06/05/2017 The Papers

We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment.

Theresa May plays down talk of a landslide general election

victory after the Conservatives made major gains at local elections.

Campaigning in the West Midlands, she said she was taking

Labour will pledge not to raise income tax for those earning less

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will say it's part of a "personal

The French election commission appeals to the media and the public

not to pass on documents obtained by hackers who targeted

the presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron.

Voters will go to the polls tomorrow for the final round of the contest.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram releases more than 80

schoolgirls it kidnapped three years ago.

A Nigerian government official said their release followed

Three men appear in court charged with the murder of businessman,

Guy Hedger, who was shot dead at his home near Ringwood in Dorset.

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

With me are Katy Balls, who's a political correspondent

at The Spectator and Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with -

The Observer headlines on Labour's plans to increase income tax

for people earning more than ?80,000, if Jeremy Corbyn

becomes the next Prime Minister the Sunday Telegraph has that same

story and also reports that the European Commission's

own lawyers say a suggested 100 billion euro Brexit divorce bill

The Sunday Times says the move is in a bid

to shore up Labour's core support - as a new poll suggests the party has

The paper - which is publishing its annual rich list -

also says Brexit has seen the combined wealth of the country's

The Sunday Express says Theresa May is to unveil a set

of manifesto pledges which will serve as Labour's death

And the Mail on Sunday criticises a controversial drama to be aired

The BBC has defended the production as a 'critically acclaimed

and fictional play' which the Mail has described as astonishingly

and there we go. Astonishingly good, our reviewers of the newspapers as

they will prove for you. Let's start with the Observer. This promise we

will get from Labour to tax ?80,000 a year earners or, if you want to

look at it the other way, not to tax 95% of people who earn less than

that. Exactly. We knew this policy was being mooted. They were trying

to work out what action accounts is being wealthy and they were around

the 70,000 mark, they said that 80,000 elite is not inflation,

indecision. Already online we have seen some labour figures quite happy

with the depiction in the press. They say the focus should be on the

95% who will not be taxed. What do you think about, Nigel? Is it that

the newspapers will focus the this is a tax rise? It depends which

newspaper you read tomorrow. The Observer seems to be general on

this. The Sunday Telegraph is a bit more aggressive, as you would expect

with their politics. Two things here, first of all we do not know

how he is going to do it. It will possibly bring in a new tax rates

say at 45% which is currently only paid people earning over ?150,000.

And up them to 50%. The other thing we don't know is how much it is

going to make. The one problem about taxing the rich, while I am in

hugely in favour of that as a principal, it probably does not

raise a lot of money because there are not many of them. It is the --

is it electorally significant? Many people think it is a lot of money

and think they should be taxed. A poll in the Sunday Times said that

voters think that 100 K is what counts as being wealthy. Some MPs

may have a difficult time with this policy as they are in wealthy

constituencies because it may seem like politics of envy. Whatever rate

you have, you don't think is terribly wealthy and then somebody

else on the rich list actually looks hugely... The Liberal Democrats

today have said they want an extra penny in the pound on tax to pay for

more spending on the NHS. That seems to be a sensible idea that people

are prepared to pay extra tax if they know it is going to someone

like the NHS. Although when the lid Democrats turn tried that with

education, the voters were turned off. Back to the Telegraph. The

divorce bill for the Brexit. 100 billion euros we may have to pay or

that they may ask for. This story is saying that, actually, the European

Union could not even legally enforce this according to their own lawyers.

This bill has been steadily going up. I would not be surprised that

goes up any more before the negotiations begin. David Davis says

he will not pay, and the European Union lawyers have admitted that

they cannot enforce that but the most illuminating thing in this

story is the fact that Downing Street have called an international

peace negotiator who played a key role in ending the 52 year civil war

in Colombia. Just in case you did not think that was civil... If you

need a peace negotiator to sort this out... It seems to be, we would not

have paid, we would have paid that. It is quite good to know that this

is right, that it is not even legally enforceable by Europe. Will

this end with a bit of old-fashioned haggling? You start off up there, we

start down there... So we will up somewhere in the middle. There will

be a bill to pay and, in fact, as David Davis says we will do that

because our international reputation would be zero if we did not. But it

will not be like this and right now just arguing over money. Some

Brexiteers say we should not pay anything. But if Theresa May gets a

big majority does that make it easier for her to compromise? If she

has her own mandate and majority she will be left held to account by

either side of the party. She will be able to make a deal and the rest

of the party will have to go along with that, the majority, anyway. Was

that her motivation for calling the election? To free herself up and

make itself more independent from both wings of the party? I think she

hopes that was the result. I think the motivation was that she thought

she could win. On the Brexit front, clearly if she is not interfered

with by Parliament, she can then get on with the negotiations herself and

you can understand that she will want a clear run at that one hopes

then that commonsense will come into play. He not look like it when you

stood at the steps of Downing Street and it accused Europe of sabotaging

the elections. Hopefully that peace negotiator can calm things down. The

Sunday Telegraph... Because we will soon have the manifestoes, they have

a story that Theresa May is promising to terror the present

mental health act if the Tories are re-elected and mental health first

aid as will be provided for all schools, apparently, in a proposed

overhaul. Theresa May has spoken about how she wants to break down

the stigma around mental health. I think there was a survey yesterday

which said that two thirds of adults suffer from mental health problems.

By targeting them as children you can hopefully deal with things

before they become a problem. I think this will be one policy which

will be very high for anybody to disagree with. The mental health act

is outmoded, it goes back to 1983, it basically locks people up and it

is locking people up a vulnerable do not need to be locked up. Sometimes

in police cells because there is nowhere for them to go. The idea of

redrawing that is sensible. The second thing that she intends to do

is use the equal opportunities legislation so people are protected

in the workplace. At the moment, if you have a mental health condition,

it you only protected if it continues for 12 months. What this

will do says the mental health conditions come and go, we will

protect you when you have it. Many things you sound quite good. And

mental health as an issue is suddenly being that goes in a far

more positive way after Prince Harry spoke about his grief over the death

of his mother and so on. We have seen the Royal family and their

Heads Together campaign which has had a massive effect in getting

young people to talk about it. It is a timely policy and does not time to

be doing it. What else do we have? We have the Express. They have more

on the Conservative Party manifesto which, when do we expect that to

come out? Nigel, you either in the know. We expect it to come out one

week on Monday. But who knows? And the Sunday Express, that manifesto

will be a June revolution, do you get the headline? We have the out of

hours GP surgeries, more doctors for that. Well, they do need more

doctors, we knew that was Jeremy Hunt idea. The mental health policy

coming in, that will mean 10,000 more NHS nurses, another good thing.

Don't know how that will be paid for. But I tell people were getting

fed up with this election, but not the readers of the express because

that story covers four pages. And one of those promises of every child

attending a local grammar school. The mental health policy in the GP

policy are widely popular with both the party and the public but the

grammar school is harder because this is something that Theresa May

specifically wants. She has raised at the foreman was not a manifesto

and she had opposition from her party. She will be hoping that her

own personal mandate will mean she can follow through on this plan for

every child to have the chance to attend a grammar like she did. So

this puts her stamp on this Conservative government in changing

and losing some of the things that she did not agree with that in the

Cameron government. The things that should go for she could not get

through Cabinet, she now may be able to. I do expect to see some MPs will

not be happy about this. It should have a big majority which is what

many of the polls and the pundits are predicting, are you one of the

people who thinks that would not necessarily be healthy? I think

there is unhealthy. A small majority of is the way to run a parliamentary

democracy. You make people actually fight for it. You also get the

proper scrutiny in about legislation that you do not get when you have a

thumping majority. I think it is unhealthy. But it is a democracy. If

the country vote Tory in huge numbers then you get a strong

majority. What is wrong with that? Well, that is democracy, you are

right. Interestingly, with the voting system which encourages

things like this to happen, under proportional representation you get

Ukip MPs the last election. An not certain that heading towards a

1-party state is good for the state. We have seen large majorities that

have been overturned so there is still at chance for them to be held

to account. The Sunday Times have their annual rich list which they

bring out every year, telling us about people who have an awful lot

of money and how often they have even more money than they had

before. Apparently because of Brexit, according to the Sunday

Times, it has been a bonanza billionaires. Richard getting richer

because of Brexit, it has given a boost. You can't see all the people

at the top looks so so it is hard to how it is helped. A third helped

because stock market shares have gone up because the pound went down

after Brexit. People who have shares are richer, basically. It does go

down as if the world was going to end after Brexit and the end of

civilisation... It is not going to Lalit badly for a few people. Forget

the ?80,000 people, these are seriously rich people. So they will

be in John McDonnell's tax bracket? You would hope so. And someone who

is quite well off ears... Well, we will show you a picture can probably

see it. Can our viewers get to this is? She is not looking like she

normally does, to be fair, that is Adele. To mark her birthday she

decided to dress as a Nanna from a sketch comedy show. Ageing with

grace. We do not understand why. It does not explain why this is

happening beyond that was the way she chose to celebrate her 29th

birthday. Good luck to her and her ?125 million. When you have that

much money, you do not need to explain anything. Lovely to see you

both as well as Adele. Thank you very much indeed. That is it for us

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