26/07/2016 The Papers

website, that is all from Sportsday for the moment, coming up, in a

moment, the Papers. STUDIO: Hello and welcome

to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me are Claire Cohen,

Womens Editor at the Telegraph and Charlie Wells, European Features

reporter at the Wall Street Journal. The FT says the prime minister

is coming under increasing pressure to pull out of the EU customs union

in the wake of Brexit before she begins negotiations

on leaving the EU. The Metro has

more on today's church attack in Normandy,

including a picture of one of the suspected killers

when he was 14 years old. The Express carries

another warning about a fresh influx of migrants wanting to claim

permanent residence in the UK is dominated by a picture

of the French Catholic priest murdered by two terrorists

apparently linked to Islamic State. Churches in Britain have been put on

terror attack after the attack, according to the Daily Mail.

The Guardian also leads on today's attack in France,

but also has Michelle Obama moving the Democratic Party's convention

A YouGov poll which puts the Conservatives 12

and claims two and a half million people who voted Labour at the last

election prefer Theresa May to Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister,

And the Mirror splashes with the kidnapping

in Brazil of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law.

Let's begin, another day, another awful tragedy, and atrocity, in

France, so we thought we would start tonight with Le Figero. The picture

of the priest here, here is the headline... Assassinated by

barbarians, killed by barbarians. Unbearable story. The interesting

thing to me is underneath all of the details, underneath, Nicholas

Sarkozy speaking. -- Le Figaro. Talking about calling on the

government to implement all counterterrorism measures proposed

by the right. We must be ruthless, this is war, he has said. Frantic

business. A number of people over the last few days and weeks have

called 2016 a sum of eight, it increasingly seems that way, this is

another specific targeted symbolic attack, that has created a sense of

momentum, it seems like a day does not go by where something like this

does not happen, and the details are particularly poignant. And Nicholas

Arcos's comments, particularly interesting, he has used strong

words, war, terrorism. It is very interesting in contrast to Francois

Hollande, is language around this, he has been a little weaker. --

Nicolas Sarkozy. He has called it does to the and an abomination. More

measured, some might say. Others would ponder what would happen if he

called an election tomorrow, he campaigned on the security of

France. It is not really looking like that, it is an increasingly

divided nation. As we move on, as we look at the Daily Telegraph, which

has the priest martyred by Isil, that is what is so awful, an elderly

man, standing in as priest, because most of the priests were away doing

something else, his throat cut. What is really striking about Le Figaro

and the Daily Telegraph, these photographs, really screams soft

target. Concert halls, church, trains... First attack in a church?

These are soft targets, places where people are not expecting to be

attacked, not on alert. Indeed, as Claire is saying, the pressure on

the French government is very intense. That is one of the

combative did things, there is so much data, there is so much

information that intelligence experts pass through, and we have

heard reports tonight about one of the attackers having been locked up

for a period of time. -- parse through. It is so difficult to keep

an eye on these threats, so much information out there. The man they

were talking about, at Alchemy is -- Adel Kermiche. A lot of people will

be looking to France tonight, less than two weeks since 84 people were

killed in Nice. There is going to impact how we do politics. Going

back to the Telegraph stories, interesting quotes from the uncle of

Adel Kermiche, saying that he has been manipulated by extremists. We

should remember there is a lot of young, vulnerable people out there

who can be radicalised very easily and very quickly.

This attack was filmed, clear propaganda. And actually, I thought

the use of the word martyr was very interesting, that is the kind of

language that Islamic State adopt. Absolutely... One of the other

newspapers, I have noticed, the times have this, it is religious

wars... Bitter divisions between religions, really accentuated, right

here in Europe. Without a doubt, in this Telegraph article they call it

a war with the West. Certainly this was the first attack. In a Christian

church. That amplifies it and changes the narrative we will be

having about these attacks. The minute that we are in a church, you

wonder about the motive, is it religious, is it ideologically? Will

street journal talking about the difference between the terrorism

that we have been seeing in the past two months compared to the terrorism

that was in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was more politicised and

getting back prisoners, exchanges, now this is a lot more random.

Moving on, Daily Mail, talking about this British churches on terror

alert... I remember talking to date to one of the Catholic

representatives in France, thousands of Catholic churches in France, we

have loads of judges there, security will be dreadfully difficult but 2.5

million more is going to be put into it. Soft targets, incredibly,

located, these places are easy to attack with low technology. This was

a knife attack! It is hard to trace the knife trade in any country.

Something that is interesting, the localisation of this story. This

attack happened in France but now we are talking about ramifications here

in the UK. Indeed. Moving on, moving on to the Daily Express. It does

have a picture of the murdered priest on its front page, but the

main story... New migrants surge on the way. The express always believes

in having bowled, straightforward headlines, what are they on about

tonight? Britain could face a flood, EU migrants rushing here to beat

Brexit. It is a story that seems to be about a couple of issues, whether

existing citizens are going to get any clarity on whether they will be

able to stay in Britain, and indeed, British citizens living in the EU,

what their fate is going to be, but also this and about whether there

will be a cut-off point of people coming to Britain ahead of article

50 being enacted. This is something the government have addressed, David

Davies said last week, than he was going to take a tough line. -- David

Davies. They talked about a cut-off point, Theresa May talked about that

before she was Prime Minister. It is whether we are going to stop people

coming here, and there is going to be a deadline by which migrants can

enter Britain. -- David Davis. It is all part... We do not know much

about... The express believes in getting a campaign going and

sticking to the line, if you don't know about its history. This is a

poll, by readers of the Daily Express, after showing that readers

are in favour of a very swift British departure. That is something

that I found interesting, a division between those who may be in favour

of Brexit, some want a quick departure, to wait it out,

interesting negotiating strategy on both sides. It sounds like Theresa

May is more interested in a slower process. Obviously there want to go

more quickly, it remains to be seen which one is more powerful in

negotiating. If you can bend John mine to British politics, the

times... Story about millions of Labour voters placing Theresa May

about Jeremy Corbyn, also... What is this about? Essentially, this is a

poll that was commissioned by the times, using YouGov, and

essentially, it seems to show that voters who voted Labour in a

previous election would actually favour Theresa May. It seems to

suggest there may be something of a bump for Theresa May, stability, may

be an issue here, in the days following the referendum, the

transfer of power from David Cameron to Theresa May, perhaps voters

appreciate that stability. Another issue this calls to mind, division

in the Labour Party right now. Right now we all know that the Labour

Party is trying to find a new leader, that process has been

somewhat acrimonious. There is the mention in the article of the

potential for Theresa May to call an early election on the back of this

so-called bump, which is, as we were saying, it could really help

Labour... Overcome its own divisions, splitting the divisions

which exist within the Tory party, in terms of remain and leave and

whether there should be an early election. I also found this

interesting, pointing out that Theresa May has a bigger lead than

Gordon Brown achieved after he succeeded Tony Blau. I have a

feeling this comes from across the Atlantic, I keep reading about

bounces for Donald Trump etc. Is there a difference between a bounce

and a bump! I think that a bounce is bigger than a bump. Patrick

McLoughlin, and seven party chairman, very much playing down the

whole business of an early election, we have this fixed term Parliament

act, you have got to get rid of that first. He is playing it down. He

said it would be very difficult, and the concern that is raised is that

Labour would then campaign to reverse the referendum result, which

could cause... We think we are divided now...! Could cause all

problems -- all sorts of problems. The Guardian, they have the attack

on terrible things in France, they made John Michelle Balmer moving the

convention to tears. -- they major on Michelle Obama. We have heard

cheering and lots of terrible things, but crying? 23 minutes

clapping for Donald Trump, at the Republican convention. Glitzy and

glossy and weeping... Not the kind of tub thumping action of Donald

Trump, far more glossy. Bill Clinton caught mouthing the words "Wow" when

Michelle Obama was speaking. We can go to the Convention right

now... Let's have a look at what is going on... There it is... Bernie,

again, it is obviously going to be Hillary Clinton... Seemed like a

bone that the DNC was willing to throw the sound of supporters, to

allow them to voice their support. Huge message at the convention, at

both conventions, has been this idea of unity, on the Democratic side

there has been bitter battles to get to the point where they are at now.

To rally. On this Michelle Obama speech, it seemed like an attempt to

soften Hillary Clinton, make her come off as a more personable

leader... And stress this whole business of the first female

president. Interesting story as well... Yes, the strategy seems to

be, will the Democratic party try to convince voters to vote for Hillary

Clinton or convince people to vote against Donald Trump, this speech

seemed to be telling Democratic voters to vote for Hillary Clinton,

Donald Trump was not even mentioned by Michelle Obama. Did we know that

she is a terrific speaker, her delivery seem to be very passionate,

as a speech it was more careerist than anything we have heard from

anybody! Does a lot of campaigning, we knew that she was a good speaker,

I worked in that area, she does a lot of campaigning for girls and

education, we saw her doing James Corden's show, last week, and being

very funny, and the controversy over whether Donald Trump's wife had

borrowed some of her speech. That is a nice way of putting it! We knew

that she was a good speaker. Before we go, the front pages... Let's look

at some of them coming in while we have been talking. The sun has more

on the killing of the priest in Normandy, by so-called Islamic State

soldiers, referred to as cowards by one expert. All front pages are

online in the BBC news website. You can read a detailed review.

You can see as their with each night of the newspapers been posted on the

page shortly after we have finished. Thank you very much.