14/05/2016 The Papers

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

With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips

and Nigel Nelson of the Sunday People.

You are also editor of the Sunday Mirror, two titles.

Tomorrow's front pages starting with...

A ringing endorsement from Nigel Farage for Boris Johnson

to be Prime Minister is the Mail on Sunday's headline.

Boris himself is quoted in the Sunday Telegraph,

saying the EU is pursuing a similar goal to Hitler and Napoleon

in creating a European superstate, albeit with different methods.

The Sunday Times says David Cameron fears being replaced

It also reports on an alleged CIA tip-off which led

The Sunday Express reports on a trial being carried out

by the Government over the safety of statin drugs for the heart.

I am ever so sorry if you have had enough of the referendum. I shall go

now. We will do statin is in a minute to keep you interested. We

will start with the Sunday Times. Cameron fears that Boris will be the

next leader. The suggestion is it will go to somebody in the Brexit

camp is David Cameron's new. What is the thinking? The thinking is it

Brexit wins, and there is a lot of Boris to talk about, if the Brexit

win, then Cameron will resign and Brexit will take over. But this

whole campaign, which is so unpleasant and, I was going to use

something rude, but let's say gentle man's posturing, it is becoming

ridiculous. This is all about the Tory party, who is going to be the

leader of the Tory party. The idea that the Tory party will be ripped

apart, if it has not been already, only somebody who wants to leave

Europe is the only one who could succeed, which is bad news for

George Osborne. We are several weeks away from the actual voting and this

is where the newspapers are taking the story. They are looking beyond

the result. That is because politicians are taking the story

there as well. A lot of talk in the House of commons this week has been

about the succession of Cameron. The conventional wisdom would be that he

has to go if there is Brexit. Now they are saying maybe he would not

have to go. So then how does he negotiate our withdrawal if he does

not go? Somebody suggested the way to do that is to make Michael Gove

his Deputy Prime Minister who would then negotiate the exit from Europe.

I do not believe that, but that is the kind of talk that is going on

amongst MPs. They are thinking about now what will happen afterwards and

there are still six weeks to go from making a decision. He did say, I am

not going to serve a full-time. As soon as you do that, there is

speculation about who will succeed him. And Boris is the favourite with

the public to take over. There are a lot of MPs in the Tory party who

say, we cannot have that. They want to find alternatives. But we ought

to be concentrating on the campaign and the biggest decision in a

lifetime and not about the politics of what happens afterwards. Whatever

happened to George Osborne? He was supposed to be a shoo-in. If the

Sunday Times is right and David Cameron thinks it will go to Brexit,

then George Osborne is finished. One of the quotes in the story is that

George Osborne thinks should there be a leadership election too

quickly, he has not got a chance anyway. The Mail on Sunday, Nigel

farad, I will back Boris as our PM. We thought it said sour PM. It looks

like Nigel Farage would like a job. He would. He has always said during

the general election campaign when it looked as if he would get some

MPs, he said he would never work with Cameron. He has been absolutely

consistent about that. Now he is saying he might be able to work with

Boris. But all of this is against the backdrop of him doing the TV

debate with Cameron, camera not facing Boris Johnson, and the Leave

Campaign really angry about the fact they have not got them and their

because Nigel Farage is a tangent to that whole thing. Six months ago he

said this is not so much an interview as a lunch review. Simon

Walters in the mail goes out to lunch and takes her Nigel Farage out

and we do not have their menu, oh, yes it was shepherds pie, and the

wind that they drank. Apparently he says he loves Boris and he compares

him to Ronald Reagan. Why does he compare him like that? Because

people said Ronald Reagan could not be president. But the former

Archbishop of Canterbury? George Carey has come out for Brexit. I do

not know if he was at the lunch, it does not say. Let's look at the

Independent on Sunday. A lot of people have been saying if we can't

establish the facts about staying or leaving because the facts are in

dispute, it comes down to trust for a lot of people. The Independent on

Sunday suggests that Boris is more trusted than Cameron. What do you

think about that? It is appalled that they are doing for tomorrow

morning and it shows that people think when Boris Johnson speaks he

is twice as likely to tell the truth than David Cameron about Europe.

When you look at the details of the poll it is fascinating because it is

still evenly balanced on the people who think we are better in or better

out. But there are still 38% of people who have not decided. Those

are the people where it is all to play for. This referendum will go

down to the wire and it will be the don't knows who will decide when

they finally decide which way to go. A lot of people approach elections

in this way, you walk into the ballot booth and you go, I have to

pick something. Will that be the case? No, I do not think it will be

the case. I have heard more people talking about this saying, what are

you going to do, what do you think I should do? In all walks of life and

in all circumstances, it is a conversation going around all the

country. But these blokes, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, and to a

certain extent David Cameron, are like a rugby club coach party that

turns up when you are having a quiet drink and a sensible conversation.

You think, could you shut up. There are millions of people who are

taking this seriously and really do want to understand and this is a

game about boys. Thank heavens for Harriet Harman getting involved in

the week and talking about what it means. These are boys and it is

silly and we need a bit of common sense. As you say, the polls show

that there are an awful lot of people who have not decided and this

is not helping. In terms of the gender of the politicians in charge,

one of the problems I think is both sides are relying on project fear.

For David Cameron he is putting out the fear of the unknown if we leave.

For the Brexit site it is the fear of immigration. Both of them are

grubby campaigns. The other thing they keep doing is throwing out

figures that are meaningless. They pluck them out of the air, and even

if they were true, they are hardly intelligible. They have to help

people decide are they personally better off in or out. And talk about

the future. Yes. It is not like the general election were it happens on

June the 23rd and you have got five years of government, this is for

ever, this is about our children grandchildren. What would be better

would be to simplify the matter. There is too much information. I

fear I should rebuke you for your sexist comments. The Sunday

Telegraph, Boris, how the EU was super state how Hitler did. The

other day somebody described what David Cameron was saying as

Churchillian. Boris has been compared with Winston tonight. This

is the nonsense, this is the overblown language where they are

trying to outdo each other. To be fair, Boris is not quite saying that

the EU wants a superstate as Hitler did. We have already seen the

comments about Hitler that got Ken Livingstone in a mess. But he does

say, Napoleon and Hitler, various people tried this out, this sense of

the European Union, and it has always ended tragically. There is no

underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe, there is no single authority

that people respect. I feel if Boris carries on at this rate, he will

take off like the Hindenburg. Like on the zip wire again. He might blow

up with his own pomposity. It is ridiculous to start invoking Hitler,

in the same way it was ridiculous during the week that Cameron

suggested if we pulled out, it would start world War three. If he

believes that, why are we holding a referendum? If that is the risk, we

should not be doing any of this at all. By Nelly, statin. You would

never have thought you would have been so pleased to hear that. The

Sunday Express, government to fund fresh controversial heart drug amid

fears of doctors overprescribing. I have read quite a few headlines in

the express championing statin 's. Do not be so silly! How unusual is

it for a government to fund a trial like this? It is not that unusual,

but there is a lot of concern about Miss prescribing and mixed messages.

Nigel is the expert on statin 's. I actually take them and I am angry

about stories like this. I was told there were no side effects until I

had muscle agony for three months. It was painful and you get used to

them. Did it go away? Yes, but them. Did it go away? Yes, but

initially it was unpleasant. However, the medical advice is

constantly contradictory. How can we trust our doctors if at one point

you are told you will take a miracle drug and the next point you are told

it might kill you? This is the kind of stuff that is going out. I would

rather they got it right first time around. They are doing it, they are

spending this money to do this research. There are so many things

that people say once upon a time was a wonder drug and then it is not. It

comes down to the individual. You way up the evidence. And it is about

the prescribing and whether it is appropriate to you and what else is

going on. People might think they are watching casualty. That is it

for this review. You will be back again earlier than usual. We will be

back at quarter past 11. We will be here for another look at the front

pages. Coming up it is time for