30/03/2014 The Papers

playing Cassandra Morelle in Dynasty.

Welcome to look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

Thank you for joining us. We will look at tomorrow's front pages. We

start with the Telegraph, the lead story is news that parents who start

star their children of love and affection `` starve their children

of love and affection face prosecution. The Guardian says

experts are warning that climate change has already cut into the

global food supply. The independent says the Midlands and the North of

England would be hardest hit by quitting the European Union. The

Daily Mail headline is about mothers over 50 having births. The daily

express says a right`wing think tank suggests patients paid ?10 per month

to use the NHS. We start with the Telegraph. This is quite

extraordinary. Explain more. Neglect and emotional abuse has always been

a gateway for social services to intervene in the family, and remove

that child into care, along with sexual abuse and physical abuse. But

here they are going to add a criminal by mentioning. The issue is

how you prove it. It has always been, with physical abuse you might

have evidence. Sexual abuse, to an extent, the same. But how do you

prove to the court that a child has been starved of cuddles? People will

be hearing this and thinking it is crazy, you will have children saying

they were ignored, this and that. Yes, I was treated differently,

excluded. In the civil court, this happens, we have many cases where

emotional abuse or the likelihood of emotional abuse in the family is a

wafer social services to remove children. `` is a way that. We know

that it can affect people. The inaccurate nursery rhyme about

mental abuse, it hurts a lot. We know that it matters, whether the

court can really judge on it, really find enough proof, it seems a lot

more work for the legal establishment. In all seriousness,

in this report there is a lot of food, might, may. `` could. How much

of a chance does this have? We have recently seen David Cameron cracking

down on pornography that children have access to. It is a political

issue. All the politicians want to look to be on the side of protecting

children. This seems to fit into that pattern. It is easy to say you

want to do something about things like this, quite hard to actually

crashed legislation that works. `` craft legislation. The political

side must be how far the state can intervene. Looking at this closely,

you do wonder, surely this is being covered by elements of cruelty, how

far are we going to go? Many mothers suffer from postnatal depression.

Where does the boundary stop? It will be very difficult if it comes

in. Staying with the Telegraph, this story about Britain walking tall

again, says George Osborne. One senses in this story a little bit of

the thumping of the election from. Such a cynic. You're quite right.

The Chancellor had a good couple of weeks. His budget was well received.

Since that budget we've seen the opinion polls tightening, Labour's

lead has gone down quite a bit. George Osborne seems to be wanting

to punch home, making this big speech on the economy tomorrow.

Within the story, we learn that Nick Clegg is going to try and rain on

his parade a little bit and claim that actually the tax cuts the

Tories claimed to have delivered are actually, certainly the raising of

income tax, was actually a Liberal Democrat manifesto idea. Nick Clegg

says, not so fast, George Osborne. What coalition? The knives are out.

It is like Game of Thrones. We are not sure who is doing what.

Everybody wants the glory. I disagree. I many people would really

have predicted this coalition, the first coalition would have lasted

until now? `` how many people. It is a fixed term parliament, there was

nothing they could have done. Onto the Financial Times. We were talking

about tax. Here is another story. It suggests according to the latest

figures, the calculation is showed that less tax than forecast is going

into the coffers. People are not paying as much. Are we in recovery?

Tax has come up short. Everybody is rushing to pay their tax. It is the

end of the tax year next week. The figures don't add up. This is the

issue. Have we got enough to do what the government wants to do the year

before the election? Talking of the coalition, the big thing that they

said they were coming together to achieve was to eliminate the deficit

in the court of this parliament `` the course of this Parliament. The

deficit is still very big. Tax has gone up by ?23 billion over the

course of this Parliament, as the FT says, politicians like to talk about

tax cuts but if you think about things like VAT, national

insurance, overall we are paying more tax. It is still not enough.

The figures, it is a small percentage that, it equates to a lot

of money. They were working on 38.8% of income. It has been revised down

to 37% now the Independent. We have the debate on the BBC on Wednesday.

But this says actually, a report is out suggesting that quitting it

would hit the north and the Midlands hardest. Too`mac this is another of

those big scare stories `` this is another of those big scare stories.

The idea is, not only would they would be hit hardest, but the figure

is 3 million jobs that Britain would lose, it is now being spoken of as 4

million. The fact is, we have a big trade deficit with Europe, we buy so

many of their Mercedes, cars, the idea that Europe is going to stop

trading with us if we were to leave the European Union is nonsense,

Norway, Switzerland, other countries outside the European Union have good

trade relations, and if we ever left, we would keep those relations.

I do agree, it is a scare story, and what makes me smile is the North,

the Midlands, O far north are we talking? Is this another blow at

Scotland? I think that is what it is. It is showing the political

might through the economic industrial heartlands, if they still

exist, in the north and the Midlands. It will be interesting to

see how quickly this survey shows up in the debate. One assumes in the

first two minutes. We should have a wager. Moving onto the Guardian. Bat

look that climate change and this report coming out about global

warming which makes some pretty damning reading. It is quite

frightening. Wheat is the first big staple crop to be affected by

climate change because it is sensitive to heat. It is grown in

Pakistan, Russia, Canada. The projection suggests it could drop 2%

per decade. It is absolutely frightening. The changes in

temperature could lead to food prices rising between three and 84%

by 2050. We have already seen food riots during the last crisis. This

is unsustainable. We cannot feed our people know. `` at the moment. If

the yield of crops is falling because of climate change and the

population rising, we are in difficulty. This is a very Guardian

story, is it not? In a way, yes. It is also on the front of the Metro.

Fair will be lots of people in Tory Somerset who will read this with

interest, worry about their future. I would link this story with the one

we just with that, the scare story on Europe. I see this as a scare

story as well. The climate panel in the UN as a record of exaggerating

some of the risks. Come on, we have fish catches that could fault by

between 40`60%. Throughout history we have had people warning of

overpopulation. If you look at the world today, disease rates, poverty

rates are falling at unprecedented levels, there has never been a

better time to be alive. The great story of humankind as we find

solutions to problems that we face. I am confident we will find

solutions. I want to catch my fish, not grow them. That is a different

issue. Onto the Express. Bat has the story, it is being said by this

think tank that patients will have to pay ?10 per month to use the NHS

under plans revealed today. Is this another scare story? No. The issue

with the NHS, I have to link it to legal aid. This is the lawyer's

interest coming through. It is one of the backbones of our society,

what makes us different from any other country in the world, and

paying to go and see your doctor, it sounds like the BBC licence fee,

doesn't it? It undermines universe allergy `` universality. We all

remember Margaret Thatcher, look at David Cameron, you still the Child

benefit from the mother on the school run. The deficit Labour left

behind might have had something to do with that. Bringing in small

charges here and there, it is going to be the downward spiral. I cannot

see the link to legal aid. You just have to get it in. In the

introduction you spoke about the right`wing think tank but my

understanding is this is a former Labour health Minister who is part

of this report. None of us want charges for the national health

service, for anything, but a little while ago, we spoke about Britain,

?100 billion deficit, the fact that taxes are not plugging the gap. We

have a massive crisis in public finances. The NHS budget is

protected. I'm not sure this is the right solution, but I'm afraid

solutions will need to be taken. It will bring in a system where people

who can pay it and cannot are in a different way. Thank you. We will be

back later. That is it for the papers. Thank you to our guests.

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