this pilot scheme is to be copied on other campuses — especially where cases are high. once this testing centre is up and running, it will be able to process more than 1000 tests a day, getting students results within a couple of hours. but testing is only one part of getting students safely home for christmas. so, what is the student christmas travel advice for england 7 you should travel home between the 3rd and 9th of december. universities may suggest a day. voluntary rapid tests will be available at some universities. a positive test means you self—isolate for ten days at university. wherever you study, the local rules apply. in scotland, students asked to minimise contact. similar messages from belfast to swansea. across the uk, there are plans for students to travel home early. universities are planning to move all learning online,

but at de montfort, libraries will be open till the end of term. at the end of the day, the students are adults, we can advise and guide them, they will do what they feel that they need to do, but when i look across the couple of million students in this country, i do not see students doing crazy, out—of—control things. i see students behaving very responsibly. 0livia had coronavirus in her second week at nottingham. she hasn't been home all term. when i spoke to them, mum paula can't wait to have her back. it would be just really nice to see her. there's grandparents who missed her, who she's not been able to see. you know, they're caring people, and theyjust need to come home and have some recuperation time and a cuddle. everybody would want to do whatever they could in order to go home, and i think, at the moment, there's nothing open, there's nothing to do anyway, so people wouldn't feel like they were missing out. already, public health officials are looking at transport — part of the push to help students make safe decisions. branwen jeffreys,

bbc news, leicester. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sonia sodha, chief leader writer at the observer and tom newton dunn, chief political commentator at times radio. thank you very much both forjoining us. thank you very much both forjoining us. let's start with some of the front pages we have. and the metro has quite a headline — van tam: jab for mam —

and reports that england's deputy chief medical officer is urging people to "line up" for the coronavirus vaccine when it's ready — he said it passes the "mum test", and he'll be encouraging his 78—year—old mother to get the jab. the mirror runs with the same story — saying that older people will be encouraged to sign up for the vaccine. the guardian also reports on the vaccine but also features a picture of the pro—democracy caucus in the hong kong legislature — who resigned enmasse after beijing imposed a new law to force out "unpatriotic" members. the i adds that england's deputy chief medical officer warned the vaccine must not be sold privately and distribution should be based on those who need it most — to stop wealthy people from jumping the queue. the financial times reports on a potential tax reform recommended by a review that would target landlords and second home owners to help pay pandemic costs. the daily mail is calling on ministers to allow care home residents to reunite with their loved ones in time for christmas. so let's begin...

sonia, tom, really good to see you, we will start with the daily telegraph with a story that has been developing this evening, in fact, the paper is quick to get it on their front the paper is quick to get it on theirfront page. sonia, talk *, lee kane has been doing the rounds this week, but he has quit. so this is a story about the internal at number ten, so lee kane was the prime minister's director of communications. and he was offered thejob of chief communications. and he was offered the job of chief of staff in the last few days, took some time to think about when he was going to ta ke think about when he was going to take it he said, yes, but now, it appears that he is resigning and this really speaks to all lots of the internal dissent within number ten, the internal politics. we've got two teams of people, the team of people that are really very much involved with the boat leave campaign, and the prime person that people might have heard of, there is

dominic cummings, and then you have got another group of people which is said to include the prime minister's partner, carrie simons, who are unhappy with this sort of level of influence that dominic cummings and someone influence that dominic cummings and someone like lee cain has had. it should also be said there is a lot of mps in the parliamentary party who had a very strong feelings about to dominic cummings and his allies. and it's being said, reported in westminster this evening that actually, dominic cummings who probably will be a household name in a way that lee cain isn't, may be thinking about resigning in solidarity with lee cain. so that's a lot of names being chucked out there, a lot of internal politics. i think for a lot of us, they will be sitting at home thinking, "goodness, what is going on a number ten? " we have got a global pandemic, brexit is about to happen, the number of official deaths from covert exceeded 50,000 today in the uk, the first

european country whose official death toll has done that, and it just feels kind of awful to be meeting about —— reading about number ten meeting about —— reading about numberten in meeting about —— reading about number ten in meltdown on the front page. just thinking about her international audience, page. just thinking about her internationalaudience, but page. just thinking about her international audience, but dominic cummings, you tweeted a little bit earlier about him in particular. he isa name earlier about him in particular. he is a name that will resonate around the world potentially. tell us what you had to say about that. yeah, he isa you had to say about that. yeah, he is a household name, certainly after the trouble he had with his own coronavirus suffering and preaching restrictions himself. this is a very active story, i'm told it's one of those frantic nights where it doesn't stopjust those frantic nights where it doesn't stop just because those frantic nights where it doesn't stopjust because it's time to go to bed, i'm afraid. dominic cummings is meeting with the prime minister as we speak, i hear from inside number ten. he minister as we speak, i hear from inside numberten. he is very upset with what happened with lee cain. lee cain and dominic cummings are very close allies and have been since the day of vote leave when

they fought the referendum together in favour of brexit. dominic cummings wants lee cain to be reimposed and to get hisjob back of director of communications, and some think he will walk out if he doesn't get his way. and this could happen tonight or it may not. it'sjust worth putting this into perspective, sonia is right, for a lot of people, this isjust a lot of sonia is right, for a lot of people, this is just a lot of tittle tattle, names they've never heard of, what does it mean? i think it does matter and we will see how much of this plays out, because these two people, dominic cummings and lee cain have been the bedrock of the prime minister's brexit policy, very heart ofa minister's brexit policy, very heart of a brexit policy without much compromise at all. it's perhaps coincidence or perhaps not that both men, one man has gone, and the other is considering leaving, just as the prime minister is on the cusp of doing the brexit deal or not with the eu come into do that he may have to compromise further, perhaps both men it seems vital that he doesn't

compromise too much and want to stay oi'i compromise too much and want to stay ona numberten compromise too much and want to stay on a number ten in a paramount position and make sure that doesn't happen. because if they go, it will be hazy for the permit are certainly to make more compromises, i think. it's all about the appointment of the on air spokesperson, she wanted to be to the prime minister, lee cain thought that threatened his position and gave the prime minister in ultimatum, and we are reporting this afternoon and it turns out to be her. we will have much more in oui’ be her. we will have much more in our second addiction when it's just uk focused, so for all of those who wa nt uk focused, so for all of those who want a little bit more detail, we will be more in—depth on this in the next edition of the papers. now, let's just move on to the metro, which has, it may win tonight's headline when it comes to it. this was a reference to an earlier update from england's deputy chief medical 0fficer where during this update he referred to his 78—year—old mother.

yes, it's quite a tongue twister, that headline. i wouldn't want to save myself he gave a briefing earlier about the sort of vaccine that hopefully is imminent as we we re that hopefully is imminent as we were told. 0ne that hopefully is imminent as we were told. one of the things that medical experts are concerned about is the bulk of the public say in polls that they would take up a coronavirus that vaccine, but there are conspiracy theories during the bronze on the internets, people may have concerns about the safety of a vaccine given how quickly it has been developed. sojonathan van tam in his briefing is a very very careful to stress that this vaccine, even though it's been developed quickly, it is going through the same rigorous safety trials that any vaccine would. and i think there is nothing more convincing than hearing england's deputy chief medical 0fficer saying, you know, he has told his mum to be on standby, which, to be ready to get the

vaccine. and hopefully that is reassuring to people. it's been hugely positive news this week, that the first vaccine developed by these companies, the data suggests that it's 90% effective. we have got more vaccines in trial at the moment that the government has sort of put in preemptive orders for millions of doses. they may not be up to 90% efficacy, but hopefully, we will get good news from those trials as well. it does feel actually that this week is the first week where we have had some good coronavirus news. it's not going to prevent the second wave that we are seeing at the moment, but hopefully, you know, if we get the vaccine weekly, it will help prevent a third wave of the fire. and we desperately need good —— need some good news, because today, we have had that absolutely grim milestone more than 500,000 virus deaths in the uk. the first country in europe to record that figure.

stressing save in europe to record that figure. stressi ng save covert in europe to record that figure. stressing save covert vaccines for the nhs. you would hope so, wouldn't you? yes, you certainly would. jonathan van tam was very interesting about this this morning, at the scientific briefing, we will get one every week during this current lockdown from a jonathan van tam, he must be said has been the standout star of a coronavirus pandemic ona standout star of a coronavirus pandemic on a certainly when it comes to mitigating. yesterday, the news of the vaccine and he was talking about a penalty shoot out and the announcement was certainly one of the penalties that got to the goalkeeper, although come it's not a final score yet. the other thing he said this morning was that there was talk about, well, would you buy this vaccine privatelymckinney spent 50 quid and go get it from your gp him skip the line? of course, it's up to the government to the government to see how vaccines are allocated, a

batch of 40 million so far. again, ministers, and certainly jonathan van tam said it would be wrong for anyone but the nhs to be able to distribute it, because it needs to go for those, and the government set out a go for those, and the government set outa chain, go for those, and the government set out a chain, the elderly and frail, and those under severe risk at the top then, health workers and it goes down to those under 50, just have to wait a while. that's not a bad thing. sonia, it's the -- for 20 million people, it's a double dose of this vaccine, when youth about how the flu vaccine is distributed, how the flu vaccine is distributed, how do you think this could potentially work, what do you reckon? well, what's reassuring is if there is already lots of new things about exactly how the vaccine would be distributed come i think people have sort of heard the news, heard it has to be kept at —80 degrees in storage, really worried about the distribution, but if you

read the reporting in the newspapers, it would suggest that there's already a lot of work under way to establish these supply chains. you know, we are quite a rich country, so we can get these supply chains up and running, but evenif supply chains up and running, but even if you look at the vaccine for example that had to be kept at not quite as low as —80 celsius, but still very, very low temperatures, and even in a much poorer country, they were able to establish the infrastructure pretty quickly. so the reassuring thing is that, you know, these things have done before globally, and work is under way to sort of get the infrastructure up and running. so it's really a case of you know, there are logistical challenges and we the guardian have reported how the nhs is thinking about distributing this vaccine and in such large numbers. the impact that will have on gp services. but i myself feel pretty optimistic that the nhs has figured out how to do

mass vaccine distribution before with the flu vaccine and hopefully they are going to get it right on this vaccine, given how important it is. it is certain, it is important to commit something we've all been waiting for. the financial times looking at how the eu will be looking at how the eu will be looking at how the eu will be looking at it. time, it says that brussels, the european union has secured 300 million doses and then shows an image of a hospital in barcelona and spain, how they are going to focus on distribute in this vaccine. that's right. the eu had their own programme of vaccine. there was a suggestion that britain might want tojoin there was a suggestion that britain might want to join that's, britain declined, we said we'd rather go our own way. but i think 300 million, if you look at these populations, probably proportionate to the 40 million the government tapped out, it would be interesting to see how that you are going to decide to distribute them, because i think all of next year, the politics of vaccine is going to dominate absolutely everything. i mean, there

is already debate for example among some tory mps whether you should prioritise the working people, because of working people need to feel the account that will rage in europe at the same time, but what is clear is that britain will have no pa rt clear is that britain will have no part in the eu's vaccine programme. i think some vaccines had come to the forefront ahead of others and that you would've brought that one and not britain, that would be trouble for the government. i think they will get away with this one out. they are not decent position, at least initially with this big batch first off. yes, absolutely. also, the ft focusing on sonia, how we are going to pay for all of this. talk us through what rishi sunak has commissioned a review of capital gains tax. so, there have been reports for some time that the chancellor has been thinking about at what point taxes may go up. i hope he doesn't do it to soon, because i just hope he doesn't do it to soon, because ijust think in economic times like this, borrowing is cheap and it's really urgent that the government spends money. so, for me,

thinking about tax