0:00:16 > 0:00:18Welcome to the Papers.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20With me are the Political Commentator Lance Price
0:00:20 > 0:00:31and Camilla Tominey, political editor the Sunday Express.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42 Let's start with...
0:00:42 > 0:00:44The FT, the paper says the Chancellor, Philip Hammond,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47has caused a fresh rift in the Conservative Party by urging
0:00:47 > 0:00:48'modest' Brexit changes.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51The Times take on the story is that Theresa May has
0:00:51 > 0:00:52turned on the Chancellor following his remarks.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55The Guardian reports that Mrs May's leadership is under
0:00:55 > 0:00:57threat from the latest revolt in Tory ranks over Brexit.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00The lead in the Metro is the meeting of Theresa May
0:01:00 > 0:01:01and President Trump at Davos.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04It has a picture of the pair shaking hands.
0:01:04 > 0:01:10Its headline says the relationship between the UK and US is "so great".
0:01:10 > 0:01:13The I has that same photo on its front page and reports that
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Mr Trump will come to this country, this year for a working
0:01:16 > 0:01:23trip, not State Visit.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25The Daily Telegraph carries a warning by
0:01:25 > 0:01:27the Defence Secretary that Russia could cause mass casualities
0:01:27 > 0:01:34in Britain by crippling our crucial energy supplies.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37And so there are a variety of stories vying for top billing
0:01:37 > 0:01:42across a range of tomorrow's papers.
0:01:42 > 0:01:49Let's start with the Financial Times. Philip Hammond who is also in
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Davos along with everybody else by the looks of it, saying he wants a
0:01:53 > 0:02:02soft Brexit, not too much to change at all after we leave.The big ones
0:02:02 > 0:02:04in the cabinet cannot help themselves setting out their stall
0:02:04 > 0:02:08for what Brexit should look like, we had Boris Johnson doing his thing
0:02:08 > 0:02:13over the weekend and getting slapped down by Theresa May, now Philip
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Hammond himself getting slapped down by Downing Street for saying that
0:02:15 > 0:02:20the way he sees it is there should only be a modest economic divergence
0:02:20 > 0:02:25between the UK and the EU after we leave the EU. He makes the perfectly
0:02:25 > 0:02:29valid point in my view that the economies are currently aligned,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32it's not as if you were trying to bring together two economies that
0:02:32 > 0:02:38are very different, as was the case with the deal for Canada. They are
0:02:38 > 0:02:41already well aligned so you only want to diverged if it's in your
0:02:41 > 0:02:47interest to do so. He thinks that should be modest.On the other side,
0:02:47 > 0:02:51Brexiteers will say we need a clean break, to make the most of the
0:02:51 > 0:02:55upside of having our own trade deals and all the rest. We want to get out
0:02:55 > 0:03:02and do our own thing.Precisely, Jacob Rees-Mogg who is a leading
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Brexiteer and probably the mouthpiece of Brexit along with
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Boris Johnson is not necessarily saying anything new or that the
0:03:09 > 0:03:15Prime Minister has not set herself in her own Lancaster house speech,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19and that is that she has put together a 12 point plan and its
0:03:19 > 0:03:22unequivocal in saying we must be out of the single market and out of the
0:03:22 > 0:03:28customs union. What's interesting talking about the comparison with
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Boris's intervention is the humility of invective that has been quite
0:03:31 > 0:03:33good on government because it's got people thinking the government might
0:03:33 > 0:03:39spend more on the NHS once we Brexit. It is also had the effect of
0:03:39 > 0:03:43having been a consensus around the Cabinet table that there will be a
0:03:43 > 0:03:47Brexit dividend. When it comes to Hammonds, and I was getting this
0:03:47 > 0:03:51mood earlier in Westminster, they are angry that funnily enough,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54pardon the pun, his view keeps on diverging from the message the Prime
0:03:54 > 0:03:58Minister is trying to put out. It makes it look like there is no
0:03:58 > 0:04:02consensus between number ten and 11 which is awkward at a time when
0:04:02 > 0:04:07Theresa May is once again looking vulnerable.It is extraordinary that
0:04:07 > 0:04:09senior Cabinet ministers feel they can speak out like this without any
0:04:09 > 0:04:14threat of potentially being sacked. I interviewed Bernard Jenkin early
0:04:14 > 0:04:17and he said maybe it's time for another reshuffle, she needs to
0:04:17 > 0:04:22bring in people who agree with her. We had one suddenly last week of the
0:04:22 > 0:04:25week before. People are still talking about the fact that as you
0:04:25 > 0:04:30say, the really big senior Cabinet ministers, the Foreign Secretary,
0:04:30 > 0:04:37Home Secretary to a certain extent, Chancellor of the Exchequer seem to
0:04:37 > 0:04:39feel they have license or the ability to go out there and say
0:04:39 > 0:04:44these things and they know they will not be sacked. Every time they do it
0:04:44 > 0:04:47it weakens Theresa May, a mixer looked as if she is captive of
0:04:47 > 0:04:52Cabinet rather than in command of them. That is what of course
0:04:52 > 0:04:55immediately prompts all the speculation about how long she will
0:04:55 > 0:05:00be there.There is the split in the Cabinet, you can't get away from it,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02they have different views of what the future will look like after
0:05:02 > 0:05:09Brexit. How will they resolve that? The issue of Europe is always
0:05:09 > 0:05:12dividing all parties, it's not just a problem for the Conservatives but
0:05:12 > 0:05:16for Labour as well who similarly cannot seem to agree on what the
0:05:16 > 0:05:22Brexit end stage should look like. Equally, because this has come with
0:05:22 > 0:05:26another story, the chairman of the 9022 backbench committee receiving
0:05:26 > 0:05:32more letters from MPs urging Theresa May to go.Let's look at that.There
0:05:32 > 0:05:35is a lot of rhetoric around Westminster tonight, if somebody is
0:05:35 > 0:05:40going to be resigning, it should be Philip Hammond. It's an interesting
0:05:40 > 0:05:46one. Theresa May in this hugely difficult position of trying to
0:05:46 > 0:05:48manage Brexit when there is no agreement on it, trying to manage
0:05:48 > 0:05:51the government and there seems to be no agreement on whether she should
0:05:51 > 0:05:57be there or not. It's tricky, a rock and a hard place situation.The
0:05:57 > 0:06:02question is, are these real threats to move against you? I detected this
0:06:02 > 0:06:04week in Westminster, definitely there is frustration that she has
0:06:04 > 0:06:08not being bold enough on things like the NHS, that she has not got that
0:06:08 > 0:06:13vision for the country. This extraordinary story in the Guardian,
0:06:13 > 0:06:18the idea that there are 48 letters that must be written to Graham
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Brady, they are a bit worried they might get there and have this
0:06:21 > 0:06:25accidental leadership contest. Somebody else apparently has written
0:06:25 > 0:06:29a letter, those sources close to Graham Brady which usually means the
0:06:29 > 0:06:33man himself have talked that down and said the figures that have been
0:06:33 > 0:06:38bandied about are not right. There is no doubt there is a substantial
0:06:38 > 0:06:41number of people who certainly willing to consider the possibility
0:06:41 > 0:06:45of a change in leadership if they are not actually seeking to go for
0:06:45 > 0:06:49it. The fact is, if she will be unseated, she will be unseated by
0:06:49 > 0:06:57the Brexiteers, who think she is too close to the view being put forward
0:06:57 > 0:07:01by the Chancellor, that the break with the EU won't be significant
0:07:01 > 0:07:08amount to satisfy them. That's why this speech from Jacob Rees-Mogg
0:07:08 > 0:07:13tonight is significant. She has been put on notice that they would be
0:07:13 > 0:07:17prepared to move against, if she moved too far in other direction.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22She is walking the tightrope.Even though that might risk a general
0:07:22 > 0:07:27election, and allowing Jeremy Corbyn into number ten?Or alternatively
0:07:27 > 0:07:32for the Brexiteers, is it worth to have Jeremy Corbyn in number ten or
0:07:32 > 0:07:37an arch Remainer in Theresa May's position? In regard to the
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Brexiteers, the question is whether they will attribute this beginning
0:07:39 > 0:07:48of bread lines that we also saw yesterday the David Davis -- this
0:07:48 > 0:07:52pinkening of red lines. Yesterday he seemed quite casual saying there
0:07:52 > 0:07:56were no bread lines at all, it was not just a case of pinkening but the
0:07:56 > 0:08:00idea that they had been robbed out altogether. It is up to Mrs major
0:08:00 > 0:08:03tidies loose ends together and reassert the point you made in the
0:08:03 > 0:08:07Lancaster house speech that we will move onto a different position.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11Interesting to see it that materialises. Now onto the front
0:08:11 > 0:08:15page of I think every newspaper, that photo of Donald Trump and
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Theresa May shaking hands. There they are at Davos. They have not
0:08:19 > 0:08:24seen each other since a number of spats over a number of issues
0:08:24 > 0:08:28including the tweets that President Trump retweeted, actually, which was
0:08:28 > 0:08:36the bridge and first tweets. A few problems. -- Britain first tweets.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40The body language was as good as they could make it but it is a
0:08:40 > 0:08:48complete farce. Theresa May says, shoulder to shoulder, Trump says
0:08:48 > 0:08:51joint at the hip. They must be virtually one body right now!
0:08:51 > 0:08:58LAUGHTERA horrible thought for all concerned. It is simply not true.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Bridging and the US offered further apart on key issues now than they
0:09:01 > 0:09:06have been for as long as I can remember. Residents and Prime
0:09:06 > 0:09:10ministers tried to stay in June as much as they can, they always claim
0:09:10 > 0:09:15that they are, but this time it's a complete fabrication. Despite
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Brexit, Theresa May is in favour of global free trade, Donald Trump is a
0:09:19 > 0:09:22protectionist. They disagree fundamentally over Iran and whether
0:09:22 > 0:09:27or not to carry on with the treaty signed there, they disagree over
0:09:27 > 0:09:32climate change, they disagree over the response to Islamist and other
0:09:32 > 0:09:34terror threats. Fundamentally disagree on whether or not the way
0:09:34 > 0:09:38to tackle that is to look for greater integration within society
0:09:38 > 0:09:42or, in Donald Trump's case, to push people out, because you don't like
0:09:42 > 0:09:49them. This nonsense about a special relationship which has been nonsense
0:09:49 > 0:09:56ever since the press was invented has been a farce.He is coming to
0:09:56 > 0:10:01Britain?It might be a working visit, not a state visit, without
0:10:01 > 0:10:05the bells and whistles of an event that you would usually expect in
0:10:05 > 0:10:09London, it might take place elsewhere. We know the president is
0:10:09 > 0:10:15keen to go to Scotland because that's where he can trace its roots,
0:10:15 > 0:10:21his mother was Scottish. I feel it still goes beyond that, and for
0:10:21 > 0:10:24people living in Britain and America there is a great deal of shared
0:10:24 > 0:10:27culture, there is an affection across the pond, it will be even
0:10:27 > 0:10:31more strength and come May when an American actress marries into the
0:10:31 > 0:10:36royal family. All these different stages are quite significant,
0:10:36 > 0:10:39perhaps with a capital P it's not, but there is still a recognition
0:10:39 > 0:10:44between both countries and their inhabitants that there is a more
0:10:44 > 0:10:47special relationship with America than some other countries.It does
0:10:47 > 0:10:50not go much further than we kind of speak the same language and we watch
0:10:50 > 0:10:57a lot of their telly and they love us in the Crown.Let's move on to a
0:10:57 > 0:11:00relationship with another country, Russia. An extraordinary headline
0:11:00 > 0:11:05and story in the Daily Telegraph, Russia ready to kill us by the
0:11:05 > 0:11:09thousands, this is the Defence Secretary. It's all about, he says,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13the possibility that Russia could effectively hack into our energy
0:11:13 > 0:11:21supply and therefore lead to lots of death.On one level he is right but
0:11:21 > 0:11:23it's an extraordinary headline, were she ready to kill us by the
0:11:23 > 0:11:29thousands. Why would they want to do so? The actual quote is, they could
0:11:29 > 0:11:35cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths. That is to
0:11:35 > 0:11:38extrapolate what might happen, but that would only happen if there was
0:11:38 > 0:11:42a world war going on. I don't think anyone is suggesting we are at that
0:11:42 > 0:11:46point. However there is no doubt they are looking very closely at
0:11:46 > 0:11:50Bridge and's vulnerabilities and the particular when he's talking about
0:11:50 > 0:11:54here is our vulnerability in terms of energy supply. -- Britain's
0:11:54 > 0:11:58vulnerabilities. If people have wondered why in the past Theresa
0:11:58 > 0:12:04May, who is a cautious Prime Minister and now she is a
0:12:04 > 0:12:10cash-strapped government, have agreed to a £20 billion cost for
0:12:10 > 0:12:15this reactor, this is your answer. We have to have energy security.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19There is no doubt the GCHQ and others can see that the Russians are
0:12:19 > 0:12:23looking at where we are vulnerable. Though she was concerned about
0:12:23 > 0:12:30Chinese involvement in that. She reassessed that.We are always
0:12:30 > 0:12:33concerned about Chinese involvement in everything. What's interesting
0:12:33 > 0:12:37here is pointing out the common perception now with regard to the
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Russian threat, it does not quite match the reality of what they are
0:12:40 > 0:12:44capable of. Uses the example of the plan for Russians will be landing
0:12:44 > 0:12:48craft to appear in the South Bay of Scarborough or off Brighton Beach.
0:12:48 > 0:12:54Who is imagining that?! But that they want to quote, kill our
0:12:54 > 0:12:59national infrastructure, is certainly food for thought.Finally,
0:12:59 > 0:13:03throat lozenges don't work according to the Telegraph.Neither does cough
0:13:03 > 0:13:08syrup. My father, a retired GP, has always said this, it's nonsense.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11They all sell different things, tickly cough, chesty cough, it's all
0:13:11 > 0:13:17nonsense.How long have I spent at the pharmacists counter wondering
0:13:17 > 0:13:24whether I've got a tickly cough or a dry cough. I think it's all
0:13:24 > 0:13:27psychological, if you think they were it probably gets you through
0:13:27 > 0:13:32your next interview if you have a tickly cough. And bad for my
0:13:32 > 0:13:34ministers, the Chancellor we were talking about earlier was feeding
0:13:34 > 0:13:38the Prime Minister and cough sweets during her speech at the Tory party
0:13:38 > 0:13:43conference and it did no good. Apparently a throat spray more
0:13:43 > 0:13:53effective.They are much better.
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