11/03/2014 The Papers

fight to keep the T20 series alive with the West Indies. That's in 15

minutes, after the papers. Hello there. Welcome to our lock

ahead to what the papers -- look ahead to what the papers will be

bringing us. With us, Kevin Schofield and Emma Barnett.

Some of the front pages are already in. Let's see some of them now. We

start with the telegraph. It leads with the news that interest rates

could rise six-fold by 2017 as the economy grows. That's next to a

photograph of the missing pilot from flight MH370 with a passenger in the

cockpit in that picture, which is from a previous flight. Miliband

rules out early EU poll. That's on the front of the Financial Times.

The Metro has a story about a man who died of heart failure,

apparently brought on by biting his nails. The Mail says the NHS is

investigating claims that GPs are charging care homes for visits that

should be free. The Mirror - a story about the tax

arrangements of the Defence Secretary, whom the paper alleges

has signed over a buy to let property to his wife. Philip Hammond

has denied this is a tax dodge. The Guardian - an interview with the

inventor of the web, who says there should be an internet Magna Carta to

protect the independence of the medium.

We will start with the Daily Telegraph. Kevin, interest rates to

rise as the recovery gathers pace. We all know that's going to happen.

The question is, when is it going to happen? Are there any clues? Yeah,

well Mark Carney obviously had to roll back on the old policy which

said the forward guidance policy which said it wouldn't happen until

unemployment fell below 7%. That happened quicker than expected. The

economy is roaring along now, everyone says so. So he's

acknowledging that it is going to, interest rates will return to

something like normal, probably something like 3%. The interesting

thing politically is when the first rise is, will it be before the

general election or after? If it's before, it could be quite bad news

for the Prime Minister. Mr Carney, he suggests that it could be 3%, as

Kevin was saying. But that's nowhere near what it was pre-the recession,

which was 5%, I think at the highest point. I remember when it rates were

13, 14, 15%. I think a lot of people now will be thinking, how does this

actually affect me. For savers, it's really good news. But if you've been

used to a certain mortgage payment going out each month and suddenly

you're thinking, I haven't got a fixed rate, people, you know,

there's expected to be a rush on that, people going to fix their

rates of their mortgage. This is the start of people buying homes, that's

the season coming up, or looking to sell and move. That will affect

that. The bigger thing is will it actually affect most people's lives

and their quality of living? The quality of most people's lives,

especially we'll talk about Ed Miliband soon, but Ed Miliband

saying his big election focus and what he'll change if he were Prime

Minister is the quality of living crisis in this country. For a lot of

people, this won't mean very much, if anything, making their lives less

affordable. Think we could see a rise before the election? I would

think that Mark Carney, though the Bank of England is obviously

independent now, will come under a lot of pressure from Number Ten not

to increase interest rates. I think he's inclined not to. He says

there's a bit of slack in the economy, it can handle interest

rates where they are at the moment. We've become hooked on cheap credit.

It will be a shock to the system for a lot of people in terms of mortgage

payments, when rates go up. I don't think it will be before the

election. But certainly next year, but not pre-general election. And

missing airliner's pilot joked with female passengers in the cockpit at

30,000 feet. This is actually a photograph not from that flight,

from a previous flight, but there the first glimpse of the pilot of

this feated -- fated plane. First you do see the pilot of this missing

flight and his employees, Malaysia airlines is taking it seriously.

This passenger has come forward and said on previous flights he invited

women into the cockpit. They were smoking, him and his copilot. They

weren't even looking out in the direction of where they were meant

to be travelling. The other element of this is the news that there has

been a warning that the 777s, that there's a weakness in the system

there and there's a fear of a decompression and it wasn't anything

man-made. It could have been a fault with the plane. Which is really, you

know, both sides would be terribly tragic and we don't know what's

happened. I still can't get my head around this story. No, no-one can.

You have knavies from Six Nations -- Navies from six nations looking.

There was a suggestion that the plane actually came back, Veered off

to the west, which is now where they're focussing the search effort.

It's incredible, there's so many people and countries looking for any

sign of wreckage and any clues as to what might have happened. Now we're

getting all sorts of conspiracy theories that it's been high jacket

and redirected to some hidden location. I was hearing today that

apparently people are phoning passengers and their phones are

actually ringing, which would suggest that they haven't crashed.

But whether that's a conspiracy theory or not, I don't know. You

heard it today? Yeah, but don't take it as Gospel. Should be on the front

page of your paper, shouldn't it? That's a cracking story. I don't

think I read it on Twitter. If I were your editor, I'd fire you if

you heard that and didn't put it in the paper. That's incredible. There

is no physical evidence as to what happened. All kinds of speculation

and that vacuum of information is being filled now. We will go to the

Financial Times. Miliband rules out early EU poll. All the papers are

reporting it this way. Miliband will not hold an EU referendum. He rules

out EU poll on Financial Times. The message from the Labour Party was

that Ed Miliband will hold a referendum on the, an in-out

referendum on the EU but if... They turn it around the other way. That's

because they don't want you to report it this way. He wants to have

his cake and eat it. No-one's bought it, have they? All the papers are

reporting it this way. That's because our papers are good.

Absolutely. Go on. You're right, they are trying to present him as

being a mild Euro-sceptic perhaps, but clearly David Cameron set the

bar by saying I will hold an in-out referendum by 2017. If David - Ed,

sorry, Freudian slip again. If he fails to match that, then he's being

weaker, if you can put it like that, on EU membership. I don't see how

Labour can spin this as Ed being tough. It's quite clearly he is a

massive fan of the EU. He does not want to hold a referendum. He says

that it would be unlikely that a Government led by him would sanction

any chance powers from Westminster to Brussels triggering on his terms.

It's a major dividing line for Labour and the Tories. Despite all

that, Ed Miliband had to construct a sentence at some point that included

the word "in-out and referendum" and this is how he's done it. No-one's

fallen for the line. He's written this saying, only if there's a big

transfer of powers will we have this EU referendum. He's not going to do

that. If he is in power, he's safeguarded against that. All right.

The Daily Mail - now GPs charged to visit care homes. NHS probes doctors

cash demands. There are claims that certain care homes are paying for

GPs to come and visit their residents. So GPs are billing these

care homes for visits that should be free. We don't have all the details

because it's just a couple of paragraphs. It's reported in one

case a GP requested an extra 24,000 a year to cover services for 72

elderly residents. People are saying and a Labour peer said, if there's

evidence of fraud, it would be a police matter. This builds into the

bigger thing where I don't think we have enough transparency about what

goes on in care homes. We keep getting these stories, whether it's

abuse or the heavy burden of finance on the whole family and elderly

people having to sell their homes. It's in our interests to get care

homes to be a really decent level across the country as people live

longer and longer. Why isn't there more transparency on such an

important issue? The Government is trying to bed down on these costs.

With an ageing population more and more of us have parents getting

older and are likely to live longer than before. It's a major issue, a

major political issue as well. But you're right, there is a lack of

transparency and there's a feeling that this feeds into the whole

feeling of rip-off Britain in many ways that GPs allegedly trying to

play the system, trying to get as much money out of the families of

nursing home residents as they can. Yeah, it's a major headache. These

are services that should be free? That's how I assume everyone thinks

they should be. The nursing homes already pay a set amount to the

local GPs to come in to provide a basic service to their patients.

However, it looks like GPs allegedly charging on top of that, to cream

off some extra cash. It is completely wrong. A very interesting

story there. Onto the Guardian. Bob Crow. It's a great picture! It is.

He is a man who he said didn't like anyone gobby, he liked someone with

a bit of sparkle and with strong opinions. That would sum him up

really. The news is incredibly shocking. Just 52. Whoever you are,

whatever your politics are, you knew who Bob Crow was. I don't think you

can say that about many union leaders anymore. They don't occupy

that same space they used to. He is probably the last of a kind.

Obviously there are still at the very vociferous people in that

movement, but as your report said, I'm sure he would be chuckling as to

how many of his fiercest enemies have come to say... Or pay their

respects, saying quite lovely things about him. The suggestion is that

behind-the-scenes he was a conciliatory, he was someone who was

trying to strike a deal. There were two sides to him. He knew how to

play the media, to get public opinion on his side, and he knew how

to deal with the likes of ACAS and Boris Johnson. He was very good at

his job. You've only got a look at the terms and conditions that Tube

drivers have got compared to ten or 15 years ago. It's incredible. Why

have not love the other union leaders done that? Is there

something peculiar about the importance of the railways, of

course, to national life? If you do have a strike it does tend to bring

bosses to their knees and to the negotiating table. Is that the

reason he was so successful, because he was in a particular industry? I

think that played in his favour. But he did wield a pretty heavy stick

when it came to pay talks and suchlike. I don't think Boris

Johnson... On the one hand you can talk tough, but if it means the

infrastructure of the capital city is going to grind to a halt, then

clearly that reflects badly on you as London mayor. It is probably a

fitting epitaph for Bob Crow that his last major dispute with Boris

Johnson, he came out on top once more. He copped a load of flak for

the hassle that commuters had to put up with but, at the end of the day,

as far as his members are concerned, the guy is a hero. From vox pops we

did at the time of a number of these strikes, people sort of perspective

that. Even though a lot of people were inconvenienced and angry about

it, many others were sort of, well, he's doing what he needs to do for

his members. I don't know who you were talking to! You don't always

want to make somebody... There was lots of controversy about Bob Crow,

a lot of people said his first thing was to go for a strike. He was a man

who divided people. A lot of people I know felt that strikes were

something from yesteryear and didn't fit the place and were extremely

inconvenient for those people who needed to get to work. The head of

ACAS said if you compare the number of ballots he called with the number

of strikes that took place, he didn't have many strikes,

apparently. But then there must have been a lot of ballots. The strikes

were very high profile. They do stick in your mind if you are not

able to get into work in the morning. Blame Bob Crow. Lots of

tributes being paid to him today. You will be back in and our's time

for another look at the headlines. At 11pm, we will have the latest on

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