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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Benedicte Paviot -

UK Correspondent at the French

broadcaster France 24.

And the Defence Editor

of the Evening Standard, Robert Fox.

Welcome to you both.

Tomorrow's front pages...

The Observer leads on Brexit,

and warnings from backbench Tory

MPs that they will vote

against the Government in Parliament

if the Prime Minister tries to bully

them into supporting an extreme

version of leaving the EU.

The Sunday Telegraph features

a column from Theresa May,

who says she has proved her critics

wrong by achieving the first

stage of the Brexit deal.

Boris Johnson calls

for the Prime Minister to strike

a Brexit trade deal that gives

Britain the power to ditch EU laws.

That's in an interview

in the Sunday Times.

Theresa May also writes

in the Sunday Express,

saying she will not be "derailed"

from her duty to deliver the

public's decision to leave the EU.

The Mail on Sunday says left-wing

trolls sent abuse to the pregnant

wife of a Tory MP after he heckled

Jeremy Corbyn over his age.

So, let's begin...

Let's start with the Sunday

Telegraph. Benedicte, Theresa May,

I've proved doubters wrong. That

might seem to some observers like a

bit of a rough week, but she doesn't

seem to see it that we stipulate she

has had a rough week. Of course she

now is after that turbulent six

months, says the

Telegraph, she is

really showing that she is confident

and that she is claiming victory

over the doubters, not just the

doubters in her own party, and in

Parliament, but actually I think

she's very much referring also to

other EU leaders in a sense, not in

the Sunday Telegraph, but she's

convinced them, persuaded them

almost, charmed them all beat them

down, because they've been talking

Britain down, certainly quite a few

Brexiteers are not happy at some of

the things that have been happening

in Parliament. Yes, she's had a

tough week and are very much so,

tough six months, certainly since

the general election, but she is

really talking tough and defiant and

indicating that she is moving

forward, and this is ahead of the

French were, because we know it is

the first time in the coming days

the Government will actually sit

down and talk about the way forward

and the terms of what Brexit deal

should actually be.

Yes, the Cabinet

actually getting briefed, the full

Cabinet for the first time, which is

extraordinary. The Prime Minister is

a battler, you have to say that.

I

thought Benedicte was about to is a

strong and stable! You know, -- was

about to say strong and stable.

She's back to form, she is winning,

because we're going to go through

the papers, they are all on

manoeuvres, they are all in the mix.

Boris, Philip Hammond, not Michael

Gove, I may say, Jacob Rees-Mogg,

who has come up with a hysterical

one-liner for those of a less than

but more sceptical persuasion --

less than passionate but more

sceptical. She knows what's

happening, but what's interesting is

the brief alignment of those two

stars, Philip Hammond Boris Johnson,

about the approach to a trade deal.

Yes, they are going to talk about

the trade deal. But just think how

long it to add to establish the

Canadian trade deal. This is

immensely complex. If you apply to

be a new member, not that anybody is

going to do that in the short-term,

but in the Balkans we may find

somebody popping up like Kosovo or

whatever to join, the document for

joining is huge. It's millions and

millions of words. And equally, and

doing it is going to prove very,

very difficult. I think that's what

we're to hear about. Sorry to break

the turkey early, and mix my

metaphors, this Brexit thing is

going to go on and on and on. It's

going to be irrelevant, as --

relentless.

In the Sunday Telegraph,

referring to the Cabinet, how to

unite the Cabinet on Brexit remains

the biggest obstacle. Isn't it

amazing that at this point this

hasn't already been done's there is

actually another problem looming, it

would seem, in the coming days. I'm

not even referring to the amendment

that will be won were defeated,

we're not sure which, but it looks

like now a possible win with some

flexibility on the exit date. But

actually, as the Sunday Telegraph

also points out, there is the

considerable looming challenges,

including the one about the fate of

Damian Green. It would seem that

there would be a second inquiry. Of

course, this is her trusty, Ally,

deputy, friend. What I would

personally say that I have found

profoundly shopping over the last

couple of weeks, Bob quick, former

police officers, top officers, who

make personal breaches of

confidentiality is very worrying in

this democracy.

We are going

backwards a bit and we must press

pause. The Sunday Express headline

on the stories, I won't be derailed,

she says. As Robert was saying, it

goes on and on and on. But there's a

lot more steel than one might have

imagined.

There's lots of juice in

the argument, we will find as we go

on.

Let's go to the Observer. They

have a different line about this.

This is from the House of Lords,

Conservatives there, call off the

Brexit bullies or face-to-face.

Robert, have a go at that one --

face defeat.

It's like the famous

Monty Python sketch of Wuthering

Heights. Because we're getting

messages left all over the place,

all of these papers, and I really

want to let sheep or Enigma to

decode it for us, what the hell is

going on's the Observer story is

based on a piece for them written by

two Tory peers. One a former editor

of the Sunday Telegraph. Talk about

building a castle on what is barely

sticks and straws. It's very, very

interesting. What patients with

craft and Ross Altman are

threatening in this is that if you

mess around with people who stick up

for a role of Parliament in all of

this, then we're going to vote

against again and again and again.

That means Tory peers as well. Just

to draw it in, you were getting on

to the point, what is really going

on is the people have spoken, as

Nigel Farage would say. His line.

But it's the role of Parliament. And

I think, you know, if you go back to

Magna Carta, and I really mean that,

the central run of Parliament in the

British constitution, this argument

and debate was bound to come up,

because the one thing you didn't get

in the referendum where the terms of

leaving Europe or the terms on which

used the end Europe. I think this is

going to be the argument and the

debate. I think this is the splitter

for both major parties. I think you

can split both.

Right, OK,

Benedicte, just go through that

story, anything else about that that

appeals to you? We've gone back to

Damian Green and then we went back

to Magna Carta, can we come back

up-to-date?

To quote the Observer,

and indeed Ross Altman and patients

wait, what they very much pointing

out, what they called the resulting

appalling insults from Brexiteers,

calls for expulsion from the party,

even death threats, what they call

worrying symptoms of the toxic

atmosphere which has been created in

our country. I think that is of deep

concern. To have a diversion of

opinion is obviously totally

understandable and encouraged. But

what is not acceptable is doing

courage people to insults, threaten

or encourage other people to

insults. And some of these MPs, it

is no joke, have received death

threats, or their partners, their

wives, their husbands have received

death threats. Seen from continental

Europe, this is actually quite

shocking, I have to say to.

Let's

leave Brexit behind for the moment

and go to another story. There are

other stories, thank goodness!

Benedicte, perhaps you could start

us on this. On the front of the

Sunday Times, I hiked student loans

now slashed them. This is Lord

Willits, who came up with the idea

of university Jewish and fees at

£9,000. The trouble is, it is the

interest that is charged on them,

and he says that is too high.

--

tuition fees. He oversaw tuition

fees, universities kept on hiking

the fees.

It made it a huge

industry.

He is now saying that it

should be slashed for the greater

good of preserving a viable graduate

repayment system that is politically

acceptable. The extra 3% on the

interest rate should be dropped.

That's funny, I have consistently

seen in the BBC paper reviews the

Riaz reviewers saying this very

thing. Perhaps they are classed

cottoning on. It's so much easier

when you are not in Government to

have these thoughts!

This is part of

the Conservatives trying to appeal

to young people who might have

drifted off.

You're absolutely

right. Every study of the last

general election shows there is an

absolute split in this country to

the above 25-year-olds on the below.

You are quite right, it's trying to

make student loans cheaper, student

loans killed off any Government

pretensions of the Lib Dems, and

they know it. This is actually, we

are in the sunny uplands, we are

just coming into something that is

going to be very important in the

next general election campaign.

They

want Jewish and

-- they want tuition these to be cut

to £3000.

They are saying, let's

turn off the tap a bit.

This is very

much a Christmas time thing. Amazon

are in trouble. They are facing

Christmas parcels inquiry. Robert,

are you waiting for parcels?

One did

go a wall for four days. It was a

straightforward report. Amazon offer

a service, to which I subscribe,

called premium. For reviews, I do

want to be able to say, I will get

that book in my hands or whatever

the following day. That is what

Amazon prime promises. It is a

premium account. I think it is about

£9. We've got a lovely story for

parcels going round the world and

being delivered late and so on. But

I don't think anything can damage

the fair name of Amazon at all.

Fairlane, possibly. Benedicte, do

you think that?

I'm being sarcastic!

No company is beyond criticism and

beyond the bridge. I think if you

promise that, you are in trouble. We

had a story a few days ago about the

fact of how little the drivers are

paid and how they are expected to

peak in a bottle and all kinds of

things. Big companies like this need

to be very careful, whether it is

Uber or Amazon or Google. Clearly

Amazon have got a problem. I would

imagine that being a savvy company

and seeing they are on the front of

the Sunday Telegraph, they will be

trying to put the smile back on the

customers. I don't subscribe to

Amazon prime. Or even premium!

Let's

go to an important story. There are

two big stories we have got to get

to. The first one is, the royal

wedding looms. Benedicte, on the

front page of the express, Royal

wedding fever.

Extraordinary.

Hotels, don't even think about it.

A

hotel room is £620?

We only learnt

yesterday afternoon, the exact date,

Saturday, made the 19th at Saint

Georges Chapel, the big Royal

wedding, Harry and Meghan. It seems

that hotels in winter already

feeling the Meghan effect.

Apparently, because within hours of

that announcement, 98% of all rooms

were fully booked. I gather up

prices have soared as high as £620

per night. I know I will be the

reporting on it.

From the point of

view of viewers...

I will take a

dawn train to Windsor.

They will

want this story, between now and the

wedding itself, not just the day

itself, you are going to be

overwhelmed with it.

I'm mostly

reporting on Brexit, which will not

surprise you. But there is no doubt

that we will be covering this as

well. There is great interest in

rural stories. And of course we a

global channel.

The express have

this story, a free glossy calendar!

They have been upstaged!

It's

mid-December!

Can't wait!

Let's get

to the story of the night. The

result of the Strictly Come Dancing.

Were you watching?

I have been, but

I've been slightly put off. You can

see what a sober, restrained

character I'm! It's the overall the

top for four months, not of the

dancers, but of the judges. We had

Bruno Tonioli falling off his chair

again today, and the reprises of

Craig Revel Horwood on his knees

before one of the dancers. They were

on another planet, this lot.

What

did you think of the man who won?

Three women rivals! I saw the last

dance, the standard was Inc Fred

Perry high!

I must tell you, the

Prime Minister herself, she's got

very important matters to attend to,

but she tweeted about it saying it

has been fantastic to watch,

congratulations to Joe McFadden and

commiserations to my constituent,

Debbie McGee.

Debbie McGee was

fantastic!

Would you have picked

Joe?

He did a storm, it was the

Charleston that did it!

I might not

have, but it wasn't up to me.

It

could have been up to you, you

should have phoned in!

Keep dancing!

Keep reviewing!

As they say at the

end of French films... That is the

end. That's it for the papers this

hour.

Thank you, Benedicte

Paviot and Robert Fox.

You'll both be back at 11:30pm

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