03/02/2016 The Papers

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

Lots of politics, so two likely people with me.

Our guests are Chris Hope, Chief Political Correspondent

of the Daily Telegraph, and the political commentator

It is all Europe. Let's start with the Metro. Last night, the headline

was, you must be joking. Today, the best of both worlds? Well, all of

the headlines last night could not the headlines last night could not

really have been worse for poor David Cameron. Today, yesterday, the

focus was on the deal he brought back from the EU, today the focus is

very much about Cameron against his own party. Today was the day when he

presented the deal to Parliament and then had to endure two hours of

every backbencher, pro and against, standing up and saying their piece.

He's got to go through this, because He's got to go through this, because

the relationship with his own party on Europe, the issue that divides

them, it is a bit of internal family therapy that he has to do over the

next few months if he has any chance of winning the referendum. As he

scored some points, given that it is a slightly more mellow headline on

the one we got last night? Possibly. He has a period of about two weeks

and is insisting the negotiation with our European partners is not

over. That his party, his MPs and his cabinet ministers should give

him that two week grace period to go back and get some more, but this is

the basis of a good deal, he says. He is being given the benefit of the

doubt, probably by enough backbenchers, and therefore the mood

today has been that he looks like he might be getting away with it. That

is probably why the headlines are less bad than there were 24 hours

ago. But the ghosts of Europe row's past are coming to haunt him. Fury

of the Tory grassroots? It's the of the Tory grassroots? It's the

same story, differently told. This is a two our debate. One exchange

that has been highlighted, we have written this in the Telegraph, David

Tennant -- David Cameron got them to agree on this slightly watered-down

deal, don't take a view because of what your constituency association

might say, or if you are worried about a boundary review. It is a red

rag to a bull, given that most people believe that Tory activists

at the right of the leadership, as are many of the Tory base. Here we

have a Prime Minister who is due to leave in three years' time, telling

his MPs, you need to get re-elected, ignoring those that vote for him? He

will not be there, he will not need to win the support of the people

that won the support of activists in 2015. Line taken by this campaign

you have on the left-hand side of the front page. We have not heard

anything about the live debate, one of the most crucial things in a

generation, why have we not heard about a live, televised debate?

There is still a lot of uncertainty about whether we will have a

referendum in June. It is pencilled in for June the 23rd. There has been

so much focus, the energy of the principal players in the government,

Cameron and Osborne, has been on this renegotiation and trying to get

a deal that they can put to the country. How the campaign will be

fought has become a bit secondary to that. The thing Cameron has on his

side is that at least the stay in campaign, the remained campaign,

seems to be relatively unified. When the deal is done coming two weeks'

time, even the those on the remain in side, who have been taking

potshots at David Cameron about the way he has conducted the

negotiations, they will have to come in behind him. At the moment, the

leave campaign has some very strong arguments and very encouraging signs

in the opinion polls, but it is very divided. At the moment, this problem

they are having is that David Cameron has told other Cabinet

ministers, you can't come out publicly for out yet. They have no

figurehead. On this point, Cameron said he would be on the TV during

debates. We are trying to make sure we hold him to that. What sort of

debate? There is only Nigel Farage that would stand there and say that.

Our idea is a good one, put Cameron against the best no campaign person

they can find. May be the campaign has somebody? It could be a business

leader, hopefully David Cameron will feel secure in his arguments and

have a proper debate. In the election last year, he did not want

to debate Ed Miliband head to head. I am sure Nigel Farage would give

him a run for his money. The Guardian, there are people within

the Cabinet, particularly the big beasts, feeling a little bit

uncomfortable. We know they are Eurosceptics, and yet they are

making tactical decisions about whether they will, indeed, be in the

campaign? Theresa May yesterday, Michael Gove not sure. Is Boris the

game changer? Seems to be, the dance of the seven veils, as I heard it

described. I heard a Boris Ally saying, you know, are we going to

win? They are looking at the polls? It is all about the future. This is

your point, David Cameron has told us he's going to stand down. A lot

of the power that the Prime Minister has is keeping their party onside,

through the fear of not being preferred to minister ships. Why

can't he have an honest debate? This is what the public complain about.

Why can't you say, I am a Eurosceptic, you know that, we will

have an honest debate. If you vote to stay in, that is democracy? That

would be an honest way to go forward? This is the other

complicating factor. All of these people being lined up as potential

successors, if the vote goes against David Cameron and the British people

vote to leave the EU, the next few years will be dominated by a

horrendous wrangle over how we come out. For me, and horrendous wrangle.

For others, an exciting journey. There will be thinking, if I want

the top job, how will I want to spend the next few years? I reckon

zombie-like Theresa May, who has hummed and hard -- somebody like

Theresa May, she will be thinking, do I want to do that? She could be

the most powerful Prime Minister for many years. We're nearly at the end

of this hour, let's look at the story in the Guardian. Lord Lucan,

he was called George Bingham yesterday. The guy in the picture is

now officially dead, according to the High Court, which allows George

Bingham to have the title. We are fans of Downton Abbey. Will she be a

dowager? Presumably it is all about the title. It marks a point on a

story that has obsessed viewers in Britain for decades. I think it will

continue to. The evidence might be emerging next year, says one of the

reports. If he re-emerges alive, he is back as Lord Lucan. For now, it

looks like a line has been drawn under this situation. One of the

families members of the victim was not happy. The son of the nanny and

the son of Lord Lucan have become good friends over the years. We will

get into more of that in the next hour. We will have more to go

through it. Coming up, time for Sportsday. And

apparently we will have more on the Prime Minister's attempts to win

backing from MPs for his deal on reforming Britain's place in Europe.

He has been facing some criticism today from some in his own party. I

have talked to the pictures. It is time for Sportsday.

Hello and welcome to Sportsday with me, Ore Oduba.

Coming up tonight: Runs, more runs and a lot of rain.