0:00:00 > 0:00:06That's it from me and the Sportsday team. Good night.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:20bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22With me are Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor
0:00:22 > 0:00:25of the Evening Standard, and the Political
0:00:25 > 0:00:28strategist Jo Tanner.
0:00:28 > 0:00:34Good evening to you both. Tomorrow's front pages.
0:00:34 > 0:00:42The I says "Boris slugs it out with the Bear" -
0:00:42 > 0:00:46as it reports on the Foreign Secretary's frosty visit to Moscow.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48The Times pictures Boris Johnson on his Russian trip --
0:00:48 > 0:00:51it's main story is about claims the government is considering a new
0:00:51 > 0:00:52road toll charge to cut congestion.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56The FT reports on the drop
0:00:56 > 0:00:59in the value of Bitcoin which tumbled by almost 30 per cent.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02(ANI) <MAIL> The Mail looks at the new blue passports set
0:01:02 > 0:01:04for Britain following Brexit - with calls that they should
0:01:04 > 0:01:05be produced here too.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09But for the Guardian the new blue passports mean further red tape and
0:01:09 > 0:01:12delays at EU passport controls.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14The Telegraph reports on what it calls a tax
0:01:14 > 0:01:17revenge on tycoons who bankrolled Brexit, as some Leave donors accused
0:01:17 > 0:01:23HMRC of a "political attack".
0:01:23 > 0:01:25It's going to be a balmy Christmas,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27according to the Express, as the mild weather fools nature
0:01:27 > 0:01:28into thinking it's Spring.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30And it's Bar Humbug from the Sun --
0:01:30 > 0:01:33it reports on U.S-owned Cadbury replacing the traditional Fudge bar
0:01:33 > 0:01:35from it's festive selection box, with a Dairy Milk Oreo -
0:01:35 > 0:01:39one frustrated fan fumed "Christmas is ruined".
0:01:39 > 0:01:50That was too many Fs for me! Let's go to the front page of the i
0:01:50 > 0:01:57newspaper. Boris slugging it out with the bear. Boris looks a bit
0:01:57 > 0:02:02bear- like in that photo. Any surprises in the fact that it was a
0:02:02 > 0:02:06difficult meeting.I guess it was not set up to be a particularly
0:02:06 > 0:02:09friendly event. I think the comments from the Prime Minister about, we
0:02:09 > 0:02:13know what you have been doing, -- the comments from the Foreign
0:02:13 > 0:02:18Minister, what he said in the autumn, we have kind of been
0:02:18 > 0:02:23expecting that, I don't know if anyone expected the meeting to go
0:02:23 > 0:02:27quite the way that it did with talk about Kettle chips being exported,
0:02:27 > 0:02:32Boris made quite a few interesting comments and there was a most
0:02:32 > 0:02:36bizarre exchange over trust and Boris talking about how he trusted
0:02:36 > 0:02:39his Russian counterpart so much that he gave him the contents of his
0:02:39 > 0:02:49pockets. And the Russian replied that there was nothing in the
0:02:49 > 0:02:55pockets!He had had a look! Martin, what was so remarkable about this is
0:02:55 > 0:02:57that one imagines that these exchanges take place behind closed
0:02:57 > 0:03:04doors but this lease to confront gushy take place in front of the
0:03:04 > 0:03:09world's media. Mum we've had tense relationships of services poisoning
0:03:09 > 0:03:14of Alexander Litvinenko and then you had Crimea and Ukraine and Russia's
0:03:14 > 0:03:22involvement in Syria, which led to the cancellation of a previous trip
0:03:22 > 0:03:27by Boris Johnson. In a way it is progress that he has gone there, and
0:03:27 > 0:03:31despite the fact that there is this open exchange of disagreement and
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Boris is raising issues like LGBT rights, deliberately making this
0:03:36 > 0:03:39points to the Russians, I think he had to do these things, you can't
0:03:39 > 0:03:43pretend that there are not differences but I think the Russians
0:03:43 > 0:03:46would understand probably that there are those differences and we are
0:03:46 > 0:03:52going to say that. But maybe there will be a bit of progress towards
0:03:52 > 0:03:57getting some sort of co-operation. If you look elsewhere in the world,
0:03:57 > 0:04:02sanctions against North Korea, not down to us but the Russians have
0:04:02 > 0:04:08come on-board there soap engagement, sometimes if it does not very
0:04:08 > 0:04:12friendly, underlying and there can be progress towards getting better
0:04:12 > 0:04:16relationships and better working together which is maybe what we
0:04:16 > 0:04:20ultimately want. As look at the front page of The Times. It's got a
0:04:20 > 0:04:24picture of the Foreign Secretary that is on one of the other front
0:04:24 > 0:04:31pages as well. It is a great picture opportunity Jo, for Boris, isn't it.
0:04:31 > 0:04:41I used to work with him and you know there's a fantastic image which has
0:04:41 > 0:04:49been used in a few places. Boris will often uses facial expressions
0:04:49 > 0:05:03and behaviour, this really iconic backdrop, he was probably saying
0:05:03 > 0:05:09something very important about time! It's meant to look as if he's
0:05:09 > 0:05:19wagging his finger at the Russians. A striking image.Better than the
0:05:19 > 0:05:24one in the i newspaper which has with his eyes closed.The
0:05:24 > 0:05:27photographer has done in some favours. Let's look at the story on
0:05:27 > 0:05:31the front page of The Times, wrote to tell revolution. What is this
0:05:31 > 0:05:37about?A long-standing theme which has been going on for ages and never
0:05:37 > 0:05:46quite been realised about having road risings. They are charged per
0:05:46 > 0:05:52mile. There's a lot of logic to that because of people are creating more
0:05:52 > 0:05:55pollution by driving more than theoretically perhaps they should
0:05:55 > 0:05:58pay more. Hitherto it has always been difficult to have the
0:05:58 > 0:06:04technology to make that work, things advance with the congestion charge
0:06:04 > 0:06:10in London overseen by cameras, perhaps it becomes more and more
0:06:10 > 0:06:13possible, clearly the Road haulage Association, lorry drivers are
0:06:13 > 0:06:21complaining about it, lorry drivers suggesting they will be penalised
0:06:21 > 0:06:29unfairly and so on.Given the move towards electric cars, the amount of
0:06:29 > 0:06:34tax that the government will get from Phil be one of those areas they
0:06:34 > 0:06:37are looking at at to tinker with, that will go down. They've got to
0:06:37 > 0:06:42make up that money from car users somewhere else this is the obvious
0:06:42 > 0:06:46next step.Strange you would start with lorries, they will become the
0:06:46 > 0:06:54last vehicles become electric.If you think what will be popular with
0:06:54 > 0:06:57the electorate, going after them will not be popular so start with
0:06:57 > 0:07:01the lorries.They are the most polluting vehicles generally because
0:07:01 > 0:07:04they began to have big engines so there is a logic to it from that
0:07:04 > 0:07:08point of view. The ultimate reason for it is money raising in one
0:07:08 > 0:07:13sense. At the same time there's also an to deter people from using their
0:07:13 > 0:07:17cars and necessarily, or if they are using their vehicles and
0:07:17 > 0:07:26necessarily, therefore they have to deal with the consequences of that
0:07:26 > 0:07:31pollution which is killing people. The front page of the Telegraph has
0:07:31 > 0:07:43a different story, tax revenge on bank tycoons who bankroll Brexit.
0:07:43 > 0:07:52They are revealing that normally if people make donations to political
0:07:52 > 0:07:54parties, the referendum was not about political parties but those
0:07:54 > 0:08:02who donated to that, apparently the HMRC has discovered that there is an
0:08:02 > 0:08:06obscure area of inheritance tax which forces people to pay a tax on
0:08:06 > 0:08:09large gifts upfront, although it does not explain precisely how and
0:08:09 > 0:08:15why it works. What they are saying here is, this is hitting in
0:08:15 > 0:08:19particular people who donated to the Brexit campaign. I think that
0:08:19 > 0:08:25particular interpretation of it is seen as an anti-Brexit attack on
0:08:25 > 0:08:30those who defied the establishment which is how the Telegraph is
0:08:30 > 0:08:37portraying it, and Jacob Rhys Mogg is quoted as taking that approach.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40The bigger issue is that there are of accountants whose phones will
0:08:40 > 0:08:45have been ringing off the hook as these letters arrived, saying, hang
0:08:45 > 0:08:49on a minute, I thought I was OK to donate and now you tell me I will
0:08:49 > 0:08:55get a big tax bill!It lists several people who have received tax
0:08:55 > 0:08:58demands. I imagine for many it will have come out of the blue. You made
0:08:58 > 0:09:05the point earlier, how often does the referendum, long?You suspect
0:09:05 > 0:09:10many accountants would not even have looked into it, or as in the case of
0:09:10 > 0:09:13political donations a significant amount of people are political
0:09:13 > 0:09:17donors anyway so we'll have assumed it is a similar type of arrangement
0:09:17 > 0:09:22and so will have been really caught by this.This is why it is an
0:09:22 > 0:09:25interesting story, this unusual aspect of tax law which I suspect
0:09:25 > 0:09:29will eventually end up in court, there will be litigation between
0:09:29 > 0:09:32accountants and lawyers contesting this interpretation of the law! But
0:09:32 > 0:09:40it is interesting that this is what HMRC sees as the law and is trying
0:09:40 > 0:09:45to enforce it.Jo, the other story on the front page of the Telegraph
0:09:45 > 0:09:50is from the head of Tesco's about food wasting.Dave Lewis, who has
0:09:50 > 0:09:54been at Tesco since 2014 has announced that leftover food will
0:09:54 > 0:09:58not be thrown away any more and instead will go to charities will be
0:09:58 > 0:10:03used for animal food or fuel. It's a really interesting move because
0:10:03 > 0:10:07there's been a lot of talk about food waste. Previous campaigns on
0:10:07 > 0:10:15the issue, as those working with an organisation called Fare Share, a
0:10:15 > 0:10:20distribution organisation. Interesting that I was looking at
0:10:20 > 0:10:25the story and saying, this is interesting for a supermarket to
0:10:25 > 0:10:29make this attack because the government are now looking at waste
0:10:29 > 0:10:33but are looking at things like plastic. We know that Michael Gove
0:10:33 > 0:10:38is moving towards looking at things like the single use plastics and
0:10:38 > 0:10:42reducing them and that is one area where supermarkets really do have a
0:10:42 > 0:10:48problem. So what better way to get attention to something else by
0:10:48 > 0:10:55working out what you can do with waste food.Aunties explicit about
0:10:55 > 0:10:58getting attention although not necessarily about plastic.And this
0:10:58 > 0:11:03is a good idea. It is ridiculous that food is just thrown away. On an
0:11:03 > 0:11:07individual level I will eat anything that, I've seen things taken off the
0:11:07 > 0:11:11shelf because they are out of date, I think, I will give something for
0:11:11 > 0:11:15that, but they say, we can't sell you that, it's insane. In this case
0:11:15 > 0:11:22it will go to charities or animal food or fuel or whatever.Anything
0:11:22 > 0:11:26that can tackle waste, we are such wasteful nation, anything that
0:11:26 > 0:11:31tackles waste needs to be welcomed. This resonates particularly at
0:11:31 > 0:11:36Christmas.People are more conscious about plastics and so on, about
0:11:36 > 0:11:40environmental damage. It is all part of the bigger picture. Of exactly
0:11:40 > 0:11:46that, making sure that we are not just wasting goods, whether it
0:11:46 > 0:11:53close, food, excessive use of plastic and so on.Absolutely. Jo, a
0:11:53 > 0:11:58story about Michael Gove is on the front of the Financial Times, warm
0:11:58 > 0:12:05glow fading as Michael loaf is urged to smoke out -- Michael Gove is
0:12:05 > 0:12:14urged to smoke out devotees of wood burning.It evokes the images of
0:12:14 > 0:12:18people sitting around a roaring fire but actually there's been a growing
0:12:18 > 0:12:24move against the use of wood burning stoves. A lot of people have log
0:12:24 > 0:12:28burners installed, it's become fashionable again. Despite the use
0:12:28 > 0:12:31of smokeless fuels there are concerns that there are many of
0:12:31 > 0:12:37these fires being used and Sadiq Khan had previously announced that
0:12:37 > 0:12:43he had written to Michael Gove in September, and wants to ban them in
0:12:43 > 0:12:50some areas because of issues about air quality. The government is now
0:12:50 > 0:12:54looking at regulations to deter the burning of damp wood which
0:12:54 > 0:12:59apparently produces more smoke and there also particular smoky types of
0:12:59 > 0:13:03coal being looked at. It makes a very interesting point at the end of
0:13:03 > 0:13:08the story, saying the spokesman asked about this story declined to
0:13:08 > 0:13:12come and other Michael Gove has a wood-burning stove.We know that
0:13:12 > 0:13:16he's just moved into a new house so it might have been the stove he was
0:13:16 > 0:13:23going for and he will have to get rid of it!It's so warm now he won't
0:13:23 > 0:13:28need one!Martin, the front page of the daily Star, a royal race row,
0:13:28 > 0:13:43what has triggered this.Princess Michael has been wearing a Bridge,
0:13:43 > 0:13:50apparently popular many years ago, -- she's been wearing a brooch, and
0:13:50 > 0:13:54it is seen as an offence of colonial era depiction, and apparently she
0:13:54 > 0:14:00wore this to meet Meghan Markle who is of course of mixed ethnicity. And
0:14:00 > 0:14:05whether she knew she was doing this or not, I suspect not, she has
0:14:05 > 0:14:09certainly apologised for any offence you might have caused. She may have
0:14:09 > 0:14:14had no idea about the sensitivity. That is what the story is. It isn't
0:14:14 > 0:14:19clear that anybody at the lunch was actually offended by it all that
0:14:19 > 0:14:28Meghan Markle was. It's one of those things that people increasingly
0:14:28 > 0:14:30sensitive to these things, even if these people are not affected
0:14:30 > 0:14:38themselves, others are.This picture in one of the newspaper which shows
0:14:38 > 0:14:47Princess Michael of Kent wearing the brooch in a code pictured going into
0:14:47 > 0:14:52Buckingham Palace and the big meeting that the Queen has before
0:14:52 > 0:14:55going to Sandringham, the big gathering. We don't even know if
0:14:55 > 0:15:00Meghan Markle saw it because the code would have been taken off by
0:15:00 > 0:15:04courtiers and never seen again so we have no idea how big this story is
0:15:04 > 0:15:10or if any offence was caused but it is big enough to focus on.The thing
0:15:10 > 0:15:15is the intent, if someone intends to cause offence, that's terrible, if
0:15:15 > 0:15:19they are simply unaware of something that's a whole different level.And
0:15:19 > 0:15:26we won't know that. Let me sleep in a final story, the front page of the
0:15:26 > 0:15:39Son. Brooch Hamburg! You used to work there, did you like fudge.I
0:15:39 > 0:15:45was never a great fan of these bars. I have a child of nine and the third
0:15:45 > 0:15:50goes first in our has as well as growing up I wasn't bothered that a
0:15:50 > 0:15:57nine-year-old will happily grab the fudge straightaway.Disaster.
0:15:57 > 0:16:03Christmas has been ruined!I don't know how I'll break it to him.Jo,
0:16:03 > 0:16:07Martin, thank you both. That's it for the Papers.
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