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:00:00. > :00:00.the test series against South Africa. And, Warren Gatland talks

:00:00. > :00:19.about the chances over Ireland. Hello and welcome to

:00:20. > :00:22.our look ahead to what the papers With me are political commentator

:00:23. > :00:25.Miranda Green and Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent

:00:26. > :00:28.for the Telegraph. The Metro has the Prime Minister

:00:29. > :00:31.saying that the deal he's negotiated with the European Union offers

:00:32. > :00:34.the best of both worlds. The Financial Times, tucked away

:00:35. > :00:37.on the bottom left, says Boris Johnson is set to back David Cameron

:00:38. > :00:40.to keep Britain in the EU, once he The Guardian says the PM's hard line

:00:41. > :00:51.on UK self-rule has "wooed" the London Mayor to his campaign to

:00:52. > :00:54.keep Britain in the European Union. The Telegraph reports on more anger,

:00:55. > :00:57.this time within the ranks The Express says Mr Cameron's EU

:00:58. > :01:05.draft deal is already falling apart, as polls suggest voters reject what

:01:06. > :01:07.it calls his "sham reforms". The Times says there's been

:01:08. > :01:10.a revolution in cancer care, The Independent writes

:01:11. > :01:18.of what it calls the Great It says teachers are boosting

:01:19. > :01:27.pupils' predicted grades to help And the Sun claims that Age UK is

:01:28. > :01:32.running a scheme offering a special energy deal with Eon,

:01:33. > :01:35.which is more expensive than The charity rejects the allegations,

:01:36. > :02:01.and Eon says it always works to give What do we make of the front page of

:02:02. > :02:05.the Daily Express? It is a poll that claims that the EU is already

:02:06. > :02:11.falling apart. Today has been dominated by David Cameron's

:02:12. > :02:15.relationship with his own party over Britain's relationship with the EU.

:02:16. > :02:21.The Daily Express has chosen to go with the headline, the idea that

:02:22. > :02:26.David Cameron has overpromised and underdeliver, particularly on

:02:27. > :02:32.immigration. One of the greatest successes of Ukip is to ally the

:02:33. > :02:36.relationship with the EU with people's fears about to watch

:02:37. > :02:46.immigration to the UK. They are going on the idea that David Cameron

:02:47. > :02:50.had promised to stop benefits for EU immigrants, and it turns out that to

:02:51. > :02:55.do that we would need the agreement of the other states. They are

:02:56. > :03:03.calling that a failure. This is quite fun, it is a poll of Daily

:03:04. > :03:07.Express readers, so I'm not sure... I would suggest to you that the

:03:08. > :03:14.result, which is 99% of them saying they would back an EU referendum,

:03:15. > :03:18.and 93% said the UK should leave the EU. That is not what you tend to get

:03:19. > :03:23.in the scientifically produced polls by the polling companies. Would you

:03:24. > :03:35.suggest that the wide consensus reflected by the papers is that he

:03:36. > :03:44.has overpromised and undelivered? David Cameron spent two hours being

:03:45. > :03:48.grilled by his MPs about the deal, with a very pro- EU boss. He kind of

:03:49. > :03:56.avoided all of this stuff until today. He has really copped it big

:03:57. > :04:06.time. You could argue it is the first poll since the deal was done,

:04:07. > :04:09.so it can only get better. I don't think I'm being unfair to say that

:04:10. > :04:19.the outcome is looking in disarray at the moment. They have replaced

:04:20. > :04:23.two of their key members, but there are some Eurosceptics who are crying

:04:24. > :04:32.out for this Middle Road, a moderate road, Michael Gove and Boris

:04:33. > :04:35.Johnson. Michael Gove, the Lord Chancellor is torn by his

:04:36. > :04:40.convictions, isn't he? They have is really interesting story which is

:04:41. > :04:46.all about what he has been saying privately to friends. Publicly, ten

:04:47. > :04:50.Downing St has said with confidence that Michael Gove will back the PM.

:04:51. > :04:56.Even though Michael Gove is known to be a lifelong eurosceptic, that he

:04:57. > :05:06.will go along and at the deal. As you were rightly saying, the Grexit

:05:07. > :05:15.is... It desperately needs a decent figurehead -- Brexit. Michael Gove

:05:16. > :05:18.is a slightly swashbuckling figure, seen as an intellectual by the

:05:19. > :05:25.people on the right. I think a lot of waverers might be convinced by

:05:26. > :05:36.Michael Gove on that site. It is very important to try to bring him

:05:37. > :05:41.over. Is it fair to say that there are two issues? Here's reformer, he

:05:42. > :05:53.has got his teeth into penal reform. So Mackie has friends in the media.

:05:54. > :06:02.He would be great. I think a lot of people are sick of these politicians

:06:03. > :06:09.being torn about an issue, sometimes publicly attacked. Why can't they

:06:10. > :06:13.just get out there and enact what they have been saying for years?

:06:14. > :06:17.This is a once in a generation vote, these guys should put them to one

:06:18. > :06:25.side. Eurosceptics will argue that they should get on with it. What

:06:26. > :06:33.about Boris Johnson? They are saying he has been wooed by the PM's

:06:34. > :06:42.promise over sovereignty. Michael Gove doesn't profess to be the next

:06:43. > :06:47.leader after David Cameron, but we think George Osborne and Boris

:06:48. > :06:52.Johnson and Theresa May all do. There has been a lot of discussion

:06:53. > :07:01.about where they will line up. Yesterday, Theresa May was seen to

:07:02. > :07:11.come onside behind David Cameron, and we know that George Osborne has

:07:12. > :07:15.been trying to strong arm the people in the party to line up with him.

:07:16. > :07:18.But where will Boris Johnson come down? This suggests that after the

:07:19. > :07:24.long two-hour session in the Commons today, in which David Cameron got

:07:25. > :07:32.eaten up by his own MPs, enduring a lot of criticism, a lot of the team

:07:33. > :07:40.went to Boris Johnson with extra concessions, designed to keep Boris

:07:41. > :07:45.Johnson on side. Are we talking about a bolt onto the draft deal

:07:46. > :07:52.that we have seen or is this part of the existing text? No, it is outside

:07:53. > :07:56.that. The idea is one where you have a separate Constitutional Court that

:07:57. > :08:08.can weigh up what Europe is saying to this country. If Europe doesn't

:08:09. > :08:15.do what we want, we can reject it. It is about the court system that is

:08:16. > :08:22.not really part of the four baskets that David Cameron offered us. Human

:08:23. > :08:32.rights law is a whole new area that David Cameron has promised to deal

:08:33. > :08:43.with. Buries the issue that we gave the EU privacy so we can take it

:08:44. > :08:48.away? It is very interesting, because Germany's Constitutional

:08:49. > :08:52.Court, it does sit and is called upon to make this judgement calls

:08:53. > :08:57.about whether Germany should go with EU rulings or not. We do have the

:08:58. > :09:02.Supreme Court in the UK, so it is interesting, in that the story also

:09:03. > :09:07.says that we are waiting for two weeks as David Cameron finalises his

:09:08. > :09:12.renegotiation with the EU. It suck we will have two weeks finalising

:09:13. > :09:21.negotiations with Boris Johnson as well -- it looks like. Meanwhile on

:09:22. > :09:27.the front of the Daily Telegraph, here is a PM who doesn't have to be

:09:28. > :09:38.a lack that again. -- doesn't have to be elected again. David Cameron

:09:39. > :09:43.hasn't really helped himself. It is a two-hour session, questions from

:09:44. > :09:50.all sides, and David Cameron is a brilliant Commons performer, but he

:09:51. > :09:56.did say not to take a view because of what your constituents

:09:57. > :10:01.association might say. So ignore the guys who helped you win your seat in

:10:02. > :10:09.the last election, do what you want to do, that is, sort me out. We have

:10:10. > :10:17.reported here a lot of anger from associations and MPs piling in. This

:10:18. > :10:23.kind of arrogance as it is seen by the grassroots will come back and

:10:24. > :10:32.bite him. BMPs are not supposed to be delegates from the Conservative

:10:33. > :10:37.Party association. They should represent all the constituents, even

:10:38. > :10:45.those who are not activists of the Conservative Party. Someone has

:10:46. > :10:49.tweeted in the last few minutes saying, presumably in the next paper

:10:50. > :10:52.review you will do the decent thing and hold up the front page of the

:10:53. > :10:57.Daily Mail. Who will speak for England? Are they accusing David

:10:58. > :11:02.Cameron of being Neville Chamberlain? They do say very

:11:03. > :11:07.carefully in the final paragraph, far be it for us to suggest that the

:11:08. > :11:11.EU is comparable to the Nazi regime in Germany, but the tone of the

:11:12. > :11:16.front page, which is extraordinary, is basically saying that those in

:11:17. > :11:21.the Conservative Party who are not sticking to their guns are

:11:22. > :11:28.appeasers. The Conservative Party it says has been proselytising for the

:11:29. > :11:35.EU in defiance of most of its rank-and-file members. That is

:11:36. > :11:40.exactly right, on the money. You are defying our expectations and acting

:11:41. > :11:48.for elites, not us. Disease can learn to trust in politicians as

:11:49. > :11:55.well? Quite. -- does this come down to. This is a classic Fleet Street

:11:56. > :12:02.read. I'm not sure how much Number Ten mine. I think they have got a

:12:03. > :12:11.deal on migrants, a deal on sovereignty over the EU, a deal on

:12:12. > :12:20.redtape. It is basically a deal, without David Cameron saying it is

:12:21. > :12:25.one. I agree with the Daily Mail in that they do point out that the vote

:12:26. > :12:32.that we will have, possibly in June, is about much more than these

:12:33. > :12:36.four points that David Cameron has been talking about. I want to take

:12:37. > :12:40.two stories really quickly, we are running out of time. Let's talk

:12:41. > :12:46.about the Zika virus first. The Times saying it could spread to

:12:47. > :12:52.Europe by summer. This is extraordinary, saying that the Zika

:12:53. > :12:56.virus, while not in Europe yet, is carried by these mosquitoes which

:12:57. > :13:03.live in southern Europe. If it found a way over here it would be a

:13:04. > :13:12.threat. You gave me an impression of what they do. They can't really fly

:13:13. > :13:17.across the Atlantic, can they? What about students transporting

:13:18. > :13:21.themselves to the right universities? This is a good story.

:13:22. > :13:26.For those who are worried about their offspring, and those who are

:13:27. > :13:29.worried about fairness and whether the right people are getting into

:13:30. > :13:32.British universities. This is pointing out that something that has

:13:33. > :13:38.gone on for a long time, which is schools over inflating the predicted

:13:39. > :13:43.grades of people about to do their A-levels. That results in the wrong

:13:44. > :13:49.people getting places at university, and the predicted grades don't often

:13:50. > :13:51.matched the once they end up with. But now that ongoing problem has

:13:52. > :13:56.been made worse because the government lifted the cap on the

:13:57. > :14:00.number of places, so universities are competing for applicants and

:14:01. > :14:03.they are giving discounts. Say you are getting this ridiculous

:14:04. > :14:07.situation where the schools over inflate the predictions, and then

:14:08. > :14:10.when they don't come to pass and people get much worse grades, they

:14:11. > :14:17.say don't worry, we will give you a discount, come in anyway. Mind you,

:14:18. > :14:20.they were spot on. They need to move to a system where you get your place

:14:21. > :14:29.after you have sat exams and got your results. Thank you very much.

:14:30. > :14:31.We will be back with the Papers at the same time tomorrow. Up next,

:14:32. > :14:41.Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday,

:14:42. > :14:48.with me, Ore Oduba.