08/06/2016 The Papers

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

With me are Lucy Fisher, Senior Political Correspondent

at the Times, and John Prideaux, US Editor at the Economist.

Let's start with the Metro, leading the investigation into the demise of

BHS. Today a Government committee heard claims the retailer's owner

Dominic Chappel threatened to kill one of the Company's executives.

Financial Times also outlined BHS and proportionate Chappel's claims

that the former owner prevented a buyout of the feeling retailer. The

Guardian features hello Kontinen were making history as the first

woman to win the presidential nomination for a major US political

party. The express leads an EU referendum and activation from

government campaigners that the Government is trying to rig the vote

by extending the registration. The Telegraph also leads on the

referendum. We will touch on hot a few of those

stories. That start with the mental and BHS. Those proceedings in that

committee room today, incredible. A threat to kill BHS Bosque is not

amazing, this is one part of the amazing, this is one part of the

mudslinging going on today. Chief Executive at Darren Clarke said

Dominic Chappell rang him up and screamed at him and threatened to

come down and kill him. Extraordinary claims. Yes, and

lifting the lid to a degree on what goes on at this company. Absolutely

bizarre. Yes, some of the language is amazing. And the personal nature

of the vendettas. I enjoyed the FT did a follow-up, Colin Dominik to

Pelo and ask him if he had a gun and if he had intended to kill the Chief

Executive. His quote here is when asked about vaccinations he denied

threatening his former colleague and pull differential times I don't have

a gun, of course not. Be ridiculous. I thought that was wonderfully

po-faced. Let's bring up the picture of FT. It has the three members of

BHS, former members, on the front page. Mr Clarke, Mr Chappel and

Michael Hitchcock. Former CEO. Lucy, we can have a laugh and frankly, it

is probably unlikely Mr Chappel really intended to take the brunt of

this man's head, but 11,000 jobs on the line and there is no question

that it has been clock of Alcorcon clock up in the way that this

company has been run. Absolutely, you have done it to Pelo admitting

we knew nothing about retailing come as a former racing driver,

three-time bankrupt, huge questions three-time bankrupt, huge questions

take on a major concern like BHS and take on a major concern like BHS and

you are right. Above and beyond this hyperbolic language, 11,000 people

stand to lose their jobs. ?500 billion pension fund deficit and

there are huge problems and great sadness for many people racing

redundancy over this crisis. Yes, Sir Philip Green will appear next

week. That'll be fun to that will be colourful. The other sessions have

been interesting already. You are right, companies go bankrupt all the

time and new Company start-up, people lose their jobs, which is

terrible and companies create new jobs. Thing is as different here is

That is a real to do -- a real taboo That is a real to do -- a real taboo

and accommodation of that with the extraordinaire amounts of money the

owners took out of the company before it went bankrupt is pretty

toxic and shameful. Indeed. Quite a few people will be watching that

committee next week. The Daily Express, outrage and a bid to read

the EU vote. We know the computers crashed about this time last night.

When people tried to register to vote in the EU referendum. Thousands

of people were left unable to do so. As a result they've extended the

deadline but some people smell a rat? This is the claim from Fort,

that this is a conspiracy theory by some of the more stream fringes --

from a vote Leave. The computer system was crashed on purpose to

allow the Government to extend the deadline because they believe it is

young people have left it late and young people have left it late and

young people are more likely to vote Remain. It is a pointer very tough

for government campaigners to make that if the Government is so

concerned that people might have been prevented from signing up in

the last hour before the deadline, it really should be taking the same

rigorous approach towards sorting out the problem with Miss registered

EU nationals there have been Polish residents to eating pictures of

their polling cards that this shouldn't have. Some even have

postal ballots. There is a disparity with which the Government is

treating both sides. So we know there is a bit of a whiff of

something going on? I think if they are going to sort out the voter

registration problem is most evenhanded, they must make sure the

right people who want to vote cancelled and The People who

shouldn't must make sure they are taken off the electoral roll. It is

highly likely that a lot of those people who registered last night

will probably be young and those people who might decide it makes

sense to Remain. That is right. That said, I think the idea it was a

giant conspiracy is a microcosm of one of the arguments that the Vote

Leave campaign has made. On some of the wilder fringes of that argument,

the entire EU is a conspiracy by elites, Oliver forecasts that have

come from organisations like the IMF are part of the same conspiracy.

There is something paranoid in there but I agree with Lucy, it is

important to be evenhanded. Going on the eye. Interesting front page.

Brexit there will be blood, bold Yuvraj over Hitler -- Bodell right

over Hitler, vote Brexit and helped Isis. Some of the scarier headlines

we seen a domain message, less hysteria, more facts. Laudable

comment, but clearly whatever information is out there, one side

the other. It is as simple as that. the other. It is as simple as that.

I don't know. Perhaps a controversial view on this, that

there is a perforation of fax, organisations like the fact and UK

and the changing EU. There is the BBC! Go to our website! People are

still saying we cannot get facts. That is it. I think people need to

take responsibility. The problem is there is not a clear answer, people

have to engage their critical faculties and come to a conclusion.

My sense is the public are crying out to be told the right answer.

Exactly. People want to be led down a path. They don't want to make up

their mind about this on their own. That is right. Thus would be an IQ

for no elections ever. Lots of people wonder why this referendum is

taking place in the first place? I would say there are lots of facts

and you can look at them and make up your mind. That said, this is also a

call on what you think will be best for the country in ten or 20 years.

It comes down to a worldview, do you think the country is better off in a

tight alliance with other neighbours or if you think it is better off on

its own. That is a hard thing to boil down to facts. It is not

conclusion you can get a clear answer on the absolutely. But both

sides are exploiting that vacuum in certainty. Yes. Absolutely. The

headlines we have here, Boris saying the EU's calls with the same as

Hitler's, a premise are saying Isis would back Brexit, you should vote

Remain. It is ridiculous. I saw George Osborne told Andrew Neil

Brexit is like a snake. All of this vivid language has gone over the top

and some of the arguments being made are outlandish. We will speak about

The Telegraph in a moment. It's front-page lead concerns one of

seven suspending his partnership in protest over the wake of the

referendum is being held at handled but before that, another Tory MP,

Sarah Walton, has revealed she has defected from Vote Leave and will

vote to keep Britain in the EU. She says Vote Leave's claim ?350 million

could be saved to spend on the NHS is not true and that has contributed

to her decision to switch sides. For someone like me who has long

in public life, I could not have in public life, I could not have

stepped foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a

figure that I know to be untrue. And I think they know to be untrue as

well. If you are in a position where you cannot hand out the Vote Leave

leaflet, cannot be campaigning for that organisation. OK, Sarah

Woollaston going from Brexit to Remain full to the front page of the

delicate dial -- Telica at John Knox, Margaret Thatcher's former

Defence Secretary during the Falklands War. He has decided to rip

up his membership card for the Conservative Party. He says he is

disgusted by the way that David Cameron and George Osborne had been

running this campaign. Yes, Margaret Thatcher's Defence Secretary during

never ship cards saying the debate never ship cards saying the debate

has become so poisonous -- his membership card. And putting that

with the premise Janet George Osborne is otherwise he only blaming

that side? I think in a sense this is crystallising worldviews as you

said. If you feel very strongly pro-Brexit or a bit that data is

being misused and arguments getting too over the top, people are getting

fed up on one or other side. I suppose it is partly that Mr Cameron

has not taken the attack that -- the TAK that Harold Wilson did when he

stood away from the fray. David Cameron has been swinging punches.

Lots of people argued he should have stayed back and apart from anything

else that will make it harder him to sit around the Cabinet table with

all the colleagues once it is over a given they have been shouting at

each other the way they have. I think it is interesting. I've

noticed from speaking to friends that whatever size you were on using

the other side is manipulative facts and being outrageous and making

ridiculous assertions about history. A lot of this is in the eye of the

border. OK, on to The Guardian. Here is Hillary. Looking very happy on

the front page of The Guardian. She is the first woman to win the

backing of a major part in the US for the White House. This is

history. Yes, yet strangely it doesn't feel that much like history.

I think the big ceiling that was shattered was in 2008 when Barack

Obama became president, the first African-American president Hillary

Clinton did not get the nation that time around. I have been struck by

how little soap by the campaign has been about, hey, it's a woman. That

is a sign of progress because of that with the one thing people were

fixated on, they're perhaps would not be much to her candidacy. I

suppose the fact she is a woman is going to become much more central to

the debate now because she is dealing with a man who was a bully

and has been incredibly disparaging and has been incredibly disparaging

in public to women and is seen as a sad misogynist by some. Yes,

absolutely. This will come to the forefront, not least because Hillary

is a complex character that had this long history in the public eye as a

senator a first Lady. We seen her as a wife and politician and that is

interesting dynamic and it will be great to see how that plays out.

Briefly, Bernie still in the race. Why isn't he dropping at? I don't

know, the reason he is still there is he wants to have some influence

of the convention in Philadelphia and in July he thinks he has more by

staying in. I think that is doubtful. He has lost and is under a

lot of pressure from Democrats. He only very recently became a Democrat

to contest this is a registered Independent for years. Of Democrats

are angry about him continuing to go on and think he should get out. He

is doing .com's work for him. He is apparently chatting with Obama

tomorrow, maybe the president will have the thing to say. Finally,

Lucy, there is a fault in this dishwasher in the middle of the

Daily Mail. Why is that? This is a sweet picture of a fox, a rare good

news story. We are more used to hearing Fox's creeping into homes

and turning out rubbish or attacking young children. This is a sweet and

fluffy looking picture of a fox that has crept into the pits need into

the house and decided it would have a sleep between the dishes and

glasses. It is Fox News, fantastic. That was dreadful. One of the things

this made me think is that the internet not only is it playing

havoc with the business models of newspapers, it is taking over with

the news agenda. It is an internet meme and amazing what has happened.

We are speaking about it here on the venerable BBC. There you go. It has

been great having you in. Many thanks. Is it for the paper tonight

but before we go, these front pages have come in while we've been on

air. The Times says Vote Leave has been boosted by the support of the

chair of JCB, Lord Bradford. Tory MP Sarah Woollaston switches sides to

join the Remain campaign and on the referendum, The Sun features were

the audience members from the ITV TV debate this week, accusing the Prime

Minister of 11 so much uncontrolled immigration that part of his

hometown are now no-go areas. All the front pages online you can read

a detailed review. And you can see us there too with each night's

edition of the papers being posted shortly after we finish. Thank you.

Thank you a lot in. Goodbye. Good evening. Once again today the

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