23/09/2014

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:00:00. > :00:08.man who knows all about trophies arrives for the Ryder Cup. That will

:00:09. > :00:18.be coming up in 15 minutes after the Papers.

:00:19. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

:00:23. > :00:25.us tomorrow. With me are here in our London studio, Eleanor Mills,

:00:26. > :00:27.Columnist and Editorial Director of The Sunday Times, and from Salford,

:00:28. > :00:35.the political commentator, Lance Price. Tomorrow's front

:00:36. > :00:38.pages...starting with... Hairy Cornflake faces porridge is the

:00:39. > :00:41.headline on the Sun, it refers to former DJ Dave Lee Travis who could

:00:42. > :00:48.be facing prison after being found guilty of groping a TV researcher.

:00:49. > :00:52.And Two Leaders, Two Gaffes is on the cover of The Independent. Ed

:00:53. > :00:54.Miliband forgot to mention the deficit during his party conference

:00:55. > :00:57.speech and the Prime Minister was overheard saying the Queen purred

:00:58. > :01:00.down the phone when she was told Scotland had rejected independence.

:01:01. > :01:02.The Telegraph leads on the UK potentially joining international

:01:03. > :01:08.air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq. David Cameron says we cannot

:01:09. > :01:11.opt out of the fight. The Express has the same story,

:01:12. > :01:13.claiming that the Prime Minister will authorise those strikes on

:01:14. > :01:16.Wednesday. The Guardian says Ed Miliband played

:01:17. > :01:20.what he hopes will be his trump card as he tries to put the NHS at the

:01:21. > :01:23.heart of the election battle. The Times leads on the news that the

:01:24. > :01:29.wife of Islamic State hostage Alan Henning has received a recording of

:01:30. > :01:32.him pleading for his life. The Mail has the same story, saying

:01:33. > :01:34.the jihadists are taunting Barbara Henning.

:01:35. > :01:38.And the Mirror claims that parliament will be recalled on

:01:39. > :01:53.Friday and that we could be at war by the weekend.

:01:54. > :02:02.Not is a taste of the front pages `` that. Let's begin with the poor wife

:02:03. > :02:06.of Alan Henning. She's the wife of the taxi driver who went out to

:02:07. > :02:13.Syria. She hadn't heard his voice for nine months and was given an

:02:14. > :02:20.audiotape in which you pleads with her to try to save him from being

:02:21. > :02:29.killed by ISIL. As all these planes launch an assault on Syria, it must

:02:30. > :02:33.be awful to know this. Both the Mail and the Times have led with the

:02:34. > :02:41.story which has knocked Ed Miliband off the front pages. On the front

:02:42. > :02:45.page the Mail, there are no precise details of the message and it was

:02:46. > :02:52.not known if it was recorded before or after the airstrikes began. At

:02:53. > :02:57.one point, the Daily Mail said that it was in response to the attacks

:02:58. > :03:03.but it is not clear whether it came before or after. These are very

:03:04. > :03:07.painful especially for the families of the victims but this time it is

:03:08. > :03:15.an audiotape and not a video given to the media but just give in to the

:03:16. > :03:20.wife of one of the hostages `` given. A very cruel and awful

:03:21. > :03:26.position to put her in. On to the Times leading with this again.

:03:27. > :03:30.Taking this thing forward a little bit in terms of coverage and

:03:31. > :03:38.broadening it in terms of what may or may not happen in regards to

:03:39. > :03:42.British action. The Mirror hints that it might happen as early as

:03:43. > :03:49.Friday as David Cameron is a New York with Obama. The feeling at

:03:50. > :03:56.conference was that it would be recalled... That maybe they hadn't

:03:57. > :03:59.done more in terms of announcements because of Ed Miliband's speech

:04:00. > :04:04.today but many are expecting Parliament to be recalled so that

:04:05. > :04:14.they can discuss this and vote on this. We are picking up disagreement

:04:15. > :04:20.on the part of Labour. They didn't get Syria through the Commons last

:04:21. > :04:24.year. The way the politicians are behaving as if it is a sure thing,

:04:25. > :04:29.that they will join a coalition with the Arab countries in Syria and Iraq

:04:30. > :04:36.come up but there has been disagreement. Interesting wording

:04:37. > :04:40.here. David Cameron faced accusations of risking our

:04:41. > :04:44.international reputation after UK forces were not involved. An

:04:45. > :04:50.interesting line they have picked out. And a lot of people were very

:04:51. > :04:56.concerned when parliament failed to give its support for military action

:04:57. > :04:59.after the use of chemical weapons in Syria and quite senior people were

:05:00. > :05:04.saying that we had been left without a foreign`policy. It is quite

:05:05. > :05:12.extraordinary that we have the situation of a coalition being put

:05:13. > :05:23.together on a principally of Arab countries `` put together, pensively

:05:24. > :05:32.up `` principally of Arab countries. It shows how our attitude

:05:33. > :05:38.has changed. And the French have already carried out airstrikes in

:05:39. > :05:43.Iraq. And the distinction is between Iraq where the government is

:05:44. > :05:49.inviting us into do that and Syria where it is more dubious. It seems

:05:50. > :05:53.to be implied that there is some agreement with Bashar al`Assad to do

:05:54. > :06:15.this. At least that is what the Independent is saying. The Americans

:06:16. > :06:22.appear to have informed the people of Syria. It is an interesting line

:06:23. > :06:28.that President Obama had to take. He had to inform the government of

:06:29. > :06:33.Syria through their United Nations representative that this action was

:06:34. > :06:38.going to take place. The enemy was Bashar al`Assad and now the enemy is

:06:39. > :06:44.ISIL. Things have changed. This takes us forward to the Guardian

:06:45. > :06:48.which also covers that story, certainly its leading photograph

:06:49. > :06:55.with President Obama and a photograph from the aircraft carrier

:06:56. > :07:00.preparing for the mission against ISIL yesterday. Let's stick with

:07:01. > :07:13.that and move on to the subject of Ed Miliband's speech. Lance and

:07:14. > :07:16.Eleanor, you were both there. The centrepiece, and really the only

:07:17. > :07:22.thing that's got everyone really excited was the pitch to spend 2.5

:07:23. > :07:28.billion pounds on moving the NHS forward. It is a surefire winner at

:07:29. > :07:35.any conference to talk about the NHS. Labour is rightly proud of

:07:36. > :07:40.having created it and certainly in their view, having stopped the

:07:41. > :07:45.Tories from dismantling it a number of times in their history. Ed

:07:46. > :07:50.Miliband has decided that this has to be another election fought on the

:07:51. > :07:56.central issue of the NHS and to make the case that this shouldn't be left

:07:57. > :07:59.in Tory hands. Although it has been part of his argument up until now,

:08:00. > :08:05.it has not had this central position and it may be a bit late to suddenly

:08:06. > :08:09.tell the public that the NHS is under serious threat unless his

:08:10. > :08:15.government is elected. I understand the shift of focus has been because

:08:16. > :08:23.concerns regarding the NHS have risen according to polls. Certainly,

:08:24. > :08:29.the kind of Labour brains operating on this think that the NHS is their

:08:30. > :08:35.secret weapon in terms of wooing supporters who might have gone to

:08:36. > :08:46.UKIP. Also in support of all those older voters who do support it.

:08:47. > :08:51.Younger people and minorities overwhelmingly vote Labour but older

:08:52. > :08:56.people go elsewhere and if they establish themselves as defenders of

:08:57. > :09:13.the NHS, this could be keyed in at wooing them back `` key in wooing

:09:14. > :09:18.them back. The referendum could really be a reason for this and that

:09:19. > :09:24.is why you may have heard so much about it anecdotally. But the reason

:09:25. > :09:28.why they have changed focus is totally based on polling and there

:09:29. > :09:32.is also a sense that perhaps he forgot because he was doing it

:09:33. > :09:35.without notes to mention the economy. I also thought it was

:09:36. > :09:40.interesting that there was no mention of a multicultural Britain

:09:41. > :09:45.or immigration and I don't believe the spin that he forgot it. We have

:09:46. > :09:52.seen senior figures close to him very soon afterwards, and no one

:09:53. > :09:56.said he missed out on the key bit. You have worked with Labour

:09:57. > :10:02.supporters in the past, is it possible he forgot? It is because he

:10:03. > :10:07.has made it part of his hallmark to do it without notes and to do it

:10:08. > :10:12.from memory and I'm not sure what is worse, whether he did it

:10:13. > :10:15.accidentally or whether he did it on purpose because you would have

:10:16. > :10:20.thought that the leader of the Labour Party going into his final

:10:21. > :10:27.speech before the election would know that the one weakness in his

:10:28. > :10:30.armour is that people don't think they are credible on deficit

:10:31. > :10:39.reduction and the economy and then not mention it. It seems to be

:10:40. > :10:43.incomprehensible not to address it. He was great at getting everyone to

:10:44. > :10:47.their feet and talking to the court demographic and about talking about

:10:48. > :10:53.crashing down on millionaires for the NHS, but he didn't mention

:10:54. > :10:59.wealth creation or how he is going to make Britain a richer place. I

:11:00. > :11:06.get the sense from both of you that you had doubts today. I was in the

:11:07. > :11:09.hall waiting to be convinced. The polls are putting Labour ahead and

:11:10. > :11:15.we may well have him as our Prime Minister. I didn't find his speech

:11:16. > :11:21.at all inspiring and I was sitting there hoping that I might. You went

:11:22. > :11:24.there with an open mind? I did not go there thinking that I hated him

:11:25. > :11:28.and didn't want him to succeed. I was waiting for him to impress me

:11:29. > :11:32.because last year he did a very good speech that this one was flat and

:11:33. > :11:40.full of platitudes. It was quite boring at. `` boring. I am glad he

:11:41. > :11:44.missed some sections because it would have gone on even longer! It

:11:45. > :11:52.was totally about appealing to the base, they went mad for the NHS

:11:53. > :11:57.bit, and a lot of us older hats were just looking at each other going,

:11:58. > :12:04.what is this about? I was desperate to be inspired and I wanted there to

:12:05. > :12:07.be a really good argument, a good forward`looking and optimistic

:12:08. > :12:13.argument about how we would be better under a Labour government and

:12:14. > :12:17.we were not given that. He is a smart guy and knows how to plan a

:12:18. > :12:21.strategy, there has obviously been a lot of thinking behind this and he

:12:22. > :12:28.clearly thinks, and I think this is an important point, that's the kind

:12:29. > :12:35.of grand eloquence we were used two from Tony Blair simply doesn't work

:12:36. > :12:42.anymore. The public simply aren't going to take it anymore. Workman

:12:43. > :12:48.like politicians are more likeable now but it doesn't make for very

:12:49. > :12:54.exciting speeches. I disagree. Just look at Gordon Brown last week and

:12:55. > :12:58.his passion about the Better Together campaign which finally

:12:59. > :13:05.ignited the No vote in Scotland and was really a game changer. I think

:13:06. > :13:11.to say that we only think workmanlike politics are what works

:13:12. > :13:16.is absolutely not true. I don't think that, I am saying that is what

:13:17. > :13:22.he thinks. Passion is fine but there has to be substance as well. And it

:13:23. > :13:26.was very short on substance. The stuff about the NHS was the only

:13:27. > :13:29.substance. I will get in trouble for saying that but that is what it felt

:13:30. > :13:37.like. And all that about tax avoidance, we have heard for years

:13:38. > :13:42.about how he will crack down on tax avoidance. This mentioned taxing

:13:43. > :13:45.tobacco, none of it will really fund the changes they want to make in the

:13:46. > :13:52.NHS. I felt it was rather dishonest. None of you were terribly

:13:53. > :13:56.impressed by the sounds of it. Onto the Independent has embraced Ed

:13:57. > :14:05.Miliband and what they are regarding as a misstep. They thought he forgot

:14:06. > :14:15.his lines on the economy although we are not sure whether he did or not.

:14:16. > :14:24.And Cameron said that the queen purred we can talk about that now ``

:14:25. > :14:29.and we can talk about that now. It never ceases to amaze me how senior

:14:30. > :14:32.politicians can be in front of the camera and say things that they

:14:33. > :14:42.don't want us to hear. A number of people in the past to did the same

:14:43. > :14:48.thing, at George W. Bush did it famously and Gordon Brown was caught

:14:49. > :14:54.saying ridiculous things with the microphone still pinned to his

:14:55. > :15:03.lapel... How can David Cameron be so stupid as to do it? Also this idea

:15:04. > :15:14.of the queen purring... It is quite a weird thing to think about. Were

:15:15. > :15:21.you enchanted by this, Eleanor? It was quite naughty that he let it

:15:22. > :15:31.slip. He wasn't supposed to say it. And also this idea about him being

:15:32. > :15:38.so filled with relief and calling up the Queen with the good news. I

:15:39. > :15:45.think you are also enjoying the cartoon that went alongside it. I

:15:46. > :16:00.am. Whenever her views are made public in any way shape or form,

:16:01. > :16:07.they get it right every time. The caption says, it is Prince Philip on

:16:08. > :16:14.the line for you, he is not purring.

:16:15. > :16:17.That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you Eleanor Mills, Columnist

:16:18. > :16:19.and Editorial Director of The Sunday Times, and the political

:16:20. > :16:24.commentator, Lance Price. Stay with us on BBC News. We will have more on

:16:25. > :16:36.the plight of families pouring over the border from Syria to Turkey.

:16:37. > :16:44.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. Liverpool win a marathon penalty

:16:45. > :16:46.shoot`out 14`13 to knock Middlesbrough out of the League Cup

:16:47. > :16:48.after extra time at