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:00:00. > :00:00.about a return to tennis for new dad, Andy Murray.

:00:00. > :00:12.That's all after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:13. > :00:16.to what the the papers will be With me are Beth Rigby,

:00:17. > :00:24.who's media editor at the Times and the political commentator

:00:25. > :00:31.Lance Price. Let's get straight to it, beginning

:00:32. > :00:35.with the Telegraph newspaper. Generals, we are safer in Europe.

:00:36. > :00:40.We've had big bosses of FTSE 100 companies, we will probably have

:00:41. > :00:43.bakers tomorrow and hairstylists the next day. This time, it is the

:00:44. > :00:50.generals who are saying we should stay in Europe? Yes, it was the FTSE

:00:51. > :00:55.100 Chief Executive 's this morning. Only one third? 34 out of 100, but a

:00:56. > :01:01.lot of that see companies never want to make any announcements on these

:01:02. > :01:08.kinds of matters, it is not a bad number -- FTSE. More will come out

:01:09. > :01:15.as there are more board meetings. We are talking about the generals! They

:01:16. > :01:24.are bringing in the Army! This is a letter in The Daily Telegraph, and

:01:25. > :01:29.forces chiefs believe that it is in our national interests to remain in

:01:30. > :01:34.the EU. What we are seeing here is this is the beginning of the number

:01:35. > :01:39.ten machine, gearing up to try to win the argument on Europe, there is

:01:40. > :01:50.a pol in the Times which hopefully we can get to later, suggested by

:01:51. > :01:58.YouGov that it is neck and neck. There are issues around national

:01:59. > :02:02.security, David Cameron argues that we are better off if we stay in

:02:03. > :02:09.Europe, Eurosceptics, and those who want to leave the EU say that it is

:02:10. > :02:13.Project Fear, and attempt to scare the public into staying in and they

:02:14. > :02:16.would like for them to make more positive arguments about staying in

:02:17. > :02:23.the EU rather than trying to scare us all into voting in. Lance, the

:02:24. > :02:32.alt camp would say that it is not Europe who defends our security but

:02:33. > :02:39.Nato? -- out. Yes, I am a strong pro-European, but I think defence is

:02:40. > :02:46.one of the weaker arguments. Britain could have defence cooperation with

:02:47. > :02:50.in the European Union just as easily as if we were outside. There's a

:02:51. > :02:53.good defensive case about the defence of the country through

:02:54. > :02:59.intelligence cooperation and the rest of it, and European arrest

:03:00. > :03:03.warrants, the idea we are more vulnerable to attack from Russia or

:03:04. > :03:10.so-called Islamic State is probably stretching it a little bit. But what

:03:11. > :03:15.is interesting is a few days into the campaign... And you are bored

:03:16. > :03:20.already? Not at all! It is really important. All of the big arguments

:03:21. > :03:24.are being deployed straightaway. Four months of this, and as we were

:03:25. > :03:29.saying, we've had the big businesses, now we have the

:03:30. > :03:35.generals, all of the big arguments are put on the table now. And

:03:36. > :03:41.presumably things will go quiet. Because it is so close, as that poll

:03:42. > :03:46.in the Times suggests. It is a knife edge, anything could swear it.

:03:47. > :03:51.Generals, security, that could help with swaying people one way or the

:03:52. > :03:55.other in the debate? I think the other point about this is that over

:03:56. > :04:00.the weekend with a declaration of Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary,

:04:01. > :04:07.and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the declaration of those

:04:08. > :04:11.two big cabinet beasts saying they want to support the out campaign,

:04:12. > :04:16.Downing Street on a back foot and want to take the momentum. If you

:04:17. > :04:19.think about what happened on Monday morning, every single national

:04:20. > :04:24.newspaper aside from The Financial Times on horse Johnson's decision.

:04:25. > :04:32.Not all of them complimentary. -- Boris Johnson. It was blanket

:04:33. > :04:38.coverage, if you like. What's David Cameron and number ten and those

:04:39. > :04:39.Conservatives who want to stay in, they are trying to set an agenda. At

:04:40. > :04:49.the moment, but -- because the campaign is just

:04:50. > :04:53.kicking off, there is such an appetite to cover it, you want to

:04:54. > :04:57.feed the media beast, feed it with your stuff, rather than let your

:04:58. > :05:03.opponents get theirs in. One thing that could be influential is the

:05:04. > :05:09.migration crisis. The Telegraph has this headline...

:05:10. > :05:13.If you look at the kind of issues that people tell the pollsters they

:05:14. > :05:19.are most concerned about, migration is always around the top. One of the

:05:20. > :05:23.reasons, I think, suggested in this story is that David Cameron wanted

:05:24. > :05:26.the referendum in the first half of the year, before the summer months

:05:27. > :05:34.when traditionally the numbers of migrants rise. Even now, it's a mild

:05:35. > :05:40.winter, and in February we are seeing figures that are way higher

:05:41. > :05:45.than the same time last year. Migrants coming in, it may well be

:05:46. > :05:51.that this is an issue that others haven't talked about. The

:05:52. > :05:55.International organisation for migration are basically saying there

:05:56. > :06:04.are 110,000 people in the first six weeks of the year compared to 7500

:06:05. > :06:08.in the same period last year. What is that telling us? That the

:06:09. > :06:14.continued civil war in Syria and the inability of the international

:06:15. > :06:20.community to come to an agreement to create a ceasefire is creating a

:06:21. > :06:24.huge migration crisis. In the story, the Telegraph say an apparent

:06:25. > :06:28.inability of the EU to find a joint solution to the migrant crisis, hang

:06:29. > :06:38.on, this is the worst migrant crisis since the Second World War. It is a

:06:39. > :06:44.very big problem. The situation in Syria, the problem itself, and Iraq,

:06:45. > :06:49.it happens elsewhere, it is not something that the EU can solve. It

:06:50. > :06:55.is the EU that bears the brunt of trying to deal with this. Supporters

:06:56. > :07:00.of the EU will say... Just one more point, we aren't a member of

:07:01. > :07:05.Schengen. Migrants coming into the EU, it does not mean that the UK

:07:06. > :07:10.will take a lot of migrants in, and refugees in. We know David Cameron

:07:11. > :07:15.said 20,000, that is our count... Some people would read that

:07:16. > :07:20.headline... We aren't talking about Britain, but there is a knock-on

:07:21. > :07:28.effect. In the Guardian, junior doctors declare a fresh wave... Of

:07:29. > :07:35.strikes. Two months. This is really getting nasty. It is. Basically,

:07:36. > :07:39.after two months of protracted negotiations and very public and

:07:40. > :07:45.bitter fighting between the Department of Health and Jeremy

:07:46. > :07:50.Hunt, the Health Secretary, and junior doctors, the row continues

:07:51. > :07:53.and threats of strikes. Jeremy Hunt has imposed this contract on junior

:07:54. > :07:58.doctors now, to work a seven-day week and work weekends. They are now

:07:59. > :08:02.saying that they want to have three new 48 hour strikes, and seek a

:08:03. > :08:10.judicial review in an escalation of what is already a bitter dispute.

:08:11. > :08:15.The Department of Health's view is that once the contract is imposed,

:08:16. > :08:20.then the resistance will ebb away, because a lot of doctors will find

:08:21. > :08:25.it is not as bad as they thought, or conditions are improved. That is the

:08:26. > :08:31.Department of Health. The one thing I would say about this is watchful

:08:32. > :08:36.Jeremy Hunt to be reshuffled after the June referendum. If you think

:08:37. > :08:41.about what happened between Michael Gove and the teachers... And

:08:42. > :08:44.Lansbury and the NHS. Yes, I think after this episode that David

:08:45. > :08:49.Cameron will want to... Lance, the junior doctors clearly believe

:08:50. > :08:54.public opinion is on their side? In this whole dispute. They would not

:08:55. > :08:58.be calling the kinds of strikes that would put people's hospital

:08:59. > :09:02.appointments off for weeks or months if they did not go the public were

:09:03. > :09:06.behind them. I think that they feel the majority of the public are

:09:07. > :09:14.behind them, let's face it, looking at any card upon about who you trust

:09:15. > :09:19.in society, people trust a doctor over a politician. -- any poll. I

:09:20. > :09:25.think people do have sympathy, the junior doctors are doing their best,

:09:26. > :09:30.as soon as it looks like they were asking for more money, then some of

:09:31. > :09:35.the public sympathy would ebb away. But we have two C. It could go one

:09:36. > :09:46.through the summer, it might do at this rate. -- we have to see. Do you

:09:47. > :09:50.like chocolate? I'm partial! Don't buy a Mars bar. Plastic has been

:09:51. > :09:57.found in a Snickers bar, but the Mars company makes them.

:09:58. > :10:05.And Snickers bar would not be such a headline! Plastic has been found in

:10:06. > :10:08.one in Germany. They found plastic and one, but because they aren't

:10:09. > :10:13.sure whether sources, and they aren't sure, because the factory

:10:14. > :10:26.probably produces millions of lovely Chocolate. They are having to recall

:10:27. > :10:31.a lot of chocolate. It is one of the food industry's biggest ever recall

:10:32. > :10:36.is. Will the brands suffer as a result of this? Probably not. What

:10:37. > :10:40.some people would say is that they are overreacting. Rather than under

:10:41. > :10:44.reacting. That is always a good thing. I think Perrier few years ago

:10:45. > :10:48.took millions and millions of bottles of of the shelves, costing

:10:49. > :10:56.them a fortune but protecting the brand. -- off the shelves. They are

:10:57. > :11:00.worth a fortune. You will be back later to discuss more of the

:11:01. > :11:03.stories. Stay with us, more coming up. Now,