24/04/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look at the papers.

With me are Miranda Green of the Financial Times

and Christopher Hope of the Daily Telegraph.

We start with the Financial Times which reports on the positive

reaction from the financial markets to Emmanuel Macron's progression

to the second round of voting in the French election.

The I reveals Labour's plans for Brexit, including assurances

for EU nationals living in the UK The Daily Express claims a study

shows just 45 minutes of exercise a day can prevent dementia.

The Metro says a law firm used legal aid to pay for bogus claims

The Daily Telegraph leads with comments by the head

of the university admissions service that students shouldn't

worry about finding jobs straight after graduation.

The Guardian reports he remained at a campaign group is targeting

parliamentary seats currently occupied by pro Brexit politicians

with an army of half a million supporters. The Times says there

will be a bill of 2 million euros. And a report that GPs are not

spotting cancer symptoms in patients with some being sent away three

times before being correctly diagnosed. That is in the Daily

Mail. Around, we will start with the election. The I unveils the Brexit

strategy. This general election has been called by Theresa May for

tactical reasons. She wants to increase their majority in the

Commons, partly because she wants to deal with Brexit. Labour is pleasing

neither levers nor Remainers. They have to come down on one side or the

other. A few nights ago we had the extraordinary spectacle of the

Shadow Foreign Secretary saying to the BBC Labour has not decided which

side of the fence it is an in terms of Brexit. Pollsters are watching

this group of voters who they are describing as I am normally Labour

but. Unfortunately for Labour people in both the Leave group and the

Remain group are not supporting Labour. It is not clear to the

voters because they say they want to safeguard the good things about the

EU like workers' rights which are very important to Labour voters, but

actually, they will not go against the results of the referendum. I am

not massively wiser tonight about which side of the fence they have

decided to come down on. It does talk about Labour wants to safeguard

the rights of EU nationals living in the UK. It says that as Miranda was

saying, they accept the referendum results, but they want to safeguard

workers' rights. There is no mention on the front of the paper about

immigration. It does still seem a little bit muddled. Immigration is

not mentioned at all. It is all too well the EU national issue, that is

across the House of Commons. Theresa May's position is pretty reasonable

on that, she wants to make sure the rights of Britain's overseas are

also looked after before sorting out the EU nationals here which is fair

enough. It does seem, I think it is an attempt, they are going to repeal

this Great Repeal Bill but re-badge it with something else. The concern

is they are going quite far. There may be a way of justifying a second

referendum. The big issue on this is they are trying to go towards the

Lib Dem and SNP position which is more pro-EU. If you believe there

might be a minority government at the end of this with Corbyn as a

Prime Minister, which is a possibility, then maybe this puts it

more in the ballpark. I am not entirely sure that will happen. The

French polls got it right last night, bang on. In France. We have

said all the non-Tory parties have said they will not do deals. To be

fair to Labour and this is an important point, it is the most

recent party when it comes to Brexit. All the others are fairly

united generally so they have a difficult thing. It is a genuine

dilemma. The clear thing they see if they would not accept no deal as a

serious option,... Unlike Theresa May. So a clear demarcation there.

Christopher, the front page of the I as well, Ukip are targeting Muslims.

They want a ban on the Vale and this is being seen as frankly targeting a

particular section of society. This is their social integration

announcement today. Peter Whittle was the deputy chairman and Paul

Nuttall was there today. It was a bit of a messy press conference.

They were trying to say they wanted to ban face coverings. I said does

that mean beekeepers as well. If you are walking into a big public

building in a beekeepers sit? That is a face coverings. You were being

facetious? I was just trying to pick apart and they said no, it is not

the case, so it is about going after Muslim people rather than

beekeepers, that was the point of a question. It became a bit of an

issue. It is quite divisive. There are a small minority of Muslim women

who wear burqas and they are saying it is an issue in some communities.

Does Paul Nuttall have a point when he says a majority of Muslim women

who wear these veils, they are the ones who do not necessarily speak

much English, they are the ones who do not have good job opportunities,

it is a way of opening up their lives by removing this barrier that

he feels is an important and good thing? It is a really complicated

issue. I am no fan of the Vale as it happens, but what you found in

France is if you ban the veil, attacks on individual women who are

walking the streets become the target of vigilantes groups who feel

they are defending the values of the native population against Muslim

values. It is not the way to go. You can have a debate about the veil.

Banning should be an absolute last resort. It is a personal liberty

issue. And deciding to fight your culture wars through what women wear

is very disgusting. Paul Nuttall thinks he is ten years ahead of

everyone and we will all catch up with him. Who knows, it may well be.

Page five of the Express. Ukip vows to fight extremism with sharia law,

they want to get rid of the local sharia courts in the UK. Corbyn has

just got backing from the Communists for the first time in years they

will not feel any candidates. This is the story on the right,

rock-solid Labour set to crumble in Wales. This is fascinating. Since

the 2015 election, one of the things we have all noticed is politics has

become much more complicated when you have different things happening

in different regions of the UK. This is the first poll of what will

happen probably in Wales, and shows a real collapse for Labour support

in Wales, and the Tories are likely to pick up ten seats from Labour.

Wales has been voting quite a lot for Ukip in recent years, and if

that is replicated in other places as well, if all the Ukip voters

bleed across to the Tory party in this coming election, that will

hugely boost tourism in seats where they are fighting Labour and the Lib

Dems. -- it was hugely boost Tories. This poll which shows a good result

for the Tories is actually something which means good news for the Tories

in other areas as well where Ukip support is going down. Wales voted

overwhelmingly to leave the European Union, so perhaps given Labour's

thinking on how to deal with the Brexit question, the poll may not be

much of this prize, but Labour have dominated every election Wales says

World War I, since 1922. For them to lose now, earthquake. It will be. We

have these local elections which everyone forgets about next month

which gives us a feeling for where it is going. The Tories are chasing

votes in the North of England. When you look at how Labour has been

wiped out in Scotland where it was once totally dominant, if the same

thing happens in Wales, the poor Labour Party, this is a piece of

political history being made if it ends. But as you say, the polls.

There are six weeks to go, let's not forget. A lot of campaigning. A

Remain group seeks to oust pro Brexit MPs. Tony Blair pitch rolled

to use the jargon in the world at one yesterday. He wants to get

people who are anti-Brexit to tactically vote and try and throw

out the Brexit MP. It is launching tomorrow. This is a Guardian

exclusive. They say they will hit 20 seats held by big names like Iain

Duncan Smith, Theresa Villiers and Kate Hoey. This is a real chance to

use their numbers to reshape Parliament and take away the Brexit

MPs. We will move on because there is quite a lot of papers to get

through. Let's go to the Telegraph. Pictures of smiling Marine Le Pen.

She is stepping down as the leader of the front National to say she is

the candidate for all citizens and not just representing this one

political outfit. Marine Le Pen is the daughter of John Marine Le Pen.

So the name might be tricky to distance herself. She has been

trying to leave the party behind. The origins of this party were with

the Vichy collaborators, or with the Nazi regime. They have a past which

is anti-Semitic and racist and about how France got out of our cheery

which -- Algeria which was considered a betrayal of pride.

Marine Le Pen has been trying to leave that image behind her. She has

fallen out with her father. She is saying I am no longer Front National

I am standing as an individual. Of course, they will still be the

policies of the Front National. What happens now is crucial about whether

both these candidates Micron and a pen can gather enough support from

outside their natural support base to be victorious in the second

round. 15 years ago, her father was blocked because that tactical vote

worked. She wants to avoid the same fate. We know which candidates the

-- we know which candidate the financial markets are happy with, Mr

Macron. The FTSE and the DAX and other markets are all up. He likes

free markets, he lacks the European Union, he likes free trade. It is

the tonic they need. They cannot believe their luck. This could be

the end of the Brexit revolution sweeping through Europe. Look at the

money going up. Massive rises. Also, what they are saying is if the

political dangers can be put to one side, some of the economic

fundamentals in Europe and eurozone are looking more cheerful so allows

people to make judgments on the economy again, not on political

risks and that is one reason why the markets are going up. The euro zone

economy has been doing OK. The Daily Mail briefly, GPs failing thousands

of cancer patients, Christopher? It is alarming. GPs pick up these

issues before they have to take them on to consultants in hospital. There

are saying some are not being caught. This is what GPs are for.

Unfortunately, it really affects survival rates because if you pick

up cancer earlier, there are avenues of treatment. I would say no

election. On the front page of the Daily Mail. They are the biggest

selling middle market paper and they think the election is not selling.

Interesting. The Daily Telegraph thinks it does sell. We know what

our readers like. You are on the ball, Christopher Hope! On the

bottom is the cartoon which we will bring up briefly for our viewers.

Drum roll, drum roll. Here it comes. It says, in the event of nuclear war

we must immediately declare a bank holiday.

What is that a reference to? It is funny! Matt always finds a charming

way to bring the stories together. This is the idea that has been

wowing between the Labour Party and the Tory party about whether Britain

should keep the nuclear deterrent and also Jeremy Corbyn's main

election idea so far that there would be extra bank holidays. He did

say he would keep the Strategic Defence Review if he became Prime

Minister. He did. Don't forget you can see the front

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evening you can watch it I will be back with more news at the

top of the hour. Miranda and Christopher, thank you. Goodbye.

Good evening. It has been turning colder through the North today

today. It was cold enough in northern Scotland to see some snow

lying on the ground. Not unusual for