yasmin, let's start with the telegraph. open ports. only a few hours ago, he was saying that the situation might be resolved within a few hours. it doesn't look as if that's the case. well, it's interesting. ithink doesn't look as if that's the case. well, it's interesting. i think from the front pages i've looked at some of the telegraph is the only one which is saying this. it is my view that the telegraph is a bulletin for borisjohnson. so they either have this information which is genuine or its something to maybe reduce the panic that is around the country here and around the world. this is an extraordinarily thick —— extraordinary thing to happen so quickly. he said he had talked to president macron. this mass testing is promised, but even at the press conference, the numbers he was giving for the numbers of lori drivers, what was according to some experts far below the real number. drivers, what was according to some experts far below the real numberlj think experts far below the real number.” think it is. sorry to cu

why don't you take us to the front of the daily telegraph, maya? of days, the next few days, but here at the bbc we have not had confirmation yet. but likejohn was saying, it's all about the volunteers standing by. what the daily telegraph are reporting which are mentioned in a few other places is that there is over 10,000 medics and volunteers that have been recruited by the nhs to help deliver this vaccine. the government has already bought around 100 million doses of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine so there is a real focus in how this will be rolled out once it is hopefully approved wish i think... i think it provides real hope, but i would just note that there is on the front of the independent a picture of somebody in europe getting vaccinated so we're beginning to see this happening in different parts of the world, not just this happening in different parts of the world, notjust the uk. —— on the world, notjust the uk. —— on the independent. it's important to say that many campaigners have said that low income countries, nine out of ten people

i applaud the telegraph or the story. first nightingale hospital? the prime minister of... to my understanding, very few patients were treated there, and now it has been dismantled. the beds have been taken down. of the seven hospital set up with all that fanfare, only one, i think it‘s the one in exeter, is actually functioning. the others we‘re told could function within 24 to 48 hours notice, but no one knows if that‘s true. they only cut if they could find the staff and the nhs is saying they can simply don‘t have enough. these are very trained icu nurses that are in the greatest shortage, and those nursing staff, it takes years to strain them up to the kind of standard —— to train them. so, that‘s why they‘re being dismantled, and it really is a political failure but it‘s one that‘s taken years and years to get this data. it‘s not one that can be overturned very quickly. claire, what would you respond to that? i will pick up, £220 million to create. it wasn‘t just fanfare. will pick up, £220 million to create. it was

south east england are to be plunged into the highest level of covid restrictions is the lead for the telegraph in the capital are at risk. that story also the lead for the guardian — which also dedicates some of its front page to the renewed optimism surrounding a possible post—brexit trade deal with the eu. we will come to that in a minute. the yorkshire post claims leeds could move down from tier 3 to tier 2 covid restrictions this week — but the paper claims the rest of west yorkshire is likely to remain under the tightest restrictions. news of a new coronavirus variant is the top story for the metro — the health secretary says it's possible the variant is driving the rise in cases in south east england — but he did say there's no evidence to suggest the variant makes vaccines ineffective, or the disease worse. and the i says the surge in covid infections in the south means the prime minister is being urged to re—think the easing of measures over christmas. so let's begin... let's ta ke let's take off with the telegraph. i just wanted to compare the telegraph and the metro front pages becau

"prepare for no deal" says the telegraph. paper reports that borisjohnson says brussels wants to "punish" britain for refusing to be "yoked" to eu rules. the i 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. 0n 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 caesarean sections. 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. as always lovely to have you both with us on this thursday evening, polly and lynn. we will start with the metro with a lot of focus waiting to see whether there will be oi’ waiting to see wh

there's that story in the telegraph. ard from the government and september, october. they wanted to keep schools open, but now circumstances have change. the pandemic has gotten worse. does this seem like a sensible decision? on another day, this would be an enormous story. there's just endless numbers of front—page possibilities today. yeah, this is a really, really interesting and very, very challenging thing for a lot of schools and parents. schools have been concerned, obviously, about their ability to manage the spread of the new variant, which appears to spread much more quickly amongst teenagers than the previous version of covid. there was a plan to roll out mass testing injanuary of covid. there was a plan to roll out mass testing in january that was rushed outjust before christmas and teachers weren't rushed outjust before christmas and teachers we ren't given rushed outjust before christmas and teachers weren't given and if anything on it on how they were supposed to do it until a couple days before christmas,

and the thing that was feeding into that was there was the invention of the telegraph 30 years earlier. and that the time of the book, in 1864, the telegraph had now become something that was ubiquitous. it was not just something where you sent a sober message to your loved one to say your aunt died or whatever. at this point, if you wanted to change your date from say dinner to going to the opera, you would do it through the telegraph. it was like our internet, it was our email. and samuel morse, who invented, -- who invented it, thought the telegraph is going to be incredible, it is going to bind the country together. we will suddenly understand each other so much better. but the problem was that , actually, once we understood each other better, we found we were more divided because people had not understood before the differences of opinion across the country, and suddenly he did. samuel morse was so disturbed he started a society that was meant to bring the country back together. the interesting thing there is that his idea of how to bring the country together is basically everyone

let us leave coronavirus for the moment and look it the daily telegraph. hearing about these negotiations. every cliche thrown at it, not much time left, negotiations we heard earlier on today from our political editor, the mooted hardened on the eu side. the telegraph focuses on one of the issues they cannot agree one of the issues they cannot agree on and it is fishing. fish quotas. in particular they focus on french fishing. yes, it seems to be the french who have come in to undo what was some positive movement earlier in the day. i think there was an 11th hour hardening of the position which from the uk perspective, they said destabilised the talks. have been some positive noises over the past 2a hours, the two sides were getting closer but the eu has now said it once harder assurances particularly over the role of domestic regulatory subsidies which comes domestic regulatory subsidies which co m es after domestic regulatory subsidies which comes after the transition period but then russell said, that is not necessarily the case from their perspective.

it's described in the telegraph as the last throw of the telegraph as the last throw of the dice.e games come you throw the dice, you wa nt games come you throw the dice, you want to get a sex, and other board games coming through the you want to get a one. of the british people can't decide whether they want to sex or can't decide whether they want to sex or they want to one. what ever happens will take an extraordinary effort to sell to a large proportion of the british public on one side or the other, or perhaps both. lucy, do you think it's been made to look difficult, or as a genuinely difficult, or as a genuinely difficult to reach a deal?” difficult, or as a genuinely difficult to reach a deal? i think it is genuinely difficult because both sides have so much to lose. there are clearly these three sticking points and fisheries is a really big symbolic one for us, although you know, president macron is also now making it really difficult by suggesting a veto. and we know that in terms of the trade deal and we know that in terms of the trade dealand in we know that in terms o

talking about game changers, let‘s look at the daily telegraph back page. sport. eresting story. an exclusive. and what they are saying is premier league chairman have been talking that maybe there should be a two week suspension of football, premier league football, because la st premier league football, because last night the manchester city every ten match was postponed. —— manchester city — every ten. because of covid—19. the match tomorrow evening that will be played between fulham and tottenham hotspur, a team that ros and i love may not take place because there is a problem with a team and there have been other issues, 18, 19 to set a come up other issues, 18, 19 to set a come up in the premier league and what is also going to happen is in a week's time, he will have a third round of the fa cup which means premier league clubs are going to face clubs in the lower leagues who have been having a lot of problems with the pandemic. so it is very possible that with the premier league chairman a that with the premier league chairmana green that with the premier le

fromcase really gets you the telegraph to the cable. this is morse's passport, with washington irving's signature in the lower right-hand corner because he is a diplomat at the time. eight to 10 pages of stamped information. it is really an amazing document. some of morse's earliest telegraph equipment and a facsimile of the first message morse and hiseen assistant albert vale in baltimore, vale acknowledges he received it by sending the same message back to confirm that they are not making it up. then the transatlantic cable. that is a snippet of the cable package as a souvenir by tiffany and company. humboldt had one of those segments on his desk when he died. so we go from morse's gallery at the louvre to the cable cabinet. this is the atlantic cable projectors. it is the group that made it happen. cyrus field in the red outlined jacket pointing on the map. this is his globe. there is his snippet of the cable. morse has gotten cranky in his old age, as the white-haired gentleman looking in the other direction. but the sheaf of papers

the telegraph article mentions a few big centers being secondary —— singled out. o inoculate thousands a day, they do seem to have worked at the logistics of this. i will agree, have worked at the logistics of this. iwillagree, i believe have worked at the logistics of this. iwill agree, i believe it when i see it, but as i mentioned, the fact that the armed forces seem to be heavily involved is a very good sign. we remember when the nightingale hospitals needed to be erected in, what was it, ten days? and the armed forces came up trumps and actually delivered. that was one area where we did succeed. if the armed forces are helping out again, i have got high hopes. from a high to, well, a low. the i — major tory rebellion hits chance of future lockdowns. i cannot remember a lobby fleeing... this is a moment where i feel a rare noticeably for the government and for boris johnson, because you can dice it and slice it in different ways around him or should it have been counties, and city boundaries? should they have gone for smaller delineations of where the problems

that's what their claim is on the telegraph. g to be angela merkel who exerts the pressure on the french president? welcome we can see that clearly both sides want to reach an agreement, and as rachel said there will be disruption to both sides. if i'io i’ooiti will be disruption to both sides. if no room is reached although as she quite rightly said even with such a shallow agreement that we have been expecting, there's gotta be some for us expecting, there's gotta be some for us disruption any event. yes, angela merkel's intervention is significant but as significant as emmanuel macron's intervention today, and both sides really are speaking to their own parliament in terms of german car manufacturing. it's incredibly important that a deal is struck. but i mean, we really need to see how those redlines are going to see how those redlines are going to shift now. we are hearing similar about this demand for a tenure transition period or fisheries. in that really has been, along with a level playing field, perpetually one of the g

the daily telegraph, john, a big week for brexit but what are mps calling for a? pages are dominated by the vaccine and the plans for rolling it out, which is right, most people are more interested in that than the history being made by the brexit deal. the final treaty. which borisjohnson unveiled brexit deal. the final treaty. which boris johnson unveiled on brexit deal. the final treaty. which borisjohnson unveiled on christmas eve. mps, the daily telegraph reports, want to be in the chamber of the house of commons when the commons meets on wednesday, presumably tory mps, they are much keener to be there in person rather than taking part over video. i would have thought they would be better advised to focus their attention on ensuring you get enough time to scrutinise this extremely long and complicated treaty because they have only been given one day but they are more concerned about appearing in person rather than on video. briefly, your thoughts?” person rather than on video. briefly, your thoughts? i would love to know how many people this was because as wel

staying with the telegraph actually and unto brexit. mo, a triple snub. we have all seen the clip of him saying that he will travel to paris, berlin, everywhere. ultimately he just needs to be in brussels. —— angela merkel and emmanuel macron. it seems so. because the leaders have pointed back to the eu commission and ursula fund or lien as the person overseeing the talks from the eu side. —— ursula von der leyen. we need to see who the premise or is talking to. he is letting it know that he would do everything he can and go to every length and making self available to go and see the people who are the power brokers in the eu, merkeland two people who are the power brokers in the eu, merkel and two to try to get a deal through. i think there is no deal, then people can say that he can't do everything —— that he didn't do anything. —— merkel macron. this is embarrassing a bid for numberio when macron. this is embarrassing a bid for number 10 when your son by those leaders. but if you are a person tear then you are being... —— there already believing what t

the telegraph seems to have a lot of information on this. t seems that president macron is looking for a specific task, and the problem is there, it's not only expensive, but it's going to take 2—3 days to get the results back. yes, i think emmanuel macron wants his colds —— so—called gold standard, the pcr coven testament cost £150, but it would take 48 hours, if not longer. so once again you know, delay is the idea that we can get back to sense of normality at our ports. obviously, everyone said, look, it's fine if it's blockade lasting for 48 hours, the prime minister said it affects 20% of supplies. if it goes on longer, it becomes more problematic when it comes to perishable goods. those typically have a short supply chain and come quite late in the day. the telegraph often is, probably, one of the best or most well informed newspapers, one of the government was my favourite. there your first telephone call. i traced everyone the same, tim. i'm ruthlessly fair. but, yeah. it seems to have a lot of detail there about what they are trying

the telegraph, no room in the end. ifind myself quibbling with this. don't think they really want to stay anywhere. they just want to get don't think they really want to stay anywhere. theyjust want to get home but that is the headline they have got. this is the kind of picture i think a lot of us that we might be saying on the 1st of january if there ever was to be a no deal. and yet we are seeing it on a different crisis. how does that strike you? of course this latest crisis was totally unexpected. this has come out of the blue, nobody expected i think the government was warning of this mutant strain, they were really not exactly tempering their language, they win at the population to be fearful and therefore to comply with the regulation. i don't think that they anticipated that what would happen with it would potentially spook our friends elsewhere in europe. particularly the french into taking such a drastic measure. this is a kind of come we don't know yet what the situation in the event of a note to brexit could look like with this is giving us

before you guys launch on me, let's go to the daily telegraph. a different look at what ca re homes, but a different look at what care homes are doing. they are apparently, according to the care quality commission, a report by the seat you see is that care homes are using non—resuscitate orders without the consent of patients or their families and put into investigation by the care quality commission. a lot of people will be absolutely devastated to read this. these issues do not resuscitate and are hugely important in very contentious as well and is not the first of this issue has come up and lots of issues have come up about the quality of ca re have come up about the quality of care and some homes, not all homes and it's very important to say that ca re and it's very important to say that care workers and it's very important to say that ca re workers are and it's very important to say that care workers are doing a good job and very, very difficult circumstances and these people are entrusted to look after people who are very precious to us and

tomorrow's front pages, starting with on the the telegraph's front page is news that the south east isn alert over mutant strain of coronavirus. it reports that an emergency toughening of restricions could be announced as soon as tomorrow after evidence was presented to the prime minister. fears of a third lockdown leads the i. that's after the pm refused to rule out stricter restictions after christmas. the daily mirror leads with this too. the headline reads, ‘lockdown three fear‘, after the r number was confirmed to be once again over one, meaning the pandemic is growing. a different approach from the times. it reports that borisjohnson's plan to avoid a third national lockdown by posting millions of testing kits to homes every week has been blocked by the medicines and health care regulator. the financial times focuses on brexit tomorrow and the news that french police are going to begin patrolling eurostar trains to monitor goods entering the eu — it also shows scenes of long queues of lorries at dover today. and the daily express leads with the queen, and reports that buckingham

let's start with the sunday telegraph. he good news on the vaccine and bad news, but let's just to look at the positive initially. the sunday telegraph predicting that january the 11th is when the first 0xford job is going to begin. yes, the starting gun is going to be fired on the biggest ever logistical undertake this country has ever done as we try to vaccinate the whole country in the shortest time possible. and charging like a knight to the rescue is the 0xford vaccine and this is where the british government has invested the most of its resources and money certainly into this, so it has bought i think 100 millionjobs of this —— jabs of this, and it is hoping to get 2 million people receiving either this 0xford jab or the pfizer jab and receiving either this 0xford jab or the pfizerjab and the advantages of the pfizerjab and the advantages of the oxford jab over the pfizer one, the oxford jab over the pfizer one, the one okayed in december, is it costs £2 compared to £15 and can be stored in the fridge. the pfizerjab n

let's turn to the sunday telegraph or rather go back to it, changing subject. e coming for britain vows the pm, jo? this is an interview with the prime minister with his old employers, the sunday telegraph since the brexit deal was agreed on christmas eve. what's interesting here is he is trying to reset the agenda i suppose. it still has to go through parliament but this is the prime minister talking about big changes suggesting or alluding to changes to bureaucracy and red tape, we have heard that before. but he also talks about levelling up. that is the absolute priority because if he wants to be remembered and his government wants to be remembered for anything other than the fiasco and chaos of mixed m essa 9 es than the fiasco and chaos of mixed messages during the pandemic, then they really need to get on top of this because what's happened is that covid has increased at the gap between rich and poor. there are something like 15 million people, 23% of the uk, living in poverty and that's according to the trust chaired by a conservative peer. this levelling

meanwhile, the daily telegraph says the talks could go on until new years eve.o claims that london mayor sadiq khan is calling for all schools in the capital to shut from tomorrow as covid infection rates are rising rapidly. the southeast london borough of greenwich. it says it is now "inevitable" that london will go into tier 3 next week. the mirror's headline is "final push" and includes a warning that the uk is drinking in the "last chance saloon". where have we heard that before, i wonder. and, james, thanks for being with us, staying up to be with us and staying in to welcome the first of the papers. —— anne. the first additions of monday's morning paper. james committee want to start with us james committee want to start with us at the independent, extra, extra time to find a deal with the eu. it's not presumably unlike the world war i predictions, almost nobody is predicting this one will be over by christmas. nobody is predicting this one will be over by christmaslj nobody is predicting this one will be over by christmas. i don't think it will. i heard b

look at the daily telegraph but let's look at the telegraph front page to have the final word on thaty stay shut says on the front page as ministers look to expand tier 4. let's consider some of the financial applications of this because it will go straight to the ft now. if we can. and the ft on its front page —— to raise cash drives record the hall. there is. global banks. that another side of the story here. what you have seen is companies desperate to get loans to keep themselves afloat through this sudden interruption in economic activity across the globe. you've also seen governments turning to banks trying to encourage them to land to businesses. you have seen masses and massive amounts of money being printed in all of these things have benefited banks bottom line. banks are making profits on extending loans, on new lending or business advice. there are lots of ways in which this is actually been tremendous for the financial sector. quantitative easing itself, the central bank's efforts to see that the economy, work very much via the banking system and the financial system. it

let‘s look at the other front story, on the sunday telegraph. britons weary solar plexus, after the most horrendous year, christmas was all we had to look forward to? yes, it really is dreadfully disappointing for virtually everybody in the country. the headlines, christmas is cancelled, mutant virus. you wouldn't have believed it possible a year ago, where we would be now. a lot of people have been clinging to the idea we would have this time at christmas, see relatives we have not seen for many months. something to look forward to and that has been taken look forward to and that has been ta ken away very look forward to and that has been taken away very abruptly yesterday afternoon. that is going to be extremely difficult for many people. also, i think the timing of it is very problematic because of course, people had made plans and actually, lam not people had made plans and actually, i am not saying it is the wrong decision, but ultimately the priority lies to saving christmas, but we have got so close to the days everything was going to be r

the telegraph goes into more detail. esha. the caveats all over this, as you are wise on picking up on. the caveats all over this, as you are wise on picking up onlj the caveats all over this, as you are wise on picking up on. i think the scientists have been really clear. they've absolutely been proud of their achievement in terms of what they've done so far, but they've been really crystal—clear saying it is early days. we just have to, it isn't going to be a return to normal. in terms of the mask thing, i do think that we might see, i know a lot of people don't like wearing masks and people get very angry, but if you look at countries like china and that part of the world, they're just more used to wearing masks now because of things like sars. i think people will build a more comfortable wearing a mask so i can see that being something which a lot of people choose to do. but i do think a big public information campaign needs to go particularly to older people. i think christopher is right, some older celebrities like

the discussion about tightening of restrictions also leads the telegraph. front page also features brexit, with the paper claiming conservative mps have been primed to vote for a possible brexit deal at the beginning of next week. the yorkshire post reports that transport leaders have said a lack of investment in rail services at the expense of h52 would be a bitter blow for the region. it's after the national infrastructure commission questioned whether or not there was not enough money to deliver all the rail projects in the north. and finally, the financial times claims that the uk is drawing up plans to rival singapore as a hub for shipping companies to register their vessels after brexit. brexit might tie in with the prime minister has been saying about recreating the uk's great maritime history. let's kick off. welcome to you both. katy, let's kick off with the sun. the fight before christmas. do you think they're going to have to tighten up the rules or what? that debate is going on and at the moment, it seems that perhaps what's the most likely situa

they told the telegraph operator downstairs he missed literally by a mile. this might have been thrown out in part by the embers from that. at the time, the fire department was considered a state of the arts. people have a great deal of confidence in the ability of the fire department to manage a fire in fact the city newspapers said we are very good but we need much more equipment. more pumps into pressure and all of these other things. i misspoke. what i was trying to get at was that even have they been the finest fire department imaginable this fire spread so quickly with temperatures that are almost unbelievable. >> bent iron and melted glass stirred -- turned stone into power. it really meant that by the time they got to it it was at a control and the wind southwest from the convection world through and then through them. further north and east. multiple fires joining and gathering. in a particularly juicy spot. it started again. and that's why the fire could leave the no ease. >> people would try to hose down their buildings while there was still pressu

with me are the broadcaster, daisy mcandrew and claire cohen — women's editor at the telegraph. nt pages. starting with. .. swamped — is how the daily mirror puts it — the paper reports on how uk hospitals are struggling to cope with the highest number of covid—19 admissions since the start of the crisis — which have surpassed the peak of the first wave. the daily telegraph leads on comments from the government's scientific advisers, who say 2 million vaccine jabs have to be delivered each week in order to avoid a devastating third wave. the sun reports comments by the nhs chief executive who says he expects 22 million people to be vaccinated by the spring the daily mail leads 22 million people to be vaccinated by the spring. the daily mail leads on the ongoing discussions among ministers and unions about whether it is safe to re—open schools — next term is already being postponed by a week for most secondary pupils — to allow for coronavirus testing. the times says the prime minister is under pressure to delay schools re—opening — as the number of daily coronavirus cases in the

the telegraph sounds a note of caution. ut of the vaccine, the public may have to wear masks for another year to slow the spread of the virus. the guardian turns to another big story. the paper says the future of britain's relationship with the rest of europe hangs on the success of a dinner between borisjohnson and eu chief ursula von der leyen in brussels tomorrow. and the i carries both of the main stories for tomorrows papers on its front page. pictures from an historic day as the coronavirs vaccine is rolled out feature alongside what the paper is calling a ‘showdown‘ as borisjohnson heads to brussels to salvage a trade deal with europe. let's start. two big stories to him few others in the front pages as well. let's look at the mirror first. 0ne down, 5a million to go. that picture i think it's on all the front pages i have seen so far. fantastic news, but the start of the fight against the pandemic. yes, that's absolutely right. a long way to go and of course we saw boris johnson up this morning visiting the hospital

the telegraph also has that on the front.ion slightly makes flips around from the guardian. boris johnson effectively made a compromise at the weekend. this must be why things suddenly got going again on sunday in terms of talks. the fact that boris johnson accepted toa the fact that boris johnson accepted to a certain degree some concessions on the level playing field. if the regulation started skewed in favour of uk, then the eu could put tariffs on some items. is this the ratchet clause? i thought that klaus had been taken away? what we are learning from these stories is that borisjohnson has effectively accepted that there would have to be... that the eu would have to put some tariffs in if britain diverged toa some tariffs in if britain diverged to a much greater extent in the future. in return for that, a p pa re ntly future. in return for that, apparently we asked for them to make concessions on fiction, clashing which they did not do. talks go on, negotiations go on and they remain about those two things. fishing, and

let's move to the daily telegraph. hance to read the story soi have had a chance to read the story so i will give the headline or perhaps first paragraph or so. tier 4to be perhaps first paragraph or so. tier 4 to be widened on boxing day. clearly that is something that eve ryo ne clearly that is something that everyone in britain will come it will affect everyone's life. as the first paragraph, to get everyone up to speed, a swathe of areas hit by a surge in covert rates are likely to be placed into a chairfrom boxing day, ministers will announce today. it's worth saying the other papers we have that's mentioned in the sun on its front page do what they don't have this and it's also mentioned in the daily mail. says new tier 4 fears for boxing day. really not an announcement. but geraldine, the three national newspapers have seen fit to put versions of the story on the front page so that someone is talking and that this is the expectation. it essentially means lockdown to be widened. expectation. it essentially means l

happier news leading the telegraph with reports that the oxford vaccine is just days away from beinga roll—out looking likely forjanuary. the financial times focuses on brexit tomorrow and the news that french police are going to begin patrolling eurostar trains to monitor goods entering the eu — it also shows scenes of long queues of lorries at dover today. the scottish daily mail leads on news that the scotland public health minister has been forced to resign just days after the country recorded its highest number of drug related deaths. and the daily express leads with the queen, and reports that buckingham palace is ordering secrecy over the monarch‘s christmas speech. her words are meant to be particularly ‘personal and poignant‘ this year. and finally the sun's front page says the duchess of cornwall will appear on bbc‘s strictly come dancing. they report that camilla is a huge fan of the show and will feature in two pre—recorded clips for the final show tomorrow. so, let's begin. i've spotted the jumper, you flicked it around, susie. i've spotted the jumper, you flicked itarou

rachel, thoughts look at the telegraph of. johnson plays to seal brexit radio. n it's done, whether it's tonight, tomorrow, the next day, pa rt tonight, tomorrow, the next day, part of it is going to be selling this deal, isn't it? and proclaiming both sides of victory. think borisjohnson started doing that, and he certainly has fired for presenting a deal is the best possible deal when in fact, some critics might say that that was when you have tried and failed to get something better. putting back to one side, there certainly will be hard—liners in the conservative party who be disappointed about this, partly because they didn't wa nt this, partly because they didn't want any kind of deal at all. i will come back to fishing in a minute. but i think getting this deal through uk parliament fairly straightforward because it's highly likely that labour will either abstain or even vote with the deal. here starmer really wants to get labour away from the brexit issue. soi labour away from the brexit issue. so i think we can be fairly confident that it's going to be a

meanwhile, the daily telegraph says the talks could go on until new years eve.claims that london mayor sadiq khan is calling for all schools in the capital to shut from tomorrow as covid infection rates are rising rapidly. it says it is now "inevitable" that london will go into tier 3 next week. and on the frontpage of the times — a photograph of the spy novelist writerjohn le carre, who has died at the age of 89. i knew rampage, sitting on it a bit, give you a chance to see it clearly. the photograph there, even though he wrote about the sinister and cut we re wrote about the sinister and cut were “— wrote about the sinister and cut were —— cut—throat world of spies. this pineapple is too has died at the age of 89. welcome i made a bit ofa the age of 89. welcome i made a bit of a meal if that one, didn't buy? but we will come back to that in a moment. but let's begin if we may. anne, let's start with the times and let's talk about the front page of the times, signs of progress. i have to say, you know your paper former —— former paper very well. what progress,

joining me are deputy political editor of the telegraph, lucy fisher and political commentator and formerr party director of communications, lance price. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the mirror says ‘one down, 5a million to go‘ — reporting on the news that 90—year—old margaret keenan has become the first person in the world to get a clinically approved coronavirus vaccine, as the uk starts its mass vaccination programe. the metro reports on an emotional day, ‘cheers and then tears‘. the paper says prime minister boris johnson watched patients receive the vaccine at guy's hospital in london, hailing the covid—19 vaccination programme as "‘a shot in the arm' for the world. the mail calls those who received a vaccination today ‘v—day heroes‘ — and says around 5,000 people were vaccinated today, including the elderly, care home staff and nhs workers. the times says more than a million more doses of the pfizer vaccine will arrive in britain next week, with the nhs due to have four million doses before christmas the telegraph sounds a note of caution. it says despite hopes for the r

what's have a look at the telegraph now. e 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

the telegraph... we are completely out of sync, i think. going to try and read the rate through now. that's the metro. i'm just looking at what is on screen. the metro, first to get the jab, that is the main story for the metro, but above that, she's scott to be joking. picking up on the comments of nicola sturgeon about william and kate breaking into, or travelling into scotland, arriving at waverley station in edinburgh, despite edinburgh being tier 3, which means there should be no nonessential travel in or out. let's see if we can doa travel in or out. let's see if we can do a little bit better with the papers we are looking at now in a bit more detail. let's start. welcome to you both. kate, so, my goodness, deadline, what deadline? last—minute stitch talks, whatever. so the daily mail, last call for a deal, really? we have heard this before, we are at the crunch points in the brexit talks, but it really is the case. the major game changer this time around is that it simply cannot be extended. 0n 31st of december we do or do not have a

the telegraph says schools have been threatened with legal action by ministers amid growing fears thatill close early to reduce the spread of coronavirus among teenagers before christmas. the i has an intriguing story. it says that gps are concerned that the government has failed to put in place an it system that alerts them to whether any of their patients have already had the first dose of the pfizer/biontech vaccine in a hospital, resulting in them not knowing who to contact first on their priority lists. also going with a coronavirus story, the guardian leads on scientists and government advisers urging families to rethink christmas plans and ignore the easing of covid rules amid fears over rising cases and hospitalisations in parts of the uk. 0n the brexit trade deal negotiations, which rumble on, the financial times says that brussels has told eu governments not to entertain the idea of side deals with britain should trade talks fail, urging a firm line in order to force the uk back to the negotiation table "as soon as possible" after january 1. the daily mail says four royal nav

the telegraph says borisjohnson is giving the trade deal "one final throw of the dice" by sending hist negotiator to brussels for "intensive talks". the times says if there is no progress, mrjohnson‘s cabinet are prepared to back him on a no—deal brexit, adding that the pm intends to place the blame squarley on the eu. so, let's begin. let's start with brexit. the final throw of the dice is the headline in the sunday times and a photograph of borisjohnson at 11:55pm figuratively —— figuratively, and may be literally! what is your reading of where these talks are going or not going. we are in the endgame now. we have 25 days until the transition period ends. let's not forget it is li.5 years since the people of britain voted to leave the european union, that is 1600 days i think, and they haven't yet come to a deal. the european union tend to do things at the last minute, but they really are leaving it to the last minute. if you look at what they are facing now, there is that internal market bill comment before parliament which would break international law in order to keep oui’ intern

the sunday telegraph also goes with brexit, detailing plans being drawn up by the cabinet for multibillion—poundaged to bolster industries hardest hit by a no—deal brexit. the independent has a story on its front page claiming the uk bought personal protective equipment from firms accused of slavery, despite warnings from within government. "hours from a no deal" says the sunday mirror, as the paper raises the prospect of potential job cuts and price hikes in the event of a no—deal brexit. the mail on sunday quotes a government source who is blaming the german chancellor angela merkel for what the paper calls the european union's hard line on brexit. britain is ready for no—deal insists the sunday express, with the paper detailing the uk's plans to cope with potential disruption if the uk and eu fail to reach a deal. so let's begin... martin, penny, welcome back both of you, thank you once again for joining us. let's start with the mail on sunday. merkel wants britain to crawl across broken glass, the mail on sunday, martin, cleaning the german chancellor for the trade talks of calling. yes, it'

let us leave coronavirus for the moment and look it the daily telegraph.negotiations. every cliche thrown at it, not much time left, negotiations we heard earlier on today from

the discussion about tightening of restrictions also leads the telegraph. t page also features brexit, with the paper claiming conservative mp‘s have been primed to vote for a possible brexit deal at the beginning of next week. and finally the financial times claims that the uk is drawing up plans to rival singapore as a hub for shipping companies to register their vessels after brexit. so, let's begin. the times, pretty clear not to the prime ministers under pressure, but he is refusing to revoke christmas covid—19 freedom. of the got something else of the papers haven't? my thought is that the time is very clear that borisjohnson and some of the other papers are as well, borisjohnson some of the other papers are as well, boris johnson is some of the other papers are as well, borisjohnson is leading from the front, whether you agree with them or not or you support them or you don't. use leading from the front and he is not apparently following the science as we heard so much about the early days of this awful virus and she is probably not doing the same, is

let's and on the daily telegraph and the image, the daily telegraph and the image, the cambridge, butthe cambridge, but the store and want to focus on is the minister for women and equalities will be speaking tomorrow at a think tank. —— the story i want to. just expect was race and gender means. what is liz truss about to say? liz truss is tomorrow going to set out what has been described as a pivot away from what was previously the brief of the equalities minister towards what she is going to redefine, as she says, and this, according to the readout from the speech, will be less focused on quotas, less focused on unconscious bias training, less focused on what she describes as things that were brought in by the left, by new labour, and what she says do not work, so we'll see what she says does work and i think... the preview says that there will be a pivot towardsjust the preview says that there will be a pivot towards just different the preview says that there will be a pivot towardsjust different ideas and different ways of measuring equality, but i think we are... the devil will

john, the daily telegraph, and it just let's start. daily telegraph, and itjust to start vaccine within days. i can't see it mentioned in many of the page vision so mentioned in many of the page vision so far. looks like very good news was up well, some of the papers having writing staff over the weekend around eight military brought in around two dummy runs mass inoculation programmes as one of the bristol football grounds eston and gates. they'd been planning for a a while. they had been different bits of coverage in anticipation of this. if it does ta ke anticipation of this. if it does take place in december well before christmas that will be remarkable. fabulous piece of news. and britain has had pretty much one of the sharpest gdp falls of any country in the world. performance both in dealing with covid and the economic consequences has been one of the worst. so, if we at this vital stage mention it's we managed to really come out and show some rapid organisation, and not the immunisation programme early and we cleverly do it well

this story in the sunday telegraph of the billions writes me as a rehash of in fa ct billions writes tories criticised labourof in fact what the tories criticised labour of in the past, a magic money tree, suggesting that up to £10 billion may have to be ploughed into farming and fishing and automotive industries and the chemicals industry, because of the shortfalls resulting from a no—deal brexit. so again, this seems like the most egregious act of self—harming history. well, you might say that but it is what the british people voted for, after all! i know, but! hasten to add, ben, i am obviously ina hasten to add, ben, i am obviously in a minority, i am one of the silent, perhaps not so silent, minority of... hard keeping you silent, james! i am extremely vociferous and probably too noisy for your liking, however, that is my view, that we are committing an act of egregious national self—harm and it really saddens me that the uk has come to this. no, we don't like you being silent, we love you being noisy. that is why we invite you on every week, james! sian, let'sjust switch away f

the development of the telegraph came in 1834. in a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was an instantaneous national conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. it turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. they were horrified by what people on the others -- the other side were saying. there is that. there is also just the fact that it is a story of america. it takes place in the same cities we know today. sometimes even in the same buildings. it is really inspiring for me to go into the library of congress and learn about things that happened in the united states capitol where i sometimes walk around as a reporter today. the building has expanded and changed, but it is fundamentally the same. susan: we are going to spend an hour talking about these characters, but i wanted at the outset to do a brief snapshot of each. let us start with the protagonist, john charles fremont. you write th

they significantly outpaced $8 million for the same year in telegraph. stern union, the largest telegraph provider, carry 28 million messages in 1878 while the post office cared over one million. postal workers in one city, st. louis alone, carried more mail in one year than all the message sent by telegraph. is unsurprising and really instructive to see the status of the mail. the reason it was so important was because of its usefulness to business, circulation of news, and personal correspondence. business leaders and new orleans led the charge against quarantine efforts. the new orleans exchange and chamber of commerce pleaded with the postmaster general force arkansas, tennessee, texas, louisiana, mississippi to restore communication. the reason it was such a central concern for the chamber of commerce was pretty straightforward -- local communication remain central to obtaining information about con supply. questions about demand were sent by telegraph. the misreporting of supply figures could lead to price depressions and fluctuations. the cotton ex