09/03/2016 The Papers

prices, which will mean cheap it tickets for travelling fans, and a

surprise result in the World 2020 cricket tournament where Ireland

were playing Oman. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Tony Grew,

the political reporter The Entertainment Editor

of the Huffington Post. The Express leads on Buckingham

Palace's disquiet after the Queen was accused of favouring

Britain leaving the EU. The row between the Sun

newspaper and the Palace It says the Justice Secretary

Michael Gove is implicated Sir George Martin and Sir Paul

McCartney are pictured in the Guardian following

the producer's death Its main story is the defeat

of the government's plan to relax The Independent also carries

tributes to the so-called 'fifth He's described by Sir Paul

as "the most generous, intelligent and musical

person" he'd ever known. The 'i' says the number of people

employed in the UK on zero hour contracts has increased

and accuses bosses of The FT carries a warning

from senior bankers in Europe about the dangers of

negative interest rates. The paper says a further cut

in rates is widely expected. And the jail terms given to five

members of the gang behind the Hatton Garden diamond heist

feature in the Metro. The sentences of up to seven years

are described as 'soft'. We start with the Daily Telegraph,

goat faces Queen Brexit questions, following the sun's front page

yesterday. A private dinner back in 2011, where apparently the Queen is

supposed to have shown her colours as a Eurosceptic. This has been a

developing story through the day, we have had the unusual step of the

palace complaining to the press standards watchdog about yesterday's

story. Journalists being journalists pretty quickly can work up from

official documents he was at the meeting with the Privy Council, who

was at the lunch immediately afterwards and he might have leaked

it. Nick Clegg was there and went out and said he didn't know anything

about it, so by process of elimination it seems to be that the

Daily Telegraph is pointing the finger at Justice Secretary, Michael

Gove, who is a close friend of the Prime Minister and surprise many

people by saying that he was going to vote for Brexit to the UK to

leave the European Union, and now appears to be in a little bit of hot

water. It is interesting how closely written the Daily Telegraph's story

is. It says the Justice Secretary refused to deny that he was the

source. Has to go's spokesman said we don't comment on private

conversations with the Queen and sources close to the Justice

Secretary, I assume that it in himself, said he has no idea where

the source of the leak came from. There have been calls for the

cabinet secretary to investigate this, because if the Queen can't

trust her ministers not to go out and blood things she has said in

private, it is pretty bad for the way in which the government works.

Caroline, The Sun because it is now being referred to the press

watchdog, its defence is that this is a credible source, we won't

reveal it, but it is a credible source and the story has a certain

veracity to it. The problem is linking and a bad back in 2011, for

there was any talk of a referendum with a referendum five years later,

six years later? Yes, five years between a conversation over a quiet

lunch table and now all of the headlines and the balance... The

Queen is emphatically neutral all the time, I have never heard her

views about anything, and as we know, David Cameron, when he even

hinted that he had heard after the Scottish referendum, that was

slapped down and he had to backtrack. This is pretty

unprecedented, as far as I can remember and it doesn't look good

for Michael Gove, particularly after those images of him having that

late-night assignation with Boris Johnson, the night before Boris came

out. It is starting to add up to a bit of a cloak and dagger 's game

which is not quite the dignity they would wish to discuss this kind of

debate. To be breaking the confidence of Her Majesty The Queen

is something that is just not done and could cause whoever did it, and

the suggestion is that it is Mr Gove, though he has so far not

suggesting that he did it, it could cause big problems. The Hatton

Garden gang escaped with soft sentences? They are not actually

that soft because all of these gentlemen have served a certain

amount of time while they were waiting to be sentenced. People will

look at this and think perhaps these chaps have enjoyed a certain

glorification of their particular sting because of their ages? I feel

like there is a certain sort of... They hatch the whole thing in a pub

in North London. One of them arrived on a bus. A three-day extravaganza,

the thing did not go through the wall so somebody had to go through

machine Mart in Twickenham, other shops are available, and stock up on

supplies. It reeks of classic French connection, Italian job caper. There

is probably people might wonder if the judge, even besides inside, he

has said this thing stands alone, I doubt he has been perhaps caught out

by the glamour of it all the sentiment, but I am glad they are

not serving 30 years, I can't tell you why, I know they have done

wrong. There are some who would argue, particularly those who lost a

lot of cash in this, that this was not a victimless crime and the

sentences are soft, and at some point there will be a hearing next

year I think where they will have to point out where the rest of the loot

is stashed, and if they don't do that, then they could be a change in

sentences. There is something strange in our culture that seemed

to sentimentalise what are crimes. People like the craze. French

Connexion, sounds more like an Ealing comedy. There was something I

find slightly troubling about that. We were saying this earlier, no

doubt someone is writing a screenplay about this, you could not

make up some of the detail about this.

These people are criminals. There are victims here, people have had

items stolen that have not been returned. Very rich people. Very

rich people. That is right then. Let's not get into that, they broke

the law, they are going to jail. Would it be a comedy or a

tragicomedy, the film? The comedy aspect is they end up getting

caught. It is not that they escaped with all the loot, they will end up

in the 60s and 70s serving time. Some may even end up dying in jail,

you never know. We interviewed a chap called Noel Razor Smith, in

relation to all this, talking about career criminals, and why they have

to do just one more heist. There you go. Independent now, tributes all

over the papers to frankly a genius, Sir George Martin. Absolutely, I was

talking to Tony earlier about this, the fact you have somebody so

successful. Normally in the music injury you have had to burn if you

edges along the way to get to that status inevitably because it is such

a competitive field, but George Martin seems to have emerged through

seven decades of absolutely tireless music devotion, and worked with so

many artists. As we saw from the tributes today, nobody had a bad

word to say about him. Sir Paul McCartney talking about not just the

craft but the person as well. George Martin was responsible for bringing

those for mop tops into the studio and turning them from a people

pleasing quartet into something so unique and extraordinary to define

the sound of the 20th century. Paul McCartney said today if anybody can

deserve to be called the fifth Beatle it is George Martin. You

listen to some of the work he did with the Beatles, tracks from the

White album, Sergeant Peppers and that kind of stuff, it sounds so

fresh and interesting. 30, 40 years on somehow, he gave that music a

veneer, a sheen, that meant it is going to last. It has had a huge

influence, now Caroline has to have other things I was going to say,

because I was going to make the point that actually what is

fascinating is that the Beatles were just a pop band, a boy band, and he

went on that journey with them through that fast exponent Asian

with music, sound and lyrics, and he was there. As he grew, the band grew

and he was part of it. The fifth Beatle as they say. He had a

classical training, so it as each one of theirs and imagination

expanded, Paul McCartney songwriting developing, John Lennon getting more

and more experiment, then you had George Harrison coming in with these

Eastern traditional sounds, and each time George Martin could match those

sound for sound. I remember in an interview John Lennon said I

basically told him I just wanted a sort of orange sound, and somehow he

created it. He found orange. Interesting story for the

government, Tony, he lost this vote on Sunday trading, a vote they

didn't necessarily have to lose? I was in the press gallery for most of

the day, it has been a long day. Sorry, mate! Glad to be here talking

about the Beatles and what orange sounds like, a welcome diversion!

But seriously it is almost inconceivable what a self-inflicted

wound fizzes. Local council will decide what is best for them. There

is a big group of Tory MPs, some of them Christians, motivated by faith,

who opposed this. The government have had an opportunity to say we

don't need to do this now, there is opposition to it, we will pull back

from its so there was confusion as to how the government allowed itself

to get into a position where was defeated and 31 votes. It is the

first defeat government has suffered in the House of Commons in this

Parliament, and what is worse is that the Prime Minister spent hours

of his time in House of Commons talking to MPs who were only elected

in May 2015 trying to convince them to vote with him, and he appears to

have failed. It is almost inexplicable. It seems strange, but

Caroline, there are people out there who don't believe that all the shops

should be open for the whole day on a Sunday. Some of those Tory rebels

did strike a chord with a lot of the public. I think so, we are all just

order to ramble what it was like to have a quiet Sunday. A very

disparate, separate distinct part of the week, and there is a certain

pleasure in that. You have to balance that with giving people the

services they have become used to. I can see how it happened, I am just

surprised got this far and has become such a major issue in what is

such a four time for the government generally. One of the big crux is of

the government has met argument is that Sunday is the most popular

shopping day online, and therefore retailers and I should being

pummelled by the fact people can go online and shot, but by that

rationale shops should be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as

is the internet. We will have to end it there. We will look at more of

the stories in the paper. Much more coming up now in Sportsday.