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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me again are chief executive of demos, polly mackenzie and political commentator, lynn davidson. lovely to have you both back. so, let's start with some of the papers that we already have. "let's play aussie rules" reads the front page of the metro. it's after the prime minister warned there's a "strong possibility" of a no—deal brexit with australian—style trade rules. borisjohnson has told britain to prepare for the end of the brexit transition period without a deal, reports the times. it says mrjohnson says he has strong backing from cabinet in rejecting the deal on the table. "prepare for no deal," says the telegraph, as the pm says brussels wants to "punish" britain for refusing to be "yoked" to eu rules. the i is also leading on this story.

it warns that food prices could rise and add £3 billion a year to the cost of shopping, according to supermarkets. on the front page of the financial times, share prices for airbnb have doubled in what the paper is calling "one of the biggest tech listing bubbles in years". shares opened at $146, up from the $68 they were priced at on wednesday. on the front page of the independent, calls for an nhs overhaul to prevent maternity unit deaths as an inquiry into the shrewsbury scandal demands nationwide changes. the report says that dozens of deaths at shrewsbury and telford hospital trust over several decades were due to a drive to avoid caesearean sections. more on this on the front page of the daily mail. the paper says hundreds died needlessly in a scandal that the nhs tried to cover up. elsewhere, on the front of the guardian, a photograph of the sky presenter kay burley, and her colleague beth rigby. they've been taken off air for six

and three months respectively, after breaching covid—i9 rules. so, let's begin. once again as i always loved to see you both, polly and lynn. let's start off with the times because we had the metro earlier talking about playing aussie rules, the times taking this less play on words but it is talking about boris johnson raising less play on words but it is talking about borisjohnson raising this prospect of an australia option. we know that is a no—deal. prospect of an australia option. we know that is a no-deal. yeah, brace yourselves, folks, ithink know that is a no-deal. yeah, brace yourselves, folks, i think is what he is trying to say. he is trying to use he is trying to say. he is trying to use this stronger language and that is ahead of this latest deadline if you like on sunday which i'm not sure what polly things but i am not sure what polly things but i am not sure if sunday will be the last deadline we will see to be honest given that parliament is set to sit

until christmas eve in a bid to if there is a deal. but this is the prime minister using some strong language to tell the eu and the wider public, this offer on the table at that the eu have isjust not good enough for britain and he uses not good enough for britain and he uses that analogy of if the union gets a haircut, brittany said get haircut, etc. britain wants a relationship like that of the us and canada having, they are to each other, they are big markets, they trade. and that has not been a relationship that the eu perhaps entirely understand we don't want to have. so you have that kind of conflict there and the competition between the eu and the rest of the block, the countries involved there, and britain. yet, he was using that twin analogy when one has a handbag, the other has a handbag. polly does

that work on you? he is talking about brussels wanting the uk in his words walked in its orbit? yeah, i mean the reality is the reason that we are in an orbit, stationary orbit with europe, is because we are super close to it. it is right next door 20 miles across the channel. unless we find a way to change that djokovic, the basic rules of trade dictate that it's going to be our most important trading partner and that we can get huge amounts of economic benefit finding ways to have seamless connection to that single market. —— to change that geography. but the prime minister, i did not understand the twins metaphor, i don't know any twins who a lwa ys metaphor, i don't know any twins who always buy the same handbag, certainly where one feels obligated under duress to buy a handbag because the other did but he is a fla m boya nt because the other did but he is a flamboyant guy with the late which —— with link i think we can forgive him for it. he said i will go to

brussels, paris, berlin... the problem is not is he willing to travel and talk to people? the problem is he is not willing to budge and the european union is determined to protect what they believe is essential, this integrity of the single market, as the core of the european project. and they are kind of sad to see britain leave but willing to take economic pain rather than threaten the european project. and i guess it is surprising to me that the people, the most eurosceptic people who sort of don't like that kind of blocked defensiveness of the european union seemed to be the ones most surprised by them acting in this way. i think it was entirely predictable. it was predicted, and what is galling is that this is going to go to the wire. it is going to be difficult. evenif wire. it is going to be difficult. even if we do get a deal at this stage, there is not really enough time for businesses to prepare especially given that christmas break and coronavirus and we are

already seeing cues at ports, and this will not be the easiest radio ever. i think that has been finally proven to be extraordinary but when na ivety. proven to be extraordinary but when naivety. and he doesn't need to talk to anyone apart from us because she speaks on behalf of the rest of the others, ursula fonda line. the times is focusing on the full cabinet backing for the prime minister. —— ursula fonder land. and he also take the party with him. entirely predictable, it seems much longer thana year predictable, it seems much longer than a year ago now but it is a year since last years general election, and the conservative party and boris johnson were voted into power with a stomping 80 strong majority with the slogan get brexit done. that's what the public overwhelmingly wanted. and that is what the cabinet fully

back the prime minister and in that endeavour. so of course there isn't anyone and you have heard reports stronger understand the prime ministerand stronger understand the prime minister and the rest of the cabinet, and the party indeed, that new intake of what was at one stage the redwall but is now blue, all those new mps that were voted in on the same presence. —— in the same premise. the prime minister can do what he wants because he has the mandate to do that. the difficulty might be that perhaps politically, he is able to do that but there are things to think about in other parts of the country, for example in scotland and the impact of no deal there and northern ireland. and what may happen, i know we have seen some reports and some of the newspapers about food, about statistics that have come out about the 5% rise in food which we heard at the time during the brexit campaign which did not put people off voting for it but

nevertheless, these are some of the things we could see in the event of aussie rules no deal. and the picture on the ft is the worries that are on their way to dover, polly, the european commission is already selling out proposals and how to plan contingency measures. —— the lorries. making this a wake—up call to what could potentially happen on the ist of january. call to what could potentially happen on the 1st ofjanuary. yeah, and again, it is depressing because we we re and again, it is depressing because we were told that when remainers warned of these kind of consequences, that it was all project fear and open lies. and already we are seeing some of the impacts of that both in friction, realfiction and impacts of that both in friction, real fiction and a reporter, impacts of that both in friction, realfiction and a reporter, but more important ea kind of build—up ofa more important ea kind of build—up of a fear, was of manufacturer

stockpiling ahead of friction at the sports and therefore seeing cues, there is not customs form fillers to do these things. we are seeing some cueing at dover, beverly one car manufacturer this having to temporary halt production because apart shortages. lynn is completely right, people were warned about this stuff and voted for it and the prime minister has a mandate to pursue it. —— we have seen queing. and the european union are pressing ahead with that, it seems externally to me at this point to stand in defence of at this point to stand in defence of a brexit which 152% of the vote but only 52% and suggest that the only brexit that counts is one delivers the brexiteers want, but isn't even responding to businesses who are crying out for simply some clarity about what is going to happen in 20 days from now.

let's put brexit eye for the time being and go back to the times because it has got the harrowing and damning report into the deaths of hundreds of babies over the space of nearly 20 years at an nhs trust and it is just really difficult to read when you hear the details but also the bravery, lynn, of the people who gave witness and gave testimony and what happened to them. but it's just incredibly difficult to understand what was going on. absolutely. we had heard on the news earlier the story of the griffiths family and their dr pepper who perhaps needlessly lost their lives. —— there doctor, pippa,. and the 13 or

so there doctor, pippa,. and the 13 or so babies who die... and we are due to get a final report on this next year. the initial inquiry was launched in 2017 by the then health secretary jeremy hunt but launched in 2017 by the then health secretaryjeremy hunt but itjust really, it is an over used phrase, it beggars belief that it took this length of time. what was happening at this hospital when mothers were dying in babies were dying in such numbers that the alarm wasn't raise? it is full credit to the parents of these babies that have essentially single—handedly taking this on themselves to push forward and you can see the effort really etched in them earlier when we saw them on the television. yeah, absolutely. really, really difficult and really brave to put their thoughts and expenses forward. what's have a look at the telegraph now. polly, the test and trace, the call handlers who are spending just 1% of their time on their work, we talked about this earlier but let's go

through this because it is quite interesting as to what they are doing. this is a national office audit into the test and trace scheme, looking at what was happening at the beginning where a huge number of people were recruited at the government passed a behest mostly by outsourced private sector companies. —— national audit office. there was not a system that could flow cases or contact details to them. at the start, about 1% of the hours that we were paying for were being spent actually working. there is one example given here of a contractor who says they were paid £4500 without having to take a single call. it is going to see this amount of our taxpayers money wasted. —— it is galling. i think we

can forgive future steaks made early on, of core systems will take time to pick up. but this was done so in such a mess with such chaos and so little interest in building up our existing public health network based in local authorities which ijust think central government, the department of health, are we to dismissive of what local authorities and locally not very well—paid bureaucrats in of scared towns and villages around the country what they can do. —— in small towns. instead of all the singing and dancing let's build an app approach, but by a call centre, it should have been local and if we did believe in local government and invested in local government and invested in local government and invested in local government over the last ten yea rs, local government over the last ten years, i believe this waste would not of happened. and i were to send trace not of happened. and i were to send tra ce syste m not of happened. and i were to send trace system would've been better and lives would've been saved. that local knowledge absolutely invaluable. what's have a look at

the guardian and the photo, we don't really talk about the competition but what do my —— one of my colleagues, kay burley, beth rigby, what have they been up to? as i understanding, they were celebrating a 60th birthday party at the weekend and did not believe they were breaking or not being covid compliant if you like. but investigation i think by sky themselves has found that they weren't, i think i'm right in saying. anyway they have apologised. some current and former correspondents including beth rigby was present at a dinner and i think there were drinks or something after that. and there has been an investigation, those that did work on airfor sky were investigation, those that did work on air for sky were taken off air, andl

on air for sky were taken off air, and i think as i understand it, the conclusion is that kay burley will be offairfor conclusion is that kay burley will be off air for six months and beth rigby, the political editor, will be offairfor rigby, the political editor, will be off air for three months but another reporter involved, they will all be offair reporter involved, they will all be off air but they will all be off air on full pay. i didn't know that detail. ok, let's finish with the daily telegraph and we will go back to it because there is a development that we heard about today, mass testing for secondary schools polly. this across certain boroughs of london and parts of kent and essex over concern of the increase of the coronavirus when it comes to increase in numbers going up especially pockets of certain boroughs of london with high figures compared to other boroughs. boroughs of london with high figures compared to other boroughsm boroughs of london with high figures compared to other boroughs. it has definitely been rising in london. it isa definitely been rising in london. it is a problem, wending is currently in tier two and crucially the schools are going to stay open for just over another week. —— london is

currently in tier two. and what the government is keen to do is use as concentrations of people in the same place who can be tested and be in contact with and can find cases and get people to isolate in the run—up to christmas because once people have broken up for the school holidays, they are much harderfor testing trace system to reach as we we re testing trace system to reach as we were discussing, that local knowledge is invaluable. it doesn't seem as knowledge is invaluable. it doesn't seem as the paper suggests that london might need to move to tier three. —— it doesn't seem. and we have seen a case numbers going up in wales, questions will start to be raised about whether that relaxation for the christmas period makes sense to people. because whales, lynn, we we re to people. because whales, lynn, we were hearing that whales‘s schools will close for next week —— schools in wales. older peoples it is not that they will not go to school, it is not a holiday but they will have to home—school once again.

is not a holiday but they will have to home-school once again. oh, hurrah! i to home-school once again. oh, hurrah! lam to home-school once again. oh, hurrah! i am sure the parents and citizens selves are so happy about that news. —— and students themselves. we keep going back to school and the virus spreads again, we had the really excellent and shearing news about the vaccine and we have seen these moving montages this week of the first vaccines being doled out to people and that does perhaps give us a false sense of security. we are still in the midst of this. we do face a potential third wave, we are still going to be living with restrictions on us going to be living with restrictions on us for some considerable months, potentially to come. i think this is just the latest warning of that. on that cheery note that not sorry! the christmas tree will give us on the cheer we need. the background looks great. thank you polly and lynn for talking us through tomorrow plus our papers and it has been a pleasure as always. have a good whatever is left

of the evening and as always to our viewers, if you would like to get involved and have a conversation use hashtag bbc papers but things are watching. —— thanks for watching. hello there, i'm tulsen tollett with the latest from the bbc sports centre — where arsenal finished their europa league group stage with a 100% record by beating dundalk 4—2 in dublin. mohamed elneny scored the pick of the goals for the gunners at the aviva stadium. eddie nketiah, joe willock and folarin balogun also scored. rangers secured a seeded place in monday's last 32 draw by beating lech poznan 2—0 in poland to top their group. cedric eatten and yanis hadgee with the goals. elsewhere, tottenham's victory over royal antwerp means they finish ahead of the belgians at the top of groupj. in group g, leicester's win over aek athens sees them through first.

and celtic, despite winning 3—2 at home to lille, finish bottom of group h. but for all the results head to the bbc sport website. france's victor perez leads after the first round of the season ending dp world tour championship in dubai. he sits one clear on 5—under as patrick reed and tommy fleetwood also battle it out for the race to dubai title, the biggest prize on the european tour. watching the opening day's action was ben croucher. in the race to dubai, under the shadows of the skyscapers, the sprint finish where timing can be everything. frenchman victor perez honed his craft at ladybank in panmure near dundee. a long way from home but out on his own on 5—under. on the west coast of scotland robert mcintyre honed his skills — last year's rookie of the year put his putter to good use with an opening 68 to sit a shot behind perez where he'sjoined by matthew fitzpatrick and south africa's erik van rooyen. he'd nearly double his career earnings with victory in the uae,

enough to put a smile on anyone's face. tyrell hatton and tommy fleetwood are in contention, too. on 3—under, fleetwood — european number one in 2017 — is inching his way back up the leaderboard. a win would earn him a second race to dubai title. he'll have to prize it from patrick reed's hands, though. the series leader's bogey—free 2—under 70 means this race is set to go right down to the wire. ben croucher, bbc news. now to cricket where the hobart hurricane's accounted for reigning champions the sydney sixers on the opening day of the men's big bash league in australia. the world's top—ranked batsmen dawid malan will be featuring for hobart soon as he's been self—isolating in his hotel after his match—winning performances for england in their t20 series win over south africa. he's been giving joe wilson an insight into the reality of cricket during covid. dawid malan is a man in demand. his recent outstanding batting means he finds himself leading the all—time t20 rankings. he finds himself representing

hobart in the big bash but a fortnight of quarantine first in perth. in this hotel room. not too bad. i made the bed specially for this as well as you can see. really well done, greatjob. but that is sort of the room. got a lot of gym equipment in the corner here. cricket australia have been fantastic in giving me the equipment. i've got a treadmill outside of the room that is too heavy for me to move in. and with the new rules and regulation from the western austrian government, no one is allowed to help me get them in. so, that's stuck outside at the moment. so they are actually sending me a treadmill tomorrow for me to construct myself. while this kind of view awaits in tasmania, cricket proceeds more or less everywhere. so let's try and keep track with this handy map. many of the world's best t20 players are currently in australia. now, lots of them have just spent weeks in bubbles in india, england's one—day series

with south africa was abandoned when their bio—secure bubble burst — oh, and in the new year, there will be an england test series in sri lanka. more quarantine. travel is normal, confinement is not. two young england players weary of bubbles, tom banton and tom curran, decided to go home rather thanjoin the big bash. the ecb's ashley giles says other mental health screenings will happen before upcoming tourists and dawid malan welcomes that. —— before upcoming taurus. especially when i started you just think i'm tired and not playing well and there is no real awareness when you are actually feeling really burnt out and you felt mentally drained and the pressure that comes with playing international sport, county cricket, scrutiny of the year under now with social media commentators, everyone has an opinion these days. eventually it does get to you and i think probably even 4—5 years ago people didn't really realise. dawid malan hits a peak at 33 and even in twenty20

it's all about timing. chase that success but not at any price. joe wilson, bbc news. to formula one now and his mercedes team have announced that lewis hamilton has been passed fit to drive at this sunday's abu dhabi grand prix. that's after he tested negative for covid—19 following a period of self—isolation. the world champion missed last week's race in bahrain after a positive test the week before. onto snooker and ronnie o'sullivan has beaten robbie williams to progress to the quarter—finals of the scottish open. the world champion made short work of it for a four frames to one victory as he looks for a third title at this event. and finally tonight something that wayne rooney, ellie simmonds and andy murray all have in common. they've won the bbc‘s young sports personality of the year award. and joining that list this year is diver andrea spendolini—sirieix. the 16—year—old edged out borussia dortmund footballer jude bellingham and paralympic skier neil simpson to win.

spendolini—sirieix won her first solo international gold medal in the women's 10m platform at the fina diving grand prix in the german city of rostock in february. and for all the latest on the opening round of the women's us open golf that is ongoing in houston head to the bbc sport website but that's all the sport for now. hello again. although skies across the uk on thursday were almost uniformly grey and drab, skies like these overhead in llangollen were pretty commonplace across the country. there were, however, big temperature contrasts from place to place. in the west, we had some milder atlantic air moving in. whereas across central and eastern england along with the whole of scotland, we had much colder continental air. in the west, temperatures reached double figures, it was actually quite mild, 10—11 celsius. but across central and eastern england and scotland, temperatures were more typically around 5—6 celsius. we only managed to get

four in dalwhinnie in the highlands of scotland. so, there were some big contrasts. those contrasts were driven, really, by this weather front that's been bringing rain eastwards over recent hours. and it's, as well, been one of those nights where the milder air has been pushing in. temperatures for some have actually been rising throughout the night as well. so, for most of us, friday will get off to a relatively mild note but across eastern england, eastern scotland, there will still be some rain around. in fact, the rain will linger in aberdeenshire pretty much all day, bringing a risk of some localised flooding. but i suspect there will for a time in the morning be some low cloud for north east england and eastern scotland with some hill fog patches around. now, the skies do try to brighten up from the west but there will be plenty of showers coming through later on in the day. that milder air pushing into pretty much all of the uk though as we head towards the afternoon. so, temperatures will be lifting across those central and eastern areas. the weekend — well, we've still got low pressure loitering on the weather chart. that will continue to bring some rain for a time across scotland. the rain quite slow to ease across eastern areas of england —

none of it particularly heavy, mind you — but later in the day, we'll start to see a ridge of high pressure building in from the west and that means that we should see more in the way of sunshine for northern ireland, for wales, for western and central southern areas of england. now, that sunshine isn't going to hang around too long because the ridge is going to move away to be replaced by the second half of this weekend by low pressure. that low pressure will be bringing south—westerly winds. so, again, we should see some milder air sloshing its way in across the uk. now, sunday promises to be quite a windy day. we may well even have gales for a time around some of our western coasts. there will certainly be a lot of rain around as well, and even as the rain clears, showers will follow on. temperatures though on the mild side, reaching a high towards the south west of 13 celsius. that's your latest weather.

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