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