:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:25.With me are Anne Ashworth, Assistant Editor of the Times,
:00:26. > :00:27.and the writer, broadcaster and Evening Standard columnist,
:00:28. > :00:36.A warm welcome to both of you, thank you for being with us.
:00:37. > :00:42.The Independent on Sunday leads with an excusive -
:00:43. > :00:46.saying Barack Obama will use a visit to the UK next month to support
:00:47. > :00:51.David Cameron's campaign to remain in the EU.
:00:52. > :00:54.The Mail on Sunday have disclosures from a new book
:00:55. > :00:57.by the former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister -
:00:58. > :01:00.David Law - who describes the "simmering tensions"
:01:01. > :01:02.between the Prime minister and the tory EU Brexit campaigners,
:01:03. > :01:12.The Sunday times say Palace officials have
:01:13. > :01:15.stepped in to prevent the Queen from being used as a political
:01:16. > :01:20.football during the referendum campaign.
:01:21. > :01:25.Turkey's bid to join the EU could have a major effect
:01:26. > :01:31.The Observer says the Chancellor is under pressure
:01:32. > :01:33.to ditch promised tax cuts for the well-off in
:01:34. > :01:43.trains on HS2 rail scheme are at risk of derailment
:01:44. > :02:01.That was a quick preview, let us look at them in a little bit more
:02:02. > :02:04.depth. Wide-eyed to kick-off for us, and independent story about
:02:05. > :02:10.President Obama's visit, President Obama was quoted this week as being
:02:11. > :02:15.less than comp entry about David Cameron over Libya? I wonder if this
:02:16. > :02:18.is a kind of making up for it because he was quoted in the
:02:19. > :02:22.Atlantic magazine being very hard flattering about Mr Cameron in
:02:23. > :02:27.particular in relation to the management of the transition of
:02:28. > :02:33.Libya to a safe state. It seems as though he will be coming to Europe
:02:34. > :02:39.next month, and he is going to plead for Britain to stay within the EU.
:02:40. > :02:42.It is, the EU and the vote is the only show in town on the front pages
:02:43. > :02:50.to night but this is a very different look at it. That Obama
:02:51. > :02:58.obviously, once to buddy up again with his brow Mr Cameron. But will
:02:59. > :03:02.his Broe wants to buddy up with him? Well I think that in world politics
:03:03. > :03:10.you have got to be bigger than that, I am sure that probably he is not
:03:11. > :03:14.quite a lame duck president yet. He is still Mr Obama, they will be
:03:15. > :03:18.quite a lot of excitement to see him arrive here and I'm sure that
:03:19. > :03:23.Cameron will try and make the best of the visit. Do you think it will
:03:24. > :03:29.be a slightly awkward meeting? Or will they let bygones be bygones? A
:03:30. > :03:32.week is a long time in politics. What is interesting is the fact that
:03:33. > :03:37.the Magnum president wants us to stay in Europe is not news, they
:03:38. > :03:42.have always want us to. The goal said that we would be the American
:03:43. > :03:51.road and horse. What is interesting is that his campaigning skills would
:03:52. > :03:56.be useful -- De Gaulle said. How he could persuade people to stay in,
:03:57. > :04:03.how would his campaigning skills be used, Cameron and Obama would be a
:04:04. > :04:12.joint appearance. Did they not have, one, maybe a barbecue? Maybe they
:04:13. > :04:18.would have afternoon tea. German sausages. Anyway, we are still on a
:04:19. > :04:23.European thing because the papers are very much focused on the
:04:24. > :04:26.referendum. And the mail and the Mail on Sunday have got a lot of
:04:27. > :04:33.stuff about Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, two of the leading leave
:04:34. > :04:38.campaigners. When I saw this front page I thought wow, so much there,
:04:39. > :04:44.that Michael Gove's job might be under threat, that Boris wants to be
:04:45. > :04:48.the next Prime Minister. And that, it is a Council various
:04:49. > :04:52.conversations and we don't know quite at what time. Including there
:04:53. > :04:56.seems to have been a conversation at the very highest level -- to have
:04:57. > :05:01.been a conversation had the very highest level by replacing Romanian
:05:02. > :05:05.fruit pickers with old age pensioners, who would be paid
:05:06. > :05:10.minimum wage. It is a whole conflation. This is all about a book
:05:11. > :05:15.by David Laws, a former Liberal Democrat minister. The problem is we
:05:16. > :05:19.do not have the extracts from the book, it is difficult to judge but
:05:20. > :05:23.it seems that he has had access to Nick Clegg and Nick Clegg has shown
:05:24. > :05:28.him all of his papers and so on. So the book promises, based on what
:05:29. > :05:34.they have said, it promises to be full of Revelation. There is a line
:05:35. > :05:40.from Cameron, calling goes a Maoist. He seems to be a curiouser kind of
:05:41. > :05:45.Maoist. -- calling Michael Gove. There is also an interesting
:05:46. > :05:48.conversation between Clegg and the Queen, about this proposal for the
:05:49. > :05:55.first-born even if they are girls can succeed to the throne, and he
:05:56. > :06:03.asked the Queen are you happy with this? And she said by then I will be
:06:04. > :06:08.dead. So it seems to be, in recent years political books have not
:06:09. > :06:12.provided us with a lot of material. These quotes and impressions from
:06:13. > :06:16.over a number of years. A number of years and conversations that have
:06:17. > :06:20.been brought together, we don't know how many of these conversations have
:06:21. > :06:24.happened recently. In the last few weeks for example. I would have
:06:25. > :06:27.thought that these conversations would have taken place during the
:06:28. > :06:31.coalition and of course the Liberals getting back into power after a long
:06:32. > :06:36.time kept very detailed notes and things like that. I suspect, the
:06:37. > :06:40.selling point of the book will be the comment about Europe and so on.
:06:41. > :06:46.Because the Liberals are against going out. Let us move on to the
:06:47. > :06:53.Sunday express, still on Europe, it is all about Turkey, and their bid
:06:54. > :06:59.to join the European Union, being described as a game changer in the
:07:00. > :07:04.way that it might make Britons think about whether or not to stay in
:07:05. > :07:09.Europe. In the referendum. Is that right, would that be a game changer?
:07:10. > :07:13.I am slightly baffled by this because we know that Turkey is
:07:14. > :07:18.nowhere near joining the EU, it is an aspiration rather than a plan.
:07:19. > :07:25.And I am not quite sure exactly why this would be such an influence.
:07:26. > :07:30.They are using the migrant crisis allegedly to try and persuade the EU
:07:31. > :07:37.to sort of take them further along the road towards accession to the
:07:38. > :07:41.EU? Given that the news coming out of Turkey is becoming quite
:07:42. > :07:45.dictatorial, shutting newspapers, things like that, I think the image
:07:46. > :07:50.of Turkey if you like is not a great one. If there is even a long-term or
:07:51. > :07:55.a medium-term threat that Turkey would join the EU, I think in the
:07:56. > :07:59.argy-bargy of the debate, that is not going to swing votes but it
:08:00. > :08:06.might be a factor in a very close race. Do we actually know on what
:08:07. > :08:10.basis people are going to make their decision on the vote? I would love
:08:11. > :08:14.to know what is going on in the minds of ordinary people and what
:08:15. > :08:18.they make of this great mountain statistics and use being thrown at
:08:19. > :08:23.them. Identity people in elections make up their minds in the last
:08:24. > :08:27.minute. -- I don't think. People who are concerned with politics are
:08:28. > :08:31.debating all of the time, most people are not worrying about the
:08:32. > :08:36.EU, they would only make up their minds. I think there are quite a few
:08:37. > :08:40.of don't knows, and what will affect them is not the economic numbers but
:08:41. > :08:44.immigration. The fear that we are being flooded and the fear that we
:08:45. > :08:49.are losing control of our laws, those two factors will play a big
:08:50. > :08:54.part. Let us move on to the Observer, because they have got a
:08:55. > :09:03.budget story. George Osborne's tax plans, we will hand billions to
:09:04. > :09:09.Britain's wealthiest. This is the the point at which you start to pay
:09:10. > :09:13.higher rate tax. We have had fiscal drag, a lot of people playing higher
:09:14. > :09:17.rate tax who by no means are hugely wealthy, better off than most but
:09:18. > :09:21.not the super-rich. It is the aspiration that we should only start
:09:22. > :09:25.to pay higher rate tax at earnings of around 50,000. It is quite
:09:26. > :09:31.controversial because you might say that those people don't need tax
:09:32. > :09:40.concessions and that low-down people need to be paying a lot less tax.
:09:41. > :09:45.But it seems to me, that it would be a good way, of appealing to a great
:09:46. > :09:50.many voters. In the budget, to say that you are no longer in higher
:09:51. > :09:55.rate tax, look what I have done for you now make me Prime Minister which
:09:56. > :09:58.is what Osborne wants to believe. Osborne has so far not played his
:09:59. > :10:04.cards very well, she has had to backtrack, lost out in the Sunday
:10:05. > :10:09.trading laws. And this one can't be an omnishambles. It can't be and one
:10:10. > :10:13.doesn't know what happens with EU referendum, if you get the budget
:10:14. > :10:18.wrong and the wrong side of the EU referendum. Leadership between him
:10:19. > :10:24.and Boris? At the moment I would make Boris slightly ahead. We have
:10:25. > :10:30.just got a minute or two ahead, a quick look at the Sunday Telegraph,
:10:31. > :10:34.they have got an HS 2-storey. Trains will go too fast apparently for the
:10:35. > :10:43.tracks. I thought that was the idea that they went too fast? Yes but it
:10:44. > :10:46.doesn't seem it was taken into account. I'm slightly dubious
:10:47. > :10:49.because I think it was the first thing on people's minds, as to
:10:50. > :10:53.whether the tracks could take those speeds. But doesn't this story
:10:54. > :10:58.reflect the fact that many of the Telegraph readers are posted HS two,
:10:59. > :11:03.it reflects where the baby is coming from because there is quite a lot of
:11:04. > :11:12.opposition from Tory ranks. It is going to cost a rout 50 billion. --
:11:13. > :11:20.about. There is a big constituency who don't believe we should have HS
:11:21. > :11:23.two. The two papers that you are very sceptical about. Thank you very
:11:24. > :11:29.much for being with us, we will see you again later. Next, we are going
:11:30. > :11:40.to have a look at the weather with Nick Miller.
:11:41. > :11:45.Hello, after stormy weather had become accustomed to something
:11:46. > :11:46.completely different in the week ahead as high