:00:00. > :00:00.have their hands on the challenge cup. That is all in Sportsday in 15
:00:00. > :00:18.minutes. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:19. > :00:22.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Hugh Muir,
:00:23. > :00:26.diary editor at The Guardian and Sue Matthias, Editor of the FT Weekend
:00:27. > :00:31.Magazine. Unsurprisingly, the local elections is on lots of the front
:00:32. > :00:34.pages. The Independent shows a cheerful
:00:35. > :00:39.Nigel Farage, celebrating the local election results.
:00:40. > :00:42.It's much the same on the front of the Daily Mail, the paper reporting
:00:43. > :00:46.that the shadow cabinet's turned on Ed Miliband following the polls.
:00:47. > :00:49.Nigel Farage is on the front of the Express the main story though is the
:00:50. > :00:51.discovery of a protein that could protect against dementia.
:00:52. > :00:54.The FT's lead is their investigation into the French economist who, the
:00:55. > :00:57.paper claims, got his sums wrong in his bestselling book.
:00:58. > :01:00.Nigel Farage is a hurricane, says the I, reporting that the era of
:01:01. > :01:04.four`party politics has begun in Britain.
:01:05. > :01:09.The discovery of the Cheeky Rafiki's hull in the Atlantic leads the Daily
:01:10. > :01:12.Mirror. Labour's been thrown into crisis by
:01:13. > :01:16.the local election results, says the Telegraph.
:01:17. > :01:19.And, little mention of the elections in the Times the paper leads with
:01:20. > :01:29.claims that supermarket bosses regularly ignore expiry dates on the
:01:30. > :01:32.foods they eat at home. Let's begin, as we have to with
:01:33. > :01:38.Nigel Farage who is on the front of so many papers. Is described as a
:01:39. > :01:44.hurricane in. The ear for party politics in England after the UKIP
:01:45. > :01:48.rake through. I imagine it is one of the scriptures he would be quite
:01:49. > :01:56.happy with. Will have a very happy weekends. It is strange, if you step
:01:57. > :02:00.back a bit, UKIP have clearly done well but not quite as well as they
:02:01. > :02:04.would have wanted. They are actually six points down on last year. They
:02:05. > :02:08.did not do it very well at all in London. The only got 7% of the vote
:02:09. > :02:14.there. They will want to ponder on that. As you mentioned, they took
:02:15. > :02:19.about this being the beginning of the year up of four party politics.
:02:20. > :02:24.I am not sure about this. I am still not convinced that this is just not
:02:25. > :02:30.a humongous protest vote. I think the electorate has... It knows what
:02:31. > :02:34.he wants a particular time and at the moment he wants to send a
:02:35. > :02:37.message to the other parties and it sees UKIP as a good way of doing
:02:38. > :02:43.that. Whether or not means that UKIP has a locked in constituency, I am
:02:44. > :02:48.yet to be convinced. The two real subject that people are protesting
:02:49. > :02:52.over by beating bought UKIP is immigration and the EU. Neither of
:02:53. > :02:57.which, local councils can do anything about. No, absolutely. He
:02:58. > :03:02.is looking very happy because he has managed to change the political
:03:03. > :03:05.weather. He knows that he is not going to have to do anything about
:03:06. > :03:10.it himself. He can stand back and enjoy his drink and know that he has
:03:11. > :03:22.thrown the parties into complete disarray. Because, they are being
:03:23. > :03:27.challenged on, what will we do about Nigel at this Farage. Stage, one
:03:28. > :03:30.year before the next general election, they would have hoped to
:03:31. > :03:34.do better. Even though they have gained nearly 300 seats in taking
:03:35. > :03:39.control of councils that they have long wanted to take control. That is
:03:40. > :03:45.politics. How can you have a date where you win 256 and you are still
:03:46. > :03:49.unhappy. But they are in position. They still aren't pulling away from
:03:50. > :03:55.the Conservatives. If you look at the projections, they are not where
:03:56. > :03:57.they would want to be. There will be some skittishness within the Labour
:03:58. > :04:04.Party. We are hearing about it already. People saying it was a
:04:05. > :04:08.pretty abysmal election campaign and Ed Miliband needs to think about his
:04:09. > :04:13.strategy. And maybe he does it the whole idea is that UKIP will take
:04:14. > :04:17.more seats away from the Tories and make his job easier because a big
:04:18. > :04:22.wake`up call of this is that he has to consider how many seats will UKIP
:04:23. > :04:27.take from Labour? Is quite interesting that Ed Balls suddenly
:04:28. > :04:38.comes in and a go. Talking about kicking a mount when he is down. ``
:04:39. > :04:43.a man when he is down. It is not exactly a united front, is it? Ed
:04:44. > :04:49.Balls says we have to do better. Maybe he was talking about himself.
:04:50. > :05:01.Speaking of Ed Miliband, he is on the inside of the sun. A big
:05:02. > :05:08.headache. A kick in the ballots. Headline writers dream. What has Ed
:05:09. > :05:14.Miliband got to do? In London, he did not have to much of a problem.
:05:15. > :05:21.Sadiq Khan was looking after things for the campaign. It is one thing to
:05:22. > :05:26.say, we are listening and we have to do some indifferent but what? I
:05:27. > :05:31.imagine that they are asking themselves the same question. We
:05:32. > :05:37.were saying earlier just before we came on that actually, they have
:05:38. > :05:42.hired somebody who ought to be able to help them which is David
:05:43. > :05:51.Axelrod. Who was Barack Obama's adviser with blue exactly. No doubt
:05:52. > :05:55.at some expense to advise exactly on this kind of situation. Where do
:05:56. > :06:03.they go from here? One of the problems that Ed Miliband does face
:06:04. > :06:07.at the moment is the fact that he projects a nice guy, he projects
:06:08. > :06:12.policies which are interesting and which are thoughtful. He just
:06:13. > :06:17.doesn't project the image of a leader. At the moment. And he hasn't
:06:18. > :06:24.got long to turn around. We were saying that, maybe David Axelrod may
:06:25. > :06:27.be able to help with that. Maybe with a personality issue, in
:06:28. > :06:33.American elections, personality is a huge issue. A presidential elections
:06:34. > :06:37.you are looking at the character and the image of a particular
:06:38. > :06:40.individual. Character and image is his problem because if you look at
:06:41. > :06:45.the policies that he comes up with, if you look at many of his ideas,
:06:46. > :06:51.people agree with them. They just have a problem with his
:06:52. > :06:58.personality. It's not going to be the same for the dish prime minister
:06:59. > :07:11.as the US president. `` British prime minister. It is completely
:07:12. > :07:20.different. The question of leadership still remains. Put him
:07:21. > :07:25.against any of the candidates, Nigel Farage against David Cameron or Nick
:07:26. > :07:29.Clegg and somehow, Ed Miliband does not look like the guy who is going
:07:30. > :07:33.to be prime minister. The voters smell of only very quickly. What
:07:34. > :07:38.they have got to do with Ed Miliband is try and find a version of him
:07:39. > :07:41.that had they can present to the electorate that is authentic. If
:07:42. > :07:48.they try and compare him with some of the other party leaders to make
:07:49. > :07:54.him as genial as Nigel Farage or as slick as Cameron. Remember that
:07:55. > :08:03.terrible clip that did the rounds where some body had a go at changing
:08:04. > :08:08.Gordon Brown. And sort of... It did not work for him at all. You have to
:08:09. > :08:15.be careful with the changes you make. Let's move on to a different
:08:16. > :08:23.leader. The Conservatives and the Prime Minister, pressure to do a
:08:24. > :08:27.deal with UKIP. There will be no pact ordeals with UKIP, he says.
:08:28. > :08:36.David Cameron telling his backbenchers. Given that UKIP did
:08:37. > :08:41.not do as well this year, whether it would be a crazy idea to throw your
:08:42. > :08:46.lot in with UKIP on the strength of just this set of election results.
:08:47. > :08:50.Surely not. I think this is an instant reaction, playing to the
:08:51. > :08:58.events of the day. They don't want to seem to be arrogance. That is one
:08:59. > :09:07.of the problems that this Tory leadership does have. I think they
:09:08. > :09:12.are trying to present the idea that they are listening and that they are
:09:13. > :09:21.taking an interest in the concerns are raised by UKIP. I think it would
:09:22. > :09:28.be extraordinary if the Tories were to go into any kind of pact with
:09:29. > :09:36.UKIP. They have 12 months to change their policies then. To nuke the
:09:37. > :09:40.problems. A short`term and long`term problems. A short`term and long`term
:09:41. > :09:44.problem. The short`term is what they will do at the next election and I
:09:45. > :09:48.think what they will seek to do is to move in UKIP's direction not so
:09:49. > :09:56.they become UKIP at so they can extract from UKIP the soft
:09:57. > :10:05.supporters it might halve. `` might have. The long`term issue is that if
:10:06. > :10:08.you look at Tory election share of the vote over the election, it is
:10:09. > :10:12.going down. There are people having structural discussions about where
:10:13. > :10:16.to the party go? Where will our support Comp Robert? A lot will come
:10:17. > :10:20.from areas that they are very popular at the moment. From women,
:10:21. > :10:27.the north and with ethnic minorities. There will be a problem
:10:28. > :10:29.if they go in the UKIP direction particularly picking up the big
:10:30. > :10:32.minority vote. They will have to square that circle between the
:10:33. > :10:38.short`term imperative and the long`term imperative. Let's move
:10:39. > :10:43.away from the local elections. Police Federation elect new chairman
:10:44. > :10:49.on a possible according. Which is quite an interesting way of deciding
:10:50. > :10:54.who is going to be in charge. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, had
:10:55. > :10:56.some interstate to the federations annual conference this week with a
:10:57. > :11:03.warning that if they don't reform themselves, she will do it for them.
:11:04. > :11:09.One of your previous incarnations, you are home affairs a specialist? I
:11:10. > :11:13.did a lot of police reporting. You must take an interest in the
:11:14. > :11:17.machinations of organisations like the Police Federation Ozil I think
:11:18. > :11:23.it is marvellous that they have taken everything that Theresa May
:11:24. > :11:32.has said to heart. Everything about reform and modernisation. They need
:11:33. > :11:37.a new leader is because a coin. I think it is extraordinary. Part of
:11:38. > :11:41.the thing with the organisation, they try to have a new start they
:11:42. > :11:45.had gone through a period of self harm. The committee looked at the
:11:46. > :11:51.Police Federation and did not like what you saw at all. Internally, it
:11:52. > :11:58.had serious problems. Theresa May, she was critical to the point of
:11:59. > :12:03.brutal with them. They have a new chairman now elected on the toss of
:12:04. > :12:07.a coin and perhaps, he will be able to lead them into more tranquil
:12:08. > :12:15.territory. The Police Federation needs a period of calm. They were
:12:16. > :12:20.embroiled in the Plebgate affair with Andrew Mitchell and have had a
:12:21. > :12:23.terrible time. Absolutely terrible. And all entirely of their own
:12:24. > :12:29.making. I think this is completely bizarre. Just the image of all these
:12:30. > :12:36.men standing behind closed doors in secret and then deciding to sort of
:12:37. > :12:41.through a coin. We should all just be grateful that the man who got it
:12:42. > :12:48.seems to be the reforming candidate, rather than the other
:12:49. > :12:54.one. Talk about public image! Honestly, what are they doing? It is
:12:55. > :12:58.a shambles. I do not know why we bother with elections, we should
:12:59. > :13:07.just tossed coins. It would save a lot of money wouldn't it? Let's stay
:13:08. > :13:16.with the times, seaside house prices rose by 42% in a decade. If only we
:13:17. > :13:21.bought a house by the English Riviera! I was looking at it,
:13:22. > :13:26.thinking, this is interesting. House prices have gone up in places by the
:13:27. > :13:31.sea, but who is buying these houses? What is this story about? The report
:13:32. > :13:35.does not tell us that. These places are going up in price. Our local
:13:36. > :13:43.people buying the houses that those prices, perhaps not. Are they second
:13:44. > :13:49.houses, or second homes, sorry. It is an interesting weekend story
:13:50. > :13:51.about housing prices which is obviously on everyone's minds.
:13:52. > :13:59.Woodward talking about the overheated housing market, it is
:14:00. > :14:03.presented as if it is a great thing. `` we were talking. It can be a
:14:04. > :14:10.rotten thing, if it means that people born and bred there cannot
:14:11. > :14:14.buy property, in their own locality. This is a selected few seaside
:14:15. > :14:19.towns, I read this, and I think of all of the other seaside towns, some
:14:20. > :14:22.of which are ailing pretty badly. They could probably do with an
:14:23. > :14:27.injection of these kinds of funds. The same does not go for all seaside
:14:28. > :14:31.places at all, does it? Not at all, others are in a terrible state and
:14:32. > :14:37.people buying into these towns could people buying into these towns could
:14:38. > :14:44.show some more originality? Let's finish with Matt, the cartoon in the
:14:45. > :14:48.Daily Telegraph, he manages to conflate two different stories, we
:14:49. > :14:52.have two people here sitting, in their trembling sitting room, and
:14:53. > :14:58.the caption is" is this a political earthquake or have they started
:14:59. > :15:07.fracking? " . Nigel Farage manages to indirectly make this way into the
:15:08. > :15:13.Matt cartoon. `` make this way. Whether we will have the tremors for
:15:14. > :15:21.very long, we don't know. With all of these efforts to make it. He
:15:22. > :15:24.manages to bring two different stories together `` his. All stories
:15:25. > :15:33.will feature him for a while, Farage, at least for 24 hours!
:15:34. > :15:39.That is it for The Papers this evening, we will see you both later,
:15:40. > :15:42.thank you to both of my guests. At midnight we will have more on the
:15:43. > :15:59.results of local elections the next it is time for Sportsday. `` but
:16:00. > :16:00.next. Hello and welcome to Sportsday ` I'm