24/05/2014 The Papers

end to the crisis in Syria at the start of a three`day tour to the

Middle`East, which will also take in the West Bank and Israel.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what The Papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me are Yasmin Alibhai`Brown, columnist from the

Independent and Martin Bentham from the London Evening Standard.

The Observer claims that the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, will use his

party's success in this week's local elections to draw up a list of 20

parliamentary seats to target at next year's general election. The

Independent on Sunday's front page gives coverage to calls for Nick

Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, to stand down.

ongoing row over Prince Charles' ongoing row over Prince Charles'

comments about Russia's President Vladimir Putin. The Sunday Times

leads on a story about calls from some Conservative MPs for an early

referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. And the Mail on Sunday

devotes its entire front page to a picture of the man suspected of

killing six people in a series of drive`by shootings. They express

also covers the shooting but its main story relates to the rising

value of the pound, which experts say is good news for British

holiday`makers. We will begin with the Observer. Triumphant UKIP draws

up a hit list of 20 key seats to storm Commons. We should not be

surprised about this? I just wish we would keep our heads and keep some

proportion. Of course they are high. I don't think it will be 20,

myself. But they will attempt to get people into Parliament. The whole

personality of Nigel Farage at the personality of Nigel Farage at the

moment. He is the face. Finding even 15 equivalent people, I hope they

will. You hope they will? If they want to do it, let them do it. You

are not a fan of UKIP? Let them fight the election, but the mistake

is to make them the centre of the story, which they have been for over

two months. Keep our heads. Even the council elections, they got a small

proportion of the thousands of seats. Is there a durability of this

interest in UKIP and will they attract enough people to stand in

these seats? I am sure they will attract enough people to stand, but

whether they get the seats, is a different issue. For the next year,

they are going to be on everybody's mind. All of the political parties

and we have seen that in all the papers. People across Westminster

and across the country in political parties will be reacting to what

they see the UKIP threat to be in their particular policy areas and

trying to counter it. They are worried about them taking a few

thousand votes. It will be a problem for each party in certain seats. It.

The main parties being dismissive of UKIP? They should not be dismissive

of them, but also we should not be obsessed that the only way forward

is to imitate UKIP. It is part of the Democratic competition. But for

me it is the Tea Party moment. Remember the Tea Party in America,

it is exactly like this. Showing up the other established parties,

unnerving them. But they are part of the republican movement? No, they

have done what UKIP have done with the Tories. They have said, we are

the new kids on the block, where are they now? What UKIP does do, and it

is part of the Democratic rosettes, there has been an attempt to shut

them down saying they are saying racist things and people don't like

and trying to shout them down. That is what parties have got to take

notice of. They have attracted 17% of the vote in this election. They

are attracting support. Why that is, is something all of the parties have

got to think about and respond to it. We have had this in the past

because Labour in the last election admitted they did not address the

immigration argument. I don't agree with you that they have had no

access through the media. They have had disproportionate access. I did

not mean in the media. The media has helped them. If I was in the Green

Party, I would be upset over the media attention they have got. To

say they have not been treated fairly by the media is false. I was

talking about the idea that when you get a party coming from the margins

and they take some hardline positions, like in this case,

immigration. There is a tendency to shout them down and said they are

saying things unacceptable. But that does not resonate with a lot of

people in the country who think, they are talking about things in the

country we want to talk about and not being talked about sufficiently

by the mainstream parties. Let's have a look at those other parties

who have had their noses bloodied. They haven't. That is just a cliche

that we use. Lib Dems in a bid to oust Mr Clegg. How safe is his

position? Who else would there be? There is talk about Vince Cable. But

the Lib Dems have to be frank with a disastrous scenario looming. For any

credit the coalition gets from voters for bringing the economy

round, if people take that view, that will go to the Tories and not

the Lib Dems, I suspect. Those Lib Dem supporters who were attracted to

them being to the left of Labour are now in Peoria ate at. They are

losing either way. Nick Clegg did not keep his pledge on tuition fees,

which was a catastrophic mistake on his part. It is what they had to

show to their supporters. I remember Nick Clegg in the first debate in

the last election. Everybody responded to him like they are

responding to Nigel Farage. He was new and not part of the

establishment. These things are appealing for a little while. I

don't know what will happen if the results for the Lib Dems carry on

being as bad as they are. I have one off them, like many other people,

but I did respect Nick Clegg for doing those debates because it was

brave to come up with powerful arguments to stay in Europe. I did

add my VAT. This is the response from the Lib Dems. Their spokesman

has said these concerns about the results should be taken seriously

but the party should not have its message distorted by needless

infighting. After every difficult election, some colleagues will have

concerns that should referring to the leadership. He goes on to say we

knew these elections would be tough and it is always disappointing when

councillors lose their seats. Now is the time to get our message across

and shout what we are doing in government. The needless infighting

is the eye`opener and tells the story of all the parties. Every

party now, over the next year will be thinking about what their

position is, how they will respond. You have the stories about labour

and Ed Miliband and so on. Tonight you have the Lib Dems talking about

Nick Clegg. And then the focus on the Tories on what they should be

doing. Every party is worried about their leadership. Let's have a look

at what they might be doing in the Sunday Times. Tories press PM to

call an early EU vote. What the parties should do is come together

against the divisive politics of Nigel Farage. It is important. I

wish we had had an early referendum. Before 2015? Yes. It has

created this mood that people are not asked about this important

decision. The last time they were asked was 1975 after we had already

joined. I do in `` understand that feeling. What should the question

be? Should it be in, should we be out? David Cameron is right by

saying we need to have something to vote on. He wants to have a

renegotiation. What we should have had a vote on is Lisbon in the last

treaty when there is something substantial to vote on. We haven't

had those votes and that has created pressure for a new vote. There could

be three options, in, out, stay in and reform. Let's move on to

something other than the elections. The Sunday Telegraph. President

Putin hits back at Prince Charles. It is a conversation Prince Charles

thought he was having in private. But you're never with a microphone.

Vladimir Putin suggesting it was an acceptable and not very royal in his

behaviour for Prince Charles to have compared him with Adolf Hitler. Hot

water again for the Prince of Wales? President Putin has regally

dismissed him. He has said, he is a well brought up person. So pay with

a withering dismissal. I can understand the anger. How can you

say this when 26 Russians died in the Second World War. Million.

Million, sorry yes. We were never taught this at school about what

happened. So not to remember that was unfortunate. President Putin is

hitting back here, but it is in response to questions he was asked

and it does appear he is not trying to inflame the situation, he is

trying to play it down by saying Prince Charles knows he should have

known better. He is a bit like Prince Philip. Perhaps been too many

moments from him. The Observer, fair trade goods not helping the poor.

That would be upsetting for people who seek out fair trade products.

I was born in Uganda and I make it my business to support businesses

from that region. I think people are happy to pay more for fair trade

products. Unfortunately we do not have the rest of the story because

he cannot see the explanation. This is regarding wider wages are lower.

It is apparently taking the same equivalent type of production of the

same products and coming up with this conclusion. This is an economic

professor at University of London who has said it has not improved the

lives of workers. We will try and get statistics for the next hour. We

will be back again for moral look `` for a look at The Papers. The

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