first the headlines. the chancellor, phillip hammond, has dismissed as "reckless" calls for him to increase spending in his first budget on wednesday. we are paying over £50 billion a year just we are paying over £50 billion a yearjust on maintaining our debt. the white house demands that congress investigate whether barack 0bama ordered wire—taps on president trump before last year's election. a former director of national intelligence denies the claims. there was no wiretap activity mounted against the president elect at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign. the french centre—right presidential candidate, francois fillon says he won't withdraw his candidacy — but he admitted to misjudgements in dealing with allegations of corruption. the iraqi army says it's close to recapturing the main government building in western mosul from the so—called islamic state hugh jackman returns

huthackman returns as wolverine. we will hear about the other cinema releases in the film and review. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the mirror columnist susie boniface, and the telegraph columnist tim stanley. tomorrow's front pages, starting with: the ft says the chancellor's due to unveil tax rises in wednesday's budget, as he looks to protect the country from "unexpected challenges" from brexit. the times also looks at the budget — and it pictures french presidential candidate francois fillon and his wife at a rally in paris, amid calls for him to quit the race afterfraud claims. the i says philip hammond has been told by doctors that the nhs needs billions of extra pounds.

nhs also features in the telegraph — which claims more than 600 bosses are earning six—figure salaries, as the health service struggles with its finances. the metro has a warning about the mental health of university students, reporting that suicide numbers are at a record high. the express reports research claiming a mediterranean diet of fruit, vegetables and oily fish could slash the risk of breast cancer by a0%. the mail has an investigation into abortions, claiming some doctors have signed them off for women they've never met. the guardian investigates sexual harassment and misconduct claims in universities, saying cases are at "epidemic levels". let's begin. times‘ main let‘s begin. times‘ main story. the chancellor talking about tax rises as he looks to the budget. a bit of

as he looks to the budget. a bit of a surprise mr mark tax increases? this is his first proper budget since he has become a chancellor and he has got to do a couple of things. the politically expedient reasons, he has to find money for social care and offer short—term relief for small businesses, many conservative that voters who will be hit with the changes. he says there will be higher taxes and lower spending to cover that. the problem will that is, economically speaking, it is very easy, especially for us journalists, to tell the public that it is not like household budget. actually that is not quite how it works. if a government spends on the right thing, that generates further income because it generates tax, it generates wealth of people that can be taxed. if you spend on the correct things, in theory, you should be generating more cash. kind

of the labour party‘s position. should be generating more cash. kind of the labour party's position. kind of. if you spend more money from pensions, you can generate that much money from that but if he says we arejust going to money from that but if he says we are just going to contract, basically, and we are not going to spend, we will have high taxes, we will penalise people more and that‘s how we will build up a war chest for brexit further down the track. and who will be hit by the tax rises? this was a broadcast. a broadcast on behalf of milton friedman. a conservative one. stick with us. you could spend and invest in infrastructure. you could also choose to cut taxes for people in order to give them greater pac take—home pay so then they can spend and that will help the economy as well. ——a greater take—home pay.

and that will help the economy as well. ——a greatertake—home pay. he is trying to go the opposite direction and build up a chest. this is the consequence of a manifesto which the times reminds us pledge no national insurance. when you do that and you decide you want to save money for the future, where do you get the money from? stealth taxes which the tories always used to accuse gordon brown. here he is looking on taxes on the self—employed, taxes on drinkers, this is what happens when you commit yourself not to raise the general taxes. and the self-employed. entrepreneurs who we should be encouraging? yes, you would have thought. 4.5 million people are self—employed including, ithink, most of these people around the table but most are notjournalists, they do properjobs. they are going to be paying a higher national insurance rate in the budget, we think, to pay for some of these

things. some of the things we just saw phil hammond talk about how he already spent a billion on our current borrowings, why are we spending interest on our borrowings? not try to sound like donald trump but can‘t get a better deal? not try to sound like donald trump but can't get a better deanm not try to sound like donald trump but can't get a better deal? it is expected that government borrowing is down but one could argue his forecasts are a bit pessimistic about the impact of except when it also see that the budget is also expected to show that it has had no impact on growth whatsoever. the government is saying it will all be good and we can go our way through brexit and on the other hand he is saying well, we don't know what is going to happen and that sounds a little contradictory. let's move on. the telegraph. tim, your newspaper. they all have this story in one way oi’ they all have this story in one way or another. 0bama faces congress wiretapped enquiry. this is donald trump‘s ea rly—morning tweet. wiretapped enquiry. this is donald trump's early-morning tweet. yes, suggesting that 0bama had wiretapped

him in trump tower. the press secretary said that he bade them at the congress investigate. will that actually happen? that is the interesting question. this is extraordinary. we are talking about federal agencies, if this is true, talking about federal briefing against the president of the united states who himself is breaking protocol, of course, by briefing against a predecessor. it doesn't normally happen. we are walking into a sort of chaotic situation. but there are reasons behind this for donald trump? his side has too many russian dealings, it was said. the principal reason of this is that he is sending his early—morning tweet when he is on the toilet. let's not imagine it. he is listening to the

radio, he is watching fox news on his bathroom console and full tweet whatever is popping into his head. but yes, this is how he got into power, deflecting any kind of press and bringing in something new. bring out another rabbit out of the hat creating theatre and drama which does not move things on very much but moves people ‘s gaze array from the central issue which would be russia and his contact with it. but even for donald trump, wouldn‘t it be silly that he has done something that there is no evidence for? it might turn out to be an little bit of... deporting 11 million people who are a fundamental part of the economy? there are lots of things trump has said and done that which are mad if you actually think about them logically, they are not going to work but it is not go to stop him saying it. its deflection. the press cannot ignore this because it is very big and you just can't walk away from it. while it is done,

other stories get eclipsed. sometime this weekend, it is looking that he is cutting the climate change budget within the epa by up to 70%. that is a serious policy. him going on twitter and saying that the previous president is an alien who abducted him and talking to mars, it is headline grabbing and we can't ignore it. it's not as important as actual policy that every time trump does something like this, it eclipses what is actually going on. that‘s why the space to ignore him sometimes. in france, it is so we can look at the times which has as photographs of the central figures. francois fillon, candidate for the presidency, and his welsh born wife penelope. what is francois fillon trying to do? what is he trying to establish? the french residential election system is different to ours. what happens is there is

essentially a run off so there is a final to that go through the city election. the other favourite at the moment is emmanuel macron who a centrist socialist type figure. not a normal politician in the sense we do not have a lot of outside politics coming in at the moment. and let‘s not also forget marine le pen. the thought is that he -- if he and marine le pen are in a final run—off, there would be a coalition among voters, right and left, to vote for emmanuel macron. voting against marine le pen. what francois fillon is doing by standing, despite the fact he is my inner scandal which makes him unelectable, a lot of his support has drained away over the past few weeks, he is trying to ensure that he gets into the run—off and then the presidential election is between left and right as opposed to centrist and far right. he is trying to get through for the conservative vote. this picture of

this big rally, it was important that he got in with the big numbers of people, like donald trump.|j think the weather was bad. i saw footage of people covered in rain. he estimated that 100,000 people turned out. it is estimated the area that he was in good contain about 35,000 people. did it extend as far back as the washington monument? one white ——1 reason why francois fillon keeps going in is because he has discovered a constituency. that constituency is conservative catholics who have not mobilised behind candidate like this in a long time. they are reluctant to lose him as the candidate because the alternative is a lane should pay or emmanuel macron. he has had some to say about the algerian war which believe it or not is still important in france. francois fillon keeps on going because there is enough people to want him to keep on going. and a lane juppe has something

to want him to keep on going. and a lanejuppe has something to say tomorrow. he will indeed allow francois fillon to go ahead. ——a lane juppe. let‘s go francois fillon to go ahead. ——a lanejuppe. let‘s go to the guardian. this is their lead story. epidemic of sex all harassment in universities. the guardian has dug up universities. the guardian has dug up all the figures here. —— sexual. it is being claimed that a significant number of allegations of being made in the last few years are of such a great number, at least 169, that it amounts to an "epidemic" of sexual harassment amongst education and what is described as gender violence. these are very serious accusations. they must all be taken seriously and anything that occurs should absolutely not be tolerated. 0ne however might raise questions about the language of the report. for instance, the use of the word

epidemic the described sexual harassment. it is not like a virus ora harassment. it is not like a virus or a cold that people catch. do they have some comparisons? they seem to. 169 allegations against, this is university students complaining against staff, although that seems a small figure, they compare it to a survey in the states which found that reporting rates are low and it is about 7.7% of the total that actually got reported. even so, 169 allegations in five years would equate to less than 18 day. one sexual harassment bidet. if it were only 7.7% of the total, it would still only a quake 26 sexual harassment cases per day. —— equate. so we are saying the guardian is making a bit too much? in terms of

an epidemic, i do think this is the cancellation is there. furthermore, i worked occasionally as a lecturer in london. —— substantiation. the university hierarchies, all these people, are incredibly concerned with student welfare at all times andi with student welfare at all times and i can‘t really imagine, if anyone were to complain, even if we re anyone were to complain, even if were “— anyone were to complain, even if were —— it were to be looked at in a certain way, it would be reported on. it is down to people being willing to report in the way that they may not have in the past. very quickly, british politics. not quite so raucous as other places. but susie, there is a story here on the front page aboutjeremy corbyn and his tax returns. bless him. he has managed to punch himself in the face again while tried to make someone else look bad and it has failed miserably. he was supposed to release his tax returns to bring some pressure on the government and

taxation and so want. he has actually managed to release it. it turns out he has not declared £40,000 incomes on it tax return which he did take and was taxed. £40,000 incomes on it tax return which he did take and was taxedm was taxed but wasn‘t on the form. this is not a memo he hasjust put out. this is his actual declaration to the taxman. he has not turned out —— —— told the taxman. to the taxman. he has not turned out -- -- told the taxman. what does jeremy corbyn know about running a country? but if after a life in politics you are making £36,000 a yearin politics you are making £36,000 a year in pension payments, i would say actually he is very well qualified. it seems to be making some smart investment himself. —— he seems to. i am astonished and impressed. my late father made something like 12— 15,000 in pension by the time he died. jeremy corbyn has done twice as well as that. della mackie is not wealthy, of course.