30/04/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what The Papers will be

With me are broadcaster Rachel Shabi and political

Let's just take a look at some of the front pages before we speak to

them. The Mail on Sunday focuses

on pensions, reporting that Theresa May will bring in new laws

to prevent a repeat of the Sir Philip Green BHS scandal

if she wins the election. The Observer leads on this weekend's

meeting of EU leaders saying they want the UK to provide

guarantees to EU citizens living in Britain before any

trade talks can begin. The Sunday Times reports

that the other EU member states have rejected Theresa May's negotiating

position and accused her of living in a "parallel reality".

The Sunday Telegraph says the Prime Minister has rejected

the demands coming from Brussels with politicians on both sides

of the Channel warning that the talks could turn nasty.

The Sunday Express concentrates -- it also features Anthony Joshua,

who beat Wladimir Klitschko yesterday at Wembley Stadium. The

Sunday Express concentrates on the investigation

into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann,

ten years after she went missing. It says Scotland Yard's

prime suspect is a woman. And the Sunday Mirror has

an interview with Madeleine's mother, Kate, who says

she still buys her there we are. Now let's begin with

the newspapers. We are going back to the mail on Sunday. Lots of them

covering the election. What strikes me about it is Theresa May going

into bat and Jeremy Corbyn, a bit more predictable, on the matter of

business malpractice, if you like. Absolutely. Going after

irresponsible bosses. This revelation came from a Mail on

Sunday into the with Theresa May. If I lived in a country where the press

was regulated by the state, that would be how the interview would

read. It is very flattering. K the Mail on Sunday tend to support the

Tories. This policy pledge has been dubbed an anti-Philip Green Charter.

He sold BHS for a pound and left a massive pension deficit. This is the

Prime Minister pledging to introduce regulation that. Companies from

trading, or selling other companies, if that is a move to strip a pension

fund. You would think that regulation would exist to stop that

already. We go back to the days of Robert Maxwell. She is promising a

new look to make it illegal to recklessly put pension schemes at

risk. It is amazing that is not illegal already. It seems like a bad

thing. She was batting on Labour's to some extent. Lots of people think

she is parking had tank on the Labour lawn. You reach out to people

not in your core vote. You should not be so surprised she is reaching

out to that sort of territory. Let's go on to the Observer and talking

about Labour. They want to outlaw zero hours contracts. That sounds

nice ambition but they have become extremely common. This is

fascinating. That story is Theresa May wanting to interfere with the

free running a business. This story is Labour saying exactly the same

thing. Labour wants to deal with rip-off bosses and the rest of it.

This is called, unashamedly, left-wing pitch to British workers.

Theresa May's was easy Justin is standing up to British workers. It

is intriguing. Banning zero our contracts and putting a halt to

unpaid internships and ending the cap for public sector pay. I'm not

sure how it will work in practice. There is the argument of where do

you pay for it. Zero hours contracts pledged to ban is a smart move by

the Labour Party. It is recognising the economy has changed. One in 36

people is now in a zero hours contracts. To be clear, people don't

want to be on these terms. They don't want to go to work from week

to week and not know how many hours they are working. Flexible working

might suit some people but it is not the same as a zero hours contract

and nothing is guaranteed. They are different things. We have heard some

terrible stories about people on zero hours contracts. He was --

there was someone in a sports distribution centre saying that kids

were going home alone because parents were being randomly told to

work extra hours. The kids could not call them because they are not

allowed mobile phones in the buildings. You have to think, that

kind of thing, actually we do need to have measures to stop that

happening. Also flesh on the bones about how they will do it. It is a

good idea. How you will do it and make sure it does not cost jobs or

money is another thing. That is something we will not see in this

campaign. We still have six weeks to go. Let's go on to the European

Union being beastly to this country. A front page of the observer says,

the EU threatens Theresa May on trade talks and citizen rights. It

is very combo to the language. Be you has basically said to Theresa

May -- the EU has basically said to Theresa May these are the

parameters. We have established these parameters. We will need to

have some agreement on EU citizens. We will need to have agreements on

Northern Ireland and the border and we will need agreements on the exit

bill. All that before we move on to what the future policies, the

trading relationships and everything else looks like. That is just a

statement of the parameters of the negotiations. It is extraordinary

this has been played as the EU trying to stitch up... It is the

obvious story to put on the front page for a Brexit election.

There is a lot of newspaper hyperbole going on. Then we are

going on to the Sunday Times. This wonderful expression about living in

another galaxy, according to Brussels. I am not sure who said

that. It is a bit disobliging. It is extraordinary that Theresa May is

getting a reputation for being a good negotiator. The EU is saying

she sucks at it she is not able to comprehend basic terms that are

being offered to her. There is quite the disparity between her image and

the reality. In the real world, the Prime Minister will not be doing any

negotiating. It is up to people like David Davis and so one, and the

negotiators. It depends on what the outcome will be. It is a

negotiation. What the front pages are saying is the British government

has one position and the EU has another. That is the bottom line.

They will negotiate to try to find common ground. It does not bode

well. This fascinating dinner in the week where the Prime Minister had a

meeting. All these European leaders. They phoned up Angela Merkel and

said we have a different issue. We are in different galaxies. A few

hours later, she said, Brexit means Brexit. There is a fascinating story

to be told about that. I would love to read about that in the future.

Let's go onto another story. Rachel, I think it is your turn again.

Labour donor. This is in the Sunday Times. Labour donor to stand. I

think it is a threat to stand against him, isn't it? Someone

called Michael Foster. Michael Foster is a publicity guy. He has

very top shelf clients, including Chris Evans, I'd think. Top drawer,

I think you mean. He got suspended from the Labour Party because he

likened supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to Nazi storm troopers. Here's a big

founder of the Labour Party. He has given more than 400,000 to Labour

since 2010 according to the Sunday Times. He thinks that what they is

now, six weeks ahead of an election, is to change its leadership. The

fascinating thing is that is not backed up by the polling. Buried in

the story is a poll. Last week, the Sunday Times did a poll made it the

splash. This week's is buried in the story right away at the bottom. It

shows that Labour has closed the gap to 13 point is clearly a big gap but

it has been closed by ten points with the bat is amazing given that

Jeremy Corbyn and his team are up against his reputation and the vast

majority of the printed press. And yet he is catching up. Quite

rapidly. Still a long campaign to go. If he keeps catching up by ten

points per week he will win a landslide. Opinion pollsters have

had an even worse time. It is noteworthy. Whatever you think will

happen in the future. Closing the gap by ten points is noteworthy,

isn't it? It is one poll. If newspapers are going to write

stories about one poll, they need to choose which one they choose. Let's

go across the Atlantic. James, we have a very familiar man giving a

very familiar salute. An important day for Donald Trump. 100 days is or

is a big deal in American politics. 100 days since JFK started with the

100 days being a thing. If there were not an election on, the Sunday

papers would be full of analysis pieces about Donald Trump's 100

days. As it is, it is not such a big deal, which is probably a good

thing. How many other through the want to think about what has

happened in the last 100 days and what will happen in the next? There

will be 1200, 1300 days to go of this presidency. I was just

wondering if people had calendars with the countdown, crossing off the

days. I am sure they do. That is quite a lot of days. Apparently he

is finding it harder than he thought it would be. It is always used as a

sort of measure about how the new boy, or new woman, is getting on.

When you tick of the things that have been achieved against the

things you want to do, it is controversial. There is a disparity

between what he said he would do and what he actually in reality has

managed to achieve. Whether that is because the legal system intervened,

as was the case with the Muslim ban as it came to be known. That is not

constitutional. Or whether it is parliamentarians saying, no. We are

not going to sanction the building of the wall or the repeal of the

Bama care. One way or another the things he has wanted to do has been

obstructed or cancelled out. It is interesting that that does not seem

to have really affected his base. His supporters are still really

happy with him. Indeed. It has not really dented his popularity of

reputation among his supporters. That is curious. It makes you think

what actually would change that. Someone who has had a good hundred

days is his daughter Ivanca. It is interesting the way she is seen as

the one person who could tell the president what is going on and

present a good place to the world? I don't really understand how this is

possible. Members of the German press obviously should be asked. We

actually don't know what your role is. What in fact does the first

daughter do? You can imagine them saying, we have had a look at the

past. This is not in your constitution. I think that is the

question that needs to be repeated. She is seeing James as a stable

centre in the middle of the White House. It is a good business. Who is

she accountable to. She and Jerry are regarded as this voice of

reason. She is his daughter. She has inherited some kind of sense. I am

intrigued how that has fit together. It is about where he has got the

sense from. Is it just in comparison to her father who is completely mad.

The old sport of boxing, coming back with a wallop and Anthony Joshua. It

was a heck of a fight. 90,000 people going mad at Wembley Stadium. It is

a sports story on the front page. It does not happen that often these

days. There was a time when the Grand National winner, sport does

not get onto the front pages quite as often. At the end of the day a

man has battered another man in front of 90,000 baying fans. The

older I get the more uncomfortable I get. I did not watch it but I love

the stories about a comeback from a sixth round knock-down. Everyone

loves those stories. That is it from the papers. My grateful thanks to my

guest. Let's take a look at tomorrow's FrontPage is --

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