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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the Evening Standard

columnist Rosamund Urwin

and the Telegraph's women's editor,

Claire Cohen.

I've let the side down with my lack

of sparkle and my drug choice of

attire, I apologise -- drab choice.

Tomorrow's front pages.

The Observer reports that children

from poor families are more likely

to need emergency treatment

for conditions like asthma

and diabetes compared

to their wealthier counterparts.

The Sunday Times says that

Theresa May will abandon a manifesto

pledge to overturn the ban on fox

hunting in the new year.

The Mail on Sunday details how

the British Army is spending

millions of pounds of taxpayers'

money to scrap its 'Be

the Best' motto, because

of fears it's elitist.

Britain's christmas

food and drink exports

are at all time high according

to the Sunday Express, with Brexit

a main catalyst, the paper says.

Staying with Brexit -

the Sunday Telegraph reports how

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have

criticised HMRC for placing large

tax bills on individuals who donated

to the Leave campaign.

We will start with the help story on

the Observer, huge health gap

revealed between rich and poor,

where is the research coming from?

From the Nuffield trust, the latest

in a series of NHS in crisis stories

that appear this time of year, and

this is the child poverty gap

increasing, children from poor

families more likely to spend time

in A&E and it lists asthma and

diabetes as two of the reasons and

they are 70% more likely to appear

in acts compared with their less

deprived counterparts. Shocking

numbers.

It is the earlier years of

your life rather than life

expectancy which we have reported

many times.

One of the things which

comes out this asthma and much of

that is related to air pollution and

the quality of the homes in which

people are living and how close they

are to main roads. There have been a

number of studies that show, in

London, for example, if you live in

Tower Hamlets you are much more

likely to suffer from asthma

compared to a richer borough, and

your score is more likely to be

closer to main roads and so is your

home -- your school. So kids are

playing in the playground and

breathing in horrible fumes. There

are other lifestyle elements to come

into this, but this sets out the gap

that is quite shocking. Something

that needs to be addressed.

Another

example of the inequality gap that

apparently seems to be growing.

The

almost feels like the NHS is going

backwards when it comes to child

health, there is a tag line on the

front page of the Observer story,

quoting a doctor saying he sees

Ricketts regularly, and we have had

stories about scarlet fever coming

back and there was a whooping cough

epidemic if it feels like we're

going back to a semi-Victorian age

when it comes to child health.

Ricketts should not be seen in this

country, although you do get this in

the developed world. It should not

be happening in Britain.

Debuchy

plotted to discredit me -- deputy

PM's allies parted to discredit me,

this is relating to the Damian Green

story.

What is said here, some of

the material that was submitted to

the white or inquiry which led to

the sacking of Damian Green last

week -- Whitehall inquiry. There had

been negative supporters about her,

and that actually was submitted to

the charge of the inquiry, the

evidence is that they were

submitting things which were to

discredit her.

It didn't work.

Even

the suggestion of a smear campaign

against her is very unhelpful, it

takes a lot of bravery and gumption

to come forward when something like

this has happened to you and she has

said I think this weekend that she

did that because there were other

women she knew who might have

similar complaints to make and other

women who needed to speak out about

other people. To have that

discredited when we are in the midst

of this harassment scandal, not just

in Westminster, that is very

unhelpful and worrying.

He had

apologised. We had closure on it but

then it was reopened this weekend.

This doesn't really suggest someone

who feels very sorry if there is any

truth in this.

It is the allies who

are trying to help in some way, I

suppose. They felt they were. The

Sunday Times. Theresa May ditches

hunting to back animal rights. It

was a manifesto pledge that fox

hunting, they would overturn the

ban. This is part of a rebranding of

the party?

It is. But I'm not sure

it will unite the party, I think it

will anger quite a lot of the rural

supporters as the Sunday Times

points out, and split MPs, so if

this is meant to be a rousing end of

year unite the Tories, identity will

play out that way.

It is to address

the idea that she has managed to

make the conservative brand of toxic

again since the general election,

and one of the stories that was much

shared, even that wasn't true, was

all about, the social media backlash

over accusations that they were

using Brexit legislation to reduce

UK levels of protection for animals,

that wasn't true, but that went

bananas on social media and it

became a big thing and a big story

that seems to reflect something

about the Conservatives brand, and I

suspect this is about realigning and

addressing this idea that they are a

toxic particles up they think this

will appeal

to the younger voters.

Yes, this idea the nasty party,

interesting timing, as well, before

the Boxing Day shoot, a strong

statement to make at this time of

year, but maybe she feels it will be

slightly buried for maybe older

supporters at this time of year.

A

couple of stories we can connect at

the bottom, troops get £1 for

Christmas Day as Whitehall pays six

and £50 for a move -- £650.

The

Christmas dinner was on Friday for

troops in Afghanistan who feel this

has been a forgotten conflict. It is

in its 17th year and we have rather

taken our attention away from it.

They have Christmas dinner on

Friday. It has snowed in

Afghanistan, they ponder, and troops

from the Yorkshire Regiment have

been reduced to swapping the stars

on the American trees for Yorkshire

flags -- they point out. Basically

saying the Americans have been

giving great things the Christmas.

Theresa May has made a speech

praising the troops, but it seems

they have been given very little

money individually. And of course on

top of that the nice bit is that

their family and friends have sent

loads of presence but the country

has done little for them for top 500

troops

have been given £500 for this

elevation is but Whitehall staff are

being sent for presentation skills

training at a cost of £650 a day

which rather dwarfs the £500 for 500

troops.

It doesn't really add up.

Theresa May has paid a heart-warming

tribute to the troops. It is to the

empty if they are essentially being

given pound each to Celebrex

Christmas and there's a long list of

the things that the American

soldiers get, including Christmas

trees and food and a special

screening of Star Wars. -- to

celebrate Christmas but and

Whitehall staff are having £650

spent on them so they can in answer

it. -- they can speak clearly.

I

will charge them a fraction of that

to put them through their paces, if

I were allowed, which I'm not,

probably. And now the Sunday

express. Christmas Brexit bonus,

exports are soaring.

Interesting

one. They compared exports with 2015

and they say they are up 9%, but

normally you compare year-on-year

which they are clearly not doing.

What are you suggesting?

This might

not be a story which I think is

entirely worthy of a front page of

any newspaper.

Maybe we can find the

figures for 2016 between now and

1130, that would be interesting.

Apparently we are selling lots of

food and whiskey and award-winning

TV.

How is this boosted by Brexit?

The value of the pound?

That is the

assumption, from the little we have

got to go on, the shock spike in

festive food and drink at this time

of year, helped by Brexit.

The

Sunday Telegraph. Ministers: tax

grab on Brexiteers is bad for

democracy, this is Michael Grove >>

STUDIO: -- Michael Gove and Boris

Johnson.

Yes, usually if you make a

private donation to a political

party and a campaign they are not

taxed on it over and a number of

individuals who donated to EU

referendum campaigns are now shocked

that they are been charged tax by

HMRC and I suspect there will be a

few accountants heads rolling over

this. It's interesting because HMRC,

it is better say they have been

quite rocked by the suggestion of

Brexit, they spoke to the Treasury

Select Committee saying they were

going to have to hire loads more

staff and it would cost them five --

£500 million to cope with the new

borders and everything and it would

take the many years to implement. It

is interesting now that they are

chasing this down. It was in

September, it was reported by the

Office for Budget Responsibility

that HMRC had been aggressively

going after inheritance tax which is

what this is being classed under and

it was going to be up 15%, the

current action, so inheritance tax

is something they are zoning in on.

It would apply to anyone who has

donated to either of the campaigns?

The story says the Remain supporter

has also have this, so this is not

just Leave supporters, so it would

apply to both camps.

If they are the

rules, they are not being picked on.

I would say not. And also, they

raised the point that this didn't

happen with the AV vote but maybe

something has shifted. However, that

said, I do feel for her HMRC because

I have plenty of friends who are

civil servants and Brexit is a total

nightmare for them and they will not

have had a very jolly last year and

it is very stressful but the

suggestion that that means they are

going after this -- these people,

but doesn't hold. -- that doesn't

hold.

Yes, that is right.

Staying

with the Sunday Telegraph, UFOs do

exist, says the Pentagon's X-Files

J. Who is he really? -- X-Files

chief.

They have described him as

the real X-Files programme, he says

the case of objects travelling at

hypersonic speeds which are

inexplicable, has been proved beyond

reasonable doubt, so this is

interesting, aliens and Christmas.

--

it says items that were made

yellow macro by any nation or any

company.

If they are so far away

that you can't see them properly,

how do you know?

He's also

resigning, this is his resignation

letter and his point is, you have

not been paying more attention and

you should have given us more money

for the projects, but he said it is

classified as to whether there are

any UFOs over the UK.

Freedom of

information request needs to go in.

The Mail on Sunday, the Army is

being used the be the best slogan

for some time but they are getting

rid of it. -- has been used to stop

apparently it is seen as yellow

macro

-- apparently it is seen as

non-inclusive and elitist, and this

will cost £1.5 million.

They have

done a focus group?

Yes, market

research, and it is being removed

from everything, completely dropped.

It has been their slogan since 1983,

they have a little extract Wyatt has

been written off, saying it didn't

not resonate with many of their key

audiences -- little in Stack terrain

-- little extract which explains why

it has been written.

We don't know

what by going to replace it with. Do

we? It doesn't say.

Be the second

best.

The average.

That is not what

you want. They must know that this

is putting people off.

They must do,

but when Gavin Williamson is facing

open rebellion at suggestions that

the Army will be slashed below

70,000 personnel and backbenchers

are up in arms and he has been

accused of not trying to push this

into the budget enough, you wouldn't

think this was a top priority, even

if it's not. Having trouble keeping

funding to keep people, attracting

people for the but they always need

to.

People leave and then they need

fresh recruits. That's right.

They

need to get young people.

Exactly.

The Sunday express, eat drink and be

merry, because an anti-fat jab is on

the way.

Has someone -- as someone

who has already eaten mince pies

this is great news.

There was a tin

of sweets alongside you outside.

Yes, that's right.

Not yourself out.

This is a university in Israel that

has discovered a drug while

researching its use in treating

obesity and I think watch this space

because hopefully what the drug

does, it says here, a jab, it

transforms cells which normally

store fat into cells which burn it

and that sounds like a dream.

There

was a researcher recently who said

if you lose a decent amount of

weight you can get type two diabetes

back under control, as well. That

would be against that suggestion of

eating whatever you like but we will

anyway because it is Christmas. We

never learn.

That's it for The Papers this hour.

Thank you to my guests.

They'll both be back at 1130

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