hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentator lance price and the financial times political leader writer seb payne. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, and of course many are leading with brexit. the financial times reports on the row between cabinet ministers, business leaders and the prime minister as theresa may insists she will press ahead with curbs on immigration after brexit. the independent splashes on the story that thousands of troops will be on standby in case of a no—deal outcome. the metro also leads on the announcement that the army could be deployed if britain fails to agree a deal. "britain moves to war footing," the i also leads on the consequences of no—deal. the daily telegraph splashes on calls from former brexit secretary dominic raab to give businesses tax breaks to help them weather a no—deal brexit. businesses are "watching in horror"

according to the guardian as no—deal preparations escalate. and the times reports that the government is set to ditch manifesto commitments in a bid to free up resources for brexit. away from brexit — tory mps are accused of hypocrisy, says the daily mirror, as it reveals some receive free television licences while pensioners face losing theirs. there you go. a reasonable range but many about brexit and not even the special and so far. we, that a little later. welcome to both of you. let's begin with the i and that striking front page. the troops are on standby. are you reassured? striking front page. the troops are on standby. are you reassured ?|i striking front page. the troops are on standby. are you reassured? i am a lwa ys on standby. are you reassured? i am always a little nervous when i see pictures of troops on the front page ofa pictures of troops on the front page of a national papers. the government was to give the implication they are taking firm action and if necessary

the troops be brought out onto the streets. i was looking at the photograph and they are in a couple of them and they look to me as if they are wearing blueberry. i am not quite sure if they are peacekeeping troops. to keep the two sides of the debate up are. the serious point is the cabinet this morning were having a proper discussion at last about exactly what no deal would mean. and it is pretty scary stuff in many respects. i think businesses in particular will be very nervous about all of this. we see that letters are going to go out to thousands of businesses all around the country and this week, the wood before christmas, i think businesses might have hoped they would have thanks for the chance to have a pre—christmas party. so it has been stepped up. it is clear there are still very real tensions in the cabinet over it. and those cabinet

ministers who really cannot countenance a no deal are making their voices heard and letting it be known that they are making their voices heard at cabinet. including i note the business secretary greg clark who said that he thought the government'sjob was to clark who said that he thought the government's job was to propagate unicorns but to slay them. it's a lovely image, is it not? what do you make of the preparations that had been set out? a chance the paper to get the lists and point to different factors all on the front of the i there. the fact is until a brexit deal is passed to the no deal is the default outcome. we often forget that in this debate people talk about extending our own 50 or a student referendum or a norway style brexit, but whatever happens on march 29 of next year, we leave the eu. there has been a lot of criticism of the government for not being ready for this situation. but there are tactics here with theresa may playing a big game of chicken with the house of commons saying

that my deal or there will be no deal. the deal that not —— have been put to a bowl and does not have a majority means the government thinks that no deal is certainly a likely outcome. we have seen across many departments they are starting to do a lot more preparations. for example, the department of health have bought 5000 gigantic freezers to store medicines in the case is trading being disrupted. the keeping about a noto brexit is what you prepare with troops across the country or borders opening up or customs what have you, we cannot prepare for what the eu does. they must say this is really chaotic and a crisis and we had to do seven about this or they might say you are now a third—party country and you will have to abide by the same rules as cuba, and go through all of those checks at the borders. do either of you perhaps get a sense that a lot people think that a noto brexit

merely just people think that a noto brexit merelyjust means the status quo and that they think if there is no deal, i cannot carry on do what i had been doing all along. the message hasn't quite gotten through about how different it could be.|j quite gotten through about how different it could be. i think the assumption about what people have is there is a pretended deal. no changes of the there are so many areas of our public life that has to change. it is not an option to continue on as they are. and there certainly is not time to organise all the little mini deals everyone fought my be possible. all the little mini deals everyone fought my be possiblelj all the little mini deals everyone fought my be possible. i think there is time for that. if we are on a no—deal track we could put this together but these mini deals that a lot of fantasies are resting on our not a visit to for this 585 pages deal they have spent two years negotiating. and no one is still quite sure if this is posturing, whether this is partly so they do put pressure on the european union. no evidence that that is going to war or more likely to put pressure

on mps when the comeback after the christmas break, they realised that this is getting serious and we have to back theresa may after all. certainly focuses the mind. let's look on to the telegraph and dominate rap of my intervention. he may have only been a cabinet minister for a may have only been a cabinet ministerfor a short time may have only been a cabinet minister for a short time but he may have only been a cabinet ministerfor a short time but he is now and buy material will he puts fresh proposals down. in day, raab is not quite endorsing a no—deal brexit but he said it will be manageable. the exact quote is would not risk up to six months of significant but manageable disruption but better than to be trapped in a lousy deal that cries out to be torn up from the moment it is dry. so he essentially said theresa may's deal is bad in the short—term and bad in the long term and a no—deal brexit is back in the short—term but in the thing —— long—term, things would be ok. and he said this 39 billion a divorce settlement could be used to work

cutting business rates to help ease the transition. the only problem with this is the article says in a longer have to pay this money, we would have to pay this money. this money is what we. there is no question about that. this is commitments we have signed up to. if you sign a direct debit for buying an atv or something in the just site five months later, i am not going to pay the last five payments. i have had enough of this. there was and the boys around. they was in the boys and the boys here would be international resolution. chasing civil courts for years tried this money back so this idea that if we walk away and have £40 billion is spent on whatever we like is again chasing unicorns. how the tone has changed. this is dominick raab, enthusiastic brexit dear who was selling brexit and with suggesting he would be straightforward and has learned that is not going to be the case. what he is talking about now

is using all this money which he has not got to try to mitigate the downsides of a no—deal brexit. no longer are people like raab saying they have voters company and longer terms it might be ok but it will be all right. they will not be fantastic. so we find ourselves in a situation where cabinet ministers are either seeking to mitigate a bad deal or sticking a bad deal. i do not think there are any real enthusiasts, genuine enthusiasts for a no—deal brexit. enthusiasts, genuine enthusiasts for a no-deal brexit. let's move onto sebastian's paper, the ft, because you have a splash on the contents of the immigration paper due to publish for the home office tomorrow. this isa for the home office tomorrow. this is a big moment in british of the brexit campaign was taking back control of our borders. we have not heard anything concrete from the government on what that means. the home secretary alleging the outlines of what our new immigration policy

will be tomorrow and there has been an almighty bust of the cabinet as perour an almighty bust of the cabinet as per our front page tomorrow. this is all about the £30,000 breschel because the two factions in the cabinet, theresa may is very keen to end every movement. her top priority in negotiations was actually to get that on the first page of the deal to say from them at will and do. and to say from them at will and do. and to be fairto to say from them at will and do. and to be fair to her, people did vote for that in two general elections and referendums sol for that in two general elections and referendums so i totally understand that. but there is the question of if you would cut down low skilled migration, what will that mean for the nhs, for our service sector, for our care sector? and cabinet today, philip hammond and greg clark said if you haven't this threshold of £30,000 and that means if you did not earn £30,000, you cannot come to britain to get a job. that will have a very bad effect on the economy but theresa may hasn't actually i want to ignore you and push through this policy. so expect a lot more bumps from this as businesses are very unhappy as

businesses are very unhappy as business was deep deathblow of low skill labour. others will say having this big stream of low skill labour, you are actually pushing down wages. this whole thing is going to strange —— change the structure of the job market for decades to come. the men move on finally as it were the great headline on the sports section of the guardian. a very moody picture of mourinho but is there anything other than that? the tag line is a neat one. were the just for the headline. whatever you think about jose mourinho, i do nothing about him very often because i'm a big football fan, he has got that charisma. that is also driven by an enormous ego and from what i could tell, it is the ego that is really done for your. i'm sure it's in the last we have heard of him. another big theme of 2018 has been the fall of these great giant figures. he played big roles in business or

sport or what have you who are often looked up to and admired and have great public followings. and then eventually, they come and mourinho is the latest person in that. we did not know really why he is gone. that is the kind of thing that a terse statement from the club today said thank you very much and you are on your way and there is a nice prepayment and i think everyone is looking to see where and what he does next. coming into the clapper with a £10 million payoff. he can buy a lot of way. having a very happy christmas to this pay off a for sure. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you. goodbye. a very wet windy day for many,

widespread gales and in fact gales in excess of 60 or 70 mph across some western areas. tightly packed isobars indicating the wind but the weather from burning bands isobars indicating the wind but the weatherfrom burning bands of isobars indicating the wind but the weather from burning bands of heavy and persistent rain with some potentially squally to as it journeys its way eastward. the anne leclair is behind up with a few showers for northern ireland and western scotland and the rain arriving in the southeast of england and east anglia and continuing eastwards during the latter part of this evening and overnight. then it something a clear and quieter. wind is still quite reachable under clear skies and will be chillier night thanit skies and will be chillier night than it was last night and the showers packing into southern and western areas. through wednesday morning, a cool start across northern and eastern areas and some sunshine around a class to need to build up in lots of showers

initially across the south and the west were some heavy, blustery and will produce longer spells of rain. they blustery day again get across—the—board but they blustery day again get across—the—boa rd but not they blustery day again get across—the—board but not as windy as we had on tuesday. those temperatures down and not on tuesday's values, certainly through tuesday's values, certainly through tuesday morning. datinha highs around 89 the north —— eight or nine in the north and ten or 11 in the south. lower pressures with this into thursday's meeting westerly winds and also for the showers. some showers could merge together to produce large spells of rain in northern ireland and into western scotla nd northern ireland and into western scotland and a few showers for western wales and western mainland. the best of the drier and brighter igloos across the northeast of scotla nd igloos across the northeast of scotland into the midlands and south east england. similar to win state with a temperature and a single figures in the north and just into double figures in the south which is average this time of year. the area will pressure begins to clear away into friday. something briefly quieter before this next whether preacher moves in off the atlantic to bring a spell of wet and windy

weather for england and wales. starting off on a cool note with wet and windy for northern ireland and much of england with some of this rain quite heavy and the winds gusting to 30 or 40 or maybe 50 mph. wet and windy for a while and it turns bright in the afternoon with a sunshine and showers and a bit quieter across norma's, with sunny spells to stop again single figures in the north and a bit milder in the south. this is bbc news — i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11:00: the cabinet activates plans to pump £2 billion into government departments to help them prepare in case the uk leaves the eu without a deal. letters are being sent to more than 100,000 businesses warning them to make contingency plans. too late, say many. when are we likely to find out a deal is on the table? i need to know tomorrow. i can't find out on the

28th of march that there is going to bea 28th of march that there is going to be a deal on the 29th of march. it's too late. donald trump agrees to shut down the trump foundation — his family charity — as new york's attorney general claims to have found "a shocking pattern of illegality". once special, now unemployed. jose mourinho is permanently substituted, by man united. and waste not, want not. plans to overhaul england's waste systems are unveiled, to make it easier to recycle in the hope of helping the planet.