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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jennifer Howze, journalist and | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
co`founder of Brit Mums, and the Sunday Post's Westminster | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
correspondent James Millar. Thank you for joining us this evening. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Tomorrow's front pages: The Mail leads with claims that | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
migrants who don't speak English can buy language certificates, helping | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
them en route to British citizenship. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
The Independent has a picture of a British`born man it says is | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria. The | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Mirror claims NHS bosses pocketed hundreds of millions of pounds in | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
extra pay last year, as nurses were hit by a one percent fall in their | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
wages. The Express says the taxpayer is | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
paying for asylum seekers to be secretly housed in hotels. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
The number of people being investigated by the HMRC has doubled | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
according to the Telegraph. The Financial Times leads with | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
India's election and the historic victory by Narendra Modi and the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
BJP. And the Guardian's headline has | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
allegations that child protection services are going to be privatised. | :01:20. | :01:31. | |
And The Times leads with a report from war correspondent Anthony Loyd, | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
describing the moment he and a colleague were captured in Syria | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
this week. Let's begin, and we will start with | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
the Mail, with the headline, cheat your way to a passport. As a | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
non`British born London living journalist, what do you make of this | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
story? Well, I am British now but I took the citizenship test. In fact, | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
couple of friends of mine have just taken it. It has been getting harder | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
and harder to become a citizen with the English language test and the | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
citizenship test. As a native English speaker, I did not have to | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
worry about that but most people I know like that the test is Mayor, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
because it was only introduced in the past decade or so. `` they like | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
that the test is there. This was secret filming at one centre, | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
according to the Mail. They basically say that you can buy a | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
certificate which says you have passed the test and you don't even | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
need to sit it. If true, James, very serious allegations. It feeds into | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
immigration being a big story with the European elections coming up and | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
UKIP gaining a lot of their support on the back of an anti`immigration | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
ticket. This does suggest that, once again, the government is not on top | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
of the problem as much as they could be. They have this target of tens of | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
thousands of immigrants by the end of the parliament. That is not going | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
to happen, certainly if you can cheat your way to a passport. On a | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
similar vein, we will move onto the Express, because it is a different | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
story but looking at that, migration issue. Their headline ` asylum | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
seekers in 4`star hotels. The allegation that asylum seekers are | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
being secretly housed in hotels, luxury hotels, with a spark, summing | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
pool and health club, at a cost to taxpayers of ?900,000. `` a swimming | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
pool. This is equating all immigrants with asylum seekers, of | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
course. It ignores, and it is preying on the idea that asylum | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
seekers are here to exploit the country. There are many asylum | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
seekers who are here legitimately seeking asylum. But of course, if | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
they are being housed in hotels, or other inefficient ways, that just | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
does not work. There is no suggestion that these are bogus | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
asylum seekers, to use the old`fashioned term. Until they are | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
processed, we won't necessarily know. But the bill is big and it | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
will annoy a lot of people. Yes, absolutely. Interestingly, it | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
involves GeForce S, most famous, of course, for making a right old mess | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
of the Olympics. Everyone hated them in 2012, and yet they are still | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
getting these come back `` contacts, and still making a mess of | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
things. However many in the sudden influx of new arrivals turn up, it | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
begs the question, what do you do with them? To be fair to the | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
company, this is apparently a result of simply too many, a sudden influx | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
leading to overcrowding. As you say, they have to have a bed | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
somewhere, I suppose. Exactly. This caused a bit more debate between you | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
outside, the Telegraph headline ` innocent victims of tax raiders. The | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Telegraph has an interesting take, saying the number of people being | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
investigated by the taxman has doubled in one year. According to | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
this, it is claimed that they tend to be going after self`employed | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
people. And an interesting list of those it says have been targeted ` | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
middle`class professionals, doctors, lawyers, teachers. James. Where do | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
you start with this? You are quite supportive. More self`employed | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
people have been investigated because there are more self`employed | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
people. The country is bust, so probably HMRC should be trying to | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
catch those who are fiddling their taxes. The idea that being a | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
teacher, doctor or lawyer make sure a soft target I find quite | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
remarkable, because you can still be a crook and be a teacher, doctor or | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
lawyer. I think we have to just make clear that, yes, in any sense... I | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
am not suggesting that they all are. But this paper is suggesting these | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
are sometimes just mistakes on, the catered forms. If anyone has tried | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
to fill these out, they run two pages and pages. What bothers me | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
about this story and will bother a lot of people is that individuals, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
they are soft targets. Individuals are pursued and they mostly pay up, | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
especially working people. They are not independently wealthy, not | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
corporations. You go after them for the little things, rather than | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
tackling the big things that have been in the news about confiscated | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
tax avoidance schemes the government needs to go in and close some | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
loopholes, or corporations that maybe are not paying their fair | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
share. Those are more difficult, but once they attacked those, they get | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
more revenue ward at once, they get more revenue going forward because | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
those people pay going forward. Innocent mistakes, one`time | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
mistakes, or even over a few years, how much revenue will be brought him | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
from this? They are putting the figure at ?35 billion of tax lost | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
every year, but not through the innocent victim angle, which is what | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
this is all about. I see no evidence that these are innocent victims. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
There is no figure for how many people have been convicted or not. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
It is difficult to know how many are genuine mistakes. HMRC is not exempt | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
from making mistakes. Indeed not. Onto the Independent, and they have | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
gone for a story that I have not seen on any other pages for | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Saturday's papers, the British face of Boko Haram. James, do you want to | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
explain that? It is interesting that it is on the front page because it | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
is a link to Boko Haram, in Nigeria, who have kidnapped over 200 | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
schoolgirls. That was a big story last weekend and has kind of drifted | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
off the front pages, sadly, because it is still, clearly, a terrible | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
story. It is back on the front page because this chap is, well, they are | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
trying to extradite him to Nigeria for a couple of bombings he is | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
accused of in the suburbs of Abuja, the capital. The story is that he | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
was radicalised when he was a student at University in Wales. This | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
is something which the Americans have been warning about for a long | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
time, both in America and Britain, the radicalisation of young people, | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
going abroad to fight and the fear of them coming back here to the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
mainland as well. This is a Welsh university student. When you read | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
this, they seem to have gone through it fairly detailed, about his links, | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
they believe. Yes. I think it taps into this concern about this fear of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
radicalisation. Mostly young men, although some young women as well, | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
being drawn to these extreme groups and really struggling in the UK. How | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
do we deal with that, keep it from appealing to them? What is it that | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
is appealing to them that makes them want to go and kill hundreds of | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
people, often innocent people, to be a part of this movement? The paper | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
says that experts were warning last night that this could signal the | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
start of a new wave of British Nigerian extremists travelling to | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
fight for Boko Haram. It is something which will be it big | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
concern obviously to security experts, but the naming of this | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
person is quite a step for the Independent. You don't want to start | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
causing a fright, but there is a big Nigerian diaspora in Britain. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Presumably that is where the links are, there is a lot of traffic back | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
and forward. There is an interesting element to the story, that he was | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
detained and then released, following a campaign by family and | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
human rights groups, and now, once again, back in custody. Staying with | :10:20. | :10:33. | |
the Independent, and this recent ruling from the European court. The | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
paper is listing a lot of different examples of people. Some of them are | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
extraordinary... Yes, this interests me in particular because I live in | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the online and social media world in my day`to`day job. But it does feel | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
like, yes, a famous actor who had an affair with a teenager, tax dodgers, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
people who have been convicted of crimes, basically. They say half of | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
people who are pitched a shilling to get things removed `` who are | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
petitioning to get things removed have a criminal past. It is | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
disturbing. It basically gives this power to Google to decide what is | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
worth reporting, what is worth being available, in terms of the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
information age. I think Google is saying, we do not want to be | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
determining whose past... It is quite troubling, some of these are | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
serious issues. Indeed, a couple of politicians in there. It does not | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
say they are British politicians. There is one former MP now trying to | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
get the election, trying to get details of past conduct removed. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
That led to much fun in Westminster yesterday, trying to guess who it | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
might be. I will not mention names. That was one of the less serious | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
cases, but then there is the man who tried to kill his family, trying to | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
lose right to a news report. How can he possibly have the right to have | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
that deleted? The only paper I have seen at the moment with the Indian | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
elections on is the FT. We have not got all of the papers in yet. But | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the BJP 's weeping to power, and this could be a bit of a sea | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
change? Yes, it is interesting. `` the BJP sweeping to power. It is the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
biggest election in the world, hundreds of millions of votes, 500 | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
million votes had to be counted. And 100 million of those were new | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
voters, they say. And he was particularly appealing to younger | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
voters. Yes, and it was all about economic revival and basically | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
business likes him, so, he has got a lot of support. Here is a new | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
character, but it is an old story, he is promising economic revival, | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
while the economy is not doing as well as it was. That will go down | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
well in hard times. Whether he can pull it off, of course... One of the | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
commentators in this story says he could be in power for 15 years. But | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
he will have to deliver on his promises. Interestingly, it says | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Indian stocks have jumped by more than 4.5%. We must leave it there. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
That is it for the papers this hour. A big thanks to Jennifer and James. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
They will be back with us at half past 11 for another look at the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
papers. Stay with us. Here on BBC News, at 11 o'clock ` as hundreds of | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
British tourists are evacuated, we bring you more on today's terror | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
attacks in Nairobi. Coming up next, Sportsday. | :13:53. | :14:05. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday ` I'm Lizzie | :14:06. | :14:06. |