27/02/2016

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:00:00. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:28. > :00:30.With me are Press and Journal's Westminster correspondent,

:00:31. > :00:32.Lindsay Watling, and broadcaster David Akinsanya.

:00:33. > :00:35.The Sunday Times reports that David Cameron is being warned he may

:00:36. > :00:38.face a leadership challenge even if Britain votes to stay in the EU.

:00:39. > :00:40.The introduction in the House of Commons this week

:00:41. > :00:42.of the government's Investigatory Powers Bill is

:00:43. > :00:48.The Observer has an interview with the Europe

:00:49. > :00:51.Minister David Lidington, who says Britain voting to leave the EU would

:00:52. > :00:57.The Sunday Express leads with a survey suggesting 25 out of the

:00:58. > :01:02.28 EU member states feel negatively about the future of the EU.

:01:03. > :01:05.And sticking with the EU theme, the Mail reports on divisions within the

:01:06. > :01:08.Conservative party, with reports of the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

:01:09. > :01:19.clashing with a long standing Tory eurosceptic MP Sir Bill Cash.

:01:20. > :01:32.Let's begin with the Observer. Brexit would spark a decade of

:01:33. > :01:37.economic limbo, claims a top Tory. The G 20s say that it would be a

:01:38. > :01:49.risk to the global economy. A lot of talk about that today. It is scary

:01:50. > :01:53.stuff, people are jostling for position, saying this way is bad in

:01:54. > :01:57.this way is good. But whether or not that is getting through to real

:01:58. > :02:02.people, I don't know. The G20 has just taken place in China, and

:02:03. > :02:08.people are saying it is a big risk to the world economy, and I think

:02:09. > :02:13.that is what they are homing in on. It is interesting but that is added

:02:14. > :02:16.to a state of post- G20, including officials that were travelling with

:02:17. > :02:20.them, 15 of them aren't even in the EU. It is a strange thing for them

:02:21. > :02:28.to do, and the suggestion is that George has pushed for them to say

:02:29. > :02:31.that. It could be that the likes of China were thinking about

:02:32. > :02:34.themselves, not the EU. They are thinking about the global economy

:02:35. > :02:39.and how it may affect them. It is a coup for George Osborne in terms of

:02:40. > :02:44.getting a statement like that, because it adds ammunition to their

:02:45. > :02:49.narrative, but I think he said yesterday that there would be

:02:50. > :03:03.profound economic shock if it and voted to leave the EU. The Energy

:03:04. > :03:09.minister said that was absurd. Again, there are divisions within

:03:10. > :03:13.the party. And individuals. People are changing their minds. Boris

:03:14. > :03:16.Johnson, he changed his mind, everyone thought he would go the

:03:17. > :03:21.other way, but he switched to the out campaign. It just feels like

:03:22. > :03:26.there are a lot of people positioning themselves. Isn't that

:03:27. > :03:28.happening in the public as well? The politicians have perhaps been

:03:29. > :03:33.thinking about it a lot longer than us. But there are clearly some

:03:34. > :03:39.people, other politicians who are lined up, but there are still people

:03:40. > :03:43.who are deciding. Boris Johnson said he decided a while ago but it was a

:03:44. > :03:47.long and hard decision. I have friends who are literally only

:03:48. > :03:50.interested in the immigration debate, and that is what they will

:03:51. > :03:53.base their decision on. They are not thinking about whether there will be

:03:54. > :03:58.less business or whether the pound will be affected, they have a very

:03:59. > :04:02.clear position. But I think the majority of people haven't. I think

:04:03. > :04:06.most people make up their minds perhaps if they go to vote, if they

:04:07. > :04:17.go to vote at all. Of course, they might not vote at all. The Mail on

:04:18. > :04:23.Sunday is describing it as a meltdown. Suggesting that the

:04:24. > :04:29.Conservative Party is in trouble with its divisions, but it could be

:04:30. > :04:33.argued that they are just reflecting what is happening across the

:04:34. > :04:36.country. Yes, and just because people are members of the same party

:04:37. > :04:45.doesn't mean they will have the same views on everything. David Cameron

:04:46. > :04:47.has given his... He has suspended collective Cabinet responsibility to

:04:48. > :04:54.allow them to campaign however they want. I think potentially it is

:04:55. > :05:01.quite dangerous going forward. We saw towards the end of last year

:05:02. > :05:07.fierce divisions within the Labour Party and that has been very

:05:08. > :05:10.dangerous for them. I think the risk is that there will be divisions that

:05:11. > :05:15.can't be healed, coming together afterwards. It is certainly being

:05:16. > :05:24.written about. What happened between Sir Phillip Hammond and Sir Bill

:05:25. > :05:35.Cash? There has been some colourful language and name-calling, which we

:05:36. > :05:39.have heard in the Tory party before. There are nasty things being said to

:05:40. > :05:42.each other, and apparently Phillip Hammond, who is the Foreign

:05:43. > :05:48.Minister, is usually quite calm guy and quite laid back. You can see

:05:49. > :05:54.here that he... Bill Cash latently published something that he asked

:05:55. > :05:57.him not to, so what does he say about transparency? Why are they not

:05:58. > :06:04.publishing everything they know, why is he in trouble for this? As we

:06:05. > :06:08.move closer to the referendum, it will be ramped up more and more,

:06:09. > :06:15.there will be a lot of nastiness and to-ing and fro-ing. Are worrying

:06:16. > :06:25.headline for David Cameron, Tory threats to cast PM half EU vote.

:06:26. > :06:30.Where is this coming from? The question has always been that if he

:06:31. > :06:34.loses, and Britain does vote to leave the EU, he would have to

:06:35. > :06:37.resign. He has said that he wouldn't, but this is going one

:06:38. > :06:44.stage further. It is suggesting there could be a leadership

:06:45. > :06:50.challenge even if Britain votes to stay. It is all to do with the party

:06:51. > :06:53.being disarray and fears of a split. So, what we were just talking about,

:06:54. > :06:57.Cameron really faces the challenge of keeping it together. It is all

:06:58. > :07:02.very well for people to disagree, it is how they disagreed. They are

:07:03. > :07:05.saying a vote of no confidence could be called off the back of this

:07:06. > :07:12.infighting, and a senior backbencher is saying it would be doable. More

:07:13. > :07:20.than 140 MPs are committed to leading the EU. A tough week the

:07:21. > :07:25.David Cameron, many people in the party coming out against him. He has

:07:26. > :07:28.brought it on himself, he is the one who offered the referendum to

:07:29. > :07:36.people. That people haven't had a say for a long time. But it is not

:07:37. > :07:41.like... He started it, didn't he? But they have been divisions for a

:07:42. > :07:47.long time. But he needn't have done what he did, and I don't think he

:07:48. > :07:50.will stay as PM anyway. He has a few years yet, he might stick around a

:07:51. > :07:55.bit longer. But it is a risk for the PM. That's right, and especially

:07:56. > :08:00.within the party when you know there are so many Eurosceptics. I always

:08:01. > :08:05.understood that about the Tory party, that a lot of them were anti-

:08:06. > :08:09.Europe. It will be interesting to see what happens in the Conservative

:08:10. > :08:14.Party after the referendum, because those rifts will suddenly have to

:08:15. > :08:22.work together again. In some shape or form, either in or out of the EU.

:08:23. > :08:26.People on the periphery, there will always be defined camps, but I think

:08:27. > :08:35.in the mainstream people kiss and make up. Shall we move away from the

:08:36. > :08:39.EU? Let's talk about charities. We are talking about these people who

:08:40. > :08:45.we see in the charity industry with clip boards, asking us for money.

:08:46. > :08:49.Like I said before, I am happy to give a pound or ?2 into a

:08:50. > :08:53.collection, but they want you to stop and take ten minutes, then get

:08:54. > :08:59.a 12 month standing order from you. They are getting on people's nerves.

:09:00. > :09:02.This is coming because the chairman of the Charity Commission is saying

:09:03. > :09:07.that if charities don't get themselves in order they will have

:09:08. > :09:19.to face regulations, and we have all heard about the issues to do with

:09:20. > :09:22.agent -- H and K. I don't give much money to charity now, because I

:09:23. > :09:29.don't like the idea of them sitting in posh offices. Do you avoid them?

:09:30. > :09:35.I do, I often walk on the other side of the road. We haven't got time,

:09:36. > :09:38.have we? That sounds like an awful thing to say, but you are actually

:09:39. > :09:46.trying to get somewhere and you don't have time to stop. I know you

:09:47. > :09:50.both like Adele. She is celebrating her recent success. This is about

:09:51. > :10:01.the price of tickets that are going on sale. If I had the money, I

:10:02. > :10:04.probably would, and she is one of the greats of my time and it would

:10:05. > :10:12.be great to go and see her. It is probably worth the money. She won't

:10:13. > :10:16.like this, will she? No, she tried to stop touts from reselling her

:10:17. > :10:23.tickets. They are selling at 290 times the original price. That is

:10:24. > :10:32.crazy. A seat with a face value of ?85, calling for more than ?25,000.

:10:33. > :10:35.We just have time to talk about barmaids... I shouldn't have said

:10:36. > :10:42.that, but I am reading the headline! Barmaids barred by law.

:10:43. > :10:56.Anything that refers to the sex of the person. This is specifically

:10:57. > :11:04.about hoteliers all -- advertising for barmaids. We had dinner ladies

:11:05. > :11:08.and they are now midday supervisors. We have the issue of paperboy, you

:11:09. > :11:13.can't advertise for a paperboy. My view is that the bigger issue is the

:11:14. > :11:22.paperboy being paid the same as the paper girl? In some cases there is

:11:23. > :11:26.still a gender pay gap, and in some cases not. A lot of it is habit and

:11:27. > :11:32.slip of the tongue. And what we are used to. It is also about the age.

:11:33. > :11:37.It is not just about sex, but age. You can't ask for a recent graduate

:11:38. > :11:44.or a mature person. You can't ask for a Polish builder, either. No,

:11:45. > :11:48.because you are discriminating. I still call a policeman a policeman

:11:49. > :12:00.sometimes, obviously if it was a woman I wouldn't. The same mankind?

:12:01. > :12:03.Humankind, person kind? I was a barmaid for years, and I have no

:12:04. > :12:09.objection to be calling that. I was a paperboy. I was a paperboy. It

:12:10. > :12:17.didn't last long, because I have never been good at getting up early!

:12:18. > :12:23.Thank you both for joining us today. You can watch it on my player in a

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