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0:00:14 > 0:00:15Hello and welcome to our look ahead
0:00:15 > 0:00:18to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21With me are the author and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
0:00:21 > 0:00:30and Ruth Lea, economic advisor at Arbuthnot Banking Group.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35First, a look at all front pages that will greet us tomorrow.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37The Metro leads with a picture of Rebecca Dykes,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39the British Embassy worker who has been found dead
0:00:39 > 0:00:41at the side of a road in Beirut.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44The Financial Times says that millennials and gig economy workers
0:00:44 > 0:00:48have been left behind by pension reforms.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51The Daily Express has a warning of wild winds for Christmas,
0:00:51 > 0:00:57saying that 70 mph storm chaos is on the way.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59As with many of tomorrow's front pages,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02the Telegraph also carries a picture of Rebecca Dykes,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04as well as a message from the UK Government
0:01:04 > 0:01:11that the Saudis "must stop starving Yemen".
0:01:11 > 0:01:14The Times say the Tories are urging Theresa May to stay on as PM
0:01:14 > 0:01:16over fears that a leadership election would wreck
0:01:16 > 0:01:18post-Brexit trade talks.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21The Guardian reports that Tory backbenchers
0:01:21 > 0:01:23are calling for a cross-party alliance,
0:01:23 > 0:01:30saying that Labour are the key to securing a soft Brexit.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33The Mirror also leads with the news
0:01:33 > 0:01:43that a British embassy worker has been killed in Beirut.
0:01:43 > 0:01:48Are so let's begin with the Guardian, that story that Labour
0:01:48 > 0:01:52holds the key to a soft Brexit, according to Tory backbenchers.Of
0:01:52 > 0:01:57course, we don't know which rebels have been talking to Gavin Barwell,
0:01:57 > 0:02:02but it seems that some of them have been going to him and saying, look,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05we should have a deal with some of the Labour Party, have a cross-party
0:02:05 > 0:02:11alliance to come up with some sort of soft Brexit compromise. I think
0:02:11 > 0:02:17the chances of this are absolutely zero, I cannot see for one second,
0:02:17 > 0:02:22one ns, that Theresa May would agree to a cross-party alliance with the
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Labour Party, absolutely unbelievable. I do wonder what is
0:02:25 > 0:02:29going through the minds of rebels now, fair enough, they won the vote
0:02:29 > 0:02:34last week, they can have the vote on the framework deal at the end of
0:02:34 > 0:02:392018, but what happens if they then say, we don't really like this deal,
0:02:39 > 0:02:43whatever it may be, let's vote against it, what is the alternative
0:02:43 > 0:02:49I would like to ask Dominic Grieve, Anna Soubry. The alternative would
0:02:49 > 0:02:55be, presumably, falling out of the EU in March 2019 with no deal at
0:02:55 > 0:02:59all.No, that is not what it means, and I think it is so wrong to
0:02:59 > 0:03:08present it in this binary way, and to ridicule some very, very, very
0:03:08 > 0:03:11real, authentic, sincere, intelligent people. It wasn't easy
0:03:11 > 0:03:14for those 11 people to do what they did last week, hang on, let me
0:03:14 > 0:03:20finish. It is not as if there is only one way that this can happen.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24This is the biggest thing this country is going to go through. Even
0:03:24 > 0:03:29you, with your very strong views, and me, with my very strong views,
0:03:29 > 0:03:33have to realise that between several positions there is a sea
0:03:33 > 0:03:39possibilities.Could I ask a question, please? What if the rebels
0:03:39 > 0:03:46vote against any deal agreed with the EU? What will happen? Yasmin,
0:03:46 > 0:03:51what will happen...I'm trying to answer your question.You are not
0:03:51 > 0:03:58answering.You keep interrupting me. There isn't a deal...Just a moment,
0:03:58 > 0:04:04Ruth!You can't do this, I need to speak. Barnier has just said,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08actually, he has cast doubt on whether the Government should we
0:04:08 > 0:04:12allow the flexibility that we thought she had got, they cannot
0:04:12 > 0:04:16cherry-pick, he says. Like I said, there is a range of possibilities.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22We cannot carry on. I thought you had more sense than Johnson and the
0:04:22 > 0:04:28Rees-Mogg, Ruth. Twice before I bring you back in, let's address
0:04:28 > 0:04:31this idea of reachingout, do you think there is a coalition to be
0:04:31 > 0:04:37formed?In a way, the Labour Party has got away with things for a long
0:04:37 > 0:04:41time, they are as divided as the Tories, but they do not have the
0:04:41 > 0:04:44loony wing that the Tories seem to have produced in people like
0:04:44 > 0:04:50Rees-Mogg. But they are as divided, they are as many Labour MPs who are
0:04:50 > 0:04:57for as against, so a coalition of people who, in my view, and it is my
0:04:57 > 0:05:03view, who have a more sensible, softer approach to Brexit would be a
0:05:03 > 0:05:08good thing.Two things, Theresa May would not agree to that, and you
0:05:08 > 0:05:12have not answered my question - what happens if the rebels vote against
0:05:12 > 0:05:17the deal agreed between the EU and the British governance?I do not
0:05:17 > 0:05:22accept it is agreed yet. Hypothetically, what happens if they
0:05:22 > 0:05:30vote against any agreed deal?We keep talking.We keep talking!We
0:05:30 > 0:05:35keep talking.Keep talking!This is not like an election, this is our
0:05:35 > 0:05:41destiny for the next hundred years, that is not about you, it is about
0:05:41 > 0:05:47the children and grandchildren. Britain has been incredibly good at
0:05:47 > 0:05:52compromising, not taking hard lines. I am not taking hard lines. I am
0:05:52 > 0:05:59just saying, what do these people do if they vote no?I trust them to do
0:05:59 > 0:06:04the right thing, that is my answer. One of the issues here, Michel
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Barnier has given an interview to Prospect magazine, some references
0:06:08 > 0:06:13to the fact that he has said there will be no cherry-pick in, they are
0:06:13 > 0:06:18taking a pretty hard line position, saying, we will not give you a bus
0:06:18 > 0:06:22broke deal, what you make of that? In the words of Mandy Rice-Davies,
0:06:22 > 0:06:30he would say that, wouldn't he?Grow up!He is a negotiator, and if you
0:06:30 > 0:06:35are a negotiator, you put your position here, the other puts his
0:06:35 > 0:06:38position there, and then you negotiate.So there is a bespoke
0:06:38 > 0:06:45deal to be found?I have every faith in this government and the EU, which
0:06:45 > 0:06:51Yasmin so adores.I do, I do.I have every sense that they will see there
0:06:51 > 0:06:58is a beneficial deal to be hard. Beneficial, beneficial...The way we
0:06:58 > 0:07:03have behaved until very recently, and I have to give credit to Theresa
0:07:03 > 0:07:09May, and she has spoken language which is conciliatory, but these mad
0:07:09 > 0:07:13Brexiters will not let that happen. Every time... The Florence speech
0:07:13 > 0:07:22was a good speech.It was, I agree. Goodness me!But look what happened
0:07:22 > 0:07:27next, all these extremists Brexiters, there is no deal good
0:07:27 > 0:07:32enough.She is in charge, I have every confidence...Look at Boris!
0:07:32 > 0:07:38We have to move on from Brexit, but before we do, we have members of the
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Cabinet meeting tomorrow, Tuesday is a full cabinet meeting, Yasmin, what
0:07:41 > 0:07:47do you think they will set out as their vision for this next phase of
0:07:47 > 0:07:51the negotiations?I don't know, because I think the Government
0:07:51 > 0:07:55itself is so divided. There are so many people in that cabinet to have
0:07:55 > 0:07:59a completely different vision from the way Theresa May has been
0:07:59 > 0:08:04talking. I don't know. I think they could get their own house in order,
0:08:04 > 0:08:09we might begin to understand.They are moving towards it, because
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Philip Hammond, who was always keen on the transition agreement, which
0:08:12 > 0:08:17is going to happen, he is moving more and more to the idea of a bus
0:08:17 > 0:08:20broke deal, and if you have got Philip Hammond and David Davis and
0:08:20 > 0:08:25Boris Johnson, those three in particular on the same side, that is
0:08:25 > 0:08:27excellent news, and it seems as though they are coalescing around
0:08:27 > 0:08:34that there.Boris is not, he is taking off again, as ever.We have
0:08:34 > 0:08:38had a good go at coalescing on Brexit, but let's move on to the
0:08:38 > 0:08:43Financial Times, we are going to start with IKEA, and other EU story
0:08:43 > 0:08:47in a way, but more specific, to do with a crackdown on corporate tax
0:08:47 > 0:08:53avoidance, they are in the firing line.Which is extraordinary, like
0:08:53 > 0:08:57all these other internet giants and so on, they have got their very
0:08:57 > 0:09:06clever ways of what is not a strictly illegal tax avoidance, and
0:09:06 > 0:09:11I am pleased that the EU is coming down on these things that have been
0:09:11 > 0:09:17going on for such a long time. One of the reasons, I think, so many
0:09:17 > 0:09:21people across Europe and the West are so troubled at the moment is
0:09:21 > 0:09:25that they don't feel the world is fair, and something has got to be
0:09:25 > 0:09:30done, and I am glad they are doing something about it. Will I go to
0:09:30 > 0:09:39idea? I have a quandary!We are going to whizz on, there is a story
0:09:39 > 0:09:43in the FT I want you to talk about, millennials and the deep economy,
0:09:43 > 0:09:47young people, particularly self-employed people, people with
0:09:47 > 0:09:51several jobs, the zoo of pensions and whether we are saving enough.I
0:09:51 > 0:09:56suspect we are not, and I take the view that anyone who is
0:09:56 > 0:10:00self-employed will not be included in auto enrolment.This is new auto
0:10:00 > 0:10:04enrolment for younger people.And also, they're going to put up the
0:10:04 > 0:10:11levels at which people contribute. So I take the point, but the FT, I
0:10:11 > 0:10:14must make the point that this is a step in the right direction towards
0:10:14 > 0:10:18people saving more for their old age, which will needs to happen, as
0:10:18 > 0:10:25we have got an ageing population, the ever more burdensome on
0:10:25 > 0:10:29taxpayers, the generation of taxpayers coming up.Startling
0:10:29 > 0:10:35facts, around 38% of the working age population, the Government, under
0:10:35 > 0:10:40saving for their retirement.But it is not just that they'll
0:10:40 > 0:10:43self-employed, the gig economy, the money they earn is so low, most of
0:10:43 > 0:10:47them, so saving is not an option, especially if you are living in
0:10:47 > 0:10:54cities like London.The cost of living is so high.The Daily
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Telegraph, Yasmin, let's start with this story, this picture of Rebecca
0:10:58 > 0:11:04Dykes on the front of several of the papers, this apparent murder in
0:11:04 > 0:11:09Beirut, very upsetting story.It is, just before Christmas, she was just
0:11:09 > 0:11:13about to come home for Christmas, and she is on the front page of
0:11:13 > 0:11:18virtually every paper, quite rightly, I think. But yes, we don't
0:11:18 > 0:11:23know more than that, but apparently so far it seems to indicate murder -
0:11:23 > 0:11:27and other stuff, which I just feel so bad for the family.Apparently
0:11:27 > 0:11:33strangled and found on the motorway, and she worked for the Department
0:11:33 > 0:11:36for International Development out of the embassy, tragic, what can you
0:11:36 > 0:11:41say? We have no idea who has done it, who knows?Very much the
0:11:41 > 0:11:46beginning of that reporting on that, isn't it? And Yasmin, to end, we
0:11:46 > 0:11:51will look at the Telegraph's lead story, Saudis must stop starving
0:11:51 > 0:11:56Yemen.This is interesting, that the Daily Telegraph is running this,
0:11:56 > 0:12:00because we have been allies of this vile regime for the longest time,
0:12:00 > 0:12:04and the way it treats its own population is something that we talk
0:12:04 > 0:12:08about, but really interesting that we have now got the Telegraph and
0:12:08 > 0:12:12the International Development Secretary saying, stop doing what
0:12:12 > 0:12:17you are doing in Yemen. Some of our arms are being sold to Saudi Arabia.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Children are starving, getting diseases we thought had been wiped
0:12:19 > 0:12:26out. Man-made horror like this, actually, we avoided looking at this
0:12:26 > 0:12:30story for a long time, so I am impressed, actually, that the
0:12:30 > 0:12:36Telegraph has run it.I agree, they could be breaking international law
0:12:36 > 0:12:43by blockading people, starving them of international aid. I totally
0:12:43 > 0:12:48agree with Yasmin, this is an horrendous civil war going on in the
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Yemen, part of the overall conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran to
0:12:51 > 0:12:57sort of control the Middle East. The Sunni-Shia conflict. Unfortunately
0:12:57 > 0:13:01for the two people of Yemen, they just happen to be in the front line
0:13:01 > 0:13:08of horror. -- poor people of Yemen. It is time that people started
0:13:08 > 0:13:10speaking out against Saudi Arabia, everybody has been sucking up to
0:13:10 > 0:13:16them for reasons that we although. Plenty of food for thought, we must
0:13:16 > 0:13:17leave it, time is tight.
0:13:17 > 0:13:18That's it for The Papers this hour.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Yasmin and Ruth will be back at 11:30.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Don't forget all the front pages are online on the BBC News website
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0:13:38 > 0:13:45Thank you, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Ruth Lea.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48They have behaved themselves impeccably, just about! Comeback in
0:13:48 > 0:13:52an hour to see if they are still fighting!