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:00:00. > :00:00.million-dollar question. And, we look at the track championships in

:00:00. > :00:14.cycling in London next week. Hello and welcome to

:00:15. > :00:17.our look ahead to what the papers With me are

:00:18. > :00:20.the senior political correspondent at the Telegraph, Kate McCann,

:00:21. > :00:22.and the political correspondent The i reports on what life is

:00:23. > :00:31.like for people living under the rule of the so-called

:00:32. > :00:33.Islamic State group in Syria. The International Monetary Fund is

:00:34. > :00:35.urging the world's top economies to work

:00:36. > :00:38.together to try and boost growth, The Telegraph claims

:00:39. > :00:42.Justice Secretary Michael Gove could be facing the sack

:00:43. > :00:44.after he challenged the legality The Metro says internet giant Google

:00:45. > :00:55.is facing a ?1.3 billion tax bill in France, that's ten times

:00:56. > :00:57.the amount they paid to Britain. The two investigations

:00:58. > :00:59.into how police failed victims of sexual abuse in Rotherham are

:01:00. > :01:02.the Guardian's main story. The Sun has an interview with former

:01:03. > :01:04.television presenter Stuart Hall, who's finished serving a jail

:01:05. > :01:08.sentence for indecent assaults. There's claims in the Express that

:01:09. > :01:11.the French will let thousands of migrants head for Britain

:01:12. > :01:20.if the UK opts to leave the EU. And the Mail has a picture of the

:01:21. > :01:23.singer Adele, who's swept the board at the Brit awards, along with a

:01:24. > :01:40.warning that more than one million We will start with the suggestion

:01:41. > :01:45.that Michael Gove could be fired after the referendum on whether or

:01:46. > :01:51.not we should stay in the EU in June because he is perceived to have used

:01:52. > :01:56.his office as the justice secretary to attack David Cameron's deal. I

:01:57. > :01:59.think with this story we don't really know whether David Cameron

:02:00. > :02:04.will have calmed down after the referendum. He might be feeling this

:02:05. > :02:09.way now, but come June we don't know what the result is going to be and

:02:10. > :02:13.we don't know is he will need a unity cabinet to keep Michael Gove

:02:14. > :02:19.in the tent along with Boris Johnson. The most interesting aspect

:02:20. > :02:22.of this for me is the bitterness of the off the record briefing that is

:02:23. > :02:29.now going on between the two different warring Tory camps.

:02:30. > :02:35.They'll already whispering into your ears about who is doing this. This

:02:36. > :02:44.is an anonymous minister saying that they might befriends, but it would

:02:45. > :02:49.be hard to see how Michael Gove can continue as just a secretary after

:02:50. > :02:51.what he has done to Cameron. I suppose David Cameron might feel

:02:52. > :02:56.justified in feeling that he has been stabbed in the back. It is a

:02:57. > :03:00.funny one, because what is playing out across most of the front pages

:03:01. > :03:04.is not really anything to do with an argument about whether we should

:03:05. > :03:11.leave or remain in the EU, it is an argument between friends. David

:03:12. > :03:18.Cameron and Michael Gove are very good friends, so anyone who has read

:03:19. > :03:22.the article in the Daily Mail today by Michael Gove's wife, saying that

:03:23. > :03:28.he agonised about this, saying that the PM would feel let down. This is

:03:29. > :03:32.not just about politics, it is friendship. That is the same as

:03:33. > :03:36.Boris Johnson in the PM. When David Cameron reacted to Boris Johnson's

:03:37. > :03:45.coming out to campaign for Brexit, he was angry. It was a personal,

:03:46. > :03:48.heart and not head reaction. This is something the country wants to see

:03:49. > :03:53.leadership on. What they don't want to see is an argument among Tory

:03:54. > :03:59.cabinet ministers about who is right and who is wrong and who has

:04:00. > :04:03.betrayed whom. But that was always the danger of that, wasn't it? We

:04:04. > :04:07.know what John Major called some of the people in his party who feel

:04:08. > :04:14.this way about the EU. We know about the divisions that run deep, very

:04:15. > :04:18.deep. It was going to happen. That is why we are seeing stories like

:04:19. > :04:22.this today. David Cameron may well decide to move Michael Gove out of

:04:23. > :04:25.the cabinet after the referendum, because while politics is the most

:04:26. > :04:30.important thing, he is not going to sack him tomorrow as it wouldn't

:04:31. > :04:34.make any sense. But he may decide to sideline Michael Gove at the end of

:04:35. > :04:39.this process and say, I expected more from you and I am very

:04:40. > :04:44.disappointed. And he might keep Boris in the camp, because if Boris

:04:45. > :04:49.Johnson keeps his word and doesn't become the poster boy for the leave

:04:50. > :04:53.campaign, which could become very damaging, if he can do that then he

:04:54. > :04:58.may be rewarded with the top job. He knows it could be Michael Gove's

:04:59. > :05:03.job. Michael Gove is simply stating what is there for everyone to see,

:05:04. > :05:09.that until this deal becomes part of the official treaty of the EU, it is

:05:10. > :05:15.still potentially possibly maybe challengeable in the European court

:05:16. > :05:18.of justice. That is what the leave campaign assay, but on the other

:05:19. > :05:24.side Downing Street is adamant that there deal is -- that their deal is

:05:25. > :05:30.watertight. They have lined up a number of people, Donald Tusk and

:05:31. > :05:39.Dominic Grieve, it was a very slick operation. Donald Tusk has said that

:05:40. > :05:43.he believes this deal has legal force and the European Court of

:05:44. > :05:51.Justice will have to take it into account. Michael Gove says we have

:05:52. > :05:58.no control over who we let in, and warns of a huge new influx this

:05:59. > :06:01.year. Michael Gove popping up again, and when he pops up in a story you

:06:02. > :06:06.know that it is legitimate, or so you think because that has been the

:06:07. > :06:10.case so far. It is a problem David Cameron has to deal with. This story

:06:11. > :06:14.about migration will be one of the main focus is for the EU referendum

:06:15. > :06:19.campaign, particularly on the Leeds side. They know that many people who

:06:20. > :06:28.want to see the back of the European Union are concerned about migration.

:06:29. > :06:32.-- leave. Neither side can say for sure that this is or is not going to

:06:33. > :06:37.be the case, but what people are frightened about is that it might

:06:38. > :06:43.be. Unfortunately, at the moment, the remain campaign can't say that

:06:44. > :06:50.that won't happen. The French to let migrants head for Britain, outrage

:06:51. > :06:53.at threat to scrap border checks at Calais. Why would the French keep

:06:54. > :07:02.the British border in France if we leave the EU? This is an interesting

:07:03. > :07:07.story, because this is the Calais regional president who is saying

:07:08. > :07:12.that if Britain left the EU, then he would want to move the border over

:07:13. > :07:18.to the UK. And that is exactly the argument David Cameron has been

:07:19. > :07:24.making about this. He is saying that it is actually Paris and the EU that

:07:25. > :07:28.is keeping the agreement as it is. It is also an argument that has been

:07:29. > :07:33.very strongly rebutted from the leave campaign. Saying that this is

:07:34. > :07:37.scaremongering and it would never happen. The more this argument gets

:07:38. > :07:45.repeated, David Cameron will want this to be out there. He will be

:07:46. > :07:49.willing to Cali politicians on -- Calais politicians on. This is about

:07:50. > :07:53.as feasible as the deal being struck down by the European Court of

:07:54. > :07:57.Justice? It is based on an agreement. I think all the arguments

:07:58. > :08:01.about these treaties and how it is or is not interpreted by the courts,

:08:02. > :08:05.someone was making the point today that lots of EU treaties can be

:08:06. > :08:10.interpreted differently by other European countries, so saying it

:08:11. > :08:18.won't be legal until it is in that treaty doesn't mean much, because

:08:19. > :08:21.sometimes the treaties themselves are challenged. A lot of this comes

:08:22. > :08:24.down to goodwill, and at the moment that is stretched because Calais has

:08:25. > :08:28.a real problem. The French aren't getting much out of this deal. They

:08:29. > :08:34.are getting some support, some financial support and political

:08:35. > :08:39.support, but I think those relationships will be stretched to

:08:40. > :08:45.the limit if the UK does decide to leave. Are we seeing Michael Gove

:08:46. > :08:50.being put out there will voluntarily taking the mantle of the spokesman

:08:51. > :08:55.for the leave campaign? It won't just be him, we have also seen Iain

:08:56. > :09:01.Duncan Smith come out and make a similar argument in his brief about

:09:02. > :09:06.welfare, and saying that the emergency brake won't be effective.

:09:07. > :09:10.But I think Michael Gove is taking a bigger role in this already after

:09:11. > :09:14.just four days, and maybe David Cameron will have expected that.

:09:15. > :09:19.It'll be a surprise to David Cameron that good friend has defied him and

:09:20. > :09:22.rejected his deal, and also that he has been quite so bullish and out

:09:23. > :09:47.there in his arguments against the EU. We had better move on to the

:09:48. > :09:54.Guardian. Police failings in Rotherham. There is a source in here

:09:55. > :09:57.saying that more than 50 officers are being investigated, and we were

:09:58. > :10:02.saying before how that would have an impact on the community in

:10:03. > :10:05.Rotherham. Particularly when you find that 1600 children in the town

:10:06. > :10:10.at that time alone could have been victims of these kinds of attacks.

:10:11. > :10:17.That is a shocking number of people for a relatively small area. I think

:10:18. > :10:22.there are big questions being asked of the police, but as Rowena pointed

:10:23. > :10:27.out earlier, it is not just the police at fault, but local

:10:28. > :10:31.government and others who knew about it. It is neighbours, friends,

:10:32. > :10:34.family, people who work in the child-care system, they may have

:10:35. > :10:39.been aware of failings and maybe they weren't reported early enough

:10:40. > :10:46.or taken seriously as they should have been. For some people, the Fiat

:10:47. > :10:51.also of being potentially labelled racist in pointing out these issues

:10:52. > :10:58.that seem to be emanating from such a tiny section of the Pakistani

:10:59. > :11:01.community -- the fear. There is this argument about it that people in

:11:02. > :11:05.local government were so frightened about being labelled racist that

:11:06. > :11:16.they didn't act on it. That seems to me to be very good excuse -- to be

:11:17. > :11:20.not a very good excuse. This is such an appalling scandal on such a huge

:11:21. > :11:27.scale, that doesn't seem inadequate reason. Absolutely not. The French

:11:28. > :11:43.demand 1.3 billion of Google in taxes. Ten times what Britain got.

:11:44. > :11:49.This is a demand, they haven't actually managed to get this money.

:11:50. > :11:54.It is ten times what the UK got, which was ?130 million from Google

:11:55. > :12:04.over a 10-year period. At least they are asking for it. There is some

:12:05. > :12:09.criticism here with George Osborne saying it was a victory for the UK.

:12:10. > :12:13.This group have come out and said that the payment was

:12:14. > :12:16.disproportionately small. HMRC didn't bother levelling any kind of

:12:17. > :12:20.fines for late payment at Google either. We would expect that if we

:12:21. > :12:26.didn't submit our tax returns on time. It is not the end of this for

:12:27. > :12:32.the UK, and HMRC had in fact said in another committee hearing that they

:12:33. > :12:37.could look again at Google's tax bill if other countries were

:12:38. > :12:42.perceived to get larger pay-outs. So there could be a review? Yes, there

:12:43. > :12:46.could be. So if the French are successful, a bit more restitution

:12:47. > :12:51.may be. Don't think this will be the end of this story, I think there

:12:52. > :12:55.will be political pressure. People have started asking questions

:12:56. > :12:59.between the links between Downing Street and Google, and was that too

:13:00. > :13:06.cosy relationship? Are revolving door between Whitehall and the

:13:07. > :13:11.company, and the close was of Eric Schmidt, the CEO, who was on David

:13:12. > :13:18.Cameron's business group. I think there are more questions to ask

:13:19. > :13:22.about what pressure Google put on the government to not look too

:13:23. > :13:27.closely at this in the past. Very quickly, do we have time for one

:13:28. > :13:37.more? I'm getting conflicting messages. It is all over, I am being

:13:38. > :13:43.told. We have run out of time. Thank you both for coming. Sportsday

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