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keep you up-to-date with that throughout the day. That is all for | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the sport. Now, the papers. Hello, and welcome to our look | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
at the Sunday Papers. With me are the Deputy | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Europe Business Editor for the International New York Times, | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Preshant Rao, and the Sunday Times' Let's get you up to speed with the | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
front pages. The Mail on Sunday claims | :00:26. | :00:39. | |
the Conservatives' opinion poll lead has been slashed in half | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
because of Theresa May's plans over The Sunday Mirror claims | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
their survey gives the Tories their biggest lead since 1991, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
with more than 50% of the vote. Theresa May parks her battle | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
tanks on Labour's lawn, according to the Sunday Times, | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
as it reports on Tory manifesto plan to offer ?100 off | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
energy bills for workers. A poll in the The Sunday Express | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
suggest one in seven Labour voters will switch to the Tories | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
in the upcoming election. The Sunday Telegraph | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
has an interview with Patrick McLaughlin, Chairman | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
of the Conservatives, who claims that Jeremy Corbyn | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
is not suitable to take on the responsibilities | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
of Prime Minister. And the Observer reports a pledge | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
from Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, that he won't do any coalition | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
deals, saying he wants the Liberal Democrats be | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
the main opposition. Hello to you both. Let's plunge | :01:27. | :01:40. | |
straight in with the Mail on Sunday. Tory lead slashed in half after tax | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
U-turn. What U-turn, and which poll? It is extraordinary. Other polls | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
elsewhere have the Tories well ahead, sort of 48, but the Mail on | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
Sunday suggests it is down to 40- wanted nine. It is a triple the | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
refusing to rule out any tax increases, refusing to contribute to | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
the triple lock on pensions, and the commitment to .7% on aid, which | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
appears to have gone down quite badly with the court Tory heartland. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
The interesting thing about the poll they quote is that the fieldwork for | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
the interviews was done later, yesterday after the story started to | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
bubble about tax. It is a curious one because we know that the | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Chancellor is looking for cash because he told us he was. He had | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
his tax proposal effectively told he could not do it because it broke the | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
last manifesto, so it won't be a surprise if the Conservatives has to | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
find some more money and raise taxes to do so. How many of these things | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
are real shockers? It is hard to tell which poll is to be believed. | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
If any! I feel like still we should take all of these with a pinch of | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
salt and an understanding that the polls have a margin for error. The | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Mail on Sunday does note that this would leave the Prime Minister with | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
a majority of 46, which is more than she has currently. This is curious, | :03:21. | :03:32. | |
it is the other thing with all of this, the Brexit effect on all of | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
the parties. This could revive the Liberal Democrats we are told, | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
because they are unashamedly pro the EU, but at the same time because the | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Conservatives and Labour have been divided over this, some uncertainty | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
about what impact that could have on a more conventional election | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
environment. I am sceptical about overall figures because this time | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
round there will be tactical voting going on. There are a lot of domain | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
is who still not happen, and can see situations where you are living in a | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
stitch in C, people are voting tactically, not the way they would | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
normally vote, just to make a point about exit. And the interesting | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
thing about trying to make a comparison is that Brexit is | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
something where every vote had the same value, whereas the in situ | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
disease, this country operates things and makes it hard to know | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
where their support is. The dream party is not a huge force in | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
politics, but they were saying they would territory the lean back | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
withdraw to have the Lib Dems a more successful run at it -- green party. | :04:48. | :05:00. | |
If a 7000 vote Tory majority in one constituency could swing the result, | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
they have two coordinate in some way. Let's move on to the Observer, | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
which should appeal to both of you because you are reporting for an | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
international audience. How foreign is this British election? This is a | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
man who could be quite influential in Brexit terms. Yes, you will be | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
running the European Parliament side of Brexit, who is critical of | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
Theresa May, saying this is a nonsense, that there are pure | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
political considerations that meant she called this debate. Of course it | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
was. To some extent he is just stating the obvious. This is what | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
politicians do. Precisely, the fact it is coming from a federalist and a | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Belgian to boot means it will not go down well. It is a classic Observer | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
story, I can't see it running on the Mail on Sunday or the Sunday Times. | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
Do you think there is a big risk for politicians from the EU because of | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
the pressure in commenting on the UK election this time round? | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Absolutely, in the run-up to the Brexit referendum that incredibly | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
powerful politicians from all over the world, including Barack Obama, a | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
lot of their comments became toxic. At the same time it is worth noting | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
that these are largely facts, that this was a bitter cold decision, but | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
when it comes down to it there are numerous instances of elections in | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
order to strengthen their hand, but look at Greece, it did not change | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
that much. I'm not sure 27 other hunter Israeli care. That is an | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
interesting person. The radical Prime Minister saying I'm going to | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
show that the weak people are on my side and therefore the EU will have | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
to listen to us, but it did not work. Dash-macro Greek. | :07:26. | :07:38. | |
We know that he is great friends with Norman Lamont. An awful lot of | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
this is about giving Theresa May some wiggle room after the | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
negotiation. The idea that there is a two-year period that takes us into | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
2019, and then the concern that Britain would then be in full | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
pre-election mode, and so if she wins, and nothing is guaranteed, she | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
has an extra two years to deal with that, to maybe get a longer | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
transition period. So you think that could strengthen her hand, if she | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
does not have that fear of a general election immediately after these | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
Brexit negotiations? Yes, it gives her strength to be weaker, which is | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
a strange thing. The Sunday Times. This is interesting. Theresa May | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
parks her battle tanks on Labour's lawn. This was on the news channel | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
yesterday lunchtime. I guess the campaign has not officially kicked | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
off. The policy fight has started. Theresa May, when she first became | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Prime Minister, struck everyone as being surprisingly interventionist | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
for a Conservative, and this is another example of this. This is a | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
policy we have seen before, except it was a labour policy that was | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
pilloried. Now the Prime Minister potentially suggesting that the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Odyssey is that the Prime Minister will use the Conservative manifesto | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
to cap the utility bills for those paying standard tariffs which have | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
been dubbed a rip-off. It is interesting how Theresa May is | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
looking to peel off some Labour voters where she can. This is your | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
paper's front-page story. It is fascinating. I have seen previous | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
evidence saying that if you put the same policy to voters, they will | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
either supported or won't support it, depending on who offers it. The | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
policy could be identical, but if they don't like the person offering | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
it, it won't help. Precisely, it is like you could make a deal with | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
China? Richard Nixon because he was Republican, but the Democrats never | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
could. It is a crazy policy. The Tories criticised it when Ed | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Miliband came up with it, and other people piled in and said it is | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
economic nonsense. Why stop at utility bills? Why not put a cap on | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
what you pay for food in a supermarket, or in a restaurant, no | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
starter can cost more than ?5 question mark I worked in a country | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
where this kind of stuff went on, called the Soviet Union, where | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
prices were controlled. I am exaggerating, but it seems odd. We | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
have a privatised energy system, so just make sure there is proper | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
competition. How does it look from your perspective on as a business | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
journalist? I agree. It is hard to understand how you can make this a | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
feasible, working policy. The idea would be theoretically you would | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
promote competition and make it easy for customers to switch so naturally | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
companies would only be able to offer lower prices. Unfortunately, | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
this does not seem to have been the case in Britain. It is pretty easy | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
to switch. It is basically because we are too lazy. Is that true? I | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
don't know, but it is annoying. You go to a different shop to buy a | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
different product, but the last time I switched my electricity, I don't | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
remember it coming out a different colour or a different flavour, or | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
being more powerful than my previous electricity. It is a pure financial | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
thing. Life is too short. We have all got more interesting things to | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
do. Well maybe we will have more interesting things to talk about as | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the pain continues. Talking of which. I don't know if we can see | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
this on camera. This is a survey in the Mail on Sunday, proof that the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
paper is not taking everything in its opinion polls too seriously. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
This is one of my favourite things about the British elections, that | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
there is a sense of humour. Which type of dog reminds you of party | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
leaders? Theresa May is a labrador. Tim Farron is a poodle, and Jeremy | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Corbyn is a stray. A labrador, that is interesting. They are a bit | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
docile, aren't they? She is clearly not a Rottweiler. I am not very good | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
on dogs. I have a cat at home. Not the best person to ask. There are | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
lots of questions in this survey, covering all kinds of things, | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
including whether voters think Theresa May is like Helen Mirren in | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
the Queen. There is a bit of a generational issue. One about Albert | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Steptoe, which probably passed dozens of people by. Precisely. The | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Mail on Sunday know that demographic. But be ready for more | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
of this. Have pity for those of us who work in the newspaper industry | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
because there are lots of these inside pages to fill. It will get | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
more and more desperate. I don't think there is too much pity, but I | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
know there is an election that both of you are excited about which is | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
happening in France as we speak. Peter, your paper has been following | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
this. As a weekly paper, there must be a dilemma about how you cover | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
this next Sunday. We have the first round of voting today, with 11 | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
candidates. The top four are really competing, of whom two will go | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
through to the run-off two weeks from now. So next Sunday will be | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
fine because we will be in the middle of it. The interesting thing | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
today is that it is so wide open. We have got Marine Le Pen from the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
National Front. Emanuel has emerged from nowhere. They are both the | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
front runners, but only just ahead of the traditional conservative who | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
has a Welsh wife and a generous expense account, and the Jeremy | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
Corbyn of French politics. They are both behind. We can see Manuel | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
there, he has just voted in Paris. Lots of attention for him, of course | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
one of the front runners. The Sunday Telegraph has got a very striking | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
photograph to tie in with that election result. Yes, the headline | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
is "France on the brink". Every time we come into an election, we say | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
this is the most important election the country has ever faced, but | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
France is very interesting in the sense that these two frontrunning | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
candidates, we don't know, if they were to win, the future of France | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
and the EU, they are big questions that will quickly need to be | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
answered. France's future relations with Russia. There are some really | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
big issues at stake that extend far beyond France. The impact of the | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
vote will be felt much further than the borders of that one country. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
This is an election we should care about? Very much so. It is slightly | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
odd for us because it happens in two stages, but it is mathematically | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
possible that we have a run-off between Marine Le Pen on the far | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
right and the candidate on the far left, which would be an | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
extraordinary result. They are both fairly sceptical about the euro. | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
They are both sceptical about the EU. But very different points of | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
view. The last time we had a National Front when I in the lead, | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
it was Marine Le Pen's father. Some could not bear the thought of him as | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
president. Presumably this is a big dilemma. It might be a case of | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
voting for the least worst option. I think if we have what the polls are | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
suggesting, that would be fairly straightforward, although if you | :16:40. | :16:51. | |
were centre right... I suppose some people on the right that would peel | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
off and go to Marine Le Pen. But the other, nations are very interesting. | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
Any last thoughts on that? These four are so tightly trumped. -- | :17:07. | :17:21. | |
clumped. It is hard to tell until you get to the ballot box. | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
Just a reminder we take a look at tomorrow's front pages every | :17:24. | :17:31. |