the fashion designer sir paul smith is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his clothing label. from opening his first small shop in nottingham in 1970 to trading in 70 countries, he's hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be a stalwart of the fashion scene. bringing us tomorrow. but like the rest of the industry, with me are the former fleet street editor, eve pollard and the director his business has been hit hard by the pandemic. of thejohn smith centre he met our arts editor, will gompertz, at glasgow university & at a paul smith store former scottish labour leader, that was closed at the time kezia dugdale. and talked about the challenges ahead. you can wear it, but there's let's ta ke let's take a look through those front pages. let's take a look always something, a little secret. i love that. through those front pages. the daily mail says borisjohnson we're sitting in the size is faceing the first signs of revolt of the original shop, from the his so—called ‘red wall‘ which was three metres by three metres, mps — over covid laws in the north. only open fridays and saturdays, and the idea was just to earn a living. the guardian reports that tory mps there was almost no fashion, in northern england say really, in nottingham. the covid—i9 pandemic has exposed slowly, people from leicester what they describe as "the deep and sheffield and derby, and then eventually structural and systemic disadvantage faced by their communities". and

even further afield. the ‘i' says more than 50 of those conservative mps are demanding "0h, there's this little shop a ‘clear road map‘ for northern that's got really interesting areas of england — that have been things, you know." hardest hit by increased from a tiny backroom in nottingham to the fashion catwalks of the world, paul smith turned his small coronavirus restrictions. enterprise into a global brand. it's been profitable the daily telegraph reports immunity for every one of its 50 years. and then covid struck. to covid—i9 may only last devastating, devastating. a matter of a months, i was here last saturday, according to research that and literally there was nobody around at all. could hinder the roll—out paris, amsterdam, luxembourg, of a successful vaccine. the daily mirror shows a picture madrid, new york — of the prime minister terrible, i mean, just terrible. dishing up hot food, we are currently losing sales, not losing, as he refuses to change policy losing sales of about £1 million a week. so you don't have to be a mathematician to know that that's a big punch in the face. the congestion charge now 2a hours a day, seven days a week. on free holiday meals you know, it keeps on coming, for disadvantaged children. while the metro focuses on a number of britons — trying to ensure no child will go reasons not to come into a shop. hungry during the current school holidays — as borisjohnson refuses you've got brexit. yep. to extend the free school meals what does that mean? programme for children in england.

and the financial times reports total nightmare, because brexit ant group is set to raise more than $34bn in its initial public has been left to the last minute. offering, putting the chinese so, as a company, where do we go? payments group on track to top saudi aramco as the world's where do we go? biggest market listing. we think it will cost, so let's begin. if there is no deal, it will cost us a minimum of probably £io—i2 million. lovely to have you both with us this we have a base in paris, and we have a french company, evening. i wonder if you could start so, you know, we could move, off at the front page of the metro you know, a lot of the logistics britain stepping up to the plates. over there, which would be basically missing out, the uk missing out. you know, that's the sort of thing well britain has actually shown all that companies will have the things that's great about group in their minds, is that if we can't get a fair deal, britain. because people, ordinary then we might have to people are helping feed children open a warehouse in belgium. during half—time because as we know how much longer with you at the helm, paul? the government says —— half term. if i'm healthy and still good up here, they've given money to local i think i'd like to think i've councils and they will be giving got a room in the building. money to the right peoples and all i'll be around for a few years — that restaurants and other children. you're not going to get rid of me yet! in the meantime, women particularly, good, i'm very pleased to hear it, paul. there is a woman on the front, i that was sir paul smith talking have to say that. she's up to her in with our arts editor, will gompertz. now on bbc one,

time for the news where you are. 00:03:02,484 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 have a very good night. side templates. normal everyday people are helping in this. i think it's a classic thing. somehow this government don't have a woman somehow it near enough to say you've got to think about these things before they happen. we should have been thinking about half term food for these children the minute term started. it's just like when we wanted, do you remember we wanted the children to go back to school? and nobody worked out that you have to put special things and to keep the older ones separate. no one worked out about deep cleaning the school, nobody had done that. so they went back a few months later than they should. and parents went mad about it. i think it shows a early british spirit. i think wait a day or two, i think you'll find that the prime minister it will say we are going to give children food during the christmas holidays. at least i'm hoping he's going to say that. if you could just remind our

viewers what we are seeing now in the uk as compared to scotland. viewers what we are seeing now in the uk as compared to scotlandm scotland and indeed in wales the government and the respective parliaments have extended free school meals over the holidays and the equivalent of half term here. that's what's not happening in england. prime minister boris johnson is refusing to extend the free school meals entitlement to cover the holiday period. a pretty small amount of money when you put it into context like the furlough scheme or other mechanism that government are putting in place to support the economy. it seems odd that he is prepared to take quite so much backlash across a majority of the papers for a small amount of money. which is really fundamentally about feeding kids were hungry this winter. before we move on, we are going to stick with the subject is returned to the guardian. the public and business stepping in, this isn't sustainable, is it eve? no. it's not sustainable. it was done at the last

moment. if you are a mum and you are worried about your children getting enough food, you can't say almost the night before you're going to give them breakfast it's not fair. so we're knocking to give it to you but the local council has got the money. how is that all going to work? just tell me how that's going to work. i, the government are given away money, which is to neck is having to give it away because of the pandemic, i understand that. but as you say, it's a relatively small amountand it as you say, it's a relatively small amount and it goes to peoples hearts. people really care about children being hungry. and they should have been thought of on the first day back at school was up somebody should have said, it's going to be half term in six weeks, what are we going to do then? but somehow the combination of worrying about covid and brexit and heaven knows what else the government worry about this it seems to have been left out. and we will talk later

about the argument in the tory party of who should have brought to somebody‘s notice and who should have sorted this out. as you say, it's a relatively small sum compared to furlough and all the other things. which understandably the government had had to do to keep the economy going in the right direction in some direction. kezia we will stay with that. rows within the tory party. figures of 63 million, on the front page of the guardian, the headline there is ministers row over free meals intensifies. it's very interesting because it puts the focus now on gavin williamson. yes, this is really an intriguing story in the guardian basically coming from the chancellors office saying well, nobody in the department for education asked for this extra money. that's why we've not budgeted for it. there's a lot of the blame game going on behind the scenes here. the government are arguing they have funded this. they said in

june they give £63 million to local authorities across england to pay for things like free school meals through holidays. unfortunately those same local authorities they demand was so high they've already spent it. the government went to their second—best argument which was to say actually, school meals at the best way to address holiday hunger. that's why we increase universal credit by £20 back injune. that approach would say that increasing universal credit was only for six months. that's gonna come to an end in december right at the time that this holiday hunger is going to break. i've printed out the entire article from the guardian. and they do point out that that 63 million that we are hearing a lot about now is mostly spent. and it was noted at the time that it would be spent within 12 weeks of it being received by councils. that's the whole thing. there seems to be on the back foot

about timing all the time. they worry about kids going back to school, they certainly are about this. the day the children went back to term when it started in september somebody should have said what are we going to do when we get to 0ctober we going to do when we get to october and it's half term? particularly are as many schools are taking two weeks which is quite a chunk out of peoples budget. when people, a lot of people are being paid only a percentage of their wages. a lot of people who have never been in this position before. they've always been able to feed their children. and then suddenly bills are still coming in but perhaps one or both of them, both pa rents a re perhaps one or both of them, both parents are earning much less. this is such an emotional thing. just as a woman who's fed many children in her life and enjoyed it and nobody died so that's a good thing. it's really, really goes to the heart of family wasn't goes to the heart of

caring. these children had quite a muddled year. all of us have. it's very ha rd to muddled year. all of us have. it's very hard to explain to a six—year—old or an eight—year—old or ten—year—old you may be a bit hungry and you may wonder why you didn't go to school all those months and you got out of the habit of learning and i have got to get into it and by the way there's a very small packet of biscuits for your lunch. of course the government have pointed out that they increase universal credit the announcement came in april for an extra £20. they are pointing to the fa ct extra £20. they are pointing to the fact that they are putting more funding within the welfare side of things. let's move on. same paper, neck story on the front page of the guardian. northern tory mps declare a clear road map out of virus lockdown. like brexit the government had the erg the european research group, this is a new formation

called the n rg the northern research group which is somewhere between 50 to 55% of mps working together to try and keep the governments feet to the fire over theissue governments feet to the fire over the issue of leveling out for that leveling up and increasing government investment in those communities in the north of england that if communities in the north of england thatifin communities in the north of england that if in the past been disadvantage. chaired by a mp there is some heavy pressure on the government tonight demanding that the commit to everything they said they were. to invest in the north and also make sure there is a clear road map out of lockdown for so many of those communities in the north of england. he sat in his report of the 8 million people currently under tier3 8 million people currently under tier 3 restrictions across england that are most severe level that existed in england, 92% of them are in the north. really feeling the heat of the commitment of increasing investment and under the most extreme pressure of covid restrictions as well for a toxic mix for the tory mps that won some seats

from the very first time in the general electric last year. cast your mind back to last december, it was all about coming onto the tory side and actually ——. there is a 93p- side and actually ——. there is a gap. it would be good if government --. eve, we are losing the clarity on your line. let's redial you. and then we will rejoin the conversation. so kezia, we are going to stay with the picture across the north and turned to the front page of the york shire post. perhaps