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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
With me is Parliamentary Journalist, Tony Grew and Caroline Frost, | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
who's Entertainment Editor at the Huffington Post Tomorrow's | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
The face of Marie Le Pen dominates the front of the Guardian, | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
after her far-right National Front Party failed to win control of any | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The Times goes with the same story, saying the National Front bandwagon | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
had been brought to a juddering halt by French voters. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
The Metro has more from Shaker Aamer, who claims that Tony | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Blair knew he was tortured while he was a Guantanamo Bay detainee. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
A spokeswoman for Mr Blair says he has always | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
The Telegraph reports on Boris Johnson calling for Britain to be | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
granted a an EU opt-out, in order to impose a ban on migrants benefits. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
On the same issue, The Mail says David Cameron is ready to drop his | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
The Chancellor's promise to protect police spending comes under fire | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
It says some areas of the force were not included in the pledge. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
The Express reports on a Rightmove study, which says house prices went | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
up by ?1700 pounds a month over the past year. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
And the Daily Star says George Michael is being lined up | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Let's begin with the serious stuff. What has been going on with France. | :01:28. | :01:45. | |
The picture on the front pages Marine Le Pen accepting that she | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
didn't win any of the 13 regions despite the fact that last weekend | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
they were ahead in six of them. Following on her family's reputation | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
for failure in elections, her father ran for president in 2002 and was | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
beaten by 82% -18%. Tactical voters delivered a massive No to Front | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
National and it seems the same thing as happened. They regularly get | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
around Wendy % of the vote. There is a strong undercurrent of that -- | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
20%. But the prospect of them winning regional Council, it is | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
something a large majority of French people do not want to see and that | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
is why we have seen the results we did today. We can tell from the | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
comments by the likes of the French Prime Minister that they are not | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
complacent with the number of votes that they did manage to win. He said | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
they deliberately avoided any gloating or sense of triumph. Any | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
kind of real chest beating. He said the message has been received. They | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
still did achieve mayors and councils and he said they have to | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
listen to the electorate and learn lessons. And as was mentioned, those | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
previous result in prior elections. One thing I found really interesting | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
was the French Prime Minister saying, we have to give back the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
people to vote for and not just against and I think that is a lesson | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
you can find in every Western democracy. What we have seen here is | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
a vote against but the new Republican Party needs to really get | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
the messages and place by the time the next French election happens | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
that people can vote for something. The fact that there are so many | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
people who feel disenchanted with the established political parties, | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
that is exactly what Marine Le Pen has been saying since they lost. She | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
says they are being victimized and intimidated. She has also accused | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
her rivals of calumny and defamation. She thought she was | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
going to be the voice of people who have deeply embedded and passionate | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
views. And obviously there is this dynastic element as her niece was | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
also up for election and also failed. They had a week to think | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
about it. And they have gone away, and the thought of it actually | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
happening, something a bit more moderate was called for. Three | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
decades of failure, good, it's called democracy. Tony Dawson like | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
them -- Tony doesn't like them. benefits, greedy bankers and junk | :04:49. | :05:12. | |
food firms. What is all this about? This is about the big trip to | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Brussels this week and the word chaos has been bandied around in the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Daily Telegraph. Basically he has been talking about this whole EU | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
referendum, but he's not talking about the four-year ban on migrants | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
getting work benefits and this is what he was meant to go to Brussels | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
with and bring back. A few days ago they realise that have been | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
cancelled and would not get the sufficient amount of agreement from | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
Council members. If anybody else has any ideas, they will need to show | :05:55. | :06:06. | |
them. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Prime Minister | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
cannot negotiate his way out of a paper bag. He has entered into a | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
farcical procedure in which he is talking tough with Europe... It is | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
not finished yet. It is. One thing he was | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
and he has no support around the table. | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
pre- briefed him that he was going to have to drop it, that it wasn't | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
going to happen, and now his position is that they just want | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
something that will stem the flow of EU citizens coming into the UK and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
they don't care what that is. Isn't that asking them not to claim | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
benefits for four years, that is not something that. Them from coming | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
in? Those are his words and not mine. He is now saying to the 27 | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
leaders around Europe, who I'm sure find this whole thing hilarious, | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
he's asking if they have any other ideas. I don't think that is good. | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
Boris has another idea. He says we needed EU opt out similar to the one | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
that Denmark has -- need an EU opt out. He has mentioned this strange | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
clause, budget is about property laws and the idea that non- Danish | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
residents aren't allowed to buy property in Denmark. Therefore, he | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
is wondering if the same opt out call as can be applied to these work | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
benefits so that somehow we can still stay at the negotiating table | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
but opt out when we need to for these very important rules that | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
pertain to us more than other countries. It sounds complicated | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
because it is. Boris is trying to be helpful. I think he's tried to help | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
his own career. There are 27 other countries around the table and that | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
is the problem that David Cameron has. Buying property and entitlement | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
to benefits are two entirely different things. I would be very | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
surprised if other European leaders, who have made it clear to David | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Cameron face to face that they are not happy and will not approve his | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
ban on benefits, I don't think they're going to be very pleased. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Isn't Angela Merkel try to help the negotiations? She does want to be | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
helpful to David Cameron at the French president is completely | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
opposed to any changes that will disadvantage his citizens, Azhar: | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
two are a major player in the union. -- as our Poland who are a | :08:50. | :09:03. | |
major player in the union. Moving on, this is to do with child | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
protection? Yes and this is horribly frequent on newspaper front pages | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
where we see these horrible tales of children being neglected by their | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
parents and also by social officers left in charge of their care. Now it | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
has gone one step further with the government saying, if you cannot | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
control the welfare of your child or the child to whom you're | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
responsible, that authority be taken away from you. He said Sunderland | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Council will have that authority taken away first and many others are | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
under watch. Sabu is going to go in and take over? This is the point -- | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
so who? It will be run by a voluntary trust, the head of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
children's services in another counsel. It is good for him to get | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
in his pulpit and preach against hard-working social workers. | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Basically the problem is that he has cut billions of pounds from social | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
work across this country and from councils more generally. But even | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
years ago, before the cuts were even talked about, there were serious | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
failings in some areas. I completely agree and the government is not | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
attempting to improve services in those areas or found them properly. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
They're attempting to dismantle councils. This effectively means | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
that Sunderland will have no child protection officers run by their | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
counsel. That responsibility will be taken away from them. But if the | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
result is better child protection, will taxpayers mind? Children have | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
to be the priority but my fear is that there is an empty vessel of | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
local knowledge and understanding of the particular problems in those | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
political areas. They would still continue working in those areas, | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
we're not suggesting that people from the other end the country would | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
be brought in. But this is a systemic attempt from the government | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
to dismantle local councils, to hand schools that fail to charitable | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
trusts, to Academy chains. This is a wider part of try to weaken | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
councils. A couple of minutes to deal with two big subjects. Strictly | :11:30. | :11:43. | |
Come Dancing, I know you can't believe it, but one finalist is | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
through for the first time in 13 years. In the semifinal this | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
weekend, three of the main newspapers have it on their front | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
pages and a couple of them have the X factor final and I think that is | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
corresponding with the ratings of both of those programmes this year. | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
The Metro has both of those stories on the front pages. She looks very | :12:15. | :12:28. | |
pensive. Then the youngest ever winner of the X Factor. But the | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Daily Star is where we're going to finish because there is talk that, | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
who is going to be X Factor Judge? I believe it is George Michael, the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
popular entertainer. Look at his enthusiasm. This is enormous. Can | :12:48. | :12:59. | |
you tell us why? There is an aspect of this related to Simon Cowell, | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
because we really thought it was on its last legs this season. Everyone | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
has been talking about the wrong things, anything but the talent. | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
This will be big for them. It would be amazing for him and many fans who | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
will be sitting on their seats and tuning in every single night just to | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
see him again. He has been off the scene where he has aggressive Garbo | :13:33. | :13:33. | |
aspect to him -- Greta Garbo. Thank you Tony Grew and | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
Caroline Frost. | :13:43. | :13:47. |