:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:22.With me are Alison Little, Deputy Political Editor
:00:23. > :00:28.at The Daily Express, and Ned Simons, Deputy Political
:00:29. > :00:36.The Financial Times reports that new demands driven by France
:00:37. > :00:38.and Germany have raised Britain's Brexit bill
:00:39. > :00:46.The Metro leads with Theresa May's claim to Jean-Claude Juncker that
:00:47. > :00:59.she'll be a 'bloody difficult woman' during the upcoming negotiations.
:01:00. > :01:01.The "I" leads on what it describes as "misleading
:01:02. > :01:05.warnings" about statins, saying thousands of Britons
:01:06. > :01:11.are dying of heart attacks and strokes as fewer patients use
:01:12. > :01:16.The Daily Telegraph says it has learned that the Government
:01:17. > :01:19.is mulling over plans to offer cash hand-outs to diesel drivers in a bid
:01:20. > :01:26.to encourage them to scrap polluting vehicles.
:01:27. > :01:31.The Daily Mail says the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are seeking
:01:32. > :01:34.?1.3 million in damages over the publication of topless photos of
:01:35. > :01:39.Kate taken by paparazzi photographers in France.
:01:40. > :01:46.We will start with the Daily Express - keep taking your stat ins. A
:01:47. > :01:53.number of other papers have this on the front page as well. Lots of
:01:54. > :02:01.concerns about the side-effects of statins, but this report seems to
:02:02. > :02:06.suggest that those effects should not stop people from taking this
:02:07. > :02:18.life-saving drug. The belief is that statins... I am doing a Diane
:02:19. > :02:26.Abbott! I knew I would do this. 300,000? Don't you mean 300 million?
:02:27. > :02:30.Statins? ! They are actually saying that patience, if they know they are
:02:31. > :02:35.taking statins and are told about the side-effects, they will start
:02:36. > :02:38.feeling them, like restless muscles and poor sleep. If they are not told
:02:39. > :02:44.and they don't know they are taking statins, they don't feel them. So it
:02:45. > :02:50.is psychological? Yes, psychosomatic effect. Some of the professionals
:02:51. > :02:56.are saying when you take medicines there is a huge list of side effects
:02:57. > :03:01.because the manufacturers are trying to protect themselves, so they are
:03:02. > :03:06.saying, don't list the side-effects because in themselves they worry
:03:07. > :03:12.that people, the patients into experiencing them. The fact is, Ned,
:03:13. > :03:17.this suggestion seems to be that there may be issues on the side, but
:03:18. > :03:21.it is worth taking them despite that. Gasbag, and it is weird. We're
:03:22. > :03:26.used to package is having more warning. You think about cigarettes
:03:27. > :03:39.and alcohol, all the warnings. Now they are saying, no warnings. I
:03:40. > :03:43.think people think that every day there is a different story about
:03:44. > :03:47.drugs being good for you are bad for you. It is difficult for the
:03:48. > :03:52.consumer to know what to do, really. Dump at the warnings on, then. Then
:03:53. > :03:57.they will have no idea! On the front of the metro - Theresa May, I will
:03:58. > :04:03.be bloody difficult to Jean-Claude Juncker. It is not even her line,
:04:04. > :04:08.which winds me up a bit. It is what Ken Clarke said about her, caught
:04:09. > :04:18.off Mike on Sky News. This is a clear attempt to paint her as a
:04:19. > :04:23.strong negotiator. Like fact that when she comes up with a good line,
:04:24. > :04:28.that grabs the front pages, it is not even has. I cannot even imagine
:04:29. > :04:32.Theresa May swearing, even in private, even when she stands on a
:04:33. > :04:40.plug. That is why it doesn't feel right. It felt right in Ken Clarke's
:04:41. > :04:43.mouth - a bloody difficult woman! As Ned were saying, it was in pretty
:04:44. > :04:50.much all the papers, the lead story on the Ten O'Clock News, on ITV,
:04:51. > :04:58.here and everywhere. It seems to have done the job, Alison, of
:04:59. > :05:02.responding to what could be bloody difficult negotiations, frankly,
:05:03. > :05:18.from Jean-Claude Juncker, Guy the horse
:05:19. > :05:22.that -- Verhofstad. There was another story we will look at on
:05:23. > :05:29.that, but it doesn't do her any harm. People who like Margaret
:05:30. > :05:34.Thatcher will be attracted to this idea. The fact that Theresa May says
:05:35. > :05:37.very little, if you watch interviews, she can't offer half an
:05:38. > :05:41.hour and say very little, so one statement like that that is slightly
:05:42. > :05:47.swearing, suddenly it is the most interesting thing is she has said
:05:48. > :05:50.all week. Does it mean that everyone is to become a sailor over the next
:05:51. > :05:59.six-week, turn the air blue then keep the front pages at the? She has
:06:00. > :06:07.got Horace for that. -- she has got Boris Johnson for that. All the EU
:06:08. > :06:10.sources are coming out, and there was a report in the German
:06:11. > :06:14.newspaper, and now every news outlet, the BBC as well, going to
:06:15. > :06:20.their own sources and saying, how difficult will you make it for
:06:21. > :06:25.Britain? Jean-Claude Juncker and others, it is almost as if he is
:06:26. > :06:29.trying to undermine her election pitch. Mrs May's official spokesman
:06:30. > :06:35.told lobby journalist this morning when asked, Theresa May will be in
:06:36. > :06:40.charge of the talks, assisted by David Davis. It undermines her
:06:41. > :06:45.strategy, because she is trying to say to voters, who do you want
:06:46. > :06:53.talking to the other 27 leaders - Jeremy Corbyn or me? And they are
:06:54. > :06:58.saying, you are not going to be talking to us anywhere. It will be
:06:59. > :07:01.interesting to see how she responds. How can they make a remark? More
:07:02. > :07:13.hard-core Brexiteer 's will be outraged. Of course they were going
:07:14. > :07:17.to be like that. The idea that it would be this rational process, this
:07:18. > :07:26.is politics. I don't think we should be surprised that the negotiations
:07:27. > :07:30.will be like this. What might you say, of course, it was likely to be
:07:31. > :07:37.difficult, of course, it will be a tortuous process was perhaps. That
:07:38. > :07:40.has not been what David Davis, John Redwood, Jacob Rees Mogg, Iain
:07:41. > :07:46.Duncan Smith, that is not what they have been saying. Iain Duncan Smith
:07:47. > :07:50.and Jacob Rees Mogg, it will take two years to sort this out. Not a
:07:51. > :07:55.problem. And a lot of people believe that. You don't know how long it
:07:56. > :07:59.might take. This could be bluster. The start of negotiations, a lot of
:08:00. > :08:02.tough talk. It doesn't mean that it will be that hard and it could just
:08:03. > :08:06.take the two years. It could end up being a very good deal, but the idea
:08:07. > :08:11.that there wasn't going to be a lot of noise around it - that was always
:08:12. > :08:15.going to be the case. It could be incredibly hard and we could end up
:08:16. > :08:19.crashing up with no deal at all, and that what the Brexit campaign said
:08:20. > :08:24.was a little optimistic, perhaps. The front page of the Financial
:08:25. > :08:34.Times - the side bar, Diane Abbott's issues today, which are taken, but a
:08:35. > :08:40.much more in-depth analysis of the problems concerning the Shadow Home
:08:41. > :08:47.Secretary. On the inside page of the Times. Labour policy in tatters
:08:48. > :08:51.after Abbott's interview to forget. After my own very poor start to the
:08:52. > :08:56.session, she is a very experienced politician and television performer,
:08:57. > :09:02.and it was a terrible interview. The Times got a fantastic picture of
:09:03. > :09:09.Nick Ferrari. He looks so happy, and he did so well, he absolutely
:09:10. > :09:11.skewered her on her vagueness. Not only is this the woman who would be
:09:12. > :09:17.Home Secretary in six weeks if Labour wins, she was not just
:09:18. > :09:22.faffing, she did not correct herself. She did not immediately
:09:23. > :09:29.correct herself about how much the policy would cost. She lost it. I
:09:30. > :09:33.don't know what happened. The line from The Times, and it is great,
:09:34. > :09:37.they are saying it gets even worse, because labour say that this policy
:09:38. > :09:40.will cost ?300 million, and they say it will be even more because they
:09:41. > :09:45.haven't factored in training and equipment and inflation and things
:09:46. > :09:48.like that. Very hostile. Ned, even if she had got the figure she was
:09:49. > :09:54.hoping to grasp, that figure is wrong anyway, and it plays into this
:09:55. > :10:00.whole sense, for some people, that Labour are just not with it, not on
:10:01. > :10:09.it. I think that was why this was quite damaging. Diane Abbott, in
:10:10. > :10:13.defending herself, it plays into the attack line that Labour are not
:10:14. > :10:16.competent and do not have their act together. A lot of Labour policies
:10:17. > :10:22.are popular. The Conservatives will say that even if the idea is a good
:10:23. > :10:26.one, you have not costed it properly and you are not able to articulate
:10:27. > :10:29.it, let alone put it into practice. And I think that is why it did
:10:30. > :10:34.matter and it was not just a small gaffe. It was deserving of the
:10:35. > :10:39.reporting that went around it. Briefly, Alison, the Daily Telegraph
:10:40. > :10:43.- Tory cash hand-outs to scrap diesel cars. Ministers under
:10:44. > :10:47.pressure to get tough on drivers and improve air quality. Ahead of
:10:48. > :10:58.Thursday's council elections, which some people keep forgetting about.
:10:59. > :11:01.This was after the Government said it would appeal against the High
:11:02. > :11:04.Court decision last week, which said that they cannot keep delaying this
:11:05. > :11:08.until after the election, so they have had to come out with this and
:11:09. > :11:10.they are talking about this idea, and saying that as early as Friday,
:11:11. > :11:19.probably an inconvenient time for us, some compensation to diesel
:11:20. > :11:22.drivers who want to replace their cars, their engines, or to retrofit
:11:23. > :11:28.their engines to be clean. I am outraged that some of the car
:11:29. > :11:33.companies, I think they are bang to rights for falsifying their air
:11:34. > :11:37.quality tests, which then led people, encouraged people, to buy
:11:38. > :11:42.these diesel cars, and it the taxpayers, who are going to end up
:11:43. > :11:46.bankrolling it and not the car companies. I don't understand. It is
:11:47. > :11:51.an interesting point, Ned, because the Labour Government, in allowing
:11:52. > :11:55.car manufacturers to continue making diesel engines on the quid pro quo
:11:56. > :11:59.was that they would find a cleaner way of doing it and they were given
:12:00. > :12:04.time, and they have not done it. Also, the wider point, it is good to
:12:05. > :12:09.see the environment back on the front pages. Air pollution is
:12:10. > :12:13.particularly an issue which affects a lot of people, children in schools
:12:14. > :12:21.and cities so it is good to see that back now. Finally, the Guardian,
:12:22. > :12:26.Ned, three pictures there of the Prime Minister eating a chip. It is
:12:27. > :12:35.not quite her Ed Miliband bacon sandwich moment. In such a
:12:36. > :12:38.controlled campaign, with events in close rooms with activists and few
:12:39. > :12:42.members of the public, any photograph like these, where she
:12:43. > :12:48.looks slightly more human, you could argue it makes a lot better. The
:12:49. > :12:56.chip looks worse than she does! Her nail polish matches the ketchup. Are
:12:57. > :13:02.you saying its planned? A planned chip. This is not a mill
:13:03. > :13:05.abandonment? Now. OK, right. Alison, Ned, thank you for looking at some
:13:06. > :13:08.of the stories behind the headlines, and thanks to you for watching. --
:13:09. > :13:21.this is not a Milind Tandon moment? After Monday, a chilly night to come
:13:22. > :13:29.across the clearer floral parts in the north and west of Britain. Here
:13:30. > :13:31.is a view from Ayrshire. It was in western Scotland that the