13/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Miranda Green from the FT and Christopher Hope,

who's assistant editor at the Daily Telegraph.

Let's look at some of the front pages.

The Telegraph reports a suggestion by a Cabinet minister that the BBC

has sought to smear the Culture Secretary.

The Guardian leads on claims by the SNP that that thousands more

Government inspectors are employed to tackle benefit fraud than tax

The FT says officials believe George Osborne will have to consider

selling the public stake in Royal Bank of Scotland at a loss

because keeping it in the public sector is bad for the bank.

The Metro focuses on a report predicting that first-time buyers

will need a salary of ?64,000 to get a mortgage for a typical home I20

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David Cameron over Europe has slumped, suggesting the referendum

is on a knife edge. The Daily Mail claims that we pay ?1

of every ?7 given by rich countries in foreign aid.

And the i says the UN has reprimanded Britain for failing

We will start with the express, a crusade to quit the EU takes a huge

leap forward, according to the Express? That's right. Is that?!

This is an important day, in a way, you can see Electoral Commission

named the official out two campaign and the official Remain campaign, it

is the moment where battle commences. For those who have long

wanted the EU to leave the EU, like the Daily Express, it is a great

moment. They have waited a generation, this is a

once-in-a-lifetime chance to try to convince the public to vote for Out.

But they said something that is contradicted elsewhere, which is

that the computing Brexit groups promised to put their differences

aside and build a mass movement to quit. However, that is not reflected

in every paper. Viewers and readers may be concerned, it is not the

final battle, some papers have been fighting this battle for a long time

in pointing out the weaknesses and mistakes and errors in the EU. And

not pointing out the strengths? You could argue that, too. But the ten

week EU referendum campaign starts on Friday. Ten weeks tomorrow... It

starts official Friday, let's go one week only. Let's go to the Financial

Times, the Express trumpeting that the battle for Britain begins,

bursts the designation of Vote Leave as the official Out grouping sparks

feuding? Not everybody has been reporting this, it is two groups

fighting for the right to be the official designated Brexit, British

exit, group. It turns out that the regulator has given the right to a

group called Vote Leave, the establishment vehicle backed by

Michael Gove and the main Conservative Cabinet ministers who

said they were backing Out. It means they can spend up to ?7 million,

then they can raise money and ?7 million, the other groups can only

spend ?700,000, they have an advantage, they can spend more. But

these other groups, by aggregating all of that parts of ?700,000, can

spend a lot more, it is OK by the rules. But Grassroots Out, the

organisation led by Ukip and Nigel Farage, which lost out on being the

designated Out grouping, will sue? They are seeing lawyers today and

tomorrow morning. That could mean that if a judge orders a stay on the

process it could delay the June 23 referendum, because you need your

10-week window, which starts on Friday, or it won't happen any more.

Unbelievably, this could go on forever. So going back to the Daily

Express, the battle for Britain beginning, it might not. May be as

battle between the Brexit groups will remain a sideshow, or maybe it

will disrupt the process itself. Clearly, the Remain campaign will be

hoping there is a lot of Nigel Farage on the telly talking about

his attempt to derail the official Brexit campaign, because what they

would like on the Remain side is as much Ukip as possible, because that

is not a turn on for the middle-of-the-road voters. Farage

once the two to come together. He is quite keen on the two getting

together and working out a way forward. But I am saying that on the

Remain side they want as much barrage in the news as possible so

there is a battle going on between the two sides. Yes, but does Vote

Leave once Farage? On the Leave site, many want to move on, someone

to stay and fight field battle. Nigel Farage said he wanted to bring

them together. During the general election last year we had a lot of

coverage of what they call process stories, and, in the end, not enough

coverage of the substance of the case and the issues, and if we have

ten weeks of process issues about who is in and out of various sides,

it will not be very helpful to the electorate, it would be good to move

some substance. Lovelace let's go to The Times, voters turn away from the

EU as trust in Cameron slides. The vote is on a knife edge,

Corbynista make the speech was staying in Europe first remark he

makes a big speech tomorrow? MIRANDA: he does indeed, it is

important that Labour mobilises if Remain has any chance. That this was

Cameron peers tactical move to buy off the wing of his own Conservative

Party worried about Ukip and the centre of gravity of the

Conservative Party has moved to yours get the glaze. He is the

figurehead, like it or not. Whether Corbin could convince Labour voters

to back Cameron peers rather crazy throughout the day 's referendum is

very, very difficult to bet on -- whether Corbyn could. When I look at

this story I am amazed. Less than a year ago David Cameron and George

Osborne pulled off a spectacular surprise winner of a majority in the

House of Commons for the Conservative Party, here they are

now and the authority has just led away from David Cameron because its

issue. But while I agree. I think it is likely Cameron peers fault. In

75, Wilson stood above the referendum, he got it happening and

let everyone fight. Cameron has put himself on one side and fired via

the other side, on which said many of his Cabinet members. His position

as Prime Minister becomes attacked, not a good look. Arguably you could

say that he has the deal and will let everyone fight over it, arguably

you could say he has attacked the other side. I would say it has

damaged his authority in the party and the country. Is that the debate

over the EU referendum that has affected trust, or Panama Papers or

a combination? In this article it said that the economy is an issue,

but there is a feeling of overstretch at the heart of

Government, you are seeing that with Panama... The steel crisis. Why was

Sajid Javid in Australia, not in Mumbai on the day it happened,

fighting for Tata Steel? I think this is causing problems. They are

starting to look a bit accident prone, you don't want an accident

prone leader, you want a leader who attracts a lock, then luck builds

trust, etc. -- attract luck. Why they have gone through this in 2016

instead of waiting for the last moment in 2017, as promised, they

wanted to go early to avoid what is normally referred to as mid-term

blues, when every Government becomes unpopular in the mid-term, you take

unpopular decisions, you have irritated certain groups. But

already they have irritated enough people that they are experiencing a

slump that endangers the result. So I do saying that results could oil

down to confidence in Cameron rather than the issues relating whether we

should be in or out? A few weeks out it will be more about the position.

This article is about what Corbyn has done on Europe, not much. Alan

Johnson is the Labour lead campaigner for Remain. He is not

doing enough. Really, 31% of the electorate want to hear from Corbyn

and the Remain side hope they can convince him to vote, because

currently Cameron is speaking to the minority who voted him in the last

election. The Guardian, Christopher, benefit

fraud or tax evasion, a row? It is a real head for the SNP at my

ministers questions, and as Robinson has got some numbers showing there

are over 3000 DWP, Department for Work and Pensions, staff, assigned

to investigate welfare fraud, and just 300 dealing with the rich. So

the idea is why the Government is chasing after low margin examples of

welfare fraud when they are not going for the big ticket items.

Arguably, we said earlier that this is perhaps the type of opposing that

Jeremy Corbyn should be doing, arrows aimed at the heart of

Government which will give you a splash hours later on the front of

the Guardian. This is interesting, the suggestion is that ?1.3 billion

is lost in benefit fraud every year. A relatively low amount. Yet they

have 3000 plus inspectors. Yet it is ?34 billion, officially, lost in tax

evasion. Labour says it is actually ?120 billion. What is going on? In

recent years, during the coalition years, they bumped up the number of

people trying to target unpaid tax, both corporate and personal, we

should say, because the big-ticket tax evasion is why companies, if we

could get that right and if all of the countries in the EU and

to prevent multinationals playing to prevent multinationals playing

games with where they claim they are making a profit, it would make a

huge difference. I agree, this is really good politics. Angus

Robertson has come up with a killer fact, that the numbers investigating

tax evasion are totally dwarfed by the numbers investigating welfare

fraud, which is quite a low cost to the taxpayer. Christopher, why isn't

Jeremy Corbyn saying this? Good question. On Wednesdays, I watch him

perform, he is quite windy Ritter, he seems quite impatient with the

MPs shouting -- quite a windy rater. I don't really maximises his six

questions. He needs to have this type of sharp questioning, it will

deliver head on the Government, there is no point in being in

opposition if you cannot make heads. We only have 30 seconds, diet for a

year to keep the weight off for good. The three others felt very,

very slim and light! We don't have to worry about this. Miranda? There

has always been a confusion about why if people go on the diet and

come off, the weight goes back on instantly, they have worked that you

had to do it for a full year for the chemical reactions in your body to

stop telling you to eat too much, essentially. You know what they say,

diet always begin tomorrow, this seems yet another good reason to not

even started. The start of the diet for the referendum campaign starts

tomorrow! Christopher, Miranda, thank you for coming in.

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