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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
With me are Henry Mance, Political correspondent | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
at the Financial Times and Lynn Davidson, | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
led look at what the papers have in store. The Daily Mail are no fans of | :00:23. | :00:42. | |
Julian Assange, criticising him for what they describe as a human rights | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
lecture. The Swedish prosecutors dropped their rape allegation. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The FT has a picture women in terror and going to the polls in the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Iranian election. The daily Mirror have a story and | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
therefore it -- of the Daily Mirror have a story of two former radio | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
presenters being charged. The times are reporting that the | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Prime Minister, Theresa May, is planning tough new controls on | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
technology firms. The sun is looking ahead to the | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
wedding of Pippa Middleton, saying Prince Harry's girlfriend could | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
upstage the bride. The Daily Telegraph reported that | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
all Scottish pensioners will keep their winter fuel payments. The | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Scottish Secretary says it is apparently because of the weather. | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
The Daily Express is hopeful of a cure for Alzheimer's after | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
scientists discovered that a rogue protein can trigger the disease. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Back to Julian Assange in the Guardian, who has said today that | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
the war is just beginning after the decision by the Swedish prosecutors. | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Let's delve in a little more. Henry, we will start with the Daily Mail, | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
and they are pulling no punches. Epic picture of Julian Assange and | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
the headline, a creep. -- and a big picture. Yes and they say that it | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
has cost us a lot of money to have him in the Ecuadorian Embassy with | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
police presence outside, even though it has been downgraded. The whole | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
process has been messy and unedifying. The Swedish prosecutors | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
decided that because there is no prospect of him coming out of there | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
and facing the accusations, they cannot make any progress with the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
case. It isn't a complete drop. But it means seven years after the | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
accusations were made, there is a sign he is getting towards the end | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
of it. Now the wiki leaks charges may come back from the US | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
authorities. He said he doesn't forgive and doesn't forget. He is | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
now the accuser, on the defensive. They take exception to the fact that | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
he came out and gave the world a human right lecture, they say. I'm | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
not sure what readers will think of this when they see this. They have | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
been strong on it. ?30 million. The police officers that have been | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
sitting outside, wasting time, when they could have been solving crimes, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
when people cannot get hold of police officers when they call. All | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
of these issues. Just for one man. The Guardian choosing to lead on | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
that, as well. They are saying the war has just begun. He was in | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
defiant mood. Do you think we can expect more from him? He toured the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
world that digital secrets are not safe. -- he told the world. If you | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
have information on any computer in the world there was a chance that | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
somebody can bring it out, like Chelsea Manning did, and make it | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
public. The irony is he has managed to keep himself secret and hidden | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
away from the world's authorities. He has shown that information has no | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
security around. The possibility he could continue to be active. Wiki | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
leaks played a big role in the US election, tried to get involved in | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
the French election with the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. There | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
was a story about real e-mail is mixed with fake e-mails. There was | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
an interesting moment towards the end of the campaign with that. Wiki | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
leaks may play another role in the next few years. The Guardian saying | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
in the last three paragraphs, he attended a more conciliatory tone, | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
saying his legal staff have contacted the UK authorities and | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
hope to engage in a dialogue about what is the best way forward. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Whether we will see a change of strategy, I don't know. He could | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
still be arrested by the British police if he leaves the embassy. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
That's the bottom line. There are arrest warrants issued for him. He | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
is saying he has had seven years of not seeing his children grow up. I | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
don't know what it must be like to spend your time trapped in a | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
building. I always just think, does he secretly have a moustache and | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
slinks out at night. But with the policeman guarding a the clock, I | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
don't know. The situation last week with the NHS and the hackers, I'm | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
not sure if he can perhaps offer some sort of help with his expertise | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
in that area. He is sitting in the embassy with not so much to do. Good | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
point. The Telegraph, lots of papers covering this, as have TV and radio | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
today, this is the potential split in the Conservative Party approach | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
to a winter fuel benefit, Henry? The news on the Tory manifesto that if | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
you are in England and UI pensioner and you receive winter fuel | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
allowance between ?100 to ?300 per year, that will now be means tested. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Rich people won't get it. But if you are in Scotland that would be the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
case. It'll still be available universally. That tells us something | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
interesting. It is doing so well amongst older voters that it doesn't | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
need to keep giving them goodies like David Cameron did. They can | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
say, look, you are getting a great deal, you have a good deal over the | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
past few years, so we will cut back on some of your benefits. But they | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
still need Scottish voters. There is still a strong independence campaign | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
north of the border. The last thing Theresa May wants to do in the | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
middle of Brexit negotiation this have that flare-up. It is a devolved | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
matter. This is a decision, Ruth Davidson's Scottish party manifesto. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
That is what they have chosen to do with their money. They have chosen | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
not to means test pensioners. That is her decision. Don't confuse it, | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
this is not a sweetie for Scotland. They want people to vote for her. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
But it isn't extra money for Scots and not extra cash for English | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
pensioners. What did you make of... We saw Ruth Davidson and Theresa May | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
today, and both being asked about this, one of the suggestions about | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
why the differences, it is mighty cold in Scotland. Welcome it is. If | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
you live in Cumbria, Newcastle, they might have something to say. That is | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
the decision Theresa May has made. I suppose you can always move north of | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
the border. CHUCKLES | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Nice advert for moving to Scotland. The Son have gone with a pun making | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
headline, divide and fuel. Tories feel the heat of hypocritical | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
policy. Is that fair in the light of what Lindsey has been saying? It | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
might not be. But it goes the perception that many English voters | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
have that Scotland gets a better deal, that public spending is higher | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
north of the border. This is something Paul Nuttall of Ukip has | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
tried to play on. Let's get English people the same deal Scottish people | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
have. All sorts of reasons why public spending is different. This | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
kind of thing does seem a political ploy, and won the Tory party | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
basically think they can get away with because they are doing so well | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
amongst older voters and they cannot afford, really, I think, to inflame | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
the national sentiment. Ten for the headline, by the way. It is right to | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
pick up on this. But they cannot say this is bad politics. Ruth Davidson, | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
the Scottish Conservatives are on the march. It is a two horse fight | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
north of the border between the Scottish Tories and the SNP. Last | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
week the Scottish Tories were... You get free prescriptions in Scotland. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
That was brought in by the SNP. The Scottish Tories are against that, | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
they have gone back on that and said they would keep it. This is another | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
sweetener for voters there. She said today, a bit more personality | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
politics, Theresa May is saying vote for me, give me a chance, Ruth | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Davidson said today in Scotland, lend me your vote, vote for me, it | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
is a bit more of the personality politics. That is a great lead into | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
our next Tory. Maybe carry on with that. The FT, not their main story, | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
but down the left-hand side, control beats charm on May's rigid campaign | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
trail. What do you make of the style of her campaign trail? I have been | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
on it over the last couple of weeks in Wales, the south-west, and the | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
North. It is controlled. You don't know where she will be until a few | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
hours beforehand. You will rise, there are supporters there, she will | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
arrive at a community centre. -- you will arrive, there are supporters | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
there. She gives the same speech everywhere. And with all of the | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
proper slogans we have learnt off by heart now, strong and stable, etc. | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
It is controlled. Is it robotic, monotonous and lacking in | :09:52. | :09:52. | |
imagination, but nonetheless exceeding brilliantly? -- are | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
succeeding brilliantly? We will know in a few weeks. Does anybody do it | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
differently these days? In the light of the pain that has been caused in | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
some past campaigns by run-ins with voters who have, one thinks of | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Gillian Duffy and Gordon Brown, and people said it cost in the election. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
You can see why the spin doctors close ranks around their leader and | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
try and control it all. Even the few performances we have seen from | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Theresa May, the public, in the wild, as it were, there has been a | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
risk of it going wrong. A woman with learning disabilities asking her why | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
she is taking away some of her benefits. It is an uncomfortable | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
position for a Prime Minister to be in. She wants to look like a leader. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
People behind the polls, Tim Farron and Jeremy Corbyn, are having to | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
play it differently. They cannot deny the media access. They have to | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
do everything they can. She has such a big lead in the polls that she is | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
effectively able to do what Manchester United did when they will | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
fall- zero up, play defensively, knock the ball around, keep it away | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
from doing anything too creative. -- Manchester United did when they were | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
4-0 up. She is in government and she wants to stay there. Is there | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
anything in that idea that it is lacking in imagination, that it is | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
so rigid there is nothing, sort of, spontaneous that could excite | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
people? Her advisers were worried about the idea she was being seen as | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
robotic and boring. That is why we saw lights come into her in the one | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
show appearance with her husband, Philip. He came off slightly more | :11:30. | :11:42. | |
affable in that. In policy terms... There have been creative moves. She | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
has lots of room in the selection to actually go out there and say I want | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
a mandate from my policies, these are my ideas. She is setting up the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Tory agenda in the centre ground. She has been bowled. Taken ideas a | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
lot of her colleagues would not agree with. Let's move the Times. | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
Whether she has or hasn't been controlling, there is a promise that | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
she wants to control Web giants. She has said that Britain should be the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
world's Internet policeman, what is that about? We cannot see the full | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
interview yet. We had a Trail of this over the last week. That these | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
technology giants, Facebook, YouTube, so on, will be forced to | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
erase data, pictures that have been posted by children who are under 18. | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Most people, I think, most bright minded people, are quite shocked to | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
think that on YouTube and Google and Facebook there are terrorist images. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Images of child abuse. Nobody wants that kind of content to be | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
accessible at all. Now Theresa May is promising, pledging, she will be | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
giving people more power over controlling their own data and | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
crackdown on how data is held. What do you think? The problem always | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
seems to be that the companies themselves, so we are told, are not | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
doing enough to do what right minded people want. These companies came | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
from libertarian backgrounds, platforms of free speech, that is | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
what users want to do, it is their decision, we do not want to be | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
censors. They make billions in profit. They can decide elections. | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
They have huge reach. They should be in the eyes of politicians, | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
inevitably. Point is, nobody has worked out how to govern these | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
things. Theresa May, with everything else on a plate, is now promising to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
be the world's Internet policeman. You know, good luck. Quite an | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
ambition. If you have had friends who have had a Facebook account and | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
had a picture removed because it contains nudity, you think, if they | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
can do that, why not tackle these are the issues? That maybe the will | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
of the companies rather than legislation. Let's return to the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Daily Telegraph. Let's go overseas. There is a story that has been | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
coming out tonight via the Washington Post and New York | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
Times... Talking about Donald Trump calling his former FBI director | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
James Comey a nut job. It is astonishing, isn't it? Every | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
instalment is like the next episode of, you know, House Of Cards, you | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
don't know what is going to come out next. We heard earlier about how... | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
We are getting a bit more colour, in the lead up to James Comey being | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
sacked, what happened, and how will Trump's behaviour changed, and how | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
he was getting friendly with him, trying to embrace him. And James | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
Comey felt he was being compromised his position was being compromised, | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
and he didn't want... He already knew the Democrats didn't trust him | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
and it was an awkward position for him. Now hearing this language from | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Trump... The White House's inspiration for sacking him has | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
changed. -- explanation for sacking him has changed. Now he's being | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
explicit. The White House spokesman is being explicit. This was to do | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
with Russia. About easing the pressure on Russia. James Comey's | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
investigation into the links between the White House and Russia had | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
caused problems and by firing him they got rid of it. This story will | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
run and run. Plenty more on that. We cannot finish without looking at the | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
Sun. Megan against Pepper. -- Megan against Pepper | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
-- Megan against Pippa. Megan is due to tie the knot. -- Pippa is due to | :15:54. | :16:10. | |
tie the knot. The entire's girlfriend might apparently upstage | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
her. She is into yoga. It'll be interesting to see. Maybe we will | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
have another royal wedding. Thank you both. That's The Papers. You can | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
see the front pages on the website. Seven days a week. All there for | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
you. If you have missed the programme, you can watch later on | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
iPlayer. We have seen fairly unsettled and | :16:38. | :16:51. | |
lively weather over the last few days. Heavy showers and | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
thunderstorms. Here is a view | :16:56. | :16:56. |