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0:00:12 > 0:00:15We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment -
0:00:15 > 0:00:20first the headlines...
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Up to 30cm of snow has fallen in some areas of the country,
0:00:23 > 0:00:26affecting travel on the roads, railways and at airports
0:00:26 > 0:00:31and causing hundreds of school closures tomorrow morning.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35The Foreign Secretary has left Iran without any agreement on the release
0:00:35 > 0:00:39of the British-Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has warned
0:00:42 > 0:00:44that the UK could still refuse to pay its divorce
0:00:44 > 0:00:48bill if it doesn't get a trade deal with the EU.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Disgraced celebrity publicist Max Clifford has died
0:00:51 > 0:00:53in hospital at the age of 74.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55He had been serving an eight-year sentence
0:00:55 > 0:00:59for historical sex offences.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Qatar has signed a £6 billion arms deal with the British defence
0:01:02 > 0:01:04contractor, BAE Systems.
0:01:04 > 0:01:13It includes the confirmation of a large order of fighter jets.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:01:35 > 0:01:37bringing us tomorrow.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40With me are the Parliamentary journalist Tony Grew
0:01:40 > 0:01:41and entertainment reporter Caroline Frost.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Tomorrow's front pages...
0:01:44 > 0:01:48The Metro leads with the heavy snow that's caused travel chaos in many
0:01:48 > 0:01:51areas of the UK today.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55It also has news that the average house price has dropped.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59The FT leads with Brexit - it says Britain's chemicals
0:01:59 > 0:02:01and pharmacutical industries have asked the Government if they can
0:02:01 > 0:02:04remain within EU rules.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is also pictured in Iran
0:02:08 > 0:02:10with the country's president as he tries to secure the release
0:02:10 > 0:02:12of a Briton jailed there.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15The Times leads with Brexit negotiations and Ireland's
0:02:15 > 0:02:17unhappiness over comments by the Brexit Secretary,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20David Davis, that a hard border on the Island is a statement
0:02:20 > 0:02:23of intent rather than a cast iron guarantee.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27The Daily Telegraph leads with news that 10-year-olds are being asked
0:02:27 > 0:02:29if they feel comfortable with their gender in
0:02:29 > 0:02:32an official NHS health study.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Police failure to attend domestic violence call outs
0:02:34 > 0:02:38is the Independent's lead.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41The paper also points out that the snow may have caused
0:02:41 > 0:02:43headaches for many of us but for others, it was
0:02:43 > 0:02:49a chance to have fun.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54So let's begin...
0:02:54 > 0:02:59The Metro has a glorious photograph of the snow but on the main story,
0:02:59 > 0:03:05the biggest fall in house prices for five years.Is this true? Yes, there
0:03:05 > 0:03:09is a lot of economic uncertainty that will affect how people feel
0:03:09 > 0:03:14about the global economy and whether they buy a new house, but it is
0:03:14 > 0:03:18worth pointing out that it says the average asking price has dropped by
0:03:18 > 0:03:24£8,000 across the UK, £23,000 in London and that is not suddenly make
0:03:24 > 0:03:27properties affordable for people who cannot get onto the property ladder.
0:03:27 > 0:03:33That is a small dip in what can seem an unsurmountable ocean. It's a
0:03:33 > 0:03:38difference three for people who own their homes, such as Caroline!Is
0:03:38 > 0:03:44this bad news, then? Only if you are hoping to sell your property in the
0:03:44 > 0:03:50immediate future, which I am not. As Tony said, this is just a chink of
0:03:50 > 0:03:55relief for aspiring first-time buyers and the previous chink was
0:03:55 > 0:04:00for the great gift of the exemption of stamp duty for properties up to
0:04:00 > 0:04:05£300,000 and that was a political move and this becomes an economic
0:04:05 > 0:04:08shift and it is good news that first-time buyers will be watching
0:04:08 > 0:04:12carefully to see that the market carries on decreasing in their
0:04:12 > 0:04:17favour. However, they have quoted the right move director that this
0:04:17 > 0:04:22should be seen in the context of push and pull price pressures. I
0:04:22 > 0:04:26said that in one go! Adding to this impending increasing uncertainty
0:04:26 > 0:04:33over Brexit. Perhaps some light but with a grain of salt.You need to
0:04:33 > 0:04:39see a trend. The man from right move is quoted as saying the trend will
0:04:39 > 0:04:46be a mixed bag.Strange wording that shows that house prices have been on
0:04:46 > 0:04:52the same trajectory for a period of time, they forecast another year of
0:04:52 > 0:04:58slowing in the pace of price rises. A slowdown in the pace of them going
0:04:58 > 0:05:04up, so not exactly the breakthrough news people might think.Let us move
0:05:04 > 0:05:08on to the front page of The Times. Ireland warns Theresa May over
0:05:08 > 0:05:15Brexit. This is after the story we have been running about David Davis
0:05:15 > 0:05:21saying that the deal is not cast iron?This comes as is a prize to
0:05:21 > 0:05:24people in the EU that they have done the deal with and it is interesting
0:05:24 > 0:05:27that David Davis thinks he runs his own Brexit policy and I remember
0:05:27 > 0:05:32having collective Cabinet responsibility when the government
0:05:32 > 0:05:36spoke with one voice and it now seems to be whoever happens to be in
0:05:36 > 0:05:40the studio. That has not gone down very well in Ireland because one of
0:05:40 > 0:05:44the key issues is the British government has given assurances that
0:05:44 > 0:05:47it will avoid a heart border and the British government says it will
0:05:47 > 0:05:51think up brilliant regulatory infrastructures and use technology
0:05:51 > 0:05:55to mean that is no border infrastructure but the thing about
0:05:55 > 0:05:59this that annoys me is David Davis has chosen to say these things not
0:05:59 > 0:06:02because he believes they are in the national interest but for a narrow
0:06:02 > 0:06:05party reasons. Everything the government has done over Brexit is
0:06:05 > 0:06:10for narrow party reasons. David Davis still fancies himself as a
0:06:10 > 0:06:14leader of the party and he is signalling to the right of the party
0:06:14 > 0:06:18and the Brexiteers that a hard Brexit is still on the table and no
0:06:18 > 0:06:22deal. Neither of those are on the table because the commitments made
0:06:22 > 0:06:26by Britain to the EU last week.Is it that clear that he has gone
0:06:26 > 0:06:31freelance in this sense? Michael Gove said the other day that nothing
0:06:31 > 0:06:39is agreed until everything is agreed?What does that even mean? I
0:06:39 > 0:06:47remember, nearly two decades ago, that the piece was hard four, those
0:06:47 > 0:06:51lights in the rooms in Northern Ireland, the entire Labour Party,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54there wasn't this breaking away of the message and the fractured
0:06:54 > 0:06:58branding, it was Tony Blair and Mo Mowlam and I remember waking up to
0:06:58 > 0:07:03that great thing that they had this breakthrough and this week I
0:07:03 > 0:07:07remembered that because I saw this thing overnight, the same thing, we
0:07:07 > 0:07:14are going to work through the night. What for? So we then get to the next
0:07:14 > 0:07:17chasm, the next disagreement? There was a lovely treat that's it either
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Northern Ireland is going to fail because of Brexit or Brexit is going
0:07:20 > 0:07:24to fail because of Northern Ireland. I cannot speak about this
0:07:24 > 0:07:32dispassionately.The front page of the Daily Express. The weather is
0:07:32 > 0:07:41always a favourite story. Just surprised it is not Brexit! The big
0:07:41 > 0:07:47freeze chaos to get worse. How do you feel but in response to bad
0:07:47 > 0:07:50weather?Places outside London respond in a perfectly normal
0:07:50 > 0:07:55fashion, they get on with it. People from other countries find it strange
0:07:55 > 0:08:01that the weather is such a constant source of conversation for British
0:08:01 > 0:08:06people and for the Daily Express. Once again, this shows that as a
0:08:06 > 0:08:10country we cannot deal with our infrastructure, the transport
0:08:10 > 0:08:14infrastructure is not particularly able to deal with a dusting of snow
0:08:14 > 0:08:19and it is not that unusual when we find this chaos at airports and no
0:08:19 > 0:08:23doubt there will be significant chaos tomorrow morning. It is
0:08:23 > 0:08:30December, it snowed!It has been quite mild in recent winters?We
0:08:30 > 0:08:34will have the classic English conversation, today was slightly
0:08:34 > 0:08:38colder than yesterday and tomorrow will be slightly warmer!It is
0:08:38 > 0:08:45psychological as much as anything. There is an economic productivity
0:08:45 > 0:08:48equation and this will affect enormous numbers of people, perhaps
0:08:48 > 0:08:53it is the people writing about it, the journalists in London and
0:08:53 > 0:08:57photographers going nearby, we know all about that, I will get a phone
0:08:57 > 0:09:04call saying, I am in Scotland and you are lightweights in London.But
0:09:04 > 0:09:09it makes for the beautiful picture. The front page of the Financial
0:09:09 > 0:09:16Times. An interesting story here about Labour and its policy on the
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Bank of England?Labour have asked consultants to look into a series of
0:09:20 > 0:09:26issues, not just do with the Bank of England, and one suggestion they are
0:09:26 > 0:09:29considering is moving some functions of the Bank of England to Birmingham
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Six and thinking about whether or not the governor should be based in
0:09:33 > 0:09:38Birmingham. Labour are also talking about creating two new institutions,
0:09:38 > 0:09:42the national investment bank and the strategic investment bank and those
0:09:42 > 0:09:48might be Birmingham. A separate financial hub in Britain's second
0:09:48 > 0:09:51city and as someone who is hopelessly part of the London
0:09:51 > 0:09:55bubble, when I go to places like Birmingham Six for party
0:09:55 > 0:09:59conferences, it always strikes me that they have these really big
0:09:59 > 0:10:04financial centres in our major cities, it is not just in London. We
0:10:04 > 0:10:07have centres across the country and I like the idea of decentralisation
0:10:07 > 0:10:11and less focus on London. But I worry that this idea that the
0:10:11 > 0:10:16governor should be based in Birmingham, that is just fluff. It
0:10:16 > 0:10:20doesn't matter. He will spend his time in London all the time anyway.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24In terms of building new infrastructure, it is interesting
0:10:24 > 0:10:28and exciting, it will not win many votes and I am sure people in the
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Bank of England will be horrified at this headline, should they wish to
0:10:33 > 0:10:36stay in London. But there are lots of advantages to staying outside of
0:10:36 > 0:10:43the capital, I am told!Reliably told by pigeons! Caroline, there
0:10:43 > 0:10:48must be some sense that the economy does need to be rebalanced? This is
0:10:48 > 0:10:53what the policy, whether you like it or not, is aiming to do?We heard
0:10:53 > 0:10:57George Osborne before departing the Cabinet with his great Northern
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Powerhouse and even though he has left, the wheels of that continue to
0:11:01 > 0:11:06turn successfully beyond the borders of the Watford gap. I can only add
0:11:06 > 0:11:12my voice to toady's, it is refreshing as somebody who, not as a
0:11:12 > 0:11:18victim, but you get into this matter centric bubble, thinking things only
0:11:18 > 0:11:23happen in London, it is refreshing, when you go to places beyond the
0:11:23 > 0:11:27city walls and he realised there is a lot going on, culturally,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30socially, artistically, and if it takes an economic shift of the
0:11:30 > 0:11:36weight of the Bank of England, then so be it.The front page of the
0:11:36 > 0:11:49Telegraph. A little bit more signed to enhance our environment, tills
0:11:49 > 0:11:53ringing to the side of these transactions.I am horrified by this
0:11:53 > 0:12:01story. Marketing employees and visa have spent one year choosing the
0:12:01 > 0:12:10perfect noise that can single speed and convenience! It says the company
0:12:10 > 0:12:13has been running a complete vibration at users feel through the
0:12:13 > 0:12:19phone claiming they are entering a new era of sensory branding. God
0:12:19 > 0:12:23help us all! I don't think I want by phone to vibrate a certain way.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Obviously, they think there is some currency in this because Visa have
0:12:27 > 0:12:31put a lot of effort into this but I am not sure if they have done much
0:12:31 > 0:12:35market testing, I am not particularly in favour of sensory
0:12:35 > 0:12:41branding.Any idea of what this energetic and optimistic sound bite
0:12:41 > 0:12:48big? I love the idea that you are immune to sensory branding.I
0:12:48 > 0:12:52thought this meant bespoke. I thought every time I went to a shop
0:12:52 > 0:12:58I would get my own, personal signed and I was sinking, which song or
0:12:58 > 0:13:05bridge or ref would like? Van Halen? That would get me going! Lots of
0:13:05 > 0:13:09people who are not of our generation perhaps will have more fun with this
0:13:09 > 0:13:16and we might?Lets move back to the front page of The Times and the
0:13:16 > 0:13:20story that Caroline really wanted to talk about! What the Queen really
0:13:20 > 0:13:29did next and writing on the crime, you have spent many hours of your
0:13:29 > 0:13:39life in the interests of research... So, the Queen, series two, for the
0:13:39 > 0:13:42uninformed, has landed on Netflix and Tony has watched even more than
0:13:42 > 0:13:48me. It is quite brilliant but it does raise the question because
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Peter Morgan, the scriptwriter, calls this a combination of error
0:13:51 > 0:13:59and dense research, some very informed speculation and some quite
0:13:59 > 0:14:02rightful dramatic tendencies so we have ended up with this incredibly
0:14:02 > 0:14:06powerful inside story of the monarchy in the second half of the
0:14:06 > 0:14:0920th century.Dramatic tendencies? Playing around with what really
0:14:09 > 0:14:15happened? Just some necessary borrowing from the wardrobe, the
0:14:15 > 0:14:22dress up wardrobe. For all intents and purposes, for me, this has shed
0:14:22 > 0:14:27light on chapters of history I did not know enough about, the Suez
0:14:27 > 0:14:30crisis, the Macmillan government, that is promised in this series,
0:14:30 > 0:14:37Tony is cross with the JFK arrival, but...There is a more fundamental
0:14:37 > 0:14:41point, I understand artistic license, implying that the Duke of
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Edinburgh's father blamed him for the death of his sister in a plane
0:14:45 > 0:14:48crash is not an inaccuracy or playing with history or received
0:14:48 > 0:14:58wisdom, that is just a lie and that is wrong and someone of the... It is
0:14:58 > 0:15:01not true and any amount of artistic license does not change the fact
0:15:01 > 0:15:04that this is not just on true but deeply hurtful to the Duke of
0:15:04 > 0:15:11Edinburgh.Who will not watch this and when asked, don't be ridiculous
0:15:11 > 0:15:15will be the answer!He is immune to sensory branding! It is a version of
0:15:15 > 0:15:19history that is demonstrably not true.We will leave it there for the
0:15:19 > 0:15:20moment.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21That's it for The Papers this hour.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Thank you, Tony and Caroline.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26You'll both be back at 11.30pm for another look at the stories
0:15:26 > 0:15:27making the news tomorrow.
0:15:27 > 0:15:36Coming up next, it's Meet the Author.