26/04/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the Political Commentator, Jane Merrick

and Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with.

The Financial Times leads with the White House's pledge to cut taxes

and 'unleash' the US economy. The i reports on the news that two

football clubs have been raided as part of an investigation into

allegations of tax fraud. A poll on the front of the Metro suggests that

Theresa May is Britain's most popular leader of the last forty

years. The Prime Minister is pictured on the front page of The

Daily Telegraph - greeting the President of the European Commission

in Downing Street this evening. The paper reports that Britain will be

tied to Europe's human rights laws for another five years. The Times

leads with a warning from the pharmaceutical industry that the

world's biggest drug companies could abandon Britain unless the NHS

receives an extra ?20 billion a year. And finally, The Guardian

reports that large numbers of foreign fighters are abandoning

Islamic State and depleting the ranks of the terror group. We will

look at some of those in more detail. Jane takers to the Telegraph

with Theresa May keeping Britain tied to human rights laws. The

Telegraph are saying the manifesto when it comes which we are expecting

in a few weeks will make no mention of the UK pulling out of the

European convention on human rights. This is something she spoke about

last year, the right of the party wanted this wrapped up in the Brexit

hill but I think the reality of this is that it'll be too much of a

distraction to have to go through that as there is an election going

on and she has the capital to do this. She has a huge poll lead and

she needs to appeal to voters in the centre so she can irritate the

right-wing. How do you see the destruction argument Martin? It is a

valid argument, there is an electoral tactic here, trying to

keep a very simple, that is a clear strategy that they are adopting but

secondly there is a straightforward practical issue that when it comes

to delivering legislation this was a manifesto commitment by David

Cameron to replace the Human Rights Act which is all silent to what

would theoretically happen if we pulled out, they would have to have

some sort of replacement in the domestic law and it's a very

complicated thing to do. Whether it is right or wrong is a different

debate but on a practical level it is complicated and the government

has to devote an enormous amount of energy to the deal. I think they

simply want have time to do this. The photograph implies that her and

her counterpart are getting along very well. This is our so-called

great enemy of Europe are having an almost clinch there. Heaven forbid.

Takers to the front of the Metro which takes us to the popularity of

Theresa May. This is a poll from my paper that they are stolen.

Basically what it says is that she is the most popular leader, 61% of

voters judge is the most capable candidate ahead of Tony Blair, who

had 52%. Margaret Thatcher 40% and now this is the most capable of the

leaders who are available so I suppose you might posit that against

Jeremy Corbyn who is not well rated I suppose. You measure it against

that's where the other leaders are measured against... Clearly the

comparison between Thatcher and major something people have made so

this will be delightful reading to Tory essential officers who were

playing on Theresa May's strengths as the leader. They will be happy.

We heard in the House of Commons today and she was repeating this

line and we can see why she is, strong and stable leadership and she

repeated I don't know 12 times. We were talking about the repeating of

lines earlier and how much it gets to the point when people do get

thoroughly sick. They'd do but a home that cuts through and I think

people only take away one line and that will be what they have done

today as well as her coalition of chaos. I suppose if you think back

to the Brexit debate and the referendum then there was the take

back control which was repeated ad in the martyrdom but it does cut

through and resonate. Maybe that strategy is right. In terms of

policies you spoke about the triple pension block whereby the pension

will go up by three different determinants and we are not quite

sure where they are going with that at the moment? Yes she was asked by

Angus Robinson to scrap it and she didn't so it is clear that it is on

the table. It's possible this could be a positive argument, she could

say we're just going to ease this slightly, it doesn't have to be

taking so much money away from pensioners but she can make the

argument that money is needed for social care and as she said earlier

she has the political capital to do this I think it would be a tough

choice. Pensioners do vote in large numbers. They do but the question

would be whoever going to vote for instead and it depends what they

come up with. I know they are assessing different options but if

they increase inflation and this is close with that level anyway so it

wouldn't make a huge amount of difference that would give them more

flexibility in terms of finances coming forward. The front of the

Times has a very ominous photograph with North commune missiles in range

of US. This is very concerning and it has been for a few weeks but

there is this terrifying rhetoric from Admiral Harry Harris is the top

US commander in the Pacific saying if it flies it will die, that sort

of rhetoric and we hear it from Donald Trump but from other people

in the administration, I think what is needed is a cooler talk and it is

very worrying that I think maybe they see if they step up the strong

rhetoric it will terrify North Korea but I'm not sure it will. Also they

are trying to pressurise China which is the big strategy and when Donald

Trump keep saying this is a problem which has to be resolved, of course

there is a danger that he talks itself into a corner and gets the

point where he has to do something because he is so committed to saying

we have to this out. Clearly his whole strategy which is a high risk

one. His strategy is to hope that the Chinese can exert leveraged on

North Korea and I'm not sure why really because to remove the threat

altogether would be an enormous step and unfortunately while they still

have weapons and while they are developing weapons is problematic

because you still have an unstable leader causing danger. One of the

North Korean arguments featured last evening here was they took one look

at Colonel Gaddafi got rid of his nuclear weapons and look what

happened to him. Yes. That is where they come from. The front page of

the Guardian, Martin and this is another huge international foreign

affairs. With particular reference to the so-called Islamic State. It

is good news in a sense that Islamic State is being depleted, on the

retreat it seems in Iraq and Syria and so on. That is broadly a good

thing and reduces the appeal and becomes harder for people to go

there and much less appealing and our people on the back foot seemed

to not be as successful as they once were. The flip side is that people

are starting to leave and from a domestic point of view they talk

about Britain who have been arrested by Turkish authorities on the

Turkish Syrian border having been in Syria and apparently they are facing

charges there and could face charges here if you came back. There is a

big concern here among domestic security about people from their

coming back. It is unclear how many people how many will, there is a

theory that some people just want to martyr themselves and therefore not

many will but anybody who does who has had any battle experience for

example is going to be highly problematic. I'm not entirely clear

if we're talking about people whose mindset has been changed as a result

of leaving and that is different. Yes they can live Syria and Iraq and

have they left the Islamic State completely? Every time there is an

attack in Europe, Isis loves to jump on it because it knows it is being

weakened in Syria and Iraq and wants to appear strong in Europe terrify

people in cities in Europe. This does show that they are being

severely depleted in this countries but as you say it is whether they

are leaving Islamic State mentally as well as physically. Some people

have certainly left that area but haven't left that ideology behind

and the role... The role Turkey plays once they arrive in Turkey

will be interesting. That is positive because they have been more

robust at closing the Borders and try to pick people up. Time to

squeeze to Morin. Let's talk football. The taxman tackles

football elite. In regards to West Ham in Newcastle today. This will

continue to evolve over the coming few months where this extensive

road we don't know the rights and wrongs of this. Clearly there is a

major investigation which could end badly for the people in these clubs

and on other clubs as it widens. It is widening as you say. I think

football is going to a terrible time with repeated scandals. They are

having an incredible management issue and financial issues. It's not

a new thing unfortunately, in Spain you had Messi being convicted

therefore tax offences or a tax offence I should say. This is trying

to minimise these people who are well paid in a rich industry who are

allegedly trying to minimise tax in ways that according to the Fifa may

not be legitimate is quite concerning I think. Difficult if you

are a Newcastle fan who has just been promoted to the Premier League.

They shouldn't be worrying about things like this. We have one

minutes less to discuss the sponsorship of the M1 motorway. It

is quite a strange suggestion. I had to check the date on the paper. The

head of the AA is suggesting you could have sponsorships of

motorways, the story he is proposing is Morrison's and other supermarkets

to get investments for road. The thing is when you drive up the

motorway you see adverts for lots of things for service stations and it

is one step. I find it depressing. They don't want to attach themselves

to the monotonous prospect of driving along a motorway. The sale

of public assets and the sale of the name, I find it is up to them of a

football club but certain things should remain free.

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