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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the columnist at the guardian, owenjones and brexit editor at the telegraph, dia chakravarty. many of tomorrow's front pages are in and most of them feature prince andrew. ‘duke departs from public ways‘ is how the telegraph describes the prince taking a step—back from public duties — following his association with jeffrey epstein. the i refers to it as a ‘crisis at the palace‘ and says the duke has finally shown sympathy with epstein‘s victims. also calling it a crisis is the times — who say the controversy had been a major disruption to the royal family. and the metro calls him — ‘the banned old duke of york‘ moving to politics — the guardian leads with labour‘s promise to spend £75billion on the uk‘s ‘housing crisis‘. and donald trump‘s impeachment inquiry headlines the financial times — saying the us ambassador to the eu turned against the president

in an ‘explosive testimony‘ looking a little bit closer, the band old duke of york, that is their headline and of course, that story is leading most of the papers today at. and much better headline than the telegraph that almost looks like an obituary in the day of natural morning —— national morning. the interview by the duke of york, where he refused to show compassion, any sense of compassion towards the victims of his friend, the serial paedophile. where he was almost like a self—pity and performance in a lot of ways we suggest that his only real fault was of ways we suggest that his only realfault was being of ways we suggest that his only real fault was being too honourable and maintaining a friendship with this complete another monster. i do think what is fascinating about

this, but we‘re being told and made very clear that the queen is made very clear that the queen is made very clear that he has to step back public duties for the time being. it is not the biggest punishment in the world, is it? we want to see that the punishment will be effective and live the rest of your life and huge affluence and wealth, you will want to know material things for the rest of your life and you will have no personal responsibilities. i think of that was imposed by most of the people watching this programme, they would not consider it the biggest punishment of the world it does go to show, considering how wealth and power works, this international network in terms of epstein, the great in the good on both sides of the atlantic but when it comes to it, these terrible allegations and his lack of what happened, he will still continue to live as a member of the royal family in still continue to live as a member of the royalfamily in huge still continue to live as a member of the royal family in huge wealth and privilege down the years by some of these newspapers, but the telegraph makes it look like something that should be mourned. he

denied any wrongdoing and every effort is to make it clear in the interview that he had been very open to taking any questions in the daily telegraph headline took parts of public life and they have suggested that this was the queens decision ultimately. it says the queen ordered her son to step back from his duties and our editorial was on thisjust after the day his duties and our editorial was on this just after the day of this interview and it was nothing to do with mourning his departure but saying that he lacked contrition and failed to come across as such during this for the victims of epstein. but it is interesting that my colleagues are reporting the buckingham palace is issuing the duke with the

subpoena, requesting that he give testimony under oath for his friendship with epstein will stop whatever's going on there, might actually be able to see what the involvement of the duke was and if there was any in this court case and it isjust there was any in this court case and it is just reported, there was any in this court case and it isjust reported, but any, that is what sources have told my colleagues. they said they will he will co—operate if necessary and that it will co—operate if necessary and thatitis will co—operate if necessary and that it is imminent. we do not know if you‘ll be asked to give any evidence in some of the victims of said that even if he is not asked to testify, he should go and volunteer evidence as some of the victims have. that is the point, isn't it. you should not be compelled to do this, what most people would expect is for him to put himself forward voluntarily for questioning and centred on the nature of his

relationship with epstein and the allegations that he denies following virginia roberts in the 17—year—old who was a sex slave of epstein. this is on the serious scandals to hit the british monarchy for some time. and if you was a politician, he would‘ve been driven at a public life but because he is a member of the royal family. and you say that from a position where...|j the royal family. and you say that from a position where... i have been to support an elected head of state, i accept that i‘m in a very small minority in the british public, but you do not have to support that position to be frustrated that some of the future, power, wealth and privilege is being treated very differently than someone watching this programme engrossed in this. and prince andrew is supported not just by the taxpayer in terms of his day—to—day assistance, but by his

mother effectively, she gives an allowa nce to mother effectively, she gives an allowance to her son and i do not know whether it is taxpayer—funded but the headline is that the photograph is of the queen, not of andrew and i guess, one key question is how does borisjohnson said in the debate last night that this institution, if this does damage the institution, if this does damage the institution of the whole world family? does put his mother and a very difficult position, there goes that saying. if you're bringing disrepute to your family, for anybody, that is a pretty awful position to be put in. i think it is right though that he moves away from the charities that he has been involved with because that is something, those are the people that

might come at the charities that he was involved in, which did good work, you have to think of those people as well who now going to face the consequences of his indiscretions are however he has behaved and why he disassociates himself from those concerns so they can carry on for the sponsorships or whatever and order to carry out the charitable work that they do. let us move on to politics because the election beckons and the tax breaks for top earners. which he blurted out at, which used to be asked of them in the northeast with workers. so to 12 and have thousand pounds, it looks like that was actually the

ambition beginning with nine or have thousand pounds, is quite misleading the witnesses presented the financial times. tax breaks for top earners as a whole because of the studies point out less than 10% of the gains for raising the insurance thresholds go to the poorest fifth of households, it is not a targeted way of doing it because if you raise it, the richer and more affluent people also get money in their pocket more than poor people. there is actually a line in the telegraph article that says there is going to bea cap article that says there is going to be a cap on that for the high standards. . will be sought in the last government is that they raised the tax threshold and what they did not actually affect the lowest income for workers, but he did was, that affluent middle—class families who did not need that money, guarded and it cost billions of pounds which could actually go into, for example, tax credits and in work benefits,

and more targeted way of doing this is if you put more funding into universal credit and reverse some of the cuts that it benefits. on the very lowest of low incomes that obviously do not get this benefit, a lot of people that are not affluent families would benefit from this. they would benefit more from universal credit, so you could combine the general living wage with investing in universal credit or investing in universal credit or investing at least in reverse and cuts to and work benefits because we have seen the longest squeeze in wages in the worst, other than greece according to them, in terms of actually dealing with that crisis in terms of peoples living standards, a target away of doing it. in napoleonic era. the longest squeeze, the longest period of wage stagnation. the housing crisis is

another big issue in the guardian has got the story about the labour party pledging 75 billion to tackle the uk housing crisis. it will be out tomorrow. how is the housing crisis, it is something that every party should be talking about because it affects everybody and it affects a major source that young people face. everybody faces, so it is good that this is being talked about and obviously, i would like the regulations to be eased so everybody's house, the regulations to be eased so eve rybody's house, another concern would be that this monday to make money is going to be from borrowing and to go back to what he was saying, earlier in the year, the tax burden in this country, we do have to take people on lower income. you just have to take people out of that

category so that people are paying lower taxes because you constantly get into the poverty trap by paying higher taxes minimised as being spun around in the system —— isjust being spun around in the system. that‘s it for the papers this hour. owen and dia will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers, and don‘t forget you can see the headlines are coming up at 11, right after the weather with darren bett hello there. not as cold as it was at the start of the week, still be chilly out there but it will turn much wetter as well. a lot of cloud around, mostly quite thin certainly limited with the sunshine during today, the woman limit the frost overnight with a few showers running

into the —— far southwest of england. a lot of cloud coming in and more likely to have a touch of frost in some rural parts of scotla nd frost in some rural parts of scotland but will get some breaks in the cloud but that by no means guaranteed. but it shall enough start with some sunshine and some showers in the northeast of scotland, though showers should get blown away to northern ireland such brighten up a bit here, for england and wales will be quite greater the midlands in the southeast of england and south easterly breeze, it will feel quite chilly with temperatures around six, seven to 80 degrees. southwell is in the southwest of england, it is here but will see the wettest of the weather developing here in the afternoon.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: prince andrew acknowledges that the jeffrey epstein scandal has become a major disruption to the royal family, and steps down from royal duties. it follows his widely—criticised interview with bbc newsnight, when he said his friendship with epstein was not a matter of regret. the liberal democrats launch their election manifesto — promising to stop brexit in order to generate a £50 billion bonus for public services. i‘m nota i‘m not a tribal politician. and where we agree, where we share values, where we share objectives, i will always be open to working with people but i fundamentally do not think borisjohnson people but i fundamentally do not think boris johnson orjeremy people but i fundamentally do not think borisjohnson orjeremy corbyn are fit to lead our country. meanwhile, boris johnson pledges major changes to the amount

we all pay in national insurance.