:00:15. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:20.With me are Henry Mance, Political correspondent
:00:21. > :00:22.at the Financial Times and Lynn Davidson,
:00:23. > :00:42.led look at what the papers have in store. The Daily Mail are no fans of
:00:43. > :00:46.Julian Assange, criticising him for what they describe as a human rights
:00:47. > :00:49.lecture. The Swedish prosecutors dropped their rape allegation.
:00:50. > :00:52.The FT has a picture women in terror and going to the polls in the
:00:53. > :01:00.Iranian election. The daily Mirror have a story and
:01:01. > :01:04.therefore it -- of the Daily Mirror have a story of two former radio
:01:05. > :01:07.presenters being charged. The times are reporting that the
:01:08. > :01:12.Prime Minister, Theresa May, is planning tough new controls on
:01:13. > :01:15.technology firms. The sun is looking ahead to the
:01:16. > :01:19.wedding of Pippa Middleton, saying Prince Harry's girlfriend could
:01:20. > :01:23.upstage the bride. The Daily Telegraph reported that
:01:24. > :01:25.all Scottish pensioners will keep their winter fuel payments. The
:01:26. > :01:31.Scottish Secretary says it is apparently because of the weather.
:01:32. > :01:34.The Daily Express is hopeful of a cure for Alzheimer's after
:01:35. > :01:39.scientists discovered that a rogue protein can trigger the disease.
:01:40. > :01:42.Back to Julian Assange in the Guardian, who has said today that
:01:43. > :01:49.the war is just beginning after the decision by the Swedish prosecutors.
:01:50. > :01:53.Let's delve in a little more. Henry, we will start with the Daily Mail,
:01:54. > :02:00.and they are pulling no punches. Epic picture of Julian Assange and
:02:01. > :02:05.the headline, a creep. -- and a big picture. Yes and they say that it
:02:06. > :02:08.has cost us a lot of money to have him in the Ecuadorian Embassy with
:02:09. > :02:16.police presence outside, even though it has been downgraded. The whole
:02:17. > :02:19.process has been messy and unedifying. The Swedish prosecutors
:02:20. > :02:23.decided that because there is no prospect of him coming out of there
:02:24. > :02:27.and facing the accusations, they cannot make any progress with the
:02:28. > :02:33.case. It isn't a complete drop. But it means seven years after the
:02:34. > :02:41.accusations were made, there is a sign he is getting towards the end
:02:42. > :02:45.of it. Now the wiki leaks charges may come back from the US
:02:46. > :02:50.authorities. He said he doesn't forgive and doesn't forget. He is
:02:51. > :02:53.now the accuser, on the defensive. They take exception to the fact that
:02:54. > :03:00.he came out and gave the world a human right lecture, they say. I'm
:03:01. > :03:06.not sure what readers will think of this when they see this. They have
:03:07. > :03:09.been strong on it. ?30 million. The police officers that have been
:03:10. > :03:12.sitting outside, wasting time, when they could have been solving crimes,
:03:13. > :03:21.when people cannot get hold of police officers when they call. All
:03:22. > :03:26.of these issues. Just for one man. The Guardian choosing to lead on
:03:27. > :03:30.that, as well. They are saying the war has just begun. He was in
:03:31. > :03:36.defiant mood. Do you think we can expect more from him? He toured the
:03:37. > :03:42.world that digital secrets are not safe. -- he told the world. If you
:03:43. > :03:45.have information on any computer in the world there was a chance that
:03:46. > :03:50.somebody can bring it out, like Chelsea Manning did, and make it
:03:51. > :03:55.public. The irony is he has managed to keep himself secret and hidden
:03:56. > :03:59.away from the world's authorities. He has shown that information has no
:04:00. > :04:03.security around. The possibility he could continue to be active. Wiki
:04:04. > :04:08.leaks played a big role in the US election, tried to get involved in
:04:09. > :04:13.the French election with the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. There
:04:14. > :04:16.was a story about real e-mail is mixed with fake e-mails. There was
:04:17. > :04:20.an interesting moment towards the end of the campaign with that. Wiki
:04:21. > :04:27.leaks may play another role in the next few years. The Guardian saying
:04:28. > :04:30.in the last three paragraphs, he attended a more conciliatory tone,
:04:31. > :04:33.saying his legal staff have contacted the UK authorities and
:04:34. > :04:37.hope to engage in a dialogue about what is the best way forward.
:04:38. > :04:40.Whether we will see a change of strategy, I don't know. He could
:04:41. > :04:45.still be arrested by the British police if he leaves the embassy.
:04:46. > :04:50.That's the bottom line. There are arrest warrants issued for him. He
:04:51. > :04:55.is saying he has had seven years of not seeing his children grow up. I
:04:56. > :05:00.don't know what it must be like to spend your time trapped in a
:05:01. > :05:04.building. I always just think, does he secretly have a moustache and
:05:05. > :05:09.slinks out at night. But with the policeman guarding a the clock, I
:05:10. > :05:12.don't know. The situation last week with the NHS and the hackers, I'm
:05:13. > :05:17.not sure if he can perhaps offer some sort of help with his expertise
:05:18. > :05:22.in that area. He is sitting in the embassy with not so much to do. Good
:05:23. > :05:28.point. The Telegraph, lots of papers covering this, as have TV and radio
:05:29. > :05:35.today, this is the potential split in the Conservative Party approach
:05:36. > :05:38.to a winter fuel benefit, Henry? The news on the Tory manifesto that if
:05:39. > :05:43.you are in England and UI pensioner and you receive winter fuel
:05:44. > :05:47.allowance between ?100 to ?300 per year, that will now be means tested.
:05:48. > :05:51.Rich people won't get it. But if you are in Scotland that would be the
:05:52. > :05:56.case. It'll still be available universally. That tells us something
:05:57. > :05:59.interesting. It is doing so well amongst older voters that it doesn't
:06:00. > :06:02.need to keep giving them goodies like David Cameron did. They can
:06:03. > :06:06.say, look, you are getting a great deal, you have a good deal over the
:06:07. > :06:11.past few years, so we will cut back on some of your benefits. But they
:06:12. > :06:15.still need Scottish voters. There is still a strong independence campaign
:06:16. > :06:18.north of the border. The last thing Theresa May wants to do in the
:06:19. > :06:27.middle of Brexit negotiation this have that flare-up. It is a devolved
:06:28. > :06:31.matter. This is a decision, Ruth Davidson's Scottish party manifesto.
:06:32. > :06:33.That is what they have chosen to do with their money. They have chosen
:06:34. > :06:41.not to means test pensioners. That is her decision. Don't confuse it,
:06:42. > :06:45.this is not a sweetie for Scotland. They want people to vote for her.
:06:46. > :06:51.But it isn't extra money for Scots and not extra cash for English
:06:52. > :06:56.pensioners. What did you make of... We saw Ruth Davidson and Theresa May
:06:57. > :07:00.today, and both being asked about this, one of the suggestions about
:07:01. > :07:06.why the differences, it is mighty cold in Scotland. Welcome it is. If
:07:07. > :07:10.you live in Cumbria, Newcastle, they might have something to say. That is
:07:11. > :07:13.the decision Theresa May has made. I suppose you can always move north of
:07:14. > :07:22.the border. CHUCKLES
:07:23. > :07:28.Nice advert for moving to Scotland. The Son have gone with a pun making
:07:29. > :07:31.headline, divide and fuel. Tories feel the heat of hypocritical
:07:32. > :07:35.policy. Is that fair in the light of what Lindsey has been saying? It
:07:36. > :07:39.might not be. But it goes the perception that many English voters
:07:40. > :07:44.have that Scotland gets a better deal, that public spending is higher
:07:45. > :07:47.north of the border. This is something Paul Nuttall of Ukip has
:07:48. > :07:52.tried to play on. Let's get English people the same deal Scottish people
:07:53. > :07:56.have. All sorts of reasons why public spending is different. This
:07:57. > :07:59.kind of thing does seem a political ploy, and won the Tory party
:08:00. > :08:04.basically think they can get away with because they are doing so well
:08:05. > :08:09.amongst older voters and they cannot afford, really, I think, to inflame
:08:10. > :08:12.the national sentiment. Ten for the headline, by the way. It is right to
:08:13. > :08:19.pick up on this. But they cannot say this is bad politics. Ruth Davidson,
:08:20. > :08:22.the Scottish Conservatives are on the march. It is a two horse fight
:08:23. > :08:30.north of the border between the Scottish Tories and the SNP. Last
:08:31. > :08:35.week the Scottish Tories were... You get free prescriptions in Scotland.
:08:36. > :08:38.That was brought in by the SNP. The Scottish Tories are against that,
:08:39. > :08:44.they have gone back on that and said they would keep it. This is another
:08:45. > :08:48.sweetener for voters there. She said today, a bit more personality
:08:49. > :08:51.politics, Theresa May is saying vote for me, give me a chance, Ruth
:08:52. > :08:55.Davidson said today in Scotland, lend me your vote, vote for me, it
:08:56. > :09:00.is a bit more of the personality politics. That is a great lead into
:09:01. > :09:05.our next Tory. Maybe carry on with that. The FT, not their main story,
:09:06. > :09:12.but down the left-hand side, control beats charm on May's rigid campaign
:09:13. > :09:17.trail. What do you make of the style of her campaign trail? I have been
:09:18. > :09:21.on it over the last couple of weeks in Wales, the south-west, and the
:09:22. > :09:25.North. It is controlled. You don't know where she will be until a few
:09:26. > :09:32.hours beforehand. You will rise, there are supporters there, she will
:09:33. > :09:38.arrive at a community centre. -- you will arrive, there are supporters
:09:39. > :09:41.there. She gives the same speech everywhere. And with all of the
:09:42. > :09:51.proper slogans we have learnt off by heart now, strong and stable, etc.
:09:52. > :09:52.It is controlled. Is it robotic, monotonous and lacking in
:09:53. > :09:58.imagination, but nonetheless exceeding brilliantly? -- are
:09:59. > :10:02.succeeding brilliantly? We will know in a few weeks. Does anybody do it
:10:03. > :10:06.differently these days? In the light of the pain that has been caused in
:10:07. > :10:12.some past campaigns by run-ins with voters who have, one thinks of
:10:13. > :10:15.Gillian Duffy and Gordon Brown, and people said it cost in the election.
:10:16. > :10:21.You can see why the spin doctors close ranks around their leader and
:10:22. > :10:25.try and control it all. Even the few performances we have seen from
:10:26. > :10:30.Theresa May, the public, in the wild, as it were, there has been a
:10:31. > :10:32.risk of it going wrong. A woman with learning disabilities asking her why
:10:33. > :10:37.she is taking away some of her benefits. It is an uncomfortable
:10:38. > :10:41.position for a Prime Minister to be in. She wants to look like a leader.
:10:42. > :10:44.People behind the polls, Tim Farron and Jeremy Corbyn, are having to
:10:45. > :10:49.play it differently. They cannot deny the media access. They have to
:10:50. > :10:52.do everything they can. She has such a big lead in the polls that she is
:10:53. > :10:56.effectively able to do what Manchester United did when they will
:10:57. > :11:04.fall- zero up, play defensively, knock the ball around, keep it away
:11:05. > :11:09.from doing anything too creative. -- Manchester United did when they were
:11:10. > :11:14.4-0 up. She is in government and she wants to stay there. Is there
:11:15. > :11:18.anything in that idea that it is lacking in imagination, that it is
:11:19. > :11:22.so rigid there is nothing, sort of, spontaneous that could excite
:11:23. > :11:26.people? Her advisers were worried about the idea she was being seen as
:11:27. > :11:29.robotic and boring. That is why we saw lights come into her in the one
:11:30. > :11:42.show appearance with her husband, Philip. He came off slightly more
:11:43. > :11:47.affable in that. In policy terms... There have been creative moves. She
:11:48. > :11:52.has lots of room in the selection to actually go out there and say I want
:11:53. > :11:56.a mandate from my policies, these are my ideas. She is setting up the
:11:57. > :11:58.Tory agenda in the centre ground. She has been bowled. Taken ideas a
:11:59. > :12:05.lot of her colleagues would not agree with. Let's move the Times.
:12:06. > :12:09.Whether she has or hasn't been controlling, there is a promise that
:12:10. > :12:13.she wants to control Web giants. She has said that Britain should be the
:12:14. > :12:18.world's Internet policeman, what is that about? We cannot see the full
:12:19. > :12:25.interview yet. We had a Trail of this over the last week. That these
:12:26. > :12:31.technology giants, Facebook, YouTube, so on, will be forced to
:12:32. > :12:37.erase data, pictures that have been posted by children who are under 18.
:12:38. > :12:43.Most people, I think, most bright minded people, are quite shocked to
:12:44. > :12:48.think that on YouTube and Google and Facebook there are terrorist images.
:12:49. > :12:52.Images of child abuse. Nobody wants that kind of content to be
:12:53. > :12:57.accessible at all. Now Theresa May is promising, pledging, she will be
:12:58. > :13:02.giving people more power over controlling their own data and
:13:03. > :13:08.crackdown on how data is held. What do you think? The problem always
:13:09. > :13:13.seems to be that the companies themselves, so we are told, are not
:13:14. > :13:17.doing enough to do what right minded people want. These companies came
:13:18. > :13:20.from libertarian backgrounds, platforms of free speech, that is
:13:21. > :13:24.what users want to do, it is their decision, we do not want to be
:13:25. > :13:29.censors. They make billions in profit. They can decide elections.
:13:30. > :13:33.They have huge reach. They should be in the eyes of politicians,
:13:34. > :13:37.inevitably. Point is, nobody has worked out how to govern these
:13:38. > :13:42.things. Theresa May, with everything else on a plate, is now promising to
:13:43. > :13:47.be the world's Internet policeman. You know, good luck. Quite an
:13:48. > :13:51.ambition. If you have had friends who have had a Facebook account and
:13:52. > :13:56.had a picture removed because it contains nudity, you think, if they
:13:57. > :13:59.can do that, why not tackle these are the issues? That maybe the will
:14:00. > :14:05.of the companies rather than legislation. Let's return to the
:14:06. > :14:07.Daily Telegraph. Let's go overseas. There is a story that has been
:14:08. > :14:15.coming out tonight via the Washington Post and New York
:14:16. > :14:18.Times... Talking about Donald Trump calling his former FBI director
:14:19. > :14:25.James Comey a nut job. It is astonishing, isn't it? Every
:14:26. > :14:28.instalment is like the next episode of, you know, House Of Cards, you
:14:29. > :14:36.don't know what is going to come out next. We heard earlier about how...
:14:37. > :14:43.We are getting a bit more colour, in the lead up to James Comey being
:14:44. > :14:47.sacked, what happened, and how will Trump's behaviour changed, and how
:14:48. > :14:54.he was getting friendly with him, trying to embrace him. And James
:14:55. > :14:58.Comey felt he was being compromised his position was being compromised,
:14:59. > :15:01.and he didn't want... He already knew the Democrats didn't trust him
:15:02. > :15:06.and it was an awkward position for him. Now hearing this language from
:15:07. > :15:12.Trump... The White House's inspiration for sacking him has
:15:13. > :15:18.changed. -- explanation for sacking him has changed. Now he's being
:15:19. > :15:22.explicit. The White House spokesman is being explicit. This was to do
:15:23. > :15:27.with Russia. About easing the pressure on Russia. James Comey's
:15:28. > :15:32.investigation into the links between the White House and Russia had
:15:33. > :15:36.caused problems and by firing him they got rid of it. This story will
:15:37. > :15:47.run and run. Plenty more on that. We cannot finish without looking at the
:15:48. > :15:53.Sun. Megan against Pepper. -- Megan against Pepper
:15:54. > :16:10.-- Megan against Pippa. Megan is due to tie the knot. -- Pippa is due to
:16:11. > :16:14.tie the knot. The entire's girlfriend might apparently upstage
:16:15. > :16:20.her. She is into yoga. It'll be interesting to see. Maybe we will
:16:21. > :16:29.have another royal wedding. Thank you both. That's The Papers. You can
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