22/04/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Ben Chu, economics editor at the Independent,

and Charlie Wells, European features reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

Welcome to you both. Tomorrow's front pages, let's make a start.

The Financial Times leads with remarks made by President Obama

that if Britain left the EU it would send the UK to the 'back

The i quotes the President during his trip to London saying

Britain is on it's own if it leaves the European Union.

The Guardian writes Mr Obama defended his intervention

in UK affairs because the country 'needs to know'.

THE TIMES FEATURES THAT STORY AS WELL.

The Express says the American has been condemned

by pro-Brexit campaigners for trying to 'blackmail' Britain

The Mail headlines that Tony Blair's firm was paid ?5.3

a year to help a dictator in Kazakhstan.

The Mirror has an exclusive with a woman who says

she was the next planned victim of teenager James Fairweather,

who was convicted today of double murder in Guildford.

Quite a lot on oh Barr on the front pages tonight. -- on Obama. The

Times's headline is Brexit will leave Britain at the back of the

queue. Rebuke the Johnson over Kenyan jibe. I will show you what

they started the evening with and then quickly changed. It has been an

extraordinary day, where politicians in this country feel able to be

quite rude about the sitting American president. Yes, Hail To the

chief if you are on the remain campaign and get out of the town,

who do you think you are if you are on the Leave campaign. He has come

over and rained on the Leave campaign's central premise. They

said if we leave the EU it is fine from a trade point of view, we will

do another deal with America and the rest of the world and it will be

fine. He says that is just a fantasy. If you leave the EU, don't

imagine we would do a quick deal, you are at the back of the queue. He

really scotched that idea it would be quick and easy to carry on

trading. We might not get a trade deal quickly, but there probably

would be one, he's just saying it would be very quick. The idea

Britain and the US wouldn't carry on trading is probably far-fetched as

well, isn't it? In a sense but I think he is giving a very rational

view. They want to negotiate with a large economies that will benefit

the United States. The other issue here is president. If the US create

a bilateral trade agreement with one country, other countries around the

world will start thinking, why don't I do one-on-one deal with the United

States? That might work better for me. The US don't want out. Let me

gesture you on camera three... Thank you. This is what the Times looks

like a short while ago. It said Obama trades blows on EU. I cannot

decide what is the tougher headline. It was people like the justice

minister and Boris Johnson being quite insulting towards the

president. Well that even resonate with him? I think Barack Obama is

used in attacks. He has been used to dealing with a very hostile

environment in Washington, DC over seven years, both with Democrats and

Republicans attacking him. I think this will probably feel like a light

British spring rain. How much more candid do you think Barack Obama was

compared to how we might have been? Some commentators in the States has

said he went a bit off script, which is probably what David Cameron was

pleased to hear. I am sure he was the lighted. I don't think he was

holding back much, but at the same time, personally I think it is a

perfectly reasonable thing to say. He is saying what he thinks his

country would do if Britain was out of the EU. It is a policy statement.

He has very carefully hedged around what he saw and that it was for the

British people to decide but that was his view. I think Dominic Grabb

has said he is a lame duck president. That... Not very

respectful. But it is to some extent something that was always on about

presidents as they were nearing the end of their term. The thing Boris

Johnson did about being half Kenyan, tribal grievances... That is worse

and that is why people are saying it is dog whistle-stop. As Charlie

knows very well, in the US there is this long-standing smear that he is

not really American. That he has foreign roots and so on. Boris

Johnson seems to be piggybacking off that to discredit the strong message

she has come over with. Out of the two, Boris Johnson is the one to get

hot under the collar about. The Daily Express had it as well, the

threat scaremongering over EU exit. We know the Daily Express has thrown

its weight behind the Leave campaign. I think threat is a strong

word here. Having seen the press conference I would refer to it more

as a warning. There has been a lot of Twitter activity on this. A lot

of people and angry about President Obama imposing his opinion on this.

What is important to remember is he was responding to arguments being

made from the Leave campaign. A response is not necessarily a

threat. Maybe something he didn't respond to with this argument that

the United States wouldn't cede sovereignty to anybody else. So why

would the United States be arguing Britain should remain in an

organisation, in a club, the EU, which has meant in some peoples

views we have ceded sovereignty to Brussels? Boris Johnson said that

was hypocritical, and in a lot of ways it is. How can you tell them

and do something you wouldn't do? But I think something important to

note is the United States and the United Kingdom are in very different

geographical locations and geopolitical contacts. And so maybe

they would need to form different relationships with different

institutions. Although there is Nato to consider, and the United Nations?

Yes. And the US has ceded sovereignty because it is part of

Nato and has this mutual defence arrangement and is part of the UN.

So it is not entirely true, as Boris Johnson said, that the United States

never cede sovereignty. But the other point is, this issue of

sovereignty, you cede some sovereignty to get some power and

authority in the world, it is a trade-off. It is not let's give it

up and get nothing back. That is a point that should be registered in

all these debates. Magnification is a word he used. Yes, you can achieve

more. That was one of the central point is President Obama was making.

We want a strong UK because we want their influence in the EU to get

things done. We're weeks and weeks away from the vote so one wonders

what difference Barack Obama has said today makes. It will be a slow

build-up to that late June vote. Perhaps Angela Merkel has more

influence on UK voters than Barack Obama. It will be small incremental

steps that influence people. A quick look at the FT which says it would

send the UK back to the trade queue. A picture of David Cameron and

Barack Obama meeting. We spoke about the special relationship and how

special it is. Winston Churchill has a lot to answer for. It is

interesting, the word Q. Is it an American word? Charlie said it is

not, he said they would they back of the line. This has led to some

suggestions words were put in the President's mouth by Downing Cameron

and given away by the choice of language. But he knew who he was

talking to, his audience? That is right. You would say queue wouldn't

you? I would. Omission scandal sparks mass recall. We all know

about the trials and tribulations of Volkswagen at it is not just

confined to them? This story has been around for with Volkswagen and

a drip is getting worse. There was always a suspicion, was it just

Volkswagen or were other car-makers involved? The rumours were everyone

was at it and it does seem it is a much, much bigger scandal than

originally thought half a year ago. Mitsubishi is involved in a probe. I

do like the word probe. Normal people don't use it. They are being

investigated by the Department of Justice in America. The upshot is

there is an enormous recall, 630,000 vehicles which these car-makers are

prepared to take back because there may be something dodgy about these

cars, in terms of their missions. There has been a separate recall

announcement today from Diack riser. This is nothing to do with the

omission scandal but the fact they seem to roll away as soon as you get

out of the car, which is not ideal. -- emissions. No, not ideal.

Recalling 1.1 million cars and mid-size SUVs. Saying they give

shifters may confuse drivers. That was done better if you read it. But

a huge problem. And the issue of trust, the damage to the brand? The

global auto industry is facing huge challenge, especially with. The way

young people are thinking about transportation is fundamentally

changing. These bad PR revelations are adding to it. Why are government

regulated test so bad? Why were they before not picking up on these

emissions? There were claims that some of the emissions problems have

been overlooked in Europe, weren't there? It seemed very murky who knew

what and when. I think the line is they knew what the tests were and

they knew what bits of software or whatever to get under the bar that

was being set that maybe wasn't being policed as there is clear that

could have been and there was a nod and wink between regulators and the

car-makers and that is why you got this huge scandal building up over

many years until it exploded. It all has to come out. This is not one

that will end, it will go on. And take a long time to put right.

Moving onto page eight of the Mail. Mass migration is damaging Britain.

This is a leaked report which reveals, says the paper, civil

servants concern at EU in flux. What is it saying in particular?

Essentially it is saying well-educated people from Eastern

Europe are coming to the United Kingdom and are benefiting from

employment, benefiting from employment goods and that the

average Brits are losing out on this. A lot of these European

migrants are very well-educated but working in low skilled jobs. But you

get in work benefits currently, which is what David Cameron has

tried to address? That's right. It is a strange document because it

tells us exactly what we already knew. It talks about the numbers at

EU migrants who have come in over the past year, which is in every

office for National statistics jobs report. It tells what the plans to

tackle that are in terms of government strategy. We know that

because David Cameron has told us on numerous occasions, wants to curb

the accessed in work benefits. As far as I can see there is nothing in

this which isn't in the public domain already. And there is a quote

from a DUP source saying these are the facts in the public domain. It

is dressing up an internal report as a big revelation, when there isn't

anything we didn't know. I think the context is interesting, because the

Leaves campaign, and I think the Daily Mail could be considered to be

in that camp, wants to get the story away from this awkward trade stuff

of Obama and back onto their strong suit, which is people don't like the

amount of immigration coming from the EU. These kind of stories is

where they want to move the debate too, because this is where the

public concerns are. It is another report, even if it tells us

something we already know or suspected, that helps the Brexit

campaign? It underlines and says it is not just politicians and yet but

civil servants? Absolutely. And touching on this emotion there are

disenfranchised, low income people perhaps not from London but all

parts of the UK who are still struggling to find jobs. What is

being done to help those people? It is an incredibly complicated

picture. Let's finish with a rather complicated story over three

columns. British troops in Libya will be Isis targets. Why is this a

pertinent story? It is pertinent because they are going back into

Libya. This idea that Libya is a complete mess. Something President

Obama was talking about not long ago and blaming David Cameron along with

others for taking their eye off the ball. Saying they hadn't done their

bit. Yes. There is a drive to stabilise this key country in North

Africa. The proposal is there will be British logistics and training

people on the ground. That is all? Yes. But what is in this Times

report is some distinguished former military guys like Lord West, the

first Sea Lord and General Jackson are saying, hang on, let's be very

careful about this. If we put troops on the ground, even if they are not

combat troops, they could be easily targeted by IS, we know are

operating in the country. It is trepidation from top brass about

what we are quietly going into here. And some quotes from Libyans,

politicians in particular, who you wonder if they want these troops

there? Yes, and a very chaotic situation in Libya. A number of

competing militias trying to establish power. Something else that

is interesting is Iraq is mentioned in the third line of the story.

Hopefully we can assume a lot of the government figures here are may be

learning from the lessons that they made in Iraq. And another point on

the relevance of this story is numbers the government have been

talking about, Libya being a direct threat to the UK. After Paris and

Brussels there is this idea that it needs to be stabilised. And a lot of

people leave Africa from Libyans shores and make their way across the

most incredibly dangerous journeys, large stretches of the

Mediterranean? Absolutely. It is a complete mess. There is no central

government. Thereafter actions fighting. And as you say, a

destabilising force, not just the North Africa but for Europe as well.

I am sure that is exactly why they are trying to address it very late

in the day. What is the American involvement question we heard in

March that criticism of the foreign policy Ben mentioned by Barack Obama

rev David Cameron which the White House... Not pushed under the carpet

but changed the complexion of? Distanced themselves from. David

Cameron, President Obama and Angela Merkel will be meeting in Germany

this week to talk about these plans. I think we will learn a bit more

about what these leaders have in store. That is all we have time for.

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