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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are chief executive of the think tank new economics foundation and former labour adviser, miatta fahnbulleh and whitehall editor at the financial times sebastian payne. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. let s start with the guardian it says boris johnson is facing accusations of lying, after leaked footage, obtained by itv, showed number 10 staffjoking about holding a christmas party, amid the lockdown restrictions last year. the same story makes the front page of the daily mail, which calls it a sick joke . according to the mirror, the education secretary, gavin williamson, also held a christmas party last year for staff, despite covid rules. it s beginning to look a lot like last christmas. that s the headline in the i which reports on a predicted 80,000 cases of 0micron and delta daily, towards the end of december. according to the telegraph, the government is d ....
series we can be sure of. patrick gearey, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s matt taylor. we saw a page of storm barra earlier, how bad will it be? we saw a bit of thankfully not as bad as storm arwen, but conditions deteriorate, as we have seen in blackpool. forsome deteriorate, as we have seen in blackpool. for some we could see snow and even pollutants on the hills. let me show you the satellite imagery of storm barra, this massive hook of cloud is quite impressive from space but it is the tell tale sign of a potent storm, bringing some of the worst conditions into the south west of ireland. the northern portion of the irish sea into eastern scotland could have impact. widespread gales developing through the rest of today, it extends into the north east of scotland later. we could see some snow, the north pennines across the hills of scotland looking miserable on the 7a and the upper reaches. on the 7a and the upper reaches. on the 7a and the u ....
of failings in the years leading up to the grenfell tower disaster, and says it s deeply sorry. your employment here is terminated, effective immediately. and if you ve joined this zoom call, you re fired. the boss of an american firm sacks 900 of his staff in one go online. good evening and welcome to bbc news. dysfunctional and chaotic that s the damning verdict of a foreign office whistleblower on the way it handled the evacuation of people from afghanistan after the taliban took over in august. raphael marshall, who resigned from hisjob in september, has told a committee of mps it s clear some of those left behind have since been murdered by the taliban. he says thousands of emails pleading for british help went unread, and that the foreign secretary at the time dominic raab was slow to make decisions. mr raab has denied the claims. this afternoon, the committee also heard evidence from the most senior civil servant at the foreign office, who said he regrets bei ....
labour calls the latest revelations shameful. they are treating the public with contempt. the prime minister needs to step up, accept what happened, and apologized. unfortunately we have but a prime minister who is socially distanced from the truth. the government defends itself after a whistle blower claims its evacuation of people from afghanistan was chaotic and dysfunctional. of course, sometimes decisions took hours longer than we wanted to, but you know you have to be careful about how you do it. but it was still an astonishing thing to get 15,000 people good evening and welcome. itv news has obtained footage tonight of senior downing street aides apparentlyjoking about the christmas gathering at the centre of a row over whether downing street staff broke lockdown rules last year. the footage was reportedly filmed as part of preparations for televised briefings which were subsequently abandoned. the labour leader kier starmer this evening called the latest devel ....
scotland to move towards staying at home for people who can as we move into the christmas period. and predictions that we could be seeing about 80,000 cases of both delta and omicron as we go into the christmas period. there is definitely a sense that we all desperately hope that the pandemic is behind us, that it s definitely not. i think the big question, the big unknown is we know cases are rising, we know that infection rates are going to be high, looks like omicron is far more infection than delta. but we still don t have a sense of what its impact will be on serious disease, hospitalisation and death. i think thatis hospitalisation and death. i think that is the key thing and that will be the thing that moves and drives the government. i do think they probably need to be taking some precautionary measures. and potentially asking people to work from home again. it should be something that s on the table but i think all of our hearts are sinking. on the front of the ....