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:00:00. > :00:00.football as well as rugby league and cricket and the massive boxing

:00:07. > :00:17.bout. That's all coming up after The Papers.

:00:18. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:21. > :00:29.With me are Martin Lipton, the Deputy Head of Sport at The Sun,

:00:30. > :00:31.and the writer and broadcaster Louise Scodie.

:00:32. > :00:38.The Times says Boris Johnson has backed away

:00:39. > :00:41.from the suggestion that a vote to leave the EU would force Brussels to

:00:42. > :00:47.The Telegraph says the mayor has appealed to Cabinet ministers

:00:48. > :00:51.backing the campaign to stay in the European Union to "think again".

:00:52. > :00:55.The Independent focuses on George Osborne's warning, made to

:00:56. > :00:58.the BBC, that he may have to impose deeper cuts in public spending.

:00:59. > :01:01.the Guardian leads on allegations of abuse and bullying at a G4S-run

:01:02. > :01:09.The FT focuses on the latest losses at RBS.

:01:10. > :01:12.The Mail reports on a new biography of Tony Blair and his government's

:01:13. > :01:16.And the Express says leading European

:01:17. > :01:23.politicians fear the migrant crisis in Europe could destroy the EU.

:01:24. > :01:35.Starting with George Osborne, who is on a trip to China at the moment to

:01:36. > :01:40.meet G20 ministers. The Independent has taken its headline from

:01:41. > :01:46.something he said today. George Osborne proposes new cuts as the

:01:47. > :01:53.economic gloom deepens. Several reasons for this, he thinks. He has

:01:54. > :01:59.explained what they are but it will really make people's hearts sink.

:02:00. > :02:07.Certainly maybe the Independent's hearts sink. George Osborne

:02:08. > :02:14.described as taking a fateful decision. Posterity hasn't been

:02:15. > :02:18.hugely popular and I don't think that's going to change, if anything

:02:19. > :02:24.it'll get worse over the coming months. -- posterity. The

:02:25. > :02:27.interesting thing here is when the Independent right that the steep

:02:28. > :02:30.reductions in public spending had reopened the Chancellor to the

:02:31. > :02:36.charge that he is slashing back the statewide chill -- for ideological

:02:37. > :02:44.reasons. Is that something more widely bandied about? That something

:02:45. > :02:50.the papers have talked about. Stephen Golding has tweeted and

:02:51. > :03:01.says, what about the recent surplus? Now you are prepping us for more

:03:02. > :03:08.unnecessary austerity. I am trying to work out who is to blame. Now

:03:09. > :03:11.cuts are the fault of the global economy, as opposed to the

:03:12. > :03:20.government. Surely it was the global economy last time as well. A lot of

:03:21. > :03:30.people were willing to accept cuts over a short period, especially then

:03:31. > :03:34.feel they were in fact it upon them. I'm not sure this will be an easy

:03:35. > :03:39.sell for any government and this is increasingly difficult for Osborne

:03:40. > :03:44.to talk about the necessity of these things when it doesn't look as

:03:45. > :03:49.though we are all in it together. That certain people are allowed...

:03:50. > :03:52.When you've got huge companies paying zero tax, why should other

:03:53. > :03:58.people suffer? These sort of issues will get a go. The global economy

:03:59. > :04:02.impacted on the personal economy. It does become a question people will

:04:03. > :04:06.be looking for answers to. Surely he will say that he has made a start

:04:07. > :04:15.with the likes of Google. Not compared to France. France have

:04:16. > :04:20.demanded the huge sum. There is a genuine feeling about we were

:04:21. > :04:28.willing to accept things to a point, but perhaps that point has

:04:29. > :04:33.been reached. It will be a difficult issue for George Osborne to answer.

:04:34. > :04:36.I think there were people who were worried about the effects it was

:04:37. > :04:43.having on the more vulnerable members of society, for example.

:04:44. > :04:49.There's a lot more empathy around. People vote with their own pocket

:04:50. > :04:55.books. Not necessarily. Certainly anecdotal output from people from

:04:56. > :04:58.the start is that they've been very worried about people they may not

:04:59. > :05:01.even know that well, but they know will be affected by the austerity

:05:02. > :05:08.measures. Staying with the Independent. They can't believe it's

:05:09. > :05:25.not Sepp Blatter. Fifa pics a new head for football's family. Another

:05:26. > :05:31.Swiss man... -- picks. It is certainly mostly masculine. We

:05:32. > :05:34.shouldn't be surprised by that. It is a male sport in the main. The

:05:35. > :05:39.Football Association has just appointed a head of communications,

:05:40. > :05:45.who is a woman, and she will do an excellent job for the FA. But I

:05:46. > :05:51.think there are only two voters today after the two 270 voted that

:05:52. > :05:57.are women. Two members of the executive committee have been women

:05:58. > :06:01.in its history. We've now got this new head of Fifa and his job is to

:06:02. > :06:06.be more transparent and accountable and stop the corruption. Indeed. I'm

:06:07. > :06:13.not the biggest football fan in the world, under -- understatement, but

:06:14. > :06:17.I think international organisations should be transparent and Fifa have

:06:18. > :06:21.let a lot of people down. They've let the fans down and let's hope

:06:22. > :06:26.this new leadership will turn things around. Do the fans feel let down?

:06:27. > :06:33.Or are they more worried about their own individual clubs? Fifa organises

:06:34. > :06:37.the World Cup, as far as most fans are concerned. That's been an

:06:38. > :06:47.absolute mess! But the tournament is still a success. The voting is a

:06:48. > :06:52.scandal, as they said before. We are happy to listen. What we have is an

:06:53. > :07:08.organisation that is endemically flawed. It has, over the last 40

:07:09. > :07:12.years, since 1974 when -- 1974, when it became a corrupt institution. How

:07:13. > :07:18.likely is it that we will scrap it? This is the last chance for Fifa to

:07:19. > :07:22.be able to reform itself. Who says, we can't have you doing this any

:07:23. > :07:29.more so with the wind you up? I think potentially if class actions

:07:30. > :07:33.from various organisations such as US authorities... This is where it

:07:34. > :07:51.started. The American investigation into backsliding and deals... Last

:07:52. > :07:54.May, the whole process began and it was inevitable someone else would

:07:55. > :07:58.come in from that moment. It has taken nine months to get here. The

:07:59. > :08:06.question for Fifa and football is whether it will be any better under

:08:07. > :08:10.the new regime, given that Gianni Infantino only stood because his

:08:11. > :08:15.boss was forced to resign because of the ?1.3 million payment. But he is

:08:16. > :08:20.a standout candidate and could do well and speaks 11 languages. Time

:08:21. > :08:27.will tell. Boris Johnson in Europe U-turn. He changes his mind and says

:08:28. > :08:32.the art vote will be final. No means no. Yes, as opposed to the other day

:08:33. > :08:37.when he said no means yes, we can change our minds, who knows? He has

:08:38. > :08:42.had to publicly backtrack, which has made me feel delighted. The Brexit

:08:43. > :08:47.story will go on until June 23. We have got months of this. I would

:08:48. > :08:52.suggest that some of the coverage will be a little dry. Anything we

:08:53. > :08:56.got that will embarrass the odd politician in the months to come is

:08:57. > :09:03.very welcome. It is amazing how much sway Boris has over the debate. It

:09:04. > :09:05.is also amazing how complicated it is for those arguing one way or

:09:06. > :09:12.another. There are many things they just don't know. How difficult would

:09:13. > :09:15.it be if we were to leave? If we were to vote to leave, and I would

:09:16. > :09:26.be surprised at the stature if we do, but who knows, the costs of it,

:09:27. > :09:33.the two years, could be pretty painful. The EU won't make it easy

:09:34. > :09:38.for us. To encourage others not to go down that path, they will make it

:09:39. > :09:40.as hard as they can. As let's be honest the British government would

:09:41. > :09:46.have done if the Scots had voted for independence. But there are some big

:09:47. > :09:53.names -the Brexit campaign who have got months to make the argument. --

:09:54. > :09:57.behind the Brexit. Yes, no one is hitting us the facts just as they

:09:58. > :10:03.are. Because there are no facts. There's opinion. Do the British

:10:04. > :10:09.people want to remain part of an EU which some of them have doubts over

:10:10. > :10:19.but might cling to like a comfort blanket, or can we go our own way,

:10:20. > :10:24.when in the 40 odd years since we joined many of the markets, which we

:10:25. > :10:29.had then, are no longer markets. Our main markets are now within Europe

:10:30. > :10:35.and are we better being part of the huge trading bloc? Boris Johnson

:10:36. > :10:41.says he would negotiate trade deals with other parts of the world. The

:10:42. > :10:46.FT. Brussels flipped the switch to stop tea loving Brits from boiling

:10:47. > :10:49.over. The idea that we wouldn't be allowed powerful toasters and

:10:50. > :10:56.kettles, and powerful vacuum cleaners. For environmental reasons.

:10:57. > :11:02.If there's one thing we British don't want it is an affront to up

:11:03. > :11:14.tea and toast habit. We have an MP blaming Brussels for his four

:11:15. > :11:19.attempts at his tea and toast ratio. I would like my tea and toast

:11:20. > :11:25.protected. It almost sounds like a television show. Maybe they are just

:11:26. > :11:30.giving us a bit of a break, they are trying to be nice to us. Also,

:11:31. > :11:38.congratulations to both the forgetting that fantastic quote! The

:11:39. > :11:46.quick look at The Daily Mail. -- to Buzzfeed. This is a new biography.

:11:47. > :11:50.It is by the man who has put together a number of scathing

:11:51. > :12:00.biographies of significant figures, including Gordon Brown and Simon

:12:01. > :12:07.Cowell, more important these days! Looking at the clips, this thing

:12:08. > :12:12.being tied to Tony Blair... In the book it is tied to a former

:12:13. > :12:18.immigration official. He says he told Barbara Roach, the then

:12:19. > :12:21.Immigration Minister. It isn't directly linked to Tony Blair's

:12:22. > :12:26.decisions. Nevertheless, we know there was a view that in the new

:12:27. > :12:35.Labour government they could make a point and try to be a more welcoming

:12:36. > :12:39.and inviting country. They also said they haven't got an idea of what

:12:40. > :12:44.immigration figures were at point and they apologised. Ed Miliband

:12:45. > :12:50.seems to apologise for it quite a lot. It all seems a bit spurious. I

:12:51. > :12:54.can't believe this has made it onto the front page. I like the wait has

:12:55. > :12:58.been described, like it is the plot of a thriller. Tony Blair presiding

:12:59. > :13:03.over a silent conspiracy to change the face of Britain forever. The

:13:04. > :13:06.main aim was to make the country see the benefit of a multicultural

:13:07. > :13:12.society. It seems highly unlikely and not a very good strategy and

:13:13. > :13:16.certainly one that will backfire on the Daily Mail and its readers. They

:13:17. > :13:21.are offering a chance to win one of Margaret Thatcher's iconic handbags!

:13:22. > :13:29.Hold me back! Dozens of children with decayed teeth. This was a story

:13:30. > :13:38.we looked at the time ago, we are still waiting for this obesity study

:13:39. > :13:43.to be published as well. The second part of this story is that the

:13:44. > :13:51.publication of the childhood obesity strategy has been put on hold. Any

:13:52. > :13:56.parent with young kids will be concerned about the question of how

:13:57. > :14:03.their children are, what their help is. We've also had this ongoing

:14:04. > :14:11.thing about sugar and diets and the amount of soft drinks and how they

:14:12. > :14:16.are having negative effect on mental health. There's a general concern

:14:17. > :14:29.about the way are growing up. Also keep. We -- also teeth. So many

:14:30. > :14:34.children have to have them pulled out. We are talking about children

:14:35. > :14:39.aged five to nine. It must be absolutely terrible. There have been

:14:40. > :14:43.a number of educational Alicia Keys from the government to try to get

:14:44. > :14:51.families to think about eating healthier. -- educational

:14:52. > :14:54.initiatives. We have the teeth issue and that compounded by the obesity

:14:55. > :15:03.issue. They all link into each other. What is it that's missing? I

:15:04. > :15:15.can't answer that question and I wouldn't there try. Vow of silence.

:15:16. > :15:20.ENO, the choir won't sing in a dispute over pay. What is the

:15:21. > :15:24.proposal? Basically they might have their contracts cut down to nine

:15:25. > :15:28.months which mean they would lose a quarter of their salaries. They

:15:29. > :15:31.earned just over 30 grand each and said they wouldn't be able to live

:15:32. > :15:36.in London where they have to live or work if there is salaries are

:15:37. > :15:39.reduced. Performers spent years and thousands and thousands of pounds

:15:40. > :15:45.training to become a performer and often get paid absolutely nothing.

:15:46. > :15:49.They will never make the money they earn back. I understand why they are

:15:50. > :15:54.feeling unhappy. The idea is that they refused to sing? They will

:15:55. > :16:02.refuse to sing all sing the wrong songs. When I was so bad, it was

:16:03. > :16:12.banned. It wasn't because I couldn't sing! That teacher, who banned me,

:16:13. > :16:19.shame on you! It will be a sell out now. There no publicity like bad

:16:20. > :16:23.publicity. People will want to see the show to see what comedy costumes

:16:24. > :16:28.the artists will wear. Maybe they will be dressed as chickens when

:16:29. > :16:35.they aren't singing! Who knows? It's a way to drum up a bit more trade.

:16:36. > :16:41.Lovely to see you. Thanks very much. Coming up next, Sportsday.