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In a few minutes, we'll be taking a look at tomorrow's | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
papers with our guests James Cusick, a Political Correspondent | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
for the Independent and the broadcaster, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Many of the front pages are already in. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
The FT is leading with the story of the day, but taking a different | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
tact to most - leading with the line - Big business backs Cameron's push | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The Metro's headline says Boris backs Brexit, while bookies slash | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
The Express is also highlighting the London Mayor's claim | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
The mayor is also pictured on tomorrow's front page | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The Guardian runs with the claim from Mr Johnson that his decision | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
to vote to leave the EU isn't fuelled by his political ambition. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
The Times shows Mr Johnson surrounded by the media | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
on his London doorstep during his statement this afternoon. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
It also features the public push for a meningitis vaccine to | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Let's get down to it. Only one story in town, Lynn? Only one story. It is | :01:06. | :01:24. | |
all borders. Some of them you can see Boris Johnson looking perplexed | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
and worried and others, like the Daily Telegraph, he looks | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
presidential. This is a Prime Minister and waiting picture. And it | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
is basically he announced today, although he has been hinting at it | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
apparently yesterday, that he is going to support they get out of | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Europe campaign. And so Boris Johnson has now become Bo Go from Bo | :01:47. | :01:58. | |
Jo. And this is described as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
change. And another paragraph says all of history shows that they will | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
only listen if he says no. His mind is made up, he apparently dumped | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
David Cameron by text message at 4.40 this afternoon, then stood on | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
his doorstep a few minutes later and announced to the world, a bit | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
discourteous, but basically his mind is made up, we have to get out, but | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
he is saying he is not anti-European, that he loves being | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
European and Europe for culture but what we have is creeping federalism | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
and legal colonisation and that is what he is against. James, he talks | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
about the European Union being an democratic, that seemed to underpin | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
part of his decision that he has reached today? | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
That is one of the kinder words that he used. There is a 2000 word essay | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
inside the Daily Telegraph, in which he goes through everything from | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
expansion, unstoppable legal colonisation, a slow and invisible | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
process, strong stuff for somebody who says he has been struggling to | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
make up his mind on this. He appears to have worked this out quite a | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
while ago. The key point of the Telegraph front page and | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
presentation is how important he is to this project. Without this, what | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
would the front pages look like today? Where is the leader? I know | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
that Michael Gove is out there, a leading intellectual figure inside | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
the Conservative Party, but they were hoping for Boris and they have | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
got him. But the idea that he can merely say this and then somehow go | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
to the sidelines and not bleed, that might happen for a couple of months. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
But near the end, in the middle of June, when it gets a bit tight? He | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
says he is not going to get out there and campaign with George | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Galloway and Nigel Farage. Well, certainly not going to do that. He | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
quotes Churchill as saying that Churchill was interested in Europe | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
and associated with it, but not absorbed. That is what he's saying | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
he wants to be, to still have some kind of influence in but not be in | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
it. Let's go to the front page of the Guardian. Johnson comes out for | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Brexit. Is this a win- win for him, in the sense that if Britain decides | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
to come out in June, he will have been on the right side of history, | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
David Cameron actually has to step down, therefore he is in pole | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
position? He could run for the leadership. If Britain decides not | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
to leave the European Union, he has assured of support with | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
backbenchers? I think what you are describing is a political | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
calculation. Sounds about right! And he has done. He will have worked out | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the position. In all political decisions, there is an element of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
risk. He is putting himself in a position whereby if Britain actually | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
votes to remain in the European Union, I think the Guardian, the | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Telegraph and most of them, they actually point out fairly strong | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
open division, almost conflict between himself and David Cameron. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
My problem, and the problem for those people who make themselves | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
prominent in this campaign is, what happens to them? Do we just assume | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
that the Conservative Cabinet still go back the day after and everything | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
is jolly? It will not like that. I am slightly concerned, this is day | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
one of 120 days, or whatever it is. I think it will be very difficult | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
and I think it could get quite a brutal. It already is, he is damning | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
David Cameron with faint praise by saying you did a great job over in | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Europe, but, actually, in the time that is available to you, but you | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
haven't brought anything back. There is an interesting side panel down | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the side of the Guardian front page. This is a decent poll. It is | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
basically saying, out of 70 constituency parties that he | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
contacted, only two reported party members in favour of remaining. If | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
you like, it is exactly what you said earlier. He has positioned | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
himself as representing the voice of the Conservative Party at grassroots | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
level. I think that is important. He's made an intellectual decision. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
I don't doubt for a second that what is in this long, 2000 word article | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
is heartfelt, I don't think it is xenophobic at all, I think he | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
genuinely believes the European project is something that has value, | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
the interesting thing about what he says is that if we leave, it will | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
force the Europeans to change the project and he thinks that is a good | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
thing. Let's go to the Daily Express. Boris, I will get us out of | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
the EU, big boost for the Daily Express crusade. The Daily Express | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
is saying that Boris Johnson has the will power and the strength to | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
influence all of those in the middle that are undecided. He has name | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
recognition, nobody can mess that mop of blonde hair. -- mess. But can | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
he carry it for the ad campaign? According to the Daily Express, who | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
we know have a dog in the fight, they want out, they are saying he is | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
the most popular politician in the country. I was suggesting here that | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
he was not as popular in Scotland as they might think, maybe not the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
hinterland of the Northwest. I have a feeling you might find, when push | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
comes to shove, he is a bit metropolitan and they haven't all | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
seen Have I Got News For You. The Express decided a long time ago that | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
they want out. Tub thumping Boris, the Guardian had him looking pouting | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
and worried, the worst picture they could find, I am quite looking | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
forward to seeing how many versions of Boris we see on the front pages. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
James, it will be interesting, if Britain does decide to pull out of | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
the European Union, Boris Johnson, if he ends up becoming Prime | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Minister, could become Prime Minister of England, Wales and | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Northern Ireland. The Scots have made it clear, or at least the SNP | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
have made it clear, they are going to push for another referendum if | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Britain pulls out. I keep coming back to this long essay, maybe I am | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
being far too academic, but... We like brains on this programme! Very | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
small print as well. He says, and this is beautifully downplayed, | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
there would be fresh tensions in the union between England and Scotland. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Michael Gove's long explanation about why he was going, it actually | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
didn't mention the constitutional issue. But I think Nicola Sturgeon | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
made it fairly clear that she would campaign heavily for Britain to stay | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
inside. She always has. But there would be a phenomenal window of | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
opportunity for the Scots that you cannot ignore. Johnson does a fresh | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
I would say that is the least of the UK's problems. If the Scots voted to | :09:18. | :09:30. | |
remain, there would have a legitimate grievance. Nicola | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Sturgeon said today that they would have another referendum. She has | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
said it for a long time. During the Scottish referendum, the issue of | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
European membership was a big deal. It is back on the table. If it was | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
big during the referendum two years ago, it is back on the table. I | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
think there is more on this. It's unfortunate we have 120 days of | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
this. The old Alliance... You are not excited, like the rest of us? | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Four times longer than an election campaign! I'll be excited in bits. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
You will be in bits, by the end of it. Let's go to The Financial Times, | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
interesting, big business backs Cameron's push to keep Britain in | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
the EU. Boris is still in the photograph? This is it, the Mayor of | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
London coming out and suggesting, against all of the advice, one | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
suspects, from the city, that this is a bad idea, to push for the EU, | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
is clearly, going to be, in a few months' time, the ex-mayor of | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
London. There is no way he could come out and say leave if he was the | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
Mayor? Under the position of the Conservative mayoral candidate is to | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
do what? Exactly the same. Zac Goldsmith says he wants to go out as | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
well. The interesting thing of this thing is that bosses of half of | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Britain's biggest companies to sign a latter chilly letter. That means | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
the other half have other views? I think there is an assumption that | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the City of London arm of the money and the influence, is somehow immune | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
to this. Regardless of what happens, the power and force that London | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
holds will still be there. There is legitimacy in that. There was all | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
sorts of threats about how we need to be part of the euro zone to keep | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
the city going. The city is maybe an international institution that | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
perhaps will not have any short or medium term effect on this. I think | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
a London Mayor, a would-be Mayor, can have those positions fairly | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
legitimately. I don't think it is that important. I am really | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
surprised how muted Britain is to this. I thought they would have | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
started the fight back to stay in, if that is what they wanted. Stuart | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Rose, of Marks Spencers, previously, is leading the campaign? | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
The front page of The Financial Times, it is surprising it has not | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
left onto other front pages. The Times, I promise, dear viewer, the | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
last reference to Mr Johnson in this particular edition. Boost for other | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
campaigners, and the Prime Minister told of the decision by text minutes | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
before the announcement. This goes to the close friendship that these | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
two men have had for a long time, since university, ruptured? Or | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
rivalry? It depends, I think the capacity of | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
politicians to make up is always going to be there. Or to be | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
political? For instance, I can almost see Boris Johnson's | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
explanation, and is going through his hair, I meant to call him | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
earlier, things got out of hand, something to do with the dog, I just | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
forgot. It is everything it stands for. If he is calling the Prime | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Minister ten minutes before he makes a critical decision, and, to be | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
honest, in front of the Guardian it shows how important Boris Johnson is | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
to this project. The two politicians whose views mattered, according to a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
poll, is David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Effectively, they have made | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
enemies of themselves. These men were not friends at school they went | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
to, they were not friends at Oxford. They are not friends now. David | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Cameron offered him some kind of minor role in a ministerial role, to | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
keep him out of trouble. Boris can read what David Cameron is up to and | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
David Cameron can read what he is up to. The two our rivals. Cameron and | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Osborne has been the political access. You could end up with Boris | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
and Michael Gove. I don't know, here's a much quieter person, but | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
that might be the next political access. We will stay with The Times, | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
700,000 sign petition for meningitis vaccination on the NHS. Anybody | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
under the age of one, 12 months, can get the meningitis B vaccine. If you | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
are over that, you have to pay for it yourself and there have been a | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
couple of unfortunate examples of babies dying as a result. It's a | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
difficult position for the Department of Health and the Health | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Secretary. The way meningitis B works is that it works in cycles. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Currently, we are at a very low cycle, the lowest, a 10-year low. | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
Not many people getting at? Very few. The child immunisation | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
programme, the meningitis B vaccine was brought in last year. That was | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
seen as a great campaign, two years push to get that included. It was | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
brought in, if you like, the efficiency level of that, the money | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
and where we spend it, what are we getting for it? This campaign shows | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
you how important, if you like, even one death is to the public. I think | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
the campaigners are looking at, initially, the under fives. They | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
would like to see even the two most dangerous parts, and the one, and | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
then from teenager onwards. They would like all children, the | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Department of Health do not have that money. The joint Council on | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
vaccination did not have the statistics to back it up. It is a | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
huge long-term battle. Every time we see one picture and one death, the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
public react. It is a brutal disease. Jim wrote about that last | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
week. What this story says to me, who did not write about it last | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
week, is the power of these polls that are out there. It is the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
easiest thing, a click of your mouse or finger, to sign a poll, they have | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
two thirds of a million signatures. There are all these polls that's | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
700,000 comet has gone up in the headline. These polls are going to | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
be a nightmare for the government going forward. You could get a | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
million people sign up to something. It is a lot of people, it shows | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
public feeling. Even if you were prepared to pay ?1000 at a private | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
clinic, the stocks of the vaccine are just not there. The NHS have | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
long-term plans, obviously they will be first. The Child Immunisation | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Programme is very important. Worried parents will pay anything. Briefly | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
come onto the final story, the Telegraph. Corgis, what is this | :16:55. | :17:09. | |
about? This is a nib... He That is news in brief, by the way. The | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
Queen, how he has breakfast delivered in Tupperware containers, | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
a bit of plastic, the corgis are eating out of family silver. Named | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
family silver. I can't tell you much more, but it sounds like they are | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
dining better than she is. Living the life of Riley, and we're not | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
talking about... You will be back to talk about more headlines? More | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Boris! Now it is time for Click. | :17:53. | :17:54. |