:00:14. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:18. > :00:25.With me are Rachel Cunliffe, Deputy Editor of the political news
:00:26. > :00:28.And Owen Bennett, Deputy political editor
:00:29. > :00:48.The Guardian says Jeremy Corbyn challenged Amber Rudd over
:00:49. > :00:50.the impact of the government's spending cuts following his last
:00:51. > :00:53.minute decision to take part in the BBC election debate.
:00:54. > :00:55.The Daily Telegraph notes that the Home Secretary
:00:56. > :00:56.represented Theresa May in the debate, just 48
:00:57. > :00:58.hours after the death of Amber Rudd's father.
:00:59. > :01:00.The Times reports that the Prime Minister
:01:01. > :01:03.is concentrating on Brexit after her refusal to take part
:01:04. > :01:08.The Daily Express leads on Theresa May's warning that
:01:09. > :01:09.Jeremy Corbyn is plotting uncontrolled immigration
:01:10. > :01:15.Under the headline 'Justice' the Metro leads on the surgeon who's
:01:16. > :01:17.been jailed for 15 years for carrying out needless
:01:18. > :01:28.The FT reports that China and the EU have agreed a climate pact as doubts
:01:29. > :01:41.We can begin with that debate in Cambridge. Was it a mistake for
:01:42. > :01:48.Theresa May not to take part because Jeremy Corbyn at the last minute
:01:49. > :01:54.did? This is the front page of The Times, have faith in me. Implying
:01:55. > :02:02.that Theresa May is hard at work on Brexit. She once this election to be
:02:03. > :02:06.about Brexit, but it is not really being talked about with people. And
:02:07. > :02:11.I've been out with MPs, it is rarely coming up on the doorstep. It was
:02:12. > :02:15.supposed to be the Brexit election. That is what she would like it to
:02:16. > :02:21.be, it is what Tim Farron would like it to be, who said he is
:02:22. > :02:27.representing the 48%, but it is simply not about Brexit. It could
:02:28. > :02:31.have been a mistake her not turning up, but I don't think Jeremy Corbyn
:02:32. > :02:36.did enough to make it a mistake. The debate will not have changed
:02:37. > :02:43.anyone's mine. The opportunity was there for Jeremy Corbyn. How did you
:02:44. > :02:49.see it? Slightly scrappy. Shouting. Yes, Amber Rudd was auditioning for
:02:50. > :02:54.the role of Theresa May, and she said, it is going to be a coalition
:02:55. > :02:58.of chaos if they get in, and they started arguing and shouting over
:02:59. > :03:03.each other, proving that point. I feel bad because the last time I was
:03:04. > :03:07.on this programme I said she was within her rights to not debate and
:03:08. > :03:12.it seems like a smart decision, and it was at the time, but with the
:03:13. > :03:18.poll gap having closed it is now looking more risky. But I think it
:03:19. > :03:21.would have done her more damage if she had you turned yet again and
:03:22. > :03:26.decided at the last-minute that she would be there. Every single leader
:03:27. > :03:29.would have made the point that this is her yet again not strong and
:03:30. > :03:35.stable, but just making another U-turn. Although it was a U-turn for
:03:36. > :03:40.Jeremy Corbyn. Yes, which never mentioned. He said he wouldn't take
:03:41. > :03:49.part if she didn't, but then he did. The Guardian had got the same debate
:03:50. > :03:53.story, Jeremy Corbyn confronting Amber Rudd over cuts, in a fractious
:03:54. > :03:57.debate, but that is what you would expect with the seven politicians
:03:58. > :04:04.arguing over 90 minutes. Actually, Jeremy Corbyn did not confront Amber
:04:05. > :04:08.Rudd enough, he started off, saying, have you been to a food bank, and I
:04:09. > :04:13.thought he was going to act like this is a choice between him, the
:04:14. > :04:17.leader of the Labour Party who has turned up, and the underling who has
:04:18. > :04:21.been sent in, and what he should have done, he should have ended
:04:22. > :04:25.with, but we don't know what Theresa May thinks because she is not here
:04:26. > :04:32.to debate it, and he should have kept on persisting with that. He
:04:33. > :04:36.should have done that every time and that is what people should have
:04:37. > :04:40.taken away from the debate, that Theresa May did not want the debate,
:04:41. > :04:44.and I do think he did that enough. I don't think you're giving him enough
:04:45. > :04:49.credit. I have been accused of that before. I thought he did quite well,
:04:50. > :04:55.especially after the disastrous interview on women's hour. --
:04:56. > :04:57.woman's hour yesterday. He was very calm about everything and he didn't
:04:58. > :05:05.go down to the level of the others and he was a bit above the shouting
:05:06. > :05:11.and the squabbling. And I think, OK, he did not hit as hard as he could
:05:12. > :05:13.have, but he would be hitting the Prime Minister's spokesperson and
:05:14. > :05:19.not the Prime Minister and that could have come across as too
:05:20. > :05:21.aggressive and too angry. This was actually a gaffe free performance on
:05:22. > :05:28.Jeremy Corbyn which is quite impressive for him. Do you think
:05:29. > :05:33.voters like zen in their politicians? That is irrelevant, I
:05:34. > :05:38.can't see anyone changing their mind after watching that debate. I can't
:05:39. > :05:41.see anyone watching a performance and changing their mind to many
:05:42. > :05:45.people are Jeremy Corbyn was a great leader, that will have convinced you
:05:46. > :05:47.and if you think Theresa May is so competent that she doesn't need to
:05:48. > :05:56.turn up, that will have convinced you. But if you believe The Times
:05:57. > :06:02.and their polling, and that is a big if, but Labour had closed the gap to
:06:03. > :06:07.just three points, they are saying. Metro newspaper here, this is quite
:06:08. > :06:15.a clever banner, the lady is not for turning up. Paraphrasing the famous
:06:16. > :06:21.Margaret Thatcher thing, and the lady had been the turning on social
:06:22. > :06:28.care and national insurance, and so I understand, if she had turned up
:06:29. > :06:31.she would have been accused of making another U-turn, but people
:06:32. > :06:38.would have remembered that she had turned up. She put herself into a
:06:39. > :06:42.corner and Jeremy Corbyn called her bluff, which was the right thing to
:06:43. > :06:47.do, but I felt like he could have capitalised on it more. Even though
:06:48. > :06:53.there were no gaffes, it was a bit like PMQs, when he could have taken
:06:54. > :06:57.Theresa May apart, and it was all there for him, but he didn't quite
:06:58. > :07:04.get the ball over the line. That is because he is, as Rachel said.
:07:05. > :07:08.LAUGHTER Amber Rudd's father died over the
:07:09. > :07:11.weekend and she was put in to do the possible job and she knew she was
:07:12. > :07:16.going to get hammered for Theresa May not being there. She held her
:07:17. > :07:22.own and did not go down to the level of squabbling. I do not want to say
:07:23. > :07:26.she was strong and stable, but she was a little bit stable. I think she
:07:27. > :07:33.did really well in an impossible situation. We won't show this to
:07:34. > :07:36.you, but the Financial Times are saying that they have come out in
:07:37. > :07:43.favour of Theresa May, which is quite interesting. They were against
:07:44. > :07:48.Brexit. But they say that Theresa May in their view has looked brittle
:07:49. > :07:53.but is best placed to lead Brexit. I wonder how many people that actually
:07:54. > :08:00.speaks for, because the Financial Times were anti-Brexit and they have
:08:01. > :08:04.kept up that rhetoric but they have said she is the best of a bad bunch
:08:05. > :08:10.and many people on the doorstep, and I was speaking to Tory MPs who said
:08:11. > :08:13.exactly that. Theresa May has gone from being a positive to being
:08:14. > :08:18.neutral at best. How has that happened? The social care thing was
:08:19. > :08:21.a big thing, there's a perception that she has got it in for
:08:22. > :08:29.pensioners, which additionally boat story and that she changes her mind.
:08:30. > :08:31.-- which traditionally votes Tory. And it is cutting through that she's
:08:32. > :08:42.not answering questions on television. She is dodging it too
:08:43. > :08:49.much what Jeremy Corbyn answers the question even if it takes a long
:08:50. > :08:54.time -- she is dodging it too much. He argues the question, even if it
:08:55. > :08:59.might be a different question. LAUGHTER
:09:00. > :09:03.And now to another story, Ian Paterson, the breast surgeon, who
:09:04. > :09:07.has been sentenced to 15 years, he was told he was driven by the
:09:08. > :09:13.material rewards which was brought from his private practice. Shocking
:09:14. > :09:18.story. When you read the testimonials from the victims, what
:09:19. > :09:21.comes across, they say, he seemed arrogant and I didn't like him, but
:09:22. > :09:27.I trusted him because he seemed to know what he was talking about and
:09:28. > :09:29.that sums up how, when we interact with people from medical
:09:30. > :09:37.backgrounds, we have this kind of implicit trust in them. When it is
:09:38. > :09:43.abused it shows how long it can go on for, how many women, and one man,
:09:44. > :09:52.as welcomer subjected to these unneeded Operation Stack as well, --
:09:53. > :09:57.as well, subjected to these and needed operations. Yes, he said they
:09:58. > :10:03.could develop cancer, playing on their worst fears, for manipulation.
:10:04. > :10:09.The real question, why was it able to go on for 15 years? People raised
:10:10. > :10:14.concerns. Was it that people did not see what they wanted to see? Women
:10:15. > :10:20.were discounted for other reasons? It is a great result that he has
:10:21. > :10:25.been jailed 15 years but troubling, the story, and more needs to be
:10:26. > :10:30.looked into this. There is still the compensation claim for those victims
:10:31. > :10:39.to be heard. That is down the road a little bit. The Financial Times,
:10:40. > :10:43.their main story is about, being widely expected in Washington that
:10:44. > :10:48.Donald Trump is going to pull out of the Paris time an accord. The
:10:49. > :10:53.Financial Times says China and the European Union have done their own
:10:54. > :10:57.deal, their own climate pact because there is so much doubt about
:10:58. > :11:01.America's commitment. This is real evidence of Donald Trump's America
:11:02. > :11:04.turning its back on the rest of the world, and the rest of the world
:11:05. > :11:08.shrugging their shoulders and saying, we have got to get on with
:11:09. > :11:11.it. This goes with the quote from Angela Merkel about the Nato summit
:11:12. > :11:18.last week, that Europe can't count on others. There are new alliances
:11:19. > :11:23.being formed. Now the United States has left. Donald Trump is still
:11:24. > :11:26.saying on Twitter he might go one way or the other, teasing, but this
:11:27. > :11:32.is not really an issue that you should take lightly. It is like it
:11:33. > :11:40.is a game show, like the apprentice. It seems strange, he will give China
:11:41. > :11:48.ten in dollars to help them with developing a national mission
:11:49. > :11:52.training system -- $10 million. And he got any doubt that he will pull
:11:53. > :11:56.out of the Paris accord? I can't see any reason why he wouldn't. He said
:11:57. > :12:02.this in his campaign and his advisers want him to do it and it
:12:03. > :12:05.will be a vote winner back home. He changed his mind on draining the
:12:06. > :12:09.swamp and changed his mind on his health care plans and about getting
:12:10. > :12:14.America involved in foreign conflict and his campaign promises if you
:12:15. > :12:18.look at what happened in the first couple of months, they don't seem to
:12:19. > :12:23.have been that important to him. I have my things crossed that he will
:12:24. > :12:27.change his mind at the last minute, and the idea of him saving the
:12:28. > :12:34.planet, that will prevail and they will stay in, but I don't have much
:12:35. > :12:41.hope. He said in his suite about being on the verge of making America
:12:42. > :13:00.great again. -- in his tweet. And now to The story which is about
:13:01. > :13:08.getting close to the sun. That is right. They say this would be the
:13:09. > :13:21.closest a probe has ever got to the sun. A guy called Professor Parker,
:13:22. > :13:27.who turns 90, he has studied the sun, and he has been proven
:13:28. > :13:32.completely right. Very small, the size of a car. The size of a car and
:13:33. > :13:38.it will slingshot around Venus Tavern times over seven years using
:13:39. > :13:47.the gravitational field -- seven times. This is just the latest in
:13:48. > :13:49.incredible advancements in space technology and last week we had a
:13:50. > :14:02.New Zealand company that launched a 3-D printed reusable rocket and we
:14:03. > :14:07.have a long mask's space X -- Elon Musk's space X. He said he would
:14:08. > :14:11.pull out of Donald Trump's space Council if he withdrew from the
:14:12. > :14:17.Paris climate agreement, so that will be interesting. Interesting and
:14:18. > :14:20.exciting things happening in space technology, and whether that is
:14:21. > :14:26.getting close to the side or living on Mars, this is the future and we
:14:27. > :14:34.are here. -- close to the sun. The spacecraft will have to withstand
:14:35. > :14:39.images of 1373 Celsius. I would put the factor 30 on if I was going.
:14:40. > :14:47.Maybe a higher factor, maybe factor 50! Thank you very much.
:14:48. > :15:00.Many thanks indeed. That is it. Don't forget you concede the front
:15:01. > :15:04.pages -- Don't forget you can see the front
:15:05. > :15:14.pages of the papers online