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:00:00. > :00:00.end to the crisis in Syria at the start of a three`day tour to the

:00:00. > :00:16.Middle`East, which will also take in the West Bank and Israel.

:00:17. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what The Papers will be bringing

:00:22. > :00:24.us tomorrow. With me are Yasmin Alibhai`Brown, columnist from the

:00:25. > :00:32.Independent and Martin Bentham from the London Evening Standard.

:00:33. > :00:34.The Observer claims that the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, will use his

:00:35. > :00:38.party's success in this week's local elections to draw up a list of 20

:00:39. > :00:42.parliamentary seats to target at next year's general election. The

:00:43. > :00:45.Independent on Sunday's front page gives coverage to calls for Nick

:00:46. > :00:52.Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, to stand down.

:00:53. > :00:54.ongoing row over Prince Charles' ongoing row over Prince Charles'

:00:55. > :00:57.comments about Russia's President Vladimir Putin. The Sunday Times

:00:58. > :01:00.leads on a story about calls from some Conservative MPs for an early

:01:01. > :01:05.referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. And the Mail on Sunday

:01:06. > :01:08.devotes its entire front page to a picture of the man suspected of

:01:09. > :01:16.killing six people in a series of drive`by shootings. They express

:01:17. > :01:22.also covers the shooting but its main story relates to the rising

:01:23. > :01:27.value of the pound, which experts say is good news for British

:01:28. > :01:35.holiday`makers. We will begin with the Observer. Triumphant UKIP draws

:01:36. > :01:41.up a hit list of 20 key seats to storm Commons. We should not be

:01:42. > :01:49.surprised about this? I just wish we would keep our heads and keep some

:01:50. > :01:56.proportion. Of course they are high. I don't think it will be 20,

:01:57. > :02:02.myself. But they will attempt to get people into Parliament. The whole

:02:03. > :02:08.personality of Nigel Farage at the personality of Nigel Farage at the

:02:09. > :02:18.moment. He is the face. Finding even 15 equivalent people, I hope they

:02:19. > :02:27.will. You hope they will? If they want to do it, let them do it. You

:02:28. > :02:34.are not a fan of UKIP? Let them fight the election, but the mistake

:02:35. > :02:41.is to make them the centre of the story, which they have been for over

:02:42. > :02:44.two months. Keep our heads. Even the council elections, they got a small

:02:45. > :02:49.proportion of the thousands of seats. Is there a durability of this

:02:50. > :02:55.interest in UKIP and will they attract enough people to stand in

:02:56. > :02:58.these seats? I am sure they will attract enough people to stand, but

:02:59. > :03:05.whether they get the seats, is a different issue. For the next year,

:03:06. > :03:12.they are going to be on everybody's mind. All of the political parties

:03:13. > :03:19.and we have seen that in all the papers. People across Westminster

:03:20. > :03:24.and across the country in political parties will be reacting to what

:03:25. > :03:29.they see the UKIP threat to be in their particular policy areas and

:03:30. > :03:33.trying to counter it. They are worried about them taking a few

:03:34. > :03:40.thousand votes. It will be a problem for each party in certain seats. It.

:03:41. > :03:48.The main parties being dismissive of UKIP? They should not be dismissive

:03:49. > :03:53.of them, but also we should not be obsessed that the only way forward

:03:54. > :04:01.is to imitate UKIP. It is part of the Democratic competition. But for

:04:02. > :04:07.me it is the Tea Party moment. Remember the Tea Party in America,

:04:08. > :04:13.it is exactly like this. Showing up the other established parties,

:04:14. > :04:19.unnerving them. But they are part of the republican movement? No, they

:04:20. > :04:22.have done what UKIP have done with the Tories. They have said, we are

:04:23. > :04:32.the new kids on the block, where are they now? What UKIP does do, and it

:04:33. > :04:37.is part of the Democratic rosettes, there has been an attempt to shut

:04:38. > :04:41.them down saying they are saying racist things and people don't like

:04:42. > :04:45.and trying to shout them down. That is what parties have got to take

:04:46. > :04:53.notice of. They have attracted 17% of the vote in this election. They

:04:54. > :04:57.are attracting support. Why that is, is something all of the parties have

:04:58. > :05:05.got to think about and respond to it. We have had this in the past

:05:06. > :05:13.because Labour in the last election admitted they did not address the

:05:14. > :05:17.immigration argument. I don't agree with you that they have had no

:05:18. > :05:27.access through the media. They have had disproportionate access. I did

:05:28. > :05:32.not mean in the media. The media has helped them. If I was in the Green

:05:33. > :05:39.Party, I would be upset over the media attention they have got. To

:05:40. > :05:46.say they have not been treated fairly by the media is false. I was

:05:47. > :05:51.talking about the idea that when you get a party coming from the margins

:05:52. > :05:57.and they take some hardline positions, like in this case,

:05:58. > :06:02.immigration. There is a tendency to shout them down and said they are

:06:03. > :06:07.saying things unacceptable. But that does not resonate with a lot of

:06:08. > :06:11.people in the country who think, they are talking about things in the

:06:12. > :06:16.country we want to talk about and not being talked about sufficiently

:06:17. > :06:24.by the mainstream parties. Let's have a look at those other parties

:06:25. > :06:41.who have had their noses bloodied. They haven't. That is just a cliche

:06:42. > :06:50.that we use. Lib Dems in a bid to oust Mr Clegg. How safe is his

:06:51. > :06:55.position? Who else would there be? There is talk about Vince Cable. But

:06:56. > :07:01.the Lib Dems have to be frank with a disastrous scenario looming. For any

:07:02. > :07:05.credit the coalition gets from voters for bringing the economy

:07:06. > :07:12.round, if people take that view, that will go to the Tories and not

:07:13. > :07:17.the Lib Dems, I suspect. Those Lib Dem supporters who were attracted to

:07:18. > :07:24.them being to the left of Labour are now in Peoria ate at. They are

:07:25. > :07:29.losing either way. Nick Clegg did not keep his pledge on tuition fees,

:07:30. > :07:35.which was a catastrophic mistake on his part. It is what they had to

:07:36. > :07:39.show to their supporters. I remember Nick Clegg in the first debate in

:07:40. > :07:46.the last election. Everybody responded to him like they are

:07:47. > :07:49.responding to Nigel Farage. He was new and not part of the

:07:50. > :07:52.establishment. These things are appealing for a little while. I

:07:53. > :07:59.don't know what will happen if the results for the Lib Dems carry on

:08:00. > :08:05.being as bad as they are. I have one off them, like many other people,

:08:06. > :08:09.but I did respect Nick Clegg for doing those debates because it was

:08:10. > :08:12.brave to come up with powerful arguments to stay in Europe. I did

:08:13. > :08:19.add my VAT. This is the response from the Lib Dems. Their spokesman

:08:20. > :08:22.has said these concerns about the results should be taken seriously

:08:23. > :08:25.but the party should not have its message distorted by needless

:08:26. > :08:30.infighting. After every difficult election, some colleagues will have

:08:31. > :08:39.concerns that should referring to the leadership. He goes on to say we

:08:40. > :08:49.knew these elections would be tough and it is always disappointing when

:08:50. > :08:53.councillors lose their seats. Now is the time to get our message across

:08:54. > :08:59.and shout what we are doing in government. The needless infighting

:09:00. > :09:04.is the eye`opener and tells the story of all the parties. Every

:09:05. > :09:09.party now, over the next year will be thinking about what their

:09:10. > :09:14.position is, how they will respond. You have the stories about labour

:09:15. > :09:18.and Ed Miliband and so on. Tonight you have the Lib Dems talking about

:09:19. > :09:22.Nick Clegg. And then the focus on the Tories on what they should be

:09:23. > :09:28.doing. Every party is worried about their leadership. Let's have a look

:09:29. > :09:37.at what they might be doing in the Sunday Times. Tories press PM to

:09:38. > :09:42.call an early EU vote. What the parties should do is come together

:09:43. > :09:50.against the divisive politics of Nigel Farage. It is important. I

:09:51. > :10:02.wish we had had an early referendum. Before 2015? Yes. It has

:10:03. > :10:08.created this mood that people are not asked about this important

:10:09. > :10:12.decision. The last time they were asked was 1975 after we had already

:10:13. > :10:17.joined. I do in `` understand that feeling. What should the question

:10:18. > :10:26.be? Should it be in, should we be out? David Cameron is right by

:10:27. > :10:30.saying we need to have something to vote on. He wants to have a

:10:31. > :10:35.renegotiation. What we should have had a vote on is Lisbon in the last

:10:36. > :10:40.treaty when there is something substantial to vote on. We haven't

:10:41. > :10:47.had those votes and that has created pressure for a new vote. There could

:10:48. > :10:52.be three options, in, out, stay in and reform. Let's move on to

:10:53. > :10:59.something other than the elections. The Sunday Telegraph. President

:11:00. > :11:03.Putin hits back at Prince Charles. It is a conversation Prince Charles

:11:04. > :11:11.thought he was having in private. But you're never with a microphone.

:11:12. > :11:15.Vladimir Putin suggesting it was an acceptable and not very royal in his

:11:16. > :11:22.behaviour for Prince Charles to have compared him with Adolf Hitler. Hot

:11:23. > :11:33.water again for the Prince of Wales? President Putin has regally

:11:34. > :11:42.dismissed him. He has said, he is a well brought up person. So pay with

:11:43. > :11:47.a withering dismissal. I can understand the anger. How can you

:11:48. > :12:00.say this when 26 Russians died in the Second World War. Million.

:12:01. > :12:04.Million, sorry yes. We were never taught this at school about what

:12:05. > :12:11.happened. So not to remember that was unfortunate. President Putin is

:12:12. > :12:17.hitting back here, but it is in response to questions he was asked

:12:18. > :12:22.and it does appear he is not trying to inflame the situation, he is

:12:23. > :12:27.trying to play it down by saying Prince Charles knows he should have

:12:28. > :12:38.known better. He is a bit like Prince Philip. Perhaps been too many

:12:39. > :12:47.moments from him. The Observer, fair trade goods not helping the poor.

:12:48. > :13:04.That would be upsetting for people who seek out fair trade products.

:13:05. > :13:10.I was born in Uganda and I make it my business to support businesses

:13:11. > :13:15.from that region. I think people are happy to pay more for fair trade

:13:16. > :13:20.products. Unfortunately we do not have the rest of the story because

:13:21. > :13:31.he cannot see the explanation. This is regarding wider wages are lower.

:13:32. > :13:34.It is apparently taking the same equivalent type of production of the

:13:35. > :13:41.same products and coming up with this conclusion. This is an economic

:13:42. > :13:47.professor at University of London who has said it has not improved the

:13:48. > :13:56.lives of workers. We will try and get statistics for the next hour. We

:13:57. > :14:03.will be back again for moral look `` for a look at The Papers. The

:14:04. > :14:11.headlines, a man has been arrested for the shooting at the Jewish Ms

:14:12. > :14:37.Hume in Brussels. Coming up now, Reporters. `` Jewish Museum.

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