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:00:00. > :00:00.News, and looked at some of the stories making the front pages in

:00:00. > :00:13.The Papers. From us on Sportsday, good night.

:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:20.With me are Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent

:00:21. > :00:23.at the Telegraph, and James Lyons, Deputy Political Editor

:00:24. > :00:33.Tomorrow's front pages: Starting with:

:00:34. > :00:36.The Guardian has further revelations from the Panama Papers -

:00:37. > :00:37.focussing its attention particularly on senior members

:00:38. > :00:42.The Times has the story we've been covering tonight -

:00:43. > :00:45.how 27 million households are to receive a leaflet setting out

:00:46. > :00:51.the government's arguments for staying in the EU.

:00:52. > :00:54.And the Metro headlines the same story, saying ?9 million

:00:55. > :01:00.And the Telegraph too leads with the EU leaflet,

:01:01. > :01:04.adding that the move has sparked a cabinet row.

:01:05. > :01:06.Donald Trump is on the front on the Independent -

:01:07. > :01:11.who suffered a setback in the Wisconsin primary.

:01:12. > :01:15.The Financial Times leads with the collapse

:01:16. > :01:18.of the planned merger between two major drug companies.

:01:19. > :01:20.New Day reports on a row over whether women should

:01:21. > :01:34.serve in the front line of the armed forces.

:01:35. > :01:41.Kate, take us to the Guardian. That is where they are focusing the

:01:42. > :01:47.Panama Papers coverage tomorrow. I cannot think of an area yet where we

:01:48. > :01:53.haven't had some of these revelations touched. We have had

:01:54. > :01:58.football, celebrity and politics. China's censors have been blocking

:01:59. > :02:03.CNN saying that some of their CNN saying that some of their

:02:04. > :02:08.reporting has been blocked in China. It doesn't look like there is much

:02:09. > :02:11.of an appetite to do anything about it. It highlights one of the issues

:02:12. > :02:16.with this story. It's difficult to with this story. It's difficult to

:02:17. > :02:20.do anything about these kinds of tax schemes on a global scale because a

:02:21. > :02:24.lot of it depends on pressure on national governments to take some

:02:25. > :02:30.action. That's what David Cameron is under pressure to do, but in China

:02:31. > :02:36.it doesn't look like it's a similar situation. The scale of the Chinese

:02:37. > :02:41.connection to Mossack Fonseca is sizeable. The Guardian reports there

:02:42. > :02:50.are eight members of what they term the politburo's culpability, who

:02:51. > :02:56.have family members caught up in this. You can see why, if you look

:02:57. > :02:59.at what has happened in Iceland, why they would censor this. You could

:03:00. > :03:07.imagine the kind of reaction this would get. Various members of the

:03:08. > :03:11.so-called red nobility, and one of them was the granddaughter of one of

:03:12. > :03:17.the Chinese leaders who had companies set up in her name in 2010

:03:18. > :03:22.when she was studying at Stanford University. There's clearly

:03:23. > :03:27.something peculiar going on. And all of this at a time when Xi Jinping is

:03:28. > :03:34.trying to crack down on behaviour that could embarrass the Communist

:03:35. > :03:38.Party. That could mean pretending it's not happening. It could mean

:03:39. > :03:43.doing something about it, but I guess we will see what that does

:03:44. > :03:48.mean in reality. It comes back to this idea of the reason why so many

:03:49. > :03:53.people in so many different walks of life are allowed to get away with

:03:54. > :03:57.it. It's the people at the very top who are the people who would be

:03:58. > :04:03.cracking down on it. What's the incentive if you are making money

:04:04. > :04:08.out of it? There are hints of more inside the Guardian. We only have

:04:09. > :04:15.the front page. James, take us to the Times. This is the pro-EU postal

:04:16. > :04:19.delivery we are all going to get, courtesy of the government. I am

:04:20. > :04:23.sure we will all be waiting expectantly? 14 pages for people to

:04:24. > :04:28.Peru is before they make their decision. This was mooted months ago

:04:29. > :04:33.that the government were preparing this. At the time, they said they

:04:34. > :04:38.were thinking about it. Now they have announced they will be spending

:04:39. > :04:43.the best part of ?10 million on it, at a time when money is supposedly

:04:44. > :04:49.tight. I'm not particularly surprised by this. It echoes what

:04:50. > :04:54.happened with the Labour government in 1975. It has caused predictable

:04:55. > :05:03.outrage from the likes of Boris Johnson. When you have Leave and

:05:04. > :05:08.Remain at some point in the future, once each one is made official, once

:05:09. > :05:14.they both have the chance to do this, this clearly gives one side

:05:15. > :05:17.and advantage, doesn't it? Maybe I am being unduly cynical, but I am

:05:18. > :05:22.not really surprised that the government might be trying to put

:05:23. > :05:27.its hands on the scales on one side. I would say I would be intrigued to

:05:28. > :05:32.know how many of these booklets are going to go straight into the

:05:33. > :05:37.recycling all the bin, and how many will be read. We have a flavour of

:05:38. > :05:41.what they will be saying here. If the UK votes to leave the EU, the

:05:42. > :05:46.resulting economic shock will put pressure on the value of the pound,

:05:47. > :05:53.which would risk higher prices and damage living standards. The Metro

:05:54. > :05:59.leaves with this as well. What do you make of it? It has caused

:06:00. > :06:03.another row, because Leave campaigners are very angry about it.

:06:04. > :06:08.It might not be surprising the government wants to make their case

:06:09. > :06:13.in this way, they have an advantageous position that they are

:06:14. > :06:23.able to do so. The Remain campaign would be able to take advantage over

:06:24. > :06:31.all of ?30 million -- ?13 million. There is a significant difference in

:06:32. > :06:34.the resources available. There are questions there about whether it's

:06:35. > :06:38.all right for the money to be spent on both campaigns to be so

:06:39. > :06:44.different. Boris Johnson certainly doesn't think so, because he thinks

:06:45. > :06:52.it is undemocratic. He thinks it is a waste of taxpayers' money, and

:06:53. > :06:58.even suggesting that David Cameron has put this out to take himself off

:06:59. > :07:02.the front pages. This is the Prime Minister, the leader of the

:07:03. > :07:09.Conservative Party being criticised by his own very senior ministers and

:07:10. > :07:15.MPs. Downing Street say it is only 34p a copy. What can you get for

:07:16. > :07:21.that money? What do you make of this line? Downing Street says the move

:07:22. > :07:24.was a response to Downing Street commissioned polling indicating that

:07:25. > :07:31.the public wanted more information to make an informed choice. That is

:07:32. > :07:35.probably true. Lots of people in focus groups say, I want someone to

:07:36. > :07:44.give me the facts. But that's not what this is. I was listening to

:07:45. > :07:47.someone saying that what people want are the facts, but there are loads

:07:48. > :07:53.of facts out there. What people really want is someone to tell them

:07:54. > :07:57.what to do, frankly. I'm not sure this will make any difference. You

:07:58. > :08:04.mention taking David Cameron of the front page. It hasn't succeeded, if

:08:05. > :08:10.we look at the FT. This is referring back to a letter that the FT is

:08:11. > :08:16.talking about, which he wrote nearly three years ago. This is a story

:08:17. > :08:23.which appears to suggest that David Cameron intervened in an EU

:08:24. > :08:27.discussion about money held in trusts in relation to tax avoidance

:08:28. > :08:34.and clamping down on it. In the letter it self, there is an extract

:08:35. > :08:39.here, there is a comment from a government insider who says that in

:08:40. > :08:46.the negotiations they were able to secure a sensible way forward, to

:08:47. > :08:53.ensure tax consequences. Ownership had to be reported to the HMRC. The

:08:54. > :08:57.poor who have money, but not a huge amount, who'd leave their money in a

:08:58. > :09:04.trust to avoid some taxes when they died, that they walked to be allowed

:09:05. > :09:08.to bypass these tax avoidance rules. All of this is relevant in the light

:09:09. > :09:18.of the Panama painters and what has emerged about David Cameron's late

:09:19. > :09:20.father. -- Panama Papers. The first point is the shocking figures

:09:21. > :09:29.contained within the story from the FT, which says that Britain is now

:09:30. > :09:31.the strongest European rival to Switzerland for wealth management,

:09:32. > :09:40.administering 1.2 trillion of assets. The second point is what

:09:41. > :09:43.this all does for David Cameron's credibility in the EU debate. We

:09:44. > :09:50.know he will not fight another election. These allegations

:09:51. > :09:56.surrounding him are difficult for the Tory brand, and particularly for

:09:57. > :10:01.him personally. But he isn't fighting an election. He has to make

:10:02. > :10:06.a convincing case in terms of the referendum. If you are criticised

:10:07. > :10:11.for being part of an out of touch International elite, it really

:10:12. > :10:16.doesn't help. Now two more stories. Let's reflect on the fact that the

:10:17. > :10:28.Independent has a large photo of Donald Trump on the front, asking,

:10:29. > :10:31.can America finally dumped from? -- can America finally dumped from?

:10:32. > :10:40.This is after his defeat in Wisconsin. Looking at his polling in

:10:41. > :10:45.New York, the next battle ground, he's polling at 50%. I'm not

:10:46. > :10:50.convinced the wheels have come off yet. And he is good at bouncing

:10:51. > :10:58.back. You would be a brave individual to write him off. The

:10:59. > :11:03.Republican convention, if it happens and he still doesn't have the

:11:04. > :11:09.majority he needs, all bets are off. It is a fascinating race. An

:11:10. > :11:14.absolute roller-coaster. I was reading a profile of Ted Cruz at the

:11:15. > :11:19.weekend. It is quoting his former colleague's roommate saying he would

:11:20. > :11:30.rather have absolutely anybody else as a room mate -- as president

:11:31. > :11:35.rather than Ted Cruz. He is not popular among Republicans either,

:11:36. > :11:42.Ted Cruz. If it isn't Trump, it will be Kruse. At it will Cruz. He does

:11:43. > :11:47.have some views that do not chime with a lot of people in America. And

:11:48. > :11:59.lots of views that do chime with them. Ted Cruz is, if used shine a

:12:00. > :12:04.spotlight on him and his views, is he any better? A story that caught

:12:05. > :12:08.your eye. This is an Aston Villa supporter on the front of the Daily

:12:09. > :12:14.Telegraph who wants Leicester City to win the league. I thought he was

:12:15. > :12:22.having a David Cameron moment and getting confused about his team!

:12:23. > :12:26.Prince William has announced he is absolutely dying for Leicester to

:12:27. > :12:34.win the league. He is an Aston Villa fan. He said he saw a road sign and

:12:35. > :12:41.it confused him! He says that he made the remarks in a speech to mark

:12:42. > :12:48.the ten years that Prince William has spent as president of the

:12:49. > :12:53.Football Association. He goes on to say that Princess Charlotte has just

:12:54. > :12:57.started kicking a ball as well. It seems only yesterday we were seeing

:12:58. > :13:03.pictures of him as a toddler, and now he's done ten years at the top

:13:04. > :13:08.of the FA! I would also like Leicester to win the league. Thank

:13:09. > :13:17.you both very much. These front pages have come in while we have

:13:18. > :13:23.been on the air. The government vote and leafleting story. The Sun has a

:13:24. > :13:28.story about police in India hunting a gang believed to be plotting an

:13:29. > :13:33.attack days before the royal visit there. The Daily Express,

:13:34. > :13:36.significant rises in type two diabetes world wide.

:13:37. > :13:39.Don't forget all the front pages are online on the BBC News website

:13:40. > :13:44.where you can read a detailed review of the papers.

:13:45. > :13:55.It's all there for you - seven days a week.

:13:56. > :13:57.Each night's edition of The Papers is being posted

:13:58. > :14:01.on the page shortly after we've finished.