27/02/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Press and Journal's Westminster correspondent,

Lindsay Watling, and broadcaster David Akinsanya.

The Sunday Times reports that David Cameron is being warned he may

face a leadership challenge even if Britain votes to stay in the EU.

The introduction in the House of Commons this week

of the government's Investigatory Powers Bill is

The Observer has an interview with the Europe

Minister David Lidington, who says Britain voting to leave the EU would

The Sunday Express leads with a survey suggesting 25 out of the

28 EU member states feel negatively about the future of the EU.

And sticking with the EU theme, the Mail reports on divisions within the

Conservative party, with reports of the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

clashing with a long standing Tory eurosceptic MP Sir Bill Cash.

Let's begin with the Observer. Brexit would spark a decade of

economic limbo, claims a top Tory. The G 20s say that it would be a

risk to the global economy. A lot of talk about that today. It is scary

stuff, people are jostling for position, saying this way is bad in

this way is good. But whether or not that is getting through to real

people, I don't know. The G20 has just taken place in China, and

people are saying it is a big risk to the world economy, and I think

that is what they are homing in on. It is interesting but that is added

to a state of post- G20, including officials that were travelling with

them, 15 of them aren't even in the EU. It is a strange thing for them

to do, and the suggestion is that George has pushed for them to say

that. It could be that the likes of China were thinking about

themselves, not the EU. They are thinking about the global economy

and how it may affect them. It is a coup for George Osborne in terms of

getting a statement like that, because it adds ammunition to their

narrative, but I think he said yesterday that there would be

profound economic shock if it and voted to leave the EU. The Energy

minister said that was absurd. Again, there are divisions within

the party. And individuals. People are changing their minds. Boris

Johnson, he changed his mind, everyone thought he would go the

other way, but he switched to the out campaign. It just feels like

there are a lot of people positioning themselves. Isn't that

happening in the public as well? The politicians have perhaps been

thinking about it a lot longer than us. But there are clearly some

people, other politicians who are lined up, but there are still people

who are deciding. Boris Johnson said he decided a while ago but it was a

long and hard decision. I have friends who are literally only

interested in the immigration debate, and that is what they will

base their decision on. They are not thinking about whether there will be

less business or whether the pound will be affected, they have a very

clear position. But I think the majority of people haven't. I think

most people make up their minds perhaps if they go to vote, if they

go to vote at all. Of course, they might not vote at all. The Mail on

Sunday is describing it as a meltdown. Suggesting that the

Conservative Party is in trouble with its divisions, but it could be

argued that they are just reflecting what is happening across the

country. Yes, and just because people are members of the same party

doesn't mean they will have the same views on everything. David Cameron

has given his... He has suspended collective Cabinet responsibility to

allow them to campaign however they want. I think potentially it is

quite dangerous going forward. We saw towards the end of last year

fierce divisions within the Labour Party and that has been very

dangerous for them. I think the risk is that there will be divisions that

can't be healed, coming together afterwards. It is certainly being

written about. What happened between Sir Phillip Hammond and Sir Bill

Cash? There has been some colourful language and name-calling, which we

have heard in the Tory party before. There are nasty things being said to

each other, and apparently Phillip Hammond, who is the Foreign

Minister, is usually quite calm guy and quite laid back. You can see

here that he... Bill Cash latently published something that he asked

him not to, so what does he say about transparency? Why are they not

publishing everything they know, why is he in trouble for this? As we

move closer to the referendum, it will be ramped up more and more,

there will be a lot of nastiness and to-ing and fro-ing. Are worrying

headline for David Cameron, Tory threats to cast PM half EU vote.

Where is this coming from? The question has always been that if he

loses, and Britain does vote to leave the EU, he would have to

resign. He has said that he wouldn't, but this is going one

stage further. It is suggesting there could be a leadership

challenge even if Britain votes to stay. It is all to do with the party

being disarray and fears of a split. So, what we were just talking about,

Cameron really faces the challenge of keeping it together. It is all

very well for people to disagree, it is how they disagreed. They are

saying a vote of no confidence could be called off the back of this

infighting, and a senior backbencher is saying it would be doable. More

than 140 MPs are committed to leading the EU. A tough week the

David Cameron, many people in the party coming out against him. He has

brought it on himself, he is the one who offered the referendum to

people. That people haven't had a say for a long time. But it is not

like... He started it, didn't he? But they have been divisions for a

long time. But he needn't have done what he did, and I don't think he

will stay as PM anyway. He has a few years yet, he might stick around a

bit longer. But it is a risk for the PM. That's right, and especially

within the party when you know there are so many Eurosceptics. I always

understood that about the Tory party, that a lot of them were anti-

Europe. It will be interesting to see what happens in the Conservative

Party after the referendum, because those rifts will suddenly have to

work together again. In some shape or form, either in or out of the EU.

People on the periphery, there will always be defined camps, but I think

in the mainstream people kiss and make up. Shall we move away from the

EU? Let's talk about charities. We are talking about these people who

we see in the charity industry with clip boards, asking us for money.

Like I said before, I am happy to give a pound or ?2 into a

collection, but they want you to stop and take ten minutes, then get

a 12 month standing order from you. They are getting on people's nerves.

This is coming because the chairman of the Charity Commission is saying

that if charities don't get themselves in order they will have

to face regulations, and we have all heard about the issues to do with

agent -- H and K. I don't give much money to charity now, because I

don't like the idea of them sitting in posh offices. Do you avoid them?

I do, I often walk on the other side of the road. We haven't got time,

have we? That sounds like an awful thing to say, but you are actually

trying to get somewhere and you don't have time to stop. I know you

both like Adele. She is celebrating her recent success. This is about

the price of tickets that are going on sale. If I had the money, I

probably would, and she is one of the greats of my time and it would

be great to go and see her. It is probably worth the money. She won't

like this, will she? No, she tried to stop touts from reselling her

tickets. They are selling at 290 times the original price. That is

crazy. A seat with a face value of ?85, calling for more than ?25,000.

We just have time to talk about barmaids... I shouldn't have said

that, but I am reading the headline! Barmaids barred by law.

Anything that refers to the sex of the person. This is specifically

about hoteliers all -- advertising for barmaids. We had dinner ladies

and they are now midday supervisors. We have the issue of paperboy, you

can't advertise for a paperboy. My view is that the bigger issue is the

paperboy being paid the same as the paper girl? In some cases there is

still a gender pay gap, and in some cases not. A lot of it is habit and

slip of the tongue. And what we are used to. It is also about the age.

It is not just about sex, but age. You can't ask for a recent graduate

or a mature person. You can't ask for a Polish builder, either. No,

because you are discriminating. I still call a policeman a policeman

sometimes, obviously if it was a woman I wouldn't. The same mankind?

Humankind, person kind? I was a barmaid for years, and I have no

objection to be calling that. I was a paperboy. I was a paperboy. It

didn't last long, because I have never been good at getting up early!

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