and a flypast over central london marks the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain, following a memorial service at westminster abbey. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me tonight — the political commentator and former conservative party press chief, giles kenningham — and the chief executive of the think tank, demos, polly mackenzie. hello and great to have you back. a quick look through some of the front pages, the telegraph is reporting a government warning that britain is in the last chance to avoid tougher lockdown measures. the paper also features a picture of her flying officers losing the battle of britain memorial window at westminster abbey. the service marking the 80th anniversary taking place today. the metro says england's chief medical officer chris whitty is expected to stay at a news conference in the morning that the nation is heading in the wrong direction as concern mounts over a second wave of virus infections. the mirror says tomorrow's news conference will also contain a warning that the country faces a very challenging winter ahead. the guardian meanwhile reports that london could become the latest area to get regional restrictions for the cities mirror meeting council metres tomorrow to discuss the situation before making recommendations to ministers. the express follows the same theme, saying the government is looking at the worsening data to see how to manage the spread of the virus in the months ahead. and the times reports on the warning from downing street that the country could face very difficult new restrictions for six months and the ft says that chancellor rishi sunak is to extend the treasury's uk wide programme of business support as ministers raise to cushion the economy from the challenging months ahead. so, giles, polly, great to have you back. let's dive straight in. giles you are going to take us to the front page of the times, please. covid curves will left —— last for six month. yes, this figure of six months is clearly a big offensive from the government to try and shock people into better behaviour to actually observe social distancing. the times is a catchall splash. it says that certain tory mps are possibly looking out rebelling and saying if there is going to be a second lockdown, it has to be passed through parliament, and the times also talking about tiresias you not —— receipt soon act is also significant to a second lockdown, and the hospitality centre and a figure knocking around today saying it's the second lockdown will be 1 millionjobs. it also it's the second lockdown will be 1 million jobs. it also sort of talks about everything hanging in the balance, everything is on the table, and it says, you know, matt hancock is not resisting a second lockdown. certainly everything upward from inside government is that boris johnson wants to resist, he either is against it. they are hoping that this address from whitty tomorrow will bring people into line. they are saying that everything is heading in the wrong direction. if you look at places like france and spain, there was a low in infections and death rates and it's picked up again, ithink and death rates and it's picked up again, i think the fear is that we are following a similar pattern. do you think that will bring people into line, polly? i think it's really unlikely to come as much as i admire our chief medical officer and chief adviser, it's not exactly blockbuster stuff that's going to just somehow bulldoze its way into everybody's minds. people have had months and months of this, changing regulations, changing restrictions, rule of six that hardly anyone can remember, if it's supposed to be indoors or outdoors, whether it qualifies, meanwhile, the government is telling us to go out to eat and to go back to work if we possibly can into get on buses. i think the idea that a single press conference or even, you know, this what giles says is a concerted effort to try and push us in that direction, it just ignores the last few months of history where they have been trying to tell us that this is over, and borisjohnson has to tell us that this is over, and boris johnson has been to tell us that this is over, and borisjohnson has been trying to tell us in his classic fantastic optimistic way that we can alljust all my —— go back to life as it was committed in the times think it's going to last for six months or of course, it could last longer. that is not actually news. back in march, april, may, sage coverthe government where producing grievances that talked about lockdowns being on again off again for a period of 12 even 18 months come 18 months will take us to this time next year. so it's only because they themselves have talked down the risk that we are in this situation where they are having to talk it up again and remind us that this is not in fact over. record to come as a return to the metro, as polly said it's not news to us and it's already been hurting. yes, this sends that we are at a tipping point, it's a similar theme across all of the papers, they are going to say that britain is heading in the wrong direction tomorrow. i think it's interesting that the scientists come if you take the politics out of this, as we know, there are splits with the government about you know, what is the right sense of direction about how we should deal with this. this is all eyes on this 11am press conference tomorrow to sort of see what happens come about you know permit certainly feels like this is the last throw of the dice to try to get people to fall into line. when you look at the front page of the guardian, the paper literally saying that london could become the latest area to get regional restrictions, certainly, pauly, sadiq khan says he'd rather do it sooner rather than later. you come up sadiq khan has been talking publicly about the fact that he has only recently had any contact with government prior to that he hadn't heard from them since may which seems surprising and disappointing, given that london was so disappointing, given that london was so badly affected in the first wave of this, and seem to be keeping numbers down whilst we saw those outbreaks in leicester, for example, in the northwest. but what's troubling is that those lockdowns especially in the northwest, don't seem especially in the northwest, don't seem to have worked effectively to suppress numbers, and i think we need to get to the bottom of that. it's a need to get to the bottom of that. it'sa reminder need to get to the bottom of that. it's a reminder that local lockdowns are not you know, let'sjust lockdown sick streets and a shop, it is huge numbers of people, i think, you know, london is eight or 9 million people, that would take us up million people, that would take us up to you know, pretty much 20 million people, third of the population in some kind of lockdown. again, that reminds us that this is not over, it's going to be tough, it's going to be grueling and all of that summed up that we had through the summer was just a that summed up that we had through the summer wasjust a little bit too early. giles before we leave the guardian behind, if the mayor does say i'm going to place these measures in place, seeing as it's a london, it's a key location, do you think that could force the primitive stress and 7 think that could force the primitive stress and? that's a difficult one, isn't itmcclendon is seen as the economic powerhouse of the country. the prime minister and governor are very keen to try to get people back to work, get them back to normal. as isaid,i to work, get them back to normal. as i said, i think this is kind of the last thing the prime minister wants to do. obviously, i live in london, i have been struck by the different approaches of the hospitality sector, parts of it are adhering to social distancing, but some places i've been to, they really haven't been, so it's parts outside of london that i've noticed i've been a lot more diligent and strict, it would cause a huge dilemma for the prime ministers. polly, let's turn to the front page of the daily mail, uk care homes testing. max of the male has done an investigation with ca re male has done an investigation with care home providers about their experience of tests and some shocking examples of swabs, for example not being collected by careers on time. so hundreds of swabs having to be thrown away, but most importantly, that tests and huge numbers of cases are just not coming back quickly enough. the key thing is if you have a worker with a cough or a fever who you want them to get tested, obviously, you send them home with those symptoms, they can't work, but if you can't get them tested and confirmed, it is that a coronavirus case, so they need to stafford for two weeks and do more testing within the care home. or is it in ordinary seasonal cold? if you don't know quickly, you cannot contain the spread of this virus. we have to get tested and traced working. we have to get the syste m traced working. we have to get the system you know, as giles says, hospitality venues are now required to collect your data —— data, and yet it's not happening systematically and even the system that's being used for that is not fully operational. so it's the sharpest experience, of course, with ca re sharpest experience, of course, with care homes, because the people within care homes are so much more vulnerable. nevertheless, it does seem vulnerable. nevertheless, it does seem that we haven't learned the lessons of the first wave the pandemic which we know hits care home so hard. giles, can you take us to the front page of the ft, rishi sunak is spending more money. yeah, so the ft‘s report is going to extend the government's business support loans came to the end of november, a number of these different schemes were due to and this month. so, yeah, once again, you know, he is watching those checks which are, as you know from all finding good come at point, we are going to going to have to pay for this come at some point, we are going to have to pay for this, but, iam going to have to pay for this, but, i am acutely aware that a million jobs could go in the hospitality sector. also one of the things fts reports is that the banks need to administer some of those loans. in the banks are taking quite a long time, in some cases, they weren't even quick enough, so smes are going to the wall, but clearly, it's pulling out all the stops. the question will become next year, is how are we going to paper this? which taxes are going to rise? very quickly, pauly, thoughts on that? texas were going to have to write —— rise before this anyway, that conversation is important, but it's not the most urgent one. i think it's great news that rishi sunak is extending the business support loan. associated there will be any extension it seems for furlough, evenif extension it seems for furlough, even if there are closures on specific sectors. we know theatres are still basically closed as well and no special protections for them. 0k, and no special protections for them. ok, the french page of the daily telegraph, you know, we have been talking about re—setting on the growth or the spread of covid—19. the prince of wales once a great reset on the climate, giles? he is saying that the climate change emergency will actually be much bigger than the covert pandemic. he is saying the covid pandemic should act as a wake—up call or warning that we need to do something about climate change. obviously it's close to his hearts, an issue he's very passionate about and spoken about in the postman to be there, has been proven to be right on this. interesting timing around the speech. of course, you got to look at it during covid. there was a reduction in carbon emissions, there was a reduction in greenhouse gases and people weren't driving everywhere. people weren't flying on planes, so there was a short reduction in people's carbon footprints and teasing, we are going to have to fundamentally rethink the way we are doing things. they were speaking to some people in the car and manufacturing sector in saying that post covid and during covert, more people are using their cars instead of when going back toward because of the fear of public transport. that states us quite nicely back to the front page of the times, ego friendly cars overtake diesel. yes, one piece of good news, though we know there has been a lot of controversy around diesel cars in particular, and the particular matter of air pollution that gets into our lungs matter of air pollution that gets into ourlungs and matter of air pollution that gets into our lungs and can really trouble people with breathing disorders, asthma, copd. so it's great to see that diesel is reducing as its proportion of new sales. the problem is that so many of our cars are old. five years old, ten years old, some obviously much older than that. that means it takes a really long time for us to transition a stock from one kind to another, even if the sales of new cars are changing dramatically. the key thing is for us to accelerate that as much as possible. the uk has taken quite an aggressive stance on the shift to electric and ultra low carbon vehicles, and that's welcome. absolutely, we need some good news. 0k, absolutely, we need some good news. ok, thank you very much. we are going to end there. thank you giles kenningham and polly mackenzie. next on bbc news, it's the film review. good evening. i hope you have a lot —— lovely week ahead. bye—bye. hello, and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home. last year, the british feature rocks, which boasts an ensemble cast of brilliant young screen newcomers, played to rapturous applause at the london film festival. now it's opening in uk cinemas.
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