:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:21.With me are Bonnie Greer, Playwright and writer
:00:22. > :00:34.for the New European and former newspaper editor Eve Pollard.
:00:35. > :00:38.I'm really looking forward to tonight, ladies.
:00:39. > :00:42.The Mail on Sunday claims the Conservatives' opinion poll lead
:00:43. > :00:45.has been slashed in half because of Theresa May's plans
:00:46. > :00:50.Theresa May parks her battle tanks on Labour's lawn,
:00:51. > :00:54.according to the Sunday Times, as it reports on Tory manifesto
:00:55. > :01:02.plan to offer ?100 off energy bills for workers.
:01:03. > :01:09.The Sunday Express claims "One-in-seven Labour voters turns
:01:10. > :01:20."Tory" in a forthcoming political earthquake as the paper
:01:21. > :01:25.reports that Labour voters are deserting Jeremy Corbyn.
:01:26. > :01:34.Jeremy Corbyn "puts UK at terror risk" is
:01:35. > :01:37.The paper reports that Tory campaign strategists claim the Labour leader
:01:38. > :01:39.would not take the right decisions to keep the country safe.
:01:40. > :01:42.The Observer reports a pledge from Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron,
:01:43. > :01:44.that he won't do any coalition deals, saying he wants
:01:45. > :01:46.the Liberal Democrats be the main opposition.
:01:47. > :01:59.You think no one will pay attention to polls after the debacle of the
:02:00. > :02:05.general action, UK polls are getting a bad reputation abroad. The
:02:06. > :02:12.emphasis on the polls is ludicrous, in a way. We don't know if the polls
:02:13. > :02:17.are hurting, which is a phenomenon where they start talking golf each
:02:18. > :02:23.other but yet the papers seem to build their headlines based on
:02:24. > :02:27.polls. They are spending a lot of money on polls. As an ex-editor, I
:02:28. > :02:32.can tell you, you make the investment and probably someone from
:02:33. > :02:41.management said, do you really want to spend that money on a poll
:02:42. > :02:44.question mark --? You up quite bright, they have been totally
:02:45. > :02:51.thrown and the baby and the half water because they have been wrong
:02:52. > :02:57.on so many things recently. Shall we start with the times? I am sure we
:02:58. > :03:04.will mention polls as we go through each one. Eve, kick us off. We are
:03:05. > :03:13.talking battle tanks on Labour's lawn. I'm fascinated by Iru Mugan --
:03:14. > :03:20.Theresa May because she has... She said she was going to work we are
:03:21. > :03:26.just about managing the people who are working hard, they could be Tory
:03:27. > :03:30.voters, were Thatcher voters, and in have much money, so she is saying
:03:31. > :03:39.she will give ?100 off energy bills in a manifesto for workers. We know
:03:40. > :03:44.Energy bills are higher, we know you are slightly locked in the
:03:45. > :03:50.short-term thing where you cannot prove they have agreed they will
:03:51. > :03:54.charge the same. It is very hard to save money on energy and if you have
:03:55. > :03:59.a family, it is very expensive. So, she's offering them that. She is
:04:00. > :04:05.also saying that this poll, which is a you got poll, I have to say also I
:04:06. > :04:09.think the other problem with polls is when they are face-to-face, they
:04:10. > :04:15.were a lot more correct. And now they are online, I don't know. She's
:04:16. > :04:22.saying that people trust her with the NHS than trust Jeremy Corbyn.
:04:23. > :04:27.But there is no way to measure anything like that. I know that I
:04:28. > :04:29.will say something that is counter marriages and maybe counterintuitive
:04:30. > :04:34.and I have my issues with Jeremy Corbyn, I think he is playing this
:04:35. > :04:40.quite well and I think people will be surprised... Playing it well how?
:04:41. > :04:45.What Jeremy Corbyn has that to reason made doesn't have is that he
:04:46. > :04:49.is who he is, you know who he is going to be, you like -- vote
:04:50. > :04:56.whether you like it deal or not. We don't know what Theresa May is going
:04:57. > :05:02.to do. She wasn't going to do this, now she here, so, I... I would
:05:03. > :05:05.normally say that might be true but I think Jeremy Corbyn has been such
:05:06. > :05:11.a disappointment. Well, I don't think they are going to win enough
:05:12. > :05:14.to form a government but I don't think they are going to be wiped out
:05:15. > :05:19.either. That is what I'm trying to say. The front page of The Times,
:05:20. > :05:23.talking about Jeremy Corbyn, you said he is playing it well and yet
:05:24. > :05:31.the paper reports that a key and cider is saying that he can't cope,
:05:32. > :05:38.the office is ruled by chaos. That wouldn't surprise you. If you think
:05:39. > :05:41.about Jeremy Corbyn, he has been a backbencher, probably went to the
:05:42. > :05:44.allotment in the morning, went into the House of Commons in the
:05:45. > :05:49.afternoon, never took the web, having voted the way he wanted to.
:05:50. > :05:54.But why haven't they reported that Theresa May has lost key people this
:05:55. > :06:00.week, she has lost people who are not in her office anymore, that is
:06:01. > :06:05.not on the front page. But it is not chaos. But no one is investigating
:06:06. > :06:11.it. I'm just saying that if you start to look at the way the papers
:06:12. > :06:15.going, they are making a narrative for her where she is flip-flopping
:06:16. > :06:20.and he is not flip-flopping. The express is saying it is working too
:06:21. > :06:29.well tonight, one in seven Labour voters are actually turning blue. If
:06:30. > :06:36.they are, that is not bad. If the way that it has been predicted, the
:06:37. > :06:41.Conservatives will get 3006, if it is only one in seven... I think Tim
:06:42. > :06:54.Farren will pick up my Jeremy Corbyn loses. But story I do believe in the
:06:55. > :06:58.Mail on Sunday is a tax U-turn. I do know and have been discussing with
:06:59. > :07:02.ancient people of my age that people are very, very worried that she is
:07:03. > :07:07.going to tax part-timers, that is often older people, she is going to
:07:08. > :07:12.remove the triple Bock. Everybody says, well, millennial is have no
:07:13. > :07:17.money and pensioners have all the money, that is slightly weird
:07:18. > :07:21.because of house values and all the rest of it. But you've got a lot of
:07:22. > :07:24.millennial is who actually will need millennial is who actually will need
:07:25. > :07:30.to save money so they can going to care homes. To actually knock the
:07:31. > :07:36.people who are your main voting constituency which is what they may
:07:37. > :07:39.be, Philip Hammond wanted to put more tax on self-employed people,
:07:40. > :07:44.and that was very unpopular, and they had to withdraw from it because
:07:45. > :07:50.it had been a David Cameron pledge. But what you are saying, basically,
:07:51. > :07:58.is that we don't know what Theresa May is. I've got pictures of her
:07:59. > :08:08.with a big remain sign and a big smile on her face, dear reason me, I
:08:09. > :08:10.will never do do another election. To be fair, we don't know what she
:08:11. > :08:14.is saying because we haven't seen is saying because we haven't seen
:08:15. > :08:18.the manifesto. For people who are just joining us, let me just remind
:08:19. > :08:23.you what we are talking about. We are referring to the mile and this
:08:24. > :08:30.is yet another poll that has been run, the Mail on Sunday says that it
:08:31. > :08:35.will be leader has gone to the selection because the poll was so
:08:36. > :08:39.high. This is what Philip Hammond wanted to do in the budget. He did
:08:40. > :08:44.want to put higher taxes on the self-employed. And then there is
:08:45. > :08:48.this constant talk about the triple lock. The triple lock is lovably
:08:49. > :08:53.something that will perhaps have to be looked at because if you've got
:08:54. > :08:56.austerity and trouble with the NHS and people don't have enough money
:08:57. > :08:59.for schools and the rest of it, the money will have to come from
:09:00. > :09:06.somewhere. My feeling, and I think a lot of people, feel bad because it
:09:07. > :09:12.is our money, it is wasted. You see in the NHS, you've got people in...
:09:13. > :09:16.Not doctors and nurses but management earning more than the
:09:17. > :09:22.Prime Minister. You've got all sorts of... Bonnie, I'm going to ask you
:09:23. > :09:27.to skip ahead to the Telegraph simply because I'm trying to get
:09:28. > :09:31.through three more. There is another... We've got to hear, I
:09:32. > :09:37.think. We are going to start off with this online pharmacy because
:09:38. > :09:42.this is really quite disturbing. Bonnie, remind us what the story is
:09:43. > :09:48.about. This is about an online pharmacy backs by the NHS, it has
:09:49. > :09:56.admitted selling a bleaching agent as a revolutionary Europe. I have to
:09:57. > :10:01.say, as someone brought up in America, this is kind of an American
:10:02. > :10:08.story in the worst possible way. What is the drug for? It is
:10:09. > :10:15.basically for some kind of breathing problems. It hasn't aged in it but
:10:16. > :10:22.it is the kind of story that indicates the shape that the NHS is
:10:23. > :10:27.in at the moment. And I think, I think one of the things that Labour,
:10:28. > :10:33.and I think why this might be smart, is that the NHS is one of the call
:10:34. > :10:37.election issues, V core issue, always, in this country. If you can
:10:38. > :10:44.find a way to show that the NHS is being eroded under a particular
:10:45. > :10:48.comment, it does strike a chord. The thing I don't understand is why,
:10:49. > :10:52.actually, you depoliticise the NHS, because it is so important, you set
:10:53. > :10:57.up a Royal commission with doctors, with nurses, would make wives, with
:10:58. > :11:00.matrons, remember when they used to be matrons, and the matron had some
:11:01. > :11:09.say-so about over the bar should the clean doorknob. But if you keep the
:11:10. > :11:12.NHS as a political football like education, then it becomes a
:11:13. > :11:17.political football. Each and that can take to does for doing different
:11:18. > :11:27.things with it. Instead of sorting it out. We have had a statement said
:11:28. > :11:35.to us by the company that make the drug. The name of the day is
:11:36. > :11:40.pharmacy to you. Regulators are investigating them. People who have
:11:41. > :11:49.used this was suffering from vomiting and breathing problems. The
:11:50. > :11:59.pharmacy pharmacy spokesman has told the Sunday Telegraph that this drug
:12:00. > :12:02.is no longer available from them. As you say, disturbing that you have to
:12:03. > :12:09.get that point. Something which should perhaps say is that online
:12:10. > :12:13.pharmacy says it is a revolutionary new jewel, don't believe them, go to
:12:14. > :12:26.your doctor. Let's turn to the Times. Jim cooked up nuclear clash
:12:27. > :12:34.in the suburbs. Apparently, Kim who needs money because he needs staff
:12:35. > :12:39.of the missiles, is going to fight it at South Korea, he has got,
:12:40. > :12:44.apparently, they've got... North Korea have a house in black page
:12:45. > :12:50.that has been making money by some sort of deal and it is apparently
:12:51. > :13:02.fraudulently claimed against London insurers. -- North Korea have a
:13:03. > :13:07.house in Blackheath. Seriously, they have discovered that North Korea has
:13:08. > :13:14.this secret house in Blackheath. A strange place to choose. Trying to
:13:15. > :13:17.raise money to buy plutonium or whatever you need for the missiles.
:13:18. > :13:27.At the bottom of the story, North Korea says it is complete nonsense.
:13:28. > :13:37.Either of you running the marathon tomorrow? Sadly not. In my mind. On
:13:38. > :13:47.the front page of The Times, huge security net from marathon. The Duke
:13:48. > :13:51.and Duchess of Cambridge are going because it is for their charity this
:13:52. > :13:57.year. I also think because of what has happened in Paris, there will be
:13:58. > :14:02.strong security on a day like this. I always wondered why they put that
:14:03. > :14:06.kind of story in the paper, in a sense. Of course there is going to
:14:07. > :14:12.be a huge security net, why does it have to be in the paper? I suppose
:14:13. > :14:15.to reassure people. And maybe for people to take some sort of
:14:16. > :14:21.identification with them. We are going to come back to this in half
:14:22. > :14:31.an hour. Don't go away. Even Bonnie, a pleasure. To stay with us. We will
:14:32. > :14:34.be back at 11:30pm. Coming up next, it is The Film Review with Simon
:14:35. > :14:37.McCoy. Don't go away.