‘money, ‘ money, because ‘meney, because they ‘ money, because they would like to of money, because they would like to maintain some form of austerity. to keep the economy going, to stimulate growth, if you are going to invest in infrastructure, you have to spend cash. you have the problem of the conservative party, they have backbenchers who want german levels of public services. they have other backbenchers, the right wing ones, who want bermuda levels of taxes. they are incompatible. this argument taking place among the tories at the moment. they are in all sorts of contortions, they don't know how to get out of the problem. at the same time you have corbin promising the world. yes we will raise taxes, we will give you first—class public services. giving people a pay rise. helping public sector workers, investing in the nhs. we are reaching a tipping point. people are starting to think i would prefer the pain of paying a bit more in tax. to

the pain of having bad public services, seeing people struggle on welfare, universal credit not working. as this says, the endless misery of stagnant wages. you cannot spend all that money and have top—class services and pay off the deficit? no, people's expectations are realistic. if taxes rise, not going to have a stimulating effect on the economy if the tax burden is set to be pretty high as it is anyway. that will not make britain competitive. the only way is for us to grow our way out of it. which is difficult when we have the worst productivity since napoleonic times. the abi figures are predicated on that essentially continuing. britain has underperformed on productivity. certainly true. sometimes things surprise you on the upside. in the eurozone things are booming. jobs

growth, factory orders reaching 17 year highs. to rub it in. as we were told yesterday by the chancellor, rattling through growth figures so bad he did not want to say them slowly. we now have a brexit turned down. we don't know how long that will be, we are ready into it. across the channel, they are doing very well. results that are the best for 6.5 years. greece is still in the bind. he mixed picture, no doubt there is a recovery. not an exaggeration to talk about it as parts of the eurozone booming. personally that will be good for britain as well. a successful eurozone is in everyone's interest. we're not leaving a corpse, as some brexiteers said. that is true. we're not leaving a corpse, as some brexiteers said. that is truem you go back five years looking in the difficulty of the eurozone was

in during the crisis. you would always get these moments. cycles. europe doing so, the eu doing better isa europe doing so, the eu doing better is a good thing. the daily telegraph. may be used to break brexit impasse? good luck with that. raising the amount of money? we knew this was going to happen. they had a meeting in a cabinet subcommittee. borisjohnson, meeting in a cabinet subcommittee. boris johnson, liam meeting in a cabinet subcommittee. borisjohnson, liam fox, david davis, michael gove excepting we we re davis, michael gove excepting we were going to have to increase the amount we put on the table to grease amount we put on the table to grease a part. like episode of the law no deal. —— deal or no deal. a part. like episode of the law no deal. -- deal or no deal. they said they want citizens write cecil, northern ireland settle. i do think that will be a problem when they meet tomorrow, with donald tusk. a

divorce deal is possible. the real problem is northern ireland. that is where the bust up will be. that is where the bust up will be. that is where they have an intractable problem. having real trouble breaking the deadlock. jason is right. the government was starting to feel quite confident going into this key decision point in the middle of december. about whether it goes forward to talk about trade, stage two. almost from neighbour, ireland has become a problem, dissipated, but really serious problem. potentially giving may be president macron, one of the other members of the 27 an excuse or chance to save actually we're not ready to go forward. they were pretty optimistic in the last week two. ireland went wanted to go forward either. they will want to have more certainty. the risk they

then play, if they have overplayed a strong hand. you get to a situation where if you get through christmas and nothing is really happened during january 's wiped out. the risk is, the british government had to start saying iran february or march, this does not look like it will happen, start planning for no deal. daily telegraph, switch off cameras in smart toys. christmas not far away. have you included this to make me feel old ? far away. have you included this to make me feel old? not doing a great dealfor me either. make me feel old? not doing a great deal for me either. when my kids we re deal for me either. when my kids were going up they got very simple toys, cuddly teddy bears. now we have these machines are connected to the internet. they had cameras. i am boggled by this. my daughter who is 13, some time ago but a piece of tape across the camera at the

computer at home saying no one could hack into us. i wish we were doing something interesting. it is a point. people can hijack the cameras, remotely. the serious point, we have been through the early stages of the technological revolution is a wonderful things it can do. the evidences, consumers are starting to work out a lot of the stuff is about tracking them, tracking behaviour. collecting data. the real problem is the only people who understand technology other children. if you want to fix this, ask your kids. daily mirror. the fa launches probe into the link between heading footballs and dementia. this seems overdue. youi’ heading footballs and dementia. this seems overdue. your paper has had a role in bringing this to our attention. we have been campaigning on this. it came out of nowhere.

suddenly looking at the world cup 1996 heroes. three of them have got dementia. we started asking more questions. we have had 375 former players having possible signs of dementia. alan shearer did a documentary for the bbc. he said the governing bodies were trying to sweep it under the carpet. we kept pressing. good on the fa. they are going to launch the study. we're not entirely sure if there is a definite link. the evidence points that way will stop if we can get a scientific study and it proves it. overseas purple, they're not as heavy as they we re years purple, they're not as heavy as they were years ago. players can start thinking about what they are doing. concerns about other contact sports. boxing the obvious one. rugby, head

injuries this that is true, particularly on the football thing. of concern to a lot of parents. they had kids playing sport. so many players. i think it is an example of really good, old—fashioned, proper tabloid campaigning. really going at an issue. getting some movement. it is what they do with the research? once you have the evidence, or proof, you need, somebody needs to be bold. you don't not wrap kids up in cotton wool. if there are simple things you can do, wearing a skull cap. that is not stop them having fun, stop people playing football. makes sense. it hurts. let's see the research. it will start in january?

conducted at a scottish university. proper big study. good news. pantomime season is almost upon us. a lot of fairy stories get turned into pa ntos. sorry, a lot of fairy stories get turned into pantos. sorry, you cannot wake sleeping beauty with a kiss? she has not given consent. a woman by the name is sarah hall, she wants her son's school to ban the classic story. her argument is a traditional understanding of gender roles, being reinforced here, the express regarding it as political correctness,. regarding it as political correctness, . example of regarding it as political correctness,. example of how crazy the world would be. i do think, cerebral, the person who made the complaint to the school, it should be noted, as it is towards the end of the story, in public relations,

standing as president of the chartered institute of public relations. getting a page lead in the daily express. she should properly win. there is a counter view from the chairman for the campaign of real education. he says the prince is resuscitating her with the prince is resuscitating her with the case. i was opposed to try and tell children not to say somebody? i'm going to send very boringly pc. if you look at fairy stories, the women characters are either crohn's, hags and which is, or simpering princesses. maybe we should have straight slightly stronger female role models, as a father of three daughters. you seem work out some chilly nobody zane duquemin rescue you. you are on your own. do i sound bitter? not at all. you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc website. seven days a week.

if you missed the programme, you can watch it later on the bbc iplayer. jason and ian, lovely to see you. coming up next, the weather. good evening. the emphasis now is on rain to cold weather. the coldest weather today across the northern half of scotland. where we saw most of the snow early on. lovely picture in aviemore. much drier conditions. much less rainfall and today across cumbria and lancashire. as well as north wales. largely dry overnight. quite cold. this weather in scotland and northern ireland, wintry showers. not as cold across parts of southern england and wales. we could have more rain, turning snowy maybe later on across the south—east of england. frost across northern part of the uk. this is where we will

head off to win the morning. as well as frost, icy patches as well. northern and western scotland again, sam hale, sleet and snow. wintry showers into northern ireland, especially the north. creeping over the irish sea into wales. most of england and wales starting drive. misty in the south—east after the overnight rain cleared away. showers lurking through the channel and coming in across the south west approach. one those heading inland. most of england and wales having a dry day. sunny spells developing. more showers continuing across scotla nd more showers continuing across scotland and northern ireland of a wintry flavour. sunshiny beside the showers. a data catching a rainbow. cold day, temperature is lowered across the border. starting off quite cold and frosty on saturday. north—westerly winds picking up after a much lighter wind day on friday. cold winds, shower was driven further south into england

and wales. the further south you go, and wales. the further south you go, and the east you go across the uk, you may get away with a dry day. cold once again. stronger winds across the second half of the we can. getting a bit more westerly. high pressure here ahead of the weather from killing off high pressure here ahead of the weatherfrom killing off a lot high pressure here ahead of the weather from killing off a lot of the showers. more places dry. sunshine hanging on across the eastern side of the uk. western areas tending to cloud over more and more. adding to the chilly feel. weekend feeling cold. strong wind around accentuate in the cold. frosty weather overnight. sunshine and wintry this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00: the prime minister says the budget puts britain on the right path, despite an economic warning from a leading think tank suggesting otherwise. the chancellor did a very good job yesterday. what the chancellor was doing was setting out how we can ensure we can have an economy fit the for the future. the institute for fiscal studies

warns that britain is facing an unprecedented squeeze on living standards, and is experiencing two lost decades without pay growth. it looks like we've got at least another five years to go before we get anywhere near to having earnings back where they were in 2008. that is wholly unprecedented. in argentina, families get reports of an explosion on a submarine which went missing over a week ago. an exclusive look inside the saudi hotel where prominent figures continue to be held as part of a campaign against corruption.