23/02/2016 The Papers

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That's all after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Beth Rigby,

who's media editor at the Times and the political commentator

Lance Price. Let's get straight to it, beginning

with the Telegraph newspaper. Generals, we are safer in Europe.

We've had big bosses of FTSE 100 companies, we will probably have

bakers tomorrow and hairstylists the next day. This time, it is the

generals who are saying we should stay in Europe? Yes, it was the FTSE

100 Chief Executive 's this morning. Only one third? 34 out of 100, but a

lot of that see companies never want to make any announcements on these

kinds of matters, it is not a bad number -- FTSE. More will come out

as there are more board meetings. We are talking about the generals! They

are bringing in the Army! This is a letter in The Daily Telegraph, and

forces chiefs believe that it is in our national interests to remain in

the EU. What we are seeing here is this is the beginning of the number

ten machine, gearing up to try to win the argument on Europe, there is

a pol in the Times which hopefully we can get to later, suggested by

YouGov that it is neck and neck. There are issues around national

security, David Cameron argues that we are better off if we stay in

Europe, Eurosceptics, and those who want to leave the EU say that it is

Project Fear, and attempt to scare the public into staying in and they

would like for them to make more positive arguments about staying in

the EU rather than trying to scare us all into voting in. Lance, the

alt camp would say that it is not Europe who defends our security but

Nato? -- out. Yes, I am a strong pro-European, but I think defence is

one of the weaker arguments. Britain could have defence cooperation with

in the European Union just as easily as if we were outside. There's a

good defensive case about the defence of the country through

intelligence cooperation and the rest of it, and European arrest

warrants, the idea we are more vulnerable to attack from Russia or

so-called Islamic State is probably stretching it a little bit. But what

is interesting is a few days into the campaign... And you are bored

already? Not at all! It is really important. All of the big arguments

are being deployed straightaway. Four months of this, and as we were

saying, we've had the big businesses, now we have the

generals, all of the big arguments are put on the table now. And

presumably things will go quiet. Because it is so close, as that poll

in the Times suggests. It is a knife edge, anything could swear it.

Generals, security, that could help with swaying people one way or the

other in the debate? I think the other point about this is that over

the weekend with a declaration of Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary,

and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the declaration of those

two big cabinet beasts saying they want to support the out campaign,

Downing Street on a back foot and want to take the momentum. If you

think about what happened on Monday morning, every single national

newspaper aside from The Financial Times on horse Johnson's decision.

Not all of them complimentary. -- Boris Johnson. It was blanket

coverage, if you like. What's David Cameron and number ten and those

Conservatives who want to stay in, they are trying to set an agenda. At

the moment, but -- because the campaign is just

kicking off, there is such an appetite to cover it, you want to

feed the media beast, feed it with your stuff, rather than let your

opponents get theirs in. One thing that could be influential is the

migration crisis. The Telegraph has this headline...

If you look at the kind of issues that people tell the pollsters they

are most concerned about, migration is always around the top. One of the

reasons, I think, suggested in this story is that David Cameron wanted

the referendum in the first half of the year, before the summer months

when traditionally the numbers of migrants rise. Even now, it's a mild

winter, and in February we are seeing figures that are way higher

than the same time last year. Migrants coming in, it may well be

that this is an issue that others haven't talked about. The

International organisation for migration are basically saying there

are 110,000 people in the first six weeks of the year compared to 7500

in the same period last year. What is that telling us? That the

continued civil war in Syria and the inability of the international

community to come to an agreement to create a ceasefire is creating a

huge migration crisis. In the story, the Telegraph say an apparent

inability of the EU to find a joint solution to the migrant crisis, hang

on, this is the worst migrant crisis since the Second World War. It is a

very big problem. The situation in Syria, the problem itself, and Iraq,

it happens elsewhere, it is not something that the EU can solve. It

is the EU that bears the brunt of trying to deal with this. Supporters

of the EU will say... Just one more point, we aren't a member of

Schengen. Migrants coming into the EU, it does not mean that the UK

will take a lot of migrants in, and refugees in. We know David Cameron

said 20,000, that is our count... Some people would read that

headline... We aren't talking about Britain, but there is a knock-on

effect. In the Guardian, junior doctors declare a fresh wave... Of

strikes. Two months. This is really getting nasty. It is. Basically,

after two months of protracted negotiations and very public and

bitter fighting between the Department of Health and Jeremy

Hunt, the Health Secretary, and junior doctors, the row continues

and threats of strikes. Jeremy Hunt has imposed this contract on junior

doctors now, to work a seven-day week and work weekends. They are now

saying that they want to have three new 48 hour strikes, and seek a

judicial review in an escalation of what is already a bitter dispute.

The Department of Health's view is that once the contract is imposed,

then the resistance will ebb away, because a lot of doctors will find

it is not as bad as they thought, or conditions are improved. That is the

Department of Health. The one thing I would say about this is watchful

Jeremy Hunt to be reshuffled after the June referendum. If you think

about what happened between Michael Gove and the teachers... And

Lansbury and the NHS. Yes, I think after this episode that David

Cameron will want to... Lance, the junior doctors clearly believe

public opinion is on their side? In this whole dispute. They would not

be calling the kinds of strikes that would put people's hospital

appointments off for weeks or months if they did not go the public were

behind them. I think that they feel the majority of the public are

behind them, let's face it, looking at any card upon about who you trust

in society, people trust a doctor over a politician. -- any poll. I

think people do have sympathy, the junior doctors are doing their best,

as soon as it looks like they were asking for more money, then some of

the public sympathy would ebb away. But we have two C. It could go one

through the summer, it might do at this rate. -- we have to see. Do you

like chocolate? I'm partial! Don't buy a Mars bar. Plastic has been

found in a Snickers bar, but the Mars company makes them.

And Snickers bar would not be such a headline! Plastic has been found in

one in Germany. They found plastic and one, but because they aren't

sure whether sources, and they aren't sure, because the factory

probably produces millions of lovely Chocolate. They are having to recall

a lot of chocolate. It is one of the food industry's biggest ever recall

is. Will the brands suffer as a result of this? Probably not. What

some people would say is that they are overreacting. Rather than under

reacting. That is always a good thing. I think Perrier few years ago

took millions and millions of bottles of of the shelves, costing

them a fortune but protecting the brand. -- off the shelves. They are

worth a fortune. You will be back later to discuss more of the

stories. Stay with us, more coming up. Now,