16/05/2014 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jennifer Howze, journalist and

co`founder of Brit Mums, and the Sunday Post's Westminster

correspondent James Millar. Thank you for joining us this evening.

Tomorrow's front pages: The Mail leads with claims that

migrants who don't speak English can buy language certificates, helping

them en route to British citizenship.

The Independent has a picture of a British`born man it says is

suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria. The

Mirror claims NHS bosses pocketed hundreds of millions of pounds in

extra pay last year, as nurses were hit by a one percent fall in their

wages. The Express says the taxpayer is

paying for asylum seekers to be secretly housed in hotels.

The number of people being investigated by the HMRC has doubled

according to the Telegraph. The Financial Times leads with

India's election and the historic victory by Narendra Modi and the

BJP. And the Guardian's headline has

allegations that child protection services are going to be privatised.

And The Times leads with a report from war correspondent Anthony Loyd,

describing the moment he and a colleague were captured in Syria

this week. Let's begin, and we will start with

the Mail, with the headline, cheat your way to a passport. As a

non`British born London living journalist, what do you make of this

story? Well, I am British now but I took the citizenship test. In fact,

couple of friends of mine have just taken it. It has been getting harder

and harder to become a citizen with the English language test and the

citizenship test. As a native English speaker, I did not have to

worry about that but most people I know like that the test is Mayor,

because it was only introduced in the past decade or so. `` they like

that the test is there. This was secret filming at one centre,

according to the Mail. They basically say that you can buy a

certificate which says you have passed the test and you don't even

need to sit it. If true, James, very serious allegations. It feeds into

immigration being a big story with the European elections coming up and

UKIP gaining a lot of their support on the back of an anti`immigration

ticket. This does suggest that, once again, the government is not on top

of the problem as much as they could be. They have this target of tens of

thousands of immigrants by the end of the parliament. That is not going

to happen, certainly if you can cheat your way to a passport. On a

similar vein, we will move onto the Express, because it is a different

story but looking at that, migration issue. Their headline ` asylum

seekers in 4`star hotels. The allegation that asylum seekers are

being secretly housed in hotels, luxury hotels, with a spark, summing

pool and health club, at a cost to taxpayers of ?900,000. `` a swimming

pool. This is equating all immigrants with asylum seekers, of

course. It ignores, and it is preying on the idea that asylum

seekers are here to exploit the country. There are many asylum

seekers who are here legitimately seeking asylum. But of course, if

they are being housed in hotels, or other inefficient ways, that just

does not work. There is no suggestion that these are bogus

asylum seekers, to use the old`fashioned term. Until they are

processed, we won't necessarily know. But the bill is big and it

will annoy a lot of people. Yes, absolutely. Interestingly, it

involves GeForce S, most famous, of course, for making a right old mess

of the Olympics. Everyone hated them in 2012, and yet they are still

getting these come back `` contacts, and still making a mess of

things. However many in the sudden influx of new arrivals turn up, it

begs the question, what do you do with them? To be fair to the

company, this is apparently a result of simply too many, a sudden influx

leading to overcrowding. As you say, they have to have a bed

somewhere, I suppose. Exactly. This caused a bit more debate between you

outside, the Telegraph headline ` innocent victims of tax raiders. The

Telegraph has an interesting take, saying the number of people being

investigated by the taxman has doubled in one year. According to

this, it is claimed that they tend to be going after self`employed

people. And an interesting list of those it says have been targeted `

middle`class professionals, doctors, lawyers, teachers. James. Where do

you start with this? You are quite supportive. More self`employed

people have been investigated because there are more self`employed

people. The country is bust, so probably HMRC should be trying to

catch those who are fiddling their taxes. The idea that being a

teacher, doctor or lawyer make sure a soft target I find quite

remarkable, because you can still be a crook and be a teacher, doctor or

lawyer. I think we have to just make clear that, yes, in any sense... I

am not suggesting that they all are. But this paper is suggesting these

are sometimes just mistakes on, the catered forms. If anyone has tried

to fill these out, they run two pages and pages. What bothers me

about this story and will bother a lot of people is that individuals,

they are soft targets. Individuals are pursued and they mostly pay up,

especially working people. They are not independently wealthy, not

corporations. You go after them for the little things, rather than

tackling the big things that have been in the news about confiscated

tax avoidance schemes the government needs to go in and close some

loopholes, or corporations that maybe are not paying their fair

share. Those are more difficult, but once they attacked those, they get

more revenue ward at once, they get more revenue going forward because

those people pay going forward. Innocent mistakes, one`time

mistakes, or even over a few years, how much revenue will be brought him

from this? They are putting the figure at ?35 billion of tax lost

every year, but not through the innocent victim angle, which is what

this is all about. I see no evidence that these are innocent victims.

There is no figure for how many people have been convicted or not.

It is difficult to know how many are genuine mistakes. HMRC is not exempt

from making mistakes. Indeed not. Onto the Independent, and they have

gone for a story that I have not seen on any other pages for

Saturday's papers, the British face of Boko Haram. James, do you want to

explain that? It is interesting that it is on the front page because it

is a link to Boko Haram, in Nigeria, who have kidnapped over 200

schoolgirls. That was a big story last weekend and has kind of drifted

off the front pages, sadly, because it is still, clearly, a terrible

story. It is back on the front page because this chap is, well, they are

trying to extradite him to Nigeria for a couple of bombings he is

accused of in the suburbs of Abuja, the capital. The story is that he

was radicalised when he was a student at University in Wales. This

is something which the Americans have been warning about for a long

time, both in America and Britain, the radicalisation of young people,

going abroad to fight and the fear of them coming back here to the

mainland as well. This is a Welsh university student. When you read

this, they seem to have gone through it fairly detailed, about his links,

they believe. Yes. I think it taps into this concern about this fear of

radicalisation. Mostly young men, although some young women as well,

being drawn to these extreme groups and really struggling in the UK. How

do we deal with that, keep it from appealing to them? What is it that

is appealing to them that makes them want to go and kill hundreds of

people, often innocent people, to be a part of this movement? The paper

says that experts were warning last night that this could signal the

start of a new wave of British Nigerian extremists travelling to

fight for Boko Haram. It is something which will be it big

concern obviously to security experts, but the naming of this

person is quite a step for the Independent. You don't want to start

causing a fright, but there is a big Nigerian diaspora in Britain.

Presumably that is where the links are, there is a lot of traffic back

and forward. There is an interesting element to the story, that he was

detained and then released, following a campaign by family and

human rights groups, and now, once again, back in custody. Staying with

the Independent, and this recent ruling from the European court. The

paper is listing a lot of different examples of people. Some of them are

extraordinary... Yes, this interests me in particular because I live in

the online and social media world in my day`to`day job. But it does feel

like, yes, a famous actor who had an affair with a teenager, tax dodgers,

people who have been convicted of crimes, basically. They say half of

people who are pitched a shilling to get things removed `` who are

petitioning to get things removed have a criminal past. It is

disturbing. It basically gives this power to Google to decide what is

worth reporting, what is worth being available, in terms of the

information age. I think Google is saying, we do not want to be

determining whose past... It is quite troubling, some of these are

serious issues. Indeed, a couple of politicians in there. It does not

say they are British politicians. There is one former MP now trying to

get the election, trying to get details of past conduct removed.

That led to much fun in Westminster yesterday, trying to guess who it

might be. I will not mention names. That was one of the less serious

cases, but then there is the man who tried to kill his family, trying to

lose right to a news report. How can he possibly have the right to have

that deleted? The only paper I have seen at the moment with the Indian

elections on is the FT. We have not got all of the papers in yet. But

the BJP 's weeping to power, and this could be a bit of a sea

change? Yes, it is interesting. `` the BJP sweeping to power. It is the

biggest election in the world, hundreds of millions of votes, 500

million votes had to be counted. And 100 million of those were new

voters, they say. And he was particularly appealing to younger

voters. Yes, and it was all about economic revival and basically

business likes him, so, he has got a lot of support. Here is a new

character, but it is an old story, he is promising economic revival,

while the economy is not doing as well as it was. That will go down

well in hard times. Whether he can pull it off, of course... One of the

commentators in this story says he could be in power for 15 years. But

he will have to deliver on his promises. Interestingly, it says

Indian stocks have jumped by more than 4.5%. We must leave it there.

That is it for the papers this hour. A big thanks to Jennifer and James.

They will be back with us at half past 11 for another look at the

papers. Stay with us. Here on BBC News, at 11 o'clock ` as hundreds of

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