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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
With me are the Parliamentary Journalist, Tony Grew, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
and Caroline Frost, who's Entertainment Editor | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
The face of Marine Le Pen dominates the front of the Guardian, | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
after her far-right National Front Party failed to win | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
control of any regions in French local elections. | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
The Times goes with the same story, saying the National Front bandwagon | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
had been brought to a juddering halt by French voters. | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
The Metro has more from Shaker Aamer - who claims that Tony Blair knew | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
he was tortured while he was a Guantanamo Bay detainee. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
A spokeswoman for Mr Blair says he has always opposed | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
The Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson calling for Britain | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
to be granted a an EU opt-out, in order to impose a benefits | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
The Financial Times says the cabinet is considering the nationalisation | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
of the nuclear submarine arm of Rolls-Royce - | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
The Chancellor's promise to protect police spending comes | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
It says some areas of the force were not included in the pledge. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
The Express reports on a Rightmove study, which says house prices went | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
up by seventeen hundred pounds a month over the past year. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
And it could be a careless whisper, but the Daily Star says | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
George Michael is being lined up as a new judge on the X-Factor. | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
Sadly we have got to put that to 1 side. Police cuts or are they cuts. | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
George Osborne accused of the police spending copout. We heard a pledge a | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
couple of weeks ago. Caroline... George Osborne with his spending | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
Review and seemed to be getting a hallelujah on both sides of the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
house. Note cuts to police spending in the light of the terror attacks. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
As it transpires a fortnight later, Labour have been quick to jump on | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
what they perceive as a gap in the small print or at least fudging. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
What areas are not going to get extra money that George Osborne was | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
trumpeting at the review? The Chancellor was talking about the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Home Office funding to police of which is the normal police forces | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
that we know about throughout England and Wales but there are | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
other police forces such as the British Transport Police that covers | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
all of Britain and did get some of its funding from the Department for | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Transport, the civil nuclear police protecting nuclear sites and the | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Ministry of Defence police protecting army bases. The Labour | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Party asking a question in Parliament and they have got a | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
written answer and they found out that the pledge to protect police | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
funding does not cover these police forces and at the same time, some of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the departments that partially fund these small police forces are facing | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
cuts themselves. 37% in 1 case, concern is that because the budget | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
is not protected because he cuts in these police forces and by the way, | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
to remind ourselves of the attack in Leytonstone, a man was attacked in | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
our cheap station, that was seen as a terror attack by police and the | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
British Transport Police dealt with that. -- tube station. There has | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
been a statement from the Treasury tonight. I think it's actually | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
included in this article... It says it's ridiculous to suggest the | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
government is not committed to funding the forces that keep the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
country safe and talks about the real term increase in funding they | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
are going to get by 2020. How can we square that with what the papers | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
saying? It may be ridiculous to say that for the statement from the | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
government doesn't say is that we will guarantee that there will be | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
cuts to the British Transport Police, the MoD police and the civil | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
nuclear police, that's the interesting thing from the statement | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
and effectively what the Treasury says is that we made a pledge about | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
43 police forces in England and Wales, it's up to other departments | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
to decide how they spend their money. The concern is if these | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
departments face cuts in me still don't have a guarantee that these | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
vital police forces will not face cuts in funding. It seems that the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
statement the Treasury has issued as a reference to the forces funded by | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the Home Office. That's exactly it. Funding for the other specialist | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
police forces is not provided by central government grant but says | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
it's partially for -- and did by central government and I think | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
people will be concerned that what the Treasury appears to say is that | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
funding for really vital stuff like who is protect our nuclear power | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
stations and transport is being funded by industry and the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
indication seems to be the expect industry to fill funding gaps | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
because of the cuts to central government. Let's look at the | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
Guardian, and the face of Marie Marine Le Pen. Only a week ago, | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Caroline, it was a different story for her party. It is an upside down | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
smile this evening. It was all looking very good for her party a | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
week ago, I think they registered 28% in the opinion polls, for her | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
National Front party, it has galvanised the opposition in the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
people and the politicians and now there have been machinations, a | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
couple of socialists have stepped down in key seats and party managed | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
to win nothing today. She is accusing the other parties of acting | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
against as if they are victims of this that is how she feels of the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
political establishment. If she doesn't like the French voting | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
system she should advocate to have changed, they have a 1st round of | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
and a week later... The 1st round was last weekend and the 2nd round | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
of voting was today and provides a safety valve for French voters. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Sometimes they use the 1st round as protest vote when things like this | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
happen, far right parties and saw ahead and find themselves in the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
run-off to take control of things... People can consider it again. In | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
2002, I think the French President system which was a 2 round system, | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
shall Marine Le Pen got into the final 2 and I think Shaq Shere got | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
82% of the vote cause what happened is moderate people are those who | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
support other parties support the mainstream candidates to insure that | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
the far right does not get elected and that is what happened in the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
regional elections. The political establishment except that they can | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
say we have seen them off. -- Chirac. The Prime Minister has said | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
there has been no gloating, no victory speech. Even though they | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
have not won in any of the 13 regions there are still merits and | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
councillors dotted around the country and the same way that David | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Cameron had to adopt his rhetoric in the light of the Ukip euphoria he | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
has had to say we have to listen to the country going forward. Let's | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
look at the Metro. Blair knew I was tortured. Shaker Aamer, his 1st | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
broadcast interview with the BBC. You can see that tomorrow on the | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Victoria Derbyshire programme... His suggestion is that it was not just a | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
British official who was sitting in but it went higher than that when he | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
was undergoing degrading treatment. Yes... What he says is that he | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
thinks it is almost impossible that Tony Blair was not aware of the fact | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
that he alleges he was tortured in Guantanamo Bay. Blair has come back | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
and said he has always opposed the use of torture and said so publicly | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
and privately. I guess this is a question of how far up the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
government changed knowledge of what was going on in Guantanamo Bay and | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
what was happening to British citizens went. We are going to have | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the finding of the inquiry into the Iraq war and that will report but | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
that won't answer any of these questions. Tony Blair at facing a | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
series of other questions about not Iraq but things that happened under | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
his tenure as Prime Minister. The spokesman for Tony Blair as saying | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
he never condoned the use of torture or degrading treatment but this | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
story has got so many strands to it, hasn't it and it reaches so far back | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
in our history since the attacks of September the 11th and what happened | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
in Afghanistan. Absolutely. A lady from the State Department in the US, | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
formerly so, was keen to post this in a wartime paradigms and she | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
described how we feel about Paris now after the French attacks but... | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
These strands are so huge, I am always reminded of the Iran Contra | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
investigations when officials were quick to say they knew nothing and | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
others were quick to say you tell him for knowing or for knowing | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
nothing. By the way, you are very much exposed in of explaining | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
yourself. In terms of those comparisons with wartime and other | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
things... The main takeaway lesson was that it did not work, it didn't | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
get significant intelligence as far as we can see and a lot of British | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
citizens were held against their will, are government I think was | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
complicit and it did not protect its citizens as it should have. This man | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
comes home and speaks in such positive terms now, there is no | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
visible anger in him and he is preaching a message of peace and | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
from a voice like that in the same way as Nelson Mandela... Someone who | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
has been through something like that, people will listen to what he | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
has to say, both the good and the bad. But look at the Telegraph | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
newspaper... The suspected thief who escaped on a hover board may make | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
legal history, Tony... Explain. These devices are becoming | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
increasingly popular. The fact is they are illegal to use the pavement | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
and on the road and the only place you can legally use them is on | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
private land but this guy, you may have seen footage of this... He | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
basically used 1 of these things to move into a shop, grabbed a crate of | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Lucozade and went out again, the CCTV camera identified him and he | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
has been arrested and charged. He will face a series of charges | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
including driving a self balancing scooter on the pavement, it's | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
thought to be the 1st time that someone has been charged with that. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
It is like back to the future. Very like a movie. Not too late to decide | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
against them for Christmas! I will have retailers on my case if I say | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
that. No, carry on, by all of them. Strictly is onto front pages. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Firstly... And under Beck, 13th time lucky, never reached the final. Much | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
he and cry about this. A record-breaking series. -- Anton du | :11:28. | :11:40. | |
Beke. And Katie making it all the way to the final, the 1st 4 Anton du | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Beke who has battled his way through 13 series. Famously danced with Ann | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Widdecombe and I will never forget the sight of her in a yellow dress, | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
spinning around on the floor. It is Anita rani who is presented with | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
countrified, the BBC programme, looking glum. Apparently she has not | :12:02. | :12:11. | |
won a dancing competition. That is all Tony has to add. Her partner's | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
top seems to have come off with amazing regularity. Yes, I believe | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
he has many a wardrobe malfunction, much to the delight of many viewers. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
That is it the papers this hour but Tony and Caroline will be back. What | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
coming up next, it is Click. | :12:36. | :12:37. |