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England, beaten by the Netherlands in their last match of the World | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Twenty20 in Sportsday after the Papers. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
bringing us tomorrow. With me are Tim Collins, political chairman at | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Bell Pottinger and Paul Johnson, deputy editor of the Guardian. The | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
Independent looks at the sale of Royal Mail. It says the Government | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
and taxpayers appear to have been fleeced by sophisticated City | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
investors who made a quick profit on the flotation. The FT says | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
regulators are intensifying their investigation into alleged | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
foreign`exchange manipulation by banks. The Metro says the advice to | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
eat five portions of fruit and vegetables every day should be | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
doubled. It's the same story on the Telegraph, it says ten portions a | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
day could significantly reduce the chance of premature death. Lucky | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
Express readers only need to eat seven portions, the paper says. The | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Guardian says doctors are concerned a major disease outbreak could kill | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
thousands because hospitals can't test life`saving drugs quickly | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
enough. The Daily Mail says the Police Federation paid a PR company | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
for advice on using guerilla tactics in a campaign against government | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
banisters. The daily miller is reporting complaints from doctors | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
that changes to the NHS has risked the health of cancer patients. `` | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
the Daily Mirror. We will start with your paper, Britain and prepared for | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
an outbreak of infectious disease. `` unprepared. I am glad you picked | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
this one out first! This is a protracted procedure, medical | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
research, you have to get grants, ethical approval, you have to find | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
hospitals and staff, patients, equipment, you have got to sign | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
legal agreements to protect everybody in that sense. That can | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
take more than a year. With things like bird flu, pandemic influenza, | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
that can have come and gone within eight weeks. The doctors wanting to | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
test patients micro, the patients will have survived all be dead. So | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
this is a story from the new man who has come in as director of the | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
welcome `` Wellcome Trust. You have got to test these drugs properly, | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
surely, you don't want something going wrong, surely that is the | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
response of many people. It is a hallelujah moment for the Guardian | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
to lead with a story saying there is too much form filling and red tape. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
How marvellous, a paper which has never previously criticised a | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
bureaucratic procedure! But I think this is genuinely a very good story, | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
because it is inviting people to realise that there is a cost for | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
bureaucracy and form filling, sometimes it is just slowing down | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
business, but in the NHS it is costing lives. Lord Saatchi tried to | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
introduce a private members bill in the House of Lords a while ago the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
back of the terrible experience his wife had when she was dying of | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
cancer, which would have made it much easier for people to test | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
experimental procedures, because the problem there as in this case in the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Guardian is there is such a risk averse culture, such a fear of being | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
sued, such a requirement to fill out forms, that they will go for the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
traditional procedure even if it doesn't work, and they will have to | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
go with a new treatment through so many hoops that even though it may | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
save a life, you would not administer it because of the fear of | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the consequences if it does not work 100% of the time. We have to learn | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
that in hospitals now were tested. They did not all work the first | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
time, but if they had not been tried out, a lot more people would have | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
died. Do you see this as the beginning of a concerted effort to | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
cut red tape involved, not just in this but other areas? Whether it is | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
red tape or not, I have not found that phrase in there! Doctors face | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
months of form filling and administrative checks! It is | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
compacting the process, so it is all set up to deal with something in | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
real time. That is the only way doctors can really combat some of | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
these pandemics that are predicted, some of the worst threats we face. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Sure, let's move on to the Financial Times, Tim, what is going on with | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
the Better Together campaign? Another problem for them, Number Ten | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
scotches Link on pound vote. This is extraordinary, the no campaign that | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
wants people to vote to stay in the UK was apparently doing very well | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
until a month or so ago, and yet now it as hit real problems. The person | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
who has created those problems is Alistair Darling, who was picked to | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
chair the no campaign on the basis that he was the safest of safe | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
hands. But in an interview on the Today programme, he really, I think, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
got in a terrible mess. He basically said that, of course, it would be | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
necessary to have a further referendum if the English and Welsh | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
had to decide whether they wanted currency union with the Scots. The | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
line from Downing Street, emphatic from all the parties, that is not an | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
option, you cannot have a referendum on something that is not an option. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Alex Salmond thinks all this Christmas is up, once, their | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
campaign is falling apart, and this is on the back of an anonymous story | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
from an anonymous minister, quoted as having said, well, of course, we | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
would talk about it differently if they opted for independence. The no | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
campaign is still in the lead but the lead is shrinking, and Alex | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Salmond came from behind to win Scottish Parliamentary elections. I | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
would not put money against him doing it again. Is their panic in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
the Better Together campaign? I do not know if there is panic in this | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
sense, but it goes back to the choreography of Danny Alexander, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
George Osborne and Ed Balls saying, vote yes to keep the pound, slightly | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
endorsed by Mark Carney. We did a story on Saturday, our chief | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
political correspondent spoke to a source, a minister closely involved | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
in this or said, look, whatever the posturing is now, this will have to | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
be dealt with later. The FT has caught up on this story... Following | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
your lead! In the sense that one person, closely involved, said the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
hunt to identify the source was under way. One senior minister said | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
efforts are being made to identify who they are, and when we find | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
them, they'll be nailed to the nearest lamp post. That sounds like | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Scottish justice. Those people who want the United Kingdom to stay | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
together, they have got to realise it could split apart very soon. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
April tomorrow, it is not far off, and it could be very serious. Perry | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
series in France as well, the French Prime Minister. `` very serious. He | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
has carried the camp for suffering particularly bad local election | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
results. `` carried to the canon. The whole Cabinet has resigned. He | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
has got a great deal of difficulty year, his population plunged to an | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
all`time low, 150 towns lost by the Socialists. The Front National joke | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
a lot of towns, catastrophic polling. We now read that this is a | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
bold move, what do you do? It is finding a scapegoat, and low and | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
behold, the scapegoat has been found in the new interior minister who, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
curiously enough, as opposed to fit a Blairite mould. I don't quite know | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
what they mean by that. More centrist than the previous guy. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Hollande is facing pressure from left and right, because the left | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
wrote to him saying, you must ease up, they must raise the minimum | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
wage, increase pensions and salaries of state employees. He is caught in | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
a very difficult bind. The French don't seem to give their leaders | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
much of a honeymoon when they get into power, and you have got to | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
produce results pretty damn quickly. As you were saying, if you are | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
having problems and you are the best scapegoat is the Prime Minister. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
That has been a tradition in France for a long time to sack the Prime | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Minister at the mid`term elections. When Hollande came to power, there | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
was a sense that this was a new dawn for the left, not just in France but | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
across the whole of Europe, that there would be a shift of the left | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
to the left, people talking bout Ed Miliband, Francois Hollande, moving | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
away from the Blairite model, away from free markets, being much more | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
traditional left, traditionally socialist. This guy has become a | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
French primers that, a classic Blairite, who wanted to take the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
word socialist out of the party. `` French Prime Minister. He wants to | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
go for radical economic reforms. It seems as if the moment when the left | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
was going left in France has ended within two years. He's taken a duff | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
line on crime. People will remember Tony Blair came to prominence as | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Shadow Home Secretary with the phrase ` tough on crime, tough on | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
the causes of crime. It seems that this guy is following the Blairite | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
PlayBook of taking a left of centre party much more towards the middle | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
ground. That has potentially implications for the UK too. Ed | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Miliband has, up till now, been staking out left`wing territory. Now | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
will he once again follow the lead of Francois Hollande and move back | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
to the centre. Tony Blair wasn't centrist, he was to the right, if | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
you have a re`alignment, you're moving back to the centre? Yes, on | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
the swingometer that's slightly confusing! Those who fought Tony | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Blair in the trenches and lost time and again, I promise you he was not | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
in the right. He demolished the right. Some on the left would argue | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
he's on the right. Maybe so. What is interesting, if Europe is not, if | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
France a massive power and significant element in European | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
destiny, if France does decide that having dalied with quite left`wing | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
politics, it's moving back to the centre, that's an important point in | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
European policy. When Mitterand came into power, he was in coalition with | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
the communists, he got rid of the communists and shifted to the right. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
It happened before, that was patch the Thatcher raying an era. `` | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
Reagan era. It will be very interesting. Let's | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
go onto the Independent. Royal Mail float. How banks broke promises and | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
raked in a fortune. Someone suggested at the time it was under | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
valued. They're saying that those chickens have come host to roost. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Different views, one, that is an utter disaster. That it was | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
completely under valued. ?750 million was basically lost in paper | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
terms on day one. It was floated at 330 p. It reached 600 p eight weeks | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
later, can you see the book loss in terms of what the Government did. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Other people might say well, hang on, at least about 2. 4 billion was | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
raised from this. You could never be certain shares can go up as well as | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
dun onned `` down and all the usual caveats. But it reads gnatily now. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
`` nasty now. If you put your house up for sale for 330,000 and sell it | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
at that and then about six weeks later, somebody sell it's on for | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
600,000, you're going to be pretty peeved. I would be MiF fed. You've | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
be more than that. For the first and only time in my life I'm going to | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
stick up for a Liberal Democrat here. I think it is worth bearing in | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
mind, Royal Mail privatisation was not easy. It was not something that | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
anybody could just come along and do it. Michael Heseltine tried to do | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
it. Peter Mandelson tried to do it, failed. Vince Cable was able to take | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
it through. And one of the factors that was very significant in the | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
pricing that he had to fix was that at the time, there was a threat of a | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
National Post strike which could easily have demolished the value of | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
the thing. They took independent advice. The independent advice was | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
that they should price it between 260 and 330 p. Vince Cable went for | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
the absolute highest number, 330 p. As it turned out the markets, as | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Paul says, they can do strange things on individual days, they | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
chose to go up quite a lot. If they'd gone in the other direction, | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
if the sale had failed, if people had been scared off by the threat of | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
strike action or the fact that successive governments had failed to | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
carry this through, people wouldn't have been saying, you hadn't lost | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
several hundred million pounds, you'd lost billions. But the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
loss`making bit of Royal Mail, that was take an way. It always looked | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
like a good bet for anyone. That was the earlier plans too, but they | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
still failed. What Vince has managed to do, belatedly, we should have | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
done it 20 years ago. Your old boss should have done it. All the offices | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
were privatised years before the Royal Mail and are stronger as a | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
result, and competing across Europe. The Royal Mail now is run by private | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
sector management who is doing a fantastic job. Going to go on and | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
ovenlt I see next month, they have to appear again before the Select | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Committee that Margaret Hodge shares. They're not going to be | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
looking forward to that. She's a tough one. Paul, Tim, you're back in | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
an hour for another look at some of the stories behind the headlines. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Thanks for that. Stay with us here. At the top of the hour, more on all | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
the stories from the day. Now it's time for Sportsday. | :14:49. | :15:04. | |
Welcome to Sportsday. Here's what's on the way: Sunderland stutter at | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
home again, as relegation looms for Gus Poyet's side. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
David Moyes | :15:15. | :15:15. |