03/03/2016 The Papers

prepare to defend their Davis Cup title. We will head to the women's

football team in Florida. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be With me are Miranda Green

from the Financial Times, and the Telegraph's media

commentator Neil Midgely. Before we hear from them let's show

you... Know, we are going to go straight to the Metro, we are not

going to tease you extract there we go, live television! Britain will

face consequences once President Hollande, that is the pretty brand

headline -- blunt headline. David Cameron had a summit with Francois

Hollande today, after which President Hollande gave a press

conference in which he said quite carefully that he wasn't threatening

any harm to the friendly relations between our two great nations. But

he did say that he wanted the British people to be aware that

there would because quinces of voting to leave the EU, not least

the question of immigration, because the Jungle camp in Calais, this

question of people flocking up through the continent and then they

stopped at the channel. He was saying this would not apply any

more, effectively these people would come to the UK as not be stopped in

France. This is a significant intervention, because a few days ago

David Cameron tried to argue this and was sort of shouted down and

accuse of scaremongering, which is the word of the week, but this is

President Hollande saying, no, absolutely, the French would no

longer hold British immigration inside French borders. Quite

significant. Let's talk about the word scaremongering. We are seeing

these headlines in other papers and globally, they use the word

scaremongering, that is going to be used by those who want out of the

EU. We are hearing a lot of this word at the moment. It goes back to

the Scottish independence referendum and project fear, the staying

together in the UK campaign was blocked project fear because it is

all about, this will be the great unknown if we broke up the UK, if we

broke up the EU that is the great unknown, lots of terrible things to

be scared. I have to say, not sure that David Cameron will want people

to be reading this. It is probably quite good for him that we get this

out of the way early in the campaign, because actually threats

from the French president are not, psychologically, you know the kind

of, the British voter's psychology I don't think is the thing, oh, the

French president thinks we should stay in the EU and is threatening us

if we leave, in which case we will do exactly what the French president

says, I don't think that is how your average British voter thinks, I

think they are a bit more contrary than that, especially whether French

is concerned. It is a difficult balance, if your strategy is based

on warning people about risks, if you overdo it you become like a

parent whose child is no longer listening. How to base a whole

campaign on play it safe, don't leave, when there is concern that

the other side are going to accuse you of scaremongering, also that the

voters will cease to believe your warnings of the risks. It is a

really tricky walk. The thing about the Jungle camp at Calais, as we

have discussed before on the papers, that is a bilateral deal between

France and the UK, it is not technically affected by Britain

leaving the EU. So what the French president is effectively saying is,

I will take my back at my ball and my stumps home if you decide to

leave the EU. -- my bat. Is it not EU policy that controls it? Feruz

and EU asylum process, it isn't working -- there is an EU asylum

process. The specific deal allows us to do British immigration tracks on

French soil, this is an Anglo-French deal, not EU deal. President

Hollande is then, if you leave the EU I will have a strong Pantera pie

thought our bilateral deal. -- I will have a strop. That is a

small-minded, petty way of looking at things. If he is not trying to

tear up the historical ties and all the lovely history we have with the

French. I'm not sure about that. Another EU referendum story emerged

today, much more in the Telegraph tomorrow, is about how top business

leader says he sees a bright future in Brexit, a comment that created

divisions within the business community, particularly between

small and large businesses. It is really interesting, this. There

several associations that represent employers at the CBI, which is the

big employers, there is also the engineering employers Federation,

there is the BCC, which this story is about, the British Chambers of

Commerce. And there is the small businesses Association as well. They

all take a different position. This is the BCC leader, John Longworth,

the Director-General, saying that he personally favours an exit. It is

quite an interesting story actually because it then goes into the fact

that the Business Secretary Sajid Javid of course is known to be a

lifelong sort of Eurosceptic, but is actually backing David Cameron's

deal and backing the campaign to get the people of this country devote

the Main. Again, it is another story which brings up this idea of which

side is the risk on -- to vote remained Macri. This guy is saying,

we could have a great future. Sajid Javid is saying, there is risk on

both side and there is a lot more certainty on staying in, that is

from a lifelong Eurosceptic. It just draws attention to the fact that

this whole campaign, we have got four months of this, the whole

campaign is going to be, where do you see the balance of risk? And

interesting quote from Mr Longworth, he said, in the long run we have the

capacity and capability to create a brighter economic future outside of

the EU, just as we would have done had we had the opportunity to this

day in a truly reformed EU. Which of course goes back to the Boris

position, which Boris has now I think resigned from, for today, this

week, which is, you know, if we say, no, the only countries that the EU

ever listens to our countries which say no, if we vote no in the

referendum that doesn't mean not out, it means go back to the

negotiating table. There are echoes of that and what Longworth has said.

It did not work for the Greeks, they thought they could hold the EU to

ransom by voting no to something, and what happened after that was

that they were just punished, essentially. Whilst business leaders

are arguing this out, it is becoming increasingly relevant, it is not

just about economics, it is about jobs and businesses and surviving

and who does what jobs. It suddenly starts to become even more relevant.

It is about a holiday home! That is on the front page of The Times. We

haven't got it now. The Times is worried about your holiday home in

France. And what Brexit would do to that. The freedom of travel for your

holiday, absolutely. We will move onto the Telegraph, and talk about

the US elections. Very interesting events today. Donald Trump, as you

saw on BBC News, dividing the Republicans. Mitt Romney coming out,

this is something the Telegraph reported on their front page, Mitt

Romney lasts dangerous, quoting him, Trump -- blasts. He said worse than

dangerous. It was wonderful, wonderful fun to watch speech

because he did what the American -- the Americans call fried him. He

said Trump's promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump

University, pretty cutting. When Mitt Romney was running for

president last time, he was endorsed by Donald Trump. Donald Trump have

hit back immediately to might with his own press conference in which he

pointed out that Mitt Romney he says begged for the endorsement of Donald

Trump, he would have gone on his knees to get me to endorse him, Key

said. This fighting at the top of the Republican party as the

establishment tries to stop Trump, actually it is a bit of a gift to

Trump. The difficulty is that the Republican establishment, as today

the personified by Mitt Romney, doesn't actually have an

alternative, and apparently viable alternative to Trump. I was chatting

to a friend of America dock you have been hearing rumours? I heard

rumours that Romney will himself drawing the race. If you go to Mitt

Romney's website, it is paid for by Romney for president Inc. You heard

it here first! You'll both be back at 11.30pm

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