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0:00:14 > 0:00:18Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:18 > 0:00:19bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23With me are Benedicte Paviot - UK Correspondent at the French
0:00:23 > 0:00:24broadcaster France 24.
0:00:24 > 0:00:29And the Defence Editor of the Evening Standard, Robert Fox.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Welcome to you both.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32Tomorrow's front pages...
0:00:32 > 0:00:34The Observer leads on Brexit, and warnings from backbench Tory
0:00:34 > 0:00:39MPs that they will vote against the Government in Parliament
0:00:39 > 0:00:41if the Prime Minister tries to bully them into supporting an extreme
0:00:41 > 0:00:46version of leaving the EU.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49The Sunday Telegraph features a column from Theresa May,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53who says she has proved her critics wrong by achieving the first
0:00:53 > 0:00:55stage of the Brexit deal. Boris Johnson calls
0:00:55 > 0:00:58for the Prime Minister to strike a Brexit trade deal that gives
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Britain the power to ditch EU laws.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06That's in an interview in the Sunday Times.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Theresa May also writes in the Sunday Express,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11saying she will not be "derailed" from her duty to deliver the
0:01:11 > 0:01:15public's decision to leave the EU.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19The Mail on Sunday says left-wing trolls sent abuse to the pregnant
0:01:19 > 0:01:23wife of a Tory MP after he heckled Jeremy Corbyn over his age.
0:01:25 > 0:01:31So, let's begin...
0:01:31 > 0:01:37Let's start with the Sunday Telegraph. Benedicte, Theresa May,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41I've proved doubters wrong. That might seem to some observers like a
0:01:41 > 0:01:46bit of a rough week, but she doesn't seem to see it that we stipulate she
0:01:46 > 0:01:51has had a rough week. Of course she now is after that turbulent six
0:01:51 > 0:01:56months, says theTelegraph, she is really showing that she is confident
0:01:56 > 0:02:01and that she is claiming victory over the doubters, not just the
0:02:01 > 0:02:05doubters in her own party, and in Parliament, but actually I think
0:02:05 > 0:02:11she's very much referring also to other EU leaders in a sense, not in
0:02:11 > 0:02:15the Sunday Telegraph, but she's convinced them, persuaded them
0:02:15 > 0:02:19almost, charmed them all beat them down, because they've been talking
0:02:19 > 0:02:26Britain down, certainly quite a few Brexiteers are not happy at some of
0:02:26 > 0:02:29the things that have been happening in Parliament. Yes, she's had a
0:02:29 > 0:02:35tough week and are very much so, tough six months, certainly since
0:02:35 > 0:02:39the general election, but she is really talking tough and defiant and
0:02:39 > 0:02:44indicating that she is moving forward, and this is ahead of the
0:02:44 > 0:02:48French were, because we know it is the first time in the coming days
0:02:48 > 0:02:51the Government will actually sit down and talk about the way forward
0:02:51 > 0:02:59and the terms of what Brexit deal should actually be.Yes, the Cabinet
0:02:59 > 0:03:03actually getting briefed, the full Cabinet for the first time, which is
0:03:03 > 0:03:07extraordinary. The Prime Minister is a battler, you have to say that.I
0:03:07 > 0:03:16thought Benedicte was about to is a strong and stable! You know, -- was
0:03:16 > 0:03:20about to say strong and stable. She's back to form, she is winning,
0:03:20 > 0:03:24because we're going to go through the papers, they are all on
0:03:24 > 0:03:29manoeuvres, they are all in the mix. Boris, Philip Hammond, not Michael
0:03:29 > 0:03:35Gove, I may say, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has come up with a hysterical
0:03:35 > 0:03:41one-liner for those of a less than but more sceptical persuasion --
0:03:41 > 0:03:46less than passionate but more sceptical. She knows what's
0:03:46 > 0:03:52happening, but what's interesting is the brief alignment of those two
0:03:52 > 0:03:57stars, Philip Hammond Boris Johnson, about the approach to a trade deal.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02Yes, they are going to talk about the trade deal. But just think how
0:04:02 > 0:04:06long it to add to establish the Canadian trade deal. This is
0:04:06 > 0:04:13immensely complex. If you apply to be a new member, not that anybody is
0:04:13 > 0:04:17going to do that in the short-term, but in the Balkans we may find
0:04:17 > 0:04:23somebody popping up like Kosovo or whatever to join, the document for
0:04:23 > 0:04:28joining is huge. It's millions and millions of words. And equally, and
0:04:28 > 0:04:32doing it is going to prove very, very difficult. I think that's what
0:04:32 > 0:04:39we're to hear about. Sorry to break the turkey early, and mix my
0:04:39 > 0:04:43metaphors, this Brexit thing is going to go on and on and on. It's
0:04:43 > 0:04:52going to be irrelevant, as -- relentless.In the Sunday Telegraph,
0:04:52 > 0:04:57referring to the Cabinet, how to unite the Cabinet on Brexit remains
0:04:57 > 0:05:00the biggest obstacle. Isn't it amazing that at this point this
0:05:00 > 0:05:04hasn't already been done's there is actually another problem looming, it
0:05:04 > 0:05:09would seem, in the coming days. I'm not even referring to the amendment
0:05:09 > 0:05:12that will be won were defeated, we're not sure which, but it looks
0:05:12 > 0:05:17like now a possible win with some flexibility on the exit date. But
0:05:17 > 0:05:21actually, as the Sunday Telegraph also points out, there is the
0:05:21 > 0:05:26considerable looming challenges, including the one about the fate of
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Damian Green. It would seem that there would be a second inquiry. Of
0:05:30 > 0:05:35course, this is her trusty, Ally, deputy, friend. What I would
0:05:35 > 0:05:40personally say that I have found profoundly shopping over the last
0:05:40 > 0:05:47couple of weeks, Bob quick, former police officers, top officers, who
0:05:47 > 0:05:51make personal breaches of confidentiality is very worrying in
0:05:51 > 0:05:54this democracy.We are going backwards a bit and we must press
0:05:54 > 0:05:59pause. The Sunday Express headline on the stories, I won't be derailed,
0:05:59 > 0:06:06she says. As Robert was saying, it goes on and on and on. But there's a
0:06:06 > 0:06:11lot more steel than one might have imagined.There's lots of juice in
0:06:11 > 0:06:15the argument, we will find as we go on.Let's go to the Observer. They
0:06:15 > 0:06:21have a different line about this. This is from the House of Lords,
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Conservatives there, call off the Brexit bullies or face-to-face.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30Robert, have a go at that one -- face defeat.It's like the famous
0:06:30 > 0:06:36Monty Python sketch of Wuthering Heights. Because we're getting
0:06:36 > 0:06:41messages left all over the place, all of these papers, and I really
0:06:41 > 0:06:46want to let sheep or Enigma to decode it for us, what the hell is
0:06:46 > 0:06:53going on's the Observer story is based on a piece for them written by
0:06:53 > 0:07:02two Tory peers. One a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Talk about
0:07:02 > 0:07:07building a castle on what is barely sticks and straws. It's very, very
0:07:07 > 0:07:13interesting. What patients with craft and Ross Altman are
0:07:13 > 0:07:17threatening in this is that if you mess around with people who stick up
0:07:17 > 0:07:22for a role of Parliament in all of this, then we're going to vote
0:07:22 > 0:07:27against again and again and again. That means Tory peers as well. Just
0:07:27 > 0:07:32to draw it in, you were getting on to the point, what is really going
0:07:32 > 0:07:39on is the people have spoken, as Nigel Farage would say. His line.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44But it's the role of Parliament. And I think, you know, if you go back to
0:07:44 > 0:07:50Magna Carta, and I really mean that, the central run of Parliament in the
0:07:50 > 0:07:53British constitution, this argument and debate was bound to come up,
0:07:53 > 0:07:57because the one thing you didn't get in the referendum where the terms of
0:07:57 > 0:08:03leaving Europe or the terms on which used the end Europe. I think this is
0:08:03 > 0:08:08going to be the argument and the debate. I think this is the splitter
0:08:08 > 0:08:13for both major parties. I think you can split both.Right, OK,
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Benedicte, just go through that story, anything else about that that
0:08:17 > 0:08:21appeals to you? We've gone back to Damian Green and then we went back
0:08:21 > 0:08:28to Magna Carta, can we come back up-to-date?To quote the Observer,
0:08:28 > 0:08:33and indeed Ross Altman and patients wait, what they very much pointing
0:08:33 > 0:08:38out, what they called the resulting appalling insults from Brexiteers,
0:08:38 > 0:08:43calls for expulsion from the party, even death threats, what they call
0:08:43 > 0:08:46worrying symptoms of the toxic atmosphere which has been created in
0:08:46 > 0:08:52our country. I think that is of deep concern. To have a diversion of
0:08:52 > 0:08:55opinion is obviously totally understandable and encouraged. But
0:08:55 > 0:09:00what is not acceptable is doing courage people to insults, threaten
0:09:00 > 0:09:07or encourage other people to insults. And some of these MPs, it
0:09:07 > 0:09:11is no joke, have received death threats, or their partners, their
0:09:11 > 0:09:16wives, their husbands have received death threats. Seen from continental
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Europe, this is actually quite shocking, I have to say to.Let's
0:09:20 > 0:09:25leave Brexit behind for the moment and go to another story. There are
0:09:25 > 0:09:31other stories, thank goodness! Benedicte, perhaps you could start
0:09:31 > 0:09:36us on this. On the front of the Sunday Times, I hiked student loans
0:09:36 > 0:09:41now slashed them. This is Lord Willits, who came up with the idea
0:09:41 > 0:09:45of university Jewish and fees at £9,000. The trouble is, it is the
0:09:45 > 0:09:50interest that is charged on them, and he says that is too high.--
0:09:50 > 0:09:56tuition fees. He oversaw tuition fees, universities kept on hiking
0:09:56 > 0:10:04the fees.It made it a huge industry.He is now saying that it
0:10:04 > 0:10:09should be slashed for the greater good of preserving a viable graduate
0:10:09 > 0:10:13repayment system that is politically acceptable. The extra 3% on the
0:10:13 > 0:10:17interest rate should be dropped. That's funny, I have consistently
0:10:17 > 0:10:22seen in the BBC paper reviews the Riaz reviewers saying this very
0:10:22 > 0:10:26thing. Perhaps they are classed cottoning on. It's so much easier
0:10:26 > 0:10:31when you are not in Government to have these thoughts!This is part of
0:10:31 > 0:10:35the Conservatives trying to appeal to young people who might have
0:10:35 > 0:10:41drifted off.You're absolutely right. Every study of the last
0:10:41 > 0:10:45general election shows there is an absolute split in this country to
0:10:45 > 0:10:49the above 25-year-olds on the below. You are quite right, it's trying to
0:10:49 > 0:10:55make student loans cheaper, student loans killed off any Government
0:10:55 > 0:11:00pretensions of the Lib Dems, and they know it. This is actually, we
0:11:00 > 0:11:03are in the sunny uplands, we are just coming into something that is
0:11:03 > 0:11:06going to be very important in the next general election campaign.They
0:11:06 > 0:11:09want Jewish and
0:11:11 > 0:11:21-- they want tuition these to be cut to £3000.They are saying, let's
0:11:21 > 0:11:27turn off the tap a bit.This is very much a Christmas time thing. Amazon
0:11:27 > 0:11:36are in trouble. They are facing Christmas parcels inquiry. Robert,
0:11:36 > 0:11:46are you waiting for parcels?One did go a wall for four days. It was a
0:11:46 > 0:11:50straightforward report. Amazon offer a service, to which I subscribe,
0:11:50 > 0:11:55called premium. For reviews, I do want to be able to say, I will get
0:11:55 > 0:12:00that book in my hands or whatever the following day. That is what
0:12:00 > 0:12:05Amazon prime promises. It is a premium account. I think it is about
0:12:05 > 0:12:10£9. We've got a lovely story for parcels going round the world and
0:12:10 > 0:12:15being delivered late and so on. But I don't think anything can damage
0:12:15 > 0:12:20the fair name of Amazon at all. Fairlane, possibly. Benedicte, do
0:12:20 > 0:12:30you think that?I'm being sarcastic! No company is beyond criticism and
0:12:30 > 0:12:34beyond the bridge. I think if you promise that, you are in trouble. We
0:12:34 > 0:12:39had a story a few days ago about the fact of how little the drivers are
0:12:39 > 0:12:42paid and how they are expected to peak in a bottle and all kinds of
0:12:42 > 0:12:49things. Big companies like this need to be very careful, whether it is
0:12:49 > 0:12:54Uber or Amazon or Google. Clearly Amazon have got a problem. I would
0:12:54 > 0:12:58imagine that being a savvy company and seeing they are on the front of
0:12:58 > 0:13:01the Sunday Telegraph, they will be trying to put the smile back on the
0:13:01 > 0:13:15customers. I don't subscribe to Amazon prime. Or even premium!Let's
0:13:15 > 0:13:20go to an important story. There are two big stories we have got to get
0:13:20 > 0:13:27to. The first one is, the royal wedding looms. Benedicte, on the
0:13:27 > 0:13:33front page of the express, Royal wedding fever.Extraordinary.
0:13:33 > 0:13:40Hotels, don't even think about it.A hotel room is £620?We only learnt
0:13:40 > 0:13:44yesterday afternoon, the exact date, Saturday, made the 19th at Saint
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Georges Chapel, the big Royal wedding, Harry and Meghan. It seems
0:13:48 > 0:13:55that hotels in winter already feeling the Meghan effect.
0:13:55 > 0:14:01Apparently, because within hours of that announcement, 98% of all rooms
0:14:01 > 0:14:07were fully booked. I gather up prices have soared as high as £620
0:14:07 > 0:14:10per night. I know I will be the reporting on it.From the point of
0:14:10 > 0:14:22view of viewers...I will take a dawn train to Windsor.They will
0:14:22 > 0:14:25want this story, between now and the wedding itself, not just the day
0:14:25 > 0:14:30itself, you are going to be overwhelmed with it.I'm mostly
0:14:30 > 0:14:33reporting on Brexit, which will not surprise you. But there is no doubt
0:14:33 > 0:14:38that we will be covering this as well. There is great interest in
0:14:38 > 0:14:45rural stories. And of course we a global channel.The express have
0:14:45 > 0:14:51this story, a free glossy calendar! They have been upstaged!It's
0:14:51 > 0:15:01mid-December!Can't wait!Let's get to the story of the night. The
0:15:01 > 0:15:08result of the Strictly Come Dancing. Were you watching?I have been, but
0:15:08 > 0:15:13I've been slightly put off. You can see what a sober, restrained
0:15:13 > 0:15:19character I'm! It's the overall the top for four months, not of the
0:15:19 > 0:15:23dancers, but of the judges. We had Bruno Tonioli falling off his chair
0:15:23 > 0:15:29again today, and the reprises of Craig Revel Horwood on his knees
0:15:29 > 0:15:35before one of the dancers. They were on another planet, this lot.What
0:15:35 > 0:15:46did you think of the man who won? Three women rivals! I saw the last
0:15:46 > 0:15:50dance, the standard was Inc Fred Perry high!I must tell you, the
0:15:50 > 0:15:57Prime Minister herself, she's got very important matters to attend to,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00but she tweeted about it saying it has been fantastic to watch,
0:16:00 > 0:16:05congratulations to Joe McFadden and commiserations to my constituent,
0:16:05 > 0:16:13Debbie McGee.Debbie McGee was fantastic!Would you have picked
0:16:13 > 0:16:21Joe?He did a storm, it was the Charleston that did it!I might not
0:16:21 > 0:16:27have, but it wasn't up to me.It could have been up to you, you
0:16:27 > 0:16:34should have phoned in!Keep dancing! Keep reviewing!As they say at the
0:16:34 > 0:16:37end of French films... That is the end. That's it for the papers this
0:16:37 > 0:16:38hour.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Thank you, Benedicte Paviot and Robert Fox.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43You'll both be back at 11:30pm for another look at the stories
0:16:43 > 0:16:44making the news tomorrow.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Coming up next, it's Meet the Author.