12/03/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Anne Ashworth, Assistant Editor of the Times,

and the writer, broadcaster and Evening Standard columnist,

A warm welcome to both of you, thank you for being with us.

The Independent on Sunday leads with an excusive -

saying Barack Obama will use a visit to the UK next month to support

David Cameron's campaign to remain in the EU.

The Mail on Sunday have disclosures from a new book

by the former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister -

David Law - who describes the "simmering tensions"

between the Prime minister and the tory EU Brexit campaigners,

The Sunday times say Palace officials have

stepped in to prevent the Queen from being used as a political

football during the referendum campaign.

Turkey's bid to join the EU could have a major effect

The Observer says the Chancellor is under pressure

to ditch promised tax cuts for the well-off in

trains on HS2 rail scheme are at risk of derailment

That was a quick preview, let us look at them in a little bit more

depth. Wide-eyed to kick-off for us, and independent story about

President Obama's visit, President Obama was quoted this week as being

less than comp entry about David Cameron over Libya? I wonder if this

is a kind of making up for it because he was quoted in the

Atlantic magazine being very hard flattering about Mr Cameron in

particular in relation to the management of the transition of

Libya to a safe state. It seems as though he will be coming to Europe

next month, and he is going to plead for Britain to stay within the EU.

It is, the EU and the vote is the only show in town on the front pages

to night but this is a very different look at it. That Obama

obviously, once to buddy up again with his brow Mr Cameron. But will

his Broe wants to buddy up with him? Well I think that in world politics

you have got to be bigger than that, I am sure that probably he is not

quite a lame duck president yet. He is still Mr Obama, they will be

quite a lot of excitement to see him arrive here and I'm sure that

Cameron will try and make the best of the visit. Do you think it will

be a slightly awkward meeting? Or will they let bygones be bygones? A

week is a long time in politics. What is interesting is the fact that

the Magnum president wants us to stay in Europe is not news, they

have always want us to. The goal said that we would be the American

road and horse. What is interesting is that his campaigning skills would

be useful -- De Gaulle said. How he could persuade people to stay in,

how would his campaigning skills be used, Cameron and Obama would be a

joint appearance. Did they not have, one, maybe a barbecue? Maybe they

would have afternoon tea. German sausages. Anyway, we are still on a

European thing because the papers are very much focused on the

referendum. And the mail and the Mail on Sunday have got a lot of

stuff about Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, two of the leading leave

campaigners. When I saw this front page I thought wow, so much there,

that Michael Gove's job might be under threat, that Boris wants to be

the next Prime Minister. And that, it is a Council various

conversations and we don't know quite at what time. Including there

seems to have been a conversation at the very highest level -- to have

been a conversation had the very highest level by replacing Romanian

fruit pickers with old age pensioners, who would be paid

minimum wage. It is a whole conflation. This is all about a book

by David Laws, a former Liberal Democrat minister. The problem is we

do not have the extracts from the book, it is difficult to judge but

it seems that he has had access to Nick Clegg and Nick Clegg has shown

him all of his papers and so on. So the book promises, based on what

they have said, it promises to be full of Revelation. There is a line

from Cameron, calling goes a Maoist. He seems to be a curiouser kind of

Maoist. -- calling Michael Gove. There is also an interesting

conversation between Clegg and the Queen, about this proposal for the

first-born even if they are girls can succeed to the throne, and he

asked the Queen are you happy with this? And she said by then I will be

dead. So it seems to be, in recent years political books have not

provided us with a lot of material. These quotes and impressions from

over a number of years. A number of years and conversations that have

been brought together, we don't know how many of these conversations have

happened recently. In the last few weeks for example. I would have

thought that these conversations would have taken place during the

coalition and of course the Liberals getting back into power after a long

time kept very detailed notes and things like that. I suspect, the

selling point of the book will be the comment about Europe and so on.

Because the Liberals are against going out. Let us move on to the

Sunday express, still on Europe, it is all about Turkey, and their bid

to join the European Union, being described as a game changer in the

way that it might make Britons think about whether or not to stay in

Europe. In the referendum. Is that right, would that be a game changer?

I am slightly baffled by this because we know that Turkey is

nowhere near joining the EU, it is an aspiration rather than a plan.

And I am not quite sure exactly why this would be such an influence.

They are using the migrant crisis allegedly to try and persuade the EU

to sort of take them further along the road towards accession to the

EU? Given that the news coming out of Turkey is becoming quite

dictatorial, shutting newspapers, things like that, I think the image

of Turkey if you like is not a great one. If there is even a long-term or

a medium-term threat that Turkey would join the EU, I think in the

argy-bargy of the debate, that is not going to swing votes but it

might be a factor in a very close race. Do we actually know on what

basis people are going to make their decision on the vote? I would love

to know what is going on in the minds of ordinary people and what

they make of this great mountain statistics and use being thrown at

them. Identity people in elections make up their minds in the last

minute. -- I don't think. People who are concerned with politics are

debating all of the time, most people are not worrying about the

EU, they would only make up their minds. I think there are quite a few

of don't knows, and what will affect them is not the economic numbers but

immigration. The fear that we are being flooded and the fear that we

are losing control of our laws, those two factors will play a big

part. Let us move on to the Observer, because they have got a

budget story. George Osborne's tax plans, we will hand billions to

Britain's wealthiest. This is the the point at which you start to pay

higher rate tax. We have had fiscal drag, a lot of people playing higher

rate tax who by no means are hugely wealthy, better off than most but

not the super-rich. It is the aspiration that we should only start

to pay higher rate tax at earnings of around 50,000. It is quite

controversial because you might say that those people don't need tax

concessions and that low-down people need to be paying a lot less tax.

But it seems to me, that it would be a good way, of appealing to a great

many voters. In the budget, to say that you are no longer in higher

rate tax, look what I have done for you now make me Prime Minister which

is what Osborne wants to believe. Osborne has so far not played his

cards very well, she has had to backtrack, lost out in the Sunday

trading laws. And this one can't be an omnishambles. It can't be and one

doesn't know what happens with EU referendum, if you get the budget

wrong and the wrong side of the EU referendum. Leadership between him

and Boris? At the moment I would make Boris slightly ahead. We have

just got a minute or two ahead, a quick look at the Sunday Telegraph,

they have got an HS 2-storey. Trains will go too fast apparently for the

tracks. I thought that was the idea that they went too fast? Yes but it

doesn't seem it was taken into account. I'm slightly dubious

because I think it was the first thing on people's minds, as to

whether the tracks could take those speeds. But doesn't this story

reflect the fact that many of the Telegraph readers are posted HS two,

it reflects where the baby is coming from because there is quite a lot of

opposition from Tory ranks. It is going to cost a rout 50 billion. --

about. There is a big constituency who don't believe we should have HS

two. The two papers that you are very sceptical about. Thank you very

much for being with us, we will see you again later. Next, we are going

to have a look at the weather with Nick Miller.

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