30/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Ben Chu Economics and Business Editor

at The Independent and Dave Wooding, Political Editor

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with.

The Metro leads with what it calls a car crash interview - where Jeremy

Corbyn stumbled over the cost of Labour's free childcare plans in an

Telegraph says it has seen leaked Telegraph says it has seen leaked

documents showing a Labour plan to allow thousands of unskilled

migrants to enter the UK after Brexit. The same story is in the

Mail adding that proposals also include axing rules which limit

foreign spouses living here unless they can show they will not be a

'burden' on the taxpayer. The Guardian focuses on Theresa May

saying Jeremy Corbyn's policies would leave him "alone and naked''

in the negotiating chamber of the EU, they call it her strongest

personal attack on the labour leader. The Times refers to a YouGov

poll suggesting the Conservatives could be in line to lose 20 seats

and Labour gain nearly 30 in next week's election. The Daily Star's

top story is the American pop star Ariana Grande returning to the UK on

Sunday, for a benefit concert for the victims of the Manchester Arena

attack - the line up includes Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Take That. And

one of the stories on the Financial Times is a plan by London Mayor

Sadiq Khan and Transport For London for people to be able to use their

phones on the tube. Not sure if we welcome that, we'll

discuss that a bit later on. First of all, I'm sorry I haven't a clue

is the Metro's headline over the interview with Jeremy Corbyn.

Stumbling a little in his woman's hour interview. There have been so

many car conditions of use during the general election and I'm

thinking of going into the motor repair business. We had Diane Abbott

with two pranks, she's probably right about this stage and Jeremy

Corbyn has this absolute pilot today were he was being interviewed on

woman's hour on BBC radio whereby Emma Barnett he asks him the price,

the cost of his childcare policy which is about ?5 billion, even I

need that. He was bearing and the pauses were excruciating. He has

apologised but he should know the sort of stuff, it is a minor detail

in yet again it calls into question whether he is a competent enough and

B has the financial knowledge to deliver. Labour supporters have

reacted on Twitter and elsewhere saying at least the proposals the

party has costed and saying the Tory proposal and costed. Which is a fair

point. The Conservatives had no numbers in their manifesto tall and

Labour had this detailed list of how it will be paid for but it does you

no good unless you remember the numbers when it comes to the natural

follow-up where people ask about individual policies. It's pretty sad

really because he did pretty well last night on the debate, he came

across competence, knowing his staff, you could disagree with him

but he was a far cry from the stereotype of a guy who knows

nothing and crash lands as David sets today in vicinity. It is like a

scene out of the thick of it and you think why not have a little back of

an envelope, a couple of schools with the numbers. The thing now is

the modern world of media, where you just hear it on the wireless, now

that our video cameras in the background and the whole thing has

gone up on websites where you can see him fiddling around, getting his

iPad out and looking flustered. The interesting thing between the two

leaders, Jeremy Corbyn is coming through style and substance, not on

top of the figures and details and not on top of his brief but also he

is coming over as warm and friendly and it's looking like Avon killer

figure and is likeable to people watching him where Theresa May who

is in trouble for the figures is coming through as cold and lacking

any warmth. Which leads to the times, we've learnt not to believe

the opinion polls that anyway let's talk about them. Shock poll predicts

Tory losses as the times. A controversial Yugo polkas Mike shock

is a massive understatement, if we got a result like this it would be

needing new superlatives to describe it. The idea the Conservatives

called the selection expecting a landslide victory really, to then

lose seats and lose control of Commons, these numbers suggest that

Labour would be just about in a position to form a coalition with

the Liberal Democrats and the SNP's whose coalition of chaos Theresa May

told us about would be a reality of these numbers were borne out. I

think it's interesting reading the waiters written, the story itself,

take it with a pinch of salt, this is not a normal poll where they ring

over 2000 people engage a result, this is a bottom-up exercise, they

don't do them often so you can't really calibrate numbers well. Yes

absolute shock and horror. There is a lot of small print here. What they

haven't done as you've seen is not an overarching poll, they will

attack constituencies to see how it is slightly different areas where

there are different voting trends say yes, if this happened it might

be Jeremy Corbyn. Is there anything less than a landslide a defeat for

Theresa May? You're getting a lot of expectations, the regular polls did

close quite a bit in their chance to work out what was causing that but

you do as David will know, you get a lot of spin saying well, this is

perhaps good for the Conservatives because it focus peoples minds on

the needs and not to be complacent and also talking about what sides a

majority would be success and what of failure. I think just remember

where we are when Theresa May called this. More than 50 I would say

majority would be considered a failure to damage her prestige. The

Telegraph got interesting story about a secret plan for Labour to

increased migration. This is all about allowing unskilled workers to

come into Britain. Now interviewers of all different TV stations have

had a go at Jeremy on this and try to pin him down on whether he would

cut immigration or not. All he has ever said as it might come down a

little, it might come down a little and of course the Conservatives are

talking about bringing it down to tens of thousands. That's a third

time they promised that of course but now it is about 260,000 a year

net migration. What seems to be said that there was a phrase used, the

barista visas, to get people to come here and do coffee shops, the other

side of this, the unskilled workers who a lot of Britons were concerned

about who voted Brexit in the first place because low paid jobs were

being undercut in wages so that would be something that would anger

a lot of people in the working classes. And the eye to Lee Mack I

say it would damage a... He found on the campaign trail and got this

comment out of it but they are interesting because the NHS is

expected to be Labour's big strong suit and a line to the report is you

need us the Conservatives because otherwise you have an economic crash

with labour which means we won't be able to give the resources to the

NHS that it needs to deal with the various pressures on it which are

large and extreme at the moment so it's effectively trying to do a

political jujitsu saying if you care about the NHS you should vote

Conservatives because only we will be to run the economy well. I don't

know if it will work but it is a good line I suppose, an interesting

one. He stayed clear of mentioning that ?350 million a week which is

going to go into the NHS since Brexit. Let's move away from the

election for a minute. The star companies that Arianna Grande is

coming back to a benefit concert in Manchester as well as other

superstars to raise funds for victims. A great tribute to people

who died and were injured, it shows that we will carry on with our

lives, you will not stop us from having concerts. Manchester will

obviously be a very safe place now in the wake of what happened. If you

people have suggested it might be too early for some victims still

being in hospital and so on. Yes but I think that the city is getting

over and trying to pull itself back together again and I think this is

in fact the phrase being used together for Manchester, perhaps it

is showing we are getting on with our lives and it will help the city

to heal itself. There is or was a trade-off in these things, too late

and it loses the moral and power of it as a statement as David says,

getting back to normal and being a powerful tribute so soon after the

events. I think it's interesting that Arianna Grande is fronting it

because it must've been very traumatic and catastrophic, people

coming to your gig to lose their lives in that way. Broken is what

she tweeted the day after. A credit to her to say I will do this and

come back because she cancelled the rest of her tour on the back of it

and now she's putting it back together for this amazing thing. It

is quite a line-up? It is a dream. Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Justin

Bieber, it is going to have big figures I imagine. Let's go on to

the Financial Times and they have a story about the underground and we

will all be listening to other people on the phones which sounds to

me like a nightmare. We've heard I'm on the train, we will now hear I'm

on the shoot, I'm the Jubilee line because Siddique Khan the Mayor of

London is working on a plan to bring the mobile phone coverage down

underneath the capital. It will be quite handy, if only people will use

it to send texts. If there will be people talking,... I must say on a

train I had for the silent carriage. I've been on the Hong Kong Metro

people can talk on their mobiles and it is horrific because people shut

down them and it is a place where you used to be go and get away from

that mobile phone Bert it has been violated now so I will be in favour

of texting only if you can use it. It is quite nice on the cheer that

it is quiet. It is but it is quite noisy inasmuch as you can hear the

rails and the engine... You can't complain about that. But if you have

people shouting on top of that it'll get to be quite noisy. Riot last

story is in the Guardian, is 80 350 because they are saying really which

is the people calling old people old auctions at using the word unless

people are really very very old, it is that the way you can sum up this

story? 50 years since Sergeant Pepper came out and when I'm 64, it

does seem crazy that that is the totemic age of oldness and see now

that he now, no one is older than they are 64 really. So it makes

sense it is pushed back, I don't know if it makes sense to call

people 80 not old or active adults, I don't know if we are quite there

yet that certainly people in the late 60s, what this guy is saying,

sorry Sarah Harper whose gerontologist which is a nice job to

have but what she is saying make sense of perspective. The other

interesting figure in here then is that in the 18th century there were

only ten centenarians in the UK. Sorry in Europe and other 14,000

500. In the United Kingdom alone and by the end of the century they

predict there will be 1.5 million centenarians in this country so it

just shows how we are looking, it is adding two years to the life span

every decade. We are definitely an ageing population. Does this say at

what stage you should call someone told all is it's your only old if

you are infirm. In firm, close to death, dependent on other people for

everything so essentially it is saying known as old and so it is

close to the end. The fourth age of Mannus said. You could be 95 and not

be old? The implications who are not audit which is a revolution. So none

of us are old. I'm looking forward to getting my active adult Railcard.

And getting on the tube with your mobile phone. Thank you Ben and

David for being with us. That is it for the papers are sour and we will

be back just after 1130 with another look at the papers.