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football transfer news. And we will look ahead to Andy Murray's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
second-round match at the Australian Open. That is all in 15 minutes. | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
us tomorrow. With me are the journalist known as the Fleet Street | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Fox, and Kieron Stacey, the political correspondent for the | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Financial Times. The front pages are already in, many of them. The Daily | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Telegraph is leading on the Lib Dem's party decision not to | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
discipline Lord Rennard over allegations he harassed women | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
activists because of insufficient evidence. The mirror is leading on | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
William Roache's trial at Preston Crown Court. Onto the Guardian, and | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
it says Labour will bring in more competition to high-street banks. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
The express is claiming scientists searching for a cure for cancer have | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
made a major breakthrough. The Daily Mail says official crime statistics | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
simply cannot be trusted. And the times says hundreds of teachers have | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
been accused of having a sexual relationship with a pupil in the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
past five years. We are going to start with The Daily | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Telegraph, and a story that has dogged the Liberal Democrats for | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
quite some time now. Click cowardice on sex case appear. This refers to | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Lord Rennard. -- Nick Clegg cowardice. Sticky yellow yes, the | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Lib Dem peer was apparently accused of harassing various activists. And | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
there has been a police investigation which has found it | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
does not have enough to proceed with. This is an internal Lib Dem | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
enquiry led by a QC, and the only thing they have been able to come up | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
with is that there has been a personal violation of space. He has | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
denied all the charges but it seems incontrovertible. They do say there | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
is credible evidence against him but not enough to be beyond reasonable | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
doubt. He does seem to have been a bit of a sex pic, really. He has | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
been unreasonable. OK, he has been a bit of a sex pig, but nothing as far | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
as the police is concerned. Nothing that rises to the level of a | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
criminal investigation and the Liberal Democrats don't think it | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
warrants him to be kicked out of the party. It is just somebody who has | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
acted in a terribly ungentlemanly fashion. But Nick Clegg and Tim | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Farron, the party chairman, have said they do think there is an issue | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
here. They do things Lord Rennard needs to reflect upon his actions | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
and issue an apology and they don't want him involved in the future | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
developer and of the party. -- they do think. However, you does not | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
appear to be reflecting on his actions and is looking forward to | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
going back to work. -- he does not. The issue is, according to this Lib | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Dem report, that he violated the personal space of female activists. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
So he has been exonerated in a very muddled way. He has been exonerated | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
from serious sexual offences but the Liberal Democrats are saying there | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
is something a bit murky going on that you might not like, ladies, but | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
there is nothing we can do about it. He doesn't want to apologise and | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
we cannot make him. No sanctions whatsoever. So a member of a party | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
who has acted in a way that other members think is unreasonable. So | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
they have completely fudged it and made a mess of it. Where does Nick | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
Clegg stand? I think Nick Clegg will brush it off and move on. Why don't | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
think we will get any more allegations other than the ones that | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
are already out there. -- I. And it is not in any one's interest to keep | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
going further. That said, I think there is a wider problem here. And | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
you do see instances, particularly of elder men in positions of power, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
abusing that power and abusing the trust. The trust of people who work | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
for them and around them, particularly younger women. And I | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
have sat there at a dinner, for example, where I have seen it, and | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
an older senior politician essentially gropes a young female | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
journalist under the table. And what was incredible about that, this | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
stuff happens... You see it in various walks of life at various | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
times but this man just seem to think you could get away with it. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
And in fact did get away with it. But you saw it. They did get away | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
with it. You didn't lean across and say anything. It didn't feel my | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
place to say it. Therein lies the problem. Women think they need to | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
just not make a fuss. Other people think it is not my place, what is | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
going on? But something is amiss. Something is not right in that | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
situation and it should be everybody feels able to say something. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Particularly in politics you have the culture of a lot of middle-aged | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
men dominating the positions of seniority and power. That happens in | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
a lot of workplaces but especially in politics, where there is a late | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
late-night, boozy culture for a long time, though that is starting to die | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
away. It can be quite an intimidating place for many women to | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
work and you kind of think when women are brave enough to come out, | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
these Lib Dem female activists, who have done so, put their names on the | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
record and said, this has happened to me, and that must be a really | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
tough thing to go through. I'd think anything the Lib Dems have said | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
suggests these woman lying but what is difficult to say is how much this | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
crosses the boundary and where does the boundary lie. The police made it | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
clear the evidence wasn't there to reach the bar they had set for this | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
to precipitate a Chronicle investigation, but where does this | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
leave women and politics? -- reciprocate a criminal | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
investigation. The Conservatives perhaps have looked at this more, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
possibly just in terms of policy. But is this the kind of thing that | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
is going to put women of? Of course it is! You are not going to want to | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
go to a meeting with pepper spray and protection! It puts voters off. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
And it puts people off wanting to join. Lord Rennard's job, when he | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
rejoins the party, will be on the party committee writing the election | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
manifesto. They do have a particular problem, the Lib Dems. They don't | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
have a single female member. One of the things that has gone wrong here | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
is essentially allegations went through a strain of different people | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
none of who really got it, none of whom thought instinctively, we have | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
to do something about it, this is woolly serious. They all looked at | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
it and thought, somebody else can deal with this. -- really serious. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Ideal with these guys a lot. There is no suggestion there is sexism or | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
that this is endemic in the party. It is sometimes difficult, I guess, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
as a man just to understand instinctively how or why a lady in | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
that situation can feel and possibly where the boundaries. I am sure the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
party has learned a lot. We're going to stick with the Telegraph. Anchor | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
bonuses. This is the time of year where all those bankers are rubbing | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
their hands, salivating. -- bankers' bonuses. Tuscan yachts, | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
except for! Rubbing their hands! But we are angry because we own half | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
that bank. Yes, nearly all of it. 80%. And George Osborne can, if you | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
want to do, simply say no to whatever their bonus is. -- if he | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
wants to. They are going to say, please can we pay bonuses up to two | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
times their salary. That is a significant amount, particularly | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
with senior staff. But there is a very good reason to have bonuses, | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
which is that in good times, do give hefty bonuses and in lean times you | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
take the bonus of way and you manage to keep people in jobs, so rather | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
than pay people a lot of money and then have to sack them later, it is | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
a push on. But it is the level of bonuses. It depends what your salary | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
is. Two times your salary if you are on a quite moderate one is not so | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
much. It is the whole package. How much is the whole package? That is | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the question. If you are paying somebody ?1 million there is a good | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
case for saying 500,000 of that should be salary and 500,000 of that | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
is a bonus. That is entirely sensible. But why do they have to | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
get a bonus at all? No other industry, really... We don't get | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
paid bonuses. And then told, you have done well this year. We don't | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
have the same swings people in the city do. The problem in the City is, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
they haven't taken the bonuses await in tough times. Oh, pull them! But | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
we are only just coming out of the recession we were in. We are talking | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
about bankers who are potentially earning ?1 million getting a ?2 | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
million bonus. As you say, Kieron, it might seem OK to pay them in the | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
good times but we're only just coming out of a really bad economic | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
slump. It might be doing well for some people, the economy, on paper, | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
but it is not doing well for others. They are struggling a lot. It is | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
terrible, terrible PR. If we had a serious banking crisis only just, | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
and banking wants to continue with public trust, they cannot have this | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
tin ear for the public mood, saying, well, we need to have twice as | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
salary. They need to change their payment systems and convince all of | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
us they have changed their ways, but, then again, does it matter? | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Because we cannot cope without the banks and they can do what they | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
like, to some extent. Let's go on to The Guardian. Should the banks be | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
broken up? Is that the real way to deal with this? More smaller banks, | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
so therefore you don't have these five monoliths who can dictate | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
everything? Well, the issue previously was the energy companies | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
and that didn't work, so why don't have a lot of confidence in Ed | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Miliband giving them this morning -- this warning. -- I. Part of the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
problem is it is already happening. This is something Europe is doing. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
But it doesn't come in for another year and the Government is fighting | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
this in the courts, so it may never happen if they win? I think it will | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
happen, we're just gearing up for that. Part of the reason RBS will | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
have to ask for this is because the EU laws allow you to ask for leeway. | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
On the Labour policy, this is something that governments always | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
say, they want more competition in the market, and the reason that | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
things are not going well in the energy market for consumers is the | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
lack of companies. Running a bank is not easy, you need a lot of capital. | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
It is not a free school! All right, OK, let's stay with the Guardian, | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
apparently the Austro-Hungarian Empire's decision to declare war on | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Serbia in 1914 had nothing to do with the start of the First World | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
War, apparently! Thank God for the Guardian, bringing the news right up | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
to date, up-to-the-minute, illustrating their front page like | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
that. This is what Franz Ferdinand's family say, by the way. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
The First World War was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and one of his descendants are said, it | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
wasn't our fault, you know, guys, we didn't start this mess! The Guardian | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
has finally got around to reporting it 100 years on, fair enough, it is | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
the centenary year for the start of the war, but what is interesting is, | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
further down in this copy, he says, the descendants says, this was | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
already happening, it was in the starting blocks, the assassination | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
was the blue touch paper to light the inevitable conflagration of the | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
First World War. He says, if you have to blame someone, the greatest | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
blame would lie with nationalism itself, which was really which | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
started the First World War in terms of the Serbian-Bosnian conflict, | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Austria, Hungary, Russia, Britain and Germany, nationalism, and a | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
couple of weeks ago Michael Gove was doing what? Banging the Nationalists | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
drum, saying it was our finest moment, a great British achievement. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
I am more prepared to listen to Franz Ferdinand's many times over | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
grandson saying nationalism is a bad thing. Not the band, not the pop | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
group, by the way! But you might be a little bit sheepish this year, and | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
in fact over the next four years, if you are related to the Ferdinand | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
family! They are out there doing interviews. I think this is a | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
brilliant piece of journalism! Who goes up to their news editor and | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
says, do you know who I really want to interview?! I want to hear the | :13:33. | :13:46. | |
pitch! I have got a really good story! It is a bit old, we have done | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
it before... My news editor would say, if it is not new, it is not | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
news, and this qualifies. Let's just throw the Guardian in the bin! | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Thanks for that, you will be back in an hour for a look at some of the | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
stories behind the headlines here on the Papers, but stay with us, | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
because at the top of the hour we will be looking at the decision of | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
the Prime Minister that he is not going to allow bonuses that go | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
beyond the overall bonus pot four, certainly, RBS at any rate. We will | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
bring you more on that at the top of the hour, but now the time for | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm | :14:28. | :14:40. | |
Karthi Gnanasegaram. The headlines this evening: The 99th goal of the | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
season for City puts them into the fourth round of the FA Cup after a | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
5-0 win over Blackburn. | :14:48. | :14:51. |