:00:19. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:22. > :00:25.With me are Oliver Wright, Policy Editor at The Times
:00:26. > :00:32.and Katie Martin, Markets Reporter at the Financial Times.
:00:33. > :00:36.I will attempt to stretch the space time continuum.
:00:37. > :00:38.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
:00:39. > :00:40.The Times leads with the local elections, suggesting the Tory
:00:41. > :00:42.victory could be repeated in next month's general election.
:00:43. > :00:45.The I describes the Conservative party's win as a "blue tide".
:00:46. > :00:47."A reunion of The Right" is how the Telegraph
:00:48. > :00:57.The FT reflects on the losses of both Labour and Ukip.
:00:58. > :01:03."Theresa on the march", declares the Daily Mail.
:01:04. > :01:06.The Guardian quotes Jeremy Corbyn saying Labour faces a historic
:01:07. > :01:07.challenge. "Theresa on the march",
:01:08. > :01:13.declares the Daily Mail. The express calls Theresa May the
:01:14. > :01:23.new Mackie. First, let's look at the local and
:01:24. > :01:27.mayoral election. Let's look at the Daily Mail. The reason on the marks,
:01:28. > :01:32.you get wiped out and labour buried in their own backyard. It will come
:01:33. > :01:39.on the weather weakens safely extrapolate this to doom the aids in
:01:40. > :01:46.a bit, but Theresa May -- to June the 8th in a bit. Theresa May not --
:01:47. > :01:53.careful not to overestimate these games? They're worried about turnout
:01:54. > :01:57.in June. It's not about whether she will win, it's about the size of the
:01:58. > :02:01.majority she will get. What the Conservatives are trying to do is
:02:02. > :02:06.take a whole bunch of seats off Labour which in 2015 would have been
:02:07. > :02:09.considered safe. You look at some of the majorities, particularly in the
:02:10. > :02:18.mayoral races, they were quite tight. As few hundred thousand
:02:19. > :02:21.votes, will mean a lot. Labour have the opposite problem. They are
:02:22. > :02:25.saying we can still make a difference and get the vote, we have
:02:26. > :02:29.a few weeks left. It's interesting, this divergences in the major
:02:30. > :02:33.parties. The Tories are the only ones that are trying to downplay the
:02:34. > :02:37.significance. Everyone else trying to say, it's fine, it's a flesh
:02:38. > :02:42.wound, it's going to be fine, the 8th of June. The Tories are saying
:02:43. > :02:48.let's not get too ahead of us all. It's interesting to see the pan out.
:02:49. > :02:55.Let's look at the Guardian. Many crushes Ukip, it says. As Corbin
:02:56. > :02:59.says we have a historic challenge. Paul Nuttall, the leader of Ukip, is
:03:00. > :03:04.saying we are a victim of the own success. We have got out of the EU,
:03:05. > :03:09.we've done our job and now people don't see the need for them, it
:03:10. > :03:13.seems. It's a little bit like, you know the campaign for real ale, and
:03:14. > :03:16.now that everyone is drinking real ale in hipster pubs, they've got
:03:17. > :03:21.nothing to do. It's similar with Ukip. They had one job. They've done
:03:22. > :03:27.their one job and now what are they for? This interpretation is
:03:28. > :03:32.interesting, that Theresa May crossed Ukip. But is that really
:03:33. > :03:37.fair? It does seem to be slightly, not the other way round but Ukip is
:03:38. > :03:43.clearly infiltrated the Tories. The one-liner like this is the idea that
:03:44. > :03:47.Labour voters switched to Ukip and now this time around, they're going
:03:48. > :03:51.to the Tories. The Guardian discovering that Ukip as a gateway
:03:52. > :03:55.drug for the Tories so Labour voters go to Ukip and then think, I like
:03:56. > :04:00.Theresa May, although far instead. I think there is some evidence that
:04:01. > :04:06.there is truth in that. The eye talks about a blue tide. Tories
:04:07. > :04:13.sweep Britain in local elections. But also, these metro mayors. Not
:04:14. > :04:16.everyone wants mayors. But they have after these elections. They tried
:04:17. > :04:21.for many years to prevent it that there's got it imposed on them. The
:04:22. > :04:24.compromise that has been done is they haven't taken powers away from
:04:25. > :04:28.local council. They have devolved powers that will currently run by
:04:29. > :04:35.Westminster or an elected authorities and handed them to
:04:36. > :04:41.please mayors. They have powers of budget and transport and perhaps
:04:42. > :04:45.police. That councils in Birmingham, Walsall and commentary will continue
:04:46. > :04:49.to have their powers. But the fact the Tories have won in West Midlands
:04:50. > :04:56.is striking. It may only be by three or 4000 votes, but you look at
:04:57. > :04:59.places like Walsall which is pretty solidly Labour, Coventry,
:05:00. > :05:04.Wolverhampton, they are doing well. That doesn't bode well for Labour in
:05:05. > :05:08.June. We have heard all along that the Conservatives are aware that
:05:09. > :05:12.Theresa May seems to be the one figure that people like to see. So
:05:13. > :05:16.they are pushing her towards the front of the campaign. Very much so.
:05:17. > :05:19.The party has been absent from this. It's all been about the reason may
:05:20. > :05:25.and her strong and stable leadership. My local team.
:05:26. > :05:33.It's rather presidential. It's not just the West Midlands were the
:05:34. > :05:38.Tories have done well it is also Tees Valley, places that are solidly
:05:39. > :05:42.Labour and have been for years. Although there is a blue tide, the
:05:43. > :05:46.Labour Party can point to successes in Manchester and Liverpool, they
:05:47. > :05:52.are making as big a deal as they possibly plausibly camp of their
:05:53. > :05:56.successes there. There is now addressing this up. The Tories have
:05:57. > :06:01.done extremely well in areas that Labour has traditionally been able
:06:02. > :06:08.to count on. The Times front page says may cause the landslide, heavy
:06:09. > :06:12.losses for Labour and Ukip. -- Theresa May on course for landslide.
:06:13. > :06:16.We mustn't extrapolate but one is round the corner and we do it
:06:17. > :06:21.anyway. Let's do it. What can you safely conclude? One can safely
:06:22. > :06:27.June. That is fairly obvious. June. That is fairly obvious.
:06:28. > :06:32.Sticking your neck out here. Personally, I'm sticking my neck
:06:33. > :06:36.out, I don't think it will be the 140 or 160 margin some people are
:06:37. > :06:41.saying. I think it's more likely to be around 80 or 70. Actually, if you
:06:42. > :06:45.extrapolate out the local election results, they did slightly less well
:06:46. > :06:51.in the local election results than some of the polls would suggest. Is
:06:52. > :06:53.that it is clearly going to be a pretty sizeable Conservative
:06:54. > :06:57.majority. We must mention the Lib Dems, they are happy with their
:06:58. > :07:01.share of the vote this time. But not with the number of seats that
:07:02. > :07:06.they've got. So that's the perennial problem for the Lib Dems. It has
:07:07. > :07:09.played at in local actions as in national action. They have not had a
:07:10. > :07:15.good time, and again they are trying to put a brave face on it and say,
:07:16. > :07:18.we have five weeks, we can do this, make a difference, we the credible
:07:19. > :07:22.opposition in England and Wales. But there is little evidence for it.
:07:23. > :07:32.First past the post doesn't suit them. Daily Express, the reason, the
:07:33. > :07:36.new Maggie. There will always be some who won the next that, but
:07:37. > :07:42.whether that is helpful for the wider population, people unsure
:07:43. > :07:47.about it. They are both women. That's an irresistible comparison
:07:48. > :07:51.for parts of the right-wing press. You know, I'm pretty sure that the
:07:52. > :07:58.girl. Not handbags this time but shoes. It's not handbags but shoes.
:07:59. > :08:03.She has a firmness of character that I think is making it a reasonable
:08:04. > :08:07.comparison. But I don't know, it doesn't really work for me. Very
:08:08. > :08:12.different backgrounds. She apparently has the comparison. You
:08:13. > :08:17.can see why, but she stuck with it. This is very meant to be flattering
:08:18. > :08:20.but I take your point. Let's look at the front of the Scottish Daily
:08:21. > :08:26.Mail. If the different front page from the other one.
:08:27. > :08:40.Conservative the fixer to roost's Tories does and SNP. She came to the
:08:41. > :08:44.forefront in the debate. In Scotland, the Tories have had such
:08:45. > :08:50.an impossible time of it until it started to be turning round. Is it
:08:51. > :08:56.down to her? They are the second largest party in Scotland now. How
:08:57. > :09:03.did that happen? Imagine saying that four years ago. The tide of the SNP
:09:04. > :09:09.appears to be stagnating, certainly they are down seven. It's about
:09:10. > :09:13.Labour's much as the Tories. That is about the unionist vote going to the
:09:14. > :09:16.Tories. It is about her. She is the plausible face of the junior and
:09:17. > :09:24.Labour aunt. She is plain speaking isn't she. You know where you are
:09:25. > :09:28.with Ruth Davidson. The assertion of the Scottish Daily Mail that the SNP
:09:29. > :09:32.have plummeted is, I think, something they would argue with.
:09:33. > :09:36.They have not managed to take Glasgow as they hope to. That is
:09:37. > :09:40.quite a thing. The Tories have taken Glasgow? If you had said this to me
:09:41. > :09:44.two weeks ago I'd have told you to have a nice lie down. Clearly, minds
:09:45. > :09:50.have shifted in Scotland and clearly, there is a large number of
:09:51. > :09:53.voters who just don't want another independence referendum. That seems
:09:54. > :09:57.to be the key message that Ruth Davidson was putting forward. And
:09:58. > :10:00.that the Tories put forward in Scotland and it's resonating. We
:10:01. > :10:06.don't want any more votes about anything ever. We've got one coming
:10:07. > :10:10.haven't we on the eighth? Before that on Sunday, the French go to the
:10:11. > :10:16.polls to choose between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. And his
:10:17. > :10:25.party which he only set up a year ago. It's starting to look clear,
:10:26. > :10:36.grow clearer now. The first round looked a bit hairy. But opinion
:10:37. > :10:43.polls can be wrong, but Macron has a 60s to -- 62% in the opinion polls,
:10:44. > :10:49.Marine Le Pen has 30%. Even if it is wrong, it will be an unprecedented
:10:50. > :10:55.scale for this to be wrong. There is wrong and there's wrong. And should
:10:56. > :10:59.be a shoe in for Macon. The markets are saying this is our guide, we
:11:00. > :11:02.don't think we'll have Marine Le Pen come in and threatened to dismantle
:11:03. > :11:15.video row. But he hasn't got any MPs? No. That will be interesting.
:11:16. > :11:19.His job and 50% of his new party who has never served as MPs before and
:11:20. > :11:25.the other 50% will be people coming in from the other parties to join
:11:26. > :11:31.him. Two questions, what are they made up with and what is the
:11:32. > :11:38.calibre? And will the right and left of their people or will they go to
:11:39. > :11:45.or marsh -- Macron's party. The months ahead will be interesting. He
:11:46. > :11:51.so polished on the TV? You heard speak. Last year I went to a talk
:11:52. > :11:58.with 40 people. But I've never seen a politician in this country like
:11:59. > :12:01.it. The charisma is extraordinary. And of course, a sigh of relief
:12:02. > :12:07.across the EU if it is him. Enormous. Marine Le Pen would be
:12:08. > :12:10.disastrous for the remaining EU project and for the kilo. -- dogear
:12:11. > :12:22.row. They've been explicit about backing
:12:23. > :12:26.Macron. Even Barack Obama, who is explicitly that out of video backing
:12:27. > :12:34.Emmanuel Macron. It's a mutual friend and external -- it's unusual
:12:35. > :12:38.for external parsed additions to get involved. When Barack Obama did that
:12:39. > :12:46.with the referendum, it didn't go down well. Not terribly well. A
:12:47. > :12:51.different story. To almost finished. Motorway speed limit faces cuts to
:12:52. > :12:57.60 mph. This is a suggestion for how to tackle air pollution, which has
:12:58. > :13:04.suddenly become headline news. There are parts of the country that are
:13:05. > :13:08.reaching European guidelines on air quality. Presumably, we would be
:13:09. > :13:12.subject to these European air quality regulations two years from
:13:13. > :13:15.now. Nonetheless, the government is keen to stick to these European
:13:16. > :13:23.regulation. They then told that got to? Yes. It's a serious issue, it
:13:24. > :13:26.kills 40,000 people each year who wouldn't necessarily otherwise die
:13:27. > :13:33.of respiratory diseases and so on. There are a package of measures
:13:34. > :13:36.would have been suggested including cutting speeding limits on
:13:37. > :13:42.motorways, but I can't see going down well. There was a potential
:13:43. > :13:48.programme to scrap certain kinds of diesel cars. That it's unclear how a
:13:49. > :13:52.lot of this will be funded and it seems like a lot of the nuts and
:13:53. > :13:58.bolts of rubble to be done is pushed back. The scrappage game could cost
:13:59. > :14:04.up to ?80 billion? It's huge. The government didn't want to publish
:14:05. > :14:09.it, they wanted to publish it back until after the election. The Graco
:14:10. > :14:14.push it back. It you wonder if it had been pushed back, it could have
:14:15. > :14:20.been more radical. It is tinkering around the edges. They are not
:14:21. > :14:25.specific amount how it works. The councils to do something, but
:14:26. > :14:28.perhaps they shouldn't. It is one issue when the proposals, they may
:14:29. > :14:34.be more radical than they appear now. You mentioned councils as well,
:14:35. > :14:40.it seems then that if these clear as Jones are brought in, it will be up
:14:41. > :14:44.to a local council to do it? Yes, they must produce plans. This is the
:14:45. > :14:50.Times reporting, two were produced -- reduce air pollution in the
:14:51. > :14:53.shortest time possible. It's ambitious and there semantic John
:14:54. > :15:04.McEnroe objection -- some objection from
:15:05. > :15:07.environmentalist to this. I think this won't please anyone. The
:15:08. > :15:11.hard-core environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough. The business
:15:12. > :15:17.could say is Draconian, the councils say it's not fair to be all on us.
:15:18. > :15:24.People will like getting rid of speed bumps. Switch enough, they
:15:25. > :15:29.keep spare saying as well. We'll back to the time for a bit of fluff,
:15:30. > :15:36.really, quite literally. The sheer variety is the headline 30 alpacas
:15:37. > :15:44.in Cirencester in Gloucestershire has been given unusual hairstyles by
:15:45. > :15:50.the owner. Helen Kendall Smith, all to celebrate ten years of breeding
:15:51. > :15:56.them at her farm. There's got either judges with six or 1970s rock star
:15:57. > :16:04.mullets. It looks like Crufts? They're supposed to look like
:16:05. > :16:07.boodles or dinosaurs. -- poodles or dinosaurs. They don't click map
:16:08. > :16:15.massively like either poodles or dinosaurs how does one even see? Has
:16:16. > :16:19.like to see all 30 of them together. Wouldn't that be a site out in the
:16:20. > :16:23.Gloucestershire field. I'm impressed by your background knowledge, Katie.
:16:24. > :16:29.we have these guests in, they have we have these guests in, they have
:16:30. > :16:32.such hinterland. That's the papers to much,
:16:33. > :16:35.Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
:16:36. > :16:39.It's all there for you - seven days a week at
:16:40. > :16:56.bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can
:16:57. > :16:58.Good evening. Central and western parts of Scotland have had