28/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me are the former Conservative MP and the Managing Director

of Bell Pottinger, Tim Collins, and the Guardian's Deputy

The Daily Mirror leads with the anti-Semitism route which has

escalated in the Labour Party. Financial Times has a story about a

slowing US economic growth. The New Day leads with the woman

who gave birth after a car crash which the paper says

reversed her menopause. 'Work is key to a longer life'

is the Daily Express's headline. It details new research into how

working beyond retirement age The Guardian leads with

Ken Livingstone's suspension from the Labour Party,

including what the papers calls a revolt among MPs about

anti-Semitism within the party. The Daily Mail is also leading

with the former mayor's suspension - 'Labour's Civil War over

anti-Semitism' its headline. 'Throw Livingstone out

of Labour, MPs demand' The Daily Telegraph shows an image

of Labour MP John Mann who publicly accused Ken Livingstone

of being a 'Nazi apologist'. Let's begin. Obviously the

Livingston story is dominating. It is interesting the way the story

developed. The Daily Telegraph has reported about Ken Livingstone being

barked at on a staircase. This all started with Ken Livingstone

apparently trying to make things better after having to -- after the

Labour Party having to suspend a member yesterday for anti-Semitism.

He tried to defend her in a media round, and it just got worse and

worse through the morning. This picture on the Daily Telegraph front

page indicates the point where Jonathan Mann was haranguing him

when Ken Livingstone had been on a radio interview. It is quite

extraordinary. It is remarkable that this is happening just one week

before critical elections for the Labour Party, and many Labour MPs

are saying how angry they are that this can all meet damage Labour's

prospects. Extraordinary altogether. Ten Livingstone, an unusual figure,

but he seems to have Doug himself into an arm is whole and kept going.

-- into a whole and kept going. These headlines are... The Tories

have been very quiet, and why shouldn't they be? The headlines are

a nightmare, a week from elections. This confrontation here as well.

There was one Labour MP who said it was as if Ken Livingstone had gone

from studio to studio acting like some sort of political arsonist. It

is difficult to... The story is developing at your own paper. You

have got the front page that no sign of John Mann and there but

absolutely surrounded by eager journalists wanting to, not

believing the story is being delivered to them right on camera!

It is very difficult. There is a sort of pattern of behaviour. As far

as Ken Livingstone is concerned, he is somebody who likes the limelight

and reacts viscerally to what he perceives to be a tax on left-wing

or minority causes, especially when he considers it to be by the media

or some sort of establishment. This is the man he would say that he

would like to see the Saudi royal family hung from lamp posts. That is

no excuse at all, but I would say there is a pattern of behaviour. It

is worth remembering that only a couple of months ago, Jeremy Corbyn

appointed Ken Livingstone to be co-chair of Labour's policies Board,

and then he goes out to make the sort of remarks again. A short time

ago, he was not just a long-term friend of Jeremy Corbyn, but someone

that Jeremy Corbyn trusted with this review of this policy in this area,

and now he has been suspended, and is facing a number of calls for him

to be thrown out of the Labour Party entirely, not just suspended, but

actually injected from the party. I have spent long periods of time

working with MPs, they aren't tearing their hair out. There are

people who are decent and the Labour Party who can understand what is

happening to their party and that's people in the far left are doing

this to the reputation of Labour at such a critical time. There is no

shortage, and all of these front pages, of Labour MPs who are deeply

unhappy. I am happy about this but I am happy and away that the party has

been led since Jeremy Corbyn... This is a Tory approach to say this is a

proxy row for control of the Labour Party. It is not an invention in

that sense, but it is a proxy row, is it a proxy row about the future

of Jeremy Corbyn and so forth? I don't think so. It will play out

over the next couple of days. Ken Livingstone is set the shadow of

defence needed psychiatric help previously. And it turns out that

Kelvin Jones had spoken out bravely in public about his own mental

health problems. Ken Livingstone refused to apologise and apologised

by social media the next day. Very eccentric and defensive... Whether

it is a metaphor for the Labour Party is another thing. It is not

just one person. The whole leadership team, these are people

who are out of the Labour Party mainstreamed for the last 25-30

years, people who were deliberately kept out, they were not trusted by

those people who formed Labour governments. They are now in charge,

and although Ken Livingstone has had some extraordinary comments that

have revealed some of his thinking, it is just one individual. There is

a rail problem with the Labour Party. -- a real problem. You are

not saying John McDonald is anti-Semitic? No, I am not saying

that at all. Some of the rivalry between John McDonald and as Ken

Livingstone is part of what is going on. Let's move forward. We have the

MPs who had at least apologised. Ken Livingstone has not apologised. Can

you see him being thrown out of the Labour Party? Yes. They clearly

will. There has got to be an inquiry, but you would have to say

that if this was a self-inflicted wound, nobody else responsible, and

if that proves to be fatal, and he has to leave public life and

politics, as has been subjected by some, he has no-one else to blame

but himself. Let's move onto a completely different story but one

that might have more repercussions, I would have thought. The Financial

Times front page. Slow down in US growth sparks doubts over economic

durability. Financial speak, but a serious issue. Extremely serious and

it is forming a pattern of behaviour which is quite worrying. The first

quarter is always a sluggish and shows a growth of 0.5%. That is

quite a problem. Business investment is down, consumer spending is down.

This is starting to follow a pattern of behaviour. Japan might have

tumbled back into deflation. We have this Chinese figures showing that

Chinese growth is the lowest it has been for seven years. China has been

trying to rebalance their economy from trade to domestic consumption.

The Chinese figure looks quite good. If you talk about the UK, the UK

figure this first quarter is 0.4%. We have got no problems there.

George Osborne says our pressure is not necessarily going to come from

China or the US, it is going to come from the threat of Brexit. George

Osborne is a man we take very seriously. He says that if we have

this threat weighing down on our economy... There was eye opening,

you start pointing out the Financial Times says there is a slowdown in

Japan, a slowdown in the United States, a slowdown in Brazil. These

are all because of the Brexit! Businesses in Brazil are not saying,

I am really worried about the Brexit for random so I will not invest. But

what Paul is saying, because he is right about what George Osborne said

about the UK slowdown, we will hear over the next two months that

slowdowns, drops in the global stock market, a 10% drop in the stock

market globally in January, we will keep being told for the next two

months that any setback is because of Brexit. These figures absolutely

demonstrate that that is rubbish. The world is slowing down. It will

be blamed in the UK on the uncertainty of the referendum and it

has nothing to do with it. For people wondering, what has it got to

do with me? What would you say? What it means is that we know, Gordon

Brown famously said he would abolish boom and bust, no-one can do that.

Economy is growing in sharp spurts and they sometimes a slowdown and

sometimes drop back. For the next year or two, there will be an

economic slowdown, maybe even another recession, maybe not a

depression, and we need to be ready for that. We probably need to

tighten our belts again. We have heard that one before! If June 23

goes well, we will see a bit of a surge. If we do not leave, there

will be a surge, you are right. We have got long on this one, work

being the key to a longer life. Do you intend to work forever? It is

one of those things, a well-founded study from Oregon saying that you

increase your life expectancy were cut your risk of dying, which is a

different thing, if you carry on working. Only 20% of people in their

late 60s carry on working. Express readers will get quite excited about

this but the government would have a bit of a problem on their hands. My

father-in-law is convinced that he has been right about this. He and

his work colleagues all retired from their big job building submarines

years ago and he carried on doing other work and he is healthy and

well into his 80s. So, it is true. Inside page of the Daily Mail, best

headline of the day. Marvellous! It is fantastic. The Royal Mail wrote a

letter to the owners of this cat saying they have had a health and

safety risk assessment about it and the caps could not be delivered. A

very fierce black and white cat! That is it for tonight. -- the cat

could not be delivered. Before you go, these

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