05/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Oliver Wright, Policy Editor at The Times

and Katie Martin, Markets Reporter at the Financial Times.

I will attempt to stretch the space time continuum.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Times leads with the local elections, suggesting the Tory

victory could be repeated in next month's general election.

The I describes the Conservative party's win as a "blue tide".

"A reunion of The Right" is how the Telegraph

The FT reflects on the losses of both Labour and Ukip.

"Theresa on the march", declares the Daily Mail.

The Guardian quotes Jeremy Corbyn saying Labour faces a historic

challenge. "Theresa on the march",

declares the Daily Mail. The express calls Theresa May the

new Mackie. First, let's look at the local and

mayoral election. Let's look at the Daily Mail. The reason on the marks,

you get wiped out and labour buried in their own backyard. It will come

on the weather weakens safely extrapolate this to doom the aids in

a bit, but Theresa May -- to June the 8th in a bit. Theresa May not --

careful not to overestimate these games? They're worried about turnout

in June. It's not about whether she will win, it's about the size of the

majority she will get. What the Conservatives are trying to do is

take a whole bunch of seats off Labour which in 2015 would have been

considered safe. You look at some of the majorities, particularly in the

mayoral races, they were quite tight. As few hundred thousand

votes, will mean a lot. Labour have the opposite problem. They are

saying we can still make a difference and get the vote, we have

a few weeks left. It's interesting, this divergences in the major

parties. The Tories are the only ones that are trying to downplay the

significance. Everyone else trying to say, it's fine, it's a flesh

wound, it's going to be fine, the 8th of June. The Tories are saying

let's not get too ahead of us all. It's interesting to see the pan out.

Let's look at the Guardian. Many crushes Ukip, it says. As Corbin

says we have a historic challenge. Paul Nuttall, the leader of Ukip, is

saying we are a victim of the own success. We have got out of the EU,

we've done our job and now people don't see the need for them, it

seems. It's a little bit like, you know the campaign for real ale, and

now that everyone is drinking real ale in hipster pubs, they've got

nothing to do. It's similar with Ukip. They had one job. They've done

their one job and now what are they for? This interpretation is

interesting, that Theresa May crossed Ukip. But is that really

fair? It does seem to be slightly, not the other way round but Ukip is

clearly infiltrated the Tories. The one-liner like this is the idea that

Labour voters switched to Ukip and now this time around, they're going

to the Tories. The Guardian discovering that Ukip as a gateway

drug for the Tories so Labour voters go to Ukip and then think, I like

Theresa May, although far instead. I think there is some evidence that

there is truth in that. The eye talks about a blue tide. Tories

sweep Britain in local elections. But also, these metro mayors. Not

everyone wants mayors. But they have after these elections. They tried

for many years to prevent it that there's got it imposed on them. The

compromise that has been done is they haven't taken powers away from

local council. They have devolved powers that will currently run by

Westminster or an elected authorities and handed them to

please mayors. They have powers of budget and transport and perhaps

police. That councils in Birmingham, Walsall and commentary will continue

to have their powers. But the fact the Tories have won in West Midlands

is striking. It may only be by three or 4000 votes, but you look at

places like Walsall which is pretty solidly Labour, Coventry,

Wolverhampton, they are doing well. That doesn't bode well for Labour in

June. We have heard all along that the Conservatives are aware that

Theresa May seems to be the one figure that people like to see. So

they are pushing her towards the front of the campaign. Very much so.

The party has been absent from this. It's all been about the reason may

and her strong and stable leadership. My local team.

It's rather presidential. It's not just the West Midlands were the

Tories have done well it is also Tees Valley, places that are solidly

Labour and have been for years. Although there is a blue tide, the

Labour Party can point to successes in Manchester and Liverpool, they

are making as big a deal as they possibly plausibly camp of their

successes there. There is now addressing this up. The Tories have

done extremely well in areas that Labour has traditionally been able

to count on. The Times front page says may cause the landslide, heavy

losses for Labour and Ukip. -- Theresa May on course for landslide.

We mustn't extrapolate but one is round the corner and we do it

anyway. Let's do it. What can you safely conclude? One can safely

June. That is fairly obvious. June. That is fairly obvious.

Sticking your neck out here. Personally, I'm sticking my neck

out, I don't think it will be the 140 or 160 margin some people are

saying. I think it's more likely to be around 80 or 70. Actually, if you

extrapolate out the local election results, they did slightly less well

in the local election results than some of the polls would suggest. Is

that it is clearly going to be a pretty sizeable Conservative

majority. We must mention the Lib Dems, they are happy with their

share of the vote this time. But not with the number of seats that

they've got. So that's the perennial problem for the Lib Dems. It has

played at in local actions as in national action. They have not had a

good time, and again they are trying to put a brave face on it and say,

we have five weeks, we can do this, make a difference, we the credible

opposition in England and Wales. But there is little evidence for it.

First past the post doesn't suit them. Daily Express, the reason, the

new Maggie. There will always be some who won the next that, but

whether that is helpful for the wider population, people unsure

about it. They are both women. That's an irresistible comparison

for parts of the right-wing press. You know, I'm pretty sure that the

girl. Not handbags this time but shoes. It's not handbags but shoes.

She has a firmness of character that I think is making it a reasonable

comparison. But I don't know, it doesn't really work for me. Very

different backgrounds. She apparently has the comparison. You

can see why, but she stuck with it. This is very meant to be flattering

but I take your point. Let's look at the front of the Scottish Daily

Mail. If the different front page from the other one.

Conservative the fixer to roost's Tories does and SNP. She came to the

forefront in the debate. In Scotland, the Tories have had such

an impossible time of it until it started to be turning round. Is it

down to her? They are the second largest party in Scotland now. How

did that happen? Imagine saying that four years ago. The tide of the SNP

appears to be stagnating, certainly they are down seven. It's about

Labour's much as the Tories. That is about the unionist vote going to the

Tories. It is about her. She is the plausible face of the junior and

Labour aunt. She is plain speaking isn't she. You know where you are

with Ruth Davidson. The assertion of the Scottish Daily Mail that the SNP

have plummeted is, I think, something they would argue with.

They have not managed to take Glasgow as they hope to. That is

quite a thing. The Tories have taken Glasgow? If you had said this to me

two weeks ago I'd have told you to have a nice lie down. Clearly, minds

have shifted in Scotland and clearly, there is a large number of

voters who just don't want another independence referendum. That seems

to be the key message that Ruth Davidson was putting forward. And

that the Tories put forward in Scotland and it's resonating. We

don't want any more votes about anything ever. We've got one coming

haven't we on the eighth? Before that on Sunday, the French go to the

polls to choose between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. And his

party which he only set up a year ago. It's starting to look clear,

grow clearer now. The first round looked a bit hairy. But opinion

polls can be wrong, but Macron has a 60s to -- 62% in the opinion polls,

Marine Le Pen has 30%. Even if it is wrong, it will be an unprecedented

scale for this to be wrong. There is wrong and there's wrong. And should

be a shoe in for Macon. The markets are saying this is our guide, we

don't think we'll have Marine Le Pen come in and threatened to dismantle

video row. But he hasn't got any MPs? No. That will be interesting.

His job and 50% of his new party who has never served as MPs before and

the other 50% will be people coming in from the other parties to join

him. Two questions, what are they made up with and what is the

calibre? And will the right and left of their people or will they go to

or marsh -- Macron's party. The months ahead will be interesting. He

so polished on the TV? You heard speak. Last year I went to a talk

with 40 people. But I've never seen a politician in this country like

it. The charisma is extraordinary. And of course, a sigh of relief

across the EU if it is him. Enormous. Marine Le Pen would be

disastrous for the remaining EU project and for the kilo. -- dogear

row. They've been explicit about backing

Macron. Even Barack Obama, who is explicitly that out of video backing

Emmanuel Macron. It's a mutual friend and external -- it's unusual

for external parsed additions to get involved. When Barack Obama did that

with the referendum, it didn't go down well. Not terribly well. A

different story. To almost finished. Motorway speed limit faces cuts to

60 mph. This is a suggestion for how to tackle air pollution, which has

suddenly become headline news. There are parts of the country that are

reaching European guidelines on air quality. Presumably, we would be

subject to these European air quality regulations two years from

now. Nonetheless, the government is keen to stick to these European

regulation. They then told that got to? Yes. It's a serious issue, it

kills 40,000 people each year who wouldn't necessarily otherwise die

of respiratory diseases and so on. There are a package of measures

would have been suggested including cutting speeding limits on

motorways, but I can't see going down well. There was a potential

programme to scrap certain kinds of diesel cars. That it's unclear how a

lot of this will be funded and it seems like a lot of the nuts and

bolts of rubble to be done is pushed back. The scrappage game could cost

up to ?80 billion? It's huge. The government didn't want to publish

it, they wanted to publish it back until after the election. The Graco

push it back. It you wonder if it had been pushed back, it could have

been more radical. It is tinkering around the edges. They are not

specific amount how it works. The councils to do something, but

perhaps they shouldn't. It is one issue when the proposals, they may

be more radical than they appear now. You mentioned councils as well,

it seems then that if these clear as Jones are brought in, it will be up

to a local council to do it? Yes, they must produce plans. This is the

Times reporting, two were produced -- reduce air pollution in the

shortest time possible. It's ambitious and there semantic John

McEnroe objection -- some objection from

environmentalist to this. I think this won't please anyone. The

hard-core environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough. The business

could say is Draconian, the councils say it's not fair to be all on us.

People will like getting rid of speed bumps. Switch enough, they

keep spare saying as well. We'll back to the time for a bit of fluff,

really, quite literally. The sheer variety is the headline 30 alpacas

in Cirencester in Gloucestershire has been given unusual hairstyles by

the owner. Helen Kendall Smith, all to celebrate ten years of breeding

them at her farm. There's got either judges with six or 1970s rock star

mullets. It looks like Crufts? They're supposed to look like

boodles or dinosaurs. -- poodles or dinosaurs. They don't click map

massively like either poodles or dinosaurs how does one even see? Has

like to see all 30 of them together. Wouldn't that be a site out in the

Gloucestershire field. I'm impressed by your background knowledge, Katie.

we have these guests in, they have we have these guests in, they have

such hinterland. That's the papers to much,

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