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:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:18. > :00:23.With me are Prashant Rao, deputy Europe business editor with

:00:24. > :00:33.And Beth Rigby, media editor at The Times.

:00:34. > :00:39.The I leads on the war of words between the two sides

:00:40. > :00:41.of the EU referendum debate, as the official

:00:42. > :00:45.Claims from Ken Clarke that David Cameron won't last 30 seconds

:00:46. > :00:48.as Prime Minister in the event of a vote to leave the EU are among

:00:49. > :00:59.There's a free window sticker for readers of the Express,

:01:00. > :01:01.which is launching what it calls a special crusade for Brexit.

:01:02. > :01:04.The terror arrests in Birmingham and at Gatwick Airport

:01:05. > :01:07.It reports on UK security forces being on high alert ahead

:01:08. > :01:09.of the Queen's 90th birthday and President Obama's

:01:10. > :01:12.The personal finances of former Prime Minister Tony Blair

:01:13. > :01:20.are scrutinised in an investigation carried out by the Times.

:01:21. > :01:22.The Mail reports on claims that high street banks are secretly

:01:23. > :01:26.psychologically profiling customers.

:01:27. > :01:28.And in the Mirror, the chief of Eurovision criticises

:01:29. > :01:30.the approach the late Sir Terry Wogan had

:01:31. > :01:48.Fans have fought back already. So, let's make a start and where else to

:01:49. > :01:51.begin but, yes, we EU referendum. It is on a lot of the papers but we

:01:52. > :02:03.will only trouble you with two of them tonight. Here is the headline.

:02:04. > :02:08.I would love to get an American view on this in a moment but first of

:02:09. > :02:13.all, day run and the big guns are being rolled out already. It was

:02:14. > :02:17.interesting when Boris Johnson said he was going to join the Brexit

:02:18. > :02:21.camp, he also said he wasn't going to be front and centre stage,

:02:22. > :02:30.campaigning hard against David Cameron and here he comes, on day

:02:31. > :02:37.one, guns blazing. He has references to the fear campaign by the Remain

:02:38. > :02:44.camp. He is the front man of the exit campaign. Just explain the

:02:45. > :02:51.Gerald Ratner thing. We don't want to shock anybody. There is a swear

:02:52. > :02:57.word coming up. This story. What Johnson did today was he said that

:02:58. > :03:04.David Cameron and his allies were the Gerald Ratner's of the Jewish

:03:05. > :03:10.politics and the reference is of the affordable jeweller. He basically,

:03:11. > :03:16.in 91, described his products as total crap. He said, by-products are

:03:17. > :03:20.rubbish and this was the beginning and end of the jewellery trade and

:03:21. > :03:27.consumers stopped buying it. Boris is trying to align this to the

:03:28. > :03:32.remain as, saying, is this all they can come up with? Our relationship

:03:33. > :03:36.with the EU is a bit rubbish but it is the worst we've got so we have

:03:37. > :03:43.got to stick with it. We have to explain who Gerald Ratner was. Most

:03:44. > :03:48.people will have forgotten. How does your paper report what is going on

:03:49. > :03:56.in the EU? It must be quite baffling in many respects to your readers. It

:03:57. > :04:01.is a huge, enormous issue and the White House is weighing in and even

:04:02. > :04:04.from an American perspective, it is critically important. I think what

:04:05. > :04:08.is interesting is a lot of people are already exhausted and the

:04:09. > :04:16.campaign started today. Imagine voters here? It is kind of amazing.

:04:17. > :04:21.At the New York Times I think we have tried to take a bit of a

:04:22. > :04:25.removed approach, trying to look at issues from a step back because I

:04:26. > :04:31.don't think the New York Times readers are massively concerned that

:04:32. > :04:37.Boris Johnson is for or against. They would know who a lot of the

:04:38. > :04:39.personalities are. The international perspective was easier with George

:04:40. > :04:43.Osborne being the International Monetary Fund, and he was able to

:04:44. > :04:51.talk about what he regards as the global view of where Britain should

:04:52. > :04:54.be. That's right. I think in the Financial Times, George Osborne is

:04:55. > :04:59.quoted as saying he was abraded publicly by the Japanese, Chinese, a

:05:00. > :05:06.number of Europeans, the IMF and others. Everyone is talking about is

:05:07. > :05:14.around the world. And president Obama is about to come to the UK and

:05:15. > :05:18.Boris Johnson got his guns out on that. He said, don't be

:05:19. > :05:28.hypocritical, Barack Obama, and ask the richest people to vote Remain,

:05:29. > :05:33.when you wouldn't give up sovereignty. I think that is a sign

:05:34. > :05:40.that in this war of attrition between the In and Out, it is white

:05:41. > :05:44.noise where it is claimed and counterclaim and those in favour of

:05:45. > :05:48.Brexit know that when President Obama comes over and probably says

:05:49. > :05:53.we think it is better for the UK economy to stay in and the UK people

:05:54. > :06:00.to stay in, that potentially has more potency because he doesn't have

:06:01. > :06:07.skin in the game in the way that phase in the daily battle to you.

:06:08. > :06:13.They would be difficult to find an equivalent to President Obama to

:06:14. > :06:18.argue the case. That is right and it is not just an economic concern,

:06:19. > :06:21.there is defence as well. The government has argued that Russia

:06:22. > :06:27.could come in and wreak havoc if Britain left the EU. Who is to say

:06:28. > :06:31.whether or not that would happen? It is not just an economic concern for

:06:32. > :06:34.the US, it is a security is concerned. There are a lot of things

:06:35. > :06:41.at play which make it interesting. Today it is a lot about the sort of

:06:42. > :06:51.individuals at play and the issues, I would say, beginning to come to a

:06:52. > :07:02.form. The Daily Telegraph, which is the other thing we talked about. The

:07:03. > :07:05.reference to Gerald Ratner. The fact that Britain exports knickers to

:07:06. > :07:12.France and the suggestion we couldn't do that outside the EU. The

:07:13. > :07:16.fact is we probably could. He is stating facts and somebody else

:07:17. > :07:21.could state the opposite. At the moment we don't know what the facts

:07:22. > :07:27.are. I think what Boris Johnson was trying to do today with the Gerald

:07:28. > :07:35.Ratner references and the knickers if he was trying to say, don't be

:07:36. > :07:41.afraid of leaving. You know, there is a silver lining. I think the exit

:07:42. > :07:46.accompanied to give the British people some sort of road map of what

:07:47. > :07:51.that looks like because actually, he might want to say, we can trade with

:07:52. > :07:57.Europe but every time they have puts forward a different model, look at

:07:58. > :08:03.the Canadian trade agreements... Whatever. It is not really clear

:08:04. > :08:09.about what it actually means so I think they need to give the British

:08:10. > :08:15.people the sense of what would a Britain outside of Europe look like?

:08:16. > :08:19.As opposed to saying, it will be OK. He also talked about the need for

:08:20. > :08:23.democracy and the fact we can be in charge of our own laws and we don't

:08:24. > :08:29.have to go to the European Court of Justice to be the final arbiter. We

:08:30. > :08:37.can do that for ourselves and that will appeal to a lot of people. I

:08:38. > :08:43.think that's right. The people who want to leave on making the argument

:08:44. > :08:47.that it empowers British politicians and voters. The argument today about

:08:48. > :08:51.whether or not money that went to Brussels would be better spent on

:08:52. > :08:55.the NHS, things like that. It is very much a case of trying to put

:08:56. > :08:59.forward the case of, we will be in charge again. It won't be giving

:09:00. > :09:04.money to Brussels, whatever the figure might be. This seems to be

:09:05. > :09:09.what the debate centred around today. We have ten more weeks to go.

:09:10. > :09:15.Pace yourselves. Let's stay with the Telegraph for a

:09:16. > :09:24.non-EU story. Here is the headline. These are leaked e-mails revealed

:09:25. > :09:30.last month that a doctor from the BMA doesn't think a full walk-out is

:09:31. > :09:40.easy to defend and not reasonable. This won't please... It speaks to

:09:41. > :09:44.something about how... I think, certainly, of the people I speak to,

:09:45. > :09:47.there is a lot of sympathy for the junior doctors and we think they are

:09:48. > :09:54.going through. There is a point at which it becomes an unpopular thing

:09:55. > :09:59.and I think the BMA, fiercely, they will be embarrassed by this but it

:10:00. > :10:02.speaks to the fact they have to understand the art surgeon lines

:10:03. > :10:10.that if you cross them, it becomes hard justify strike action. Do you

:10:11. > :10:13.remember, the junior doctors and Jeremy Hunt have been locked in a

:10:14. > :10:19.long battle about this and there have been walk-outs and protests. He

:10:20. > :10:22.has come under a lot of fire and in for a lot of criticism and he has

:10:23. > :10:28.basically imposed the contract. Eventually he imposed it and they

:10:29. > :10:33.were furious but I think what it is beginning to show now is the resolve

:10:34. > :10:41.is beginning to wane. They had the public on the side but over time,

:10:42. > :10:46.that support could begin to fade. And if I was in the government now,

:10:47. > :10:52.I would look at that leaked e-mails being exposed and say, I think we

:10:53. > :10:56.have lost this battle. You wonder how long any campaign can go on for

:10:57. > :11:02.because people get fatigued. Senior doctors make the point that if

:11:03. > :11:07.junior doctors are out on strike, they are still there, stepping into

:11:08. > :11:13.the breach. That is true but the NHS is such an enormous thing that is so

:11:14. > :11:18.pervasive in Britain that there are so many services that come under

:11:19. > :11:24.threat and I think what they speak to in this is the should continue to

:11:25. > :11:27.work in paediatric services on strike days because there are

:11:28. > :11:32.certain things that you need sufficient numbers of medical staff.

:11:33. > :11:36.The other point is the government will not back down on this and that

:11:37. > :11:39.is partly because they want to introduce different contracts to

:11:40. > :11:43.different parts of the NHS and care system so if they back down now,

:11:44. > :11:50.they can't introduce reforms down the line. Let's look at the FT. A

:11:51. > :11:55.number of very highly paid individuals, all of them then, I

:11:56. > :11:59.don't know what that says... Investors on the war path over

:12:00. > :12:02.executive pay. The suggestion that he has got so great that

:12:03. > :12:08.shareholders might have something to say about it. Be very interesting

:12:09. > :12:14.story. There was a row over executive pay in the height of the

:12:15. > :12:17.financial crisis when suddenly workers wages were stagnating and

:12:18. > :12:24.people were losing their jobs and there was this at the top of

:12:25. > :12:28.Britain's corporate life that were being paid a lot of money and then

:12:29. > :12:34.it seemed to dissipate a bit. This week, a couple of big companies, the

:12:35. > :12:42.shareholders have voted down the pay packages of the people at BP and

:12:43. > :12:48.Smith and nephew. What is beginning to happen is when you look at this

:12:49. > :12:54.story, what investors are saying is that actually, he has kept on rising

:12:55. > :12:59.and it is an acceptable. The average pay ratio between a fit the 100 pay

:13:00. > :13:10.executive and the average worker is 150 times, compared to 50 times in

:13:11. > :13:14.the 1990s. -- FTSE 100 company. In-depth as -- investors are now

:13:15. > :13:17.saying this is not sustainable in a culture where people are becoming

:13:18. > :13:23.very angry, not just about corporate paper as you saw in the Panama

:13:24. > :13:27.Papers, received wealthy people, people who are very rich, not paying

:13:28. > :13:31.their share. There are some countries that have a limit, did

:13:32. > :13:37.they? Some companies have a limit about how much the person at the top

:13:38. > :13:42.can be paid as a multiple of the person at the bottom?

:13:43. > :13:45.There are limits. The case here is that people on the side of the

:13:46. > :13:51.salaries argued that the BP chief executive has his markers and if he

:13:52. > :13:55.hits them, he gets paid for hitting the markers. It doesn't matter to

:13:56. > :13:59.them that lots of people are losing their jobs at BP and the company is

:14:00. > :14:06.losing money. These aren't the only companies. There are investor

:14:07. > :14:10.meetings coming up. Anglo-American, Shire.

:14:11. > :14:19.Big companies. We don't often have a chance to feature the international

:14:20. > :14:29.New York Times. Briefly, if you would, explain this story.

:14:30. > :14:35.A German comedian has gone out and put out an aggressive, the difficult

:14:36. > :14:42.take on the Turkish leader -- satirical take on the Turkish leader

:14:43. > :14:46.and the Turkish leader has come back and has basically got Germany to

:14:47. > :14:51.allow this comedian to now be prosecuted under a pretty antiquated

:14:52. > :14:55.law in which a foreign leader to deduct criticising a foreign leader

:14:56. > :15:01.can lead to a prosecution. And he could get a prison sentence.

:15:02. > :15:08.It has been used before the against Pinochet of Chile. The migrant

:15:09. > :15:12.crisis is the background to this. You have to see this in the context

:15:13. > :15:18.of where is Angela Merkel with Turkey and what is the relationship?

:15:19. > :15:21.Of course, she has, along with European colleagues, negotiated a

:15:22. > :15:28.deal whereby they can send refugees back to Turkey from Greece, which

:15:29. > :15:35.has been absolutely overwhelmed by a deluge of people fleeing from Syria,

:15:36. > :15:40.Iraq and Afghanistan. She doesn't want to upset the apple cart and it

:15:41. > :15:45.is very important for her, in terms of her relationship with the German

:15:46. > :15:49.people, that she doesn't accept the Turkish because the Germans were not

:15:50. > :15:56.happy with her letting in a million migrants last year. But at the same

:15:57. > :16:00.time, it is not going to play well because if you are a German citizen,

:16:01. > :16:05.is it right that she should be effectively arguably curtailing the

:16:06. > :16:11.freedom of speech of one of her citizens?

:16:12. > :16:16.Fascinating. Finally... Not finally. I'm getting ahead of myself.

:16:17. > :16:21.Momentarily, the Daily Mail. Big Brother. Staff creating secret

:16:22. > :16:28.psychological profiles of customers. Why is this?

:16:29. > :16:31.The story is they are carrying out secret psychological tests on

:16:32. > :16:39.customers to sell them more stuff. You can be labelled one of four

:16:40. > :16:43.personality types. Which one are you?

:16:44. > :16:47.Would you like to guess? It would be boring to be amiable or

:16:48. > :16:51.a logical thinker. When it comes to money, it would be

:16:52. > :16:56.good to be a logical thinker. I don't know about emotionally

:16:57. > :17:02.expressive when it comes to being in a bank?

:17:03. > :17:07.I think, when it comes to this story, Tesco, for example, with the

:17:08. > :17:09.loyalty card, will divide you into categories of shopper to sell you

:17:10. > :17:15.more stuff. More data driven than taking a look

:17:16. > :17:19.at you as you walk in. The point is that companies do this.

:17:20. > :17:26.They take information they can get to sell you more things.

:17:27. > :17:32.Finally, the times. Page 43. We love this story. Chinese footballers

:17:33. > :17:37.ordered to win the World Cup by 2050, and they probably well.

:17:38. > :17:40.What are they doing? China has been massively successful at improving

:17:41. > :17:49.its sports teams over the years so now we have this story whereby by

:17:50. > :17:54.2015... By 2050, China must be, according to a document that has

:17:55. > :18:00.been circulated, a first-rate major footballing power and it can lift up

:18:01. > :18:06.the sports dream and that could be the blueprint for the nation's

:18:07. > :18:08.revival. We have seen astonishing sporting

:18:09. > :18:13.revivals. When you look at the height of the

:18:14. > :18:18.Cold War, the Chinese and Russians were formidable in the battles

:18:19. > :18:26.between the US, you know, and the Eastern powers. In gymnastics, the

:18:27. > :18:31.Chinese, basically, if they put their minds to a sport, they

:18:32. > :18:35.normally have great success. This is going to be fascinating. If you

:18:36. > :18:40.imagine a new economy, if you'd like.

:18:41. > :18:45.If you imagine, a billion people or more, they have a great deal of

:18:46. > :18:49.talent to look at. It is not anywhere near the top tier

:18:50. > :18:55.of global footballing rankings but they are really putting some weight

:18:56. > :18:59.behind this. There is some really nice analysis on how Chinese clubs

:19:00. > :19:04.are enticing players away from some big European clubs like Chelsea and

:19:05. > :19:08.Paris Saint Germain because the money is in China and interesting

:19:09. > :19:14.opportunities. If only saying it out loud could

:19:15. > :19:17.make it come true. Maybe we could win the World Cup by

:19:18. > :19:24.2050! Let's say it and cross our fingers.

:19:25. > :19:40.I would like to say that my opposite number has been an title keith-mack

:19:41. > :19:44.-- has been an Have I. News for Yeo. -- has been on a comedy programme.

:19:45. > :19:50.There is the official campaign that got underway.

:19:51. > :19:54.Gatwick Airport at the front of the Daily Telegraph, with reports of the

:19:55. > :19:59.security forces on high alert ahead of the visit from the Queen and

:20:00. > :20:03.President Obama. And the mail claiming high street banks are

:20:04. > :20:07.secretly psychologically profiling customers. All of those front pages

:20:08. > :20:14.are online and you can read a detailed review of the papers every

:20:15. > :20:17.day of the week. You can also see a repeat of our review. Posted every

:20:18. > :20:23.night shortly after we have finished online. It is an eye player or at

:20:24. > :20:27.this address. Thank you.