:00:12. > :00:19.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.
:00:20. > :00:25.Theresa May plays down talk of a landslide general election
:00:26. > :00:28.victory after the Conservatives made major gains at local elections.
:00:29. > :00:30.Campaigning in the West Midlands, she said she was taking
:00:31. > :00:39.Labour will pledge not to raise income tax for those earning less
:00:40. > :00:44.Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will say it's part of a "personal
:00:45. > :00:51.The French election commission appeals to the media and the public
:00:52. > :00:55.not to pass on documents obtained by hackers who targeted
:00:56. > :00:59.the presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron.
:01:00. > :01:04.Voters will go to the polls tomorrow for the final round of the contest.
:01:05. > :01:06.The Islamist militant group Boko Haram releases more than 80
:01:07. > :01:09.schoolgirls it kidnapped three years ago.
:01:10. > :01:12.A Nigerian government official said their release followed
:01:13. > :01:19.Three men appear in court charged with the murder of businessman,
:01:20. > :01:37.Guy Hedger, who was shot dead at his home near Ringwood in Dorset.
:01:38. > :01:40.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:01:41. > :01:45.With me are Katy Balls, who's a political correspondent
:01:46. > :01:48.at The Spectator and Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday
:01:49. > :01:53.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with -
:01:54. > :01:57.The Observer headlines on Labour's plans to increase income tax
:01:58. > :02:02.for people earning more than ?80,000, if Jeremy Corbyn
:02:03. > :02:06.becomes the next Prime Minister the Sunday Telegraph has that same
:02:07. > :02:08.story and also reports that the European Commission's
:02:09. > :02:11.own lawyers say a suggested 100 billion euro Brexit divorce bill
:02:12. > :02:20.The Sunday Times says the move is in a bid
:02:21. > :02:24.to shore up Labour's core support - as a new poll suggests the party has
:02:25. > :02:30.The paper - which is publishing its annual rich list -
:02:31. > :02:33.also says Brexit has seen the combined wealth of the country's
:02:34. > :02:39.The Sunday Express says Theresa May is to unveil a set
:02:40. > :02:42.of manifesto pledges which will serve as Labour's death
:02:43. > :02:48.And the Mail on Sunday criticises a controversial drama to be aired
:02:49. > :02:58.The BBC has defended the production as a 'critically acclaimed
:02:59. > :03:01.and fictional play' which the Mail has described as astonishingly
:03:02. > :03:14.and there we go. Astonishingly good, our reviewers of the newspapers as
:03:15. > :03:23.they will prove for you. Let's start with the Observer. This promise we
:03:24. > :03:28.will get from Labour to tax ?80,000 a year earners or, if you want to
:03:29. > :03:32.look at it the other way, not to tax 95% of people who earn less than
:03:33. > :03:38.that. Exactly. We knew this policy was being mooted. They were trying
:03:39. > :03:44.to work out what action accounts is being wealthy and they were around
:03:45. > :03:52.the 70,000 mark, they said that 80,000 elite is not inflation,
:03:53. > :03:56.indecision. Already online we have seen some labour figures quite happy
:03:57. > :04:03.with the depiction in the press. They say the focus should be on the
:04:04. > :04:09.95% who will not be taxed. What do you think about, Nigel? Is it that
:04:10. > :04:13.the newspapers will focus the this is a tax rise? It depends which
:04:14. > :04:18.newspaper you read tomorrow. The Observer seems to be general on
:04:19. > :04:21.this. The Sunday Telegraph is a bit more aggressive, as you would expect
:04:22. > :04:27.with their politics. Two things here, first of all we do not know
:04:28. > :04:32.how he is going to do it. It will possibly bring in a new tax rates
:04:33. > :04:39.say at 45% which is currently only paid people earning over ?150,000.
:04:40. > :04:44.And up them to 50%. The other thing we don't know is how much it is
:04:45. > :04:49.going to make. The one problem about taxing the rich, while I am in
:04:50. > :04:53.hugely in favour of that as a principal, it probably does not
:04:54. > :05:03.raise a lot of money because there are not many of them. It is the --
:05:04. > :05:07.is it electorally significant? Many people think it is a lot of money
:05:08. > :05:13.and think they should be taxed. A poll in the Sunday Times said that
:05:14. > :05:21.voters think that 100 K is what counts as being wealthy. Some MPs
:05:22. > :05:24.may have a difficult time with this policy as they are in wealthy
:05:25. > :05:32.constituencies because it may seem like politics of envy. Whatever rate
:05:33. > :05:35.you have, you don't think is terribly wealthy and then somebody
:05:36. > :05:40.else on the rich list actually looks hugely... The Liberal Democrats
:05:41. > :05:46.today have said they want an extra penny in the pound on tax to pay for
:05:47. > :05:51.more spending on the NHS. That seems to be a sensible idea that people
:05:52. > :05:57.are prepared to pay extra tax if they know it is going to someone
:05:58. > :05:59.like the NHS. Although when the lid Democrats turn tried that with
:06:00. > :06:10.education, the voters were turned off. Back to the Telegraph. The
:06:11. > :06:15.divorce bill for the Brexit. 100 billion euros we may have to pay or
:06:16. > :06:22.that they may ask for. This story is saying that, actually, the European
:06:23. > :06:27.Union could not even legally enforce this according to their own lawyers.
:06:28. > :06:34.This bill has been steadily going up. I would not be surprised that
:06:35. > :06:38.goes up any more before the negotiations begin. David Davis says
:06:39. > :06:41.he will not pay, and the European Union lawyers have admitted that
:06:42. > :06:47.they cannot enforce that but the most illuminating thing in this
:06:48. > :06:50.story is the fact that Downing Street have called an international
:06:51. > :06:56.peace negotiator who played a key role in ending the 52 year civil war
:06:57. > :07:02.in Colombia. Just in case you did not think that was civil... If you
:07:03. > :07:09.need a peace negotiator to sort this out... It seems to be, we would not
:07:10. > :07:14.have paid, we would have paid that. It is quite good to know that this
:07:15. > :07:19.is right, that it is not even legally enforceable by Europe. Will
:07:20. > :07:25.this end with a bit of old-fashioned haggling? You start off up there, we
:07:26. > :07:31.start down there... So we will up somewhere in the middle. There will
:07:32. > :07:35.be a bill to pay and, in fact, as David Davis says we will do that
:07:36. > :07:40.because our international reputation would be zero if we did not. But it
:07:41. > :07:44.will not be like this and right now just arguing over money. Some
:07:45. > :07:48.Brexiteers say we should not pay anything. But if Theresa May gets a
:07:49. > :07:55.big majority does that make it easier for her to compromise? If she
:07:56. > :07:59.has her own mandate and majority she will be left held to account by
:08:00. > :08:06.either side of the party. She will be able to make a deal and the rest
:08:07. > :08:11.of the party will have to go along with that, the majority, anyway. Was
:08:12. > :08:15.that her motivation for calling the election? To free herself up and
:08:16. > :08:20.make itself more independent from both wings of the party? I think she
:08:21. > :08:26.hopes that was the result. I think the motivation was that she thought
:08:27. > :08:33.she could win. On the Brexit front, clearly if she is not interfered
:08:34. > :08:36.with by Parliament, she can then get on with the negotiations herself and
:08:37. > :08:41.you can understand that she will want a clear run at that one hopes
:08:42. > :08:46.then that commonsense will come into play. He not look like it when you
:08:47. > :08:52.stood at the steps of Downing Street and it accused Europe of sabotaging
:08:53. > :09:00.the elections. Hopefully that peace negotiator can calm things down. The
:09:01. > :09:04.Sunday Telegraph... Because we will soon have the manifestoes, they have
:09:05. > :09:12.a story that Theresa May is promising to terror the present
:09:13. > :09:15.mental health act if the Tories are re-elected and mental health first
:09:16. > :09:21.aid as will be provided for all schools, apparently, in a proposed
:09:22. > :09:25.overhaul. Theresa May has spoken about how she wants to break down
:09:26. > :09:30.the stigma around mental health. I think there was a survey yesterday
:09:31. > :09:36.which said that two thirds of adults suffer from mental health problems.
:09:37. > :09:40.By targeting them as children you can hopefully deal with things
:09:41. > :09:43.before they become a problem. I think this will be one policy which
:09:44. > :09:50.will be very high for anybody to disagree with. The mental health act
:09:51. > :09:54.is outmoded, it goes back to 1983, it basically locks people up and it
:09:55. > :09:58.is locking people up a vulnerable do not need to be locked up. Sometimes
:09:59. > :10:02.in police cells because there is nowhere for them to go. The idea of
:10:03. > :10:07.redrawing that is sensible. The second thing that she intends to do
:10:08. > :10:12.is use the equal opportunities legislation so people are protected
:10:13. > :10:17.in the workplace. At the moment, if you have a mental health condition,
:10:18. > :10:22.it you only protected if it continues for 12 months. What this
:10:23. > :10:26.will do says the mental health conditions come and go, we will
:10:27. > :10:30.protect you when you have it. Many things you sound quite good. And
:10:31. > :10:35.mental health as an issue is suddenly being that goes in a far
:10:36. > :10:40.more positive way after Prince Harry spoke about his grief over the death
:10:41. > :10:44.of his mother and so on. We have seen the Royal family and their
:10:45. > :10:50.Heads Together campaign which has had a massive effect in getting
:10:51. > :10:57.young people to talk about it. It is a timely policy and does not time to
:10:58. > :11:01.be doing it. What else do we have? We have the Express. They have more
:11:02. > :11:06.on the Conservative Party manifesto which, when do we expect that to
:11:07. > :11:14.come out? Nigel, you either in the know. We expect it to come out one
:11:15. > :11:23.week on Monday. But who knows? And the Sunday Express, that manifesto
:11:24. > :11:32.will be a June revolution, do you get the headline? We have the out of
:11:33. > :11:37.hours GP surgeries, more doctors for that. Well, they do need more
:11:38. > :11:46.doctors, we knew that was Jeremy Hunt idea. The mental health policy
:11:47. > :11:50.coming in, that will mean 10,000 more NHS nurses, another good thing.
:11:51. > :11:54.Don't know how that will be paid for. But I tell people were getting
:11:55. > :12:03.fed up with this election, but not the readers of the express because
:12:04. > :12:10.that story covers four pages. And one of those promises of every child
:12:11. > :12:14.attending a local grammar school. The mental health policy in the GP
:12:15. > :12:18.policy are widely popular with both the party and the public but the
:12:19. > :12:21.grammar school is harder because this is something that Theresa May
:12:22. > :12:25.specifically wants. She has raised at the foreman was not a manifesto
:12:26. > :12:29.and she had opposition from her party. She will be hoping that her
:12:30. > :12:34.own personal mandate will mean she can follow through on this plan for
:12:35. > :12:38.every child to have the chance to attend a grammar like she did. So
:12:39. > :12:41.this puts her stamp on this Conservative government in changing
:12:42. > :12:46.and losing some of the things that she did not agree with that in the
:12:47. > :12:50.Cameron government. The things that should go for she could not get
:12:51. > :12:56.through Cabinet, she now may be able to. I do expect to see some MPs will
:12:57. > :13:00.not be happy about this. It should have a big majority which is what
:13:01. > :13:04.many of the polls and the pundits are predicting, are you one of the
:13:05. > :13:09.people who thinks that would not necessarily be healthy? I think
:13:10. > :13:13.there is unhealthy. A small majority of is the way to run a parliamentary
:13:14. > :13:17.democracy. You make people actually fight for it. You also get the
:13:18. > :13:23.proper scrutiny in about legislation that you do not get when you have a
:13:24. > :13:31.thumping majority. I think it is unhealthy. But it is a democracy. If
:13:32. > :13:36.the country vote Tory in huge numbers then you get a strong
:13:37. > :13:40.majority. What is wrong with that? Well, that is democracy, you are
:13:41. > :13:46.right. Interestingly, with the voting system which encourages
:13:47. > :13:55.things like this to happen, under proportional representation you get
:13:56. > :13:58.Ukip MPs the last election. An not certain that heading towards a
:13:59. > :14:02.1-party state is good for the state. We have seen large majorities that
:14:03. > :14:07.have been overturned so there is still at chance for them to be held
:14:08. > :14:12.to account. The Sunday Times have their annual rich list which they
:14:13. > :14:16.bring out every year, telling us about people who have an awful lot
:14:17. > :14:19.of money and how often they have even more money than they had
:14:20. > :14:26.before. Apparently because of Brexit, according to the Sunday
:14:27. > :14:29.Times, it has been a bonanza billionaires. Richard getting richer
:14:30. > :14:37.because of Brexit, it has given a boost. You can't see all the people
:14:38. > :14:40.at the top looks so so it is hard to how it is helped. A third helped
:14:41. > :14:44.because stock market shares have gone up because the pound went down
:14:45. > :14:50.after Brexit. People who have shares are richer, basically. It does go
:14:51. > :14:53.down as if the world was going to end after Brexit and the end of
:14:54. > :15:00.civilisation... It is not going to Lalit badly for a few people. Forget
:15:01. > :15:04.the ?80,000 people, these are seriously rich people. So they will
:15:05. > :15:12.be in John McDonnell's tax bracket? You would hope so. And someone who
:15:13. > :15:17.is quite well off ears... Well, we will show you a picture can probably
:15:18. > :15:24.see it. Can our viewers get to this is? She is not looking like she
:15:25. > :15:31.normally does, to be fair, that is Adele. To mark her birthday she
:15:32. > :15:36.decided to dress as a Nanna from a sketch comedy show. Ageing with
:15:37. > :15:40.grace. We do not understand why. It does not explain why this is
:15:41. > :15:45.happening beyond that was the way she chose to celebrate her 29th
:15:46. > :15:49.birthday. Good luck to her and her ?125 million. When you have that
:15:50. > :15:55.much money, you do not need to explain anything. Lovely to see you
:15:56. > :16:00.both as well as Adele. Thank you very much indeed. That is it for us
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