23/04/2017 The Papers

There's a Royal send off for tens of thousands of runners in this

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

With us are Rosamund Urwin, columnist at the London Evening

Standard, and France 24's UK Correspondent Benedicte Paviot.

Welcome to you both. The front pages, starting with the Financial

Times: It leads with the French elections -

and former banker, Emmanuel Macron going head-to-head

against the far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the race to become

France's next president. The Guardian says Macron

is now favourite to win the result redraws

the French political divide. The Times says voters

in France have humiliated the country's two established

political parties. While the Daily Mail describe it

as a "new French Revolution". The i features the former

Labour Leader, Tony Blair, telling voters to put aside party

loyalty for the sake of the best The Daily Telegraph questions

Labour's credibility on defence after they say

Jeremy Corbyn ruled out ever The Daily Express claims a foreign

aid row broken out over claims taxpayers' cash

was being given to a government And The Daily Mirror suggests

Madeleine McCann may have been snatched to order

by slave traders and sold. Lets's begin with what has been

happening in France tonight. In the first round of the French

presidential election. They say here in the Times that the French elite

have been humiliated. We ought to be used to political upsets by now.

After what we've seen in the last 12 certainly. Although, as you put it

this morning, this was the most likely result on polling. -- 12

months. Given that there were four potential candidates to get through

to the second round, and there now just the two candidates. There was a

possibility a debt result. You have Marine Le Pen looking victorious

here. Although she did actually come second. Or was interesting about her

speech was that it sounded like a victory speech. Now, of course, we

will have two weeks of the two of them campaigning and going head to

head. In what I think is interesting is that immediately we have Fillon,

we have him immediately coming behind Emmanuel Macron. The current

Promina stop also coming behind a Man U Micron. You'll be interesting

to see where the vote goes. But one assumes that the Emmanuel Macron

really does look like the favourite. -- behind Emmanuel Macron. What is

very interesting is that this portrays a deep division within

France. There are a lot of unhappy and dissatisfied people. Much as

there are in the United Kingdom, who feel forgotten, not listened to,

left by the wayside. And all 11 candidates, presidential candidates,

were offering solutions. The two that are going to face off in the

second round mean that the centre-right and centre-left parties

have been rejected. Just to confirm that headline fare, it is

extraordinary. Is the first time in six decades, that the centre-right,

represented by the former Prime Minister of Nicholas Sarkozy, a

-- Nicholas Sarkozy, Fillon. This didn't work out for those parties.

It is monumental. A novice, who created a movement just months ago,

Emmanuel Macron, and then the Front National, in that second round. I

know he took full responsibility for it, but wasn't the Socialist

candidate, Hamon, because people had had enough of Hollande, being

punished? Yes. This was an accident waiting to happen. When President

Hollande said before the last election, he said Jeffrey on what

happens, and then failed to deliver, except for a little at the end of

his mandate, that is why he was forced in December to save, which is

extraordinarily rare for an outgoing president, I will not set again. --

he said, Judge me on what happens. Look at the parliamentary elections

that will be held in June. Because you have this nervous, who is not

for the right or left. -- novice. Can either of these two get elected?

Whoever of the two is elected, a parliamentary majority. Because

otherwise, if you are just a president, and you cannot command a

majority in the Parliament, you are to do much. The Guardian says it is

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. There are wider ramifications in

terms of what that means for the rest of Europe. Where framesets. As

a one to remain in the EU? Andrew Laughlin said the message on Twitter

saying, how would each of these candidates affect the Brexit

negotiations? What kind of lumber they take to Britain? Absolutely.

And Marine Le Pen is the anti-EU candidate. And Emmanuel Macron loves

Europe. -- what kind of attitude will they take to Britain. This is

why we saw the euro go up on the anticipation that this was looking

good billion in two weeks time. And also we saw people across that. --

was looking good for him in two weeks' time. What about the talk of

a Frexit? Is that take up much time for people in France? I think the EU

is in the DNA of the French people in a way that it is not, in a way,

in the continent, it is in the DNA. In Britain, not so much. I think

there has always been that doubt. Given a four to be part of it when

you want to, and not when you don't. Dennis Lillee schizophrenic -- there

has been a schizophrenic attitude to Europe. Again, what I think is

interesting for politicians around the world watching us, and looking

at the wider phenomenon on, you have the Brexit, OK not called right by

the polls, but that was a rejection of the EU, but a rejection of

globalisation and immigration. You then had Donald Trump. So it is

interesting to have seen the result that happened in the Netherlands,

and we are now seeing tonight in France, and if indeed Emmanuel

Macron goes on to win, politicians are getting a real kicking. And I

think to the pollsters for a second, but I think there is a real

antiestablishment mood, and in anger, economic anger, political

anger, a cynicism of populations. But voter turnout was high. It is

consistently high in France. People take that responsibility in the

boat. I went to London today and it was extraordinary to see people with

babies and in wheelchairs... All queueing up for about an hour and a

half to go and vote. Good to see people using their democratic vote.

Lets's look at the Daily Telegraph, then. Labour's nuclear implosion. It

is that Labour's credibility is in tatters. So-called went on Andrew

Marr and said that he ruled out ever using Britain's nuclear deterrent. A

little while afterwards, the Labour Party had to say, actually, of

course we still support the Trident nuclear deterrent. Every body knew

the Jeremy Corbyn does not support nuclear weapons. We are in a weird

situation. But think when Theresa May's said, was asked, said she

would not hesitate. -- Theresa May it was asked, she said. This has

been a difficult issue. Parties have always been divided, since 1945

there is or has been division. I think you had to pretend that you

would use nuclear weapons. That is the most effective strategy. We are

in a system where people say, of Corso would, and that works as a

deterrent itself. But of course, what is the point in hitting a

button, when you are just critical more innocent people? Are we all

exist in this sort of lie that they would. -- of course I would. You

should never threatens the not prepared to carry out. You just hope

you never had to use it. That is why it is called dissuasion. Some very

top commanders, former commanders, the former first Sea Lord, he said

this really rests alienating the armed forces. Lets's very quickly

look at the i. Forget party leadership, says Tony Burke, saying

vote tactically. Purview Kennedy as you can vote for, irrespective of

their party, if a conservative, or whatever, they go to deliver the

best Brexit deal, that is so you should vote for. -- vote for who

ever you want to vote for, irrespective of their party. He said

he felt so passionate about Brexit that he was almost motivated to

re-enter British politics himself. The thing is, Tony, you can want to

re-enter, but then knew how to find the right entry. And what role. It

is what extraordinary to see him say that. I don't know this is something

that he is sort of testing the waters in terms of where he would

fit in... A new centrist party? You don't think they would have learnt?

I think Labour has learnt from the split in the 1980s. It is

interesting, because Tony Blair, a lot of people would like to have

seen them go away and not return. But this is now am aware it is less

unappetising to people, because of Brexit, and because we have an

extreme option at the general election. I feel as though there are

many people who previously disagree with Tony Blair ever saying anything

ever again, but feel that political lines have been so redrawn by

Brexit, they have hit refresh on everything, and it is not the most

unwelcome intervention, weirdly. I will move us onto our last paper,

the Daily Telegraph has a picture of Bryony Gordon, one of their

columnists. She has raised a huge amount of money to be the London

Marathon. Oh sure that was very difficult. How you do it, I don't

know. She will write about it in her column tomorrow. They will be

fantastic to read. She has done a great job. She has really raise the

profile of mental health issue s. And she got the royal family

involved. She got Prince Harry to talk about what happened after her

mother's death. We know about the stiff upper lip stereotype of the

Royal family. They do tend to shy away from controversial issues, even

ones that should not be controversial. Citing what she has

done to get all of that coverage for it, and then to go and run the

marathon, and to raise all that money, and the matter charity, the

official charity, there does well. -- so I think what she has done to

get. And all those runners, amateurs, raising huge amounts of

money. Think all that money for such worthy causes. About the mental

health, I think it is extraordinary. As the Daily Telegraph rightly

points out, unprecedented attention to an overlooked cause. We cannot

say that enough. Then as you have physical injuries that are more

visible. Of those injuries are just as real, and that needs... And it is

commendable that Prince Harry, Prince William, and the Duchess of

Cambridge have got this worldwide publicity for this.

That is it for the papers tonight. Very nice to have