:00:20. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:23. > :00:26.With me are Anne Ashworth, Assistant Editor of the Times, and
:00:27. > :00:28.the writer, broadcaster and Evening Standard columnist, Mihir Bose.
:00:29. > :00:41.The Independent on Sunday claims Barack Obama will
:00:42. > :00:45.use a visit to the UK next month to support David Cameron's campaign to
:00:46. > :00:49.The Sunday Times says Palace officials have stepped
:00:50. > :00:52.in to prevent the Queen from being used as a political football
:00:53. > :00:59.The Mail on Sunday have disclosures from a new book by the former
:01:00. > :01:01.Lib Dem cabinet minister, David Laws, who describes the "simmering
:01:02. > :01:04.tensions" between the Prime Minister and the tory EU Brexit campaigners,
:01:05. > :01:16.The Sunday Express claims that Turkey's bid to join
:01:17. > :01:19.the EU could have a major effect on the forthcoming EU vote.
:01:20. > :01:21.The Observer says the Chancellor is under pressure to
:01:22. > :01:24.ditch promised tax cuts for the well-off in Wednesday's budget.
:01:25. > :01:27.And The Sunday Telegraph reports that trains on HS2 rail scheme are
:01:28. > :01:43.at risk of derailment and catastrophic track failure.
:01:44. > :01:52.Let's begin. The Independent on Sunday has a story about Barack
:01:53. > :01:56.Obama coming here and this comes on the back, just a few days ago, on
:01:57. > :02:02.reports that he is very critical of David Cameron over the whole affair
:02:03. > :02:06.in Libya. It is extraordinary. Barack Obama will launch a charm
:02:07. > :02:12.offensive to make sure we stay in the European Union. He will be at a
:02:13. > :02:17.trade and technology show in Hamburg but he is going to come and see his
:02:18. > :02:24.dear old friend David Cameron of whom he is not in the least bit
:02:25. > :02:31.critical despite those are marked in -- those remarks in the Atlantic
:02:32. > :02:38.magazine. He seems let down over what happened in Libya and we know
:02:39. > :02:45.that is something that Barack Obama feels very sore about. Perhaps they
:02:46. > :02:48.are not such good friends. But they are parking that one and now it is
:02:49. > :02:54.all about bridge and staying in the European Union. It is the only show
:02:55. > :03:05.in town -- Britain. We even have Clarkson coming out saying we should
:03:06. > :03:10.stay. Everyone is obsessed. And we have a long way to go until June
:03:11. > :03:14.23. I think the Obama thing is interesting in that he has been
:03:15. > :03:18.shown as a campaigner but I think this is all connected with his
:03:19. > :03:21.legacy. It would not look good on his watch its Britain left the
:03:22. > :03:26.European Union and there were all sorts of other changes. The
:03:27. > :03:37.Americans have always wanted Britain in the European Union. What sort of
:03:38. > :03:41.world is he leaving behind and so forth. A world where Britain is not
:03:42. > :03:48.an European Union and Libya has gone to the dogs. Might it be a slightly
:03:49. > :03:53.awkward meeting between Barack Obama and David Cameron given those
:03:54. > :03:59.critical remarks? They will have a lovely party. And of course the
:04:00. > :04:04.president's wife will come along in the two first ladies will be there
:04:05. > :04:11.together. In the kitchen wearing very nice frocks. Is the special
:04:12. > :04:15.relationship still very special? I think so. There will always be
:04:16. > :04:19.hiccups along the way but it is a very special relationship and now
:04:20. > :04:24.Barack Obama needs to look to his legacy. It is more special here than
:04:25. > :04:33.it is in America. Let's talk about the Sunday Times. They have a story
:04:34. > :04:38.on Buckingham Palace and that whole row rumbling on. They don't want the
:04:39. > :04:42.Queen involved in any of this. They feel that she has been dragged into
:04:43. > :04:48.this argument, it is not where she should be and they want to say, no
:04:49. > :04:54.more. She's not a spokesperson for either side. This is after the story
:04:55. > :05:02.in the Sun. Saying she was in support of a Brexit. She does not
:05:03. > :05:09.want to be involved in this. What did you make of that story in the
:05:10. > :05:16.Sun? What I would love to know is who told what to wear. That is the
:05:17. > :05:21.story I would like to have read -- where. Exactly how they got the
:05:22. > :05:29.story and how they stood it up and the role they played. They were very
:05:30. > :05:35.confident, when the Sun's editor was interviewed, he suggested it had
:05:36. > :05:44.come from more than one source. Two people who were probably at the
:05:45. > :05:48.lunch. It is possible that Rupert Murdoch had dinner with Michael Gove
:05:49. > :05:55.and over dinner he let something slip. You probably know more about
:05:56. > :06:01.this than I do. I can't comment. In the Daily Mail on Sunday for
:06:02. > :06:06.tomorrow, it is all about who said what meetings shouldn't have been
:06:07. > :06:13.reported on. Someone took a note about conversations between the Lib
:06:14. > :06:20.Dems and David Cameron when they were in government. Since you have
:06:21. > :06:31.moved on, this is about a new book by the former cabinet minister David
:06:32. > :06:36.Laws. Good old-fashioned Sunday journalism. The Lib Dems have not
:06:37. > :06:42.been in that for a long time and what we don't know is the actual
:06:43. > :06:48.extracts that have been published, we have only seen the news stories.
:06:49. > :06:56.On the basis of this story, David Cameron is very critical of Michael
:06:57. > :07:00.Gove. He called him a Maoist. He didn't explain that. He makes it
:07:01. > :07:04.very clear that Boris Johnson is after his job in his opinion. If
:07:05. > :07:08.these allegations are true, it is very damning. There are also
:07:09. > :07:23.allegations about the Queen from Nick Clegg when he was having lunch
:07:24. > :07:26.with her, about having a different succession then has been set out and
:07:27. > :07:32.he asked if it bothered her and she said she would be dead by then. It
:07:33. > :07:39.seems suspicious. Just leave her alone. The Daily Express still on
:07:40. > :07:45.the referendum, we just can't get away from it. They have a different
:07:46. > :07:51.angle with Turkey, saying if Turkey joins the European Union, which
:07:52. > :07:54.isn't imminent, we have to stress, that would put off voters and many
:07:55. > :08:00.of them would say no. It is the sheer size of the population. It is
:08:01. > :08:10.a very populous country and it seems to me that when polled, many have
:08:11. > :08:15.said they are out if Turkey is in. It is the migration issue. Also
:08:16. > :08:18.Turkey would bring an enormous Muslim population in and given what
:08:19. > :08:26.is happening in Turkey now, Turkey seems to be moving away. The only
:08:27. > :08:30.secular democratic Muslim state in the world for a long time seems to
:08:31. > :08:34.be going towards dictatorship with a newspaper is being banned and so
:08:35. > :08:39.forth. We should stress that Turkey is not going to join the European
:08:40. > :08:49.Union potentially for years. Five -10 years. I think this could be a
:08:50. > :08:53.fear for people who want to leave. That Turkey will one day want to
:08:54. > :08:58.come in and that one day we will be able to do anything about it. But
:08:59. > :09:03.what sort of timescale are we talking about? 10-15 years? One
:09:04. > :09:09.doesn't know. I want to know why it is we feel we can do nothing about
:09:10. > :09:12.the European Union. As if they are these faceless bureaucrats who we
:09:13. > :09:17.cannot hold to account. Because we don't even know their names. We
:09:18. > :09:21.don't know where they live or how they have got there. There is very
:09:22. > :09:27.little knowledge about the European Union. I would struggle to name my
:09:28. > :09:36.MEP, I don't know about you. Very disappointing. Obviously we could
:09:37. > :09:47.very easily. Moving on... The Observer has the budget, not the
:09:48. > :09:51.referendum. George Osborne and his tax plans. It is interesting, this
:09:52. > :09:57.idea he has. He wants to take more people out of the higher tax
:09:58. > :09:59.bracket, into which many people have been dragged were not
:10:00. > :10:06.extraordinarily well-off. For many people earning 43,000 -?44,000 which
:10:07. > :10:10.is the level at which you start to pay higher taxes, it seems like a
:10:11. > :10:15.very good wage indeed, but there has got to be some giveaway to middle
:10:16. > :10:25.Britain in the budget and I think that he might try to bring this one
:10:26. > :10:29.in despite criticism. He is fighting for his... Everyone sees him is
:10:30. > :10:32.fighting this leadership campaign against Boris Johnson already, even
:10:33. > :10:36.though David Cameron is obviously only worried about Johnson. He is
:10:37. > :10:40.fighting to succeed him in the argument will be, we have heard a
:10:41. > :10:45.lot about the growing disparity between the rich and the poor and if
:10:46. > :10:48.he gets this wrong, he will be presented at least happy he has got
:10:49. > :10:53.a few things wrong. He had to withdraw on the Sunday laws,
:10:54. > :11:04.extending the hours. That will come to hours -- that will come before we
:11:05. > :11:10.have to decide on the European Union and that may affect his chances of
:11:11. > :11:18.getting into number 10. He has been... Richard Gere has been on him
:11:19. > :11:24.to do summing to eradicate the homeless from the streets and I
:11:25. > :11:31.would say he would have to balance this properly. Finishing with the
:11:32. > :11:35.Telegraph, a story on HS2 and one on Heathrow. Transport stories. The
:11:36. > :11:38.Heathrow story is the more interesting one. I don't know why
:11:39. > :11:44.they haven't let on that. They have an interview which says the cabinet
:11:45. > :11:48.will block Heathrow expansion which seems to have gone against what was
:11:49. > :11:51.generally agreed upon by David Cameron that no announcement will be
:11:52. > :11:58.made until after the mayoral election. Something to think that it
:11:59. > :12:02.will take place at all, and this does raise a question of what will
:12:03. > :12:16.happen to airport capacity. Where will we get more runways? Will it be
:12:17. > :12:24.Gatwick? The box has been passed. -- buck. What about HS2? It is the idea
:12:25. > :12:30.that such will be the velocity of these trains towards Birmingham,
:12:31. > :12:38.that it will cause the rails to corrode. I don't know much about
:12:39. > :12:41.it. They go too fast? Yes and it apparently has not been taken into
:12:42. > :12:47.account. But it is a high-speed railway? Yes. The report has
:12:48. > :12:52.suggested that not enough work has been done to modernize the railway.
:12:53. > :12:58.Not enough study has been made of the impact of improving the rails
:12:59. > :13:03.will be on what is still a very old infrastructure. It is all in the
:13:04. > :13:07.future, as is the referendum, has is the budget. Anyway let's not get
:13:08. > :13:09.overly philosophical. Thank you Anne Ashworth and
:13:10. > :13:13.Mihir Bose.