01/06/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the former director of communications for

the Conservative Party, Giles Kenningham, and Nigel Nelson,

political editor at The Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.

Good to see you both. The right and left in harmony on the paper, that

is what I like to see. A coalition, not of chaos I hasten to add. Let us

The Telegraph is looking at those reports of an apparent Labour surge

ahead of the election - saying its campaign is being boosted

by fake, automated social media accounts that pump out positive

messages about Jeremy Corbyn thousands of times a day.

The Times is talking about the possible coalition

possibilities if a hung parliament leads to a minority

While the Daily Express leads on the Prime Minister's accusation

that Mr Corbyn falls short on patriotism and the ability to get

The Financial Times looks at Theresa May's efforts to revive

what it calls her "faltering" campaign by focussing once again

The Guardian focuses on the Donald Trump's decision to dump the Paris

And the Metro - very sad - reporting that the injured

mother of Saffie Roussos, the youngest child murdered

by the Manchester terror attacker, has woken from her coma,

and been told of her daughter's death.

We are going to start with the breaking news from this evening,

Giles, front-page of the Guardian, on a lot of the other front-pages as

well. Well. Accuse at US as Trump rejects accord. He has pulled out of

the deal signed in 2015. This is no surprise. He stood on this in his

manifesto so for once, in one element, it is expected, and I am

sure the oil and gas companies are rubbing their hands. However, it

does reinforce in view of Trump and America retreat from the world

stage, following a protectionist policy and you have to wonder what

it does for inward investment in the country. You are not seeing a

strategy? Terms of what is going on. It reinforces this view it is lurch

from one chaos to another. Really interesting, Giles mentioned there,

Nigel, all companies running their hands, they are not. Head of

ExxonMobil said it was a mistake. The companies don like this at all.

That is a positive of the whole thing. Trump is saying the deal is a

job killer. Yes. And, bear in mind the constituency that Trump was

appealing to, the kind of person in Pennsylvania, who looked at his

steel work, rusting away, and there would be no jobs there for ten

years, that is the kind of person he was talking about and the Guardian

quotes him as saying I was elected to represent the citizens of

Pittsburgh not Paris which is the point. This doesn't come as a

surprise, because it is as Giles said a manifesto commitment. It is a

tragedy, and unless some kind of alternative deal can be negotiated,

then we he will be in real trouble. He says he wants to renegotiate...

The Irony is he didn't win Pittsburgh. That is ironic. One of

Trump's central pledges was about jobs, and I think his diagnosis was

right but the solution is wrong, it is about jobs but the jobs are being

taken by the robots no the immigrants. What is really

interesting as well is that the Chinese are onboard with this. You

know, the Chinese are the biggest polluter, America comes NEC so it

would have been really great if America could have stayed onboard

for this and Obama's reacted angrily about the whole thing, it will take

him a few years to get out of the Paris accord, so on the basis of

that, it may well be... It might not happen. We may have a new President

by the time. This is classic Trump, he there thinks there are simple

solutions to complex problem, Nigel said that will be borne out over the

few days. It looks as if he is giving the empee ho voted for him

what they wanted. But what is interested, the Chinese, they are

not in this necessarily to save the planet, they know that future jobs

and growth are based on green energy, green industry, and with the

command economy they have, they are going to go full steam ahead and get

those jobs. Jobs. China, India, they recognise it can't go on forever.

Let us move on then. To the election, the times, interesting

this, we will use SNP to give us power, says Labour, this is Corbyn's

plan for minority Government revealed according to The Times.

Yes, what they are saying, Labour is saying is that in the event they get

the most MPs they will govern as a minority, of course, if they do

that, the first vote comes along and they fall, so the only way they will

be able to do it is with the SNP. The question then, is what kind of

deal do you do? Are you talking about a formal coalition, an

electoral pact? What, what Emily Thornberry seems to be talking about

in The Times is saying what we will do, put the votes up, ask the SNP to

side with us, and we will negotiate on a vote by vote basis, should this

happen, we are all going to be in another election by the end of

testify year it is depress, I would imagine that in the event we get to

that situation, there will be some kind of pact and it will have to be

a bit more formal. I think this is the perfect storm for the Tories,

you couldn't have written a better headline. Maybe you did write it.

Linton Cosby will go this is a perfect headline. It reinforces the

Conservative message that you know, there is a coalition of chaos,

Labour can't form a majority, without being propped up by the SNP.

Did Jeremy Corbyn say this? What they have said is they are going to

rely on the SNP on a vote by vote basis. That is an assumption. The

problem with this story Labour have spent so long not ruling out a

coalition, they finally have said we will rule one out but we might need

the SNP. They should have ruled this out at the start. There is a huge

opportunity cost to not getting this out testify way and saying we won't

do one. What we found in the 2015 election this came up on the

doorstep, and was a huge concern for people, they don't want Labour being

propped up by the SNP, we don't want our money going up north, so for the

Tories, it is a perfect gift and a classic case Labour could get a

majority. And wipe this out. That sounds a bit weird. The I, you know,

much more a firm ground I think for the Conservatives, many people would

argue, if they are talking about Brexit, then potentially social

care? Look, I mean all the Conservatives want to talk about for

the next seven days is Brexit. They want to frame the debate round

Brexit because they have a settled position on it. Labour are split on

it. It is going to be the defining issue for the next decade. How do

you and thatle Brexit, who do you want round the negotiating table and

they are trying to get the debate back on to that. Tomorrow you have

the BBC debate, between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, and that is in my

mind the last big flash point before we go to the polls. Jeremy Corbyn

has had a good week when it comes to the eBates but he hasn't had a game

changer, that I need that tomorrow to change the conversation, so, let

us see what is going to happen. The pressure is on and it is with the

incumbent, you have everything to lose and nothing to gain, so for the

Tories if they get a score draw tomorrow they will be happy. All

right. I mean... She is not saying what she is going to do as far as

the negotiations go either. We no little about it. We now we are out

the single market. What else do we know? To keep this conversation

going all the way through NEC week it will be tricky for her. OK, let

us go on to the telegraph, continuing with the election, fake

web accounts boosting Labour's vote. Yes, the suggestion is that Labour,

Labour campaigner, they are fro suggesting the Labour Party but they

are using bots to generate constant likes on Twitter, on Facebook and so

on, Labour have been good at this digital stuff, so, I am curious to

know whether they are actually even if it was being done by the party,

whether they are breaking any rules or not. I don't see why not either.

Did you get up to this kind of thing, I bet you did. What you find

when it is done automatically. You are among friends, only us three,

did you have bots putting out messages knocking Mr Miliband in

2015. No, we didn't. I believe you. Fake news hasn't dominated the

election in the way it did with the US elections. Seven days to go. I

read this and OK, they have fake bots on Twitter but it is an echo

chamber I won't move the dial, Facebook is much more important as a

platform. I think the average time someone spends a day on Twitter is a

minute, they spend 30, 35 minutes a day on Facebook, it is where it is

at. It is where you get high levels of engagement. It is an interesting

conversation about fake news. I think Facebook's position on fake

news is unsustainable. They need to get their house in order. They say

they are a carrier but they are a platform. They need to be subject to

guidelines, and held to account. That govern the BBC. They say

otherwise. This is your story, BA, you have two minute, explain how

awful your weekend was, because of the BA mess. I came back from abroad

on BA on the weekend. I wasn't hit as badly as some but I was stuck on

the runway from three hours from one a clock, it is a classic example of

BA making a bad situation worse. I mean, now, according to the FT they

are haggling over who should fit, foot the bill over the insurance pay

out for customer, they should pay out and move on. The BA chief

executive took three days to comment, looks terrible. I was at

Heathrow, on Saturday, zero visibility on the ground, they

weren't reassuring passenger, that I were putting out an announcement

saying we have cancelled your flight, we are not saying we are

putting you up in a hotel, we will make this better, and you know, it

is basic crisis management. We agree BA should pay. I wonder whether the

chief executive can survive if this goes on. On. Willie Walsh says he

thinks it is fine. What is interesting what you were telling

ming is that the BA crew still went through the diplomatic channel,

breezed through passport control while there were massive queues in

the rest of the airport. I got off the flight, after threer hour, there

is huge queue, the BA crew barged past everything, going through the

diplomatic channel, they spent too much time talking about how they are

the world's favourite airline, get on and deliver it. Well, we all know

the problems that many people had, BA say it was a power surge that

caused prisons with the computer, now this haggling over the claims

bill that could help dent more their reputation, finally Nigel. Lego. You

are a big fan. Indeed. Gender bias in Legoland. It is from a physicist

rather than a psychiatrist but it a woman, she is saying that lego is

going backwards, it used to be much more gender equal than it is now, I

just don't believe any of this, that her argument is that kids would

actually play with gender neutral kind of toys and swap over and so

on, my kids when pyres of the Caribbean were on they were billing

the pirate ship, whatever the film, Star Wars they were building. Which

is big now. And the girls would play with sort of ponies and cuddly

animals, hasn't it always been like that is? I don't know, are there too

many pink bricks I do think this is political correctness gone mad. Many

thanks for looking at some the stories behind the headline, that is

it for the paper, you can see the front-pages online on the BBC News

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Thanks to you two and thanks for watching.