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:00:00. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

:00:16. > :00:29.With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips and Nigel

:00:30. > :00:32.Nelson political editor of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.

:00:33. > :00:35.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

:00:36. > :00:37.A ringing endorsement from Nigel Farage for Boris Johnson to

:00:38. > :00:40.become Prime Minister is the Mail on Sunday's headline.

:00:41. > :00:44.Boris himself is quoted in the Sunday Telegraph

:00:45. > :00:46.saying the EU is pursuing a similar goal to Hitler and Napoleon,

:00:47. > :00:56.The Sunday Times says David Cameron fears being replaced by Boris

:00:57. > :01:00.It also has the story of an alleged CIA tip-off, that led

:01:01. > :01:20.And the Sunday Express reports on a trial being carried out

:01:21. > :01:23.by the government over the safety of statin drugs for the heart.

:01:24. > :01:27.Cameron fears Boris will be the next leader. This doesn't tell us a whole

:01:28. > :01:32.lot about the campaign today, but the worries over what might happen

:01:33. > :01:40.after the referendum. The Sunday Times has quite a lot of detail here

:01:41. > :01:44.alluding to private conversations. It would appear that the PM has been

:01:45. > :01:48.speaking privately, but it has a obviously been eavesdropped upon,

:01:49. > :01:58.about his concerns about what happens if he loses the Brexit vote

:01:59. > :02:12.with anything closer than a 53-47%, then he has no option but to step

:02:13. > :02:18.down. We know that the party has been rent asunder. That would pave

:02:19. > :02:23.the way for Boris to become a leader. I think what this is all

:02:24. > :02:27.about is that this whole referendum thing is that if we are not

:02:28. > :02:32.careful... I have just looked at the BBC's guide to the referendum, and

:02:33. > :02:36.it is brilliant. It is just what people need to know and understand

:02:37. > :02:39.about it. Whereas this is actually about who is going to be the next

:02:40. > :02:46.leader of the Conservative Party. So look online... It is really good, it

:02:47. > :02:52.explains it, it explains everything, which this is not helping. We all

:02:53. > :02:55.did a course before it started. We had to do an online course about it

:02:56. > :03:02.to make sure we knew what was happening. It doesn't help people

:03:03. > :03:06.who are trying to decide, does it? No, it doesn't. This story has

:03:07. > :03:10.nothing to do with the referendum, because it is all about who will

:03:11. > :03:18.succeed David Cameron, will he go, will he not go? I heard this week

:03:19. > :03:24.that some of the Tories are talking about bringing in Michael Gove as

:03:25. > :03:28.the deputy PM, and whether all that is true, I don't know. This is not

:03:29. > :03:32.actually down to what people care about, it is not part of the

:03:33. > :03:36.decision people are making, and that really does come down to, are they

:03:37. > :03:42.going to be better off in Europe or out of it? I wonder whether

:03:43. > :03:44.headlines like this on the Mail on Sunday it will persuade people one

:03:45. > :03:53.way or the other for different reasons. If people think we are

:03:54. > :03:57.heading in one direction or the other and the consequences for

:03:58. > :04:06.leadership will be X or Y, that could have an indirect effect. It

:04:07. > :04:10.could, but we are seeing something that is dominated by personalities.

:04:11. > :04:15.They are throwing figures at us that almost unintelligible, and again,

:04:16. > :04:19.what we have to get down to is what actually are the issues they are

:04:20. > :04:23.talking about, and are we better off in or out? There is no way of

:04:24. > :04:32.cutting through that kind of dross to get to the bit that you really

:04:33. > :04:45.need to know. This is Nigel Farage saying he has primed grenade for the

:04:46. > :04:51.crucial TV debate. This is about jockeying for a job, because he sees

:04:52. > :04:59.Boris as a future leader. It is just, get back to reality. Kiwi come

:05:00. > :05:13.to the issue of trust. This poll suggests Nigel... The truth on

:05:14. > :05:17.Europe. That is what people are telling the independent in this

:05:18. > :05:21.poll, which is also carried by the Sunday Mirror. What is also

:05:22. > :05:25.interesting is what is getting through and what isn't. It would

:05:26. > :05:31.seem we are still talking about 38% of people haven't made up their

:05:32. > :05:37.minds, and those people are who will decide the result of the poll. But

:05:38. > :05:41.they are shuffling towards Cameron. There are fewer of them now than

:05:42. > :05:45.they were a month ago, and they tend to believe what David Cameron is

:05:46. > :05:50.saying about the economy. Interestingly, they don't believe

:05:51. > :05:55.what he said about security and the risk of world war three. It is an

:05:56. > :06:00.interesting shift, and yet we have Boris. That is why I think

:06:01. > :06:05.everything is all over the place. At the moment it is too close to call.

:06:06. > :06:10.People like Boris in the same way that people in the general election

:06:11. > :06:17.like Nigel Farage. They are great fun. But Nigel Farage did not sweep

:06:18. > :06:21.to victory as everyone predicted. We do wonder whether Boris might have

:06:22. > :06:24.peaked at eight too soon. You also have to be careful of polls after

:06:25. > :06:31.the general election. Given the Eurovision song contest includes

:06:32. > :06:35.Australia, bring it on! I think this shows the confusion out there that

:06:36. > :06:39.people want to know the fact that they can take in not the billions of

:06:40. > :06:42.pounds that have been thrown around, but they are showing that the

:06:43. > :06:46.campaign is not quite getting through because there is no trend

:06:47. > :06:51.building up. It is not like a general election, although it is

:06:52. > :06:53.becoming increasingly about a general election in terms of

:06:54. > :06:58.personalities, that it is not about something that you can say, well, am

:06:59. > :07:02.I going to be better off... It is not being painted as this is going

:07:03. > :07:08.to be better for you, because it is such a long time in the future. If

:07:09. > :07:13.people didn't like David Cameron talking about it will mean world war

:07:14. > :07:28.three, I wonder what they will make of Boris in the Telegraph. He said,

:07:29. > :07:33.the headline is quite inflammatory. It is just a very odd thing to say,

:07:34. > :07:38.particularly given the recent hot water that Ken Livingstone got into,

:07:39. > :07:41.talking about Hitler. I am a bit surprised at Boris, he is a

:07:42. > :07:50.well-known historian and classicist and well educated. He said the past

:07:51. > :07:57.2000 years of European history have been characterised by attempts to

:07:58. > :08:01.unify the continent in order to recover its lost golden age under

:08:02. > :08:06.the Romans. Napoleon did it, Hitler did it, and it has failed because

:08:07. > :08:12.there is no loyalty to one state. You can see the argument he is

:08:13. > :08:17.making, but there is a sense of him ramping up these Churchillian

:08:18. > :08:22.comments, with David Cameron talking about world war three last week. We

:08:23. > :08:27.do have democratically elect people, and people could say there is a

:08:28. > :08:32.democratic deficit, but I don't think Hitler had that. It is

:08:33. > :08:36.dangerous for any politician to use Hitler. It should be banned

:08:37. > :08:43.completely. Interestingly, the EU was set up originally to stop

:08:44. > :08:51.another world war happening. Exactly, so why... That was a long

:08:52. > :08:55.time ago. To say we haven't been to war because of that is a moot point,

:08:56. > :08:59.we don't know. You shouldn't invoke that any more than you invoke the

:09:00. > :09:06.idea that world war three will start if we don't pull out. The hyperbole

:09:07. > :09:17.is getting a bit insane. Know, and it doesn't help us to get to the

:09:18. > :09:24.bottom of it. Odds plummet on Hiddleston 477. Tom Hiddleston has

:09:25. > :09:36.been spotted, he recently was seen in the Night Manager. He was spotted

:09:37. > :09:40.in London late at night with Sam Mendez and the projectors and

:09:41. > :09:49.producers of the Bond movies. Apparently they ran into each other

:09:50. > :09:57.by accident. Betting has now been suspended on it, because people

:09:58. > :10:04.think that Tom Hiddleston will be a shoe in. A particularly large amount

:10:05. > :10:18.was placed, sending their odds plummeting. After the Leicester

:10:19. > :10:25.win. He was fabulous in the Night Manager, but he is a bit young, I

:10:26. > :10:40.think. I think Sean Connery was the best. I really like Daniel Craig.

:10:41. > :10:49.Hugh Laurie as James Bond, why not? Statins, are we looking at that now?

:10:50. > :10:55.Just waiting for the voices in my head to kick in. The new safety

:10:56. > :11:01.alert exclusive, the government is having a fresh trial because they

:11:02. > :11:05.are worried about overprescribing. Anyone who reads the Express, they

:11:06. > :11:12.will know this is a story they have been covering, and they are claiming

:11:13. > :11:16.that ?1 million are being put forward to look at the side-effects,

:11:17. > :11:20.because there is growing concern about the side-effects of the

:11:21. > :11:25.statins, which were a bit of a wonder drug. They actually cause

:11:26. > :11:32.muscle pain and fatigue and various other things. It is difficult for

:11:33. > :11:35.people to know. It is something I object to, one minute you are told

:11:36. > :11:38.the drug is wonderful and the next moment that it might kill you. It is

:11:39. > :11:43.quite right that the government should have a trial, because there

:11:44. > :11:46.has been enough concerns about whether they have been over

:11:47. > :11:49.prescribed or under prescribed, and it needs to be sorted out once and

:11:50. > :11:56.for all. Finally, the Sunday express looking ahead to something that will

:11:57. > :12:10.possibly be in the Queen's Speech. A boost to Britain's space race. Stay,

:12:11. > :12:15.the Queen will set the government's agenda for the next year. One of the

:12:16. > :12:21.things the government wants to do is have ports in space for tourists.

:12:22. > :12:25.They want to really start to capitalise on all the space that is

:12:26. > :12:28.out there. The idea is that we now get properly into the space race. We

:12:29. > :12:33.will see details when the Queen stands up. The other things they are

:12:34. > :12:38.talking about is a revolution in driverless cars, which I find a

:12:39. > :12:46.little bit frightening. More than going into space? Yes, I think there

:12:47. > :12:49.is more danger with driverless cars. You can imagine some teenage hacker

:12:50. > :12:54.in their bedroom getting into your driverless car. You have been

:12:55. > :13:03.watching too many silly films. There could be a danger. Driverless

:13:04. > :13:09.lorries was a story, wasn't it? I think that is absolutely terrifying.

:13:10. > :13:13.In normal circumstances, everybody, including yourself, would be

:13:14. > :13:18.previewing what is in the speech next week. If it hadn't been for the

:13:19. > :13:25.referendum, every splash we have seen has been to do with the

:13:26. > :13:29.referendum. That is the kind of story that on a normal kind of

:13:30. > :13:37.Saturday we will be talking about. It just shows how obsessed

:13:38. > :13:42.journalists are with referendums. That is it for the papers, good to

:13:43. > :13:44.see you both, thank you very much, coming up next, looking at pollution

:13:45. > :13:48.in India killing the Ganges.