in trafalgar square. i reckon this year s is better. feels a bit sort of plumper around the waist, which seems to be the more classic, conical christmas tree shape. anyway, that s about as much analysis as anyone wants on my christmas tree. the problem is, though, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, his visits are getting earlier every year. so you missed him last week. so, he s not here to hear that praise, which he ll be desperate to hear, no doubt. yeah. anyway, let s see what we ve got in store on this episode of newscast. hello, it s adam in the studio. and it s chris in the studio. and keeping us company this week are ayesha hazarika from times radio and former labour adviser. hello. hello, hello. do you have a christmas tree? i do. is it girthy? it s plump and full of girth! glad to hear. and also here is will waldon, who s former director of communications for borisjohnson. hello again. hello, everyone. hi, adam? and also when boris was mayor of london. so did you ever h
56 hours until the polls open with a leader is campaigning for every single one of your votes, but what is really going on behind the scenes? welcome to newsnight, for your nightly interviews and insight. and we will bring both to you on the week when you decide who s going to run our country for the next five years. tonight, we have the man who compiles the exit poll which you will see at 10pm this thursday on the bbc one election programme, professor sirjohn curtice. that should give you us, we hope the first accurate forecast of the election result. we also we have harriet harman, former labour minister, former labour deputy leader and an mp for over a0 years, standing down this time. and we have sir craig oliver, former director of communications for prime minister david cameron. welcome. and nick is here as always. cards on the table, i m after numbers, sir craig oliver, what would be a best and worst case scenario for the conservatives politically this thursday? the
of prime ministerial debate also on the bbc, a week on a week tomorrow, a week on wednesday. so, yeah. i kind of feel like. i ve got that in my phone on the wrong day. 0h, have you.? i thought it was on the friday. yeah. no, there is going to be something i think on the friday too, a week on friday. so, yeah, that s kind of the vibe. that s kind of the vibe i think at the moment. i m going to call this the champagne problems period. oh, yeah? because that s the halfway point on the on the set list for taylor swift s eras tour. is that right? halfway through the concert. right, well, there you go. i think that s entirely zeitgeisty and appropriate and very adam, yeah. right, let s see what else we can shoehorn into this episode of newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s adam in the studio. and it s chris in the studio. face to face, you re not in the back of a train. so i ve spoken to you on a train, in a car and a pub garden, in a car park. yes. and then there s the boat
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sonia sodha, chief leader writer at the observer and tom newton dunn, chief political commentator with times radio. welcome back to you both. so let s start with some of the pages we already have. the metro writes that the eu has threatened to take life saving covid jabs bound for britain after blaming the uk for what it calls the continent s creaking vaccination rollout . the financial times also leads on the vaccine roll out, writing that the nhs s targets are in peril after a significant reduction in supplies. the telegraph adds that vaccine shortages mean that no more first appointments for covid jabs will be booked in april as supplies arriving in britain continue to be disrupted. the times adds that a fall in provision from astrazeneca is understood to be the reason why very few people will receive their first doses next month. the guardian writes that people under