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but otherwise quite mild with that patchy rain and temperatures of 10-11. that patchy rain and temperatures of 10—11. that was the front pushes southwards out of the way and we just hang around a bit into the western side of the uk by tuesday morning. but in between those with the fronts we have a northerly breeze and that's bringing in some clear skies overnight and dropping the temperatures in eastern scotland and northeastern so i frosty start here ina and northeastern so i frosty start here in a cold day for these parts because a cloud that starts toppling and across scotland and we will see the cloud increasing in wales in western parts of england and sunshine for most of the day i think for the midlands, east anglia and the southeast with eight or 9 degrees temperatures and more cloud out west to making tan in northern ireland. thus turn chilli later on the week and that only that but the winds pick up and it turns much more u nsettled. hello.
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this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines — clashes between police and protesters in paris during demonstrations against a proposed security law. a warning that hospitals in england could become overwhelmed with coronavirus cases if mps don't back new restrictions. the head of ethiopia's military says the army has entered the regional capital of the northern province of tigray. and jane fonda going from actress to activist and why it is just easier being older. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.
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with me are the political editor of the sunday mirror and people, nigel nelson, and the political commentatorjo phillips. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the sunday times‘ front page looks at borisjohnson‘s letter to tory mps as he promises to reform his new stricter tier system before christmas to win his party's support. "the pm's promise" — the express also leads on the pm's concessions to his party to see off a lockdown vote rebellion and get his tougher new tier system through the commons on tuesday. the sunday telegraph's front page focuses on the mutiny, as the prime minister tries to reassures mps the new tiers system could end in nine weeks. the observer, too, writes of the growing tory rebellion, as conservative mps accuse the government of exaggerating problems in the nhs in an attempt to win support. the prime minister makes his plea in the mail on sunday,
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asking britons to not "blow it" by flouting the rules of his controversial system of restrictions. meanwhile, an exclusive for the sunday mirror as their defence editor tracks down a british man who persuaded dozens of people to join isis in syria. so, let's begin. lovely to have you back. nigel, you'll kick us off with the sunday times. an attempt by the prime minister to see off a revolt. that's right. also slightly more nuanced version of the story that appeared in some the other papers. while the sunday times is saying that boris johnson will say to mps that the tier system will end in february u nless tier system will end in february unless they want to continue it.
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which makes it sound like the onus is on the mps and not government and suspiciously like some kind of free vote. he also says the tears could be eased in the middle of december by the 16th where a lot of tier 3 places might go into tier 2. ijust cannot understand how i can make promises like this because he just cannot know what the situation is going to be in two weeks' time, let alone what it will be like in february. if we are lifting restrictions over christmas, we know the infection rate is almost certainly to go up after that. and so certainly to go up after that. and so you cannot make a promise about easing restrictions nine weeks down the road. it isjust easing restrictions nine weeks down the road. it is just not reasonable. it is that too and fro again, is it not? and i'm afraid that at the root of this is the problem that boris
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johnson is actually an optimist and he wants to be a prime minister for the good times. well, he could not have picked a worse time to be prime minister so he wants to give people good news and wants to give people a reason to be cheerful and to look forward but as nigel says there is fio forward but as nigel says there is no way he can possibly predict what is going to happen in the next two or three weeks. what is interesting is you have got mps rebelling, they are obviously getting the net from constituents who are losing their jobs, their livelihoods, their businesses. and i think the general call is to tell us why, give us some evidence, show us that for instance the increase in infections is directly related to hospitality. show us the reason why this works and this does not. and the lack of clarity throughout on the messaging about what is allowed to be open and what is not allowed to be open and travel and then complete free over
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christmas, i think it is rather leaving the prime minister floundering. and he is making promises which i'm afraid will turn out to be empty promises because as nigel says he cannot possibly tell what is going to happen in two weeks and certainly not by the end of january. we will stay with the front page of the sunday times and army spies to take on anti—vaccine militants. we had heard that work was going on to prepare for a roll—out of a vexing and it seems this could be part of it. indeed. one of the biggest problems of the vaccine is to try and persuade as may be able to take it as possible. so what you really need is 60% of the population at least to have it, to start getting the proper kind of immunity that we need. so the idea here is that you bring in the experts, this particular sort of
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slightly shady army group, to try and sell the idea but i think there isa and sell the idea but i think there is a bit ofa and sell the idea but i think there is a bit of a struggle on that. this vaccine has been produced incredibly quickly. and certainly there are some concerns over whether or not enough safety checks have been made and there will be a number of people who will be very reluctant to take it. yeah, and i think you cannot force people to take it when it is as nigel says very new. we all wanted because we all want an end to coronavirus and the effect it's having on our lives around the world but i think of the same time you have to be mindful of safety and long—term effects. and i think it is quite clear that there are people who should be in the front line to be protected as much as possible, but i think anything that reeks of a
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campaign of coercion to get people to be vaccinated, there is a huge rebellion. we have seen rebellion and just talked about it over the lock down tears around the country, particularly from tory mps who think it is terribly unfair because their constituency covers small villages when nobody has got it. sol constituency covers small villages when nobody has got it. so i think this is a big problem. i think the anti—vaccine campaigners, the best thing people can do is actually say look at where the information you are getting it's coming from. because these people are generally speaking conspiracy theorists. and there are nonsensical claims about virtually and acquitted with miniature bill gates and silly things like that. and it's not helpful. we saw the damage that came out of the mmr scandal a few years ago. and we all benefit from
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vaccines against polio, tetanus, measles and although sort of things. sol measles and although sort of things. so i think this has to be handled very carefully and it comes back to if you want the public to go with you, you have to build trust. so therefore you have to give them information and not cherry picked information and not cherry picked information but enable people to make informed decisions. let's carry on on that point. turning to the mail on sunday, nigel, a nod to the great escape and don't trip on the last barbed wire. people are also arguing why we have gone to the second lockdown, why change the rules and give people this little breather over christmas, go into eight tier system when comejanuary and february the numbers will shoot up and february the numbers will shoot up again. why don't we just stick with it for a little bit longer?|j could with it for a little bit longer?” could not agree with you more. i think it's absolute madness what we are going to do over christmas. i was talking to the independent sage
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scientist yesterday, and they were unanimous that it's bonkers. what they said was that if you are going to invite over elderly or vulnerable relatives, then the whole family should quarantine for 10—12 days first. now that's an extraordinary thing to come up with but they are basing that on infections and hospitalisations being going down slowly, they are going up amongst school—age children. they will all come home and in fact granny and granddad so the only way of stopping thatis granddad so the only way of stopping that is for them to isolate beforehand. of that throws up a whole host of new problems, taking children out of school with the pa rents children out of school with the parents being my parents taking time off work. so i really think these should be cancelled for this year and we have cancelled most of the year after all and just hope for a better year next year. let's turn to
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the observer. accusations of exaggerations when it comes to the nhs. yes, and i think this is the interesting understory, if you like, of this whole thing came with only one hand we have borisjohnson writing to mps to try and quell this rebellion. yet the same mps or many of them turning on michael gove but i think what that tells you is that there is split between michael gove and the prime minister not for the first time it might be said that michael gove was out there presumably at the behest of number ten and with the agreement of the prime minister saying you have got to go into this locked down and go into this tier system. everybody has got a responsibility to abide by this because the health of us will be overwhelmed. now it transpires that there are an awful lot of
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questions about the use of the nightingale hospitals. nadine dorries, a health minister, says they are not being used because they are dark and dingy and nobody wants to work there but she has since denied making those comments or using those words. we know at least a couple of the nightingale hospitals are being used for non—covid patients but the reality in the hospital is as soon as you get a patient with covid, you have to take more beds out of use. so just in the same way as you are seeing in the theatres and cinemas when they are open, people actually you were lowering the number of available beds automatically as soon as you get covid patients in. that isa as you get covid patients in. that is a fact. but i think we have got on the one hand michael gove yesterday in this long article and the times saying you've got to abide by the rules any of the prime minister saying it will all be fine
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and you can vote against it. the sunday telegraph, and no—deal brexit is underpriced, number ten warrants. what do they mean by underpriced? they're talking about brexit being sorted out one way or the by this time next week. and underpriced means that at the end of the no deal, basically that is fine as will as they are concerned. the sticking point the moment according to the daily telegraph is over fisheries. now if he telegraph his right and what europe has done is offered us 18% of ourfish, i think europe must have gone mad because it is quite clearly art water some of the whole point of brexit is for sovereignty over our waters, that we go out there and catch our own fish. we don't ask europe for permission to give us a portion of our own fish stocks. very quickly. it's totemic
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in away although fishing is not a major part of the economy, we are an island nation. and it is very important and it has been at the nub of awful lot of the disagreement with europe over the rules on fishing come access to our waters and by comparison our limited access and by comparison our limited access and the rules on fish quotas. so it's a huge sticking point but time is ultimately running out and i know we said that a million times before but it really is because this has got to be enshrined in law by both the eu and the uk by the end of the year. which is onlyjust a month away. we are going to finish with the daily mail and ministers tell netflix warn viewers the crown is fiction and this warning comes from the secretary of culture. nigel.”
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was a rule correspondent around the time of the first two or three episodes of the crown and i would say it's absolute fiction but what i would say it is a traumatisation. prince charles is a bit more drippy than actually he was back in real life. the affair with diana's sister, i was involved in that at the time and i may have had a hand in breaking them up because sarah use to talk to me. but apart from that, it is actually seeming to ca ptu re that, it is actually seeming to capture the essence of what the royal family capture the essence of what the royalfamily will or were capture the essence of what the royal family will or were like at that time. so ok it is not fact or documentary, but i would not go in so documentary, but i would not go in so far to say it is fiction either. and so the idea of putting a disclaimer on the series seems to be going a bit too far on the basis that it going a bit too far on the basis thatitis
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