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:00:00. > :00:18.is to explore the use of experimental treatments. Hello and

:00:19. > :00:21.welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:22. > :00:24.tomorrow. With me are Caroline Daniel, Editor of the Weekend

:00:25. > :00:30.edition of the Financial Times, and Eleanor Mills, Editorial Director of

:00:31. > :00:33.the Sunday Times. Welcome back to both of you. Tomorrow's front pages,

:00:34. > :00:36.starting with: The Daily Mail, which leads on Boris Johnson's potential

:00:37. > :00:39.return to the House of Commons, and says the news has sparked Boris

:00:40. > :00:42.bandwagon fever. The Guardian, on the other hand, claims the move is

:00:43. > :00:49.causing anxiety in Conservative ranks, over a future threat to David

:00:50. > :00:52.Cameron's leadership. The Times warns the London mayor faces a race

:00:53. > :00:57.against time to find a constituency before next year's election. While

:00:58. > :01:00.the Telegraph says he could become Business Secretary if the

:01:01. > :01:03.Conservatives win the next election, although it leads on the news that

:01:04. > :01:06.hundreds of thousands of people are preparing to withdraw billions from

:01:07. > :01:08.their pension pots over the next five years under the government's

:01:09. > :01:14.pension reforms. The Mirror's front page is dominated by the two British

:01:15. > :01:16.students murdered in Malaysia. The Financial Times says American

:01:17. > :01:19.takeovers of European health companies may be halted by the

:01:20. > :01:28.potential closure of a US tax break. The Express warns that a tropical

:01:29. > :01:30.storm will hit the UK on Sunday. While the Independent leads on

:01:31. > :01:33.coalition divisions over Gaza, and why this simian "selfie" is costing

:01:34. > :01:49.a wildlife photographer thousands of pounds in a copyright dispute. We

:01:50. > :01:55.will aim to explain in a little more detail later. We will start with the

:01:56. > :02:01.Daily Mail. Caroline, Boris Feaver. We were both struck, looking at the

:02:02. > :02:05.front pages, that most gratuitous, disgusting, awful, unflattering

:02:06. > :02:09.photograph of Boris Johnson, announcing his run or office, is the

:02:10. > :02:16.Daily Mail. It is not the most flattering, and I don't want to

:02:17. > :02:23.compare it with the selfie of the... But it is a startling

:02:24. > :02:26.comparison. The story is very anti` Boris in tone. It has this

:02:27. > :02:31.extraordinary fact that it has apparently emerged last night that

:02:32. > :02:34.his wife has given her full support to his plans, I'm not sure why that

:02:35. > :02:40.is politically newsworthy to put on the front page. I love the idea that

:02:41. > :02:44.it emerged last night. Yes, did she announced at a dinner party that she

:02:45. > :02:51.was supporting her husband's plans? It is far more about plot, fever,

:02:52. > :02:54.and dissension in the ranks. We had a discussion about how different

:02:55. > :02:57.newspapers have discussed it. The Guardian has gone with trying to

:02:58. > :03:01.cause trouble about Boris Johnson, but with very little proof, in their

:03:02. > :03:05.new story about claims that Tory team are divided over the return of

:03:06. > :03:10.their star player. In fact, it doesn't have any evidence about the

:03:11. > :03:13.Tory team being divided, just quotes people saying this is great news and

:03:14. > :03:17.we welcome him back. The comparison is interesting. Sticking with the

:03:18. > :03:24.Daily Mail, he already has team plotting, leadership was not told.

:03:25. > :03:28.I'm just not sure I believe that, particularly compared with what is

:03:29. > :03:32.in the Guardian tomorrow, where Johnson himself, in the press

:03:33. > :03:36.conference, said he was very pleased that Cameron had tweeted something

:03:37. > :03:38.nice this morning. He says to be fair one of the reasons for taking

:03:39. > :03:44.this decision, the decision to come back, was that on several occasions,

:03:45. > :03:47.publicly and privately, Cameron has said he would welcome things going

:03:48. > :03:52.this way. I believe that is true. When I interviewed David Cameron for

:03:53. > :03:56.the Sunday Times magazine last year, he was very kind of open to the idea

:03:57. > :04:00.of Waris coming back. He was fulsome in his praise, he said he would like

:04:01. > :04:05.him back on the bench. I absolutely don't see why Boris would not tell

:04:06. > :04:11.him he was making this announcement. It is all over the papers. It would

:04:12. > :04:22.be great and is not to do it. Tory local chairman don't like people who

:04:23. > :04:27.are backstabbers. `` chairmen. The sinister ideas don't make sense. I

:04:28. > :04:31.think it is interesting how the British press are breaking this

:04:32. > :04:35.down. We heard that he wasn't going to take any Cabinet position until

:04:36. > :04:39.after he had stopped being met. And if he was going to come back, why

:04:40. > :04:46.would he want to be business Minister? Let's compare it with the

:04:47. > :04:51.Times. Now a race against time to find a seat. This talks about where

:04:52. > :04:57.he might end up trying to be, and of course Uxbridge is in people's

:04:58. > :05:01.lines. A lot of the argument as to why he has done this now, we have

:05:02. > :05:05.thought that he might announce he is running for office because he has

:05:06. > :05:10.only a few weeks to make the Uxbridge seat. That is incredibly

:05:11. > :05:15.convenient to remain Mayor of London. A nice commute. The decision

:05:16. > :05:19.on actually standing will be made on September the 12th. He has to throw

:05:20. > :05:22.his hat in the ring quite quickly. The idea that he can't find a seat

:05:23. > :05:27.before the election is slightly laughable. You think they might make

:05:28. > :05:31.room for him? I think they might make room for him. It is classic

:05:32. > :05:35.Boris. Part of the reason people like him is the language he used

:05:36. > :05:39.around it. I don't want to be furtive. I don't want to be a

:05:40. > :05:45.modest, that is what people like modest, that is what people like

:05:46. > :05:50.about him. He has that bumbling, eccentric charm. And he has that

:05:51. > :05:55.capacity to reach the parts of the electorate the other Tories do not.

:05:56. > :06:01.It is a farce really, he is just as posh as Cameron and Osborne. He has

:06:02. > :06:05.that self`deprecating manner. People like him. 60% approval ratings in

:06:06. > :06:09.London, which is a Labour leaning city. One in five Labour voters

:06:10. > :06:14.voting for him. This is why the Tory party are excited he is coming back.

:06:15. > :06:19.Chuck into the mix the idea he is also talking about Britain leaving

:06:20. > :06:23.the EU, which wipes Nigel Farage's argument of the table, it is not

:06:24. > :06:29.surprising the Tories are excited. You mentioned the Guardian. Having a

:06:30. > :06:35.closer look now, the Tory team are divided. That is their take on it.

:06:36. > :06:38.As I say, reading the first four paragraphs, there is no such

:06:39. > :06:43.division in the Tory party over this. Halfway through the piece,

:06:44. > :06:47.right wingback ventures quick to express approval. That doesn't seem

:06:48. > :06:51.like a divided Tory team. Everyone is trotting out the same line. Twice

:06:52. > :06:58.in the same piece, the quote is about him reaching parts of the

:06:59. > :07:01.electorate that I can't reach. And Andrew Mitchell is saying the same

:07:02. > :07:05.thing lower down in the article. What is interesting, to pick up,

:07:06. > :07:11.which we haven't focused on, is the context in which Waris Johnson made

:07:12. > :07:16.this announcement today, it was a massive intervention into the

:07:17. > :07:23.Eurosceptic debate `` Boris Johnson. Huge positives about European exit.

:07:24. > :07:27.The language he used was about being a great European nation, with a

:07:28. > :07:31.future outside the EU. We don't have to be paranoid and scared about an

:07:32. > :07:39.exit. So his language is Orient and upbeat. Rather than being ashamed

:07:40. > :07:47.about `` language is buoyant. Final thought on Boris Johnson? Adam

:07:48. > :07:54.free, who had been suspected of plotting, says this has lit the

:07:55. > :07:57.touchpaper. This is really good news for the Eurosceptic element within

:07:58. > :08:02.the Tory party. Boris Johnson expect them to be behind him. In terms of

:08:03. > :08:07.Waris, this is entirely consistent. I remember when I worked with him at

:08:08. > :08:14.the Telegraph, when he was doing straight banana stories, he knows

:08:15. > :08:20.Brussels well. `` Boris. Boris Johnson knows how to negotiate with

:08:21. > :08:24.Brussels. He has sat in meetings talking French to EU officials, and

:08:25. > :08:28.this could also be a way of saying the only way to get the EU to take

:08:29. > :08:32.you seriously is if you paint a positive picture of how some could

:08:33. > :08:38.be doing well outside it. And actually, Cameron's thing of saying

:08:39. > :08:42.we will campaign for a yes vote, and staying in the EU as long as we get

:08:43. > :08:48.this renegotiation, is the wrong way to go. They have to believe we

:08:49. > :08:51.really might go, or it won't work. There are other stories around. Let

:08:52. > :08:57.us stay with the Guardian, because, it is extraordinary. On the front

:08:58. > :09:06.page of the Guardian, 40,000 Iraqis hired on mountain from deadly is ``

:09:07. > :09:12.hide. Looking at what is happening on the outskirts of Mosul. We have

:09:13. > :09:17.spent a long time talking about one man who might run as an MP, compared

:09:18. > :09:21.with tens of thousands of Iraqis. They are under threat from ISIS, who

:09:22. > :09:26.are highly aggressive in Iraq. The UN now says that many of them, women

:09:27. > :09:29.and children, have now taken refuge on a mountain which was once

:09:30. > :09:34.identified in local legend as the final resting place of no's art.

:09:35. > :09:48.Biblical symbolism, and they were being threatened with `` being

:09:49. > :09:58.beheaded. `` Noah`s Ark. `` Akrotiri. There is a reference to a

:09:59. > :10:01.particular city, Sinja, which has been totally emptied of all its

:10:02. > :10:05.inhabitants. Two talks of starvation, they had to walk two

:10:06. > :10:19.kilometres to get water. And we know these jihad as a pretty nasty people

:10:20. > :10:23.`` jihadists. We ran stories last week about them boasting about the

:10:24. > :10:33.headings. It is really horrible. Particularly in light of what is

:10:34. > :10:37.going on in Gaza `` beheadings. In the Telegraph, obviously a reference

:10:38. > :10:41.to Boris Johnson, but we have dealt with him. A ?4 billion tax bonanza.

:10:42. > :10:45.This is the chance to avoid compulsory annuity, and doing

:10:46. > :10:50.something slightly more novel instead. Yes, this is the first time

:10:51. > :10:55.supposedly we have a number on how many people we think are going to

:10:56. > :10:59.draw down on their pension savings, and rather than buying an annuity,

:11:00. > :11:02.they can do what they like with it. The quid pro quo was supposed to be

:11:03. > :11:06.that the government could advise people whether it was a good idea or

:11:07. > :11:09.not. This is what you need to know. The problem is the incentive of the

:11:10. > :11:14.government in terms of tax receipts, to have them take lots of money out,

:11:15. > :11:17.and actually, they then had to pay a lot of tax on the money they have

:11:18. > :11:21.saved. The concern obviously is that people will do it for the wrong

:11:22. > :11:25.reasons, because they think a lot of money now, meant a lot of money to

:11:26. > :11:29.me now, rather than thinking of the long`term. What is interesting about

:11:30. > :11:34.this is it suggests that the average amount of money people will take out

:11:35. > :11:38.a something like ?40,000. That is a huge amount, because the average

:11:39. > :11:41.saving of anyone in this country is actually only about 85,000.

:11:42. > :11:47.People's pensions, their whole savings, a 35,000. That does suggest

:11:48. > :11:51.that we are talking about wealthier taxpayers looking to take down money

:11:52. > :11:56.and not put it into an annuity. Probably thinking they could make

:11:57. > :11:59.more money by putting it into investments or buying a flat. But

:12:00. > :12:03.then if you take a 40,000 pounds, you will hit the top thresholds.

:12:04. > :12:07.Many of them probably don't realise they could end up losing nearly half

:12:08. > :12:12.their pension in tax. Which is pretty bad, if you think you've

:12:13. > :12:17.already paid tax on this. Plus the idea of what kind of investment will

:12:18. > :12:26.deliver enough return to make up for the tax liability? I need some

:12:27. > :12:29.advice. Or advice available, leaves. The Independent's FrontPage. The

:12:30. > :12:39.LibDems turn on Cameron over Gaza. This is in the backdrop of Baroness

:12:40. > :12:44.Warsi's resignation. What Britain should do about arms sales. This is

:12:45. > :12:52.also Nick Clegg trying to put Clearwater, clear yellow water,

:12:53. > :12:55.between him and Cameron on Gaza. It was very interesting watching

:12:56. > :13:01.Campbell on Newsnight last night. He was very much acting Baroness Warsi.

:13:02. > :13:09.And this is more of them `` backing. The Foreign Minister had

:13:10. > :13:15.also discussed quitting. Baroness Warsi had mentioned someone had, no

:13:16. > :13:25.names had been mentioned. Others have denied planning to resign. Nick

:13:26. > :13:30.Craig says that it is also the Independent Promoting their own

:13:31. > :13:34.story `` Nick Clegg. UK weapons were being used in the bombardment of

:13:35. > :13:40.Gaza, so going back to that and saying that there is unrest. What do

:13:41. > :13:45.you make of it? It is a round`robin of a mop up job after the big news

:13:46. > :13:49.has come out with Baroness Warsi, the big news story of the week. And

:13:50. > :13:53.this is all echoes of that. Others say they think the same thing as

:13:54. > :13:58.well, but it has less resonance. The issue about arms sales to Israel is

:13:59. > :14:03.certainly being looked at, but the idea that it merits a big strategic

:14:04. > :14:07.change from government, Nick Clegg already said that a few days ago. So

:14:08. > :14:11.the fact that other Democrats are saying the same thing is not that

:14:12. > :14:15.surprising. And also, it is quite weird. The Independent offer and

:14:16. > :14:19.tries to be different, it has strange news values tomorrow. They

:14:20. > :14:23.have Boris Johnson making his move at the top, and I love the monkey,

:14:24. > :14:29.but to have the monkey and the LibDems, is quite questionable.

:14:30. > :14:33.Maybe they think their readers are more interested in that. Given that

:14:34. > :14:38.you love the monkey, it features on the front of The Independent. Who

:14:39. > :14:43.wants to tell us the story of the monkey? What is fascinating, is that

:14:44. > :14:47.in our DNA is some obsession with taking pictures of ourselves. And

:14:48. > :14:50.this is certainly borne out by this photograph. This is a

:14:51. > :14:53.Gloucestershire photographer who went into the jungle of years ago.

:14:54. > :14:57.With a great camera Koopman, and this monkey grabbed it from him, and

:14:58. > :15:02.started taking pictures. Not all of them successfully, apparently. This

:15:03. > :15:08.one is rather good. This was a triumph. He took a good selfie. The

:15:09. > :15:13.issue is you hope to make a lot of money from these photographs, the

:15:14. > :15:20.photographer, and wikimedia has put it online with no attribution. And

:15:21. > :15:25.no royalties. Wikimedia claim he did not take it, the monkey took it.

:15:26. > :15:30.That is a bit unfair, the poor chap heaved his camera around the

:15:31. > :15:36.rainforest. The monkey did not provide the camera. He has to prove

:15:37. > :15:41.he set the camera angles and the scene. He wouldn't have been taking

:15:42. > :15:47.pictures, but you know. I love the smile. It really does look like

:15:48. > :15:56.selfie. Time is up, thank you both very much indeed for having a look

:15:57. > :16:00.at tomorrow's papers. More of course from the Papers at the same time

:16:01. > :16:05.tomorrow night. Stay with us here in BBC News, at midnight the Mayor of

:16:06. > :16:33.London, Boris Johnson, says he wants to stand in next to's election.

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