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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are economics commentator

and author Dharshini David

and broadcaster and former

Fleet Street editor Eve Pollard.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Observer leads on comments

from a former head of the civil

service, who makes a scathing

comparison between some brexiteers

and German nationalists

between the world wars.

Theresa May will face a coup

from cabinet Brexiteers

if she persists with plans to remain

in the customs union,

according to the Sunday Times.

And more Brexit on the Sunday

Telegraph which says

the Prime Minister is being urged

to invoke the example

of Margaret Thatcher

and defy her chancellor over brexit.

-- of Margaret Thatcher

and defy her chancellor over Brexit.

The Express accuses

Jeremy Corbyn of environmental

hypocrisy, claiming he left a diesel

car waiting outside his house for 40

minutes before getting in for a 6

mile trip to Westminster.

Meanwhile, the Mirror has an image

of the Health Secretary,

Jeremy Hunt, taking a nap

in a hotel, which the paper claims

was taken while thousands marched

through London calling

for more NHS support.

A lot of Brexit but a lot of other

stories so let's start today with

the Sunday Times. This is a story

about the doping scandal hitting the

Winter Olympics which are about to

kick off in South Korea, this is a

story that the Sunday Times have

done a lot of these Expose is about

alleged drugs cheating in sport,

this one says secret data has

exposed the extent of the doping for

insurance skiers at the Winter

Olympics. -- interrupts. --

endurance.

This is exactly the kind

of scrutiny they don't need. It

starts on Friday, I believe, the

opening ceremony, and 10,000 blood

test, the Sunday Times is claiming

it is seen from nearly 2000 Winter

Olympians.

What they are saying is

one third of all metals, 99 Golden

medals, one in the Olympics and

World Championships in 2001 by

skiers have test results which could

be deemed to be suspicious.

They say

some of them in fact there is only a

one in a million chance that the

blood result, as a result of natural

circumstances.

Absolutely. A

credible detail saying with some of

them their blood was so dangerously

sick at the skier should have been

in hospital rather than competing.

It's extraordinary. Of course the

number one country they name is

Russia. And of course lots of the

Russian entrance, they were not

going to come in fact, they are not

going to be able to fly under a

Russian flag and it so cheap, you

remember, there were stories about

secret agent swapping shoots and

blood tests so that they would come

out with as many winners as possible

-- Sochi. It's terribly upsetting,

this, because I can remember when

the doping thing hit and my son was

about 13 or 14 and how could you are

this was at the Olympics, how can

you explain that the person who

actually breaks the wire and gets

across first actually is the loser

because he is taking something that

would enhance and I mean, it is out

of control now. I mean, and it is

sad because this is going to be our

only respite from Brexit is watching

people flailing down and it is

coming to snow here so we can get

ready here to prod us. -- slalom

down. You know that it is fake.

It

seems to be so prevalent in other

sports that you begin to question

everything that you see.

Some

countries who cared to do you

remember those little gymnast from

Eastern Europe were never allowed to

grow up and have periods because

they had to stay small, tidy and

flat.

It is extraordinary when you

talk about the fact they have

approached the sponsors of the game,

Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa, to say

it -- we're not sure if you're

responsible about this, they have

put their money behind the Olympics

and it is a risk than knowing what

happened last time.

They probably

thought it had been taken care off

and obviously it hasn't.

Let's have

another look at the Sunday Times

again but this time another story

about, of course, Brexit. How could

a Saturday night go by without a

discussing it! In view of next week,

the Cabinet subcommittee will meet,

they are apparently going to try to

come to some agreement about what

the future relationship will be.

This feels like the moment where

they are actually trying to bring

the two competing sides in the

Conservative Party together and will

have to come up with something but

depending how you look at it, they

are saying a dream team could be

heading for number ten. Who is in

the dream team?

It is like fantasy

football! Somebody has very strange

dreams! Boris Johnson, VM,

apparently, is the plan, Jacob

Rees-Mogg, the man who apparently

thinks that Treasury columnist are

all against Brexit and aren't up to

the job, for chancellor, that could

be interesting, and Michael Gove in

their as Foreign Secretary. -- in

there. What could be interesting,

it'll give them a chance and mock up

a wonderful picture. This underlines

that we should be talking about the

fact that the captain has to come

together on Wednesday and Thursday

and come up with a planned but

instead we are talking about

division and the fact that Theresa

May is facing a hugely distracting

challenge at a time when we need to

be talking about what the future

relationship looks like.

How will

she square the circle? It seems

impossible. Whatever they come up

with it will really annoy a large

number of people in her party.

This

was always going to happen, there is

a group of determined Brexiteers for

whom Brexit means a complete break.

I feel this has all been exacerbated

by Duff of swear -- Davos where she

wasn't involved in business and, I

mean, Davos is about to be about

deals and Trump wandered around

trying to fix up deals and she had

dinner with her aides. It is a scary

thing. The figures we are getting,

first of all, why aren't these open?

Why have hidden? Why is BuzzFeed

leaking some? And of course you and

I know that the figures you get

other once you put in. Nobody is

perfect. What you have to have

involved is business, where, when

the civil service or the Brexiteers

said this is what is going to happen

to our car industry, you need

somebody who is on the shop floor

saying actually, we sell everything

we do to Europe and we will find it

very hard to sell cars that drive on

the other side of the road to other

countries. I mean, you just need

that to be part of the square as

they seem, I think, to be pushing

this at people who are very, very

pro- Brexit.

The Observer as well,

sorry, is just talking about Brexit

and Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Treasury

and whether they are deliberately

coming up with figures that mean we

should stay in the customs union all

the rest of it, they are saying this

is an ex- Cabinet Secretary Sam is

attacks on the civil servants are

worthy of 1940s January. -- 1930s

Germany.

In my misspent youth I was

a Treasury economist at one point I

confess and they are complex models

and it is like cooking, you do to a

certain amount getting what you put

in. -- get out what you put in. It

colours the picture somewhat but on

the other hand and you know this as

a public service broadcaster have to

be in partial and so the civil

servants. They are accustomed to it,

they understand what is going on and

I think it is firm language, I'm not

sure it is entirely an accurate

picture of what is going on but

ultimately what you were saying, the

problem really is we have a Prime

Minister who doesn't seem to be

engaging in there for everyone seems

to be second guessing and not

getting in the right way.

And the

problem is it is all taking a long

time and 24-hour news business means

people are impatient, they want

stuff now. There has been the sort

of gap while the Prime Minister has

been in China and it is, you know,

where I'll be going, what are we

doing?

Reading on, private parole

firms failing to hit their targets

on crime cuts, this is presumably

about reoffending?

Private companies

which are apparently checking people

by telephone, you know, phoning up

and saying murdering anyone at the

moment? No, I am having a cup of

tea.

This is -- at least it is not

by text, though.

I imagine that this

is a big deal to a private company,

I don't want to knock a private

company, the private companies say

we can do this with a slightly less

staff or people live and then you

are doing by telephone, I'm in my

answer probably is if you remember

Abu Hamza, so disliked prison in

America, but he wants to come back.

Obviously prison is not as bad as we

think, they are flying drones in

with drugs and television and the

rest of it. So maybe we have to

change the way we regard presence.

We need to move on quickly because

the front page of lots of the papers

has Uma Thurman who has made

allegations against Harvey

Weinstein, saying that he attacked

her, he denies this, and in fact are

said to be considering legal action

against her. At yet another

accusation in this story.

A series

of accusations, this is and people

would remember she came out with a

lot of Instagram post towards the

end of last year hinting that she

was angry and should when she felt

the time was right was going to tell

and she has. To the New York Times.

These allegations against Harvey

Weinstein but also talking about her

experience after that when she went

to make the Kill Bill films which of

course he made.

Too?

Two. You think

it is quite telling that she carried

on working...

If you are a

20-year-old and you have no money

and no reputation than I can see you

would but she is Uma Thurman, she

has made quite a lot of money, been

married to a film star, the idea

that you would then carry on

working...

How do you keep that,

have UKIP being at the top of the

game and getting those starring

roles unless you keep going?

Lots of

people happy. What is still to talk

about but we are out of time I'm

afraid, that's it for the papers.

Thank you, Dharshini and Eve.

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