09/05/2016

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:00:00. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:19. > :00:22.With me are the Political Correspondent for the Evening

:00:23. > :00:24.Standard, Pippa Crerar, and the Times columnist,

:00:25. > :00:30.Tomorrow's front pages starting with...

:00:31. > :00:33.The i leads with on the war on words between David Cameron

:00:34. > :00:37.The former London Mayor also features

:00:38. > :00:40.on the front page of The Express - telling voters they would be 'mad'

:00:41. > :00:43.not to choose freedom over the "outdated ideology" of Brussels.

:00:44. > :00:45.The Daily Telegraph says the gloves are off

:00:46. > :00:49.Five former Nato chiefs have expressed fears over peace in Europe

:00:50. > :00:54.One of the main stories in the FT is the Chancellor's

:00:55. > :00:57.warning of tens of thousands of job losses in the financial services

:00:58. > :01:02.13 former US secretaries of state and defence

:01:03. > :01:09.and national security advisers have written to The Times saying the UK's

:01:10. > :01:13."influence in the world would be diminished" outside of the EU.

:01:14. > :01:15.The Metro's top story is the sentencing of a man

:01:16. > :01:18.for the sexual assault and murder of Melanie Road, 32 years ago -

:01:19. > :01:31.The Mail leads with a study that suggests thousands

:01:32. > :01:33.of people have died needlessly because of poor care

:01:34. > :01:36.And the Guardian focuses on Jeremy Corbyn admitting

:01:37. > :01:39.that Labour is not yet doing enough to win the general election in 2020.

:01:40. > :01:42.The paper also shows NASA images of Mercury making a rare transit

:01:43. > :01:55.We will start with Mr Johnson, you cannot get away from this guy, he is

:01:56. > :02:00.no longer the Mayor of London, but he is everywhere and he is fighting

:02:01. > :02:08.for freedom! Boris is out of a job in terms of the London mayoralty. He

:02:09. > :02:14.is down to his last two jobs. His last five jobs! What was his tax

:02:15. > :02:17.return again? He is trying to make his presence on the national and

:02:18. > :02:22.international stage felt very well if not on the London stage any more.

:02:23. > :02:26.The fact he is on so many front pages, it really is the Conservative

:02:27. > :02:34.'s worst nightmare. This is blue on blue action. The Telegraph, the Tory

:02:35. > :02:38.paper, Boris Johnson saying he is fighting for freedom, putting the

:02:39. > :02:43.case the Brexit and just below you have Nato chiefs talking about fears

:02:44. > :02:47.over peace in Europe. An intervention that is designed to

:02:48. > :02:54.follow hot on the heels of David Cameron's warnings today that

:02:55. > :02:59.Britain leaving would increase the threat of Europe descending into

:03:00. > :03:03.war. We may get a TV debate out of this in the next six weeks. If it

:03:04. > :03:09.ends up being Boris versus Cameron, Cameron would not want to go near

:03:10. > :03:15.that. They will have to try to tread a careful line between their own

:03:16. > :03:21.party collapsing into internal division and strife and making the

:03:22. > :03:28.positive cases that each side wants to make. How does the Conservative

:03:29. > :03:34.Party begin to heal this rift, once all this is over? It doesn't and it

:03:35. > :03:40.does not ready want to, they are enjoying themselves immensely! This

:03:41. > :03:43.is the real deal for the Conservatives, they go through all

:03:44. > :03:47.this malarkey about wanting to run the country, but really they fight

:03:48. > :03:51.each other on Europe. They have been doing it for a generation, a lot of

:03:52. > :03:56.them joined the party because they are one way or the other new. This

:03:57. > :04:03.is Tory tooth and claw. How they heal afterwards, they do not heal

:04:04. > :04:07.afterwards, they take the fight to another generation. The leader of

:04:08. > :04:12.the winning side could potentially becomes the next leader. If Britain

:04:13. > :04:19.goes the Brexit, Boris Johnson is in a prime position to get supporters,

:04:20. > :04:25.backbenchers. In this photo it looks like he is bleeding from the lips.

:04:26. > :04:32.He is imploring the public. There was a close-up of his shoes, he had

:04:33. > :04:41.a massive hole! Do you think he has tapped his shirt in in this picture?

:04:42. > :04:45.You never know. Boris has got himself in some diplomatic hot water

:04:46. > :04:50.and the whole case today was slapping off the Prime Minister's

:04:51. > :04:56.suggestion that you could send Britain to war. It was not just him.

:04:57. > :05:01.For those of us who have followed Boris for a long time, they know in

:05:02. > :05:05.2014 just two years ago, he was busy lauding the European Union for being

:05:06. > :05:11.the reason for peace and prosperity, he contradicts himself. Are you

:05:12. > :05:18.expecting politicians to be consistent? LAUGHTER

:05:19. > :05:24.Let's go to the i. A sign of the continuing use of scare tactics,

:05:25. > :05:30.project fear on both sides. This is exclusive to the in campaign

:05:31. > :05:37.clearly. What the leave campaign has tried to do of late particularly is

:05:38. > :05:42.to fight against this notion that remaining in the EU is remaining

:05:43. > :05:46.with the status quo. A lot of what Boris is doing now is about saying

:05:47. > :05:52.what follows is if we stay in the EU, more risk and more uncertainty,

:05:53. > :05:57.other bits of it will fall apart, we are more at risk in the EU than out

:05:58. > :06:03.of it. The question whether it is the EU's fault for war in Ukraine, I

:06:04. > :06:10.don't know, that is... I cannot think of an analogy, it is so crazy.

:06:11. > :06:16.Yes, Ukraine was interested in joining the EU, that is not the EU's

:06:17. > :06:19.fault. It is a slightly strange thing to say. It is this fight about

:06:20. > :06:32.which option has the most instability. We put a very nice hand

:06:33. > :06:40.to UK. We did try to encourage it. It is interesting. You talk

:06:41. > :06:44.both sides having negative campaigns. That is not really what

:06:45. > :06:58.the public say they want. People want to stay energised and infused.

:06:59. > :07:06.We saw it in Scotland and the big danger of labour and the SNP forming

:07:07. > :07:11.this coalition that got the Conservatives the election. It did

:07:12. > :07:19.not work in London. It didn't. There are separate issues there though.

:07:20. > :07:27.London... There are issues of race, London is a very diverse and liberal

:07:28. > :07:31.city. People... Many people that the Tory campaign managed to come out

:07:32. > :07:35.and vote because of the fear campaign, but they were offset by

:07:36. > :07:41.people who are predominantly in a Labour city feeling energised to

:07:42. > :07:45.come out and vote. I don't want to consider the Labour mayoral race all

:07:46. > :07:49.night, because we have done it for weeks and weeks, but what I would

:07:50. > :07:55.say is, Hugo, is there a positive message that the Leave campaign can

:07:56. > :07:59.put out there and is there a positive message that the in

:08:00. > :08:04.campaign can put out there? To put that question the other way round,

:08:05. > :08:07.it is harder for the in campaign as the status quo, to defend the status

:08:08. > :08:12.quo with a positive message is tricky. You are not promising any

:08:13. > :08:16.sort of change. A campaign in which you are defending the status quo

:08:17. > :08:21.will buy the assessor TBE project fear, you are talking about a risk

:08:22. > :08:27.of change. -- will be by necessity project fear. You can talk about the

:08:28. > :08:32.benefits of deregulation, sovereignty with the Leave campaign,

:08:33. > :08:37.they bang on about that quite a lot. Have you fallen asleep yet? That is

:08:38. > :08:44.the problem isn't it? These things do come down to fear. I wrote a

:08:45. > :08:49.column in The Times a few weeks ago, fear is a perfectly good reason to

:08:50. > :08:54.base your decision on. It is not surprising that the Leave campaign

:08:55. > :08:57.comes down to fear as well, they are asking people to face the

:08:58. > :09:01.consequences of not making the change they want to make. I wonder

:09:02. > :09:07.about the consequences of staying in as well. I know about the status

:09:08. > :09:13.quo... But those people who have jobs, not losing your job is a

:09:14. > :09:25.positive case. It is slightly about fear. All sorts of... We are

:09:26. > :09:30.struggling. French food is nice, the cheeses! LAUGHTER

:09:31. > :09:36.Type think we had just explained why we are seeing project fear from both

:09:37. > :09:46.sides of this to I think. Do not vote for Brexit warn US defence

:09:47. > :09:50.chiefs. This is more on the reverend decision. The Americans have been

:09:51. > :09:53.very keen on having their say, President Obama, Hillary Clinton,

:09:54. > :10:01.Donald Trump just a few days ago suggesting that Brexit may draw

:10:02. > :10:05.parallels between mass immigration and suggesting that if we did not

:10:06. > :10:09.leave the EU, it would be better for Britain to leave the EU, unless it

:10:10. > :10:16.wanted to suffer huge amounts of immigration in his words. Now we

:10:17. > :10:21.have the 13 former US secretary of state and security advisers,

:10:22. > :10:26.everyone who has worked in the White House for the last 14 years, big

:10:27. > :10:30.names like Madeline Albright, the former Secretary of State and former

:10:31. > :10:34.CIA chiefs. They are making the same sort of argument is that you have

:10:35. > :10:41.heard about Britain being not just less safe outside of the EU, but

:10:42. > :10:44.saying you cannot rely on the US as your first and foremost allied to

:10:45. > :10:49.make up for all the things you will lose in terms of defence by leaving

:10:50. > :10:53.the European Union. The Americans are really throwing everything at

:10:54. > :10:56.this it seems. Is this because of the special relationship or do they

:10:57. > :11:03.genuinely believe that Brexit will be a disaster for Britain? I think a

:11:04. > :11:06.bit of both. There are voices on both sides, Donald Trump, who cares

:11:07. > :11:12.what he says about Britain, no one cares what he says. Only Muslims can

:11:13. > :11:19.go to Birmingham, I mean for goodness sake. This really matters

:11:20. > :11:27.for the Brexit campaign. Their whole notion of what Europe would be

:11:28. > :11:35.outside... That is why there was so upset by Obama. The creeping threat

:11:36. > :11:38.of Remain is as so often when American politicians talk loudly

:11:39. > :11:43.about something, you do nurse the suspicion that they are talking

:11:44. > :11:47.about it more for America's benefits than ours. It is easy to the heart

:11:48. > :11:52.it suits America's interests that Britain stays in the EU. You have to

:11:53. > :11:56.have a nagging suspicion that for all these many people, yes there are

:11:57. > :12:00.a lot of them, but for all these many people, that may come first,

:12:01. > :12:06.even if they are right, which I'm sure they are. Jeremy Corbyn admits

:12:07. > :12:11.that Labour still has it all to prove and he accepts they are not

:12:12. > :12:17.doing enough to win in 2020. The parties seem to have problems with

:12:18. > :12:21.party unity at the moment. This is a party meeting of the Labour Party

:12:22. > :12:27.this afternoon and Jeremy Corbyn and current hero Sadiq Khan both

:12:28. > :12:33.appeared before the committee. It is quite interesting. Before the

:12:34. > :12:38.hearing we got word is released to the media as to what he was going to

:12:39. > :12:44.say and then after the meeting, they came out and said that is not quite

:12:45. > :12:51.what he said. He did not deliver a tough sounding message on showing

:12:52. > :12:57.all the dirty laundry in front of the press. He also turned down,

:12:58. > :13:01.talked around, some of the comments he was going to give. Expressing the

:13:02. > :13:05.same general view, but not with quite the specific points we were

:13:06. > :13:11.expecting him to make from e-mails received in the press team. The main

:13:12. > :13:15.point is that he is saying that in general, the election result at the

:13:16. > :13:22.end of last week were good for a book, but not good enough. He seems

:13:23. > :13:26.to have listened to some of his biggest detractors in the party,

:13:27. > :13:29.including Sadiq Khan who he met properly for the best time since he

:13:30. > :13:37.was elected as mayor just hours before. -- were good for Labour.

:13:38. > :13:40.Sadiq Khan has been banging on about the Labour Party not just

:13:41. > :13:44.encouraging its own activists and supporters, but it needs to reach

:13:45. > :13:47.out to people who voted for other political parties and indeed no

:13:48. > :13:52.political parties and encourage them into the big tent. It is the first

:13:53. > :13:55.time Jeremy Corbyn has acknowledged you cannot concentrate on the core

:13:56. > :14:01.vote. You need to be broader than that. Where MPs sitting there

:14:02. > :14:11.thinking I wish it was Mr Khan who is leader of the party? -- were.

:14:12. > :14:17.Yes, I am sure that is the case. It has been overshadowed by his victory

:14:18. > :14:21.in London. Over the last ten days or so, Sadiq Khan has been saying

:14:22. > :14:25.astonishing things about Labour. He has been attacking Jeremy Corbyn

:14:26. > :14:30.more by insinuation than by name, but he has been attacking Jeremy

:14:31. > :14:33.Corbyn more than Boris attacks Cameron. During the anti-Semitism

:14:34. > :14:41.row he talked about some of the later leave the -- he talked about

:14:42. > :14:46.some of the Labour members needing courses on what anti-Semitism is. To

:14:47. > :14:49.be outspoken as he has been to reach out to all voters and not rely on

:14:50. > :14:57.the core vote strategy which is Jeremy Corbyn's only strategy. There

:14:58. > :15:04.is real conflict here and Sadiq Khan does not care, because he has

:15:05. > :15:10.nothing to lose, he has one. No more Sadiq Khan, now Mercury. This is a

:15:11. > :15:18.beautiful picture. Hugo is an expert. I think they faked it like

:15:19. > :15:23.they did the moonlighting! LAUGHTER It is the face of the sun. It

:15:24. > :15:27.happens 14 times a century and will happen again in 2019. Panel

:15:28. > :15:31.specialist moments that should happen in the year of the referendum

:15:32. > :15:39.with the European Union. -- an auspicious moment. Does that mean we

:15:40. > :15:45.won't have another one? Maybe. Many thanks for that. One more paper has

:15:46. > :15:50.come in, the Daily Mirror leads with a man has finally face justice for a

:15:51. > :16:01.crime in 1984 after DNA is taken from his daughter. In The Sun, there

:16:02. > :16:04.is a story about EU reform negotiations.

:16:05. > :16:07.Don't forget all the front pages are online on the BBC News website

:16:08. > :16:23.where you can read a detailed review of the papers.

:16:24. > :16:25.It's all there for you - seven days a week at

:16:26. > :16:28.bbc.co.uk/papers - and you can see us there too -

:16:29. > :16:30.with each night's edition of The Papers being posted

:16:31. > :16:31.on the page shortly after we've finished.

:16:32. > :16:33.Thank you Pippa Crerar and Hugo Rifkind.

:16:34. > :16:39.Very warm for some, very wet for others. The top temperatures were

:16:40. > :16:40.across the Isle of Skye,