conservative mps urge the prime minister to refocus his government after the departure of his top adviser, dominic cummings. the conflict in northern ethiopia spreads, with rocket attacks on two cities and reports of fighting across the eritrean border. a thumbs up from president trump as thousands of his supporters line the streets of the us capital in support of his unsubstantiated claims of voterfraud. and diwali with a difference — the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially—distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me are the director

of datapoll, joe twyman, and the broadcaster and psychotherapist, lucy beresford. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the telegraph leads on the political upheaval of the past two days. the paper says downing street has slammed ‘vicious and cowardly‘ attacks on the prime minister's fiance, carrie symonds. it comes after reports of a ongoing feud between ms symonds and the pm's now ousted senior adviser, dominic cummings the sunday mirror carries the headline ‘princess nut nuts‘ — believed to be used by some in downing street to describe ms symonds. it says the feud between the two was the reason mr cummings was ‘axed‘ from his position. the express urges the pm to ‘hold his nerve‘ as it claims brexiteers continue to back mrjohnson after what it describes as a ‘week of turmoil‘ the sunday times says one of britain‘s most influential lobbyists secretly served

as an adviser to a health minister for six months — before sending sensitive information on lockdown policy to paying clients. the observer reports on claims that the prime minister‘s new press chief — allegra stratton, was left in tears after negative briefings made by the former director of communications, lee cain the mail on sunday leads on the palace‘s anger over netflix tv series, the crown. the paper claims friends of prince charles are furious at producers — accusing them of ‘trolling on a hollywood budget. and finally, the sunday people speak to surviving victims of the yorkshire ripper — who it dubs a ‘self pitying beast‘. so let‘s begin... lovely to have you both back. and joe, you are going to kick off this session with the sunday telegraph

and downing street slam as vicious and downing street slam as vicious and cowardly attacks on carrie symonds made the newspapers but today, tomorrow and indeed of the last few days have been dominated by this one story. infighting within downing street that has culminated and lee kane, both senior people leaving. the different papers tomorrow take lots of different angles on this. the telegraph is very much pushing the idea that carrie symonds was deeply involved and responsible for at least some of the things that have gone on. it talks about the government by whatsapp, and various other things that were happening behind—the—scenes out of the view of not just the voters at behind—the—scenes out of the view of notjust the voters at home. but of course many of the backbenchers and indeed a lot of the cabinet as well. the article suggests that many of the u—turns the government has taken

pa rt the u—turns the government has taken part in have been as a result of intervention from carrie symonds. the difficulty that the government has is this all takes place in the context of extremely serious circumstances. we have a second wave of the coronavirus pandemics, and over 50,000 cases last week identified. we also have potentially only two or three weeks remaining to sort out a deal for brexit, the only two or three weeks remaining to sort out a dealfor brexit, the eu and the possibilities of a hard brexit in the near future. and the possibilities of a hard brexit in the nearfuture. and and the possibilities of a hard brexit in the near future. and yet the government is tied up with discussions about who gave who a nickname. now one person relates to another inside the machine. this will inevitably not go down well with voters who don‘t like united parties, or sorry who don‘t like divided parties and also like to see someone divided parties and also like to see someone is in control. that does not appear to be the case. when we pick up appear to be the case. when we pick up on that point that he has just

set upa up on that point that he has just set up a fractured party, is carrie symonds something of a distraction now when the real problem is unifying the conservatives? that‘s what should be going on. for quite a lot of tory mps they actually think that this has been a good thing because it means that the really tight vote leave cabal headed up by dominic cummings, unelected as he was, and lee kane the fact that there was to have now gone perhaps there was to have now gone perhaps the party can get back to the kinds of things that should have been focusing on and if it took, dare i say it, and a woman prospect intervention or others as well come up intervention or others as well come up or shut public press of search actually kind of basically crack the whip and say enough is enough with this very bullying culture and great school boy sixth form, calling each other nicknames. maybe that's now

moved on. and for some older viewers and reviewers of my vintage you might remember marshall faulk and her who was rumoured to have been very influential on harold wilson. there will always be people behind—the—scenes and i don't think we should be too surprised if it's borisjohnson public we should be too surprised if it's boris johnson public partner, we should be too surprised if it's borisjohnson public partner, his fiancee who is been so influential because we all know and relationships even if our partner has not actually do anything to do with the work that we do we often use with the work that we do we often use them as a sounding board. in a funny way i think this rather humanises the game of politics. it is unfortunately a game for many people. but as he points out it's also a time of great desperate need to feel that the government is focused and really driven to succeed notjust in terms of focused and really driven to succeed not just in terms of covid but also the other issues like housing,

mental health in a vehicle to be talking about later in the show. but to think that maybe now the government is back on track is making some of the mps to feel much more relieved. and very quickly looking at the front page of the observer you both made this point, if the story as they are reporting it, it does underline the bullying atmosphere at number ten, doesn‘t it show. yes the story in the guardian refers to allegra stratton is going to be new televised spokesperson for the government. being in tears as a result of the accusations that the paper suggests were thrown at her by one of the people to have left last week, suggest that she would not the first choice or one of us in government terms and would not have supported brexit. but indeed she has used the paper to deny those claims and states she did nd vote for

brexit. and as these arguments continue the public support for the government when it comes to their approach to covid continues to fall away. their lead in the polls is now evaporated and downing street will wa nt to evaporated and downing street will want to change those figures. and it cannot do that if it‘s in a situation like this. many stories, including the allegations of bullying. let‘s now turn to the sunday times human supermarkets enjoy 1.9 billion tax windfall. they did all right during this locked didn‘t they? did all right during this locked didn't they? yes. now this on the face of it is a really straightforward story. about the fa ct straightforward story. about the fact that the supermarkets took advantage of a business rate holiday for 12 months which was meant to go to all retailers to help them. but of course for many retailers they had to shut up shop during the

lockdown. where of course it supermarkets did not. they were taking in our money, they were taking in our money, they were taking advantage of this tax break if you like to come of this business rate holiday and with that extra money that they have sloshing around they have given dividends to their shareholders, and the sunday times is presenting this as a shocking story, we should be actually appalled, tesco in particular has given up something like 950 million pounds in dividends. now this is a risky one for me to say here, but there is a counterargument to say that if you are a shareholder and you have put your money into the company and the bad times, that perhaps you want to feel entitled to get some money out in the good times. and don't forget it's not just individuals who hold shares, its pension funds, and a lot of us

have pensions. and so that money actually flows back to us. it's a very tricky argument because fundamentally i think what a lot of mps are saying is that this is very uncomfortable to be seen to be a big enterprise having benefited from the government's largess which causes taxpayers money, surely they should have have actually put money into shareholders pockets but i think we need to get away from the idea that shareholders are just these sort of fat cats who are taking on all that money. some of the shareholders are pension funds, and we hold pensions and we get that benefit. joe, can you take you to the front of the sunday times, will there be a change in brexit policy now that dominic cummings has left? yes, with only a few weeks remaining in the brexit negotiations there are questions about dominic cummings such a major

figure notjust in vote leave but delivering that the victory for vote leave. the question among many who have campaigned so long and hard for brexit, questions about what‘s going to happen now. is the government, is the prime minister going to get cold feet? will a the prime minister going to get cold feet? willa softer brexit but actually be on the way? and will the evangelizing of dominic cummings on the subject be on this? it‘s too early to tell. 0ne the subject be on this? it‘s too early to tell. one thing clear about the epidemic was the british public supported an idea of an extension as a result of the coronavirus. that was not taken, and fax that was specifically denied and it may be 110w specifically denied and it may be now that of the last minute either a brexit in name only excelled a way to carry on kicking the can down the road, or that a formal extension is 110w road, or that a formal extension is now sought. that will be another

good yearfor now sought. that will be another good year for the government and remains to be seen. but what is clear is that there is a great deal of uncertainty around this. clearly the only thing we do know is that we don‘t know much about what‘s going to happen. i'm glad you know what you are doing. great story of a wrong paper. and any error there, the sunday express has the headline referring to brexiteers. let‘s turn to the observer now. and the story on council homes to malusi. yes. —— lucy. it seems the debacle at number ten is donating the front page almost exclusively. this is an incredibly important story. it's about the fact that so many people asa about the fact that so many people as a result of losing theirjobs or perhaps being furloughed are really struggling with their rent. 0r perhaps you're going to need to be building more council homes, and there's a story in another front page of the paper aboutjust simply

how few houses we have been building over the last few years, whether that's because some mps don't want homes built in their leafy areas where we are building more homes in urban areas, but not everyone wants to live in a home in an urban area, they might want to garden. and we've got here is this desperate situation where 700,000 people are already in arrears with their rent, and that situation it's forecast to only get worse. and so the plan, or the hope is that more council houses can be built to actually help those people in an emergency, but in a way we really need to do is think about making more financial responses so that people don't have that financial anxiety. we'll have that worried that they in arrears. not just if we have the homes for them

to go to but people actually want to have a job, they want to be able to pay their own way and if that side of the equation that perhaps has not really been thought through yet.l lot of pressure on the prime minister at the moment and say you need to action on climate change. the front page of the independent. of the front page of the independent. of attention has been paid to the prime minister‘s approach to climate change, brian so strongly by his fiancee carrie symonds. withjoe biden entering the white house and the united states we assume at some stage entering the white house in the united states, is the area of common ground with the prime minister and the president will be able to, we assume, take things forward. because it is a huge politically important area. they talked about how greenpeace have asked for laws and the and of diesel ca rs asked for laws and the and of diesel cars to be brought forward to 2030.

go takea cars to be brought forward to 2030. go take a lot more than around the edges like that. the question is does the government in a post—covid, post—brexit environment necessarily have the stomach, support or indeed sipping the money to make these kinds of changes which are so important not just of kinds of changes which are so important notjust of this country but to the entire planet. and that remains to be seen. perfect place to end, with the question. i knew you we re end, with the question. i knew you were getting ready come you had your thoughtful face were getting ready come you had your thoughtfulface on were getting ready come you had your thoughtful face on there, lucy, were getting ready come you had your thoughtfulface on there, lucy, but thank you very much for your time with the papers and your thoughts. very good night to you. and thank you for watching, next on bbc news it‘s the film review. from the team, goodbye.