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Copenhagen. I wonder what she will
do with it. Give it to someone for | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
Christmas? Or keep it. Why not? | 0:00:00 | 0:00:02 | |
That's all the sport for now. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
Now on BBC News, here's
Ben with The Papers. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what The Papers will be | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
bringing us. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
With me are Katy Balls,
of the Spectator, and journalist | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
and broadcaster Shyama Perera. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:29 | |
Thank you very much for coming in. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
First, let's have a look
at today's front pages. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
The Observer leads on Brexit,
and warnings from Tory | 0:00:34 | 0:00:40 | |
peers that they will vote
against the Government in Parliament | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
if the Prime Minister tries to bully
them into supporting an extreme | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
version of leaving the EU. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:51 | |
The Sunday Telegraph's front
page features an article | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
by the Prime Minister with a quote,
"I've proved doubters wrong." | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
And another of its stories
highlights changes | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
to company pensions
and new government plans | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
to reduce the automatic
enrolment age from 22 to 18. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:06 | |
In the Sunday Times,
as well as their lead | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
on Boris Johnson's warning
on Brexit, there's | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
a story on tuition fees,
with the former Universities | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
Minister, David Willetts,
saying he wants an urgent government | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
review to scrap high interest rates
on loan repayments. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:21 | |
Theresa May writes
in the Sunday Express, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
saying she will not be derailed
from her duty to deliver the | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
public's decision to leave the EU. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
The Mail on Sunday claims left-wing
trolls sent abuse to the pregnant | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
wife of a Tory MP after he heckled
Jeremy Corbyn over his age. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:43 | |
Let us start with the Sunday
Telegraph, the Prime Minister, Katy, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:52 | |
I have proved the doubters wrong, in
she has. The doubters after the | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
election said she could only survive
a few days. Here she still is is. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
Her victory comment piece after she
has basically made it to Christmas, | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
touch wood, and after she was
granted sufficient progress to move | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
on to the second stage of the Brexit
talks, this is her saying, I have | 0:02:09 | 0:02:15 | |
got through it, got through the
first part of the negotiations, | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
everyone thought I would be gone.
She also says, amid all the noise, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:24 | |
we are getting on with the job. Some
of that noise has been brought by | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
herself and the Cabinet. Yes! Still
a correct statement, they are making | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
progress. A lot of people would not
have gambled she would be here, she | 0:02:33 | 0:02:38 | |
does look in a stronger position, I
think, than a few weeks ago. Despite | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
the Commons defeat the other day,
Shyama, at the hands of rebel MPs, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
it has on the whole been a good few
days. Absolutely. She responded by | 0:02:47 | 0:02:54 | |
saying, we will not be derailed from
this fundamental duty to delivered | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
the democratic will of the British
people. It is obviously not being | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
derailed if people are saying we
should get a view. But it is a very | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
robust statement from the Prime
Minister in the Sunday Telegraph. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
For whoever is reading it, I guess
they will be reassured. Whenever the | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
Prime Minister writes in a Sunday
paper, so too it seems startled | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
Foreign Secretary, arguably on
manoeuvres again. -- it seems does | 0:03:21 | 0:03:29 | |
the Foreign Secretary. Always fully
supportive, backing up her vision! | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
Boris getting in ahead. This week is
when the Cabinet for the first time | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
will start talking about what
Britain's end relationship with the | 0:03:38 | 0:03:44 | |
EU should be. Ahead of that meeting,
Boris has decided to tell the Sunday | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
Times what he thinks the vision
should be. I am not sure Theresa May | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
will thank him. The idea being we
should diverged from the EU rules. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:59 | |
This will be 2018's discussion! Not
the juiciest topic. Breaking free | 0:03:59 | 0:04:05 | |
from Ray meat regulations, but it
has risks -- from regulations. To | 0:04:05 | 0:04:12 | |
what extent should we be aligned
with the EU? It is an interesting | 0:04:12 | 0:04:17 | |
exercise, the whole Brexit
negotiation, in how diplomacy works | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
because we are seeing it on the
front pages every day, the changing | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
of the single word suddenly creating
a new way of looking at something or | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
somehow calming those who are
getting into... Creating a new way | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
of looking at the same old, same
old. When it said Boris, I read it | 0:04:34 | 0:04:47 | |
as Wassle state, Christmas
statement... He does tend to have | 0:04:47 | 0:04:54 | |
you reaching for your dictionary!
His criticism of Jeremy Corbyn did | 0:04:54 | 0:05:01 | |
not quite work, hopefully will be
more successful. I have forgotten | 0:05:01 | 0:05:10 | |
what the definition of mugglewump
was. The Observer, call off the | 0:05:10 | 0:05:17 | |
Brexit bullies, the Commons defeat
the other day, the whips were | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
accused of being a little
overzealous in their whipping to the | 0:05:20 | 0:05:26 | |
extent they may have been bullying.
Absolutely. We note the 11 | 0:05:26 | 0:05:32 | |
dissenters have all received death
threats and allsorts of unpleasant | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
things. This is two Tory peers also
writing in the Observer, so I do not | 0:05:36 | 0:05:44 | |
know if Mrs May and Boris and the
Observer and the two baroness as | 0:05:44 | 0:05:50 | |
were hoping they would get a
newspaper to edit when they leave, | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
but they are writing that the
resulting appalling insult from | 0:05:53 | 0:05:58 | |
Brexiteers calls for the expulsion
from the party and even death | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
threats are worrying symptoms of the
toxic atmosphere which has been | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
created in our country. Harriet
Harman will be introducing it in the | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
Commons tomorrow. She will be
calling for some action to be taken. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
The question is, what and how? That
is the modern atmosphere in which | 0:06:14 | 0:06:19 | |
politics is played out, not only the
whips, but social media, in a sense, | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
and some of the very virulent
attacks politicians now are on the | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
end of. Yeah, not only in this
story, in the story on the front of | 0:06:29 | 0:06:35 | |
the mail on Sunday, abuse from
Jeremy Corbyn supporters... This is | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
not the majority of people and the
majority of people are not online | 0:06:39 | 0:06:45 | |
trolls but there is a space for them
and there is this vitriol which you | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
do not see or it used to be a letter
to the MP that they were not shown. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:54 | |
Now they are confronted with it
constantly. It is tricky what the | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
Labour leadership, what the
Government can do. But they can send | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
a clear message it is not OK which
is what they are asking Theresa May | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
to do. It is terrifying that it
comes into your personal space, that | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
is the difference, your phone is
attached to your body, almost. If | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
you look on social media and the on
Twitter receiving horrible threats, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
it feels like someone is right in
your face, that is the difference. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
If you are politician, you cannot
cut yourself off from social media, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:28 | |
ignore it, say, I am not to be on
Twitter. Then you will be accused of | 0:07:28 | 0:07:41 | |
being behind on social media which
the Conservatives are already | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
accused. Nigel Farage, Shyama, still
sort of on Brexit, claiming he is | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
skint. Poor Nigel. No money in
politics. He is going slightly off | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
the Brexit theme, he says he has
separated and is skint at 53. After | 0:07:49 | 0:07:56 | |
24 years, he is really not earning
enough from politics. Of course, we | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
forget he has been an MEP. We forgot
all about MEPs until Nigel Farage | 0:08:00 | 0:08:06 | |
started asking for us to leave
Europe. I think this is a story | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
about a man on the brink of divorce.
Therefore, he is utterly panicked | 0:08:10 | 0:08:15 | |
because he will have to hand over
half of his doings to his Mrs. It | 0:08:15 | 0:08:20 | |
says he has a 4 million sperm town
house. Let us say in London at the | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
moment prices are so down, no matter
what the papers say, it will only go | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
for 3 million, so Nigel will only
get 1.5 million, and by those | 0:08:29 | 0:08:35 | |
standards, he probably is skint,
quite frankly. Are you feeling | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
sorry, is your heart bleeding for
Nigel Farage? He also played a role | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
in losing one of his jobs because it
is hard to see how he will continue | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
as an MEP, so maybe he needs to have
a think about that. He gave himself | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
the warnings and sacked himself! An
interesting story today about | 0:08:52 | 0:09:00 | |
teenagers and whether they should be
saving in pension schemes from their | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
first day at work, the idea of
reducing that age from 22 to 18. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:10 | |
Some 18-year-olds will be saying,
why do I need to think about a | 0:09:10 | 0:09:15 | |
pension? I think this is great news
because it is one of those things | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
were although you probably do not
think you should be saving for your | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
pension, if it comes out before you
get paid, you do not really notice, | 0:09:23 | 0:09:28 | |
that is how I have found with this
and my student loan. It is quite | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
terrifying when you think about it,
by the time I get to the age of | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
retiring, I will not hazard a guess
at what age that will be, there will | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
be... The state pension, you do not
know what it will be. Whenever I | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
speak to my friends, I asked them
what kind of... Great chat at a | 0:09:46 | 0:09:52 | |
party! Percentage of the salary, the
1%, if your employer will matched | 0:09:52 | 0:10:00 | |
that, the best thing to be doing. Is
that what you talk about at parties? | 0:10:00 | 0:10:06 | |
Sometimes I am alone in the corner,
weird. Is there a problem getting | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
younger people to save? They have
very little money left in their pay | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
packet to say. I have two adult
daughters a little bit younger than | 0:10:16 | 0:10:21 | |
Katy and they are in the jobs market
and they can barely make ends meet | 0:10:21 | 0:10:27 | |
with paying student loans, Masters
loans, bits and bobs. This is a | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
brilliant thing to do. Even from our
age group, when I was there age, I | 0:10:31 | 0:10:37 | |
was earning enough and I imagined
that was absolutely... The state | 0:10:37 | 0:10:41 | |
pension would be more than enough to
maintain the lifestyle I had. You | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
forget as you get older, you have
children, homes, other things, which | 0:10:45 | 0:10:50 | |
as a pensioner, you still need to
maintain. Let us get them all saving | 0:10:50 | 0:10:55 | |
as much as is humanly possible. We
had the rental memorial service at | 0:10:55 | 0:11:02 | |
St Paul's, very moving, six months
on from the terrible disaster -- the | 0:11:02 | 0:11:07 | |
Grenfell memorial service. Steve
McQueen is going to make a film | 0:11:07 | 0:11:15 | |
tribute to the victims of Grenfell
Tower. It is going to involve a | 0:11:15 | 0:11:20 | |
helicopter going over the building,
starting this week, while at his | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
there, taking footage. They are
saying it will be exhibited but not | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
further two years, part of the
reason being, still an inquiry | 0:11:28 | 0:11:33 | |
ongoing and all of their residence
in the area have been notified | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
because obviously it is such a
sensitive issue and will be four | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
years to come. Do you think it is
worth more memorial, Shyama? I do. I | 0:11:40 | 0:11:47 | |
think it is wonderful Steve McQueen
is funding it himself which says an | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
awful lot, a white City buy, from
just down the road, we are both | 0:11:51 | 0:11:58 | |
within spitting distance, you are
closer than me, Katy, and it is | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
wonderful to know it will live on in
some way. Let us go on to the | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
Telegraph, a story about Amazon,
questions about whether they can | 0:12:07 | 0:12:13 | |
deliver their parcels on time,
really. Amazon Prime, it is supposed | 0:12:13 | 0:12:19 | |
to be the super fast delivery
option, you pay a premium. You pay a | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
bit extra. Lots of people ordering
stuff in time for Christmas, missing | 0:12:23 | 0:12:28 | |
the deadline. The good news is
Christmas... I have not started | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
Christmas shopping yet. Nor have I!
As you get closer, if people are | 0:12:32 | 0:12:39 | |
going to make the deadline, there is
an inquiry going, but people will | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
not shop with them. I am a member of
Amazon Prime. It is quite expensive. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:53 | |
£79 a year and it promises delivery
within two days. When it works, it | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
really does work. You can do
something and have it delivered the | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
same day if you order early enough,
if you think of it as a saving of | 0:13:00 | 0:13:06 | |
your own time, even if you any
charge yourself the minimum wage, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:11 | |
£79 is a day off work, isn't it? It
saves you so much because you do not | 0:13:11 | 0:13:16 | |
need to use your own time. But it is
not working. We should go back to | 0:13:16 | 0:13:23 | |
traditional shopping perhaps. If you
want to be sure, go and buy it | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
yourself. Go into a shop. What kind
of concept is that? Let us end with | 0:13:27 | 0:13:35 | |
Strictly, we started with Brexit,
ending with Strictly, the winner, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
the start of Holby City, Joe
McFadden. Are you a fan? I am not. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:50 | |
From what I can tell, I had it on
the television last night, I did see | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
a bit... You had it on but you were
not watching? Two screams. He looked | 0:13:55 | 0:14:02 | |
very surprised. A good sign, it is
not just about whether you are a fan | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
favourite in terms of how popular
you are before you do it, not the | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
best dancer... I watch it
vicariously through Goggle Box. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:22 | |
Brexit to Strictly, you said as if
it was a non sequitur, but if | 0:14:22 | 0:14:27 | |
Theresa May and the Cabinet could
get but she and right, put on the | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
right costumes, Brexit would happen
more easily. There is a lot to be | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
learned for choosing the moment, the
rhythm, the steps. I am loving the | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
analogy! It is all about intelligent
thinking. I have a vision of Theresa | 0:14:39 | 0:14:46 | |
May and Jean-Claude Juncker on
Strictly together. Wonderful. What | 0:14:46 | 0:14:52 | |
would they dance? The tanker.
Something slinky. Theresa and Boris. | 0:14:52 | 0:15:03 | |
Fiery! The oldest winner, 42, the
oldest winner of Strictly. That | 0:15:03 | 0:15:10 | |
sounds quite young. It does to me.
Debbie McGee, 59, one of the | 0:15:10 | 0:15:17 | |
finalists, she has really been
showing her stripes. She has | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
actually been showing everything!
She has been brilliant. It has been | 0:15:21 | 0:15:27 | |
a really good year for the oldies. I
cannot believe you said... You | 0:15:27 | 0:15:35 | |
hinted he might be 59! I could not
believe that is true. So good to | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
have you with us. Thank you, Shyama
and Katy. That is it from The | 0:15:39 | 0:15:47 | |
Papers. We take a look at tomorrow's
front pages every evening on BBC | 0:15:47 | 0:15:52 | |
News, at 10:40pm. Goodbye to my
guests. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:57 |