07/03/2016 The Papers

have knocked on a title tilt, and Eva Carneiro could have a possible

settlement in her case for constructive dismissal. More from me

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

With me are Phillipa Leighton-Jones of the Wall Street Journal

Welcome, both of you. You look at the front pages first of all.

The Independent newspaper leads on the emergency EU Turkey summit,

describing a growing sense of dread, it calls, that any deal to return

migrants could trigger violence. Its sister title shows figures that

40 migrants a day are trying to enter the UK.

The EU is planning to enter Britain's control over its own

asylum numbers, according to the Daily Express.

The Bank of England is preparing to pump billions into the UK colony to

stave off a collapse of financial markets in case there is a vote to

leave the EU. -- economy. The Daily Mail says that

Downing Street phoned the director-general of the BCCI was

before he was suspended over comments suggesting that Britain

should leave the EU. The Times has figures suggesting

that the taxpayer could save ?17 billion if plans are scrapped to

build that new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.

Let's discuss some of those with our guests.

Before I do that, I will mention that we've had a tweet from Donald

Tusk, the president of the EU Council. He says the 28 EU countries

are about to resume their meeting" to agree a revised statement".

The dinner is off, a reference to what was clearly planned in

Brussels. There will be a press conference with the Turkish Prime

Minister. There's a suggestion that some sort of resolution could be

Brussels. After an earlier Brussels. After an earlier

suggestion there will be further discussions over the coming days

because they could not arrive a conclusion, the EU leaders and the

Turkish Prime Minister. More on that to come, I did not interrupt you

both come I did not get as far as talking to you! Let's dip into the

front pages. Philippa, the Independent, we mention that at the

start. For you, it has a striking image? This arresting image of this

little boy walking through razor wire, it's gone with the human cost

of the migrant crisis. All we've heard about all day is the political

talks, what it means for Turkey and the EU. What it could mean for David

Cameron and his EU position. But here, we have a story that is

actually saying that if these migrants are forced back to Turkey,

there are fears of violence because people are so desperate not to make

that move, they are desperate to continue to progress through Europe,

there are fears of violence. Migrants are holding up babies and

knives to their throats, there are reports of that, threatening

different actions not to be turned back. This is reminding us that away

from Brussels, in Greece, in the freezing cold conditions, there are

still many people tied up in this and an increasing number. The

country is getting full. It is an arresting image. It is a reminder

that, as you said, the focus on this all day has been political, there

are a great many migrants and refugees, hundreds of thousands

basically being used as a note by the Turks, Eurosceptics are using

them as a threat for all of the things that staying in Europe would

mean to us, Cameron says, we are not taking these people. The independent

reminds us what we are talking about, a little boy in razor wire.

There is a line if European leaders, if you compare an image of leaders

and with him, it is not a good luck. The Daily Express has it to take on

it. The EU wants asylum control, a suggestion that if Brussels has its

way, it would effectively decide where people go, and individual

countries would no longer have their say? The Daily Express is never

going to give us a front page that says everything is wonderful with

migration, but as it happens, they are right, of course EU wants to

centralise asylum control, most countries in Europe do because they

are where refugees come into and until recently they could move

around freely. We have the sea in the way, that is why we have taken

few. The fact the EU wants to do this is not new. The EU certainly

will not be able to do this, almost certainly, I think it would be

fairly devastating for David Cameron's plan to keep us in the EU

progress was made in the EU on this. I don't think it will be. Mr Cameron

has, so far, said it would not be part of his bidding. He's been on

the back foot. He's come out and said look, we have an agreement, we

are outside of Schengen, we have a situation where we can stop it from

happening. We want to get involved in talks but it does not need to

necessarily involve us in the same way it does other EU countries. At

the same time, trying to get closer to the EU, and prove it is still a

viable proposition. It is difficult for him. The migrant story on the

front of The Guardian newspaper as well, it is a reference to events

back to early autumn last year? It is shocking and quite powerful. It

is oddly buried along the bottom after this stuff about the

millennial is. It is talking about people who came across the Channel,

often came through the Channel Tunnel, and where they were held in

Britain. Hundreds were held in a shed with a concrete floor, with no

food or clothing. Using the blankets of the last lot for up to and over

24 hours. It included children. Hundreds of people. It is always

worse because we are talking about so few people, we could have done

better than that. To treat people like this, when they have got here.

When they managed to get here. Never mind whether we will keep them or

not. To take someone who has managed to crawl through the Channel Tunnel

and keep them on a concrete floor without a cup of tea for 24 hours, I

hope that is not a country we are. There are children involved here,

unaccompanied children, they have no clothes -- wet clothes, illnesses,

they don't have access to basic sanitation facilities when they have

dehydration, diarrhoea, and no facilities and the fact that some of

these children are unaccompanied. We are supposed to be a well-run

country. Let me stay with you, Philippa. Another EU related story,

but a different angle. We mentioned a moment ago The Daily Telegraph

talked about what the Bank of England is preparing to do in

advance of the referendum? This is a story that the Bank of England said

today that it would run more liquidity auctions around the

referendum time, before and after, it basically means that it will have

cash available for banks in case there are fears of a run on the

banks. It may look like scare tactics. I'm sure plenty would say

that they are in camp fear, George Osborne is strong arming them into

seeing these banks are at risk. But actually, it is quite sound planning

by the Bank of England. All it is saying is that the trading partners

need not be worried that the cash will run out. There were similar

plans around the Scottish referendum, it did not reveal them.

The rhetoric around the referendum did not happen like this, it was not

as forceful. Today, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney,

was in front of the Treasury Select Committee, he will be asked about

it. It is sensible to talk about it now. It is sound financial planning,

I'm sure a lot of people will jump on it. There is the suggestion that

will be made that the second half of that story is that the bank is doing

it frighten people. I don't think that is how the central bank would

work. I think they would develop stability higher than whether they

would want to score a few points in the referendum debate. It is

interesting that Mervyn King, that -- the ex-governor of the Bank of

England has come out and talked about it. Hugo, going back to The

Independent newspaper. It is a story about legalised cannabis, which

could raise "One billion pounds per year". It is a new study involving a

panel of experts and academics. On one level, it is interesting and

almost exciting, on another side it is about the Liberal Democrats, you

can fit all of them in a small car. We should not be carried away. Two

cars for everyone else. It is the idea that the cannabis policy in the

UK should follow the model as established in the US. So far, it

has been a success. The effectively close Asian of cannabis, it is

different to decriminalisation. That is what people are talking about. --

the legalisation. Spain and Denmark have done this in the past, Holland

in particular. They talked about decriminalisation. All it does is

keep the supply chain illegal. It is a boom for organised crime. In

America, they've legalised the whole process, stripping crying out the

industry, raising tax revenue. -- crime. It could happen here and

under this government. In our final 30 seconds, if Maria Sharapova was

looking for sympathy in the papers tomorrow, she should not read the

Metro. This is their headline. It seems that she was claiming it was a

mistake on her part, she did not open an e-mail about a drug that she

was taking had been banned. We should point out it is in no way

linked to The Independent newspaper story. Completely different. It was

to do with magnesium levels. On that note, let's hope she does not read

the Metro. Thank you to both of you.

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