25/05/2016 The Papers

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now it is time for the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be With me are the Editor-in-Chief

of MoneyWeek, Merryn Somerset Webb, and the Political Editor

of the Daily Record, Let's have a look at some other

front pages. Thousands of patients have become trapped in hospitals

because of failures in social care. It says the NHS is having to foot

and ?800 million bill for elderly bed blockers. The Metro leads on the

strikes in France which are causing major fuel shortages. The paper says

British holiday-makers risk getting stranded after half the country's

petrol pumps will run dry. The Guardian carries a picture of

migrants and refugees scrambling for their lives after their heavily

laden boat capsized in the southern Mediterranean. They managed to save

500 people in a mission migration experts described as miraculous. The

Daily Telegraph has that your Matic picture too. He leads on official

projections suggesting the population in England is to rise by

4 million as areas in the south swell by up to a quarter. In the

Times, British special forces fired a missile to destroy an Islamic

State truck packed with explosives in Libya earlier this month. We will

start with the Daily Telegraph. The population to rise by 4 million.

Below it, it has a caption, EU referendum. Clearly this story will

feed in the debate. If you read the whole story you will see that half

this rise in population is purely down to an ageing population. Only

half is about Newham -- new immigration. It feeds into

everyone's anxieties about pressure on social services and the NHS and

education. This is about helping councils plan for a rising influx in

people. That will be discussed a lot over the next four weeks. As those

supporting Brexit, if we can get more control of our borders, they

would argue, by leaving the European Union, we're not going to have

250,000 EU migrants who came to this country up to September of last

year. If they think they can stop migration by doing the EU, they have

another thing coming. It does not feed into the debate. It adds fire

to the debate. The economic argument with the devastating bombardment of

economic against Brexit, they will move onto the ground which is their

strength, immigration. This feeds back into the economic argument.

One, session is about, are we seeing wages pushed down by a rise in

immigration? You can see that again wages are coming expectations. These

stories do dovetail. Quite an interesting speech by Gordon Brown

in Brussels today. He said, we will face massive immigration. People are

sceptical about Europe, so give them a deal, like the Scots got in their

referendum. If areas are under pressure, make sure there is a

migration fund. If schools are under pressure, hospitals are under

pressure and public services are under pressure, that is when people

start resenting immigration. If that can be dealt with, people on the

whole say they are not against immigration. Nobody is really making

the argument. Europe needs immigrants because the population is

ageing. The point is, it is Britain being able to have control of this.

They say, we do need to be able to take control of the people coming

in. That would be their argument. One of the things I do not think

those wanting to leave the EU have not been clear about is that leaving

the uterus not mean... Different deal for different groups of

professions or working areas. We know for example that large-scale

immigration affects wages at the Berry, very bottom end of the scale.

If you wanted to control immigration policies, perhaps he would bring in

different people with different skills. We use our tax credit

system. Liberty is prosecuted. You come back to the argument about the

minimum wage subsidising the global multinationals. Moving off the

paper, sorry. We are here for a nice, lovely

discussion. You talk about whatever you want to talk about. It is not a

problem. We're going to talk about the photograph on the front of the

Guardian. The flip side of the migration debate. Look at this

picture. A boat on its side about to capsized. Some actually died. I've

had in 50 souls came off and 50 died in aim and recovery. This image

shows the boat going down. It was taken by the Italian coastguard.

They took 550 off the capsized boat. The images will be in all of the

papers tomorrow. In the last two days, Monday and Tuesday this week,

they have taken 5600 people ashore from the Mediterranean. Hundreds of

thousands more are coming this summer. It, as we know, is a massive

crisis facing Europe. We do not know how to deal with this. Now onto the

Financial Times. The UK would face tortuous trade talks in the event of

Brexit. This comes from the world Trade Organisation. One of these

central campaigns as if we left the European Union we could have free

trade. The WTO is saying, it would be hell. This is interesting. I am

under the impression we could stay in the WTO and that would not be

much of a problem. Do you support Brexit? Absolutely. Time after time

these things come out. When you look at the detail they are not as awful

as a Sample. I have thought the default position would be to trade

under WTO rules. How tortuous would it be to stay? It is impossible to

say at this point. When you look at a list of the members, virtually

every country you can think of is a member. I find difficult to imagine

the UK would be one of the few countries in the world but did not

have access to it. I am sure we would have access to it. It would

take years and years. There are different deals with different

countries. In short, the WTO is repeating what President Obama said,

back of the queue. There is not a queue. On the back of IMF, the World

Bank, the Treasury. EasyJet. Everybody says Britain would be

worse off. The economic consensus. Big trade organisations prefer a

status quo to change. It is the same. What the Remain camp has been

doing is pounding this case about the risk, project

fear two, they are calling it. It will be interesting tomorrow. We may

find that the Vote League side comes up with more economic arguments. Has

this changed your mind question what -- Leave. I think there will be a

lot more interesting things to say. Three plus weeks to go. I am

throwing things at you now! This story assumes we lead the single

market and that is a big assumption. Consensus is that if we left the

European Union the single market is over. What are you suggesting! We

will stick with the Financial Times. Hillary Clinton is in a bit of

trouble. Her private e-mail server she kept while the Secretary of

State. She should not have done that. Is has dogged Hillary for

years. She used a private e-mail address and a private server. A

massive breach of security protocol. This will be dragged up. Donald

Trump will do this. They are already calling him a crooked Hillary

Clinton. He is not a relation of mine. He is from the same village as

my mother. Eye over eight that ever so slightly. He is in trouble

himself. -- I over eight that. I wonder how it will affect matters.

It will not affect Republican support. It is about those who are

undecided. The Democrats are so anti-Clinton that they are willing

to vote to keep her out. She is not found to have done anything illegal.

They are still looking into it. We have a problem. We are heading to

France in the next couple of days and they have a petrol crisis. After

petrol chaos as drivers head for France. You will have to fill up

here, would you? They are talking about chaos. The AA has already been

picking up cars from the side of the road in France. We did this first.

We had petrol strikes and blockades of refineries way back in 2000. The

eight days that Shook the Blair government. The industrial action

nearly ran Britain drive. It is so much better in France with burning

tyres, riots and burning police cars. They are better at labour

disputes than we are. The Labour reforms have been so watered down

that not even bosses want them anymore. Train ticket clippers are

facing the end of the nine. I did not know they were still about. We

did actually look at one of my train ticket earlier and see that it did

have a hole in it. I can see how that would be painful over time. OK.

Many thanks for looking at some of the stories behind the headlines.

Very many thanks. Thank you for watching.