Bringing us tomorrow. With me the broadcaster and former fleet street editor, eve pollard and the journalist, Yasmin Alibhai brown. Welcome to you both. Lets take a look at tomorrows front pages. The observer leads on the situation in zimbabwe, with a picture of one of the anti mugabe demonstrators that have been out on the streets of harare. The mail on sunday reports on an apparent altercation between two labour mps in the commons chamber. The sunday express claims that in wednesdays budget the chancellor will announce support for britains Tech Industries that could mean well have Driverless Cars on our roads by 2021. The sunday telegraph also leads on a pre budget announcement, this time reporting that nurses are in line for a pay rise. Well now, where shall we start . The observer, shall we do them first . Ya s men, it is about Robert Mugabe, extraordinary scenes in zimbabwe will stop yasmin. Extraordinary scenes in zimbabwe will stop yasmin. It is an extraordinary story. The army has not behaved as army is usually do. They have been respective of the old man. I was in uganda when the edi main coup happened and i can tell you that armies behave shockingly when coups happen. Idi amin. Now it seems that people are coming out. They were quite scared in the beginning or disbelieving. Now even the army people and zanu people are saying. That is the party. He has ruled over them. He has been shocking at times. I think he will have to go but he could have done it differently. He could have left with grace. He has a lot of money. With grace or with his wife . Good point. Design extraordinary situation. Grace or with his wife . Good point. Design extraordinary situationm is heartening, if youre going to topple a dictator which he was, this isa topple a dictator which he was, this is a civilised way of doing it. Today he handed out things at a university. He went out specially. He is 93. They are showing him a bit of respect. But youd think is only every other country which was run by a code to. But it aint over. The person who was selected was his first choice. This is a man with the nickname the crocodile. A long time associate of Robert Mugabe involved with most things. One thing which it is important to remember, and i read a column about this, we do need to remember what he was like in the early days. He was a hero, a liberationist hero. He was put into prison for ten years. He got a degree when he was in prison. His baby boy died then. The radiation authorities and our government would not let him go to the funeral the rhodesian authorities. Then he turned into this person who was dictatorial and thought the country belonged to him. He did. It is the end ofan belonged to him. He did. It is the end of an era. Lets go domestic. Eve, the sunday telegraph, looking ahead to the budget. Philip hammonds in trade must be enormous. They are talking about a pay boost for nurses . Quite a lot of his intraday is coming from his own team and this is actually, apparently he is going to give a boost to nurses and probably to schools, but what is interesting is that ive four years and others have said this, the nhs is not should not be a political football, it is much too serious. It should have a royal commission. We are paying managers a fortune. We are paying managers a fortune. We are paying managers a fortune. We are paying agencies a fortune to get nurses. We dont have nurses homes. How can you afford to live in london if you are in a . I can remember the time, my parents had a friend who was a nurse, lived in a nurses home. But the reason it is always going to be in politics is because taxpayers pay for it so it is bound to be a political football. But in france they paid for the Health Service and it is not a football. As you have said, they want the teachers, they wa nt said, they want the teachers, they want the cap removed. State schools are ina want the cap removed. State schools are in a terrible state. And then there are the people who want a brexit whatever it is called, war chest, because it is going to cost. I dont know how hes going to do all of this because he is a sensible man. He is a sensible man who has built upa man. He is a sensible man who has built up a Good Business of his own. The curious thing about brexit is it seems like a very bad divorce. Somebody has taken the money and somerby has taken the house and they say only when you give me the money and the house i will tell you when you can see the children. and the house i will tell you when you can see the children. I wish we had got a mediator and not got a divorce nobody told us we would have to give billions. I dont know why. We seem to have strayed from the nhs to brexit. I know there are links. There is a lot of detail in this story. There are quite a few other things in there as well. They are talking about tech because the Driverless Cars which of course journalists are fascinated by, because most of them are in a state where they would like to have Driverless Cars and not want to Driverless Cars and not want to drive themselves when they have had a drink or two. That is a rather sweeping statement it is. They will probably tell us we cannot drive them anyway. I would love it, i could talk on the phone and put on make up it would be fantastic. Could talk on the phone and put on make up it would be fantasticm the idea of this thing in your house which you speak to and it does things, oh no hang on, we have strayed again. Get back to this story in the sunday telegraph. Strayed again. Get back to this story in the sunday telegraphm previous budgets we more or less knew all about the budget by now. This one is happening this week and we are still making guesses as to what Philip Hammond will do. Housing. No money really. He has got to loosen austerity. The point about all these stories, it is notjust about what will the chancellor do, will he put a penny on tax here or there, he has a political battle to fight, yasmin . Brexit is on his mind but he wants to stop young people voting labour. It is a political agenda because the tory party is losing support. But he himself is in a lot of trouble because of this brexit think tearing his own party up. I would brexit think tearing his own party up. Iwould not brexit think tearing his own party up. I would not want to be Philip Hammond. No one talks about brexit caring the labour party apart. They are not in power so they did have to do the budget. They dont count. It will mean a big change for him. Lets go back to this business of d riverless ca rs lets go back to this business of Driverless Cars because the sunday express is saying Driverless Cars by 2021. Where do they get that 2021 from . I dont know. According to the sunday express, it very confidently said Driverless Cars will be on the roads in three years as part of a multi Million Pound plan, as part of the technological revolution. I dont know if these are placed stories, prebudget placed stories or mad thinking. For a start, you would have to flatten half our roads which have to flatten half our roads which have eternal bumps. 2021 is much to year. And kessler are still busy getting out there Driverless Cars tesla. I love the idea of them. You can do your washing and make up we seem to have gone round in a circle ain seem to have gone round in a circle again the point is, i have to confess, i have a motorcar now which i have learned to be cautious with it, because if it thinks there is another car getting in the way the bra kes another car getting in the way the brakes come on. We are not too far away from the time when cars are automatic. It is very soon. The human still has two count. The have been some incidents where they have started testing these things. The human instinct is a very important one. Are they going to be running on electricity . How will we make enough electricity . How will we make enough electricity and will we have enough place to plug your car in . We have any got the front page of the sunday express, but it does say Philip Hammond is a houdini of politics if he gets all this right, he is expected to spend money developing artificial intelligence. Europeans are doing this, the americans are doing this, the one way we will survive if we sadly do have to stave off on our own is being as fit and as good as them at business so we will have to make stuff. There is no doubt we need money put into it. |j think i would prefer money to be put into more essential services than a d riverless into more essential services than a driverless car. We dont need it. This might lead us back to the observer again. They have a story on the front page, 1000 nurseries shut as childcare crisis mounts. What is this about . This is about how many nurseries, many of them outstanding, have closed over the last year. The tories did promise, if you remember, 30 hours for people earning less than £100,000 a year, 30 hours of free childcare. That is terribly important because when you and i we re important because when you and i were working, childcare was not so expensive, but now it has become a very expensive. This will help the middle classes, £100,000 is beyond the imagination. But it means if you are less than that if you are a woman you can have a part time job. The truth about this as they are going bust these places, because their rates have gone up, because their rates have gone up, because their rents have gone up. What should have happened if everybody should have happened if everybody should have happened if everybody should have looked at schools around the country and said, can we build a class on. It would be easier if parents were taking little ones and bigger ones to the same place. Can we make space somewhere on the facilities. The playground may not be as big. Then they would not have to pay rent and all the rest of it. Talking about a radical approach to childcare . It is also about how much childcare . It is also about how much childcare workers are paid. We are going to have to start thinking more seriously about means tested benefits. People that can afford it pay for their own childcare and people who cant and need to go out to work need to be better subsidised. This 100,000 cap, i never agreed with it. But also what iam never agreed with it. But also what i am astonished by, it says the preschool learning alliance say local authorities typically pay nurseries and childminders for pounds 27 hour. £4. 27. Nurseries and childminders for pounds 27 hour. £4. 27. The other thing is i bet you if you or i volunteered to be teachers and we would both be bloody good, in a nursery for a day a week, they would. The trouble with means testing if it costs more to means testing if it costs more to means test than to pay people out almost. I know why it was a universal benefit, lots of these universal benefits have been good since the end of the war, but we cannot afford for middle classes to be getting the amount of money out of the state, including me. Very quickly, one last one, the sunday telegraph front page, a picture of a smiling couple 70 years married. What do you think . Ask her, she is a royalist i am not i think the queen has done a brilliantjob. Not i think the queen has done a brilliant job. One of not i think the queen has done a brilliantjob. One of the brilliant jobsis brilliantjob. One of the brilliant jobs is she and the duke of edinburgh have stayed married for 17 years. That is an achievement. But lots of other couples do. Not as many as they used to. That generation. Will see of the next generation. Will see of the next generation can keep it up. They cant, they went thank you very much. They wont. Thats it for the papers this hour