06/06/2017 The Papers

With me now and also at 11:30 this evening are Kate Proctor,

Political Correspondent at The London Evening Standard

Let's start with tomorrow's front pages.

The Financial Times leads with Theresa May's anticipated tour

of marginal Labour-held constituencies in the last day

The i has an image of the Australian nurse who was killed

in the London Bridge attack after she ran towards those

The Metro opens with Theresa May ramping

up her anti-terror rhetoric two days before the election.

The Guardian also reports on Theresa May's promise

that she is ready to change human rights laws, if they stop

the government from tackling the threat from terrorism.

The Times says that MI5 ignored a warning from the Italian

authorities, that one of the London Bridge attackers

Italian-Moroccan Youseff Zaghba was placed on an international watch

The Daily Mirror reports that British authorities were warned

of Zaghba after he tried to flee Italy to fight in Syria.

Kate, front page of the Financial Times, Theresa May targeting

heartlands and ramping up anti-terror rhetoric. They are

really going to go for it in the last 24 hours of campaigning. Those

seats in the north and the Midlands that they believe they could take

from the other side. Absolutely, she did this and the start of the

campaign. She was going after seats that had 8000 majorities for Labour,

unusual places for the Tories to be campaigning. Chris Bailey and --

Chris Grayling was in Bolsover. Here she is, as the Financial Times

reports, the last two days of campaigning, going back out to the

Labour heartlands and specifically the ones who supported Brexit.

Absolutely, it's the Ukip vote that they are after, they believe they

can lock down now and as a result, take those seats. Perhaps it is an

occasion, she is acknowledging that things are tight but looking at the

opinion polls, it is anyone's guess. One of them said that they are

within a percent of each other, another says it could be a Tory

landslide. If you look at the picture, the Corbyn rallies up and

down the country, in Gateshead there were 10,000 people. I know it is a

Labour heartland and many of them will be young people, and whether

they go out and vote is another issue. But the way he's changed

opinion during the course of the campaign and gathered support is

quite surprising. I've seen Mrs May go from supremely confident to, a

couple of times, to me, not looking broken but certainly less confident.

Tonight, looking as if she has regained the upper ground. Yeah,

absolutely. Going to the Guardian, Theresa May threatening to dismantle

human rights laws in the wake of terror attacks. We spoke about this

and you said that you detected in her come in this speech when she

came out with this stuff, feeling a lot more confident and sure of

herself. Going back to a speech in April, 2016, and the Institute of

mechanical engineers in London. As Home Secretary she said she wanted

to ditch the European Convention of human rights, saying it prevents the

deportation of dangerous foreign nationals. She believes this stuff,

it isn't just politics. Absolutely she does, she struck a chord when

she said in front of the Tory party supporters, if it effectively

demands dismantling human rights laws, so be it. And previously she

said enough is enough, one of those phrases, like Tony Blair, after the

death of Princess Diana, the people's Princess, one of those

phrases, saying what people want to hear and that's what she did

tonight. She looked more relaxed and confident when she said it. What

we're talking about, I imagine, going back to something like the old

control orders that Labour introduced in 2004, I think. Beefing

up the TPims to be more like control orders, which restrict people's

movements, when you suspect they are at it but can't prove it. How do

Labour deal with this now, with 24 hours to go? Security is one area

where Theresa May really excels, actually. She's had a lot of

criticism about the police cuts. Despite the police cuts? When she's

delivering the speeches to the nation at Downing Street I think she

really gets to people and her message gets across. I think she

excels at it and Jeremy Corbyn really doesn't. I think she is in

the best position for the next two days on the issue of security. Loads

of people have said, this election, forget Brexit, you can almost forget

the dementia tax, it is whoever you think will best protect us. That

will be the way that the Conservatives will be spinning the

next 24-hour is. Kate, "I'm going to be a terrorist", the man who was

apparently on the radar of the Italians, who ended up killing

Londoners. A lot of foreign tourists, actually. This man was

involved in a very nasty attack. What strikes me about this, this

person was effectively pulled over in Italy, to what I feel was a lot

of evidence, images on his phone. That phrase, I'm going to be a

terrorist, and yet the Italian courts couldn't do anything and they

let him go. He was going to Syria, he had a backpack. I'm surprised the

Italians couldn't do anything about this. Questions to answer for the

British reaction as well but we've got to look at how our European

partners are dealing with this. I'm astonished that this person wasn't

pulled aside in Italy. We are leaving the European Union. It's all

right then saying, why didn't the British pick him up, but they say

that he had Isis information on his phone, he was put on some systems

they have, which is shared by the Italians and MI5 and MI6, but

whether they saw it is another issue. I feel sorry for the security

forces. 23,000 cases apparently where they might investigate, 3000

people probably at it, if they get the chance, 500 active cases and it

takes 30 people to monitor one person for 24 hours. Where do they

start? And they've stopped what, 18 serious terror attacks in the last

few years and three this year already? Absolutely. It's not easy.

And the game has changed, they may in the past have been looking at

people who were trying to get bomb material, plotting things on the

Internet but in this latest incident, all these guys did is get

some knives and hire a van. It is the change to the soft targets. Very

low tech weaponry. The Guardian has a picture of the nurse who was

killed, Kate, she was running towards the danger to help people

who had been injured and she herself died. This is a stunning picture of

this nurse, Kirsty Boden. What an incredible thing for her to have

done in her last moments, to go and help other people who were facing so

much danger. Some beautiful tributes from her colleagues and I'm so

pleased the Guardian have this on their front page because we should

remember the individuals. We must leave it there, you will be back in

half an hour and we will look at some more stories. That's it, join

us again for the news at the top of the hour.