14/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me are broadcaster David Davies and Helen Joyce,

International Editor at The Economist.

The Financial Times leads with the rebellion by BP

shareholders over the 20% pay rise for its Chief Executive,

Bob Dudley, after a year in which the company

It says the BP chief's ?14 million payout caused an investors' revolt.

New Day leads on the young mother, Lauren Heath, who was killed

by a lorry as she walked her baby daughter in her pram

The Metro has the story of a policewoman

It says a hero dragged her to safety.

The Independent has a banner picture of the old political foes united

in their support of the campaign to remain in the EU,

but it warns "Brexit is no laughing matter" because the uncertainty

leading up to the vote is hurting Britain's economy.

And the Daily Express leads on what it hails

as a new breakthrough in research to cure type one diabetes.

Let's look at at least some of those. The Independent is where we

are going to start, it is almost like a caption competition. David

Cameron, Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock sharing what seems to be a

funny moment. It strikes me that we start with David Cameron looking

mildly cheerful, and Paddy Ashdown is an absolute hysteria. This may be

laughing gas. I wondered that somebody has said, why not have a

particle Lycian. -- three party coalition. The point is they are all

on the same side, the EU referendum. The warning below is the must vote

to stay, so everybody know these mainstream parties, everyone is

saying that if you go there will be lots of problems and I wonder if

that is the problem. Which can of course work both ways? It can work

both ways. Are there really ten weeks to go? Starting at midnight

tonight officially. I don't know what other people think but for

those of us who want there to be a good argument and perhaps want to be

convinced one way or the other, up to this point, I am really

disappointed by some of the one-sided coverage we're getting in

so many parts of the media and from politicians. This is not a simple

choice. Nobody can surely think that, that it is blindingly obvious

that you should vote in or out, and we are told, you drone corresponded

today, your political editor, was saying today that Jeremy Corbyn had

been grudging in going in with the in crowd. Actually, I think there's

a amongst a lot of people that they grudgingly they might be going one

way or the other. The other thing I saw today was Alan Johnson is coming

out front at the early part of the day, supporting Jeremy Corbyn who he

has not always been very kind about, and I wondered, we have had a few

lost leaders in my lifetime, and he is a lost leader of our country. I

am interested in this feeling and I am sure people at the Bank of

England are seeing sincerely what they think, but with all the

organisations and parties and so on on one side, the mainstream parties,

that is the problem people start to feel, like they are being pushed and

they want to dig their heels in and feel like I don't care if you are

all against me, you are all saying the same thing and I will not

listen. But they also don't like uncertainty. And the difficulty for

the bricks at people is to say, you when, and what happens then. --

Brexit. Whatever you say you can't be sure. Takers to the coverage of

Bob Dudley because they appears on the front page, the BP chief and

shareholders were not happy today. He has been given a 20% pay rise

even though his firm lost an awful lot of money, that is because the

oil price fell and that is not exactly be a fault, but you feel

that when the oil price falls it is not your fault but when it dries you

must be an amazing boss! And not just this firm, but everyone is

willing to see how well they were doing when the market went up and

when it went down it is not their fault. This is a multi-year formula

that was set and that shareholders voted and agreed on by 90%. Not

close. And this is them saying after the fact, this is last year's pay

and received that, that when the company has lost that much money

they don't like the look of him coming out. They say they will not

take the money back and I doubt they could take it back. They have hair

band are listening and well think again for next year. This has a

bigger significance. For the first time I suspect in the past few

months, I think that any quality, the failure of successive

governments to do anything about the inequalities, the gap between rich

and poor in our lifetime is coming home to roost, and people are

saying, it is no good any more and it is damaging to companies, and the

number of business people have come out and said absolutely this, to be

paying one person 14 million or perhaps even 20 million, and on the

other hand we all know with or without a living wage, there are

horrendous pockets of inequality in our country. They are busy line, the

rebellion highlighted the growing trend of institutional investors and

advisers taking a more aggressive stance over pay. It happened years

ago and nothing came of it. The shareholder spring so let's see what

happens this time. The daily Mirror, the superbug story quoting the

Chancellor, we haven't got enough to get to the bottom as to why he is

being quoted, but the warming is alarming? I was going to say, the

job of Health Secretary has taken over from the job of Home Secretary

as the poisoned chalice of government. Poor old Jeremy Hunt is

being beaten up in all quarters at the moment. Today you have been

reporting about accident and emergency waiting. Some of us have

experienced that even quite recently, and they are horrendous

figures, but now, the is this real worry about antibiotics that are

going to work and that increasingly arrant going to work. And not the

first time we have heard the warning about Andy Gray ticks but the

figures here are telling. The apocalypse scenario is that they all

stop working. Evolution and the bacteria evolved to cope with them.

We haven't producing new ones, so I have no idea why the story is on the

cover today but it is a genuine story. George Osborne said it will

become a greater threat to mankind than cancers today. But among all

the other thing is worrying as this should be worrying us. This caught

your eye, finds to end misery of unmanned roadworks. Hooray for the

Transport Minister. Councils and utilities companies that use --

cause misery by leaving roadworks with Lord Pearce taking place will

be fined as part of a government crackdown. The fines don't seem to

be so huge, but for goodness sake, not before time. The only worry I

have about this is that as you go down the story, you get to A roads

and some of us might have stronger view about certain waterways we have

sat on for many weekends. There was the famous cones hotline so I am not

hopeful this will lead to a revolution in roadworks being left

to set. However, I would like to hope something will come of it. I

have doubt about this. If you have in the middle of doing some

comprehensive roadworks and you have got the weekend off, do you really

want to be clearing up the whole site on a Friday evening and putting

it back again on Monday. The idea is you don't take the weekend. I guess

you sometimes work shifts, rather late? Are you working 9-5 yourself?

Fair point. Is that a fair concern? I think it is a very fair concern,

some of us are so wizened that we look at the story is rather like

health stories in another daily newspaper that loves having health

stories on the front page. You look at them, not another one! Possibly.

Possibly, a concession of sorts. I am also being told of its sites

where temporary traffic lights are left in place after roadworks are

completed which is an unnecessary delay and the burden on the economy

so it is clear where he stands. We will talk briefly, we have minute

left, about the Duchess of Cambridge's archery skills and I

know this is a media of expertise for you. I have never even tried but

I suspect it is rather difficult. That is my entire contribution. I

have been to the world archery Championships in Dover, near the

White cliffs, and I have seen the fantastic skills of these archers.

But you haven't fired? It frightened the life out of me, but good for the

Duchess having a go. She is lucky to go to Bhutan. On that note, thank

you both very much indeed and thank you, Helen and David, and before you

go, these front pages have been coming and while we are only. I am

told we haven't! But they normally do. Don't forget the front pages are

on the BBC website where you can read a detailed review of the

papers. Each night's edition of the papers is posted on the page after

we finish. Goodbye. Good evening. Thursday brought us a

day of sunny spells and