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:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:16. > :00:19.With me are Laura Hughes, political correspondent

:00:20. > :00:22.at the Daily Telegraph and Mihir Bose, who's a columnist

:00:23. > :00:32.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

:00:33. > :00:34.The Mail headlines with new allegations

:00:35. > :00:37.about the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale's private life.

:00:38. > :00:41.It claims he sent a photo of highly sensitive Cabinet papers to a woman

:00:42. > :00:48.The Observer says a crisis is looming in primary school places

:00:49. > :00:51.in England - with a shortfall of 10,000 places expected

:00:52. > :00:58.The Sunday Express dedicates a full page to the photograph of William

:00:59. > :01:02.and Kate visiting the Taj Mahal and replicating Princess

:01:03. > :01:08.The Sunday Telegraph quote a senior government minister saying Britain

:01:09. > :01:11.could face an economic shock similar to the banking crisis if it leaves

:01:12. > :01:18.And the Sunday Times writes that the former cricketer

:01:19. > :01:21.Sir Ian Botham has backed Britain leaving the European Union and said

:01:22. > :01:25.Britain should stand proud as he did as a cricketer.

:01:26. > :01:37.Plenty to get our teeth into tonight. Let's start with the

:01:38. > :01:43.Observer. Lots of different lead stories this weekend. The Observer

:01:44. > :01:49.says there will be a gap of 10,000 primary school places in four years'

:01:50. > :01:52.time. This is a story saying that because of cutbacks and because

:01:53. > :01:57.schools are becoming academies, they can't expand, new schools can't be

:01:58. > :02:03.set up, there will be a big gap and this story is time to because early

:02:04. > :02:07.next week, parents will get letters telling them whether their children

:02:08. > :02:11.have got to the primary school near their place of residence, the one

:02:12. > :02:19.they have chosen. I'm not doubting the story. They are saying even the

:02:20. > :02:22.Conservative local government Association is going to protest

:02:23. > :02:27.about government policies. This seems to be a recurring problem, in

:02:28. > :02:32.the country, as far as I can remember in the last 50 years, we've

:02:33. > :02:36.gone is from grammar schools, to comprehensives, to academies and we

:02:37. > :02:42.don't seem to solve the education problem. If you want to do well in

:02:43. > :02:49.life, you've got to send your child, as I have to send my child, to a

:02:50. > :02:53.private school, which is only 7% of the population. I am sure people up

:02:54. > :02:59.and down the country will disagree with that. This comes amid a big row

:03:00. > :03:05.about Conservative schools across the country. Labour are fiercely

:03:06. > :03:10.opposed to this. Tory MPs have come out and criticised it. And the fact

:03:11. > :03:14.that the LGA, which is Conservative lead at the moment, is planning to

:03:15. > :03:21.come out this next week to coincide with these results, it is not good

:03:22. > :03:24.for Nicky Morgan. You mentioned the perfect school debate. I was

:03:25. > :03:27.watching question Time on Thursday night and people were still

:03:28. > :03:32.attacking private schools but some might argue that sending your child

:03:33. > :03:37.to a private school is taken up the pressure from some of these schools.

:03:38. > :03:41.If you go to France or Germany, when I speak to my friends there, there

:03:42. > :03:47.is not that emphasis on private schools. Why should we have built a

:03:48. > :03:52.school culture in this country where you feel if you have the money, you

:03:53. > :04:00.would rather spend it on education than something else? Getting back to

:04:01. > :04:04.this particular shortage in school places, these are worked on as

:04:05. > :04:08.forecasts years and years in advance. What I have learned from

:04:09. > :04:13.the front page of the Observer is was it a bad forecast bad planning?

:04:14. > :04:16.But that it has done in terms of academies and so on, and they are

:04:17. > :04:20.projecting, and because of that, they won't be able to build more

:04:21. > :04:23.school places and therefore accommodate the demand and this is

:04:24. > :04:29.particularly the Midlands and the North and so. The projecting on the

:04:30. > :04:38.basis of current policy. They are saying that in 2019 to 2020, some of

:04:39. > :04:42.the worst areas, a wide range across the country, and they say last year,

:04:43. > :04:47.up to one in five youngsters did not get into the school of their

:04:48. > :04:53.parents' choice. The figures seem to be rising dramatically. Definitely.

:04:54. > :04:58.I think it is worrying generally to hear that schools are being forced

:04:59. > :05:01.to turn areas that are not designated for class brings into

:05:02. > :05:05.classrooms. I think parents will be worried. I have a very small chance

:05:06. > :05:10.of getting my child into the school where I live and how many children

:05:11. > :05:15.will be these classrooms and in what environment are they going to be

:05:16. > :05:23.taught? Let's move on to the Sunday Telegraph now. They do focus on

:05:24. > :05:35.possible breadth it and the EU referendum. -- Brexit. We are

:05:36. > :05:42.expecting a landmark report from the Treasury, out lining the cost. We

:05:43. > :05:47.have been waiting for this big Treasury report which is forecasting

:05:48. > :05:51.what the impact will be on Britain leaving the EU. It is not surprising

:05:52. > :05:56.that it has a warning like this. The government wants us to stay. It is

:05:57. > :06:01.not surprising they have taken this position. You've got Michael Gove

:06:02. > :06:05.and Chris Grayling saying... Obviously, they were going to say

:06:06. > :06:09.that. The public will think this is another piece of propaganda, more

:06:10. > :06:15.scaremongering, the government are trying to deploy fear tactics. But

:06:16. > :06:21.it is also interesting. There is a piece in the Telegraph from the new

:06:22. > :06:26.work and pension is secondary, the new access to the face of the Tory

:06:27. > :06:32.party, in the midst of all these upsets, his background is a

:06:33. > :06:37.blue-collar worker. He is warning the people that will be affected by

:06:38. > :06:39.this are people who work in manufacturing and construction. It

:06:40. > :06:45.is interesting they have put him out here to make this point. I don't

:06:46. > :06:50.believe he sat alone and read this piece, Stephen Crabb. Do you get the

:06:51. > :06:53.feeling there is a plan of a Minister weekend making some

:06:54. > :06:59.statement in a grid that is laid out to say why it is a bad thing. Last

:07:00. > :07:04.weekend, Jeremy Hunt was lined up saying that the DHS. I think the

:07:05. > :07:10.government has decided to give what they consider facts and convince

:07:11. > :07:19.people of agronomic back that it would be disastrous to leave the EU.

:07:20. > :07:24.# Convince people of economic facts. It is being presented as governor

:07:25. > :07:28.and propaganda and that is where the leave campaign is doing quite well

:07:29. > :07:32.because they are saying they are not presenting facts or hard economic

:07:33. > :07:40.truths, they are just projecting what would happen, as if leaving the

:07:41. > :07:43.EU is falling off a cliff. And that the government problem. The more

:07:44. > :07:48.facts they present, the more they are seen as a propaganda machine.

:07:49. > :07:52.You get the feeling from what you are here from inside the various

:07:53. > :08:00.political establishment that it has backfired? Yes. How many people have

:08:01. > :08:06.read it, for a start! And Boris has been crude about it. He said it is

:08:07. > :08:11.not made on material that some people would like to use it as. You

:08:12. > :08:14.would expect apartment to do that. If the government were recommended

:08:15. > :08:22.we leave, they would spend that money on it. They will have more

:08:23. > :08:26.manpower and money behind it. It is going to be an emotional decision.

:08:27. > :08:30.You either think it is good for you feel we have lost control of our

:08:31. > :08:33.country, there are two mini people here and therefore we ought to

:08:34. > :08:38.leave. I don't think it will be decided on economic facts. Stick

:08:39. > :08:42.with that thought. The Sunday Times, let's stay with the story, very

:08:43. > :08:51.different angle from the Sunday Times. With the headline, Botham

:08:52. > :08:58.swings bat for Brexit. He has apparently written an article or

:08:59. > :09:05.being interviewed. I'm a big Ian Botham fan but that does seem very

:09:06. > :09:12.unusual headline. It is unusual and most of the stories about Boris

:09:13. > :09:17.Johnson' speech up North and Ian Botham and all his great cricketing

:09:18. > :09:21.deeds provides the introduction to the peace. He is a wonderful

:09:22. > :09:25.cricketer and I wish he were still playing but listening to him talk

:09:26. > :09:29.about whether we should stay in the EU or not is the most ridiculous

:09:30. > :09:36.argument I have heard. One of the arguments he has presented is

:09:37. > :09:44.because I am a cricketer but cricket has at team ethos. There are 11

:09:45. > :09:51.players. It is a bit like the EU, with all sorts of restrictions put

:09:52. > :09:57.on it. And it might not appeal to the younger generation? I have to

:09:58. > :10:03.admit, I do know who he is. Let's move on to a different topic. We are

:10:04. > :10:06.coming up to the local authority elections. Indeed, the one that

:10:07. > :10:11.seems to be getting a lot of headlines is the London mayoral

:10:12. > :10:16.race. The Sunday Times comes out with the headline, Labour London

:10:17. > :10:22.hopeful linked to terrorist. And this, Laura, is all about sadly

:10:23. > :10:26.calm. We have seen this story come up again and again and the point I

:10:27. > :10:30.would make is that it is just a bit sad that it has come down to this

:10:31. > :10:39.level of debate. The accusation that is being made here is that Siddique

:10:40. > :10:41.Khan shared a platform with the ring leader of the 7/7 bombings and has

:10:42. > :10:45.shared a platform with various people who have said things against

:10:46. > :10:49.the West and those kinds of things. A lot of this has to do with the

:10:50. > :10:53.fact that he is a human rights Laura, he would work fully dirty and

:10:54. > :11:09.often stand up and speak at events where he would defend issues like

:11:10. > :11:14.this. -- he worked for Liberty. He was on the platform with people that

:11:15. > :11:18.espoused views that were not appropriate but this is the level of

:11:19. > :11:24.debate that the mayoral election has come to. There are two men fighting

:11:25. > :11:30.to lead one of the biggest cities in the world and yet they are disputing

:11:31. > :11:34.this kind of thing. A spokesman for Sadiq Khan has said he has done

:11:35. > :11:39.nothing wrong, this is desperate stuff, Sadiq Khan has always been

:11:40. > :11:48.honest about his time as a leading human rights lawyer. And he has

:11:49. > :11:53.always condemned terrorism. It seems to be the Conservative strategy that

:11:54. > :11:59.they feel they can spread up... The whole saying was the immigrant

:12:00. > :12:06.community, they all voted en bloc for Labour. The last vote --

:12:07. > :12:12.election showed that the Indian vote, the Hindus, they've -- the

:12:13. > :12:21.Indian vote was for the Conservatives. The way it has been

:12:22. > :12:27.presented, it brings up, as Laura says, this old post about Sadiq Khan

:12:28. > :12:34.being a muslin, the first Muslim to stand for mayor and so on. It is dog

:12:35. > :12:37.whistle politics. Lynton Crosby is directing the campaign. It has

:12:38. > :12:42.become more bitter in the last ten days to two weeks. If you speak to

:12:43. > :12:53.Tory MPs, most of them fear that the goal set will not winds, so they are

:12:54. > :12:57.thinking what shall we do now? His former brother-in-law is in rum

:12:58. > :13:01.calm. And she was a very good cricketer! Maybe that will be the

:13:02. > :13:07.headline next week. On to the express now. A picture of the Duke

:13:08. > :13:12.and Duchess of Cambridge outside the Taj Mahal and of course, the Sunday

:13:13. > :13:16.express going to huge on this, but also with a picture of the late

:13:17. > :13:24.Diana Princess of Wales on the same bench. This has been an amazingly

:13:25. > :13:29.choreographed trip. You almost expected this. The last photograph

:13:30. > :13:35.from this trip to India would be a picture of Kate and William sitting

:13:36. > :13:39.on the same bench on which his mother sat, what, 15 or 20 years

:13:40. > :13:42.ago, more than that, and basically announced to the world that the

:13:43. > :13:46.marriage was breaking up, so they are reversing it. It has been a

:13:47. > :13:50.wonderful trip in the way that it has gone about but I don't know what

:13:51. > :13:58.the trip was meant to do. Was it meant to help British is this? Brand

:13:59. > :14:01.building for the Royal family? That future king and queen and so on and

:14:02. > :14:07.Kate has looked wonderful in all the costumes that she has worn, if I may

:14:08. > :14:12.say so. But I am unsure how much it will benefit in terms of trade, the

:14:13. > :14:16.British people. Laura, what do you think about the photo? It is

:14:17. > :14:21.interesting because Buckingham Palace have denied this claim,

:14:22. > :14:25.discharge, oh, look, they are trying to reverse his jewellery, look at

:14:26. > :14:33.the symbolism of this. And they have said, no, everyone has that photo

:14:34. > :14:36.taken. But you think someone might have realised people would make this

:14:37. > :14:43.connection. And I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Brave of

:14:44. > :14:47.the Duke? If they hadn't done it, what would the media have said then?

:14:48. > :14:53.Would they avoiding this audible would... It was Diana who made the

:14:54. > :14:58.sitting on the bench and iconic moment. I don't think before that...

:14:59. > :15:06.I think they now call it Diana's bench. Before that, I don't think it

:15:07. > :15:13.was thought to be a moment about a supreme visited the Taj Mahal. A

:15:14. > :15:17.cartoon in the Telegraph, just with a warning that we are going to tread

:15:18. > :15:23.around this very carefully. The cartoon, here it is, says, I have no

:15:24. > :15:28.idea what was too was over but I do know the name of the celebrities who

:15:29. > :15:39.had that threesome. There is a ruling about this on Monday. This is

:15:40. > :15:43.done careers in. I think around the world, but not in this country,

:15:44. > :15:49.everybody knows who the celebrities is. It is like him and eight 1930s

:15:50. > :15:56.when the Prince of Wales is having an affair. When I read it, the

:15:57. > :16:02.newspapers in this country were the only ones who couldn't print the

:16:03. > :16:08.affair and... And we have the internet now, which completely

:16:09. > :16:12.changes things. The cartoon is funny and well placed. It is hilarious. It

:16:13. > :16:21.symbolises the fact that everybody knows. You can go on the internet.

:16:22. > :16:24.Nowadays, with things like that, the British media cannot print it in

:16:25. > :16:30.their newspapers, but people can find out. You can't believe

:16:31. > :16:41.everything on the internet, surely. This is true. Thank you very much

:16:42. > :16:48.indeed. Love its use, the political correspondent from the -- we will be

:16:49. > :16:56.back with you at 11:30pm. Stay with us here because at 11pm, will have

:16:57. > :17:00.more on Boris Johnson' claim that President Obama is a hypocrite for

:17:01. > :17:04.saying that the UK should remain within the European Union. Coming up

:17:05. > :17:08.next, Reporters.