:00:00. > :00:00.the National Grid says 24 hours' worth of electricity has been
:00:00. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:22. > :00:24.With me are Bonnie Greer, playwright and writer
:00:25. > :00:33.for the New European and former newspaper editor Eve Pollard.
:00:34. > :00:45.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
:00:46. > :00:48.In one of many polls in the weekend papers,
:00:49. > :00:51.the Mail on Sunday claims the Conservatives' opinion poll lead
:00:52. > :00:54.has been slashed in half because of Theresa May's plans over
:00:55. > :00:56.The Sunday Mirror claims their survey gives
:00:57. > :01:00.the Tories their biggest lead since 1991, with more than 50%
:01:01. > :01:11.Theresa May parks her battle tanks on Labour's
:01:12. > :01:14.lawn according to the Sunday Times as it reports on Tory manifesto plan
:01:15. > :01:17.to offer ?100 off energy bills for workers.
:01:18. > :01:19.A poll in the Sunday Express suggest one
:01:20. > :01:22.in seven Labour voters will switch to the Tories
:01:23. > :01:30.The Sunday Telegraph has an interview
:01:31. > :01:31.with Patrick McLaughlin, Chairman of the Conservatives,
:01:32. > :01:34.who claims that Jeremy Corbyn is not suitable to take
:01:35. > :01:38.on the responsibilities of Prime Minister.
:01:39. > :01:43.And the Observer reports a pledge from Lib Dem
:01:44. > :01:46.leader, Tim Farron, that he won't do any coalition deals,
:01:47. > :01:52.saying he wants the Liberal Democrats be the main opposition.
:01:53. > :02:03.There you have it. A little taster. A more in-depth natter about those
:02:04. > :02:09.papers with ease and Bonnie, how are we starting, kicking off with the
:02:10. > :02:13.Mail? What's interesting is here you have a paper supporting the Tory
:02:14. > :02:17.party saying that the Tory lead, which is meant to be huge, will be
:02:18. > :02:22.slashed, and this is the latest poll, we have to talk about polls in
:02:23. > :02:28.a minute, after tax U-turn. I think it is true to say the Tories rely on
:02:29. > :02:34.older people to vote for them, they're very worried about the
:02:35. > :02:37.triple lock. They also worry about older people because they are often
:02:38. > :02:45.freelance because there's no option after a certain as, and this is what
:02:46. > :02:54.Philip Hammond wanted to do after the Budget, they aren't going to
:02:55. > :02:58.vote for her. You have the Sunday Mirror, a Labour supporting paper,
:02:59. > :03:03.saying Jeremy Corbyn will have a total disaster and going through the
:03:04. > :03:08.polls. To be sympathetic for once to the editors of the newspapers, it's
:03:09. > :03:12.the first weekend we are having an election, there are no manifestoes,
:03:13. > :03:17.so you can't write about manifestoes. You can't really write
:03:18. > :03:21.about much other than the polls. I remember ordering polls when I was
:03:22. > :03:27.an editor, they're very expensive. But in the old days they would do it
:03:28. > :03:30.face to face. There's a sort of entertainment value in a sense.
:03:31. > :03:39.Polls are getting a very bad reputation in the UK. 2015 World Cup
:03:40. > :03:44.a disaster. The EU referendum was a multipronged disaster as far as the
:03:45. > :03:50.city was concerned -- 2015 was a disaster. So here they are back
:03:51. > :03:54.again and I think, as you said, there's no manifestoes yet so the
:03:55. > :04:01.only entertainment we can have until that comes along are the polls. It's
:04:02. > :04:04.interesting, listening to Eve, I suddenly thought, the Mail on
:04:05. > :04:08.Sunday, which is a little bit different from the Mail, this might
:04:09. > :04:17.be a dog whistle to their readership as this might be too if they think
:04:18. > :04:24.there is trouble ahead. Let's some it up, the Mail on Sunday is
:04:25. > :04:31.saying... The lead plummeted to 11%. The landslide they were hoping for
:04:32. > :04:39.is not going to happen. The Sunday Mirror... The Mirror has a blowout
:04:40. > :04:45.for the Tories. Yes. And then we have another paper here that has got
:04:46. > :04:50.another poll where Theresa May is laughing on the Sunday Times and
:04:51. > :04:54.there is some kind of... I would imagine the people who vote, and
:04:55. > :04:58.that's a very small percentage of the electorate, will they be paying
:04:59. > :05:03.attention to any of this to be honest with you? It is too early.
:05:04. > :05:10.It's too early but we've only got six and a bit weeks? My other
:05:11. > :05:15.feeling also as an editor, and they are very expensive, the polls, it's
:05:16. > :05:19.rather interesting, if you talk to politicians they'll tell you if you
:05:20. > :05:23.go out on the street and you open the doors to people, you can tell,
:05:24. > :05:28.if they don't look you in the eye, they want to get rid of you in the
:05:29. > :05:32.nicest possible way and you know the way things are going. The fact is if
:05:33. > :05:37.you're going to polls online, I don't know about you, but if someone
:05:38. > :05:42.says can I do a survey with you online I normally say no. If I
:05:43. > :05:46.happen to be in the mood to say yes, I'm not going to give it the full
:05:47. > :05:51.attention and I may not be totally honest because it's an advert, I
:05:52. > :05:58.want to get rid of it and move on. To go back to what you were saying
:05:59. > :06:04.about the Conservatives, their call voters is an older vote, Theresa May
:06:05. > :06:09.is using later in Crosby, who ran a campaign, that was the last
:06:10. > :06:15.campaign, the mayoral campaign, for Zac Goldsmith. That worked well,
:06:16. > :06:19.didn't it? It sure did. But in the general election 2015 he got
:06:20. > :06:24.through, they are using the same tactics they used for GE 2015, it's
:06:25. > :06:31.about stability, the Labour Party is all over the place, and stability
:06:32. > :06:35.soppy that's where they're going. That's the bottom line, if they
:06:36. > :06:39.going for this older generation, the ones they know will show up at the
:06:40. > :06:44.polling booth, then this is going to be a headline that is crucial. I
:06:45. > :06:50.think this will make them talk about it on Monday morning. The Sunday
:06:51. > :06:55.Times is saying that Theresa May is talking about tactics, parking her
:06:56. > :07:01.battle tanks on Labour's lawn and as part of wooing those voters, ?100
:07:02. > :07:08.off energy bills. Is that going to work? I don't think that Labour has
:07:09. > :07:12.got a lawn at the moment. They are rather lawnless at the moment. We
:07:13. > :07:16.all know energy bills are high and if you have children and the weather
:07:17. > :07:22.is bad, you spend a lot of money. Somehow I don't think ?100 is going
:07:23. > :07:27.to do it. Not for the people that read this paper. They have been a
:07:28. > :07:31.tiny box down here, Corbyn's office in chaos, that doesn't mean anything
:07:32. > :07:36.to those who read this paper as well. I'm going to say something
:07:37. > :07:39.that is counter narrative and counterintuitive, I'm sure people
:07:40. > :07:43.will agree, I think so far... There's a lot of things about
:07:44. > :07:48.Corbyn, and I have a lot of issues with him, but he is baked into a lot
:07:49. > :07:52.of people's mines, you either like him or you don't. There's not going
:07:53. > :07:57.to be any surprises or anything pulled out of a hat. Teresa May is
:07:58. > :08:01.all over the shop actually and is going to be interesting to see when
:08:02. > :08:06.she finally -- what she finally lands on when we get the manifesto
:08:07. > :08:10.and I don't think Labour is going to lose as much as people think. One
:08:11. > :08:16.thing John Curtice says, he is I think the guru of all this, got
:08:17. > :08:20.general election 2015 right and the EU referendum right, he said we are
:08:21. > :08:24.becoming more like the United States in that there are now safe seats,
:08:25. > :08:29.there are areas that cannot be breached. If we turn to the Sunday
:08:30. > :08:34.Express, they seem to think one in seven Labour voters are going to
:08:35. > :08:41.vote Tory. I disagree with Bonnie because I think you have the whole
:08:42. > :08:46.Brexit thing and you have Labour voters, particularly up north,
:08:47. > :08:54.voting for Brexit. The Tories are going for the North, Abe? And
:08:55. > :08:58.they're also going for Scotland -- aren't they? There's nothing up
:08:59. > :09:02.there, Scotland is off the table. The Scots may well go ahead with
:09:03. > :09:08.independents and I think they could get some seats in Scotland. The Tory
:09:09. > :09:13.leader of the last campaign didn't even put conservative on her
:09:14. > :09:17.billboards. It was her and stability. She has become rather
:09:18. > :09:22.well-known and well liked since. I think so but I think that is off the
:09:23. > :09:29.table. It will be interesting to see how many Labour candidates put
:09:30. > :09:33.Jeremy Corbyn on their campaigns. Some Tory candidates might not go
:09:34. > :09:39.with Theresa May either. It depends on how well you are known by your
:09:40. > :09:43.constituency. These are going to be a bunch of local elections and maybe
:09:44. > :09:48.this might be the first time when people can say I like her, I don't
:09:49. > :09:53.her party but I like her and she's doing a good job. I also think Tim
:09:54. > :09:58.Farron will do well. Let's go over to the Lib Dems and the Observer. We
:09:59. > :10:03.heard Vince Cable speaking earlier, talking to my colleague earlier, and
:10:04. > :10:07.he was saying there may have to be a rise in taxes somewhere along the
:10:08. > :10:13.line. Tim Farron says they are not going to do any coalition deals. He
:10:14. > :10:17.believes they are the only strong opposition. That's bad news for
:10:18. > :10:21.Labour because there was I hope perhaps there could be a coalition
:10:22. > :10:26.but he's decided this is maybe his moment and he's going to have a go.
:10:27. > :10:30.My real irritation about tax, and we all know we need more money in the
:10:31. > :10:35.national health, we need more money in schools, is I think the more we
:10:36. > :10:39.find out, we find there's bad procurement for drugs, the NHS pays
:10:40. > :10:47.much more for some drugs and other countries, and we need to learn to
:10:48. > :10:50.be good at it. I think the NHS should be depoliticised. It matters
:10:51. > :10:54.too much for it to be a political football. And I actually think we
:10:55. > :10:58.should think about what we should do with our schools, how we can use
:10:59. > :11:03.them more and make more of them. These are the two areas where each
:11:04. > :11:07.political party... That's their only playground in a sense. We can look
:11:08. > :11:12.at it in an emotional and intellectual way and say why do
:11:13. > :11:15.people always use the NHS as a football and education as a
:11:16. > :11:20.football, because there's nothing else for people to go this really
:11:21. > :11:26.into people and send a signal to them without making a big banner,
:11:27. > :11:30.NHS... That's why I think in a way Labour is doing something that is
:11:31. > :11:36.very interesting. Jeremy Corbyn has made this a Brexit party. I'm not a
:11:37. > :11:42.Brexit person but I see the logic of what he's doing because the
:11:43. > :11:46.homelands... The heartlands voted big-time for Brexit, so he's taken
:11:47. > :11:51.that of the table for Labour and he's saying, right, it's going to be
:11:52. > :11:55.a soft Brexit for you guys but let's talk about what matters to you, the
:11:56. > :12:00.NHS, education, he is trying to shift the conversation. If he can do
:12:01. > :12:05.that, and he may be able to manage that. The EU is saying that Theresa
:12:06. > :12:11.May pass claimed that she will be strengthened in the Brexit deal by
:12:12. > :12:16.this general election victory is the other front page story on the front
:12:17. > :12:23.of the Observer and it has been dismissed as nonsense -- Theresa
:12:24. > :12:27.May's claim. Whether you like her or not the election will be about
:12:28. > :12:31.Brexit because that's the next big thing and she's right. The fact is,
:12:32. > :12:38.I was a Remainer, but one of the things I think she will do is to
:12:39. > :12:44.weaken the Brexiteers in her party who do want hard Brexit. My other
:12:45. > :12:50.feeling is you have to lots of people negotiating. The Europeans
:12:51. > :12:55.are bound to say if you want to stay in... If you want any trade deals
:12:56. > :12:59.you have to allow freedom of movement and you have to allow all
:13:00. > :13:06.sorts of things which this country, like it or not, and I didn't, voted
:13:07. > :13:10.for. They voted to leave the EU. And without any doubt Brussels knows
:13:11. > :13:14.it's in trouble. You've got the French elections tomorrow, who knows
:13:15. > :13:21.how that will go. You got Italy and all these people. The problem for
:13:22. > :13:26.the United Kingdom, coming in as a single player in this, it's already
:13:27. > :13:32.got completely out of control with Donald Trump who now says after he's
:13:33. > :13:37.had a talk with Angela Merkel, I made a mistake, oh, God, I'm with
:13:38. > :13:44.the EU now. The hole back of the queue thing is back on the table
:13:45. > :13:49.again. -- the back of the queue thing. Theresa May is saying that
:13:50. > :13:54.they have to do this except, but they don't and Liam Fox has come
:13:55. > :14:00.back sending squillion is of our tax money, he has come back with
:14:01. > :14:06.nothing, no deals, nothing. -- except. I agree with Eve on this,
:14:07. > :14:11.this election is another Tory proxy war where she has got to quell the
:14:12. > :14:16.Euro sceptics in her party saying you don't have a mandate, you can't
:14:17. > :14:22.bring this up, but that's what this is about. Very quickly, a big day
:14:23. > :14:25.tomorrow for all these fitness gurus and charities, everyone is running
:14:26. > :14:31.for charities, the Sunday Times saying there's huge security for the
:14:32. > :14:36.London Marathon. We were saying earlier, I don't know if this is
:14:37. > :14:42.right, but should it be publicised in this way? I think you have to.
:14:43. > :14:50.After the terrible events in Paris this week, and you have to reassure
:14:51. > :14:55.people saying there will be people all along the run, and it is a long
:14:56. > :14:58.run, checking there is no terrible accident. You have the royal family
:14:59. > :15:03.and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William turning
:15:04. > :15:10.up, this is for their charity. This marathon is for their charity
:15:11. > :15:16.rather. And I also believe that it makes you sound as if you're in
:15:17. > :15:21.control. Of course none of us are in control because these terrible
:15:22. > :15:25.things keep happening. It is a tribute to the British stiff upper
:15:26. > :15:29.lip, we are going to do this and not be rattled by it. If anyone is
:15:30. > :15:37.wondering about the connection with the Royals, if you want to follow it
:15:38. > :15:41.on Twitter it is mind of a marathon. Bad language on the back of the Mail
:15:42. > :15:49.on Sunday. Not their bad language but... -- mind of a marathon. We
:15:50. > :15:55.come from the day when this guy first came on the scene, they called
:15:56. > :16:00.him nasty from the get go. I'm really happy that women are not
:16:01. > :16:05.putting up with this dude, it is really good. He's in his 70s, he's
:16:06. > :16:11.had a wonderful life, a wonderful career. From about 1978, 1979 and
:16:12. > :16:18.women aren't putting up with it any more. Women weren't paid enough...
:16:19. > :16:24.And now they are big stuff. They aren't putting up with this and now
:16:25. > :16:30.this old guy has got the message, good, go off with your nasty self!
:16:31. > :16:36.The also upset Serena Williams, I doubt she is bothered. She is
:16:37. > :16:44.laughing, she could beat him eight months pregnant! Sounds exhausting!
:16:45. > :16:49.Eve Pollard, Bonnie Greer, it's been wonderful! Thank you very much. I
:16:50. > :16:56.didn't do much there! Anyway, that is it for the papers. Thank you to
:16:57. > :16:57.both my guests. Coming up next it is Meet the Author.