04/06/2014 The Papers

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after the papers. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the political commentator Lance Price,

and Tony Grew, who's parliamentary editor at Politics Home.

Tomorrow's front pages. We start with a look at the FT, and

the top story of Tesco's dismal trading results. The chief executive

said they were the worst he had seen in his 40 year career. The express

is claiming that a healthy lifestyle is the key to beating dementia. The

independent's a main picture is of Hong Kong's defiant stance against

China's Tiananmen Square blackout, with crowds holding a candlelit

vigil. The Telegraph leads with the death of a baby reportedly from a

contaminated batch of intravenous medication. The picture is of the

Queen's page boy who collapsed during her speech. That is also the

big story in the guardian. The Daily Mail says it is the first

time in British history that a trial has been held entirely in secret.

And the Mirror has a picture of the UKIP leader Nigel Farage with a

female companion in Malta. So let's begin with the Telegraph. A number

of papers reflecting on the Queen's Speech, but this photograph takes is

there, and you were there. I was there in the press gallery this

morning. This captures beautifully the moment, because the main problem

for the press, like myself and most of the other people watching, was

that we couldn't see what was going on. This gentleman carrying the

cap, here's a Cabinet minister, it was quite difficult to see what was

going on. The Queen was about nine minutes into the speech, and it can

be quite boring. You know what is going to be in it anyway. And this

is one of the pages of honour, they carry her Parliamentary Rob, which

is quite heavy, said that it doesn't drag behind her. He is known as

Viscount Eyrthry. The Queen kept on reading the speech. You can see that

Charles and Camilla were concerned. He was taken out and recovered quite

quickly, we were told, and was reunited with his family, and then

the Queen was left with three train bearers who had to try to manhandle

the train. It does get very hot in there, because you have all of the

peers and the MPs crowding in, and you have the TV like. So you have to

feel some and sympathy for the poor lad. I don't think it was a comment

on the tedium of the speech. There was a little flicker of the eyes

from the Queen, which the cameras picked up, but there wasn't a lot in

the speech. It wasn't a big event in that sense. It is the last one

before the general election, a truncated year anyway because of the

timing of it all. Most of the politicians will be much more

concerned about what is going into their manifestos than the last bits

and pieces of legislation, so it is not surprising that there isn't a

great deal. 11 bills, Tony. Most of them have been trial. No new ideas,

no great surprises. This is the Lib Dems' fault. They insisted that the

parliament would be five years, but in Lib Dem classic attempts to

tinker with the constitution, they wanted to set all of the

parliaments to be five years long. If the Prime Minister thinks he is

going to win, Parliament is normally about four years. At the moment, we

should be getting ready for a general election. The tough stuff of

the coalition agreement has already been done, so there is very little

left that the parties agree on to put into the Queen's Speech, which

is why they were talking about a tax on plastic bags. I think people will

be talking about that. I think it might be more other talking point

than you think. That is a very England centric view, it is already

applicable in Northern Ireland and Wales and coming in Scotland, so

only the English will be interested in that. One of the issues raised

was fracking. The Metro goes with the idea of them drilling under your

home. It sounds terrifying that they could come and park themselves

somewhere near to your home and go underneath it without having to ask

your permission to do so. But it is fascinating the way in which the

whole fracking debaters developed. It has become one about energy

security. We don't want to be dependent on the Middle East on

Russian gas and so on. The debate is different in this country what it is

and others. In France, everyone is opposed to fracking, and no

government could get away with this. The Germans have been opposed up

until now, but it seems they are coming around to it, because they

don't want to be dependent on the Russians. So whether or not we will

see these people turning up outside our front door is soon, it depends

where you live. A green energy campaigner was quoted, you shouldn't

the allowed to turn up outside someone's home and start fracking

under their garden. It sounds like a line from a comedy! This could be

the new North Sea oil for Britain. It could solve our energy needs, and

America is used in example. But this could be one part of the Queen's

Speech that could prove contentious. The Lib Dems are not happy. If you

introduce legislation in your last year as a Government, of the Lord's

start to object, it falls. I will be interested to see what Labour have

to say about this as we get closer to the general election. It seems

like a no`brainer. If the Tories are keen, they should be opposing it.

And it is interesting that David Cameron was telling us that his

would be the greenest Government ever, all about the wind farms,

solar energy, natural advantages that the UK has, and now it is all

about fracking. We have gone from being the Green party into some kind

of wild west scenario. My understanding of Labour's position

is that whilst not opposed to fracking, it shouldn't be seen as

the answer to everything, and it has to go alongside other sources of

energy. Any common`sense person would tell you that. A sensible

country has a mix of energy sources. It may be that fracking can continue

to contribute to that. And there may be advantages to it. I have heard it

talked around in Parliament, jokes that Lancashire could fall into the

sea which was popular in Yorkshire! Indeed! There is a limited amount we

can say about the secret trial, for obvious reasons. What you make of

it? It is extraordinary. It is almost like a super injunction,

where you can't even referred to the fact that there is an injunction. Up

until today, it wasn't even possible for journalists to refer to the fact

that there was a trial in secret, even that was a secret. And clearly

it is something that greatly concerns civil liberties

campaigners, and they are quoted in the story here. But it is troubling

for all of us to know that this sort of thing can happen. It appears that

the prosecution felt that unless it was in secret, they wouldn't be able

to prosecute the case at all. We can't judge that because we have no

idea what they are talking about or who the defendants are.

idea what they are talking about or The question that I still have in my

mind, because I haven't been able to find an answer so far, is who has

the power to decide that a trial like this can take place without any

others know anything about it. Does that prey on your mind? Two points

occurred to me, not all trials are open, there are severe restrictions

on the family courts. I guess this comes down to whether you believe

the security services are doing this because they genuinely feel it could

jeopardise National Security Agency around, and the second thing is,

although I object to any do anything that means journalists can't

observe, but at least we're not taking people to Guantanamo Bay just

assuming we cannot bring our processes forward. It is an old

adage that justice must be seen to be done, that would undermine one of

the fundamental principles. I know you have been reading the Tesco's

story with interest, dismal Tesco has been the juggernaut of

British supermarkets, it has powered ahead in the last three decades,

from the domestic landscape in terms of

supermarket shopping. A lot of countries it is heading. One thing

that really jumped out, shareholder returns, and for Tesco since 2011,

minus 13.9, Morrisons still struggling, minus 16. Ocado, 84.4%,

a huge jump. If I was a shareholder, I would be looking at the home

delivery market. I am not a market analyst, but this is interesting.

People seem to have fallen out of love with very large shops that they

have invested a lot of money on, and they are facing competition now from

some of the better value... It is from above and below. Tesco's

problem is they are stuck in the middle. They are doing quality food,

but there are people doing much cheaper food, which there is a

market for. I think the chief executive is under a lot of

pressure. He says he is not going anywhere, but I would have thought

that his position must be under considerable threat after all of

this. And not because they don't, as Tony says, still have a huge market

share, but he's talking about quarter after quarter where the

situation is not going to improve, and I think there's only so long

that shareholders and board members will be prepared to be patient.

Another good brand name, we have seen so many iconic stores going out

of business. It is not going to happen in this case, but the scale

of them as a company, the turnaround plan is worth ?1 billion, vast

amounts of money. We are out of time, gentlemen, we have talked at

such length about Tesco that we have not had time to move onto another

one. Thank you for the moment, see you at 11:30 for another look at the

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