26/05/2014 The Papers

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in 15 minutes after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

journalist and blogger Susie Boniface, aka the Fleet Street Fox,

and Kiran Stacey, political correspondent for the Financial

Times. Good evening to you both. Before we speak to them let's have a

preview of the front pages. The Financial Times says David Cameron

has embarked on a diplomatic offensive to persuade European

leaders to change course on the EU. There is Nigel Farage, pictured with

an empty pint glass on his head during celebrations, that's in The

Telegraph. It reports business leaders are calling for a new deal

with Europe. The Guardian pictures Nick Clegg and

questions whether he is leading the Liberal Democrats to a wipe`out.

The Times reports UKIP is step up its assault on Labour's heartlands.

The Scotsman says recriminations flew after UKIP won its first

European seat in Scotland. Finally The Express offers seven

golden rules to help people fight Alzheimer's.

There is some other news on the front pages tomorrow but they're

dominated by the fallout of the European elections. Good evening to

you both. Let's start with The Guardian. It focuses there on a very

pale`faced, red`eyed rather depressed looking Nick Clegg. That's

a snap taken during interviews he did today with political

correspondents, including our own Vicky Young. It was an honest,

upfront interview but refusing to go. More pressure seems to be on

according to a poll they've got their hands on. Yeah, the Lib Dems I

think have said this poll, they're denying it's not true, but the poll

says that Nick Clegg could lose his seat in the next general election

which is astonishing, it's been Liberal Democrat for a long time,

Tory before that. What's interesting more than anything else is the issue

about Nick Clegg refusing to go, how long is he going to refuse to go?

How long can he keep saying, no, I am not going to go, everything is

fine, stop asking me. It becomes a self`fulfilling prophecy and he

becomes more of a loser than he looks today. If he can turn it

around tomorrow he can survive it. If this continues for a few days...

Presumably he can keep saying that until a senior member of his party

says it's time to go? Nobody senior has come out. That's really

important actually. You have people like Tim Farron, the party

President, he is the man the grass roots look to for moral guidance a

lot of the time. He has defended Nick Clegg very quickly. He has

right on the front foot and said this is our man. Clegg is being

protected by a couple of things, there is only a year to go to the

election so most candidates would rather wait until after 2015 if

they're going to step in at all. The only one who might step in as an

interim is Vince Cable who obviously has a lot of popularity and a

personality and a public persona of his own, he is in China at the

moment, you can read into that what you want. He is not back here

plotting. I have been speaking to some of the people who are

disgruntled with Nick Clegg in the party itself. They say part of the

problem is there is a reshuffle coming up. There is a lot of people

sitting on their hands thinking I might get a Ministerial job for the

last few months of Government, let's ride this out. But if these polls

turn out to be true, The Guardian has this poll suggesting four

well`known Lib Dems, including Nick Clegg, might get beaten heavily in

the next general election, if more MPs start thinking I might lose my

seat here, we have no other option, we have to get rid of him, then the

pressure is going to mount for senior people to say, sorry, we did

back you, but now the rest of the party changed its mind. Even if you

don't just treat it as a way of MPs playing the numbers and deciding

what's best for themselves, it's almost indisputable in the country

most people you talk to saying Nick Clegg is toxic as far as most voters

are concerneden you have to dump him, be `` are concerned and you

have to dump him and be ruthless at some point. The Liberal Democrats

have come out talking in response to that article. A spokesman has told

the BBC, we have no idea where this polling comes from but it's been

commissioned and leaked for political purposes. It bears no

relation to the result we saw on Thursday where the Liberal Democrats

secured 38. 7% of the vote across Sheffield Hallam. That was obviously

ahead of Labour and the Conservatives. Let's move on. There

is a headline that one senior politician, namely our Prime

Minister, might be pleased to read tomorrow, because this is a message

that he has been trying to get through today, all day, that he has

heard the message on the EU. The headline in the Financial Times:

Cameron urges EU leaders to change tack after populist route. We are

getting some insight into how David Cameron is going to handle this. ? A

lot of ways the result wams really good for David Cameron. `` was

really good for David Cameron. It would have beaten Labour into second

had it not been for what happened in London. And what's happened in

Brussels is that you have a load of Eurosceptic parties come in and

there will be a lot of other national leaders now no longer going

to Brussels saying David Cameron why are you asking for all these powers

back, what are you talking about? Now they know because they've got it

in their own country, they're having to deal with a similar rise in

Euroscept sichl so they're more likely to be on board when he says

we need to change freedom of movement. He is going to be under

pressure to bring the referendum forward though. He said 2017. He can

hold that line. What he is going to be under prepressure on is how much

is he going to be able to renegotiate. It starts tomorrow. The

first bit of the renegotiation, not really part of the renegotiation but

him trying to change Brussels is he doesn't want a man called Jean

Claude, lined up to be head of the commission which is the most

powerful body in Brussels. He is pro`federalist, pro`EU this man. The

Brits don't like him very much. Now can Cameron go around the key people

and Angela Merkel being the key, of course, and convince her not to back

this man for the job? Actually, our reporters are suggesting that she's

already made her mind up and she will back him. Now if that happens

that suggests that maybe David Cameron isn't succeeding as much as

he might want to in winning his battles in Brussels which are going

to be absolutely key for him. Let's move on to the Daily Telegraph cos

we have found out a bit more about Nigel Farage thanks to his wife? The

political correspondent in the Telegraph. This is interesting,

putting flesh on the bones of the man we know as the kind of person

who has his photograph taken in the pub with a pint glass on his head.

He should tip it upside down, if he is doing it properly. Somebody has

managed to buttonhole his wife and get some in formation out of her.

She says he is computer literate. Smokes and drinks too much and does

not eat properly. Considering the number of young dads who have a big

thing of being photographed with their children and doing the school

runs, she says there is not much time for family life that we watch

him on the television when we want to see him. I am not sure he will be

upset about that will stop man of upset about that will stop man of

the people. His supporters are a lot older than that of other parties.

You don't want to see your children, you want to see them when

they have grown up a bit. There are other stories in tomorrow's papers.

Let's move on to the times. Picture of Nigel Farage again on the front

page. The story to the right hand side will stop two thirds of convict

sons face a life of crime. Research has suggested. This does not

surprise me because your parents are surprise me because your parents are

your ears. You learn how to get through life from your parents. They

say they have done this research, but the rest of the story is

complaining about Barnardos saying nobody elects this data. So how did

they do the research to find this out in the first place gesture

marked lower down it says if you have a parent in jail, home can be

chaotic because one parent is left chaotic because one parent is left

behind to cope and schools don't know. Of course, one is struggling

emotionally and financially. A emotionally and financially. A

degree of not telling other people degree of not telling other people

what is going on and it is not the best way to raise children. What it

also gives you insight into is the impact risen has on the rest of the

family, who also suffer for crimes they were not involved in. What

register of children whose parents register of children whose parents

are in jail. It smacks a bit of buttonholing children of children of

convicts so they are different. But they are different, maybe they do

maybe identifying them in the first maybe identifying them in the first

place is not a bad way to start. A lot of it is white collar fraud,

driving points, others are children of murderers. It is different. I

think it is more about problem families and the fact people cannot

necessarily get away from a difficult life. There are lots of

data points the authorities have two identify problem families and they

are starting to get on top of it. If an A department has somebody come

in with a stab wound, they alert social services. If you have that

information, obviously there are issues about how much you pass

between services, but I can see why they want to go in that direction.

You will be back at 11:30pm. But for now, thanks for joining us. Coming

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