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semi-finals. Dwain Chambers also won his heat. That's all in Sportsday in | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
15 minutes after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look at | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
what the papers will be bringing tomorrow. With us, Peter Conradi, | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
foreign editor of the Sunday Times and Ben Chu, economics editor of the | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Independent. The Independent has a picture of | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
lawyers on strike outside Parliament. Its main story - the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Government's reforms have hit women's incomes four times harder | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
than men, according to new figures. The Mail has more about the police | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
spy who targeted Stephen Lawrence's parents. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
The Mirror leads on the condition of Michael Schumacher, who remains in a | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
coma. The Express says Lib Dems are | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
proposing policies which would relax immigration rules. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
The Telegraph says not paying the TV licence may no longer be a criminal | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
offence under Government plans. The Guardian says Ofsted is drawing | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
up plans for a big shake up in the way it inspects schools. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
And the Sun has Prince Harry on its front page, with a friend. | :01:08. | :01:19. | |
I don't have many friends like that. Let's begin with the Mail and a | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
story that has been dominating the bulletins all day today. Police | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
spies snooped on Lawrence marriage. This gives further details about | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
just how intrusive this undercover police officer was, who made his or | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
her way into the Lawrence family, and knew that the marriage was in a | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
mess. It's absolutely extraordinary. This is something one thought was | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
over and it has come back again with a vengeance. The extent of | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
surveillance that was going on by this officer from the Special | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Demonstration Squad was just incredible, looking into the | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
marriage of Stephen Lawrence's parents. There is -- there are some | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
very poignant quotes from Neville Lawrence. He says, what in heaven 's | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
name has the state of my marriage got to do with Stephen's murder? Did | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
they think that Doreen and I had fallen out and one of us had decided | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
to have our son murdered to spite the other? That is the only reason I | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
can think of for them taking an interest in our relationship. He | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
also says, I think they are worse than criminals because they get paid | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
with taxpayers money for what they do. The level of distrust this will | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
cause is incredible. You can see the frustration of the family boiling | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
over. They fought this very long campaign to get justice for their | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
son and they said from the start that justice had not been done and | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
the police were not investigating properly. This week, they have been | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
completely vindicated on that and it has become clear that the Met did | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
not give documentation to the Macpherson inquiry, and it was not | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
up front, and this has now come out. Other reports suggest that in 2003 | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
there was shredding of evidence, so there will be some evidence they | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
can't find. That is the root of their frustration. The truth may not | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
come out. This is why there will be a new public enquiry into the role | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
of this special force, the spying force, and the Lawrence family have | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
said, we are not sure we trust it any more. What is the point? Lord | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Condon, former head of the Met, was saying today that he knew nothing | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
about the Special Demonstration Squad and if he had done he would | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
have stopped it. That beggars belief, doesn't it? How can you have | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
an organisation where something like that is going on and the bust is | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
going on and the borstals not know? Extraordinary. -- the boss does not | :03:55. | :04:08. | |
know what is going on. Earlier, someone was saying that if the | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
evidence is missing, what can we do? The enquiry has to be | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
forward-looking to set out rules for what can be done and what cannot be | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
done by undercover officers. The most important thing is that they | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
try to establish what has happened. We are seeing that they are starting | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
to look back properly for the first time, probably. The head of | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
counterterrorism, Richard Walton, who was removed from his position on | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
that particular force today, because of his links with the special | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
demonstration force, and links with Macpherson, and the fact that he, | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
presumably, was one of the people who was not upfront. So I think they | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
are finally saying, who knew what and when, and obviously not before | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
time. Let's move onto another story in the Mail. This is depressing for | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
many people, I am sure. Four out of ten old age pensioners are still | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
supporting children. Not with luxury items, according to this, but with | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
everyday living expenses. That is worrying, if you are expecting comfy | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
retirement. This is the cost of living crisis rearing its head | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
again, I suppose. What is striking is that it is pensioners. Ed | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Miliband will be thrilled you have described it like that. Many people | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
are still feeling the pinch. Presumably these OAPs have children | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
in their 30s and 40s and are still feeling the need to pay them about | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
?250 a month, just to help them make ends meet, to meet their expenses. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
It is quite stark. That is what occurred to me. If many of us have | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
children when we are older, we will inevitably be supporting them for | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
longer in our lifetime. The other side of it is that children are -- | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
people are having children later in life. Hopefully they are better off | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
by them. Maybe it is not so shocking if you are 65 and you have a child | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
who is 20-25. That may be a minority of cases. It is a very short story | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
and I would have liked to have known more about it, whether it is a | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
temporary thing or whether it is part of a long-term shift. It would | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
be interesting to find out if they are helping to pay mortgages. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Helping people get on the housing ladder might be a factor, but we | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
just don't know. Let's move on to the Independent. The main story | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
here, Osborne's war on women, the Chancellor's performs are hitting | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
women four times harder than men, as Labour highlight the gender gap. We | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
have to start with you, as it is your paper. The idea that it is a | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
war on women sounds like it is deliberate. George Osborne came in | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
with a large budget deficit which he needed to get down and there is | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
controversy about the pace with which he has decided to go about | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
doing that, but I am sure that was his primary objective. The charge | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
levelled against him is that he was not careful enough to make sure that | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
the impact of that was equitable manner that it did not penalising | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
women more than men. These figures show, from the House of Commons | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
library analysis, that four times, women have been hit four times | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
harder than men, which is striking. It is at odds with efforts the | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
coalition has made to try to make sure that women who have taken time | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
out to have children, or who are carers and do not clock up enough | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
working years for a state pension, are not penalised later. It is | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
certainly not joined up government. No political party would set out to | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
alienate more than half the population, so I think it just was | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
not well thought through. I think, clearly, there was a need to save | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
money and there were obvious targets and no one sat down and did an | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
impact review of which group would suffer more as a result. We know | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
that all the main political parties are seeking the female vote. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Exactly. The Conservatives are perceived to have a problem with | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
women, relative to Labour. The opinion polls show that David | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Cameron and George Osborne are less popular with women than they are | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
with men. This feeds into that existing criticism and will be used | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
against them. George Osborne has a budget macro later this month and it | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
will be interesting to see whether he puts anything in there to try to | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
ameliorate the impact on women. There is a photo on the front of the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Independent, objection, my lord, as lawyers strike outside Parliament, | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
bringing the courts to a halt. How great is the sympathy for barristers | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
who rely on legal aid, do you think? I don't know. I find it | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
difficult to work out whether they are well paid or not well paid at | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
all, because there is a discrepancy within the profession. One comes | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
across some who are hugely well paid and then you see the statistics of | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
young people setting out who earn less than minimum wage, kind of | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
thing. I know some criminal barristers who have had to turn to | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
other areas of the law because there is no money in criminal law. There | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
is a big divide between corporate law barristers and the sort of | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
people who would be doing legal aid criminal stuff. The corporate side | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
are very well paid. These guys, less so. Some of them earn hundreds of | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
thousands from legal aid, the top ones. It is a particularly | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
well-dressed picket line. This lot do not look on the bread line. They | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
do not look too hard done by, but the picture is not always the whole | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
story. The Daily Express has, open door for new migrants. Outrage over | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
plans for entry visas. This has created a lot of interest in social | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
media. The lead story in the express is not property prices, arthritis | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
cure is the weather. It is immigration, which they turned to | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
from time to time. This is another way of the Lib Dems, if it is true, | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
making themselves different from the Conservatives. It is | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
differentiation, but that is what the Liberal Democrat conference | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
stars. They are unique in that they come up with what would be perceived | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
to be quite offbeat policies, unusual policies for a mainstream | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
political party. This is in keeping with that. The mood in the country | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
is anti-immigration, trying to stop so many people coming in. They are | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
flying in the face of that. This is something we think they have made | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
up, this title, made up themselves. We now know there will be a | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
grandparent 's superb ease. Whether you have to wear an outfit with it, | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
I don't know. Apparently it lets people come from abroad, special | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
provisions for grandparents. But it is not that super. It only allows | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
you to stay for two years. When they get here, they will be supporting | :11:33. | :11:44. | |
their kids! Moving on to the Guardian a foreign affairs story. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
You have picked out this turn of phrase which Nick Clegg has chosen, | :11:50. | :12:08. | |
Indeed, in order to do that, he says Russia has a very pronounced imprint | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
on Crimea. I suppose it is the imprint of all those boots of all of | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
the Russian soldiers. It is quite a gentle euphemism. I think it is. | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
Just a lot of chaps that have turned up in Russian army uniforms, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
sometimes driving Russian army trucks, and just happen to be | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
volunteers and so on. So, quite how plugged in Nick Clegg is to the | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
highest level negotiations on the subject, I do not know. He has been | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
very critical of what Putin has been doing. Interesting that Crimea might | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
be a different case, there might be some accommodation that Britain | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
could foresee, if Vladimir Putin goes about it in the right way. Yes, | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
I think they are clearly trying to find some way that they can reach | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the tone of phrase is he, the imprint, recognising that there is a | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
constituency for Russia in the Crimea. It is not a simple case of | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Russia, uninvited, marching in. There is an element of the | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
population who are afraid of what is going on in the rest of the country, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
and who are favourable to a Russian presence. After all, Crimea was part | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
of Russia until 1954, 50 9% of the population of Russians, it is sort | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
of different from the rest of Crimea. Moving on to the Telegraph, | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
dodging a TV licence will not be a crime. It says people will no longer | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
be prosecuted in court. Before I get your reaction, I will tell you what | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
the Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, is saying. This is an interesting | :13:51. | :14:03. | |
idea, but the timing is crucial. The BBC has also issued a statement, | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
saying legislation is a matter for the Government. However, a change in | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
the law could lead to more evasion, and a 1% increase in evasion could | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
lead to a loss of 35mm is, the equivalent of ten BBC local radio | :14:20. | :14:33. | |
stations. -- 35mm pounds. Should it be a criminal offence? It depends on | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
your political perspective, I suppose. A lot of people dismissed | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the licence fee as a kind of poll tax, which people have no say over. | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
Well, they do not have to have a TV. They do not, but... Increasingly, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
people won't, probably, they will be watching us online. But if they | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
watch you online live, I think they are still required to have a | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
licence. I am surprised by the sheer number of people but do not, | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
180,000, class 70 people a year jailed for not paying. It is | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
extraordinary. And a lot of them are women of course. We knew you paid. | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
We have got our eye on everybody. That is it from The Papers for this | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
hour. We will be back again at half past 11. Stay with us, because at 11 | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
o'clock, the Metropolitan Police are under fire after a new report | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
revealed that it spied on the family of the murdered black teenager | :15:39. | :15:39. | |
Stephen Lawrence. Coming up next, Sportsday. | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. The | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
headlines tonight... Britain's former number one tennis player | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Elena Baltacha reveals she has cancer of the | :15:58. | :15:58. |