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nine frames into seven. We round up the Dave's action. And we will have | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the live sports results. That's after The Papers. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
us tomorrow. With me are Jennifer Howze, cofounder of BritMums, and | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Martin Bentham, home affairs Editor of the Evening Standard. Tomorrow's | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
front pages. The Independent blames Barack Obama for the collapse of the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Middle East peace process, which it calls "a betrayal of the | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Palestinians". The FT leads on the government's decision to cap RBS | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
bonuses. The Mail says the teenage cancer patient Stephen Sutton has | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
sparked one of the most extraordinary fundraising campaigns | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
the country has ever seen. The Mirror has an interview with the | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
former BBC presenter Susanna Reid, who will launch ITV's new breakfast | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
show next week. Prince George stares from the front page of the Daily | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Express. The paper says he is the real star of the royal tour Down | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Under. The Telegraph says David Cameron's new Treasury minister has | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
called for a dramatic rethink of the High Speed two rail project. The | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Times says new mortgage rules are prompting lenders to increase the | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
rates. And the Guardian looks at UKIP and asks why Nigel Farage has | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
the other parties rattled. We will begin with the Guardian. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
There he is on the front page. Nigel Farage. No MPs, one policy. Why does | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
he have them rattled? You are from the States, where there are only | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
really to political parties in the national elections. Do you look upon | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
this with a quizzical attitude? That a relatively small party like UKIP | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
can upset the other preestablished ones? It is obvious how much | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
attention UKIP is getting. This story is interesting because it is | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
really about Nigel Farage's personality. It talks about how he | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
has had media training now and he has got security guards. It is | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
almost about how the election is changing him in a way. But he still | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
likes a pub lunch without any lunch, liquid and if you facts. This piece | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
is a very personality driven piece. `` a few fags. He thinks he has the | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
middle`class conservative voters. He is now heading to disaffected voters | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
in the north. The most interesting thing here politically, it is in the | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
subheading, says it is now time for disaffected Labour voters in the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
north. Hitherto the narrative has become the Tories need to worry. It | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
has attracted people from right and left. That is a potential impact. It | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
is not necessarily going to take people particularly from the Tories. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
The Tories are more worried this `` because it can stop it from getting | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
votes in the key seats they need. But it could affect some Labour | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
places. Some working`class Labour areas are quite eurosceptics. I | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
think he could have an impact on some of those places. But not from | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
the first time `` for the first time. A candidate for UKIP has been | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
in trouble this week, for unpalatable comments that Nigel | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
Farage has distanced himself from. This has happened more than once. I | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
don't suppose they have got a grip on all of their candidates and what | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
they are saying publicly. And of course they are specifying any | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
policies yet. It is quite interesting. I think it is | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
interesting, how UKIP might skew the election, siphon people away. We see | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
that in America. Where another party siphon is people away, undermined | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
support for the parties, even if they don't actually... Win a seat. | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
you are talking about the general election, which is the key one, but | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
even the euro elections, that could have the trigger effect in the year | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
subsequent to the election, where people then react to the results in | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the elections, if UKIP does well. That could skew politics and people | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
trying to devise ways to counter UKIP shedding panic into the party. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
That's all something that will be fascinating after we have the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
European election, which isn't far away. Do you think after the | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
elections we could get to know some of the other personalities in UKIP? | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
I don't think so. When you do get these mavericks who pop up and they | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
say embarrassing things or worse, it almost doesn't seem to matter at the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
moment. When Nigel Farage manages to get in further, one 21 debates or | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the party leader debate, which it wants, whether he will or not | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
another question, he is an engaging personality at that level. `` one to | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
one debates. If you like Nigel Farage will like this story because | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
it does bring out his personality and some of the things people find | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
appealing about him. The Times, home loan rates raised. New rules to stop | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
reckless lending that will affect borrowers. When they apply for a | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
mortgage, they will have to answer more questions about their lifestyle | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
and their spending habits. It appears that it's a bit of a burden | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
on the lenders. A lot more paperwork. A big interview to go | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
through. The reaction is to sort of put people off for a bit. It appears | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
that some of the lenders are raising their rates. Exactly. It looks like | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Prince George is not very impressed! The grimace on his face. Exactly. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
There are a couple of things. All of these extra tax which will load the | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
process down. And the idea that the mortgage lenders are raising their | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
rates to deter people, because they can't cope with all of this | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
business. There is a line saying that some are taking... The lenders | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
are taking nine days just to open their post. That is going to create | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
problems. As you say, we have got this new cheques coming in and the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, the regulator, | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
talks about how many trips to the hair salon you make. I can recommend | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
somewhere that cost about ?6. They cut my hair and they do a good job! | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
Anyway... It's not a surprise. You bring in a lot of new rules and | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
admen and it affects the flow of work. We see that in our own work. | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
But the consonant is that it makes it so much more difficult for new | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
buyers or people to even go through the process. But given what we have | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
seen in the past, where people were allowed and encouraged to borrow | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
huge amounts of money, which when interest rates go up they can't | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
afford, isn't this a sensible way of dealing with it? Exactly. In a way, | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
all this week people have been saying, you mean they weren't | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
thinking about what people's what it might in one year if things change? | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
We hope for the best. We hope interest rates will stay at these | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
historically low levels. But we just don't know. When you look at how | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
much mortgages cost in the 1980s, up in their teens. Many people would | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
really be defaulting on their mortgages if we were to ever see a | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
boom like that. Even if it went up to 5% or whatever, the base rate, it | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
would have an impact. Especially people who are highly mortgaged. It | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
is sensible but the mortgage companies need to deal with it | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
rapidly. They will have to get cracking on that. The i. Bonfire of | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
bonuses. We have talked about who is receiving what in terms of bonuses | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
this week. RBS says it will halve its bonus plan because the Treasury | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
says they won't allow it to happen. Of course they can do that because | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
this bank is majority owned by the taxpayer. A lot of taxpayers will | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
say I'm at quite rightly so, what they? Yes. I think the banks, about | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
bonuses, are still in a defensive posture. The line here is that the | :08:43. | :08:55. | |
banks are furious about bonuses being blocked. They will comply with | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
the EU bonus cap. They can only have a bonus of 100% of their pay. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Maximum. But bankers are trying and not succeeding at justifying these | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
high bonuses. There is still a bit of a disconnect. But they can get | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
around it, can't they? And if not, people will walk? That's what they | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
always tell us. That's where there is a slight lack of concrete | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
evidence. People saying they will leave the country if rates go up and | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
most people don't do it. Haps we need to see more concrete evidence. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
But there is this practical problem, that actually the evidence seems to | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
be that they get around it by raising base rate salaries and so | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
on. Maybe it doesn't have quite the impact. But instinctively from a | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
public point of view I think if they aren't making money why should they | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
be getting bonuses? They made a pre`tax loss of ?2.8 billion, were | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
stunned since the financial crisis. It doesn't correlate with justifying | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
big notices. And the government wants to get the Bancroft its books. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
This isn't going to help. Yes, it doesn't help them if they lose some | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
of the best people. `` bank off its books. Not popular at first sight. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Moving on to the Scotsman. CBI does U`turn over no votes sewn up. This | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
is the business Confederation. `` votes sign up. It has seen a number | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
of its members, the BBC amongst them, cancelling confederation. Its | :10:40. | :10:49. | |
membership of the `` cancelling its mentorship of the Confederation. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
They now realise they can't justify it, partly because of the `` a lot | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
of the businesses say they don't want to take a position and would | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
stand aside. They now have to retract. Your correspondent was just | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
making the point, quite rightly, that it could affect the CBI stand | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
in a future referendum on the EU membership, for example. That would | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
be interesting. Isn't it a bit late? We know they were attached to the no | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
campaign. They say it was a mistake by an underling, it wasn't | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
sanctioned. The big mistake and quite deliberate one. Is this | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
indicative of a trend towards a yes vote? What was it, 18 bodies | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
basically said, we don't want to be involved in that. A lot of | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
businesses don't want to take a political stance but the CBI have | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
taken a political stance, which will be controversial with shareholders | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
and customers, viewers in the BBC's case, if an organisation takes a | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
stance. That's where they have gone wrong. And actually of course the | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
CBI, their record isn't great. They were advocates of us joining the | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
euro and we were wrong about that. So, for all its great business | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
knowledge, you wonder about how good their assessment of these things. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Let's move on. The FT. Russia faces fresh sanctions at the `` as the | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
West doesn't it stance. Since that was printed, we have more | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
information from Washington, where the US and other countries across | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Europe are considering tougher than in their sanctions against various | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
individuals. Some of the news agencies are reporting of Putin's | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
cronies. It might not be that everybody is targeting sanctions | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
against the same people but would it make a difference to the way Russia | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
behaves? In the short term probably not. In the long`term it might do. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
The economic damage they might face in the longer term could be | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
substantial. Not least because people will go away from dependency, | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
`` which will take awhile on Russian gas supplies and so on. That will | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
harm the economy. Even now, the economy is suffering with credit | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
downgradings and so on. I think there is that danger. Whether these | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
particular ones affect the action on the ground in the short term, I | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
don't think so. Vladimir Putin sees himself as a hero. But are we in | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
danger in the west of believing everything the West tells us and | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
nothing Russia tells us? Too many people, what is happening in Ukraine | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
is effectively a coup. They have overthrown the president who was | :13:51. | :14:00. | |
democratically elected. I think that it is evolving very quickly and for | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
your average reader, the issue is that Russia is being very | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
combative. The situation is changing so quickly... I agree with that | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
point. The Russians have a point that there is an elected government | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
there and that we might not like what the president stood for but he | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
was elected. That is not an absolutely ideal way of bringing in | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
a new government, a street revolt. It raises issues regarding whether | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
or not we should support people who overthrow people by nondemocratic | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
means if we believe in democracy. Probably the last one, the treasury | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
minister calling for a dramatic rethink of the High Speed two rail | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
project. She says that it will cause severe and irreversible damage to | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
wildlife habitats. Many people will agree with her, won't they? There is | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
a lot of money to spend and no proof that there will be economic | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
regeneration to the north of England. I think many people on the | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
line will agree with it. It is the argument we were discussing before, | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
whether it is the right way to generate investment in the North. I | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
think that is a question that remains divisive. It puts her in | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
opposition with George Osborne as well. He is a passionate supporter | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
of the project. I do not know. It feels like that support that was | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
there is anything away `` going away. It will be interesting to see | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
what a big deal it is in the lead up to the general election. Lovely to | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
have you with us. Stay with us here as we have more on the developing | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
situation in the Ukraine where pro` Russian forces have captured | :16:31. | :16:42. | |
international observers. But coming up next it's time for Sportsday. | :16:43. | :16:50. |