16/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Laura Hughes, political correspondent

at the Daily Telegraph and Mihir Bose, who's a columnist

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

The Mail headlines with new allegations

about the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale's private life.

It claims he sent a photo of highly sensitive Cabinet papers to a woman

The Observer says a crisis is looming in primary school places

in England - with a shortfall of 10,000 places expected

The Sunday Express dedicates a full page to the photograph of William

and Kate visiting the Taj Mahal and replicating Princess

The Sunday Telegraph quote a senior government minister saying Britain

could face an economic shock similar to the banking crisis if it leaves

And the Sunday Times writes that the former cricketer

Sir Ian Botham has backed Britain leaving the European Union and said

Britain should stand proud as he did as a cricketer.

Plenty to get our teeth into tonight. Let's start with the

Observer. Lots of different lead stories this weekend. The Observer

says there will be a gap of 10,000 primary school places in four years'

time. This is a story saying that because of cutbacks and because

schools are becoming academies, they can't expand, new schools can't be

set up, there will be a big gap and this story is time to because early

next week, parents will get letters telling them whether their children

have got to the primary school near their place of residence, the one

they have chosen. I'm not doubting the story. They are saying even the

Conservative local government Association is going to protest

about government policies. This seems to be a recurring problem, in

the country, as far as I can remember in the last 50 years, we've

gone is from grammar schools, to comprehensives, to academies and we

don't seem to solve the education problem. If you want to do well in

life, you've got to send your child, as I have to send my child, to a

private school, which is only 7% of the population. I am sure people up

and down the country will disagree with that. This comes amid a big row

about Conservative schools across the country. Labour are fiercely

opposed to this. Tory MPs have come out and criticised it. And the fact

that the LGA, which is Conservative lead at the moment, is planning to

come out this next week to coincide with these results, it is not good

for Nicky Morgan. You mentioned the perfect school debate. I was

watching question Time on Thursday night and people were still

attacking private schools but some might argue that sending your child

to a private school is taken up the pressure from some of these schools.

If you go to France or Germany, when I speak to my friends there, there

is not that emphasis on private schools. Why should we have built a

school culture in this country where you feel if you have the money, you

would rather spend it on education than something else? Getting back to

this particular shortage in school places, these are worked on as

forecasts years and years in advance. What I have learned from

the front page of the Observer is was it a bad forecast bad planning?

But that it has done in terms of academies and so on, and they are

projecting, and because of that, they won't be able to build more

school places and therefore accommodate the demand and this is

particularly the Midlands and the North and so. The projecting on the

basis of current policy. They are saying that in 2019 to 2020, some of

the worst areas, a wide range across the country, and they say last year,

up to one in five youngsters did not get into the school of their

parents' choice. The figures seem to be rising dramatically. Definitely.

I think it is worrying generally to hear that schools are being forced

to turn areas that are not designated for class brings into

classrooms. I think parents will be worried. I have a very small chance

of getting my child into the school where I live and how many children

will be these classrooms and in what environment are they going to be

taught? Let's move on to the Sunday Telegraph now. They do focus on

possible breadth it and the EU referendum. -- Brexit. We are

expecting a landmark report from the Treasury, out lining the cost. We

have been waiting for this big Treasury report which is forecasting

what the impact will be on Britain leaving the EU. It is not surprising

that it has a warning like this. The government wants us to stay. It is

not surprising they have taken this position. You've got Michael Gove

and Chris Grayling saying... Obviously, they were going to say

that. The public will think this is another piece of propaganda, more

scaremongering, the government are trying to deploy fear tactics. But

it is also interesting. There is a piece in the Telegraph from the new

work and pension is secondary, the new access to the face of the Tory

party, in the midst of all these upsets, his background is a

blue-collar worker. He is warning the people that will be affected by

this are people who work in manufacturing and construction. It

is interesting they have put him out here to make this point. I don't

believe he sat alone and read this piece, Stephen Crabb. Do you get the

feeling there is a plan of a Minister weekend making some

statement in a grid that is laid out to say why it is a bad thing. Last

weekend, Jeremy Hunt was lined up saying that the DHS. I think the

government has decided to give what they consider facts and convince

people of agronomic back that it would be disastrous to leave the EU.

# Convince people of economic facts. It is being presented as governor

and propaganda and that is where the leave campaign is doing quite well

because they are saying they are not presenting facts or hard economic

truths, they are just projecting what would happen, as if leaving the

EU is falling off a cliff. And that the government problem. The more

facts they present, the more they are seen as a propaganda machine.

You get the feeling from what you are here from inside the various

political establishment that it has backfired? Yes. How many people have

read it, for a start! And Boris has been crude about it. He said it is

not made on material that some people would like to use it as. You

would expect apartment to do that. If the government were recommended

we leave, they would spend that money on it. They will have more

manpower and money behind it. It is going to be an emotional decision.

You either think it is good for you feel we have lost control of our

country, there are two mini people here and therefore we ought to

leave. I don't think it will be decided on economic facts. Stick

with that thought. The Sunday Times, let's stay with the story, very

different angle from the Sunday Times. With the headline, Botham

swings bat for Brexit. He has apparently written an article or

being interviewed. I'm a big Ian Botham fan but that does seem very

unusual headline. It is unusual and most of the stories about Boris

Johnson' speech up North and Ian Botham and all his great cricketing

deeds provides the introduction to the peace. He is a wonderful

cricketer and I wish he were still playing but listening to him talk

about whether we should stay in the EU or not is the most ridiculous

argument I have heard. One of the arguments he has presented is

because I am a cricketer but cricket has at team ethos. There are 11

players. It is a bit like the EU, with all sorts of restrictions put

on it. And it might not appeal to the younger generation? I have to

admit, I do know who he is. Let's move on to a different topic. We are

coming up to the local authority elections. Indeed, the one that

seems to be getting a lot of headlines is the London mayoral

race. The Sunday Times comes out with the headline, Labour London

hopeful linked to terrorist. And this, Laura, is all about sadly

calm. We have seen this story come up again and again and the point I

would make is that it is just a bit sad that it has come down to this

level of debate. The accusation that is being made here is that Siddique

Khan shared a platform with the ring leader of the 7/7 bombings and has

shared a platform with various people who have said things against

the West and those kinds of things. A lot of this has to do with the

fact that he is a human rights Laura, he would work fully dirty and

often stand up and speak at events where he would defend issues like

this. -- he worked for Liberty. He was on the platform with people that

espoused views that were not appropriate but this is the level of

debate that the mayoral election has come to. There are two men fighting

to lead one of the biggest cities in the world and yet they are disputing

this kind of thing. A spokesman for Sadiq Khan has said he has done

nothing wrong, this is desperate stuff, Sadiq Khan has always been

honest about his time as a leading human rights lawyer. And he has

always condemned terrorism. It seems to be the Conservative strategy that

they feel they can spread up... The whole saying was the immigrant

community, they all voted en bloc for Labour. The last vote --

election showed that the Indian vote, the Hindus, they've -- the

Indian vote was for the Conservatives. The way it has been

presented, it brings up, as Laura says, this old post about Sadiq Khan

being a muslin, the first Muslim to stand for mayor and so on. It is dog

whistle politics. Lynton Crosby is directing the campaign. It has

become more bitter in the last ten days to two weeks. If you speak to

Tory MPs, most of them fear that the goal set will not winds, so they are

thinking what shall we do now? His former brother-in-law is in rum

calm. And she was a very good cricketer! Maybe that will be the

headline next week. On to the express now. A picture of the Duke

and Duchess of Cambridge outside the Taj Mahal and of course, the Sunday

express going to huge on this, but also with a picture of the late

Diana Princess of Wales on the same bench. This has been an amazingly

choreographed trip. You almost expected this. The last photograph

from this trip to India would be a picture of Kate and William sitting

on the same bench on which his mother sat, what, 15 or 20 years

ago, more than that, and basically announced to the world that the

marriage was breaking up, so they are reversing it. It has been a

wonderful trip in the way that it has gone about but I don't know what

the trip was meant to do. Was it meant to help British is this? Brand

building for the Royal family? That future king and queen and so on and

Kate has looked wonderful in all the costumes that she has worn, if I may

say so. But I am unsure how much it will benefit in terms of trade, the

British people. Laura, what do you think about the photo? It is

interesting because Buckingham Palace have denied this claim,

discharge, oh, look, they are trying to reverse his jewellery, look at

the symbolism of this. And they have said, no, everyone has that photo

taken. But you think someone might have realised people would make this

connection. And I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Brave of

the Duke? If they hadn't done it, what would the media have said then?

Would they avoiding this audible would... It was Diana who made the

sitting on the bench and iconic moment. I don't think before that...

I think they now call it Diana's bench. Before that, I don't think it

was thought to be a moment about a supreme visited the Taj Mahal. A

cartoon in the Telegraph, just with a warning that we are going to tread

around this very carefully. The cartoon, here it is, says, I have no

idea what was too was over but I do know the name of the celebrities who

had that threesome. There is a ruling about this on Monday. This is

done careers in. I think around the world, but not in this country,

everybody knows who the celebrities is. It is like him and eight 1930s

when the Prince of Wales is having an affair. When I read it, the

newspapers in this country were the only ones who couldn't print the

affair and... And we have the internet now, which completely

changes things. The cartoon is funny and well placed. It is hilarious. It

symbolises the fact that everybody knows. You can go on the internet.

Nowadays, with things like that, the British media cannot print it in

their newspapers, but people can find out. You can't believe

everything on the internet, surely. This is true. Thank you very much

indeed. Love its use, the political correspondent from the -- we will be

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

more on Boris Johnson' claim that President Obama is a hypocrite for

saying that the UK should remain within the European Union. Coming up

next, Reporters.