09/05/2016 The Papers

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

With me are the Political Correspondent for the Evening

Standard, Pippa Crerar, and the Times columnist,

Tomorrow's front pages starting with...

The i leads with on the war on words between David Cameron

The former London Mayor also features

on the front page of The Express - telling voters they would be 'mad'

not to choose freedom over the "outdated ideology" of Brussels.

The Daily Telegraph says the gloves are off

Five former Nato chiefs have expressed fears over peace in Europe

One of the main stories in the FT is the Chancellor's

warning of tens of thousands of job losses in the financial services

13 former US secretaries of state and defence

and national security advisers have written to The Times saying the UK's

"influence in the world would be diminished" outside of the EU.

The Metro's top story is the sentencing of a man

for the sexual assault and murder of Melanie Road, 32 years ago -

The Mail leads with a study that suggests thousands

of people have died needlessly because of poor care

And the Guardian focuses on Jeremy Corbyn admitting

that Labour is not yet doing enough to win the general election in 2020.

The paper also shows NASA images of Mercury making a rare transit

We will start with Mr Johnson, you cannot get away from this guy, he is

no longer the Mayor of London, but he is everywhere and he is fighting

for freedom! Boris is out of a job in terms of the London mayoralty. He

is down to his last two jobs. His last five jobs! What was his tax

return again? He is trying to make his presence on the national and

international stage felt very well if not on the London stage any more.

The fact he is on so many front pages, it really is the Conservative

's worst nightmare. This is blue on blue action. The Telegraph, the Tory

paper, Boris Johnson saying he is fighting for freedom, putting the

case the Brexit and just below you have Nato chiefs talking about fears

over peace in Europe. An intervention that is designed to

follow hot on the heels of David Cameron's warnings today that

Britain leaving would increase the threat of Europe descending into

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

ends up being Boris versus Cameron, Cameron would not want to go near

that. They will have to try to tread a careful line between their own

party collapsing into internal division and strife and making the

positive cases that each side wants to make. How does the Conservative

Party begin to heal this rift, once all this is over? It doesn't and it

does not ready want to, they are enjoying themselves immensely! This

is the real deal for the Conservatives, they go through all

this malarkey about wanting to run the country, but really they fight

each other on Europe. They have been doing it for a generation, a lot of

them joined the party because they are one way or the other new. This

is Tory tooth and claw. How they heal afterwards, they do not heal

afterwards, they take the fight to another generation. The leader of

the winning side could potentially becomes the next leader. If Britain

goes the Brexit, Boris Johnson is in a prime position to get supporters,

backbenchers. In this photo it looks like he is bleeding from the lips.

He is imploring the public. There was a close-up of his shoes, he had

a massive hole! Do you think he has tapped his shirt in in this picture?

You never know. Boris has got himself in some diplomatic hot water

and the whole case today was slapping off the Prime Minister's

suggestion that you could send Britain to war. It was not just him.

For those of us who have followed Boris for a long time, they know in

2014 just two years ago, he was busy lauding the European Union for being

the reason for peace and prosperity, he contradicts himself. Are you

expecting politicians to be consistent? LAUGHTER

Let's go to the i. A sign of the continuing use of scare tactics,

project fear on both sides. This is exclusive to the in campaign

clearly. What the leave campaign has tried to do of late particularly is

to fight against this notion that remaining in the EU is remaining

with the status quo. A lot of what Boris is doing now is about saying

what follows is if we stay in the EU, more risk and more uncertainty,

other bits of it will fall apart, we are more at risk in the EU than out

of it. The question whether it is the EU's fault for war in Ukraine, I

don't know, that is... I cannot think of an analogy, it is so crazy.

Yes, Ukraine was interested in joining the EU, that is not the EU's

fault. It is a slightly strange thing to say. It is this fight about

which option has the most instability. We put a very nice hand

to UK. We did try to encourage it. It is interesting. You talk

both sides having negative campaigns. That is not really what

the public say they want. People want to stay energised and infused.

We saw it in Scotland and the big danger of labour and the SNP forming

this coalition that got the Conservatives the election. It did

not work in London. It didn't. There are separate issues there though.

London... There are issues of race, London is a very diverse and liberal

city. People... Many people that the Tory campaign managed to come out

and vote because of the fear campaign, but they were offset by

people who are predominantly in a Labour city feeling energised to

come out and vote. I don't want to consider the Labour mayoral race all

night, because we have done it for weeks and weeks, but what I would

say is, Hugo, is there a positive message that the Leave campaign can

put out there and is there a positive message that the in

campaign can put out there? To put that question the other way round,

it is harder for the in campaign as the status quo, to defend the status

quo with a positive message is tricky. You are not promising any

sort of change. A campaign in which you are defending the status quo

will buy the assessor TBE project fear, you are talking about a risk

of change. -- will be by necessity project fear. You can talk about the

benefits of deregulation, sovereignty with the Leave campaign,

they bang on about that quite a lot. Have you fallen asleep yet? That is

the problem isn't it? These things do come down to fear. I wrote a

column in The Times a few weeks ago, fear is a perfectly good reason to

base your decision on. It is not surprising that the Leave campaign

comes down to fear as well, they are asking people to face the

consequences of not making the change they want to make. I wonder

about the consequences of staying in as well. I know about the status

quo... But those people who have jobs, not losing your job is a

positive case. It is slightly about fear. All sorts of... We are

struggling. French food is nice, the cheeses! LAUGHTER

Type think we had just explained why we are seeing project fear from both

sides of this to I think. Do not vote for Brexit warn US defence

chiefs. This is more on the reverend decision. The Americans have been

very keen on having their say, President Obama, Hillary Clinton,

Donald Trump just a few days ago suggesting that Brexit may draw

parallels between mass immigration and suggesting that if we did not

leave the EU, it would be better for Britain to leave the EU, unless it

wanted to suffer huge amounts of immigration in his words. Now we

have the 13 former US secretary of state and security advisers,

everyone who has worked in the White House for the last 14 years, big

names like Madeline Albright, the former Secretary of State and former

CIA chiefs. They are making the same sort of argument is that you have

heard about Britain being not just less safe outside of the EU, but

saying you cannot rely on the US as your first and foremost allied to

make up for all the things you will lose in terms of defence by leaving

the European Union. The Americans are really throwing everything at

this it seems. Is this because of the special relationship or do they

genuinely believe that Brexit will be a disaster for Britain? I think a

bit of both. There are voices on both sides, Donald Trump, who cares

what he says about Britain, no one cares what he says. Only Muslims can

go to Birmingham, I mean for goodness sake. This really matters

for the Brexit campaign. Their whole notion of what Europe would be

outside... That is why there was so upset by Obama. The creeping threat

of Remain is as so often when American politicians talk loudly

about something, you do nurse the suspicion that they are talking

about it more for America's benefits than ours. It is easy to the heart

it suits America's interests that Britain stays in the EU. You have to

have a nagging suspicion that for all these many people, yes there are

a lot of them, but for all these many people, that may come first,

even if they are right, which I'm sure they are. Jeremy Corbyn admits

that Labour still has it all to prove and he accepts they are not

doing enough to win in 2020. The parties seem to have problems with

party unity at the moment. This is a party meeting of the Labour Party

this afternoon and Jeremy Corbyn and current hero Sadiq Khan both

appeared before the committee. It is quite interesting. Before the

hearing we got word is released to the media as to what he was going to

say and then after the meeting, they came out and said that is not quite

what he said. He did not deliver a tough sounding message on showing

all the dirty laundry in front of the press. He also turned down,

talked around, some of the comments he was going to give. Expressing the

same general view, but not with quite the specific points we were

expecting him to make from e-mails received in the press team. The main

point is that he is saying that in general, the election result at the

end of last week were good for a book, but not good enough. He seems

to have listened to some of his biggest detractors in the party,

including Sadiq Khan who he met properly for the best time since he

was elected as mayor just hours before. -- were good for Labour.

Sadiq Khan has been banging on about the Labour Party not just

encouraging its own activists and supporters, but it needs to reach

out to people who voted for other political parties and indeed no

political parties and encourage them into the big tent. It is the first

time Jeremy Corbyn has acknowledged you cannot concentrate on the core

vote. You need to be broader than that. Where MPs sitting there

thinking I wish it was Mr Khan who is leader of the party? -- were.

Yes, I am sure that is the case. It has been overshadowed by his victory

in London. Over the last ten days or so, Sadiq Khan has been saying

astonishing things about Labour. He has been attacking Jeremy Corbyn

more by insinuation than by name, but he has been attacking Jeremy

Corbyn more than Boris attacks Cameron. During the anti-Semitism

row he talked about some of the later leave the -- he talked about

some of the Labour members needing courses on what anti-Semitism is. To

be outspoken as he has been to reach out to all voters and not rely on

the core vote strategy which is Jeremy Corbyn's only strategy. There

is real conflict here and Sadiq Khan does not care, because he has

nothing to lose, he has one. No more Sadiq Khan, now Mercury. This is a

beautiful picture. Hugo is an expert. I think they faked it like

they did the moonlighting! LAUGHTER It is the face of the sun. It

happens 14 times a century and will happen again in 2019. Panel

specialist moments that should happen in the year of the referendum

with the European Union. -- an auspicious moment. Does that mean we

won't have another one? Maybe. Many thanks for that. One more paper has

come in, the Daily Mirror leads with a man has finally face justice for a

crime in 1984 after DNA is taken from his daughter. In The Sun, there

is a story about EU reform negotiations.

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Thank you Pippa Crerar and Hugo Rifkind.

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