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:00:00. > :00:00.toppled in heavy rain. Country singer Dolly Parton says she feels

:00:00. > :00:00.like a rock star after filling in the biggest crowd of Glastonbury so

:00:00. > :00:21.far. Welcome to look ahead to what the

:00:22. > :00:27.papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are former government policy

:00:28. > :00:32.adviser and academic and the independent Whitehall editor Ollie

:00:33. > :00:37.White. Tomorrow's front pages. We start with the Financial Times,

:00:38. > :00:43.claims officials in Berlin will do everything in their power to stop

:00:44. > :00:46.the UK leaving the EU. David Cameron writes in the Telegraph that

:00:47. > :00:51.Britain's drive for EU reforms are on track. And he can do business

:00:52. > :00:55.with Jean`Claude Juncker. Elton John joins the debate about gay members

:00:56. > :01:00.of the clergy, saying in the Metro he believes Jesus would allow

:01:01. > :01:03.same`sex priests to marry. The express claims the fairing taking a

:01:04. > :01:07.state pension could leave thousands of people better off in the long

:01:08. > :01:13.run. ` deferring. The Guardian 's main picture is of Dolly Parton, who

:01:14. > :01:18.made her Glastonbury debut today. The Daily Mail, claims the Prince of

:01:19. > :01:21.Wales try to influence former Labour ministers on a range of issues from

:01:22. > :01:28.climate change to alternative medicine. The Times says plans to

:01:29. > :01:44.merge income tax and National Insurance will be a key part of the

:01:45. > :01:50.next Conservative manifesto. The German finance minister said it

:01:51. > :01:54.would be unimaginable for the UK to leave the EU. One wonders what he

:01:55. > :01:59.has in mind to stop us doing so. After the rows of last week everyone

:02:00. > :02:06.is busy picking up their toys and brain to put them back in the pram.

:02:07. > :02:10.Generally does not want the UK to leave because they would feel

:02:11. > :02:17.isolated and under the control of the Mediterranean bloc, Italy,

:02:18. > :02:19.Greece, Spain. It is in Germany's interest to try to persuade the

:02:20. > :02:23.Brits to stay, do everything they want. We thought we would get their

:02:24. > :02:28.help on Mr Juncker but that is not happen. Now you have him saying we

:02:29. > :02:32.want you to be part of Europe, will do everything we can. It is part of

:02:33. > :02:38.the consensus`building after last week. It is quite powerful some of

:02:39. > :02:42.what he said, historically, politically, democratically,

:02:43. > :02:47.culturally, with Britain is entirely indispensable for Europe, he says. `

:02:48. > :02:51.Great Britain. It's nice to know we're so needed in Europe, that we

:02:52. > :02:58.have is friends who speaks highly of us after the spot of last week. He

:02:59. > :03:02.won outright. ` us that. He has great consensus. He is an

:03:03. > :03:09.integration on this. People are licking their winds after last week.

:03:10. > :03:15.` weans. His comments come as the CBI business group says our economic

:03:16. > :03:24.growth relies on our membership of the EU and Ed Miliband is pulling on

:03:25. > :03:28.that as well. That is what big business and you can see the battle

:03:29. > :03:33.lines being drawn for 2017 if indeed there is a referendum. It is very

:03:34. > :03:37.clear that business, like they are beginning to do with the Scottish

:03:38. > :03:40.referendum will, very strongly and say, leaving the EU will be

:03:41. > :03:44.disastrous for British jobs, exports, and we may not like certain

:03:45. > :03:50.things about the EU, but we are far better in than out. One of the

:03:51. > :03:55.difficulties of the yes campaign, is people 's concerns about the EU,

:03:56. > :03:58.about immigration. I don't think there is anything David Cameron

:03:59. > :04:02.vehicle to get from the EU on free movement of people because that is

:04:03. > :04:06.at the core of what Europe is about. You can see a referendum campaign

:04:07. > :04:09.where Cameron is negotiating what is a decent settlement but doesn't hit

:04:10. > :04:13.the key concern of voters. I think that would be a real problem. Let's

:04:14. > :04:19.move on that day with this scene, the Daily Telegraph has David

:04:20. > :04:23.Cameron writing in it tomorrow. ` theme. Declaring he can do business

:04:24. > :04:27.with Jean`Claude Juncker, insisting his drive for European reform is on

:04:28. > :04:32.track as she was saying. The interpersonal are still good, and

:04:33. > :04:37.there has been the same court today, much being made of the fact the two

:04:38. > :04:41.gentlemen have kissed and made up in political terms. Exactly, ready to

:04:42. > :04:44.move on and keep fighting. Nevertheless they are friends. They

:04:45. > :04:46.have this issue but they have made friends in political terms. Exactly,

:04:47. > :04:49.ready to move on and keep fighting. Nevertheless they are friends. They

:04:50. > :04:53.have this issue but they have made friends and they are it is most the

:04:54. > :04:57.Prime Minister is going to do with this in different ways, it is more

:04:58. > :05:03.amicable. ` it is nice. There will be lots of meetings and between

:05:04. > :05:07.summits. ` in between. It is damaging for Mr Juncker to have had

:05:08. > :05:11.such bad press, especially in the British press. On some level we need

:05:12. > :05:16.to make amends. We need to know what he says. One of the interesting

:05:17. > :05:20.things, this has been portrayed as a humiliation of Cameron, two against

:05:21. > :05:24.the rest. One thing it has done for him, it has proved within that

:05:25. > :05:31.format that he is prepared to have a fight, to stand up, and to walk

:05:32. > :05:35.away. And when we get renegotiation that is an important thing to have

:05:36. > :05:39.done. He did stick it for several days despite very negative

:05:40. > :05:43.attention. Europe has always tended to go on consensus, people backing

:05:44. > :05:46.down at the last moment. By not doing that it sends a powerful

:05:47. > :05:50.message. He is quoted here as saying this was all about making sure he

:05:51. > :05:53.would be taking seriously in negotiations ticking forward. The

:05:54. > :05:57.quote is anyone in Europe who thought I was going to back down is

:05:58. > :06:01.now thinking again. He is playing this as a victory for the tough man

:06:02. > :06:06.of Europe. I think there is some truth in that. He was put in an

:06:07. > :06:10.unenviable situation he was going to lose so he had to decide what he

:06:11. > :06:14.would do. Would he walk away quietly or take this stand and portray it as

:06:15. > :06:22.a principled stand which I'm not convinced ever was. It does have a

:06:23. > :06:25.slightly useful negotiating stance coming into 2017. We'll see how it

:06:26. > :06:30.plays out. Let's turn our attention to the Telegraph 's main story. The

:06:31. > :06:36.Princess battle for grammar schools. This is tied up with the BBC Radio 4

:06:37. > :06:39.documentary which has been hearing from former Labour minister saying

:06:40. > :06:44.they were urged by Prince Charles on various issues to reconsider their

:06:45. > :06:47.positions. Many people getting quite agitated do the future king may have

:06:48. > :06:52.something to say on these matters. If of years after the fact it is

:06:53. > :06:56.interesting comments come out a documentary where the prince

:06:57. > :07:00.consulted Labour ministers, on policies including climate change

:07:01. > :07:03.and GM foods, in addition to grammar schools. We've always known this has

:07:04. > :07:07.happened in the Prince has been very vocal about different issues,

:07:08. > :07:12.whether in letters to government ministers, that we've only just

:07:13. > :07:15.heard about or other issues. He is a very vocal monarch. Monarchy is

:07:16. > :07:18.constitutional and we have these issues with how much you can

:07:19. > :07:26.interfere with different ministers. It is interesting it is coming out

:07:27. > :07:28.now. The other point as he has been spectacularly. In a way that is

:07:29. > :07:32.reassuring. He can say what he likes but these people... There is quite a

:07:33. > :07:36.nice quote by Blunkett saying he didn't mind the intervention. If you

:07:37. > :07:39.are waiting around to be king of the UK you generally have to you engage

:07:40. > :07:43.or you would go spare. There is something to be said, some people

:07:44. > :07:47.get very irritated and say he has no role in any of these issues but

:07:48. > :07:51.other people say what is he to do, he has ideas and division, what is

:07:52. > :07:55.to stop him saying. No one has to do what he says, he has no leverage to

:07:56. > :07:59.say you must. He is just saying what he was to say. He is the patron of a

:08:00. > :08:03.large number of charities representing a raft of different

:08:04. > :08:08.sections of society. Let him say what he likes. He has a good point,

:08:09. > :08:12.venison to it. He seemed quite relaxed about it. This is a

:08:13. > :08:17.democracy, everyone has that right. He is a monarch in waiting and it

:08:18. > :08:20.has been decades. It is nice he is engaged. On some level we should

:08:21. > :08:24.appreciate that. The Guardian giving us a bit of sparkly Dolly Parton,

:08:25. > :08:28.she has been playing at Glastonbury. Their main story,

:08:29. > :08:34.Labour offers olive branch to business. Ed Balls, and Ed Miliband,

:08:35. > :08:39.both making speeches this week as they try to win business. Ed Balls

:08:40. > :08:47.going to be talking about potential low corporation tax. ` woo business.

:08:48. > :08:52.Trying to get their credibility back up with the business community.

:08:53. > :08:56.Talking to business people who have attended these events as a charm

:08:57. > :09:02.offensive. Both Miliband, Chuka Umunna, to a lesser extent Ed Balls

:09:03. > :09:08.get a frosty reception from business, the whole thing about the

:09:09. > :09:11.energy price freeze went down very badly. This is an attempt to say we

:09:12. > :09:17.will not be as unfriendly to business as you might think. For

:09:18. > :09:19.example, they went met and with the corporation tax rate which has come

:09:20. > :09:23.down significantly over the last few years under the coalition. They will

:09:24. > :09:27.keep it as it is. They don't seem to be offering in the story anything

:09:28. > :09:32.new other than reassurance we will not cover you with extra taxes. I'm

:09:33. > :09:35.not sure, on the basis of this, he will win many hearts and minds in

:09:36. > :09:40.the city. I agree, saying you're going to maintain the rate is not

:09:41. > :09:43.exactly a new policy. Or a very extrovert policy, it is sticking to

:09:44. > :09:48.what we have, suggesting it is a good policy. It also talks about

:09:49. > :09:52.more power to local government but we already have a decentralised

:09:53. > :09:55.world, we have given lots of money to local government and lots of

:09:56. > :10:02.policy initiatives. What is new potentially is the quota of

:10:03. > :10:05.government contracts to small companies, that sounds like a

:10:06. > :10:09.procurement edge. That is something this government is trying to do with

:10:10. > :10:18.recruitment, why should they do something and give lots of money to

:10:19. > :10:23.Hewlett`Packard etc. `` procurement. It is probably quite sensible. If we

:10:24. > :10:28.talking about potential policy proposals being unveiled by labour

:10:29. > :10:31.we have two touch on the critique that has come from Jon Cruddas who

:10:32. > :10:36.has been saying I've had lots of good ideas on policy and nobody is

:10:37. > :10:40.putting forward. How devoted are the Labour Party on this issue? It has

:10:41. > :10:44.been running all we can. `` divided. It's interesting with this

:10:45. > :10:49.leak of what John Part is said in a private forum. Lots of interesting

:10:50. > :10:53.ideas. `` John Cruddas. It is not what people want to hear. Despite

:10:54. > :10:56.the fact he has spent well over a gay talking about these new policies

:10:57. > :11:03.were supposed to be interested in, it `` well over a year. You wonder

:11:04. > :11:10.what is going on in terms of the policy review. If you are John

:11:11. > :11:13.Cruddas you do not go into a public meeting and say stuff like that if

:11:14. > :11:18.you don't expect to be recorded. The Tories have people going into these

:11:19. > :11:21.meetings, one in ten days. You shouldn't say those things. Ed Balls

:11:22. > :11:27.was on the Andrew Marr show today saying he is frustrated, he spends

:11:28. > :11:31.hours. Ed Balls would be furious, so would Miliband. They will be furious

:11:32. > :11:34.not necessarily they don't know what he thinks but he has been stupid not

:11:35. > :11:39.to say it in public and be recorded doing so. It's a great story but not

:11:40. > :11:44.brilliant for the Labour Party machine. The express has how to get

:11:45. > :11:47.a bigger pension pay`out, suggesting thousands of victims could double

:11:48. > :11:51.their income from their savings by putting up taking a state pension.

:11:52. > :11:55.How is this going to work? `` putting. I'm not sure I completely

:11:56. > :11:59.understand this. It's something about, but all comes from the budget

:12:00. > :12:03.where you didn't need to buy an annuity. You put your pension pot

:12:04. > :12:07.you give it to a company, and they say we will pay you however much

:12:08. > :12:12.year until you die. George Osborne says you don't need to do that any

:12:13. > :12:17.more. This is saying you take a pension pot and you spend it for the

:12:18. > :12:21.first few years. Blow it on a Ferrari lifestyle. Take a nice

:12:22. > :12:26.holiday. During that time, this is where I use it, your state pension

:12:27. > :12:31.will go up by 10.4% each year it is deferred, plus an extra 5% living

:12:32. > :12:34.costs. At the end of the five year when you have blown your pension pot

:12:35. > :12:37.you can get your state pension and it will be bigger because it was

:12:38. > :12:44.deferred. I think that is what it is. Nicely explained. Thank you very

:12:45. > :12:47.much. They have a big typeface in the express, it sounds exciting but

:12:48. > :12:52.perhaps you need to look at your own finances and see if it would really

:12:53. > :12:55.work for you. A simpler story if we return to the Telegraph, this will

:12:56. > :12:59.make people laugh. Tucked away at the bottom and the sparkly Dolly

:13:00. > :13:06.picture, Britain arcs America to end their ban on haggis. `` asks. Did we

:13:07. > :13:10.know there was a ban on haggis? Some people may vaguely remember this

:13:11. > :13:17.happened, I wasn't aware, I've had vegetarian haggis and it's

:13:18. > :13:25.fantastic. All it might be nice for community relations. I think there

:13:26. > :13:38.is something in this. This is all about Whitehall and London saying,

:13:39. > :13:42.we are better together, we have allowed the Americans, if you go off

:13:43. > :13:52.online you will not be able to sell your haggis. `` clout with. Thank

:13:53. > :13:56.you for joining us. We will have more for you in the next hour, when

:13:57. > :14:03.we look more closely at some of those stories. We will be back at

:14:04. > :14:05.11pm, GPs with a poor record in detecting cancer could be named

:14:06. > :14:11.under government proposals. We will have more on that. Coming up next,

:14:12. > :14:15.it is time for clip. `` click.