for emma hutchinson. so when lockdown was announced, she moved to online teaching, and soon discovered that, despite her best efforts, many of her pupils struggled to engage as they would face—to—face. her efforts to create something positive from the experience led to her writing a christmas song — and to her great surprise, it's a global success. # la, la, la—la, la, la... # when lockdown was announced, i was at home, in devon. our whole professional world turned around overnight to zoom lessons. it's lovely to see you here today. are you ready to roll? # something is tapping in my box...# a lot of families said, "oh, this is quite good fun, let's all have a go at doing the digital thing." but i think, after several weeks, you could get a sense of screen fatigue.

smash! over the nine months, we noticed that many of our children are more reserved. they're less responsive to engaging with each other. language delay is becoming more evidenced. # christmas is here again, all around the world...# i was thinking, how can i make this a positive experience? how can i write something that is going to look forward to the future? i wrote four christmas songs. # christmas is here once more # family, neighbours, knocking at the door...# i gave my song to moonbug entertainment as part of a collective of christmas songs for children to enjoy. and then they got back in touch and said, "thank you very much, we'd like to use christmas is here again as our christmas single." # christmas bells are ring, ring, ringing # everyone is sing,

sing, singing...# being deaf, i have to say, it has been, initially, a nightmare. and then it became quite funny. having a mask on, suddenly i couldn't see the face. and i rely a lot on lip—reading. # love and peace, as my candle burns # singing my christmas song. # if we can hold a candle up together on christmas eve, wouldn't that make a difference? just so they know they are not alone. # everyone is sing, sing, singing # whoever you are, wherever you roam # ringa—dinga, ding, ding, ding.# congratulations to emma hutchinson. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are.

hello and a warm welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with us tonight are sienna rodgers, editor of the website labourlist, and anna mikhailova, deputy political editor at the mail on sunday. hello, welcome to this wednesday evening. so let's start with some of the front pages that we already have. news that borisjohnson has urged the nation to scale back its christmas plans leads the telegraph. it also features the official christmas card from the duke and duchess of cambridge, with prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis, at their country house in norfolk. "coward," says the mirror. that insult is aimed at boris johnson for allegedly ignoring the advice of medical experts who warn of the dangers of a third wave after christmas. the metro leads with this story too. it reports that borisjohnson is expressing caution over three households mixing, whilst wales and scotland go their own way. the daily mail also focuses

on the "fight before christmas". it includes a stern warning from professor chris whitty that family get—togethers would inevitably cost lives. the financial times front page also concerns borisjohnson but in a different capacity. it reports the prime minister has put mps on standby to approve a last—minute brexit trade deal. and the landmark case of ella kissi—debrah leads the online newspaper the independent, with a coroner ruling yesterday that air pollution contributed to the little girl's death. lots of papers to go through. as always, sienna, anna, lovely to have you both will assess tonight time and we are going to start with the metro, which i think wins headline for the evening. have yourself a merry little christmas. i'm not going to sing it, do not worry! i think this is in reflection of what we heard earlier on today, with the

prime minister very much stress the guidance of a we should be doing a christmas, we should be thinking about a little christmas, a small christmas to minimise the risk of spreading this dreadful disease. yes, so in classic borisjohnson fashion, he has committed to the new advice with a joke, have yourself a little christmas, with the emphasis on the little, so the big news of todayis on the little, so the big news of today is that borisjohnson has come out and today is that borisjohnson has come outand said, today is that borisjohnson has come out and said, nope, i am today is that borisjohnson has come outand said, nope, iam not today is that borisjohnson has come out and said, nope, i am not could you change the law. he came out three weeks ago with this plane for christmas, these christmas bubbles we re christmas, these christmas bubbles were three households would be allowed to mix for those five days of christmas, the 23rd to the 27th, next week, and because it is so short notice now, he has basically cited he is not could you change the law but he is changing the advice and he is saying there is this gap now between what the government wa nts you now between what the government wants you to do and what you are legally allowed to do. yes, so it is the guidance, isn't it? a lot of the papers, anna, picking up on this.

the mirror, very strong front page, where coward is highlighted and it is talking about this, the prime minister's christmas bubbles leading to more deaths. and i wonder if we could see inside the paper because they have got an interesting... we do not have it, but they have the chief medic and a picture of the prime minister, and basically a question, which one do you trust? the experts are urging people just to be careful, anna. what we have is a very strange situation where we have got the law saying one thing and then the guidance saying something else, so ultimately, what this means it is up to people's individual responsibility over how they acted christmas and how far they acted christmas and how far they allow the infection rate to spread, which is a very strange position you could say that the government has taken, essentially saying that the morals possibility

for the inevitable rise in covid deaths over extra middling over christmas putting that on the republic —— moral responsibility. chris whitty in that press co nfe re nce chris whitty in that press conference did say effectively, they had made a decision between two bad choices, he said. he did not say that this is one choice and allowing people to mingle or telling people to say at home is a better choice, he actually made the point that there are additional risks of telling people tojust there are additional risks of telling people to just stay at home, mental health risks, people who have spent their whole year living alone and looking forward to seeing their family over the christmas period, so chris whitty himself has also said, ido chris whitty himself has also said, i do nothing it is quite as black—and—white as that paper spread has shown, but certainly this tension between the science and the two most senior medicaljournals saying you absolutely must not let

people mingle over christmas and what the government has decided to continue, with this christmas using, is really... it is in all the papers tomorrow, it is pretty much the lead story. certainly, there will be lots of conversations about what christmas plans should be, and it is competent and even more by the different nations of the uk going different nations of the uk going different ways. absolutely. without this poor nations approach had been taken across the uk, they had these calls between the leaders, like nicola sturgeon and mark drakeford, arlene foster, with the pm —— this for nations approach. the prime minister was optimistic that had happened, but it quickly fell apart today. mark dra keford happened, but it quickly fell apart today. mark drakeford said he will see a change in the law, notjust in the guidance, to make measures

further and nicola sturgeon put out some different guidance as well, so she was emphasising the time. she said only one day, you should go and mix with households, not for five days, so everyone is now putting different emphasis on different parts of the guidance. i think with the mirror was picking up on there is the fact there was kind of variations in tone from what boris johnson was staying therefore he was sitting on the one hand, peoplejust wa nt to sitting on the one hand, peoplejust want to spend christmas with their families and it would be inhumane to cancel christmas, and you get from that the impression that it is very reasonable to go and want to mix with two other households and go up to the maximum there that he is talking about, and on the other hand, he was a quite the opposite, and the incredibly cautious, really urging us to thing about this a lot more, and saying it is not necessary because the vaccine is going to be rolled out, so let's not get ahead of ourselves and may be thinking by doing this sort of thing later in the year. and let's have a look at, anna, your mail on sunday, but let's look at your sister paper, the daily

mail, because they have taken the stand of the fright before christmas. the angle they are taking is, talk us through it. they are again putting out this morning from borisjohnson that again putting out this morning from boris johnson that even though the law allows it, it is not necessarily a good thing to do, so have a small christmas, try and stay local, meet up christmas, try and stay local, meet up with your family if they live locally, limit the number of days that you're missing from the original five that is allowed to something shorter, and i... all of this is happening with the context of every single day, we are seeing rising infections now, rising hospitalisations and rising death numbers andl hospitalisations and rising death numbers and i think the big question that people have to ask themselves, this being a huge subject of debate within government and parliament, is isn't using next week for morale for this family get—togethers, is it

worth it if we are going to see even more deaths? and longer national lockdowns potentially? 0r more deaths? and longer national lockdowns potentially? or even the regional tier lockdowns, 30 million people under tough restrictions? is this going to belong the crisis into later next year? and i wonder, when you have someone later next year? and i wonder, when you have someone like professor chris whitty, we had earlier on the mirror, which ones you trust, but when you've got somebody like chris whitty saying, look, get—togethers will get together love —— and heavenly cost lives. will that be a wake—up to people, that this modified diet into something that i need to thing about —— will inevitably cost lives. it is interesting. sir keir starmer toughened up his view on this. he said this is the next big mistake of the government, and it is quite easy to see in the new year, when there isa

to see in the new year, when there is a press lockdown imposed, the third lockdown, we might be saying come of this was a mistake, even though people have spent money on their plans, even though this would be on short notice, it could be that we look back at this and think, actually, we should have been more cautious —— the fresh lockdown imposed. mark ra iford cautious —— the fresh lockdown imposed. mark raiford said there would be a change in the law in terms of the christmas bubble. he also announced they would be a fresh lockdown and wales from december 28, and usually what wales does, england does a week or two later, so we can kind of see that maybe a january lockdown is on its way. we will come back to coronavirus in the next edition of the papers, i am sure, and see how others are looking at it, but let's look at the financial times now and we are good look at brexit. anna, there is potentially... borisjohnson is drawing up plans to call mps for an emergency sessions of the comments next week to approve a trade deal if that happens, basically, potentially yet another week and, the penultimate weekend before the 31st,

we will be waiting to see, is there, is there not, this post brexit trade deal —— emergency session of the commons? we have this song and dance again, with the government saying it will be recalled tomorrow, earlier than expected, sending a signal to the u, but then borisjohnson quickly set mps could be recalled with 48 hours notice, putting them on notice as the financial times says, but next week, provided a deal is agreed by the weekend or early next week, they would be required to go back to parliament and put the legislation through. this has punted big concerns from a lot of mps that ifa big concerns from a lot of mps that if a deal is brought for that quickly and brushed through parliament, rushed through the lords, will there be enough proper time to scrutinise? and obviously it

will be pushed through quite quickly ahead of the deadline, but certainly the mood is that there has been movement on state aid, some of the big sticking blocks when it comes to negotiations, and that the one big thing left is fishing, and for the la st thing left is fishing, and for the last few weeks, people i've spoken to in the note or tory mps tend to expect that on fishing, the uk will get some concessions and that france, which is the toughest on this, will at the final moment give a bit of ground. we shall see if thatis a bit of ground. we shall see if that is going to happen and if we will indeed see a trade deal in the next few days. famous last words! sienna, ursula von der leyen saying they have movement on one of these issues, the governance, but what is your estimation? will we, what we? it is so difficult to say, because

there been so many interim deadlines before, and they‘ re there been so many interim deadlines before, and they're really pushing it. as always, right up to the wire. it is interesting because everyone in westminster, we are talking about short—term changing of plans. no one knows 100 is going to be happening next week in westminster because they can give 48 hours notice and they can give 48 hours notice and they can give 48 hours notice and they can prepare this legislation to be voted on, so the two houses are going to rise tomorrow, so mps are going to rise tomorrow, so mps are going to rise tomorrow, so mps are going to go home, lords are going to going to go home, lords are going to go home, but they could be recalled on monday, but we susan not know. —— still do not know. we do not know, or whether it does run a few new year's eve and we could see mps sitting then in order to get the implementing legislation through for that brexit deal. we just don't know at this point. my goodness! how often have we heard this? right, brexit aside, onto the independent and he desperately sad story about this beautiful nine—year—old little girl, ella kissi—debrah, who