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:00:16. > :00:18.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:19. > :00:22.With me are the political editor of the Sunday Express,

:00:23. > :00:27.and Tim Shipman, the political editor of the Sunday Times.

:00:28. > :00:34.Two political editors for the price of one. Ben Chifley being with us.

:00:35. > :00:36.-- thank you for being with us. Let's take a look at what the

:00:37. > :00:42.papers are saying in the morning. The Observer reports that US

:00:43. > :00:44.presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton shares Barack Obama's opposition to

:00:45. > :00:46.the UK leaving the EU. The Mail leads on Boris

:00:47. > :00:49.Johnson's anger at Mr Obama's intervention

:00:50. > :00:51.in the referendum campaign. The Sunday

:00:52. > :00:53.Telegraph says pregnant women are among those whose hospital treatment

:00:54. > :00:55.has been postponed ahead of the first all-out strike

:00:56. > :00:59.by junior doctors. The Sunday Times

:01:00. > :01:02.reports that this year the super-rich have suffered

:01:03. > :01:04.the worst decline in their fortunes The Independent carries a photo

:01:05. > :01:10.of one of the many events to mark the 400th

:01:11. > :01:15.anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Its main story is

:01:16. > :01:17.about a hospital in Lancashire The Sunday Express says that cold

:01:18. > :01:25.calling firms could face fines And the Sunday Mirror has

:01:26. > :01:30.a photograph of what it says are the ashes

:01:31. > :01:50.of the singer Prince being carried Let's crack on. The Mail on Sunday

:01:51. > :01:57.with a pretty striking headline, Boris rage at ridiculous weird

:01:58. > :02:02.Obama. It should make you think he had been desperate rude about the

:02:03. > :02:07.President and it is a personal attack on him, but it is more about

:02:08. > :02:11.what you said. He said it was a ridiculous and rude statement he

:02:12. > :02:15.said about our trade deal and go into the back of the queue. If you

:02:16. > :02:20.read inside, you get the quote which explains it better. He says no one

:02:21. > :02:24.in the last 48 hours has come close to answering my point. It is very

:02:25. > :02:28.weird that the US should tell the UK to do something they would not dream

:02:29. > :02:35.of doing themselves in a million years. So it is not Obama that is

:02:36. > :02:40.weird, but what he said. And this is another more angry intervention from

:02:41. > :02:46.Boris Johnson after a week which has been dominated by the President's

:02:47. > :02:51.visit and his statement over Brexit. Leaving aside the arguments, who has

:02:52. > :02:57.come out better, Boris or Obamacares I think Boris is lying on

:02:58. > :03:12.his back in the gutter shouting in the hope that Oscar Wilde is looking

:03:13. > :03:17.at the stars. -- or Obama? None of them have really got him out of that

:03:18. > :03:21.horizontal position. And not in the Brexit campaign think he may have

:03:22. > :03:31.overreached -- a lot. Good old Boris. He will keep bashing away. I

:03:32. > :03:38.think both sides of the argument think it is bad, with the Treasury

:03:39. > :03:42.putting out a document saying it will cost millions of pounds. It was

:03:43. > :03:46.discredited by a lot of people. Even people in the Brexit camp think that

:03:47. > :03:51.is cut through to the public in some way, and now the president of the

:03:52. > :03:55.United States is saying one of your key arguments on trade is nonsense.

:03:56. > :04:01.That has done a fair bit of damage. Is part of the problem that actually

:04:02. > :04:07.this is not about money, it is about a sense of identity, sovereignty,

:04:08. > :04:14.issues that don't necessarily boiled down to shillings and pence. It is

:04:15. > :04:23.not about facts, and for them at least, that side of the argument is

:04:24. > :04:31.hard. I think it is difficult, this situation is, because we're offered

:04:32. > :04:36.interviews all the time, when you get down to the nitty-gritty, they

:04:37. > :04:42.are passionate about what they are saying and this is going to mean

:04:43. > :04:48.this... Some of them. Yes, some of them. This is what it will mean if

:04:49. > :04:52.we stay in or stay out, but the truth gets lost. You can read the

:04:53. > :04:56.Treasury report about how much it will cost to leave. You can listen

:04:57. > :05:01.to argument about how much it will cost to stay. But nobody really

:05:02. > :05:03.knows about the economy, which is why this intervention is so

:05:04. > :05:08.significant because President Obama saying claims have been made that it

:05:09. > :05:15.will be fine and dandy and we can have this trade deal with America

:05:16. > :05:19.fairly quickly, and he has said no, you will go to the back of the

:05:20. > :05:23.queue. We have heard people say he is a lame duck resident out of

:05:24. > :05:32.office in January and he can't do anything about the trade deal --

:05:33. > :05:36.president. It was this? And then he comes galloping over the horizon.

:05:37. > :05:41.When Obama did his town hall meeting with the students, one of them put

:05:42. > :05:46.his hand up and said, could you give advice to your successor, because

:05:47. > :05:54.she may want to do something? Lots of applause. Most people think

:05:55. > :05:59.Hillary Clinton is probably likely to succeed Obama, and she is

:06:00. > :06:03.reinforcing the same argument he has made that it is very important

:06:04. > :06:08.Britain stays in the year. That is a helpful intervention for Downing

:06:09. > :06:12.Street and David Cameron. And going back to what we were talking about

:06:13. > :06:17.earlier, if you believe in the sovereignty thing, if that is your

:06:18. > :06:21.thing, you will vote out. If you are worried about the economy, you will

:06:22. > :06:25.probably vote in. The people in the middle of thinking, what happens on

:06:26. > :06:31.trade or immigration? It is a fluid situation. There are a lot of people

:06:32. > :06:36.in the middle. It is between a quarter and a third of people who

:06:37. > :06:39.have not made their minds up. We have been writing about this every

:06:40. > :06:43.week since the general election and are ready to throw ourselves off a

:06:44. > :06:47.cliff collectively, but a lot of people are not paying that much

:06:48. > :06:55.attention. Friends are intelligent and engage. A poll in your paper was

:06:56. > :06:59.saying that it was moving towards leave, and now we have swung back

:07:00. > :07:03.the other way. I suspect we have another few pendulum is to go.

:07:04. > :07:07.Another ten weeks of this wonderful debate to go until we go to the

:07:08. > :07:13.polling stations! Thank goodness we have lots of time. For now let's

:07:14. > :07:17.move on to a story you have written on the front of the Sunday Times

:07:18. > :07:25.about the doctor strike which is imminent. It is the contingency

:07:26. > :07:34.planning being made for the strike. We'll be strike go-ahead? -- will

:07:35. > :07:41.the strike? We have not seen anything on this scale, it is due on

:07:42. > :07:46.Tuesday Wednesday, and they will a mass walkout. There will be no

:07:47. > :07:50.emergency care. Pregnant women to be hit by the strike, hundreds of

:07:51. > :07:54.thousands of operations and appointments being cancelled. What

:07:55. > :07:57.is happening this evening is that the Labour Party have tried to

:07:58. > :08:03.broker a deal between the doctors, and are offering the guilty Jeremy

:08:04. > :08:07.Hunt. They have a former Tory spokesman, other former ministers

:08:08. > :08:12.and the BMA all on board. -- offering the deal to Jeremy Hunt.

:08:13. > :08:19.They are saying roll out the contract, but don't do it

:08:20. > :08:24.everywhere, do a pilot scheme. And talk about these people dying out

:08:25. > :08:28.weekends. The BMA have dug themselves into a hole, and the

:08:29. > :08:32.government are in a sticky position. The BMA are in a sticky position is

:08:33. > :08:38.if people start dying Outlook support the doctors will drop. The

:08:39. > :08:45.idea that people will die because of a lack of doctors in emergency is a

:08:46. > :08:49.scary prospect. We have seen some effects, but this is on a different

:08:50. > :08:54.level. The thing to remember is that the previous strikes have just been

:08:55. > :08:59.junior doctors walking out, and still preserving emergency care. My

:09:00. > :09:03.step father and husband were both taken to hospital during the last

:09:04. > :09:08.strike and was still seen to, although it took longer. There were

:09:09. > :09:13.both down with. This is an all out strike, said people in emergency,

:09:14. > :09:18.those doing the most critical care cover, and will not be there. There

:09:19. > :09:24.is a great sentiment from Conservatives and Labour that Jeremy

:09:25. > :09:27.Hunt has not managed this well. Are you getting the impression among

:09:28. > :09:34.Conservative MPs that notwithstanding they might see the

:09:35. > :09:41.argument, moving to a seven-day NHS, which is already seven-day, but the

:09:42. > :09:45.screening and back office services and operations taking place, they

:09:46. > :09:48.believe in that, but they think the way they have got themselves into

:09:49. > :09:54.this confrontation has been a mistake. They have been at

:09:55. > :09:59.loggerheads. To see somebody try to offer a situation that could get

:10:00. > :10:03.them both off the hook without losing too much face in political

:10:04. > :10:08.terms is significant. So you can still say I have the new contract.

:10:09. > :10:13.The other thing that is interesting is you have seen the Labour Party

:10:14. > :10:19.since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, which is consigned itself to arguing

:10:20. > :10:22.internally. Jeremy Corbyn pursues his own agenda but doesn't often

:10:23. > :10:26.seem to engage with the political sphere and trying to affect what is

:10:27. > :10:33.happening. But this is interesting, Labour bringing people together.

:10:34. > :10:36.This is the Shadow Health Secretary. She is trying to find a way that

:10:37. > :10:42.might satisfy Jeremy Hunt and the BMA. That is a difficult thing to

:10:43. > :10:47.do. In the next couple of days we might find out if this will go

:10:48. > :10:52.ahead. The first bit of constructive opposition we have seen for a while.

:10:53. > :10:56.And face-saving on both sides, which is politically important. That is on

:10:57. > :11:00.the front of the Telegraph as well, but I am struck by this story with

:11:01. > :11:08.the little photograph of Philip Hammond. This one really has

:11:09. > :11:11.potential to be incendiary. This is the situation that British ground

:11:12. > :11:15.forces might be said to be beyond. There has been lots of mood music

:11:16. > :11:20.that this may or may not be on the agenda, and we think special forces

:11:21. > :11:27.to some extent Tom at the SAS are already embedded. It depends what

:11:28. > :11:32.you consider graduates are. We change the law in Britain so we

:11:33. > :11:37.cannot send in troops will go to war will do anything without the consent

:11:38. > :11:42.of Parliament. So it is significant here is saying this in his own

:11:43. > :11:48.terms. He is also making astonishing warnings about British cruise liners

:11:49. > :11:53.and commercial shipping being warned to avoid the coast of Libya. Even

:11:54. > :12:00.some of the big cruising companies do go very close to the coast. All

:12:01. > :12:05.round, a very worrying development. We have troops probably already in

:12:06. > :12:09.there. Until now, we have had talk about sending people to train and

:12:10. > :12:14.assist. Hammond has been over to Libya. President Obama asked for

:12:15. > :12:19.what he learned there. My impression from Downing Street is that the

:12:20. > :12:23.people running Libya at the moment I trying to do their own thing and

:12:24. > :12:28.don't necessarily want to be seen to be bringing in Western troops -- are

:12:29. > :12:33.trying. They want to get something in place that maybe they can assist

:12:34. > :12:41.with logistical support and training and advice, but it is obviously

:12:42. > :12:45.significant if he is really out -- ruling out sending ground troops. We

:12:46. > :12:49.have had this statement from Michael Fallon saying that the promise

:12:50. > :12:54.William Hague made at the end of last Parliament that the government

:12:55. > :12:58.would legislate, put in more that Parliament has to give its consent

:12:59. > :13:03.before troops are deployed, was not going to happen. They want to

:13:04. > :13:15.maintain flexibility. It is like an irregular verb. You consent to this

:13:16. > :13:22.device, -- UK and -- you can send troops to advise. It is pretty well

:13:23. > :13:27.established that the SAS are there in significant numbers. But they

:13:28. > :13:30.won't talk about it. They has been suggestion of escalation and they

:13:31. > :13:35.won't talk about that either. Interesting. Let's end on your

:13:36. > :13:41.paper, Caroline. I would like to talk about cold callers. But we will

:13:42. > :13:47.leave that. I have to ask you about this top story, why are we losing so

:13:48. > :13:54.many stars in 2016? It says Siebe pages eight and nine -- see pages

:13:55. > :14:00.89. It is a stellar lineup. You have David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Victoria

:14:01. > :14:07.Wood, Paul Daniels and Prints. The reason they are at buying is the

:14:08. > :14:13.stars. Apparently the planets are all aligned a certain way, which is

:14:14. > :14:17.not happened for the last 13 years, and apparently the last time, we

:14:18. > :14:26.lost James Cagney, Kerry Grant and Orson Welles. The sad news is that

:14:27. > :14:31.they will be more of the same until the end of the year -- Carey Grant.

:14:32. > :14:36.We could do some more. But then it will not happen again until 2045

:14:37. > :14:41.when we'll see another year of great tragedy. If you are a celebrity,

:14:42. > :14:46.hide in the cellar for the rest of the year. Early nights. Don't stay

:14:47. > :14:53.up for the paper review. Stop joking and you will be fine. Thank you both

:14:54. > :14:58.for being with us. That is it. Coming up now it is The Film Review.

:14:59. > :15:00.Without. -- good night.