0:00:18 > 0:00:21Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:21 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26With me are the Telegraph's Brexit commissioning editor Asa Bennett
0:00:26 > 0:00:28and the poltical commentator Daisy McAndrew.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Good evening to both of you.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38Let's take a look. Good news for house-buyers.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The Metro leads with the news that the number of people getting
0:00:41 > 0:00:44on the property ladder is at an 11-year-high.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Housing also makes front page of The Express,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49which reports that average house prices have climbed by £1,000
0:00:49 > 0:00:51a month in the last year.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55The Financial Times features South Africa's ruling ANC party
0:00:55 > 0:01:03asking President Jacob Zuma to stand down.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06The i's front page focuses on Boris Johnson.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09It looks set to a key speech the Foreign Secretary will make
0:01:09 > 0:01:19tomorrow.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20The Daily Telegraph
0:01:20 > 0:01:22front page also reports actress Minnie Driver has resigned
0:01:22 > 0:01:24as an Oxfam ambassador following allegations over
0:01:24 > 0:01:25aid workers' conduct.
0:01:25 > 0:01:35And The Daily Mirror carries allegations that drunk students
0:01:37 > 0:01:40groped women at an Oxford University club.
0:01:40 > 0:01:46Let's look at the Telegraph first. What you think you will hear?It
0:01:46 > 0:01:49depends which newspapers forward coverage of this speech to believe,
0:01:49 > 0:01:54whether this is Boris Johnson, as the Telegraph is saying, laying down
0:01:54 > 0:01:57the law, saying that EU laws are intolerable, that for us to continue
0:01:57 > 0:02:02do have them, and sort of wagging his finger at Theresa May and other
0:02:02 > 0:02:05papers say this is a very consensual speech that Boris Johnson will make.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10Making it tomorrow we will find out. We understand there are two versions
0:02:10 > 0:02:13he has presented to Downing Street and he will get one of them out at
0:02:13 > 0:02:17the time depending on how the mood takes him but there will be nervous
0:02:17 > 0:02:21at Downing Street because we all know what Boris Johnson's other
0:02:21 > 0:02:27agenda will be, promoting Boris Johnson!Two versions of the speech,
0:02:27 > 0:02:33that really is...Keeping us guessing.Quite a head game.He is a
0:02:33 > 0:02:37showman after all so maybe he is starting the Brexit extravaganza of
0:02:37 > 0:02:40speeches from all the ministers who are relevant on this and for the
0:02:40 > 0:02:45Foreign Secretary, because yes, some papers like the sun have spun it as
0:02:45 > 0:02:49a rebuke or a warning shot to the PM to say it is intolerable and under
0:02:49 > 0:02:54democratic that we are still tied into the EU after Brexit but I
0:02:54 > 0:02:57interpret it that he's not wagging his finger at the Prime Minister but
0:02:57 > 0:03:01people like limits -- people who supported remain around the Cabinet
0:03:01 > 0:03:05table like Phillip Hammond, because the way day at Chequers the
0:03:05 > 0:03:09ministers are meant to be having in the next week, where finally, after
0:03:09 > 0:03:12hours of debate, they will decide what they want from their future
0:03:12 > 0:03:16relationship with EU so he's trying to put his argument with some brio.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20And heading off anyone thinking about a second referendum?Yes,
0:03:20 > 0:03:24saying that would be entirely undemocratic, taking potshots at
0:03:24 > 0:03:27people who have said that under Prime Minister herself as an
0:03:27 > 0:03:31important meeting on Friday with Angela Merkel. -- and the Prime
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Minister. You can imagine how she is feeling, Boris on his feet tomorrow,
0:03:35 > 0:03:39what will he say? Will he make life harder for her and her important
0:03:39 > 0:03:44meeting on Friday or make it easier? It will keep us amused but you
0:03:44 > 0:03:47wonder every single day, some speech, something on the grid of
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Downing Street, pushing Brexit, you think that people would like a bit
0:03:51 > 0:03:57of a break from it!Let us take a Brexit break for a moment but
0:03:57 > 0:04:00another story that is sitting on the grid in South Africa is what on
0:04:00 > 0:04:07earth is happening with President Jacob Zuma? Day after day, we hear
0:04:07 > 0:04:13the ANC kind of saying, "It is time to go". The Financial Times focusing
0:04:13 > 0:04:17on this.They have really gone big on this and you can understand why
0:04:17 > 0:04:21because the ANC had turned on President Zuma, calling on him to
0:04:21 > 0:04:25resign but it is not as simple as that because yes, there are causes
0:04:25 > 0:04:30for this and it has been nine years of stagnant popularity, stagnant
0:04:30 > 0:04:35economy and the poll ratings have gone down. But at the same time,
0:04:35 > 0:04:40with corruption scandals also polluting the reputation, they don't
0:04:40 > 0:04:43have legally binding powers on him so he may well stay put and this
0:04:43 > 0:04:47whole thing may drag on even longer. Do you see anything in the story
0:04:47 > 0:04:51that is new or is it the same one we were talking about last night?What
0:04:51 > 0:04:55is new is that they are saying there's a deadline for him to go but
0:04:55 > 0:05:00they are not saying what it is. We know, having seen certainly Jacob
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Zuma refusing to go anywhere that I would put my money on him pushing
0:05:04 > 0:05:07the deadline as far as it goes. Of course the insinuation or the
0:05:07 > 0:05:11assumption is that so much of that is to do with the alleged corruption
0:05:11 > 0:05:17against him, that he wants to get his ducks in a row and probably,
0:05:17 > 0:05:20mixing my knowledge is but feathering his own net and his ducks
0:05:20 > 0:05:24in a row before he is prepared to walk away. That is the suspicion.
0:05:24 > 0:05:29He's obviously a canny and cunning politician, Jacob Zuma would not be
0:05:29 > 0:05:34without a plan to protect himself. At the least, you knows his back is
0:05:34 > 0:05:37against the wall but they don't necessarily have power except for
0:05:37 > 0:05:41political pressure to apply on him so he has survived for years through
0:05:41 > 0:05:46these kind of things so this is why he knows he can survive yet again.
0:05:46 > 0:05:51Daisy, staying with the Financial Times, interesting football pricing
0:05:51 > 0:05:55story.Very interesting because what we are used do is watching the
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Premier League sell its TV rights for more and more eye watering sums
0:05:58 > 0:06:03of money every year. Last year we saw the new player, Beattie sport,
0:06:03 > 0:06:09entering the market, bidding and the competition between Sky and Beattie
0:06:09 > 0:06:18sport entered the market and pushed it up astonishingly. -- BT Sport.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21December just gone, Sky and BT Sport formed a truce and we are wondering
0:06:21 > 0:06:25what it would do to prices and it has had the reaction we thought it
0:06:25 > 0:06:29would which is that prices have come down for the first time. They are
0:06:29 > 0:06:32still I watering, the amounts the Premier League clubs will get from
0:06:32 > 0:06:36selling their TV rights but it is the first time they have ever gone
0:06:36 > 0:06:40down. Interestingly not all of the auctions have happened yet and Sky
0:06:40 > 0:06:43can only bid on one more but it will be interesting to see what impact it
0:06:43 > 0:06:48might have on the future of the Premier League. The other thing is,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51they are still amazing money and I think the rest of the British
0:06:51 > 0:06:56economy could learn lessons from how these clubs revive their own
0:06:56 > 0:07:00fortunes and actually create a lot of money within the economy and I
0:07:00 > 0:07:05think the wider lessons should be learned.Anything to add?It's a
0:07:05 > 0:07:09sign of how competitive sport is, given there are other outlets that
0:07:09 > 0:07:12you can watch it online and media outlets like that so this is the
0:07:12 > 0:07:18squeeze on the price they can demand but it is still big-ticket stuff.
0:07:18 > 0:07:22Looking at the Metro, the first of our property stories for the night.
0:07:22 > 0:07:30This is an interesting one about first-time buyers, you first, any
0:07:30 > 0:07:34surprises in this story?I think it is what has led to this, it is not
0:07:34 > 0:07:37suddenly it has become more affordable, it is not landlords
0:07:37 > 0:07:42dumping properties.I was interested in that as well, it is a selling
0:07:42 > 0:07:46story really.But there are knock-on effects and benefits and lots of
0:07:46 > 0:07:51supply suddenly and this is how we have seen the record come through.
0:07:51 > 0:07:58Interestingly, they are saying they are new results, this is from 2016 -
0:07:58 > 0:08:0217, so there's a bit of a lag in the stats which is to be expected, but
0:08:02 > 0:08:06first-time buyers, I think it was 36 quite recently so that is a
0:08:06 > 0:08:11significant drop, and their earnings are 41,000 which is still a lot more
0:08:11 > 0:08:16than your average buyer. But it is heartening to see however, I think
0:08:16 > 0:08:22what happened with the December figures, they went down again so
0:08:22 > 0:08:27predictions are that this was a little spike and that they will go
0:08:27 > 0:08:32down and it will continue to go down again but it shows that reforming
0:08:32 > 0:08:34the tax system which is what led to this, reforming the rental tax
0:08:34 > 0:08:40system, does have beneficial effects of the rest of it. People say you
0:08:40 > 0:08:43tinker with the tax system and it does not make much difference but in
0:08:43 > 0:08:47this case, it did. It might be a blip but it made a difference.And
0:08:47 > 0:08:52the other house prices story, perhaps less of a blip, perhaps
0:08:52 > 0:08:57quite serious, long-term rises in prices.A reminder that the supply
0:08:57 > 0:09:00shortage is still there and the government, despite its warm words
0:09:00 > 0:09:04on getting house-building going, it is failing to do it because house
0:09:04 > 0:09:08prices are soaring by £1000 per month and I'm sorry to hark back to
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Brexit but given we were told that after the vote, suddenly the prices
0:09:12 > 0:09:17would not be so high...That is what the express is saying, it says,
0:09:17 > 0:09:22despite what people say, this is the boom after the Brexit vote.There is
0:09:22 > 0:09:28a subtlety that they are missing out from, it was not they would fall, it
0:09:28 > 0:09:31was that they wouldn't increase by so much so if anything, the express
0:09:31 > 0:09:35maybe even more excited if they had voted remain because it would be
0:09:35 > 0:09:39bigger price increases.I think the figures show a big north-south
0:09:39 > 0:09:45divide, Scottish house prices have gone up much more than London which
0:09:45 > 0:09:48you would expect because London prices are so high already, they
0:09:48 > 0:09:52have gone up by less but in Scotland I think it is more than 7% which is
0:09:52 > 0:09:57really significant.Indeed. Staying with the express, the nice picture
0:09:57 > 0:10:01of the Queen and Prince Charles but the story, good Prince Charles miss
0:10:01 > 0:10:07out on head of the Commonwealth? -- good Prince Charles. What is the
0:10:07 > 0:10:11express saying?It is one of those questions to which the answer is
0:10:11 > 0:10:19almost certainly no, however there was a big was the secret meeting of
0:10:19 > 0:10:23the Commonwealth great and good at Marlborough house today and a lot of
0:10:23 > 0:10:28the discussion was clouded in secrecy and the BBC I think has seen
0:10:28 > 0:10:33the notes of the meeting and one of the questions to be answered was,
0:10:33 > 0:10:37what does happen when the Queen dies? Prince Charles will be
0:10:37 > 0:10:40automatically keen, but he will not automatically be head of the
0:10:40 > 0:10:47Commonwealth. -- be king. But who else is going to be? The Queen is
0:10:47 > 0:10:53head of state for 15 or 16 of the 53 states of the Commonwealth which is
0:10:53 > 0:10:58far more contentious than whether he becomes Commonwealth head but I
0:10:58 > 0:11:02think it might be... Would you want to be head of the Commonwealth?
0:11:02 > 0:11:07Apparently he does.He's done a lot for it.Clearly and he wants to be.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Running out of time, I want to get in this lovely Shetland pony, back
0:11:11 > 0:11:14in the Metro, a very nice picture, we have Meghan Markle in Edinburgh
0:11:14 > 0:11:18at the castle almost wearing the same as the saddle blanket, it is
0:11:18 > 0:11:24like they coordinated their wardrobe.They thought ahead. This
0:11:24 > 0:11:29little Shetland pony was a bit of a nipper, trying to bite Harry's hand.
0:11:29 > 0:11:36I don't think it was a royalist and it did a massive coup as they
0:11:36 > 0:11:43approached which the picture editors have ended out.And a quick nice
0:11:43 > 0:11:47story on the Telegraph front page, your paper, Cupid leading the way to
0:11:47 > 0:11:52a patter of tiny feet, what are they on about?Stats on the NHS show that
0:11:52 > 0:11:56on Valentines week is the time when people have a go at trying to
0:11:56 > 0:12:01conceive and have a baby.And succeed.Very much but it amuses me
0:12:01 > 0:12:06that there is a lag, a fortnight afterwards, people relent on their
0:12:06 > 0:12:13amorous efforts.Stopped oppressing us!Strike while the iron is hot.By
0:12:13 > 0:12:21the end of February, all romance is dead by the beginning of March.That
0:12:21 > 0:12:24the rest of the year but those two weeks...A baby boom to be expected.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Thank you for joining us.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30That's it for The Papers tonight.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:12:34 > 0:12:34on the BBC News website.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42And if you miss the programme any
0:12:42 > 0:12:45evening you can watch it later on BBC iPlayer
0:12:45 > 0:12:46Thank you Asa Bennett and Daisy McAndrew.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Goodbye.