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the injuries affecting the Six Nations matches and hear from the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Formula One champion on the eve of the start of the season. First here | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
is The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what The Papers | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
will be bringing us tomorrow. With me is Pippa Crerar and the | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Well, the weather is going to be Well, the weather is going to be | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
chilly, and it was chilly in the Commons today. It sure was. It was, | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
well and truly frosty, the front-page of the Daily Telegraph | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
and the Guardian, they look similar, what they have there, is a picture | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
of the Prime Minister, on the front, and reference to Cameron letting rip | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
at Boris, and Prime Minister attacked Johnson over Brexit. John, | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
any pretence of civility that the Prime Minister suggested would | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
characterise this debate, certainly between him and his cabinet | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
colleagues and those within his party, in dealing with the | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
differences they have over the EU referendum, that is out the window | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
know. Evaporated. I watched about an hour and half of it. It was great | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
spectator sport, it really was. Was your shirt tucked in by the way? Who | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
was it said that. I don't know but it was very funny. I can't remember | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
for, well not for many year, to two members of the same party having a | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
got at each other in this way. Boris shouting rubbish at one stage to a | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
response from David Cameron, David Cameron making, I mean really | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
cynically, ripping into Boris, that picture of the two of them there I | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
think displays their feelings very very adequately. I mean, Cameron | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
looks angry, Boris looks bewildered, dismayed, call it what you will, in | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
shock at the treatment he got. First of all Cameron picked up on this | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
assertion from Boris that maybe by saying let us leave, we could | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
negotiation a better deal. He says that is for the birds. That is not | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
on the ballot paper. Was that some kind of joke? The killer was towards | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
the end, when Cameron said, you know, I am not standing for | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
re-election, I am saying this because I believe this to be a good | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
for the country, dig, dig, dig, Boris you are doing this because to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
further your own ends. That headline you ghured last night, that said | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Boris out for himself. I thought was a good headline. Many people would | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
say that is what he is in it for. Pippa, do you see the rest of the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
campaign, and we have another four months of this. Can't help it. Being | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
fought in this very kind of personal way, between, I mean we are talking | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
for a lot of people in the for a lot of people in the | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Conservative Party more than 100 MPs potentially this is the battle of | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
their life. This is something they have been wanting, this referendum | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
for many, many years. Do you think, we are going to see this kind of | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
vitriol over the next few months. There will be people on both sides | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
who are hoping very much that is not the case, and in fact at the 1922 | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
committee backbenchers, this afternoon, one MP pleaded to the | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Prime Minister to be nice to Boris, obviously boar advice the biggest | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
beast in the out the Brexit campaign -- campaign and the Prime Minister | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
is the biggest beast in the campaign to remain, so inevitably they will | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
be at loggerheads, whether it is played out so much in public again | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
is unlikely. Boris has suggested he would not be prepared to have a | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
formal debate. Do you believe that? He said he wouldn't take part, he | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
wouldn't go head-to-head. After this isn't that going to change? Why | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
wouldn't you? If you believe that Britain should leave the European | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Union, why wouldn't you take part in debates? What you could say is the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Prime Minister started off this campaign suggesting there should be | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
an orderly debate in the party, not wanting it to descend into the likes | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
of the splits and the infighting that the Conservative Party suffered | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
in the wad old days of the Maastricht Treaty. Under John Major. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
And yet, today he has launched this, series of person at at -- personal | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
attacks on Boris. You could say he started it but yesterday when Boris | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
came out and declared he was for Brexit, he gave the Prime Minister a | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
minute's warning by text. OK, let us go to the I. On your bike or ribs. | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
-- Boris. John has been talking about that. Pippa, are we talking | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
really about the Prime Minister feeling that he has been betrayed, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
that he has been led up the garden path by Boris over the last few | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
weeks where Boris has suggested he is going to join the Prime | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Minister's side on this. The final minute, he says no, a. Going to | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Compiegne to leave. He has not just suggested to the Prime Minister, | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
there has been a series of backbenchers who have come out and | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
other Conservative Party figures who have said Boris told me that I was, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
that he was going to vote in, and he, apparently had a meeting with | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
leave campaigners who he told, the problem is I am not an outer. I | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
can't do it. His own columns have talked about being within, being in | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the EU and the geopolitical necessity of that for wherein, so | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
anyone could be forgiven for thinking he was going to stay in -- | :05:21. | :05:33. | |
Britain. What intrigues me, how would you characterise the | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
relationship between these two? They went to the same university in | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
different year, similar background, they are in the same party, they are | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
supposed to be buddy, do they hate each other? Probably now they do. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
There has been an elm of healthy competition, they went to Eton, | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Boris was a couple of years older than David Cameron, they were at | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
university together. In the Bullingdon club together. Cameron | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
got a first, Boris didn't quite managed that. He has never forgiven | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
him. He viewed himself as the intellectual superior of the Prime | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Minister who he sees as an up start. So, this spirit of rivalry has on | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
occasion, for the most part been friendly rivalry, jocular, ebbing | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
texting banter to and fro but you could say it has dipped into | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
animosity, on Heathrow the dispute over whether there should be a third | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
runway at Heathrow and other issues, it has never been as bad as this. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Cameron spent the last few months trying to persuade Boris as the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
biggest beast in the Brexit campaign to come over to his side, and has | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
offered him, an parentally offered him every job, every cabinet job | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
apart from Chancellor, as an enticement to come over. Foreign | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Secretary? That has been on the table. Foreign Secretary and Defence | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
Secretary what was I was told. I can't see Cameron turning round and, | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
but this is not going, Cameron may feel he has drawn a line under this, | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Boris won't. I witnessed Boris in the past feeling humiliated at the | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
attacks as he sees them. For example Theresa May, George Osborne and this | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
will certainly linger, he won't, he will be furious about this. He will | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
see it as humiliation. I was going to say as far as the front-pages are | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
concerned it is fascinating to read, everybody is interested in | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
personalities. The issues are all-important, they get no mention | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
at all. You go to the next one. The Metro, Eton rival, even the Metro is | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
talking about the two of them head-to-head. And the... The other | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
thing I think it raises, if I may say so, look at that picture of | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
Boris, in his woolly hat and anorak and Eton rivals in the Metro. I just | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
wonder, you know, for althe ballyhoo round Boris what appeal he has | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
outside London. I was watching some vox pops, probably from the BBC, a | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
lady from Liverpool said who is Boris. He is the most popular | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
politician in the country, I think. It is fair to say when it comes to | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
whether people will listen to him over David Cameron, it suggests more | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
people would trust David Cameron. I think the issue will be how, whether | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
Boris is, his likeability can be transformed into statesmanship and | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
into the public having confidence he could deliver, there is a world of | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
difference between thinking a politician is a great laugh, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
entertaining, charismatic, crowd pleaser and thinking he can glifr on | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
-- deliver on detailed policies. Whether if you put him in charge of | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
the nuclear codes, or the economy, whether people would have the same | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
faith. That has been the problem for Boris when it comes to his own | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
political aspiration. Sorry, the other issue is the impact of all of | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
this on the Tory party, and the split. Indeed, and William Hague has | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
written a long article in the Telegraph, but let us go to the | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Financial Times and John sterling tumbles as Cameron takes on Brexit. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Sterling fell while the FTSE went up. I was puzzled. I am sure it was | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
explained to you it went up because of the rise in oil prices but the | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
pound went down to a near seven year low, and several agencies, Moody are | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
saying for example, that this, this, it was all down the announcement by | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Boris and the uncertainty about Britain's future in or outside the | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
EU. I could lead to a more expensive Government borrowing. You know | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
whether you believe Moody or not. Fitch are saying much of the same | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
thing. Two of the three. Two of the big three. Again, all, as a | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
consequence of Boris's pronouncement. It is not the Prime | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Minister o or those on the in camps staying it is the politics of fear, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
sterling, this is what happened. It just happened. On the uncertainty of | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
the possibility. It was on the back of one politics, albeit a very | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
well-known one, popular, a record of vote winning saying he was going to | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
take a certain position. This is not, you can only picture what might | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
happen, should Britain pull out. The reality is I don't think any of us | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
know. There are those on the leave side who will say sterling will | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
settle if Britain pulls out. It is good for exporters and people going | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
on holiday. The Huffington Post. We will bring up the Outside Source | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
picture of that. There it is. Which is which? We couldn't work it out. | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
This is a reference to Boris being savaged by Cameron in the Commons | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
over the second referendum claim. This is a battle of big beasts. It | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
is. Huffington Post have had a day of it. They had Boris mocked up as | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
Vicky Pollard in what they describe as a no but, yes, but impression of | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
how it might go. John, Pippa you will be back in an | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
hour, we will look at more of the story, maybe we will get beyond | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Boris but I doubt it. Stay with us, much more coming up but now time for | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
Sportsday. Welcome to Sportsday. Coming up | :11:52. | :12:10. | |
tonight. No FA Cup upset at new meadow as Manchester United see off | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Shrewsbury Town and reach the | :12:14. | :12:14. |