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And Roger Federer and his partner have welcomed twins for the second | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
time. That's in the sport in 15 minutes. | :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 financial analyst Louise Cooper and Michael | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Booker, deputy and editor of The Daily Express. Tomorrow's front | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
pages. The Independent quotes Vince Cable and his comments on the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
proposed takeover of AstraZeneca. He says Britain's future should be as a | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
knowledge company, not a safe open `` safe haven. The Mail says, | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
squeeze on help to buy mortgages. The experts make claims British | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
police would excavate a `` of 25 sites at the holiday resort where | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
Madeline McCann went missing. The Mirror says British police have | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
a new lead in the case. The Guardian says an NHS initiative | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
has been put on hold after the Cabinet office queried its | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
credibility. Financial Times leads with | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
AstraZeneca and a warning from Sweden about promises Pfizer failed | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
to live up to when it bought a Swedish company. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
And the Times says medics and MPs are joining forces to demand justice | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
for NHS whistleblowers who lose their jobs. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
According to The Daily Mail, a squeeze on help to buy mortgages. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
The controversial scheme to make mortgages cheaper is expected to be | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
reined in? This is what we have been told. It | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
has been said that something needs to be done about the housing bubble | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
which could upset economic growth in Britain. They are overcooking this | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
bubble, which we believe is mainly in London, which is interesting when | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
you look at the Help to Buy scheme. It is most popular in the north`west | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
and Scotland, where prices are around ?150,000. Whereas in London | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
the average price is about ?500,000, which is where the bubble is. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Interesting that it seems to be the thing they will go out, rather than | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
making people get higher deposits and scrutinise mortgage | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
applications, it is the people who are benefiting the most in areas | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
where prices are as... Well, the bigger bubble. There might be | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
smaller bubbles all over the place. Interesting that this is where they | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
will be attacking it. There seems to be a growing consensus, that it is | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
beginning to potentially, certainly in London and the south`east, to be | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
getting out of control. If I was going to be really sceptical of | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
George Osborne possible motives, a housing bubble has helped the Tory | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
chances of getting re`elected in 2015. It has boosted their offers | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
slightly, with stamp duty and inheritance tax, and also the help | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
to buy scheme will boost their coffers because the government | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
shares and any upside to a house price is secured. If they aren't | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
elected and they don't win the 2015 election and we have created a house | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
price bubble, Labour have to clear up the mess. Politically, it's a bit | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
of a win`win strategy. It just shows how obsessed we have now become with | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
house prices, because you mentioned earlier the new questionnaire that | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
you have two fill in if you want a mortgage. There was a joke, I don't | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
know if you watch the TV show Vera, but the detective sidekick Compleat | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
to his wife how much she spent at the hairdresser on their mortgage | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
application. `` complained. We have clearly become far too obsessed with | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
house prices. We do love talking about it. It's fine if you have got | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
a house but if you haven't you are really in big problems. Especially | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
with Help to Buy scheme. It's helping overwhelmingly first`time | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
buyers. The thing tanks say we should raise deposits. Other people | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
say interest rates should rise. Is this the easiest and quickest fix to | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
look like you are doing something? It is the simplest thing to do. It | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
is also the thing that you as the government introduce. You can just | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
grey matter back a little bit. `` Rain in a little bit. George Osborne | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
did say in Brussels yesterday, we should be vigilant about the housing | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
market. This government has given the Bank of England the power and | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
tools to do that. There is speculation the Bank of England | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
might do something, to do with the Help to Buy scheme, asking the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
government to produce it, but the Bank of England might do something | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
next month. The Times, pressure grows to deliver justice for | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
whistleblowers. MPs join doctors and nurses to come `` to condemn NHS | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
sackings. A lot of pressure put on the new head of the health service | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
is to look into cases, especially of six former staff and they have asked | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
for a public enquiry after people have had genuine concerns about | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
things going on an NHS and came forward with these concerns. Instead | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
of being looked at carefully and looked after, for what they were | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
prepared to do, they ended up losing their jobs and being vilified. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Trying to get jobs within damages again they found themselves | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
blackballed completely. You can understand why people are upset. Now | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
we have a group representing nurses wanting an enquiry into these cases. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
The Times have a sad case of a radiographer who for 27 years worked | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
in the NHS, in London. She noticed that on her colleague's timesheets | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
that doctors were claiming for shifts that they shouldn't have. She | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
was a whistleblower, came forward and she was then investigated for | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
fraud and she then lost her job. Can't get a new one. She has been | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
applied for many other jobs but when it comes up that she was a | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
whistleblower the jobs melt away. So, she is now... And as a | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
radiographer, the NHS is public the one real employer. She now has | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
breast cancer and experts say it is as a result of the stress. I'm sure | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
there are other people, and there are other cases, where people have | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
been vilified. At Jeremy Hunt said, especially after the Mid | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Staffordshire case, that the NHS would protect whistleblowers. The | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
point about whistleblowers in the whole of society, they actually play | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
a vital role because regulators are generally pretty incompetent. The | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
best people placed to highlight things that are going wrong in the | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
financial sector in the NHS, wherever, are whistleblowers. If you | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
look at the financial sector, I think it was one of the big banks | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
that actually did whistleblower. I read an interview from the guy. He | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
said his life was destroyed. He couldn't get a new job, he was very | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
ill, the bank turned around and sued him. In America, the American | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
regulator for the financial industry does actually pay whistleblowers are | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
better `` a percentage of any fine imposed on the wrong firm. I think | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
it's not just the NHS. Whistleblowers are very important | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
for society and they should be treasured and looked after, whereas | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
it seems in all sections they are actually vilified and treated | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
shabbily. People care so much about the job a lot which is why they come | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
forward. These are the people we want working in these institutions. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Yes. Staying with the Times. The busy turmoil as Lord Patten quits | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
after heart surgery. Very sad story for Lord Patten. Clearly loved his | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
job at the BBC and clearly very unwell at the moment. It does | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
question the BBC's succession policy, as in companies that plan is | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
to have a whole bunch of people coming up ready for the top job and | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
there is a collation that perhaps the direction `` director`general at | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Birkenhead could step up. Clearly the BBC has had its fair share of | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
scandals and problems over the past few years. It needs somebody at the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
top taking control and taking responsibility for some of the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
things that have gone wrong and some of the ways to change it going | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
forward. A big job one would hope and that it gets big routes to fill | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
it. He did have a pretty difficult time as chairman of the trust. The | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
digital initiative, no one here knows what that is about. The Jimmy | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
Savile enquiry, of course, a disaster. And executive payoffs. A | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
lot of that stuff had nothing to do with him. On human terms, that has | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
probably had a huge effect on his health. The stress of all that, what | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
he has gone through, obviously there hasn't been a huge amount of | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
sympathy before we found out about his heart problem. In those terms, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
those three years must have been hell. We think sometimes these | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
people are bullet`proof but it has to affect them. He is probably | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
better off out of the BBC at the moment but it leaves the BBC with a | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
huge problem. Finding a replacement probably won't be easy. Over to the | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
Financial Times. Swedish alert over Pfizer push for AstraZeneca. The | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Swedes say to be careful in allowing this to happen. This is Sweden's | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
finance minister who says that back in 20 `` back in 2002 when Pfizer | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
took over a company there, they made some very strong commitments, of | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
course we have worries about jobs and research in this country, about | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
7000 jobs at stake here, and he says they made strong commitments to | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
research present in Sweden. He says they can overcome to the conclusion | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
that they scaled down and focus on cost reduction. It seems that what | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
they said upfront, they didn't actually deliver on. We have | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
politicians from all sides, we have various views. Vince Cable is | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
looking at this closely. Ed Miliband looking at it closely as well. There | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
is a story next to this on the Financial Times' FrontPage, that | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
voters are turning against the business culture. Two thirds of | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
voters, `` want the government to be tougher with big business. You can | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
therefore understand why the Lib Dems and Labour are looking at this | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
closer because they can see that it is evolving. If they are going to be | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
on the side of jobs, rather than big reason is, coming in and flashing | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
big paycheques... But should politicians be getting involved? Is | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
about shareholders. Politicians should look at it but they should | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
not be tempted to interfere too much. What's the point of looking at | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
it then? French model, which is to protect business, when the French `` | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
when the French yoghurt maker was interested in buying Danone, the | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
French said it was in their interests to protect yoghurt. I | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
would hardly say the French model is one to mimic because the French | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
economy is in pretty dire straits and many of their businesses are not | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
doing well. Being protectionist hasn't worked for the French. One | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
comment I would make is AstraZeneca, by refusing to speak to | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Pfizer and driving the offer price up, if Pfizer ends up paying more | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
money for AstraZeneca, they will drop more jobs because they need to | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
make the financials work. So, I would caution AstraZeneca management | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
to be too aggressive demanding very top dollar from Pfizer because that | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
means Pfizer will have to cut even more cost to make the deal work. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
We will see what happens with that. Onto the Express. Your paper. The | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
world's greatest. He says that without a smile. On the front of the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
paper. Release of prisoners as police step up hunt. A man on day | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
release, even though he was supposed to be stepping `` serving three life | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
sentences. Michael Wheatley. This has been going on since Saturday. | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
This guy, 13 life sentences, just walked out of prison in Kent. He got | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
that nickname by pistol whipping victims during bank raids. You | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
wonder, it sets off alarm bells, but at the same time, the liberal in | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
the, you don't hear of all of the guys who come out and back in. This | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
is a remarkable case. There are thousands of these guys everywhere. | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
You can understand why Tory MPs have had a go at the officials who | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
allowed this one out AT hasn't come back. Then again, we are dealing | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
with the rationale of a guy called the Skull Cracker. But he had to | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
serve at least eight years. He has done that. That's the law. But he | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
hasn't stayed within the law now. He can't be trusted. I find it bizarre | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
when we talk about politicians wanting to get re`elected. You do | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
actually have the power to do something about it. You set the laws | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
in place that allow this to happen. Why are you then complaining it is | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
happening. We have an independent judiciary in this country. But | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
sentencing follows guidelines. They are only guidelines. We do have | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
professionals that serve in the prison sent... That serve in the | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
prison system, that underlies him. Sometimes people are only human and | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
they do make mistakes. I hope there isn't anyone called Fence Jumper | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
coming up for parole. We shouldn't laugh! I am going to give you a | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
quote here. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Lewinsky, I never told anybody to light, never. These allegations are | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
false and I need to go back to work for the American people. Who is | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
that? Bill Clinton! It is the front of the Independent because she is | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
apparently speaking about the relationship for the first time. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
They have a great photo of her with this enormous smile on her face. | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Bill Clinton has a pretty big smile on his face as well. Easy, tiger! | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
They look pretty pleased to see each other. This is an interview she did | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
with Vanity Fair magazine. She is now 40, a great age for women, and | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
this is going back almost 20 years. I feel a bit sorry for him. She says | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
it ruined her life. `` sorry for her. You can see why. She is one of | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
the most famous women in the world, for the wrong reasons. It would be | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
difficult to go on and have a career afterwards, a normal life. Husband, | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
kids, everything else we moan about bite it is what gives us so much | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
joy. I feel sorry for her, that almost 20 years later she is still | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
having to do this. She did write a book at the time. She did. I covered | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
this story from the beginning to the end. It hasn't ended yet. She | :16:24. | :16:37. | |
started making handbags. Ten years ago she wrote the book. I met her | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
when she was promoting the book. Me, Andrew Morton, a photographer, and | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
some other people, in a fish and chip shop in Leeds, she had has been | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
signing some books in Leeds. She had fish and chips and a pint of beer, | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
and I moved the bins so her car could get in. A nice one! It has | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
been great having both of you in. Many thanks. Stay with us, at the | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
top of the hour we will bring you more political reaction to that | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
potential American takeover of the British drugs firm AstraZeneca. Now, | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
it is time for Sport Today. Hello and welcome to Sportsday with | :17:25. | :17:40. | |
me, Ore Oduba. Coming up tonight: A debut double ` 18`year`old James | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Wilson scores twice as Manchester United beat Hull | :17:44. | :17:45. |