19/02/2016 The Papers

bring forward further proposals we can take country unilaterally to

strengthen the sovereignty of Britain's great institutions.

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the

papers will be bringing us tomorrow. Slightly later than usual tonight

And the fact that the papers have been changing their front pages,

some of them as we speak. We now have a selection of what will be on

the news stands tomorrow. With me are the Times columnist

Jenni Russell, and the media commentator for Forbes.com,

Neil Midgley. We'll start with the Times. David

Cameron. Ahead on the EU vote. How would you characterise the mood on

Downing Street? I think the mood is jubilant. It looked as though it was

falling away from them. They were devastated by the reaction to

Cameron's initial deal because almost every single newspaper front

page criticised it. They are extremely downcast and taking it

back. Another thing they have a deal which has headlines they can sell to

the country, special status in Europe, we don't have to be part of

what we don't want, protection for the city of London, we can't be

bullied by the rest of Europe, and we don't have to be part of ever

closer union. I think they are feeling confident that most of the

population don't care about the details, they think the Prime

Minister has given us a Britain they want. I imagine they will have a

better weekend then if David Cameron had caved in Brussels tonight. Or is

everyone is refused to cave. It seems we don't know the detail. It

seems Cameron effectively put his foot down at teatime tonight and

said no, I will not give any more. Presumably doing that calculation

that if you came back with a terrible deal and indeed a deal that

was much watered-down from the draft that had been circulated a couple of

weeks ago, he would not have been able to sell it to his friends in

the Cabinet let alone the Eurosceptics in the Cabinet, let

alone the rest of the country. If we look at the FT weekend, which hangs

around for two days, so they have to think more strategically, they say

Cameron wins Brussels reforms. It will different to the other

countries, and Donald Tusk, if you do the initiation on their behalf.

People seem to have got a deal they can live with. Even the Eastern

European countries who did not want any kind of welfare reforms. By the

way, nobody understands what the welfare reforms are. I think I sort

of do. Poland's Europe Minister was twitching before we came on air

there was something about if people have less than four years just

before the end of the seven-year break, we still don't know what

happens to them. In the great scheme of things, Jenni was talking about

these yes we can phrases David Cameron is using. It is the phrases

that counts. We now have a special relationship, we are the special

country. We will have special status in Europe. If only Jose Mourinho,

the special one, was British. It is meaningless. Even if Cameron had got

rid of all of the welfare payments to EU migrants, which he hasn't,

only a very small portion of them, that is about ?500 million a year

out of an overall government spending of ?700 billion. You are

talking about half of 1000th. I probably got a decimal point wrong

there, but for every ?1000 to pay in tax, you might get alb. -- account

back. I don't think those sorts of changes make any practical

difference at all. The whole thing was about symbolism. It is about

people feeling they don't want to be drawn closer to Europe, and it is a

genuine achievement that we are now accepted from being part of ever

closer union. Which is being what the European Union has always been

about. Look at the Independent. The EU deal is done is the headline. We

then have above it a big shout to do with the refugee crisis, because

migration is the other thing they are talking about, is concerned that

maybe Greece might actually be excluded from the Schengen area as

it was felt to be doing enough to stop illegal migrants. There are big

it issues that this deal doesn't address, and some of the new

sceptics have suggested that might be what the campaign ends up being

about. Nobody has any idea how to deal with

the people pouring into Europe. Those remaining in Europe say we

much more at risk of migrants coming to Britain if we leave Europe. At

the moment we've got the French policing the French ports. Cameron

is perfectly right when he says that if we left the EU, and the French

thought they would no longer guard the Borders for you, then we would

have masses of people in little boats coming across the Channel,

just as they are now across the Mediterranean, to try to land in

Britain. I am far from an outer. I am out but not an outer. What the

distinction? Let's not go into that. The French thing with the border, is

a a bilateral agreement? It is. They might think if you don't want to be

part of our club and co-operate with us, why should we do things with

you. You might be right about that but the migration we can't stop at

the moment we could at least have some control over. That is distinct

from the huge number of migrants who are now entering Europe... This is

where we get interesting tomorrow, how the campaign starts to open up

beyond the terms of the renegotiation. And what other areas

will emerge. David Davis, who was David Cameron's challenger or co-

candidate for the leadership back in 2005, was out and about tonight. He

is an outer. He was saying that none of these things make any

difference, in that Cameron's initial bid as he went around his

European Tour was far too low a Dias had to come further down from that

and we've ended up with the crumbs from the table. Once the shouting

has died there might still be a warm feeling in Downing Street, that

they've landed a deal which they were able to sell on the night, even

if the last gets tarnished in the coming days. -- the gloss gets

tarnished. But whether this deal will make any difference to the gut

instinct of the British voter remains very much to be seen. I

agree. That's the key point. All of this argument has been beside the

point. The discussion has to be about the questions regarding where

we see ourselves in the world. I we better off as an isolated island,

not in alliance with 27 allies? -- are we better. Possibly losing

Scotland. Do we want to make our own little deals? Or do we want... We

will be a lot smaller if we lose Scotland. We can't trade freely with

Europe. A lot of companies would want to stay here... But there's no

danger of that, is there? If you want to retain free trade with

Europe then we have to retain the free movement of people. It had just

the same question about European migrants coming into Britain as we

have had now. The question has to be whether we feel more safe and secure

and longer as part of the group of countries who have fundamentally

similar values, who can act together against Russia, ISIS and climate

change, or not. Moving onto the Telegraph front page. They decided

they would commit themselves to there being a deal. This came before

the deal was done. Not the most flattering picture of David Cameron.

And not the most encouraging headline. They talk about David

Cameron looking very tired, as he has all day. Michael talking about

Cameron's eyes bulging, saying he looked like a delirious snail, which

is perhaps a little unkind. I've never looked at a delirious snail

before! When you look at the high resolution of poorer Cameron's tired

face... Can I point out that if he had arrived looking freshfaced and

as if he looked the past -- looked like he spent the past couple of

weeks in a health farm... I think this is actually a man who has had

sleepless nights and not on us -- enough time to exercise. I have been

battling for Britain. It hasn't kept Michael Gove on side. How big a deal

is that? Do you get a sense that we will see more people than we have

currently predicted, saying they are prepared to back a Brexit? Now that

this deal has been done? We will get more people in the sense that as

soon as the deal was announced the Cabinet ministers are free to go.

The interesting thing about that is it is pretty clear from the people

around Michael Groves that -- Michael Groves that if the Cabinet

assumed collective responsibility, he wouldn't have felt compelled to

come out and say what he thought. But he genuinely believes Britain

would be better as an independent nation and so he felt unable to

carry on. Is he trying to have it both ways? We were also told that he

won't be campaigning in a high-profile way. That I don't know

about. So he isn't going to inhale, the bill Clinton analogy? It would

be in -- interesting if that was the case. If you think what the

Conservative government is doing, it is hard to... It is painful to have

to say you will put it all at risk by going to the other side and

saying the person I like and admire is also fundamentally wrong. It's a

big night for Michael Gove and for newspapers. If I may be a newspaper

nerd for a moment, you were saying that when we arrived tonight the

Telegraph was the only paper that had a front-page going with the deal

and the others were in their first editions, hedging. It hadn't even

been formally announced. It shows you that on a fast moving Newsnight

like this the changing role of newspapers and whether print is

really the medium of the future. -- news night. If you are following

this many would know instantly. Equally, what influence will things

have on a night like this in about one month? Will the BBC still be

picking up what the Independent is saying? Or a it start to fade?

Obviously because of the work you do you have a different perspective on

this. What is your sense of power key the websites are? Not just

thinking about content, but actually the headline, the image, in a way

that newspapers have traditionally done? And how durable that is? When

you are writing for online you write the headlines in a completely

different way than you do in the newspapers. When you write a

headline on a newspaper you summarise the story as informatively

as you can. Whereas with an online headline, which somebody will pick

up on a search engine, you write it as cryptically as you can because

you want to tease them into actually clicking on your story, instead of

just getting the information they need from the seven words on Google.

Five things you didn't know about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. They

are all very important. Seven things we didn't know about Europe. What

you do when you write online is what your readers or lack of readers are

interested in. I know exactly how much traffic I get on my page. And

how much effort you should make on that bit. Or do you just write about

things people are already googling or do you write new things? When I

write for the Telegraph, I can get 200 comments on a piece about the

new Top Gear presenters but 70 comments on a piece about BBC Three,

which shows you where the priorities R. -- priorities are. Just briefly.

The IAP they're even has this in blue -- the i. The Mail takes us

back to what we were talking about with the referendum campaign. This

is in their judgement the real story. The Mail has prejudged the

summit and decided that it hasn't worked. The PM's deal is picked to

pieces, they say. So they got that wrong. And then they are talking

about the fact that the head of Interpol, who is a Brit, has said

that 5000 jihadis have entered Europe in the migrant search and

they could be about to carry out attacks. Of course I have to say, if

I was a jihadist living on the other side of the Mediterranean... This

feeds into the politics, which is going to unfold over the weekend.

Further down the story there are unnamed Tory MPs pointing out that

the Prime Minister's deal does nothing to limit free movement

across the EU and therefore it does nothing about this 5000 jihadis who

might be on their way to new broadcasting house as we speak.

That's not true. If you are migrant and you have been given refugee

status in Germany, it will be five years before you get permission to

move into the rest of the EU. So it is not true that if you arrive as a

migrant in one part of Europe... The point about it, as Downing Street

have said, is that we are not part of the Schengen agreement. We are in

fact very protected from people coming into Britain. You can pick up

on this but we are just going to see some pictures of David Cameron

leaving Brussels with some relief. All I was going to say on a lighter

note... There you go, he is smiling. They answer Eurosceptic. They are

offering a free Monets print in the paper. -- on -- Monet. Thanks we

much. It could be only four months away, as he didn't disagree when

that was put to him. More news Abbottabad be our coming up. Now to

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