06/12/2015 The Papers

investigating a knife attack at Leytonstone underground station, are

urging witnesses who filmed the incident on their mobile phones to

elections suggest the far-right National Front party, led by Marine

Le Pen, is leading in six of the 13 regions.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me are political commentator Lance Price

and the author and journalist Matthew Green. Tomorrow's front

Let's begin where we must begin, with the appalling weather

conditions that have brought flooding to parts of the country

that really didn't think they were going to have to go through it again

just yet. Here is one of the local newspapers. A picture on the front

of a rescue boat with a woman being led to safety with her dog. By few,

in circumstances like this, so appalling for people to have to go

few, the way everyone rallies around is moving at times. -- Matthew.

Absolutely. It's refreshing to see a regional newspaper featured on the

programme. It's rare we have that privilege. It's nice to see a

positive headline. Heroes. They are emphasising the great work that is

being done by the emergency services responding to the disaster with this

striking image of this poor woman being dragged along in this dinghy

by these rescue workers. You would normally see cars and there is one

in a background in flood water. At the bottom, it says devastation as

floods cause chaos again. These are supposed to be rare events and yet

this part of the country, the north-west and the Scottish borders,

seeing it too often. That's absolutely right hand inside the

paper, as well as these stories about the way in which the

communities are coming together, businesses are donating, individuals

are donating to try to help those who have been caught up in it all,

is this sense of disbelief they could be going through it all so

quickly after the floods of five or six years ago. The other thing of

course that must distress people locally, and many of them have

problems with insurance payments. If you live somewhere where you have

been flooded before, your payments go through the roof and if it comes

round a second time, he might find yourself in difficulties. Very

difficult to get renewed insurance if at all. On the Guardian, it says

we never thought this could happen again. Victims of 2009 floods aghast

at new devastation. New defences have been put in but not equipped to

cope with this colossal amount of rainfall. Yeah. I suppose the

question is do we look at this at the micro scale, what defences we

are using, agricultural policy, we forest in except, or do we zoom out

and think about what is going on in Paris at the moment with a climate

conference? It is remarkably absent from any of the front pages. It's a

big, too weak, UN summit which is determining our future policy on

global warming. In some senses it's critical to the future of the human

project. You would think they would be more excitement about it on the

front pages every day, rather than just occasionally. Maybe so in the

next couple of days. We can come back to this at 11:30pm. Staying

with the Guardian, another story, police look at Isis influence on

horrific tube attack. A stabbing, an appalling act of violence, that

might surprise people that police are regarding it as a terrorist

incident. Often when there has been an attack of this kind, we tend to

know something about the perpetrator fairly quickly and are able to make

an assessment whether it was indeed a terrorist related offence. We

haven't had answers to this question so far today. It may be, of course,

that this was just a troubled individual. And not part of any part

-- conspiracy or related to Isis. Of course, the authorities have to

assume the worst. They have to look to see if there is anything more

serious behind it. As yet, there is no evidence of that. Though, the

suspect was arrested for attempted murder and is in police custody but

the Metro's headline, you ain't no Muslim, bruv, which is what was

supposed to have been said to the suspect. I am sure lots of people

have seen the clip where the attacker is being tasered by

repeated shots from the police. He falls to the ground in this dramatic

scene and someone shouts, you ain't no Muslim, bruv, from the sidelines.

This has been trending on Twitter over the weekend. In a way, it sums

up that spirit of defiance and the anger as well that onlookers were

feeling. One of the stories were saying that someone was throwing

bottles at him. They were not taking it passively. And all the

condemnation. The story here is about Muslim leaders rallying around

to condemn this individual, who is now a terrorism suspect. They

denounced his actions. Moving on to the Express. Foreigners must now pay

to use the NHS. I thought they were always meant to, for certain

treatments, Matthew. With all of these funding stories, the challenge

is to pass the wishful thinking and headline from the nitty-gritty of

how much money is going to be raised. I'm not going to embark on

that project on hair but that is the question we have to ask, isn't it?

We don't have the inside story. There are obviously huge questions

about the future of the NHS. Billions of pounds are going to be

needed to keep it afloat in the coming years. I'm not sure these

measures will make it. The headlines are quite misleading. The detail is

much more complicated than that. It's not all foreigners. Anybody

with an EU passport or from within the economic area is still entitled

to free treatment. There is the question about what we are asking

doctors and medical staff to do, whether or not they suddenly have to

become the front line in determining whether people are entitled to free

treatment or not and whether that should be part of their job. They

might have to ask for a credit card. We clearly don't want to go

down that road but nor do we want the time of GPs being wasted. Let's

look at the FT for a couple of stories. Firstly, National Front set

for an historic French result. The exit polls saying they are ahead in

the first round of voting, admittedly, there is another round

to come in six of the 13 regions. They are doing very well and some

people will seek to interpret this as a reaction to Paris. I don't

think it is necessary that at all. They've been on a steady rise in

France for some time. If it is confirmed in the second round of

voting, these would be Interestingly, we've got the

National Front first and socialists of President Hollande

were in has made it clear he is not

interested in any pact which means that their chances of coming top of

the poll in the second round of voting in a week's time is very

high. The National Front have tried to link immigration with the risk of

terrorism, haven't they, in recent times? That is very much the case,

particularly in the wake of the attacks in Paris and the big

question is, looking forward to the presidential election in 2017,

whether this is a straw in the wind that shows Marine Le Pen could be a

presidential contender. It is a remarkable change in their

landscape. It's whether those regional results translate into a

national level and from which they don't, as we've seen in our general

election. Marine Le Pen has actually managed to reconfigure the image of

the National Front in a way that right-wing parties in this country

struggle to do. She has presented himself as a credible candidate.

Whether they would be an anti-National Front packed in a

presidential election is an interesting point. The other is that

although the Socialist party are trailing in the low 20s in these

results compared to the projections so far tonight, President

Hollande's personal ratings are way above that, they are touching 50%

after his strong reaction to what happened to Paris. He seems to have

benefited personally, without having a knock-on effects to his party.

It's a confusing business. Cameron moves to bypass lords of the other

headline on the FT. The Prime Minister seeks to neuter the upper

house. The Lords are causing the Prime Minister problems, when vague

said we don't like your tax credit changes. It is perhaps not

surprising that David Cameron would respond to that and the plan,

according to the FT, is to essentially review the role of the

peers in terms of what kind of veto powers they exercise of a certain

types of legislation, so-called secondary legislation. You can see

why they would want to do that. The Tories have 251 seats out of 822 in

the Lords. If Labour and the Liberal Democrats get together, they

outnumber them quite substantially. And they are not elected. For many,

many decades, there was an in-built Conservative majority which

frustrated governments of any other complexion. Cameron has got a

problem. He can try to threaten to create lots of extra peers which no

one believes he is going to do. If he goes round this route, the danger

is that important stuff gets classified as secondary...

Constitutionally, that's dodgy going forward. We will have a longer

version at 11:30pm. Matthew and Lance will be back again. Coming up

next, it is time for Click.