0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:21bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24With me are Giles Kenningham, PR and former Conservative adviser.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26And Jack Blanchard from Politico.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Tomorrow's front pages.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Welcome.
0:00:31 > 0:00:41The Guardian leads on the sacking of Damian Green,
0:00:43 > 0:00:48That was after admitting he was misleading about claims of
0:00:48 > 0:00:54pornography on his computer.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56The Metro reads "Green out".
0:00:56 > 0:01:00The FT also pictures Damian Green.
0:01:00 > 0:01:08It's main story is about Brexit and a bid by UK regulators to woo
0:01:08 > 0:01:09foreign banks with a promise
0:01:09 > 0:01:16of easy access when the country leaves the EU.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18And...
0:01:18 > 0:01:20The Express reports on research claiming that eating salad
0:01:20 > 0:01:22vegetables every day could help stave off dementia by
0:01:22 > 0:01:23boosting memory power.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25It pictures Meghan Markle attending a Christmas party
0:01:25 > 0:01:34at Buckingham Palace.
0:01:34 > 0:01:42We will start with the demise of Damian Green. Take us to be Metro,
0:01:42 > 0:01:47Green out.Pretty blunt. Theresa May has lost her closest political ally
0:01:47 > 0:01:53and probably one of her few political confidants. The equivalent
0:01:53 > 0:01:57of David Cameron losing George Osborne when he was in government
0:01:57 > 0:02:02and for number 10 they need to spin it as an act of strength by Theresa
0:02:02 > 0:02:06May, showing her ruthlessness. She got rid of her best political
0:02:06 > 0:02:10friend. As with all these things it was more the cover-up than the
0:02:10 > 0:02:15original claim they did for him. It is a metaphor for her leadership.
0:02:15 > 0:02:22She felt she was getting momentum and this happens.Jack, how do you
0:02:22 > 0:02:28see it? This is the third resignation. Michael Fallon, Priti
0:02:28 > 0:02:33Patel, is this the biggest of the three?Yes. He is heard de facto
0:02:33 > 0:02:41number two and he stands in when she is out of the country and hears her
0:02:41 > 0:02:44closest ally, they have known each other since university so imagine
0:02:44 > 0:02:49how it feels to write the letter she wrote to a best friend saying sorry,
0:02:49 > 0:02:55you are out. I think it genuinely shows a ruthless streak that perhaps
0:02:55 > 0:03:00not everyone would know was there but if you read the report by the
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Cabinet Office, the summary, into his behaviour, I am not sure the
0:03:04 > 0:03:10Prime Minister was left with much choice. They basically came down on
0:03:10 > 0:03:14the side of the person making allegations against him and also
0:03:14 > 0:03:19said effectively he had lied. The other allegations about pornography
0:03:19 > 0:03:22on his computer. When that became clear I'm not sure she had any
0:03:22 > 0:03:30choice. It is a misleading claims about the allegation, not
0:03:30 > 0:03:35necessarily the allegation itself was true.This comes back to an
0:03:35 > 0:03:40issue from ten years ago. Having got rid of Michael Fallon in a ruthless
0:03:40 > 0:03:45way, she set the bar high. If she had not got rid of him she would
0:03:45 > 0:03:51have faced accusations of cronyism. And a bit of a cover-up. So
0:03:51 > 0:03:56difficult for them. The issue is how you get back on the front foot and
0:03:56 > 0:03:59in a normal news cycle you would have a rich diet of domestic stories
0:03:59 > 0:04:05to push things on the Brexit overshadows everything. In the
0:04:05 > 0:04:09absence of a distinct domestic agenda it is difficult.We can look
0:04:09 > 0:04:16at the front page of the Guardian newspaper. At what point during the
0:04:16 > 0:04:20day, Theresa May was privately dealing with this, while she was on
0:04:20 > 0:04:25her feet in the Commons, or sitting on a searching committee
0:04:25 > 0:04:33examination?She didn't epically long Prime Minister's Questions. And
0:04:33 > 0:04:38a committee hearing that went on two hours where she was grilled by
0:04:38 > 0:04:41backbench MPs. Poker-faced all the way through but she does almost too
0:04:41 > 0:04:50well. People might say that the Maybot came into its own today
0:04:50 > 0:04:53because you would never have known behind the mask she would have to
0:04:53 > 0:04:57Cusack one of her best friends. I'm sure she would have known this had
0:04:57 > 0:05:03to happen today.She got through PMQs on that that Select Committee
0:05:03 > 0:05:11is the most gruelling so fair play to her. And it felt like she had got
0:05:11 > 0:05:16into a groove but this is a bit of a step back.Theresa May's critics
0:05:16 > 0:05:22would say she is a decent person, genuine, believes in doing the right
0:05:22 > 0:05:26thing. I think she would be not impressed by Damian Green's
0:05:26 > 0:05:30behaviour and in the end she is not the sort of person who would let it
0:05:30 > 0:05:36slide.Donald Trump has been in the news this evening. He has been in
0:05:36 > 0:05:41buoyant mood as a result of tax policy in the US but the Guardian
0:05:41 > 0:05:46from pages concentrating on what he said about the UN. His decision
0:05:46 > 0:05:50regarding Jerusalem being the capital of Israel as far as he sees
0:05:50 > 0:05:58it and the critics who are mounting against him.Again with Donald Trump
0:05:58 > 0:06:02he is rewriting rules on international diplomacy, saying
0:06:02 > 0:06:07countries that do not back his resolution on Jerusalem will lose
0:06:07 > 0:06:15aid. Quite a big move by him.What we are also seeing, America having a
0:06:15 > 0:06:20different face to the world. This is a bullying thing for someone to say,
0:06:20 > 0:06:26saying if you do not back us every time, all that money, aid money,
0:06:26 > 0:06:30helping starving children and that kind of thing, that will be gone. If
0:06:30 > 0:06:34you think of the implications of the withdrawal of that money, that is
0:06:34 > 0:06:37serious, and not the sort of language we are used to hearing from
0:06:37 > 0:06:44the United States.And it could involve a country like Egypt.A lot
0:06:44 > 0:06:50of this money is spent in America's interest because it is about global
0:06:50 > 0:06:54security but I do not think Donald Trump thinks that far in front.
0:06:54 > 0:07:01Let's move to the Financial Times. Two elements to this, both Brexit
0:07:01 > 0:07:08related. We have city wooing investment banks with promise of
0:07:08 > 0:07:14easy access after Brexit.Mark Carney taking a different approach
0:07:14 > 0:07:18to what the EU has taken. A big battle about how much interaction
0:07:18 > 0:07:25there will be between our financial services industry and Europe's and
0:07:25 > 0:07:30Europe seems to put up the barriers, or threaten to saying if you do not
0:07:30 > 0:07:34fall into line your banking industry will not get anywhere near. Mark
0:07:34 > 0:07:39Carney is saying whatever happens after Brexit, you are welcome will
0:07:39 > 0:07:43stop and it is throwing the ball back to them.It is clever power
0:07:43 > 0:07:48play. There aren't lots of businesses financed out of Europe
0:07:48 > 0:07:53and he is saying, you have to sort this out. A lot of countries will
0:07:53 > 0:07:57want the EU to come to a deal but countries like Japan and South Korea
0:07:57 > 0:08:02want a trade deal and it feels at the moment the UK has momentum in
0:08:02 > 0:08:09this. The EU has other issues like Catalonia so it is good to push it
0:08:09 > 0:08:14back onto their plates.We would hope it is reciprocated, if not they
0:08:14 > 0:08:18will be consequences, what do we read into that?There is a threat
0:08:18 > 0:08:24from Mark Carney. We go on about how big a deal it is for Britain to get
0:08:24 > 0:08:27a deal on financial services because it is a large part of the economy
0:08:27 > 0:08:34but there is a lot of money for the EU and they rely on our financial
0:08:34 > 0:08:39services industry. We are the European capital of that industry.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44No deal would have big implications. I think we have been far too
0:08:44 > 0:08:48defensive and now it looks like we are getting on the front foot and
0:08:48 > 0:08:53framing the debate.What are the other elements in the Brexit events
0:08:53 > 0:08:57today? How long will the transition period be for a example. We heard
0:08:57 > 0:09:04from Michel Barnier, not necessarily saying what Theresa May might want
0:09:04 > 0:09:10to hear.I spoke to somebody senior in the City and they said three
0:09:10 > 0:09:14years we wanted, two years is acceptable. We want certainty, we do
0:09:14 > 0:09:21not want it to be never-ending. That is the conundrum for the government
0:09:21 > 0:09:24how they communicate certainty. Michel Barnier is saying maybe it
0:09:24 > 0:09:31will be a year and nine months. The way the story we have to cover it,
0:09:31 > 0:09:36every twist and turn and people must be sick of hearing it. Are they
0:09:36 > 0:09:41rowing about whether it is 20 months, 24 months? The important
0:09:41 > 0:09:45thing is the transition delay sorted quickly so everybody knows the EU
0:09:45 > 0:09:52single market will finish on this date.One of the elements about the
0:09:52 > 0:09:59transition period is whether or not if during that transition period new
0:09:59 > 0:10:04laws appear, will they still apply to the UK and if not will that be
0:10:04 > 0:10:11problematic?It will be a problem for some in the Tory party. As Giles
0:10:11 > 0:10:15might not. A lot of backbenchers will not be impressed if we are
0:10:15 > 0:10:20still taking rules from Europe after we have left.Some elements of the
0:10:20 > 0:10:25party, so then it is more important to get out rather than the deal,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28which is problematic in terms of scrutiny and getting a good deal but
0:10:28 > 0:10:34that has been noticeable. How much kick back on what Theresa May came
0:10:34 > 0:10:39back with in the initial divorce proceedings.A Tory MP told me
0:10:39 > 0:10:44today, I want to get out, I just want to scrub the EU symbol from my
0:10:44 > 0:10:51passport, that is all I care about. Hopefully that is not everyone who
0:10:51 > 0:10:55sees that issue.Having got past this period where these three issues
0:10:55 > 0:11:01had to be resolved up to a point, are we now starting afresh? The
0:11:01 > 0:11:06sides are starting this far apart and will move closer together?I
0:11:06 > 0:11:10still think the time period is unrealistic. You speak to the people
0:11:10 > 0:11:14who did the EE you can as a deal and that took seven years with one
0:11:14 > 0:11:23country and we are talking about so many countries. The EU does not tend
0:11:23 > 0:11:28to do things quickly.And it is not in their interest. Theresa May's
0:11:28 > 0:11:35argument would be we're not at the same starting point as Canada. We
0:11:35 > 0:11:39can finish was something that is not to do with the EU. Inside the Daily
0:11:39 > 0:11:47Express to an interesting story about a frozen embryo, a donor
0:11:47 > 0:11:53embryo frozen for 25 years.It is a nice story and definitely the
0:11:53 > 0:11:57heart-warming stuff people like to read around Christmas time. A young
0:11:57 > 0:12:03American couple who had a baby who is technically almost as old as her
0:12:03 > 0:12:09mother because the embryo was frozen in 1992 and has now been implanted.
0:12:09 > 0:12:14They have had a baby. An amazing world we live in, where medical
0:12:14 > 0:12:19science can make this sort of thing happen.An incredible story. A nice
0:12:19 > 0:12:24quote from the mother, do you realise I'm 26. If the baby had been
0:12:24 > 0:12:28born when it was supposed to, we could have been best friends.I'm
0:12:28 > 0:12:31sure we will hear a lot about this tomorrow.In the circumstances of
0:12:31 > 0:12:38the couple, they were struggling obviously to have a child of their
0:12:38 > 0:12:42own. Benjamin the father has cystic fibrosis which can make the father
0:12:42 > 0:12:48infertile. Hence the arrangements we have. It makes you wonder where this
0:12:48 > 0:12:55will lead to.As Jack said, it is a feel-good factor among a lot of doom
0:12:55 > 0:12:58and gloom at the moment. And some great photographs. Really
0:12:58 > 0:13:06heart-warming.Photographs of her pregnant and the record-breaking
0:13:06 > 0:13:16baby. On that more uplifting note, thank you. We will do this again at
0:13:16 > 0:13:2011:30pm. Goodbye.