31/05/2017 The Papers

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

With me are Rachel Cunliffe, Deputy Editor of the political news

And Owen Bennett, Deputy political editor

The Guardian says Jeremy Corbyn challenged Amber Rudd over

the impact of the government's spending cuts following his last

minute decision to take part in the BBC election debate.

The Daily Telegraph notes that the Home Secretary

represented Theresa May in the debate, just 48

hours after the death of Amber Rudd's father.

The Times reports that the Prime Minister

is concentrating on Brexit after her refusal to take part

The Daily Express leads on Theresa May's warning that

Jeremy Corbyn is plotting uncontrolled immigration

Under the headline 'Justice' the Metro leads on the surgeon who's

been jailed for 15 years for carrying out needless

The FT reports that China and the EU have agreed a climate pact as doubts

We can begin with that debate in Cambridge. Was it a mistake for

Theresa May not to take part because Jeremy Corbyn at the last minute

did? This is the front page of The Times, have faith in me. Implying

that Theresa May is hard at work on Brexit. She once this election to be

about Brexit, but it is not really being talked about with people. And

I've been out with MPs, it is rarely coming up on the doorstep. It was

supposed to be the Brexit election. That is what she would like it to

be, it is what Tim Farron would like it to be, who said he is

representing the 48%, but it is simply not about Brexit. It could

have been a mistake her not turning up, but I don't think Jeremy Corbyn

did enough to make it a mistake. The debate will not have changed

anyone's mine. The opportunity was there for Jeremy Corbyn. How did you

see it? Slightly scrappy. Shouting. Yes, Amber Rudd was auditioning for

the role of Theresa May, and she said, it is going to be a coalition

of chaos if they get in, and they started arguing and shouting over

each other, proving that point. I feel bad because the last time I was

on this programme I said she was within her rights to not debate and

it seems like a smart decision, and it was at the time, but with the

poll gap having closed it is now looking more risky. But I think it

would have done her more damage if she had you turned yet again and

decided at the last-minute that she would be there. Every single leader

would have made the point that this is her yet again not strong and

stable, but just making another U-turn. Although it was a U-turn for

Jeremy Corbyn. Yes, which never mentioned. He said he wouldn't take

part if she didn't, but then he did. The Guardian had got the same debate

story, Jeremy Corbyn confronting Amber Rudd over cuts, in a fractious

debate, but that is what you would expect with the seven politicians

arguing over 90 minutes. Actually, Jeremy Corbyn did not confront Amber

Rudd enough, he started off, saying, have you been to a food bank, and I

thought he was going to act like this is a choice between him, the

leader of the Labour Party who has turned up, and the underling who has

been sent in, and what he should have done, he should have ended

with, but we don't know what Theresa May thinks because she is not here

to debate it, and he should have kept on persisting with that. He

should have done that every time and that is what people should have

taken away from the debate, that Theresa May did not want the debate,

and I do think he did that enough. I don't think you're giving him enough

credit. I have been accused of that before. I thought he did quite well,

especially after the disastrous interview on women's hour. --

woman's hour yesterday. He was very calm about everything and he didn't

go down to the level of the others and he was a bit above the shouting

and the squabbling. And I think, OK, he did not hit as hard as he could

have, but he would be hitting the Prime Minister's spokesperson and

not the Prime Minister and that could have come across as too

aggressive and too angry. This was actually a gaffe free performance on

Jeremy Corbyn which is quite impressive for him. Do you think

voters like zen in their politicians? That is irrelevant, I

can't see anyone changing their mind after watching that debate. I can't

see anyone watching a performance and changing their mind to many

people are Jeremy Corbyn was a great leader, that will have convinced you

and if you think Theresa May is so competent that she doesn't need to

turn up, that will have convinced you. But if you believe The Times

and their polling, and that is a big if, but Labour had closed the gap to

just three points, they are saying. Metro newspaper here, this is quite

a clever banner, the lady is not for turning up. Paraphrasing the famous

Margaret Thatcher thing, and the lady had been the turning on social

care and national insurance, and so I understand, if she had turned up

she would have been accused of making another U-turn, but people

would have remembered that she had turned up. She put herself into a

corner and Jeremy Corbyn called her bluff, which was the right thing to

do, but I felt like he could have capitalised on it more. Even though

there were no gaffes, it was a bit like PMQs, when he could have taken

Theresa May apart, and it was all there for him, but he didn't quite

get the ball over the line. That is because he is, as Rachel said.

LAUGHTER Amber Rudd's father died over the

weekend and she was put in to do the possible job and she knew she was

going to get hammered for Theresa May not being there. She held her

own and did not go down to the level of squabbling. I do not want to say

she was strong and stable, but she was a little bit stable. I think she

did really well in an impossible situation. We won't show this to

you, but the Financial Times are saying that they have come out in

favour of Theresa May, which is quite interesting. They were against

Brexit. But they say that Theresa May in their view has looked brittle

but is best placed to lead Brexit. I wonder how many people that actually

speaks for, because the Financial Times were anti-Brexit and they have

kept up that rhetoric but they have said she is the best of a bad bunch

and many people on the doorstep, and I was speaking to Tory MPs who said

exactly that. Theresa May has gone from being a positive to being

neutral at best. How has that happened? The social care thing was

a big thing, there's a perception that she has got it in for

pensioners, which additionally boat story and that she changes her mind.

-- which traditionally votes Tory. And it is cutting through that she's

not answering questions on television. She is dodging it too

much what Jeremy Corbyn answers the question even if it takes a long

time -- she is dodging it too much. He argues the question, even if it

might be a different question. LAUGHTER

And now to another story, Ian Paterson, the breast surgeon, who

has been sentenced to 15 years, he was told he was driven by the

material rewards which was brought from his private practice. Shocking

story. When you read the testimonials from the victims, what

comes across, they say, he seemed arrogant and I didn't like him, but

I trusted him because he seemed to know what he was talking about and

that sums up how, when we interact with people from medical

backgrounds, we have this kind of implicit trust in them. When it is

abused it shows how long it can go on for, how many women, and one man,

as welcomer subjected to these unneeded Operation Stack as well, --

as well, subjected to these and needed operations. Yes, he said they

could develop cancer, playing on their worst fears, for manipulation.

The real question, why was it able to go on for 15 years? People raised

concerns. Was it that people did not see what they wanted to see? Women

were discounted for other reasons? It is a great result that he has

been jailed 15 years but troubling, the story, and more needs to be

looked into this. There is still the compensation claim for those victims

to be heard. That is down the road a little bit. The Financial Times,

their main story is about, being widely expected in Washington that

Donald Trump is going to pull out of the Paris time an accord. The

Financial Times says China and the European Union have done their own

deal, their own climate pact because there is so much doubt about

America's commitment. This is real evidence of Donald Trump's America

turning its back on the rest of the world, and the rest of the world

shrugging their shoulders and saying, we have got to get on with

it. This goes with the quote from Angela Merkel about the Nato summit

last week, that Europe can't count on others. There are new alliances

being formed. Now the United States has left. Donald Trump is still

saying on Twitter he might go one way or the other, teasing, but this

is not really an issue that you should take lightly. It is like it

is a game show, like the apprentice. It seems strange, he will give China

ten in dollars to help them with developing a national mission

training system -- $10 million. And he got any doubt that he will pull

out of the Paris accord? I can't see any reason why he wouldn't. He said

this in his campaign and his advisers want him to do it and it

will be a vote winner back home. He changed his mind on draining the

swamp and changed his mind on his health care plans and about getting

America involved in foreign conflict and his campaign promises if you

look at what happened in the first couple of months, they don't seem to

have been that important to him. I have my things crossed that he will

change his mind at the last minute, and the idea of him saving the

planet, that will prevail and they will stay in, but I don't have much

hope. He said in his suite about being on the verge of making America

great again. -- in his tweet. And now to The story which is about

getting close to the sun. That is right. They say this would be the

closest a probe has ever got to the sun. A guy called Professor Parker,

who turns 90, he has studied the sun, and he has been proven

completely right. Very small, the size of a car. The size of a car and

it will slingshot around Venus Tavern times over seven years using

the gravitational field -- seven times. This is just the latest in

incredible advancements in space technology and last week we had a

New Zealand company that launched a 3-D printed reusable rocket and we

have a long mask's space X -- Elon Musk's space X. He said he would

pull out of Donald Trump's space Council if he withdrew from the

Paris climate agreement, so that will be interesting. Interesting and

exciting things happening in space technology, and whether that is

getting close to the side or living on Mars, this is the future and we

are here. -- close to the sun. The spacecraft will have to withstand

images of 1373 Celsius. I would put the factor 30 on if I was going.

Maybe a higher factor, maybe factor 50! Thank you very much.

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