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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
bringing us tomorrow. With me are theologian and writer Vicky Beeching | :00:21. | :00:32. | |
and broadcaster Henry Bonsu. We will be speaking to them in a moment. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Here's an old of mine! We will look at the front pages in brief first. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
The Independent leads on the Labour leader Ed Miliband promising to | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
rescue Britain's struggling middle classes. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
The Telegraph has Maria Miller on its front page. Miller faces | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
questions over the tax on her home sale. | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
The front page of the Metro has The Hunt For Costa Killer, The story of | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
an ex`pat millionaire shot dead in Spain. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The Guardian also leads on Maria Miller. PM At Odds With Top Tories | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
As Pressure Grows On Miller. The Mail leads on To Polite To Make | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
A Fuss. Elderly people enduring appalling NHS care. They are afraid | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
to speak up. Here is the son which has an EastEnders exclusive on its | :01:20. | :01:31. | |
front page. You are back on the BBC! I will become yours one day! You | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
will. The Maria Miller saga continues even though Grant Shapps | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
has asked us to draw a line under it which is possibly the worst thing a | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
politician can ask the press to do. She faces question of attacks on a | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
home sale. Is this a new revelation? A bit more information. | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
She is in the sights of the Daily Telegraph because they feel they | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
were bullied by one of her advisers a couple of years ago and they feel | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
that she is vulnerable and they smell blood so they are keeping the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
story going and the latest leg of it is that she may have questions to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
answer over precisely the designation of her home. For the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
vast majority of her time in that house, 19 years, it was designated | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
as her second home and then just before she sold it, allegedly, it | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
was designated as her first home, avoiding 28% capital gains tax, | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
netting her a profit of ?1 million, they say. There are also calls for a | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
resignation. What we have seen in the papers over the weekend is | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
unnamed ministers coming forward, junior ministers coming forward and | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
now they are getting more senior. It is putting David Cameron and the | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
government in a difficult position and it is also the wider position | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
which the Daily Telegraph going to and also other papers. The Guardian | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
has PM at odds with top Tories as pressure grows over Miller. It is | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
not just about her any more. This is about public trust. The public | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Standards Committee is under scrutiny, whether or not politicians | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
can mark their own homework and whether the public have trust in | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
them to uphold things. To see the figure that she owed reduced from | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
45,002 under 5000 seems a bit mind`boggling, especially to hear | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Iain Duncan Smith defending her when he leads the department that is | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
responsible for benefit cuts. People are struggling with benefit cuts and | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
if they fiddle their own books they are looking at having their house | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
repossessed but in her case she gets a slap on the wrist and she can walk | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
away. We are all feeling a huge sense of empathy for people who are | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
dealing with low incomes and benefit issues so this is particularly | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
inflammable in that environment I think. Iain Duncan Smith has also | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
been saying, and he is quoted in the Guardian saying, that he thinks | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
there should perhaps be a review of the independence of the | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
investigators, will that be enough to get public trust back? Well, if | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
we consider the way we have tried to reform the way the police are | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
policed cop with the police complaints authority being a | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
toothless tiger and now we have the IPC see that people would like to be | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
reformed. If we do not allow that, why should we allow a broken system | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
to continue when you have the Parliamentary standards commission | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
and even their chairman says it cannot work with the MPs marking | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
their own home work any more. A lot of MPs think if only the public knew | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
what a great job they all do then in order for that to happen they need | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
this stuff to be eradicated. Iain Duncan Smith has been calling it a | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
witchhunt and saying that Maria Miller has done such great work with | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Leveson Report same`sex marriage and that is why she is under fire but | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
you cannot bring these things into it. This has to be treated in its | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
own merit. There are other stories as well. We will stay with the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Guardian. Number ten plans a curb on betting machines. We have heard | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
David Cameron talking about this before. Yes, I do not bet myself or | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
even have a flutter on the Grand National but this is to do with | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
something to do with fixed odds betting terminals which are known as | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the crack cocaine of gambling and people spend huge amounts of time on | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
these losing huge amounts of money and apparently the Prime Minister | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
wants safeguards introduced. This government said that new Labour had | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
legalised 24`hour gambling and drinking but it has not done much | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
about this. At the moment they take up 9% of high`street floor space | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
with these machines. In really poor areas! They are popping up | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
everywhere and David Cameron thinks you need to have more crackdowns are | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
so if you have been playing for 30 minutes you need a pop`up, if you | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
have bet more than ?250 you need a pop`up to tell them to consider what | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
they are doing and giving the people a moment to step back. Adrenaline | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
flows. I have spoken to people who are really addicted and they get | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
lost in the excitement. You forget it is real money. Safeguards that | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
encourage people to step back would be important. If you are betting so | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
much money every minute you do not have time to think. Exactly. If you | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
are libertarian you want to avoid introducing rules and regulations | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
where possible and allow self`regulation but if it is not | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
working then there is a role for government, even big government. It | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
would not be the start of a week without a story about the NHS. The | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Daily Mail brings us this one about elderly patients who are in during | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
appalling care in the NHS but they are too frightened or too polite to | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
complain. This is classic British nurse coming back to bite people. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
They are saying that people do not want to make a fuss because they are | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
polite and they are concerned that if they do make complaints it will | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
come around and come back to haunt them in the way the staff treat | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
them. It says that over half of people receiving care on the NHS are | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
over 65 but only two thirds of the complaints that coming from them. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
The balance is not correct. There should be more people in that age | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
group complaining but there are not so it is clear people are not | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
speaking up. These are the complaints as they are being | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
treated, not just. We have seen a lot of cases of elderly people being | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
vulnerable and starved on wards are not getting water or food and we see | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
their relatives having to do their own sting operations to show | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
excepting what is happening to them and they are incredibly vulnerable | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
and you see the relatives getting nervous about their care and they | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
are the ones that have to speak up for them but what if you do not have | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
relatives? What if you are on your own? We are all aware that we will | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
live longer and struggle financially if forced Aristide follows on and we | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
are worried about being in this position. There are forms you can | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
fill in when you have had NHS care but that can be too late. Shall we | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
go back to the Daily Telegraph. There are a lot of stories on their | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
front page. The latest about HS2 and be hitches, the trains are too quick | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
according to the Daily Telegraph. One of the reasons we want to spend | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
this money is to reduce the time it takes from London to Birmingham or | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
even from London to Manchester but apparently they will be too fast and | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
they want to slow them down for environmental reasons. A committee | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
is going to make this clearer later this week but then what is the | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
point? It is basically a massive glitch coming in as the | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
environmental watchdog says that the emissions will be a problem said the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
speed will have to slow down and if they do so down to this degree they | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
will only be 25 minutes faster than existing services and if you think | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
about the cash we are investing for 25 minutes knocked off the journey | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
it is not much. A lot can happen in 25 minutes. The chap who build Eden | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Centre what's a couple of billion chucked his way, we should listen to | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
him! A Polish MP who is living as a migrant in London has tried to | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
follow the exact procedure that Polish people take with a cheap | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
airline and taking a job, it is a fascinating story. This is basically | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
undercover. He is doing what the Polish immigrants do to see why it | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
is so good. He is attempting to live on a minimum wage and figure out why | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
so many Polish people prefer Britain to their homeland. He wants to see | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
why it is better and take the secrets that he discovers back to | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Poland. He says that around 70% of young people in Poland consider | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
emigrating. They have a massive problem. 40% are thinking of | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
applying for British nurses and ship. I can tell him, he does not | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
need to go through all of this! He is putting his money where his mouth | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
is. He is enduring what it is like to come over here. It is not easy. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
You should go down to Victoria Station where a lot of migrants | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
arrive and also a lot of them end up living rough. Some do struggle. The | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
thing about this is that the young Polish people come here because we | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
are this multicultural, multiethnic, hopefully outward looking country. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
These are all the things that Nigel Farage probably hates about Britain | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
and that is why the polls are coming here. There must be an election | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
coming on because it says here that Ed Miliband is to the rescue of the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
middle classes. He has promised to rescue the struggling middle classes | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
and warned that the cost of living crisis could last for another five | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
years. Some Labour MPs are not very impressed with this. He is supposed | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
to have made a big lurch to the left to keep the unions on board but here | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
he is talking about Britain's great cities, unleashing them and | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
liberating them and not allowing managed decline as people in the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Tory government say. He is worried and he needs to say something very | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
significant because the gap between the Tories and Labour has narrowed | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
from about 15% to 1% since the budget. He needs to say something | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
really significant. A lot of Labour MPs are not really sure about | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
rescuing the middle classes. He needs to reach out beyond people on | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
a low income so that people in the squeezed middle know that Labour is | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
the party for them as well. He wants to rebuild the middle classes and he | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
is highlighting the things that are the foundations of the middle`class | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
such as pensions, university education, getting on the housing | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
ladder, this government has put those under threat and he wants to | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
restore those for the middle class who are looking at their own | :12:01. | :12:13. | |
children and thinking they were worse off be worse off than they | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
have been. Many thanks for taking us through some of the stories. You | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
will be back at 11:30pm to do more of that. Thank you for joining us. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Do stay with us. Coming up next is Click. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Military mistakes, public surveillance, national security. Can | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
you keep a secret? | :12:34. | :12:36. |