0:00:00 > 0:00:03On meet the author next week, # Today, my guess is Leo Benedictus
0:00:03 > 0:00:07with his book that starts off as a creepy thriller and then turns into
0:00:07 > 0:00:11a contemporary horror story.
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. to what the the papers will be
0:00:20 > 0:00:23With me are economics commentator and author Dharshini David
0:00:23 > 0:00:28and broadcaster and former Fleet Street editor Eve Pollard.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35The Observer leads on comments from a former head of the civil
0:00:35 > 0:00:40service, who makes a scathing comparison between some Brexiteers
0:00:40 > 0:00:45and German nationalists between the world wars.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Theresa May faces a coup from Cabinet Brexiteers,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51if she persists with plans to remain in the customs union,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53according to the Sunday Times.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59The Sunday Telegraph leads on the Prime Minister being urged
0:00:59 > 0:01:01to invoke the example of Margaret Thatcher
0:01:01 > 0:01:05to defy her Chancellor over Brexit.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09The Express accuses Jeremy Corbyn of environmental hypocrisy,
0:01:09 > 0:01:13claiming he left a diesel car waiting outside his house for 40
0:01:13 > 0:01:17minutes before getting in for a six-mile trip to Westminster.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Meanwhile, the Mirror has an image of the Health Secretary,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Jeremy Hunt, taking a nap in a hotel, which the paper claims
0:01:26 > 0:01:33was taken while thousands marched through London
0:01:33 > 0:01:36calling for more NHS support.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46Let's start with the times. As you would expect, an awful lot of Brexit
0:01:46 > 0:01:52stories going on. Not a massive surprise considering what is
0:01:52 > 0:01:57happening next week. We might get to a crunch moment when members of the
0:01:57 > 0:02:01cabinet have to decide what form of relationship they want with E you
0:02:01 > 0:02:06afterwards. Let's start with the Sunday Times story. Depending on how
0:02:06 > 0:02:11you look at it, the dream team are set to go into Number Ten. Boris
0:02:11 > 0:02:23Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Read more. What you make of that.
0:02:23 > 0:02:28Interesting, a lovely mock-up picture of them as the three
0:02:28 > 0:02:36Musketeers. It is looking like all-out war. They will start
0:02:36 > 0:02:41discussing what the trade relationship will look like.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46Interesting whether they come up with anything as a result. Probably
0:02:46 > 0:02:59nothing. We are looking at the biggest risk to Theresa May's Prime
0:02:59 > 0:03:07Minister ship.It looks like they will have to make decisions. It is
0:03:07 > 0:03:11impossible to square those two views.I also think that this
0:03:11 > 0:03:16happened in Davos because in the end, the sharp point of all this is
0:03:16 > 0:03:23going to be business and businessmen who are, I'm afraid mostly men, a
0:03:23 > 0:03:29few women, who will have to work and still making a living if we can't
0:03:29 > 0:03:37export to the EU. And in Davos, Trump, for all his many
0:03:37 > 0:03:43extraordinary abilities, like tweeting from dusk to dawn, invited
0:03:43 > 0:03:47a lot of European companies to dinner. He walked around and shook
0:03:47 > 0:03:55their hand and asked them what they could do with United States. Theresa
0:03:55 > 0:04:01May had dinner with her aides. The whole point is to go and whip up
0:04:01 > 0:04:08trade. There was this trip going to China, which was fascinating. China
0:04:08 > 0:04:11has an enormous population and could change the world for Britain if we
0:04:11 > 0:04:18got down to it seriously. It looks like there are figures coming out,
0:04:18 > 0:04:24leaked by various people. We know that the figures you get out are as
0:04:24 > 0:04:30good as the figures you put in. We are being kept in the dark. There is
0:04:30 > 0:04:37a frustration that things are not more open. I was for staying in, not
0:04:37 > 0:04:42being the first to come out. I am no love of the youth. But now that we
0:04:42 > 0:04:50have made the decision, we have to get on. -- I am no lover of the EU.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55We would have to keep people in jobs, key factor is going. At the
0:04:55 > 0:05:00moment, we sell everything to VE you, what we're going to do?The
0:05:00 > 0:05:04main thing is the customs union. The international trade secretary says
0:05:04 > 0:05:10that he will resign if the customs union is agreed. But mainly because
0:05:10 > 0:05:14his job is to drum up trade. And he would not build today that with
0:05:14 > 0:05:22other countries.Exactly. It is more complex, if we stay in the customs
0:05:22 > 0:05:26union, we will have to make sacrifices regarding free movement
0:05:26 > 0:05:31of people. It is not mentioned on these pages that immigration is the
0:05:31 > 0:05:37key factor. The whole idea of trade, at Davos it was noticeable that you
0:05:37 > 0:05:43saw the Prime Minister of India and Trump's delegation touting for
0:05:43 > 0:05:47business, everywhere was open for business. Not the UK. This strange
0:05:47 > 0:05:52position that Theresa May is thinking I have to keep the EU happy
0:05:52 > 0:05:56and on the other hand, I have all these Brexiteers snapping at my
0:05:56 > 0:06:03heels.And there are very noisy Brexiteers, some of them very able,
0:06:03 > 0:06:08but I have no idea how many of the Tories in the House of Commons pro
0:06:08 > 0:06:16Brexit or not. But we have voted. Everything seems to be so secretive.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21Let's see the figures. Then let the Brexiteers, these three brilliant
0:06:21 > 0:06:26men, say what is wrong with the figures and what is should be done
0:06:26 > 0:06:32rather than just having a go at all treasury economists.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37Another Brexit story here. Brexit attacks on civil service worthy of
0:06:37 > 0:06:451930s Germany. Jacob Rees Mogg has accused the civil service of only
0:06:45 > 0:06:50leaking memos which show that we should stay in the customs union.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53The ex-Cabinet Secretary making the comparison with knotty Germany.
0:06:53 > 0:07:00Pretty incredible stuff. It must be quite frustrating if you are a
0:07:00 > 0:07:05politician and you deal with an unwieldy, slow civil service. And
0:07:05 > 0:07:13when they come up with figures that you don't agree with. I think going
0:07:13 > 0:07:16to 1930s knotty Germany is rather strange and over the top. But
0:07:16 > 0:07:28obviously, -- 1930s Nazi Germany. But obviously, this is the week that
0:07:28 > 0:07:35will decide.Theresa May says this is a negotiation and you don't tell
0:07:35 > 0:07:42everybody what your bottom line is. But there have to comment point
0:07:42 > 0:07:44where you show leadership and show some parameters and there is a
0:07:44 > 0:07:52vacuum.And unfortunately for her, we are used to 24-hour news. We are
0:07:52 > 0:07:57used to things happening quickly. We have been going on about this for
0:07:57 > 0:08:03ever and we are impatient.Wrongly all rightly. There are impact
0:08:03 > 0:08:08studies, let us judge. Rather than Jacob Rees Mogg, the man who might
0:08:08 > 0:08:14be Chancellor, complaining.And where are the CBI on this?Talking
0:08:14 > 0:08:20to the Chancellor. The Sunday Telegraph says, don't let
0:08:20 > 0:08:25Hammond ruined Brexit. This is Philip Hammond, the main remain a
0:08:25 > 0:08:32voice in the cabinets. People are saying they have to stand up to him.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37But he may be talking to the CBI who are saying that if we walk away, we
0:08:37 > 0:08:41don't know where we will sell our goods, we don't know if factories
0:08:41 > 0:08:45will close down. This can't be done without that other side, which is
0:08:45 > 0:08:53business.Ultimately, it is all about business and livelihoods. But
0:08:53 > 0:08:59one group want to go alone and do it in isolation.Do you sing she was
0:08:59 > 0:09:07Sako Chancellor?She might, but I get nowhere that will get her.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12That's this is about the facade and how it looks, or perhaps it is about
0:09:12 > 0:09:16indecision or being 50-50 in a situation when you can't decide.
0:09:16 > 0:09:22Another story in the Sunday Telegraph. Women given cancer all
0:09:22 > 0:09:27clear misdiagnosed by test blunders. That is the kind of story that makes
0:09:27 > 0:09:31people fearful. You go for those test and you assume that they are
0:09:31 > 0:09:36getting a clean bill of health. What is the story here, Dharshini?This
0:09:36 > 0:09:47is worrying. 900 sample check for Sir Michael cancer. And a percentage
0:09:47 > 0:09:52of those had been cleared, people told they were negative and in fact
0:09:52 > 0:10:00there was something. Something not quite right about them. But this lab
0:10:00 > 0:10:03in Basildon, people are now saying that they will have to investigate
0:10:03 > 0:10:13the results of 60,000 women.That's terrible.And they are trying to
0:10:13 > 0:10:18encourage younger women to go for some ears and the idea...And truth
0:10:18 > 0:10:23is, if you ask most women who have had a dodgy smear test, most women
0:10:23 > 0:10:27have. You need to go back and to check. And it's hard to get a test
0:10:27 > 0:10:34in the first place, to persuade your GP. And the relief of somebody
0:10:34 > 0:10:38saying you are OK, and then you discover your not. I can't
0:10:38 > 0:10:49understand how they can be so inept. Let's have a look at the Times. This
0:10:49 > 0:10:52is, women's refuges may get transgender staff. This sounds
0:10:52 > 0:10:58similar to a story about a woman who complained that she asked for a seen
0:10:58 > 0:11:04a member of staff and somebody was a transgender member of staff.
0:11:04 > 0:11:12Potentially rape and abuse victims in women's refuges and this is the
0:11:12 > 0:11:18story about whether transgender people will be able to deal with
0:11:18 > 0:11:22women who have been the victim of violence from men.The fact that you
0:11:22 > 0:11:27have gone to a refuge. Arda and so old I can remember when the first
0:11:27 > 0:11:32women's refuge was open. I remember sitting there with ten women and
0:11:32 > 0:11:37they told what they had gone through. And to actually pick up and
0:11:37 > 0:11:41take almost nothing with you, often they have fled in the middle of the
0:11:41 > 0:11:45night when their husband was out when he was drunk and they thought
0:11:45 > 0:11:51she would wake up, to actually leave and go to the refuge is a big thing.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54And I think the idea of not being looked after by women is quite
0:11:54 > 0:12:00scary. I'm sympathetic to transgender people, but this is one
0:12:00 > 0:12:06case where you actually want the opposite of the person who has
0:12:06 > 0:12:13abused you.And it is a balance between equality and sensitivity to
0:12:13 > 0:12:20transgender people.And this is just a review of the policy.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25Let's move on to the Sunday Telegraph. Uma Thurman, on the front
0:12:25 > 0:12:30of lots of Sunday papers because she is alleging that Harvey Weinstein
0:12:30 > 0:12:36attacked her as well. We should say here that he has said he is
0:12:36 > 0:12:40considering legal action following Uma Thurman's allegations, according
0:12:40 > 0:12:45to his attorney. They are saying that Mr Weinstein is stunned and
0:12:45 > 0:12:51saddened by what he claims to be false accusations. This carries on,
0:12:51 > 0:12:54we have heard two more women are leading against him in this country
0:12:54 > 0:13:00as well.Quite a long interview she has given with the New York Times
0:13:00 > 0:13:04went goes into detail over what happens over a number of years. She
0:13:04 > 0:13:11said this happened before she made El Bill. And she says that perhaps
0:13:11 > 0:13:15her agency may have been in some ways complicit in all this and she
0:13:15 > 0:13:18feels something about the fact that she didn't speak out and there are
0:13:18 > 0:13:24other girls or women.Some people will say wide and she speak out
0:13:24 > 0:13:31before?And I'm told that Harvey Weinstein has a lot of e-mails from
0:13:31 > 0:13:36women who have accused him saying, glad to see you Harvey, I will see
0:13:36 > 0:13:40you for my screen test next week. She then carried on making films
0:13:40 > 0:13:46with him, which I find extraordinary. Because she is not a
0:13:46 > 0:13:52new girl on the block. If she was an 18-year-old looking., we understand
0:13:52 > 0:13:55how this thing works. She is Uma Thurman and then she carries on
0:13:55 > 0:14:01working the man who she says has behaved so badly. I haven't read the
0:14:01 > 0:14:06New York Times interview but it is extraordinary. And of course, the
0:14:06 > 0:14:12agency is probably guessed things were going on because of gossip.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15It's a small community in Hollywood. But she is complicit if she carried
0:14:15 > 0:14:22on working.But on the other hand, she talks about things that she went
0:14:22 > 0:14:27through on L Bale, that Quentin Tarantino made a drive a car that
0:14:27 > 0:14:34she knew was unsafe and she ended up crashing it and that is symbolic of
0:14:34 > 0:14:40the power that these men had.Yes, but she is a famous actress and she
0:14:40 > 0:14:47is not broke. Turn and walk away. The Sunday Express, Jeremy Carbon is
0:14:47 > 0:15:00their headline. Labour leader leaves car guzzling gas on yellow lines. We
0:15:00 > 0:15:04cannot verify this, obviously. I think this is a chauffeur driven
0:15:04 > 0:15:07car, he has a driver and they say this was left running outside his
0:15:07 > 0:15:13house.I'm just wondering how long the photographer sat in his car with
0:15:13 > 0:15:19the engine on waiting for that photo!Somebody in that street would
0:15:19 > 0:15:23have said, come and take this picture. But the truth is, it's a
0:15:23 > 0:15:27nightmare if you are going to be in the public eye, you have to watch
0:15:27 > 0:15:31everything you do. But he talks about using the train or using his
0:15:31 > 0:15:35bicycle and he believes very strongly in all of that. He will
0:15:35 > 0:15:42have to get rid of the diesel.It is surprising that he has got a diesel
0:15:42 > 0:15:49car.It may not be his regular car. Maybe he has no choice.I think he
0:15:49 > 0:15:51will be cycling everywhere from now on!
0:15:52 > 0:15:53That's it for The Papers this hour.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55You'll both be back in an hour.
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