15/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Prashant Rao, deputy Europe business editor with

And Beth Rigby, media editor at The Times.

The I leads on the war of words between the two sides

of the EU referendum debate, as the official

Claims from Ken Clarke that David Cameron won't last 30 seconds

as Prime Minister in the event of a vote to leave the EU are among

There's a free window sticker for readers of the Express,

which is launching what it calls a special crusade for Brexit.

The terror arrests in Birmingham and at Gatwick Airport

It reports on UK security forces being on high alert ahead

of the Queen's 90th birthday and President Obama's

The personal finances of former Prime Minister Tony Blair

are scrutinised in an investigation carried out by the Times.

The Mail reports on claims that high street banks are secretly

psychologically profiling customers.

And in the Mirror, the chief of Eurovision criticises

the approach the late Sir Terry Wogan had

Fans have fought back already. So, let's make a start and where else to

begin but, yes, we EU referendum. It is on a lot of the papers but we

will only trouble you with two of them tonight. Here is the headline.

I would love to get an American view on this in a moment but first of

all, day run and the big guns are being rolled out already. It was

interesting when Boris Johnson said he was going to join the Brexit

camp, he also said he wasn't going to be front and centre stage,

campaigning hard against David Cameron and here he comes, on day

one, guns blazing. He has references to the fear campaign by the Remain

camp. He is the front man of the exit campaign. Just explain the

Gerald Ratner thing. We don't want to shock anybody. There is a swear

word coming up. This story. What Johnson did today was he said that

David Cameron and his allies were the Gerald Ratner's of the Jewish

politics and the reference is of the affordable jeweller. He basically,

in 91, described his products as total crap. He said, by-products are

rubbish and this was the beginning and end of the jewellery trade and

consumers stopped buying it. Boris is trying to align this to the

remain as, saying, is this all they can come up with? Our relationship

with the EU is a bit rubbish but it is the worst we've got so we have

got to stick with it. We have to explain who Gerald Ratner was. Most

people will have forgotten. How does your paper report what is going on

in the EU? It must be quite baffling in many respects to your readers. It

is a huge, enormous issue and the White House is weighing in and even

from an American perspective, it is critically important. I think what

is interesting is a lot of people are already exhausted and the

campaign started today. Imagine voters here? It is kind of amazing.

At the New York Times I think we have tried to take a bit of a

removed approach, trying to look at issues from a step back because I

don't think the New York Times readers are massively concerned that

Boris Johnson is for or against. They would know who a lot of the

personalities are. The international perspective was easier with George

Osborne being the International Monetary Fund, and he was able to

talk about what he regards as the global view of where Britain should

be. That's right. I think in the Financial Times, George Osborne is

quoted as saying he was abraded publicly by the Japanese, Chinese, a

number of Europeans, the IMF and others. Everyone is talking about is

around the world. And president Obama is about to come to the UK and

Boris Johnson got his guns out on that. He said, don't be

hypocritical, Barack Obama, and ask the richest people to vote Remain,

when you wouldn't give up sovereignty. I think that is a sign

that in this war of attrition between the In and Out, it is white

noise where it is claimed and counterclaim and those in favour of

Brexit know that when President Obama comes over and probably says

we think it is better for the UK economy to stay in and the UK people

to stay in, that potentially has more potency because he doesn't have

skin in the game in the way that phase in the daily battle to you.

They would be difficult to find an equivalent to President Obama to

argue the case. That is right and it is not just an economic concern,

there is defence as well. The government has argued that Russia

could come in and wreak havoc if Britain left the EU. Who is to say

whether or not that would happen? It is not just an economic concern for

the US, it is a security is concerned. There are a lot of things

at play which make it interesting. Today it is a lot about the sort of

individuals at play and the issues, I would say, beginning to come to a

form. The Daily Telegraph, which is the other thing we talked about. The

reference to Gerald Ratner. The fact that Britain exports knickers to

France and the suggestion we couldn't do that outside the EU. The

fact is we probably could. He is stating facts and somebody else

could state the opposite. At the moment we don't know what the facts

are. I think what Boris Johnson was trying to do today with the Gerald

Ratner references and the knickers if he was trying to say, don't be

afraid of leaving. You know, there is a silver lining. I think the exit

accompanied to give the British people some sort of road map of what

that looks like because actually, he might want to say, we can trade with

Europe but every time they have puts forward a different model, look at

the Canadian trade agreements... Whatever. It is not really clear

about what it actually means so I think they need to give the British

people the sense of what would a Britain outside of Europe look like?

As opposed to saying, it will be OK. He also talked about the need for

democracy and the fact we can be in charge of our own laws and we don't

have to go to the European Court of Justice to be the final arbiter. We

can do that for ourselves and that will appeal to a lot of people. I

think that's right. The people who want to leave on making the argument

that it empowers British politicians and voters. The argument today about

whether or not money that went to Brussels would be better spent on

the NHS, things like that. It is very much a case of trying to put

forward the case of, we will be in charge again. It won't be giving

money to Brussels, whatever the figure might be. This seems to be

what the debate centred around today. We have ten more weeks to go.

Pace yourselves. Let's stay with the Telegraph for a

non-EU story. Here is the headline. These are leaked e-mails revealed

last month that a doctor from the BMA doesn't think a full walk-out is

easy to defend and not reasonable. This won't please... It speaks to

something about how... I think, certainly, of the people I speak to,

there is a lot of sympathy for the junior doctors and we think they are

going through. There is a point at which it becomes an unpopular thing

and I think the BMA, fiercely, they will be embarrassed by this but it

speaks to the fact they have to understand the art surgeon lines

that if you cross them, it becomes hard justify strike action. Do you

remember, the junior doctors and Jeremy Hunt have been locked in a

long battle about this and there have been walk-outs and protests. He

has come under a lot of fire and in for a lot of criticism and he has

basically imposed the contract. Eventually he imposed it and they

were furious but I think what it is beginning to show now is the resolve

is beginning to wane. They had the public on the side but over time,

that support could begin to fade. And if I was in the government now,

I would look at that leaked e-mails being exposed and say, I think we

have lost this battle. You wonder how long any campaign can go on for

because people get fatigued. Senior doctors make the point that if

junior doctors are out on strike, they are still there, stepping into

the breach. That is true but the NHS is such an enormous thing that is so

pervasive in Britain that there are so many services that come under

threat and I think what they speak to in this is the should continue to

work in paediatric services on strike days because there are

certain things that you need sufficient numbers of medical staff.

The other point is the government will not back down on this and that

is partly because they want to introduce different contracts to

different parts of the NHS and care system so if they back down now,

they can't introduce reforms down the line. Let's look at the FT. A

number of very highly paid individuals, all of them then, I

don't know what that says... Investors on the war path over

executive pay. The suggestion that he has got so great that

shareholders might have something to say about it. Be very interesting

story. There was a row over executive pay in the height of the

financial crisis when suddenly workers wages were stagnating and

people were losing their jobs and there was this at the top of

Britain's corporate life that were being paid a lot of money and then

it seemed to dissipate a bit. This week, a couple of big companies, the

shareholders have voted down the pay packages of the people at BP and

Smith and nephew. What is beginning to happen is when you look at this

story, what investors are saying is that actually, he has kept on rising

and it is an acceptable. The average pay ratio between a fit the 100 pay

executive and the average worker is 150 times, compared to 50 times in

the 1990s. -- FTSE 100 company. In-depth as -- investors are now

saying this is not sustainable in a culture where people are becoming

very angry, not just about corporate paper as you saw in the Panama

Papers, received wealthy people, people who are very rich, not paying

their share. There are some countries that have a limit, did

they? Some companies have a limit about how much the person at the top

can be paid as a multiple of the person at the bottom?

There are limits. The case here is that people on the side of the

salaries argued that the BP chief executive has his markers and if he

hits them, he gets paid for hitting the markers. It doesn't matter to

them that lots of people are losing their jobs at BP and the company is

losing money. These aren't the only companies. There are investor

meetings coming up. Anglo-American, Shire.

Big companies. We don't often have a chance to feature the international

New York Times. Briefly, if you would, explain this story.

A German comedian has gone out and put out an aggressive, the difficult

take on the Turkish leader -- satirical take on the Turkish leader

and the Turkish leader has come back and has basically got Germany to

allow this comedian to now be prosecuted under a pretty antiquated

law in which a foreign leader to deduct criticising a foreign leader

can lead to a prosecution. And he could get a prison sentence.

It has been used before the against Pinochet of Chile. The migrant

crisis is the background to this. You have to see this in the context

of where is Angela Merkel with Turkey and what is the relationship?

Of course, she has, along with European colleagues, negotiated a

deal whereby they can send refugees back to Turkey from Greece, which

has been absolutely overwhelmed by a deluge of people fleeing from Syria,

Iraq and Afghanistan. She doesn't want to upset the apple cart and it

is very important for her, in terms of her relationship with the German

people, that she doesn't accept the Turkish because the Germans were not

happy with her letting in a million migrants last year. But at the same

time, it is not going to play well because if you are a German citizen,

is it right that she should be effectively arguably curtailing the

freedom of speech of one of her citizens?

Fascinating. Finally... Not finally. I'm getting ahead of myself.

Momentarily, the Daily Mail. Big Brother. Staff creating secret

psychological profiles of customers. Why is this?

The story is they are carrying out secret psychological tests on

customers to sell them more stuff. You can be labelled one of four

personality types. Which one are you?

Would you like to guess? It would be boring to be amiable or

a logical thinker. When it comes to money, it would be

good to be a logical thinker. I don't know about emotionally

expressive when it comes to being in a bank?

I think, when it comes to this story, Tesco, for example, with the

loyalty card, will divide you into categories of shopper to sell you

more stuff. More data driven than taking a look

at you as you walk in. The point is that companies do this.

They take information they can get to sell you more things.

Finally, the times. Page 43. We love this story. Chinese footballers

ordered to win the World Cup by 2050, and they probably well.

What are they doing? China has been massively successful at improving

its sports teams over the years so now we have this story whereby by

2015... By 2050, China must be, according to a document that has

been circulated, a first-rate major footballing power and it can lift up

the sports dream and that could be the blueprint for the nation's

revival. We have seen astonishing sporting

revivals. When you look at the height of the

Cold War, the Chinese and Russians were formidable in the battles

between the US, you know, and the Eastern powers. In gymnastics, the

Chinese, basically, if they put their minds to a sport, they

normally have great success. This is going to be fascinating. If you

imagine a new economy, if you'd like.

If you imagine, a billion people or more, they have a great deal of

talent to look at. It is not anywhere near the top tier

of global footballing rankings but they are really putting some weight

behind this. There is some really nice analysis on how Chinese clubs

are enticing players away from some big European clubs like Chelsea and

Paris Saint Germain because the money is in China and interesting

opportunities. If only saying it out loud could

make it come true. Maybe we could win the World Cup by

2050! Let's say it and cross our fingers.

I would like to say that my opposite number has been an title keith-mack

-- has been an Have I. News for Yeo. -- has been on a comedy programme.

There is the official campaign that got underway.

Gatwick Airport at the front of the Daily Telegraph, with reports of the

security forces on high alert ahead of the visit from the Queen and

President Obama. And the mail claiming high street banks are

secretly psychologically profiling customers. All of those front pages

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