16/06/2014 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

With me are The Sun's Political Correspondent Craig Woodhouse and

Migration is the main story in The Telegraph,

which claims almost half the population believes a decade of mass

migration has harmed the economy and undermined British culture.

Fewer than one in five voters say they are benefiting

from the improved economy, according to a poll in tomorrow's Guardian.

The Metro says nurses are calling for intoxicated patients

The search for Madeleine McCann is the main story

in the Mirror, after a libel action by her parents against the police

officer who initially led the search was postponed again today.

The Express says the strengthening pound means Britons

going abroad for their summer holidays will get

And the Daily Mail says the government is planning to make

sure school milk is offered to all pupils in primary and secondary

We will start, gentlemen, with the Daily Telegraph. Politicians blamed

for hostility to migrants, what's that about. We have been reading

this and we don't really know how they are being blamed, if they are

at all! Let's move on to the Guardian. Being accused of having

ignored Bodo concerns on this, hence the rise of Ukip. Although we may

need to read inside how the conclusion is being reached from the

headline. The bit you mentioned at the top, half the population

believes a decade of mass migration has harmed the economy and harmed

British culture is at the heart of this. It is a dilemma for

politicians because on the one hand, they have to appeal to win votes,

but on the other hand, it is the new immigrant `based culture that are

going to be voting for them in the future as they become all part of

society. It comes to this as we see in the Guardian, immigration is a

seriously hot topic in the minds of the voters, not just the

commentators, as is often made out to be the case. Do you understand

the story? I have the same question as Craig, how are the politicians to

blame? Watching your news earlier today, the Archbishop of Canterbury

today calling, after his meeting with the Pope, calling for more

immigration into the UK, for humanitarian reasons, above all

else. I suppose what effectively this is saying is that politicians

have, of all parties, not explained to the British public is why there

have been the levels of immigration and now they seem to skirt around

the issue. Even today. There is a figure here, there are 2.5 million

more foreign`born British residents and their work two years ago, 1

million more from Poland and the seven countries that joined the EU

in 2004. And restrictions on immigration affecting something

close to my heart, higher education. And the unpopularity, the image of

our country has suffered in some of the far Eastern countries. In many

universities, foreign students are absolutely vital, wide, to pay the

bills because we no longer have free and higher education `` why. This

tour is about the liberal ruling class on the front of the Telegraph.

`` this talks about. Suggesting it is good for the economy. Arguments

that Nick Clegg put to Nigel Farage in those two famous debates and he

was roundly beaten. Would that make people more forgiving of migrants

coming here. It is difficult because if you try and do that, and a figure

says that eight out of ten people want to control immigration. If you

want to explain why immigration is a good thing, you can widen the divide

because people think it is the metropolitan elite telling them what

to think. I don't think it is good when Nick Clegg goes out there, a

white man who went to a private school who sounds like the other

politicians... And literally a liberal! And telling you why it is

good for society. Very few people turn around and say what our

generation has always fundamental do it. We go into

the European Union after a referendum in the 1970s when free

movement of people is fundamental and we end up where we are, with the

issues we have. You work for the Sun, do you think that the red

tops, the popular newspapers, many of their red Wing, `` right wing,

are partly to blame? I don't know, we have reflected this for ages. It

is the politicians who are to blame. You don't feed into that? I think we

are the opposite, we reflect what people feel, every leader we write

says that immigration is really good for the country but it is not

controlled to the wrong places, without appropriate houses and

things to assuage the fears, then it isn't. That is why we called on

David Cameron to make the free movement of Europe is one of his red

lines when he negotiates on the referendum. It is too easy to blame

the press. I think Craig is absolutely right, the sun, among

other papers, reflects what the public overwhelmingly think. This

poll supports that. We shouldn't go on too much, but finally, should you

be reflecting potentially, prejudices that the public have, or

should you be trying to put an analysis of that? If the facts are

that immigration, on the face of it, brings money into the country and

gives people jobs and is good for the economy, do you reflect that

enough? I think so, we are very positive about it but we are the

vehicle for the readers, to speak truth and this is part of the job,

truth has not been spoken to power. If it has, it has not been listened

to. We speak truth to power here in the papers! The Guardian, the

majority left behind in the recovery, fewer than one in five

voters feel they are benefiting from the improved economy. Again, the

broadsheets love an opinion poll. They do. Here we are in the

Guardian. Effectively the larger `` effectively the majority accept that

the recovery is real but just 18% feel that their families are

benefiting which is bad news for David Cameron. The paper says that

perhaps Ed Miliband, much maligned, has got it right with his emphasis

on the cost of living. The question is, if the survey will be taken in

April next year, will the figures be the same? Down below on the Guardian

front page, one of their correspondence, Larry Elliott,

speaking to people around the country to understand why the

economy looks illusory to so many Britons. One of the themes, modern

Britain can be easily divided, he says, into a comfortably off third

at the top, a middle third, one paycheque away from financial

trouble and one third at the bottom, struggling and failing to

make ends meet. Would that Britain was quite so easy to explain and

understand. This is the kind of analysis and Paul that David Axelrod

is going to be homing in on. `` the kind of opinion poll. He is the

Labour election guru, who they hope will turn around the situation. This

is what he has to look at. Absolutely, for many in the Labour

Party this will be a boost after a difficult couple of weeks. They will

feel that their analysis of what was wrong is correct. The issue is

whether they can put forward the answer to the issues. One thing they

lack, trust on the economy at the moment. Every opinion poll shows

that is the hurdle they have to get over. Another thing that I think

people are concerned about, our generation, my generation has a

conscience about this fact that we are children, our children are going

to be worse off than we have been, according to this opinion poll as

well. I think playing to that, and finding some answer to that from the

politicians is very important. When Ed Miliband spoke about breaking the

British promise, he has not found their way to fix it. Reporting

possibly on talks between Iran and the US on Iraq. Metro newspaper,

talking about a ban on drunk people in AMD. The Royal College of nursing

meeting at the moment and one of their member says that getting drunk

isn't an accident, it puts on a huge strain and these people should be

left to dry out. I think many people in Whitehall would be very

sympathetic but cannot say it out loud. Why not? Then you come into

this whole thing about whether the NHS is for everybody and it only

takes one tried to `` one drunk person to die and then it comes down

on you. As a money`saving exercise, you hear it all the time, accident

and emergency on the weekend is like a war zone. Having been to accident

and emergency... I thought you were going to say you had been to a war

zone! Anybody who has been to an accident and emergency department,

late at night, Saturday night will have sympathy with this story. I

suspect. Onto the Daily Express. A strong pound. Off on your horse... I

wish I was. I would be a happy man. Some of us over the years have seen

this going up and down. Generally it is a good time, particularly to go

to the United States, if you can... Remember the surveys we've been

talking about. If you can afford a foreign holiday at all. Going back

to the Telegraph, because you do not have to go on holiday, it is going

to be boiling hot. Drought for southern Britain. This is the story

we feared was going to come, I am sure the hosepipe ban will be one

step away. This is one of those things, a drought is officially

defined as a period of 15 days with 0.2 millimetres of rain, it seems

ridiculous we will have a drought after the rain we have had. It says

the south`west is looking very dry. after the rain we have had. It says

the south`west They will be crying hallelujah. If the ward has drained

from their fields yet. Credit where credit is due, the Daily Express

forecast this. It has got it right at last. They are often right.

Sometimes. Analysing the front page they are often right. They will take

the opposite position one day after the next, it is like a broken clock.

All right. You will be back in about 15 minutes or so, slightly changed

timings because of the World Cup `` 15 minutes. Stay with us, we will

have much more on the situation in Iraq.

Talking about the World Cup, it is time for Sportsday.

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