this is bbc news — our latest headlines. divisions in the conservative party after business secretary greg clark insists the idea of 3 "customers partnership" with the eu is still on the table. messages of support for the former manchester united boss, sir alex ferguson, as he recovers from a brain haemorrhage. and the mother of a 17—year—old boy shot dead in south london appeals for an end to the violence in the capital. i think brendan, ourfloor manager, wa nts i think brendan, ourfloor manager, wants me to read to camera two. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the parliamentary journalist, tony grew, and the entertainment journalist, caroline frost. let's look at the front pages.

the financial times says the prime minister will risk the wrath of tory eurosceptics by pressing ahead with the customs plan. the times says brussels is preparing a tough line on brexit, fearing a future labour government lead byjeremy corbyn. grandparents could be given the legal right to see their grandchild, according to the daily telegraph. the guardian leads with a new deportation scandal hitting the home office. ‘bloodbath on our streets‘ leads the express, after what they describe as a "weekend of violence" in the uk. and the star leads with the tributes from the footballing world to sir alex ferguson, who remains seriously ill in hospital. and the same story leads the daily mirror, who feature an interview with tv host eamon holmes, who asks "pray for my mate fergie". so let's begin. the financial times as this ongoing discussion over how we deal with customs issues post brexit. made to

risk tory rebels‘ raph by pressing ahead with a customs plan. this is the idea of a customs partnership, which were some mps is too close to what we have. this morning, i saw that week one has been played 22 times and no other week has been played. this is a stunning metaphor for this whole customs union debate. this has been going on for two yea rs. this has been going on for two years. this should be a weak one exercise. and yet, here we are, theresa may desperately trying to steer the ship, keeping her rabl —— rebels happy, failing, clearly, risking their raph, further splits in the cabinet. i can‘t believe this is still going on. there were two options being mooted. the highly

synchronised plan and the customs partnership. can you remind us of what those different things work? not really. both have been dismissed by brussels. the prime minister appears to be prepared to die in a ditch for something that people have told repeatedly they would accept. it isa told repeatedly they would accept. it is a surreal situation. we are coming toa it is a surreal situation. we are coming to a head broadly in this issue. the prime minister will have to make a decision. she has avoided doing that until now. she will have to decide what sort of partnership she wants with the eu and she will have to try to get that through parliament. there is no majority in either house of parliament. every time she says no deal is better than a bad deal, that isjust not going to fly. she should probably stop staying that. — — to fly. she should probably stop staying that. —— saying that. there isa staying that. —— saying that. there is a majority in the upper house for a hard brexit, no customs arrangement. broadly, we are talking about as frictionless as possible a customs arrangement. this idea that

the uk will stick to eu rules and collect ta riffs the uk will stick to eu rules and collect tariffs on behalf of the european union is clearly deficient. why would we go through all the pain of leaving the european union in an attempt to have new trading standards different from the eu, or just stick with what we have? are we going to lower our food standards so we can facilitate trade with other countries? that would form part of a trade deal. we are told by the environment secretary that we will have better food standards than the eu. we want to keep trading with the eu. we want to keep trading with the eu and insist on that anyway. are we going to have different sets of standards? we could and up with that. the government seems to insist that. the government seems to insist that we will stay in some kind of customs arrangement for a longer than the transition period agreed until the end of 2020. and that

technology will appear which will allow a facilitation of this frictionless trade the government says it wants. it is confusing and it is still worryingly hypothetical that nearly two years after the uk voted to leave the european union, the uk doesn't appear to have any strong practical options on the table, and the eu itself is saying the time —— the time it's taking. comparisons have been made with what turkey has. it is in the customs union but still manages to strike free—trade deals with other countries. those who are really keen ona hard countries. those who are really keen on a hard brexit don‘t want that either? no, they seem to be living ina either? no, they seem to be living in a utopian ideal where we can be standing alone, and yet somehow all of these countries will be queueing up of these countries will be queueing up to deal with us. we have no proof thatis up to deal with us. we have no proof that is the case. clearly the eu, in theory, as the chips, has those bargaining chips. we have to keep

oui’ bargaining chips. we have to keep our relationship with the eu clear and happy and straightforward and use them as a trading partner, or illegally having them as a rival going forward. the problem we have is that our negotiating position has not been driven by practicality. it has been driven by ideology. theresa may's failing attempts to keep the party united over europe. what it meant was that at the start of the negotiations theresa may closed down dozens of options that could have been kept on the table. that is why we find ourselves pushed into this corner. the uk itself has closed down a series of options because theresa may was too concerned if she talked about the customs union, the small band of brexiteers would struggles. i think she's in stronger position. the expressed talks about the bloodbath on our streets. three dead. boy, 15, injured in shooting. we have had the mother of one young

man talking about how she is desperate to see this violence and after he was killed. it is horrifying. i also reflect on the fa ct horrifying. i also reflect on the fact that since the coalition government came into power in 2010, there are 20,000 fewer police office rs there are 20,000 fewer police officers in england and wales now than there were in 2010. the number of community police officers, the sort of people connected to communities, the eyes and ears of the police more widely, are down by 40%. i do not think we can talk about rising violence, rising crime in the streets, not talk about cuts to police numbers. as the -- the experiment in glasgow to stop knife crime shows it is about the nature of engagement by the police with communities. yes. also, we have also got the new appropriation of resources . got the new appropriation of resources. in that same era we have

seen a rise in terrorist incidents the police about to respond to. all of those resources have had to channelled away. we call it old—fashioned policing. channelled away. we call it old —fashioned policing. when channelled away. we call it old—fashioned policing. when these projects and these experiments do ta ke projects and these experiments do take shape there is a lot of love, resorts, energy, focus and attention that gets put on these communities. they do thrive and they do flourish. i‘m not sure that is necessarily a true reflection of what is going on in the wider sphere. they are p°ppin9 in the wider sphere. they are p°pping up in the wider sphere. they are popping up all over the place. no community is immune. we are focused very much in —— on london because the number of murders in the first few weeks of the year had exceeded new york. we have been reporting another part of the country, where violence against very young people, boysin violence against very young people, boys in particular, has been happening in other parts of the country. it is happening a lot. smaller towns, turns away from cities, along with drug dealing cold cou nty cities, along with drug dealing cold

county lines, where young people are used to carry drugs to the regional towns. you mention scotland. scotland has not had any cut in police numbers. they have been rising for 30 years. if you have the resources, they may well be able to engage with people. if they have been cut to the extent they have in england, that will be difficult. story to do with the deportation issues facing the home office. a couple of papers running with the story. firstly, the guardian. new deportation scandal hits home office. this is about the deportation of highly skilled migrants in the uk, people who have applied for indefinitely to remain. the home office, probably the most dysfunctional government department that has ever existed as far as i can see, it is scandal after scandal, they have effectively been using anti—terror legislation to deport these people, people we really need. doctors, it professionals... they have been

refused leave to remain after making minor legal amendments to their tax records, small discrepancies in income. they have been accused of lying. terror legislation has been used to them. it is the same as windrush. when you have an ideological, political department imposed a maghoma department, everything becomes about how many deportations and what happens is you create a culture of disbelief, a culture of cruelty, in fact, were the only thing the home office staff are focused on his many people they can deport. that comes from the woman who was home secretary for six years, the prime minister. amber rudd took the fall for the windrush scandal. the independent has carried out a poll. the headline slightly misleading. windrush scandal reveals home office failings. the report seems to suggest there are concerns of failings, it doesn‘t actually prove them. a lot of people who took pa rt prove them. a lot of people who took

part in the survey have questioned what is going on in the home office. the personal statistic regarding theresa may is that twice as many people blame theresa may. amber rudd basically got handed a bag of spanners. she was caught between a rock and a hard place last week. she couldn‘t speak to violently against the prime minister. and yet, it also left her unable to defend herself because she was having to continue those policies which have been put into place before. now, here we are, these widerfailings, as reported in these widerfailings, as reported in the guardian about these new indefinite leave to remain statistics, chasing targets, clashing with ideologies. we have an ongoing belief in this country that we don‘t, some people think there are not enough resources for people to enjoy, they‘ve think there is not enough space. the government have this traumatic problem where these injustices are being highlighted and lea ked injustices are being highlighted and leaked and all sorts of memos are being leaked, and these two things are clashing. this is what we are getting. this poll, people are

concerned about illegal immigration levels, but they want people to be treated properly and the rules to be properly applied? yes, the problem when you create a hostile environment is you create a hostile environment is you create a hostile environment for everyone who looks like an immigrant. black and asian people who live in this country. there is no point the government crying crocodile tears. this is a deliberate policy created. they used the nhs and private landlords as pa rt of the nhs and private landlords as part of the immigration policy to create a hostile atmosphere. it has created a hostile environment for people who are perfectly entitled to be here. grandparents right to see their grandchildren may become law. this story has been running for yea rs. this story has been running for years. how some grandparents are com pletely years. how some grandparents are completely locked out of ever having contact with their grandchildren? for many grandparents this will be long overdue. and probably, very sadly, they will have missed their opportunity to right the wrongs in the wrong family. this seems particularly sad. they are striving to put into law some sort of default

setting where there is an assumption of relationships between the children of a divorced parent, or at least estranged, and their grandparents, which hasn‘t been the case before. what kind of breakdown, probably between a grandparent and their own children, most of this also be showing up? that is clearly why they are not having a relationship with the grandchildren they would like. it is long overdue. i hope that is writes a lot of wrong is for many people. but it is a sad reflection on the breakdown, another breakdown, in modern society. there isa breakdown, in modern society. there is a court process? that is correct. they can apply for the right to apply for access. and quite sceptical of this. who's is this? i can understand how parents have a right of access to their children. i'm not sure grandparents should have a right of access. what if you are a parent brought up by an appalling mother or father? then you would be an exception to the rule.

who would make those judgments? the right is on the wrong place. esther ra ntze n says right is on the wrong place. esther ra ntzen says the right is on the wrong place. esther rantzen says the french have got it right. they give children the legal right. they give children the legal right of access to their extended family, not the other way around. very young children, how could they know truly what they do want? parents make decisions for a very young children. i understand why it isa young children. i understand why it is a good policy overall, but i know people whose parents were absolute nightmares. then wanting to keep those people away from their own children may not be something that would go down well in a court. you could be dealing with people who are fully aware of their rights and then start to demand them. what concerns me is the right of parents are not taken into account. let‘s finish with some of the back pages. a lot of the papers looking at the tributes and prayers that are being said for sir alex ferguson, who has had to have emergency surgery who has had to have emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage.

after a ll surgery for a brain haemorrhage. after all the rivalry, the fierce rivalry between football clubs been put to one side by the football community? yeah. i'm not somebody who follows football but i know who sir alex ferguson is, and that tells you everything about the role he has in our national identity. it is touching to see people who are rivals coming together and wishing him all the best. it has got us talking about his immense achievement over that long period where he built not one but three amazing different teams at manchester united ?|j amazing different teams at manchester united? i think we see managers moving around so often these days, that when sir, he is up there with sir matt busby and bill shankly, and it was particularly