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action from Novak Djokovic's first round contest. Plus, Brendan | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Rodgers's contract with Liverpool. That's coming up in 15 minutes after | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
journalist and blogger Susie Boniface aka the Fleet Street Fox, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
and Kiran Stacey, political correspondent for the Financial | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
Times. Good evening to you both. Before we have an in`depth look at | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
the papers, let's have a quick preview. The Financial Times says | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
David Cameron has embarked on a diplomatic offensive to persuade | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
European leaders to change course on the EU.Nigel Farage is pictured with | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
an empty pint glass on his head in the Telegraph and it reports that | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
business leaders are calling for a new deal with Europe. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
European leaders to change course The Guardian pictures Nick Clegg and | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
questions whether he is leading the Liberal Democrats to a wipeout.The | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Times reports that Ukip is to step up its assault on Labour's | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
heartlands. While The Scotsman says recriminations flew in Holyrood | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
after Ukip won its first European seat in Scotland. Nick Clegg's | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
prospects are the lead on The Independent. It says the Liberal | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
Democrat leader is fighting for survival. The Daily Mail also | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
considers the pressure on Mr Clegg after the party's performance in the | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
European elections. Finally, the Daily Express gives readers the | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
seven golden rules to help people fight Alzheimers. The express their | :01:21. | :01:36. | |
trying to be different. The front pages, as you would imagine, are | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
dominated by the fallout of the European elections. A tough read | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
over breakfast for Mr Clegg particularly the Mail, the face of a | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
leader at bay, says the headline. I am feeling sorry for him. If he | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
stays as leader, possibly the worst 12 months of his life. People get | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
this right up to election. When he leads the Lib Dems into the guns, | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
which will happen in May 2015, they face almost certain obliteration, it | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
will be his fault that matter what and will be laboured as Nick Clegg | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
should have gone and didn't go. If he stays, it will be a torrid time. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
There was talk today or suggestions he could stay on as deputy PM but | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
resigned as leader of the party which would be even more suicidal. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
There is a whole tumbler website of pictures of Nick Clegg looking sad. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Another hundred pages of images today. He is a toxic issue for a lot | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
of voters. For him to say that if any dilemmas would be addressed by | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
me going, of course I would do it. Not to understand he is the main | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
dilemma is stupid and obtuse and he is seeing what is obvious in front | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
of him. The Daily Mail are trying to pressure him to go with headlines | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
like that. That is how a lot of journalists would like this to pan | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
out. He made it clear to Vicki Young that he has no plans to go. Why have | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Lib Dems suffered the most in the European elections? He took a bold | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
plan at this European election. Usually, at a European election, | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
they do well because they talk about everything apart from Europe. They | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
talk about potholes and road repairs and bin collections and make it all | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
about local issues. They are good at sourcing out and getting a good | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
reputation. This time, Nick Clegg thought, this won't work. I will do | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
this, its OK, it is under control. I will do an overtly pro`European push | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
because there is a group of people who believe we should be in the EU | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
and they don't have a party fighting in their corner. For voters wanting | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
to stay in the EU, stayed at home or were happy to vote for the Labour | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Party because they think they are pro`European as well. Unfortunately, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Lib Dem voters don't want to be in the EU. They vote Lib Dem for | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
different reasons, particularly in the south`west. I don't think the | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
strategy worked. Don't you think the televised debates was a kick in the | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
face? He did so badly compared to Nigel Farage. He won a lot of people | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
over at the general collection. People didn't know who he was until | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
the debate. In 2010, he was the bloke who seems nicer, more human, a | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
bit different. Now he gets the same thing from Nigel Farage. The they | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
say they have got hold of a poll that will show he will lose his | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
seat. `` the Guardian have written him off. Others say they don't know | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
where this came from and that it has been leaked for political reasons | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
and say that the local elections on Thursday show it was nonsense. He | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
won't lose Sheffield Hallam. I am 99%. Having grown up there, I know. | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
Note it down. This has been a Lib Dem seat for years. Before that, it | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
was a Tory seat. It is a nice, leafy, wealthy part of Sheffield, | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
not the socialist People's Republic of Sheffield that we think of the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
rest of the city as. I have read a piece by the Labour candidate saying | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
that they don't think they will win it either. You have to wonder, given | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
the Lib Dem reaction, who undertook this poll and why and why have they | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
leak it to the Guardian? There are people in the Lib Dems who are | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
trying to do something. What is important is that no big guns have | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
come out and said, he needs to go. That is because his main opponent is | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Vince Cable, who is conveniently in China and is at this moment, we | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
might want to get a comment out of him. Whenever there is a leadership | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
challenge or argument in any of the parties, the main contender absence | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
themselves as quickly as possible. John Major, when Margaret Thatcher | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
had problems, had his wisdom teeth done. If a politician doesn't want | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
to be quoted on the TV, it is because it is important. He decided | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
to release a statement instead of going on camera. We will find out | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
more of Nigel Farage on the front page of the times. He likes to hold | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
an empty pint glass on his head to celebrate. He probably doesn't mind | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
that photo. He posed for it. He invites photographers to the pub and | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
AE range it with the pub owners. `` a range it. It is done on purpose. | :06:49. | :07:01. | |
`` arrange. I can't imagine anyone who intends to be a world leader | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
doing that. He has already said he is setting his sights on | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Westminster, of course he the headline, Farage set his sights on | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
Labour heartlands. He has 12 months to win people over on Europe for | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Westminster. As we know, local elections, the voting in local | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
elections, doesn't reflect what happens on general election day. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
This will be tough. 2009, at UKIP got to 17%. 2010, they got 3% in the | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
general election. Can Farage do something different this time and | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
build up enough support to take a Westminster seat? I think that he | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
can. Things are different this time, UKIP voters are enthused and | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
committed enough to go and vote UKIP again even at a general election. Is | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
it still a protest vote? it is. But not one that will go away. People | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
genuinely want to protest. They will want to protest at the general | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
election as well. The question will be, if and when they do win at | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Westminster, do they do what the Greens do and fall apart because | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
their leader isn't so active in leading the policy and making sure | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
the structures are in place? What does one seat make do anyway? You | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
wrote a paper in the mirror after the local elections but it applies | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
to the European elections because there was a 33% turn out to the vote | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
and you made an interesting point that there is still 30 million | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
people in this country that didn't vote for any of this. In fact, they | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
didn't vote at all. When people like David Cameron say that we have the | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
message of the EU, are they correct? Of course not. They aren't | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
speaking to the populace. They haven't heard what we all think. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
There are 46 million registered voters and only 16 million voted. If | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
they voted, it could be a different result. We don't know. They haven't | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
come out to vote. You wrote and local elections have a much lower | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
turnout than general elections. `` euro. They are just as important, | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
though they are seen as less than important. When we talk about a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
surge in UKIP and landslides and that there is a earthquake in | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
British politics, there is actually an ever expanding sinkhole expanding | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
at all of these politician's feet, Farage, Cameron, Clegg, they have | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
had a kick in the face from voters, saying we are not interested in any | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
of you. If you are a disillusioned voter, there is the zest and that | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
you vote for UKIP. If you compare that with the total electorate, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
fewer than one in ten people voted for UKIP. The other nine are still | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
disillusioned for some reason and are not coming out to vote for | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
anyone. That is a huge issue. If we cannot raise the turnout, and the | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
2010 general election turnout was only 65%, which was historically | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
low, there will be a lack of democracy. We can't criticise | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
countries like China, Saudi Arabia or Zimbabwe if in our own we don't | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
vote ourselves. Let's look at the Scotsman, there was a surprise | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
result. Even the UKIP candidate, David Coburn, looked surprised in | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
that photo. That is a great photo. They have won a seat for Scotland, | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
UKIP about. He goes to show that the more people that vote, the more | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
realistically vault can be, the more reflective it can be `` UKIP there. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
The Scottish the SNP has always said that UKIP doesn't have a place in | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Scottish politics and this proves it wrong. One year ago, Nigel Farage | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
was in Edinburgh and the reception was so hostile he had to take refuge | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
in a pub. Had to take refuge... Go to the Winchester and wait this one | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
out. It is clearly true that they find it much more difficult in | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Scotland and there is a much less Eurosceptic, anti`immigration vote | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
there. Are they tapping into something we have seen in the rest | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
of the UK? Will this become a much larger part of Scottish politics? If | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
so, Alex Hammond's for your saying that they aren't various cottage | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
this lot, they are racist, won't work `` they aren't very Scottish. | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
They have had it up to here. It is interesting, a clever man so that | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
when the people reject the elite, the elite band of people, not | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
themselves for having turned people off voting, they say it is the | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
peoples vote for not agreeing with them, which is what Clegg is doing | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
today. To show how the picture of the European Union has changed | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
overnight. The Independent has a out. Is of Germany's first neo`Nazi | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
MEP. A lot of right`wing groups have managed to get seats. A lot of anti` | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
European establishment seats. It's not only the UK. Interestingly, in | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the EU they are bad at cooperating with each other. One of the things | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
people have voted UKIP in in this country is that they hope that | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
perhaps they will withdraw us from the EU or do something about | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
immigration and open borders. If every UK seat in the European | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Parliament were cooperating, that is still less than 10% of the total in | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
the EU bloc, therefore for Nigel or anyone else to control legislation | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
or block legislation, they have to form coalitions with other parties | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
in the EU. There has been a surge, but they haven't actually got that | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
much influence, have a? Not individually. They would have to | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
gang up together. They will coalitions between the far right | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
parties, the peoples party in Denmark, perhaps the Front National, | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
and then you wonder who you sit next to and who is OK and who isn't at | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
one point does the neo`Nazi vote become important `` People's Party. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
The other important thing about the elections in Germany is that Angela | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
Merkel is an election winning machine. Her party actually won the | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
majority of the MEP vote. It is interesting what is happening in | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
France and Germany, particularly France, is that they are the two | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
countries seen as the drivers of the European Union. They are seen as the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
country that supported and want it. `` support it. Let's look at the | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
front page of the Daily Telegraph. Nigel Farage's pint glass photo | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
there again. We will get to know a bit more about the leader of UKIP | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
from his wife. It is interesting. Someone has buttonholed Mrs Farage | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
at the victory party. It was ill`advised because of the people | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
you have that UKIP. The chances of someone saying something wrong in | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
UKIP during a party is quite high. He isn't like this at home | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
apparently, he is not extroverted. He drinks and smokes too much and | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
she worries he doesn't eat Ropley. He can't use a computer and most | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
interestingly, there is no time for a family life and they have four | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
children `` he doesn't eat properly. They watch him on the telly when | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
they want to see him. That is a bit mean. It is interesting. Is it a PR | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
gaffe masse warps, you have let Mrs Farage speak. Or, is it a well | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
calculator thing to do. `` PR gaffe? We a problem he has is that | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
he doesn't attract female voters. `` won the problem he has. If we see | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
him as a family man, or not one who sees his kids often, but if we see | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
his wife, his vulnerabilities... He goes to sleep when he comes home. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
One thing we can be sure Roz is that from now on, UKIP will be under more | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
scrutiny than they ever have been `` we can be sure of. The level of | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
scrutiny in the media they have had. They aren't used to regular, | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
constant checking up on by local journalists, broadcast and print | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
journalists. We have to leave it there. Many thanks to Susie and | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
Ciaran. And, thanks to you for tuning in. Stay with us on BBC News. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
At midnight, the political fallout of UKIP's success at the expense of | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
other parties in the European elections. Coming up next, it is | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
time for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm | :15:22. | :15:40. | |
Karthi Gnanasegaram. The headlines this evening: Backing Brendan | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
Rodgers, Liverpool give their manager a new long`term contract | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
after finishing as runners up in the Premier League. A shock for Stan, | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
the Australian Open Champion fails to | :15:55. | :15:55. |