02/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Alison Little, Deputy Political Editor

at The Daily Express, and Ned Simons, Deputy Political

The Financial Times reports that new demands driven by France

and Germany have raised Britain's Brexit bill

The Metro leads with Theresa May's claim to Jean-Claude Juncker that

she'll be a 'bloody difficult woman' during the upcoming negotiations.

The "I" leads on what it describes as "misleading

warnings" about statins, saying thousands of Britons

are dying of heart attacks and strokes as fewer patients use

The Daily Telegraph says it has learned that the Government

is mulling over plans to offer cash hand-outs to diesel drivers in a bid

to encourage them to scrap polluting vehicles.

The Daily Mail says the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are seeking

?1.3 million in damages over the publication of topless photos of

Kate taken by paparazzi photographers in France.

We will start with the Daily Express - keep taking your stat ins. A

number of other papers have this on the front page as well. Lots of

concerns about the side-effects of statins, but this report seems to

suggest that those effects should not stop people from taking this

life-saving drug. The belief is that statins... I am doing a Diane

Abbott! I knew I would do this. 300,000? Don't you mean 300 million?

Statins? ! They are actually saying that patience, if they know they are

taking statins and are told about the side-effects, they will start

feeling them, like restless muscles and poor sleep. If they are not told

and they don't know they are taking statins, they don't feel them. So it

is psychological? Yes, psychosomatic effect. Some of the professionals

are saying when you take medicines there is a huge list of side effects

because the manufacturers are trying to protect themselves, so they are

saying, don't list the side-effects because in themselves they worry

that people, the patients into experiencing them. The fact is, Ned,

this suggestion seems to be that there may be issues on the side, but

it is worth taking them despite that. Gasbag, and it is weird. We're

used to package is having more warning. You think about cigarettes

and alcohol, all the warnings. Now they are saying, no warnings. I

think people think that every day there is a different story about

drugs being good for you are bad for you. It is difficult for the

consumer to know what to do, really. Dump at the warnings on, then. Then

they will have no idea! On the front of the metro - Theresa May, I will

be bloody difficult to Jean-Claude Juncker. It is not even her line,

which winds me up a bit. It is what Ken Clarke said about her, caught

off Mike on Sky News. This is a clear attempt to paint her as a

strong negotiator. Like fact that when she comes up with a good line,

that grabs the front pages, it is not even has. I cannot even imagine

Theresa May swearing, even in private, even when she stands on a

plug. That is why it doesn't feel right. It felt right in Ken Clarke's

mouth - a bloody difficult woman! As Ned were saying, it was in pretty

much all the papers, the lead story on the Ten O'Clock News, on ITV,

here and everywhere. It seems to have done the job, Alison, of

responding to what could be bloody difficult negotiations, frankly,

from Jean-Claude Juncker, Guy the horse

that -- Verhofstad. There was another story we will look at on

that, but it doesn't do her any harm. People who like Margaret

Thatcher will be attracted to this idea. The fact that Theresa May says

very little, if you watch interviews, she can't offer half an

hour and say very little, so one statement like that that is slightly

swearing, suddenly it is the most interesting thing is she has said

all week. Does it mean that everyone is to become a sailor over the next

six-week, turn the air blue then keep the front pages at the? She has

got Horace for that. -- she has got Boris Johnson for that. All the EU

sources are coming out, and there was a report in the German

newspaper, and now every news outlet, the BBC as well, going to

their own sources and saying, how difficult will you make it for

Britain? Jean-Claude Juncker and others, it is almost as if he is

trying to undermine her election pitch. Mrs May's official spokesman

told lobby journalist this morning when asked, Theresa May will be in

charge of the talks, assisted by David Davis. It undermines her

strategy, because she is trying to say to voters, who do you want

talking to the other 27 leaders - Jeremy Corbyn or me? And they are

saying, you are not going to be talking to us anywhere. It will be

interesting to see how she responds. How can they make a remark? More

hard-core Brexiteer 's will be outraged. Of course they were going

to be like that. The idea that it would be this rational process, this

is politics. I don't think we should be surprised that the negotiations

will be like this. What might you say, of course, it was likely to be

difficult, of course, it will be a tortuous process was perhaps. That

has not been what David Davis, John Redwood, Jacob Rees Mogg, Iain

Duncan Smith, that is not what they have been saying. Iain Duncan Smith

and Jacob Rees Mogg, it will take two years to sort this out. Not a

problem. And a lot of people believe that. You don't know how long it

might take. This could be bluster. The start of negotiations, a lot of

tough talk. It doesn't mean that it will be that hard and it could just

take the two years. It could end up being a very good deal, but the idea

that there wasn't going to be a lot of noise around it - that was always

going to be the case. It could be incredibly hard and we could end up

crashing up with no deal at all, and that what the Brexit campaign said

was a little optimistic, perhaps. The front page of the Financial

Times - the side bar, Diane Abbott's issues today, which are taken, but a

much more in-depth analysis of the problems concerning the Shadow Home

Secretary. On the inside page of the Times. Labour policy in tatters

after Abbott's interview to forget. After my own very poor start to the

session, she is a very experienced politician and television performer,

and it was a terrible interview. The Times got a fantastic picture of

Nick Ferrari. He looks so happy, and he did so well, he absolutely

skewered her on her vagueness. Not only is this the woman who would be

Home Secretary in six weeks if Labour wins, she was not just

faffing, she did not correct herself. She did not immediately

correct herself about how much the policy would cost. She lost it. I

don't know what happened. The line from The Times, and it is great,

they are saying it gets even worse, because labour say that this policy

will cost ?300 million, and they say it will be even more because they

haven't factored in training and equipment and inflation and things

like that. Very hostile. Ned, even if she had got the figure she was

hoping to grasp, that figure is wrong anyway, and it plays into this

whole sense, for some people, that Labour are just not with it, not on

it. I think that was why this was quite damaging. Diane Abbott, in

defending herself, it plays into the attack line that Labour are not

competent and do not have their act together. A lot of Labour policies

are popular. The Conservatives will say that even if the idea is a good

one, you have not costed it properly and you are not able to articulate

it, let alone put it into practice. And I think that is why it did

matter and it was not just a small gaffe. It was deserving of the

reporting that went around it. Briefly, Alison, the Daily Telegraph

- Tory cash hand-outs to scrap diesel cars. Ministers under

pressure to get tough on drivers and improve air quality. Ahead of

Thursday's council elections, which some people keep forgetting about.

This was after the Government said it would appeal against the High

Court decision last week, which said that they cannot keep delaying this

until after the election, so they have had to come out with this and

they are talking about this idea, and saying that as early as Friday,

probably an inconvenient time for us, some compensation to diesel

drivers who want to replace their cars, their engines, or to retrofit

their engines to be clean. I am outraged that some of the car

companies, I think they are bang to rights for falsifying their air

quality tests, which then led people, encouraged people, to buy

these diesel cars, and it the taxpayers, who are going to end up

bankrolling it and not the car companies. I don't understand. It is

an interesting point, Ned, because the Labour Government, in allowing

car manufacturers to continue making diesel engines on the quid pro quo

was that they would find a cleaner way of doing it and they were given

time, and they have not done it. Also, the wider point, it is good to

see the environment back on the front pages. Air pollution is

particularly an issue which affects a lot of people, children in schools

and cities so it is good to see that back now. Finally, the Guardian,

Ned, three pictures there of the Prime Minister eating a chip. It is

not quite her Ed Miliband bacon sandwich moment. In such a

controlled campaign, with events in close rooms with activists and few

members of the public, any photograph like these, where she

looks slightly more human, you could argue it makes a lot better. The

chip looks worse than she does! Her nail polish matches the ketchup. Are

you saying its planned? A planned chip. This is not a mill

abandonment? Now. OK, right. Alison, Ned, thank you for looking at some

of the stories behind the headlines, and thanks to you for watching. --

this is not a Milind Tandon moment? After Monday, a chilly night to come

across the clearer floral parts in the north and west of Britain. Here

is a view from Ayrshire. It was in western Scotland that the