03/05/2014 The Papers

Coming up, we review Louis Ruin, Pompeii and Bad Neighbours. That's

on BBC News. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Nigel Nelson, Political Editor of the Sunday People and

writer and political commentator Jo Philips. Quite feisty tonight,

behind`the`scenes, don't be fooled. Tomorrow's front pages. The

Independent on Sunday is dominated by an image from the continuing

violence in Ukraine. The paper's main story is a claim by the head

teachers union that pupils at a free school "learn't nothing for a whole

term". The Sunday Telegraph says David Cameron has appointed his

senior adviser to lead a new drive for compensation for British victims

of IRA terrorism. More than 30 Labour parliamentary candidates have

written to the Observer calling on Ed Miliband to support

renationalising the rail network. According to the Mail on Sunday, the

Labour leader is planning a crackdown on drinking, smoking and

junk food if he wins the general election. The Sunday Express leads

with the news that a BA steward has been found dead after a landing that

the paper says left the entire cabin crew unfit to fly. The Sunday Times

quotes a top cancer doctor who's calling for cutting`edge treatments

to be rationed for the very elderly in favour of younger patients. The

paper also reports that David Cameron is willing to take part in a

televised debate with UKIP's Nigel Farage ahead of next year's general

election. Finally, the Sunday Herald has become the first newspaper to

publicly back a Yes vote in the Scottish independence referendum.

Let's begin with the times. The idea that the PM may be happy to take on

Nigel Farage in a heated debate. Nigel, this wouldn't be this year,

in advance of the European elections. If this it was unlikely

David Cameron would get out of not doing this. At some point, he would

have to have this debate. According to the paper, people do it on a 235

debate. The first debate with Ed Miliband on his own as a prospective

other PM. Second debate you add Nick Clegg to the mix and in the third

debate, the five, you add Nigel Farage and the Green Party eater

Natalie Bennett. That is the way he envisages doing it. It sounds like a

football team formation. Itself like they are watching match of the day.

I wonder who will relish this the most. Probably not the viewers. It

sounds a terribly unwieldy way to do it. The debates were great last time

around. Listening to people talking about them on buses and trains and

in offices, they captured the public imagination in a way that I think

sadly, newspapers often fail. People felt there was something real. They

like that sort of thing. It is new to us, isn't it? It is. We haven't

got as slick as the Americans have it. By the time you get to five

people, from a TV point of view, it would be ghastly. Unless you do it

like the Americans do, where you have a time limit. There are all

sorts of ways of doing it. Just because David Cameron wants it done

that way, it doesn't mean it will be done that way. Ed Miliband will have

something to say about this. I'm not sure he will want to have Nigel

Farage on. Who knows? You probably cannot exclude him. There will

possibly be some way of bringing him in. If they do as well as the polls

predicting the European elections. On the basis of that, it would be

absurd not to have someone with the most European MPs debating in a

general election when they are fielding general election

candidate. One of our correspondence have spoken to the conservatives who

say this is not what the Times is suggesting, saying that nothing has

moved as far as they are aware and that the PM has said publicly and

privately he welcomes a return to TV debates, discussions about

details... As I just said. Just as you said. I wanted to say we have

spoken to them and the Conservatives say this is not nailed down. It is

up to negotiation. It is about who is chairing and who is casting.

Stone because BBC and Sky News. Everyone had to have a go. I don't

think it will be, got to view telly. Don't you think Nigel Farage

would be box office? Accent he would. On things like that, often

they perform in a way you would not expect. `` I think he would. People

didn't expect it to happen last. A source close to the PM confirms they

are prepared to consider a range of lineups including Nigel Farage. You

could say Bruce Forsyth ought Jeremy Parnell, couldn't you? If they mind

their manners. Let's move on to the sun Herald. We have a request on

social media that we include this `` the Sun. It's not often you get a

chance to look at this paper. They are saying yes. It is the first

newspaper coming out publicly to back the Scottish Independence

referendum, and we hear that the editor of the newspaper, as all

newspapers in this group have done, they have been given their free

choice as to whether they do or don't back it or whether they stay

impartial. Isn't it a stunning? You would put that in a frame. It is

really beautifully designed cover. Or in a window. A very significant

moment for the SNP and for the. You can ask us anything you like because

we can tell you when it started publishing. The longest running

national newspaper in the world, two years before the times in 1783 ``

are significant moment for the SNP. How significant will it be that this

newspaper, or any for that matter, nails its colours to the mast? The

significance is the editorial inside. It is something we need to

learn in Westminster and Whitehall. Our politicians are getting the

argument wrong. In Scotland, which is what the paper will make

tomorrow, this is an emotional argument about the future of

children, about the idea of governing the country through its

citizens. That is an emotional thing. We bang on about things like

the pound, tactical issues, North Sea oil, and whether Scotland can be

part of Europe. Whereas, the Scots are talking about whether they like

the idea of independence. What the paper is suggesting is that they do.

It is likely them that the yes vote could carry. If you make an

emotional argument, rather than a practical one, it could win. Don't

you think this is where the and have got it so wrong? Everytime they have

come up with something that is, vote for independence or there will be no

break in Scotland. If they concentrated on the negatives or

what will happen, rather than the positives of staying put. Yes,

exactly. They have welded people in Scotland together. There is nothing

so bloody`minded as the Scot. You mean it in a good way to split I do

mean it in a good way. There is great political literacy in

Scotland. There is a much more open discussion. It is much less tribal.

People are Scottish first and party tribal second. I think this is

interesting. It is interesting that a newspaper like this could have

such an influence. It is spectacular to come out now. It is the first

newspaper to publicly back the vote. It is not a surprise. Other

newspapers haven't come down one side or another. I wonder if more

will? As we get closer to September and the referendum, I would be

surprised if newspapers didn't when that happens. This will take the

debate one stage forward. It is important that people in London

understand where the Scots are coming from in this paper helps. The

Sun on Sunday is where we will go. They have commissioned a poll from

you Government, asking what people think of Ukip and apparently a lot

of people think they have become a magnet form racists and its `` You

Gov. They don't think the party itself is racist. It is a

fascinating poll and as you said, six out of ten people think that you

get is packed with extremists. They are prepared to desert mainstream

parties to vote for UKIP. We have said that UKIP is likely to win the

European elections at the end of the month. What is interesting is that

it isn't that they love UKIP, they actually don't like the other

parties. There are lots of parties they do like. If someone could pull

all of these things together, they would win all of the elections. UKIP

tops the poll with 29% support for the European elections. If Britain

went for a hung parliament, most people would prefer a labour, Lib

Dem Alliance around. Although the Conservatives got a lead of the

economy and David Cameron is seen as the person most suited to be PM, Ed

Miliband is seen as most in touch with people. As you say, there are

some helpful ingredients. What it shows is that those people who will

vote for UKIP, will be a protest vote. It is not that they think UKIP

are not racist, they obviously do, they just don't care that they are

racist. On that basis, it doesn't matter what the party stands for,

they want someone else to vote for a part from the main three parties.

Only in these elections, not in the general election. It will give UKIP

a bigger platform when it comes to things like that. It will. Lets move

on bring rail under state's control, this is more than 30 of Ed

Miliband's Labour Party parliamentary candidate calling for

a bold new policy to improve rail services. I wonder if you will groan

when you read this that they have gone to the papers. We were

discussing this. I think this is a briefing. I think the Labour Party

have given the Observer this story. Nigel doesn't agree with me. I think

it is testing the waters with the electorate. Obviously, anything that

paints at band as red, likely to send a fear into a swathe of the

population at the thought of nationalisation, which in the mind

of some means strikes and walk out and curled up British rail

sandwiches and the rest of it, which Ed Balls is aware of the dangers

of, there are a lot of commuter belt votes that will make a huge

difference and people are fed up with chaotic rail services,

expensive rail services. You don't think it is a plant? I don't,

because this is a letter to the paper from the candidates. There is

a bit of a plot for them to get together in the first place to write

the letter. It would appear that this is a growing idea with the

Labour Party. What we didn't know at the last newspaper review, which we

do now, is that John Paskin is writing in the mirror tomorrow, and

he is talking about nationalising public services. It seems to be

something labour is talking about. The danger is that the Tories will

come back and say that is the old Labour Party. Lets look at the Mail

on is under. Read Ed, which is what you said, we will force you to get

fit `` Red Ed. It does sound puritanical, that you won't be able

to drink or smoke or eat anything healthy, which is grist to the mail

mill. People don't like being told what to do this is a good test for

Ed Miliband. This is a story of extreme proportions. Most of the

proposals actually make sense. If it means there is going to be busloads

of inspectors coming to check your food cupboards, then obviously that

is ludicrous. If there are lots of public pounds being spent on

employing people to come up with ridiculous notions, he has a very

low pain, to get people more active in ten years. In the next ten weeks

wouldn't be a bad idea. But most of this is sensible. It is how you go

about doing it. And those cultural habits are difficult to change. I

don't think he is talking about this. We are talking about things

that have been around before. Young people don't drink quite so much if

you do that. We don't even know if they are going to do that. That is

the papers for tonight. Thank you. It has been a long time. Stay with

us on BBC News. Much more on the situation in Ukraine. I want to

bring you some breaking news before we go. Police investigating

allegations of malicious communications following the death

of a teacher, Ann McGuire, have arrested a 42`year`old man. The

police have said that the man, from Wales, was arrested and remains in

custody. Police have charged a man with malicious communications as

well, Jake Newsome, 21 years old, from Leeds, has been bailed, to

appear before the Magistrates' Court in Leeds on Wednesday the week after

next. A couple of instances of malicious communications. More

details and we get them. Time now for the Film