0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:20bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23With me are Joe Watts, Political Editor of the Independent.
0:00:23 > 0:00:24And Caroline Wheeler, Deputy Political Editor
0:00:24 > 0:00:27of The Sunday Times.
0:00:27 > 0:00:37Tomorrow's front pages...
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The Mirror leads with the miraculous story of a three week old baby girl
0:00:42 > 0:00:45-- born with her heart outside her body. The first baby in the UK to
0:00:45 > 0:00:49survive this rare illness. 'Tories go green' - the I looks at the
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Conservative governments new climate change policies in what they call a
0:00:51 > 0:00:54push to win back younger voters and broaden the parties appeal. The
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Metro reports on allegations that a 20-year-old woman was raped by a
0:00:57 > 0:01:06Conservative Party aide in his office in Westminster. The Times
0:01:06 > 0:01:08reports of a scandal involving the President of the European Commission
0:01:08 > 0:01:19Jean Claude-Junker and alleged evidence tampering. The Guardian
0:01:19 > 0:01:21leads on its exclusive story detailing how some big companies are
0:01:21 > 0:01:23paying intelligence firms to monitor groups that challenge their
0:01:23 > 0:01:32business. The Telegraph leads with a warning to households and motorists
0:01:32 > 0:01:45to expect a sharp rise in gas and petrol prices. The Express says the
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Prime Minister is enjoying a boost in the polls after her Brexit
0:01:47 > 0:01:58negotiation breakthrough.. And... The Daily Mail says that Social
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Media giants Facebook and Twitter helped fuel abuse towards
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Conservative Party candidates in the last general election. What is the
0:02:02 > 0:02:04story about in the Guardian?The Guardian appears to have been
0:02:04 > 0:02:11leaked, along with a another news organisation, a cache of documents,
0:02:11 > 0:02:16suggesting that it is not just the police force involved in the illicit
0:02:16 > 0:02:20espionage, but private companies are doing this too. Not just spying on
0:02:20 > 0:02:26each other but buying on people who perhaps are making choices to take
0:02:26 > 0:02:29those companies to court or campaign against them or protest against
0:02:29 > 0:02:35them. Or perhaps even, you know, encourage consumer activity against
0:02:35 > 0:02:39them as well. There are a string of really big name companies that are
0:02:39 > 0:02:43involved in this. Companies like British Airways, the Royal Bank of
0:02:43 > 0:02:48Scotland. Within the detail of these documents, come all of the ways in
0:02:48 > 0:02:52which these companies are spying on those individuals.Caroline, at one
0:02:52 > 0:02:56point the police have claimed that commercial firms have had more spies
0:02:56 > 0:03:00in bed in political groups than there were undercover police
0:03:00 > 0:03:05officers!Basically they have infiltrated campaign groups that
0:03:05 > 0:03:09have been opposed to some of the actions that these big corporate
0:03:09 > 0:03:14firms have been undertaking in, and posed as activists themselves. In
0:03:14 > 0:03:17one instance, the infiltrate is pretended to be activists
0:03:17 > 0:03:22sympathetic to the cause of the campaigners, helping to organise and
0:03:22 > 0:03:24attending demonstrations, including on one occasion dressing up as a
0:03:24 > 0:03:28pirate with a Cutlass and an eye patch as part of a protest! These
0:03:28 > 0:03:33are extraordinary length that these organisations are going to to sort
0:03:33 > 0:03:37of infiltrate and find out what it is that people who are opposed to
0:03:37 > 0:03:41the goods are kind of worried about. It shows you the level of concern
0:03:41 > 0:03:45that there is around the kind of protest that we have seen
0:03:45 > 0:03:49surrounding these big, multinational corporations.We know it made people
0:03:49 > 0:03:53really angry, the story quite recently about police forces
0:03:53 > 0:03:56infiltrating undercover green groups. There was one case in
0:03:56 > 0:03:59particular where a police officer out of relationships with other
0:03:59 > 0:04:03activists, was leading a real double life. The question is, you know, it
0:04:03 > 0:04:07does stay in the story that the activity is much more widespread
0:04:07 > 0:04:11than people would have expected. The question is, how long have these
0:04:11 > 0:04:13undercover operations been going on's have they been playing with
0:04:13 > 0:04:18people's lives in the same weight as white interesting stuff.Tories go
0:04:18 > 0:04:24green to win back voters. I remember hugging the house the end the North
0:04:24 > 0:04:28Pole, David Cameron. And then it all got junk. Well, apparently is coming
0:04:28 > 0:04:32back on the Michael Gove, who is trying to almost arrange the image
0:04:32 > 0:04:35of the Department of environment and getting out there and hitting back
0:04:35 > 0:04:42on social media -- change the image. What do you make of this, joke?
0:04:42 > 0:04:46There is a Cameroonian feel to this, after the Theresa May drive we are
0:04:46 > 0:04:49coming back to the fluffy, compassionate Conservative deal with
0:04:49 > 0:04:54this drive, anyway. I think this is a reaction to what happened in the
0:04:54 > 0:04:58election. A lot of young voters completely deserted the Tories for
0:04:58 > 0:05:03the Labour Party. And a lot of that was to do with not this is the only
0:05:03 > 0:05:09particular policies or tuition fees, but just the way the Tory Party was
0:05:09 > 0:05:14promoting its values. Going back to much more kind of Conservative,
0:05:14 > 0:05:19socially Conservative values, away from Cameroonian Liberal
0:05:19 > 0:05:23Conservative feel. After being burnt on things like fox hunting, the
0:05:23 > 0:05:27ivory trade during the election, this is a real push back to try and
0:05:27 > 0:05:30win some of that.You can sense that they don't want to go back to being
0:05:30 > 0:05:34the nasty party, a sense that they have been sort of uncaring and they
0:05:34 > 0:05:38want to become the kind of, very sympathetic and loving and animal
0:05:38 > 0:05:42loving, you know, other things they are going to focus on our school
0:05:42 > 0:05:55standards, there was a sense that they lost some of the mummy vote at
0:05:55 > 0:05:57the time, it's not just the environment. As with everything,
0:05:57 > 0:05:59there's been a bit of a backlash around the whole rebranding that was
0:05:59 > 0:06:02going on. It's one of the things they are definitely going to ditch.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05For me, it doesn't sit with the new, caring party, because they are not
0:06:05 > 0:06:08making a big thing of the NHS. They seem to have decided that actually
0:06:08 > 0:06:10they can't win on the NHS. One would imagine that investing in the NHS
0:06:10 > 0:06:14would make you be the most caring. That is the problem. When you poll
0:06:14 > 0:06:18people, the NHS is up there and the environment is not the top issue. I
0:06:18 > 0:06:22remember someone was saying that after blue planet on Sunday, lots of
0:06:22 > 0:06:27tweets from Tory MPs, quite similar stuff. It's a co-ordinated thing
0:06:27 > 0:06:33that they are trying to deep.And not everyone is happy about it. Not
0:06:33 > 0:06:37all MPs... One MP told me the other day that they don't get any letters
0:06:37 > 0:06:41really about animals at all other than bees. And actually it hasn't
0:06:41 > 0:06:47made much of an impact in the sort of mailbags. And also talking about
0:06:47 > 0:06:51school standards, it's not school standards which has been bugging
0:06:51 > 0:06:55mums, it's school funding. Some of this seems a bit kind of misguided.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59It's about positioning the party. How much of it about positioning
0:06:59 > 0:07:05Michael Gove?!Indeed! Looking at the policies that the Tory Party has
0:07:05 > 0:07:08brought forward since the election and the policies that Michael Gove
0:07:08 > 0:07:12has brought forward, he has won to be fair to him, some plaudits from
0:07:12 > 0:07:16green groups, who have said, you know, it's good at least that we
0:07:16 > 0:07:19have a Secretary of State that is looking at the right things. We
0:07:19 > 0:07:23still waiting to see the proof, the piece of legislation he is
0:07:23 > 0:07:26promising, whether that is going to come through. If you look at the
0:07:26 > 0:07:36policies that Theresa May announced week, which has formed the platform
0:07:36 > 0:07:38for the new PR push, they are not that the revolutionary than what was
0:07:38 > 0:07:41announced this week. There was a big PR push on this. Whether it actually
0:07:41 > 0:07:44follows through is yet to be seen. Let's have a look at the FT. Talking
0:07:44 > 0:07:49about the Conservative Party, the picture of Damian Green. He is still
0:07:49 > 0:07:54awaiting that inquiry into his alleged behaviour, saying here,
0:07:54 > 0:08:00Theresa May has got to pep up the top team. And the Brexit deal blow.
0:08:00 > 0:08:10Do you think it is a glow, Caroline, after the Brexit deal?! The
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Government,the basking in the glow of success, this wasn't the story
0:08:13 > 0:08:16that we were discussing last week when everything was going horribly
0:08:16 > 0:08:22wrong.I think it's safe to say it's a bit volatile.This could easily
0:08:22 > 0:08:28set fire to the paper!The crisis has almost become the new norm with
0:08:28 > 0:08:32this Government. Normally you would get political crises and they would
0:08:32 > 0:08:35last for days and days. You can have very turbulent days and then it is
0:08:35 > 0:08:39like you in a new country the next day. They pick themselves up and
0:08:39 > 0:08:43move on. This story is saying, things are all right, by contract,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46maybe now she is strong enough to carry out the reshuffle which has
0:08:46 > 0:08:52really been on the cards pretty much for months.Will she wait to the New
0:08:52 > 0:08:57Year?Most Tory MPs will tell you they do not expect her to last
0:08:57 > 0:09:02beyond Brexit anyway.There is a talk about the younger generation
0:09:02 > 0:09:07being brought in in some weight. There is.Lots of talking about
0:09:07 > 0:09:12that.Looking about as off at the picture, there is a big question
0:09:12 > 0:09:16mark hanging over some of the older members of the party. There can be
0:09:16 > 0:09:19no reshuffle until we know what Damian Green's fate is going to be.
0:09:19 > 0:09:24If he is going to be forced to resign, there has been some chatter
0:09:24 > 0:09:27that that is the direction of travel, although it seems to ebb and
0:09:27 > 0:09:33flow every week this saga goes on, she cannot do anything and all that
0:09:33 > 0:09:37is decided. What she doesn't want to happen is that she saves him and
0:09:37 > 0:09:42there's more revelations and he is. William Hague has said very clearly,
0:09:42 > 0:09:46-- he is false to go again. He says, you need to start really elevating
0:09:46 > 0:09:51some of those people in the junior ministerial positions and stamped
0:09:51 > 0:09:54your authority.She has been trying to get William Hague did come back,
0:09:54 > 0:10:01and he has refused to so far.Let's move the times. Rob Tait will be
0:10:01 > 0:10:05beamed to dashboards. Joe, what's this about -- Road data.Everything
0:10:05 > 0:10:10has to be smart these days, you can't just have a manually operated
0:10:10 > 0:10:15thing. You can't have a motorway to just drive along! This with the
0:10:15 > 0:10:18hundreds of miles of fibre-optic cable buried alongside motorways.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Through this fibre-optic cable in the wizardry of broadband, you would
0:10:22 > 0:10:27be able to beam into driverless cars all of the information about
0:10:27 > 0:10:31traffic, speed limits, no doubt it could probably direct your car where
0:10:31 > 0:10:35to go to avoid the worst traffic jams and make sure that you avoiding
0:10:35 > 0:10:41ice patches. I mean, it is exciting, it does feel very futuristic.What
0:10:41 > 0:10:48could go wrong?!This is also the point, it is preparing the way for
0:10:48 > 0:10:51these driverless cars. The Government is really, really keen on
0:10:51 > 0:10:55this as an idea and think that we can lead the way on it. The
0:10:55 > 0:10:58technology, however, there is question marks even around smart
0:10:58 > 0:11:02meters and things like that. So actually having cars on the roads
0:11:02 > 0:11:06that could be potentially open to hacking and all of those things, I'm
0:11:06 > 0:11:10sure that they will do all of those tests, but it is one of those things
0:11:10 > 0:11:18that you look so many things could potentially go wrong, lights being
0:11:18 > 0:11:20flashed at you and things on your dashboard, it sounds very back to
0:11:20 > 0:11:24the future.We need to get with it! We are going to talk about the
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Independent next. Almost half of British people want Donald Trump's
0:11:28 > 0:11:34state visit scrap, according to a poll. It doesn't sound very popular.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37But the state visit seems to be on the back burner. A working visit to
0:11:37 > 0:11:42London might be happening.There is an indication, including from the US
0:11:42 > 0:11:46ambassador today, that the working visit, as it is being called, to
0:11:46 > 0:11:50open the new US embassy could go ahead in February. But the polling
0:11:50 > 0:11:54that we had done even shows that around half of people are against
0:11:54 > 0:11:58from coming in any capacity. But the state visit really riles people
0:11:58 > 0:12:02because it involves the Queen and all of the pomp and ceremony and
0:12:02 > 0:12:06giving the huge honours for the president. In her heart of hearts,
0:12:06 > 0:12:11even Theresa May regrets making and I'm sure she regrets making the
0:12:11 > 0:12:14picture of herself on the White House lawn hand-in-hand with Trump.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18It seems a long time ago. The state visit is not going to happen any
0:12:18 > 0:12:23time soon, is it?I think the state visit has now been postponed. It is
0:12:23 > 0:12:26usually something that presidents get in the second term. It was
0:12:26 > 0:12:29always going to be quite controversial this idea that it was
0:12:29 > 0:12:34going to be a great expansion and visit given to him. The working
0:12:34 > 0:12:39visit, as I understand Joe said correctly, I understand it is at the
0:12:39 > 0:12:43end of February. But the actual state visit I think will now be in
0:12:43 > 0:12:492019. In 2019, she may well not be Prime Minister any longer. I don't
0:12:49 > 0:12:54know what the protocol is on this. From maybe impeached by then as
0:12:54 > 0:12:57well.Let's have a look at Star Wars, the premiere of the latest
0:12:57 > 0:13:04film. Are you a Star Wars fan?I am, yes, ever since I was very, very
0:13:04 > 0:13:08young, it's been part of my upbringing. I've seen all of them, I
0:13:08 > 0:13:12had all of the toys when I was a kid, and I massively excited about
0:13:12 > 0:13:17this.Are you massively excited?I loved it when I was a little girl, I
0:13:17 > 0:13:23got my hair done as Princess Leia. But I'm looking forward to taking my
0:13:23 > 0:13:27little boy to see it, he is wildly excited.It was quite a big
0:13:27 > 0:13:36premiere. Even got some royalty who were there.The fact that it has
0:13:36 > 0:13:41made the front of most of the papers shows what a big deal it is and how
0:13:41 > 0:13:45it's going to beat the film that really captures the imagination this
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Christmas.5-star review. Thank you very much indeed.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50That's it for The Papers tonight.
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0:14:00 > 0:14:02Thank you, Joe Watts and Caroline Wheeler.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Goodbye.