by Minister? This thing is at the | 0:10:44 | 0:10:50 | |
moment don't think most of us who
are not steeped in politics know | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
enough about him to know whether or
not. You are saying there were no | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
rebellion when he was too wet and at
the centre is | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
That's because | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
when he was Chief Whip. He keeps a
tarantula. But those lovely. There's | 0:11:04 | 0:11:13 | |
a bit of venom around anywhere. Even
if some of that is true, it shows | 0:11:13 | 0:11:21 | |
Theresa May does have a lot of
warring parties in her Cabinet that | 0:11:21 | 0:11:26 | |
she has two, whether is literally
all physically, separate. Or bring | 0:11:26 | 0:11:33 | |
together. There's a personality
clash here. The other side is that | 0:11:33 | 0:11:39 | |
politics has become very anodyne,
the days when you actually could | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
clearly tell the difference between
one and another, you could seriously | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
tell someone was left-wing all
right-wing, possibly by the way they | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
wore their clothes or what they
chose to drink or whether they chose | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
smoke. Now it's all become a little
more woolly. Even with Jeremy | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
Corbyn? That's what I'm saying, up
until now. I think the political | 0:11:59 | 0:12:05 | |
landscape is changing. It's more
colourful, in a sense? In some ways | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
that is no bad thing, we needed to
get people involved in politics | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
because it affects us all. He so you
quite like to see Cabinet ministers | 0:12:13 | 0:12:18 | |
with their hands on other Cabinet
ministers strokes? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
-- strokes? | 0:12:24 | 0:12:25 | |
We don't how close they got but it's
good that they are committed and | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
passionate. The Telegraph have fast
track degree. The idea you might be | 0:12:32 | 0:12:41 | |
a two year or rather than three.
This is about making it quicker and | 0:12:41 | 0:12:47 | |
cheaper for people who want to do a
degree but then won three years, | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
it's to £11,000 a year for a
two-year degree, saving you five and | 0:12:50 | 0:12:58 | |
a half thousand pounds because you
do two years not treat you get a job | 0:12:58 | 0:13:03 | |
quicker with the average starting
salary for it to telling the latter | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
is £19,000. Jo Johnson says this
will cost, save £20,000. Good news | 0:13:08 | 0:13:14 | |
for mature students, people who are
poorer and busy Christmas holidays | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
and summer holidays will have to be
sure and it comes on the back of the | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
National Audit Office last week
saying some degrees were not fit for | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
purpose and people were going in
paying a lot of money and coming up | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
with less prospect of your
prospects. -- fewer prospects. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:39 | |
Sunday Times, civil partnerships to
go straight, heterosexuals in civil | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
partnership. Good idea. You don't
have to go to a church and makes out | 0:13:42 | 0:13:47 | |
if you don't believe in that sort of
thing. You therefore have rights. At | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
the moment were lots of people think
there is a common-law marriage, | 0:13:51 | 0:13:57 | |
there isn't and you have no right.
This confers rights without having | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
to go. It makes sense? There was
some argument when it was introduced | 0:13:59 | 0:14:05 | |
for gay people that heterosexuals
should have it as well and now that | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
the gay people have got married,
equal marriage, this is a level | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
playing field. It's good. Let's get
into the Christmas, fast of spirit | 0:14:12 | 0:14:19 | |
because there is our Prime Minister
and putting the decorations in the | 0:14:19 | 0:14:26 | |
tree in Maidenhead, her
constituency. This is a bit of a | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
difference though? It's a stiletto
because we know she likes those | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
shoes. Whatever you want to do. Why
is she wearing a proper Christmas | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
jumper or something bright was
whether it's a gloomy picture. A | 0:14:38 | 0:14:44 | |
nice bright jumper, a pink cardigan
like me or get really good jumpers | 0:14:44 | 0:14:50 | |
with lit up bits. Does that show
little sense of having a stiletto | 0:14:50 | 0:14:55 | |
grip now, she's always talked about
shoes. I once asked how many pairs | 0:14:55 | 0:15:02 | |
of shoes she had doing an interview
and select me sternly and said not | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
enough. I know she's got lots of
shoes. I wonder if she used this | 0:15:05 | 0:15:11 | |
stiletto to separate those two
Cabinet minister. It might be a | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
useful weapon! The used to talk
about Margaret Thatcher and | 0:15:14 | 0:15:22 | |
handbagging, a stiletto is also a
knife. Don't give the Prime Minister | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
ideas. That's finished off with a
bracing picture on the Sunday Times | 0:15:25 | 0:15:33 | |
and it is snowing across a lot of
the country, it is very chilly. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
Someone didn't check the forecast.
Or maybe they did because they swim | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
in these places. He looks quite fit,
doesn't he? Helix that the sort of | 0:15:41 | 0:15:48 | |
person that could dive into ice. I
wonder if you just happen to be | 0:15:48 | 0:15:54 | |
swimming and a photographer takes a
picture, and you find is plastered | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
over the front pages next morning.
It must be a bit of a shock. It | 0:15:57 | 0:16:01 | |
makes me shiver just look at that
picture. Having come through this | 0:16:01 | 0:16:06 | |
road this morning and then to see
that. They are now cutting the odds | 0:16:06 | 0:16:11 | |
on a white Christmas but we have
been swotting up on a white | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
Christmas. A white Christmas, if a
snowflake falls on Christmas Day, | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
anywhere in the UK. One snowflake.
But obviously anywhere. You got | 0:16:19 | 0:16:25 | |
about seven or eight on your jumper.
Hopefully they won't drop off in the | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
machine next to my wash it. In all
areas where the Met office have a | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
measuring unit. This is what we were
doing, 1138 times in the past 54 | 0:16:34 | 0:16:40 | |
years with one snowflake but able
but white Christmas, blankets | 0:16:40 | 0:16:46 | |
snowing, has only happened four
Times in 51 years. Do you remember | 0:16:46 | 0:16:54 | |
any? I do. But I'm coming up to
goodness knows how many decades on | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
earth. Does it mean a lot to have a
white Christmas's it | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
for the kids -- for the kids but we
are | 0:17:06 | 0:17:12 | |
for the kids -- for the kids
but we are screwed. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
-- we are Scrooge. Bah humbug. Merry
Christmas if I don't see you, that | 0:17:20 | 0:17:29 | |
is it for the papers. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:36 | |
We look at the papers every evening
at 10:45pm on BBC News. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 |