09/07/2014 The Papers

today and the best action as India and England began a five test series

in the cricket. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers With me are Miranda Green,

the former Press Secretary to the Liberal Democrats and Liam Halligan,

a commentator at the Economist. The Financial Times says

the Government has ordered a review into the sell`off

of state assets just days before MPs publish a report into last year's

privatisation of Royal Mail. Teachers could be stripped

of the right to hold rolling strikes without fresh ballots,

according to the Telegraph. The Express says

following four simple rules could The charity Christian Aid has

branded the singer Katie Melua a fallen hero after she was named

in a list of celebrities involved The cyclist Chris Froome is shown

with blood on his face on the front of The Guardian

after multiple crashes made him And after the Home Office lost

records about allegations of child abuse, The Independent claims

documents relating the transfer of fugitives have also disappeared

from the Foreign Office. We start with the Guardian. The

Prime Minister will crack down on strikes as 1,000,001 out. Cameron

was branded a bully after a threshold on union ballots. Big

public sector Walker tomorrow, the Prime Minister, his words timed to

perfection? He has said and Boris Johnson has spoken out strongly on

this as well, that he wants to see in the Conservative manifesto at the

General Election, proposals to limit the power of unions to strike in

keep a big sector roles. It is interesting because are two

different proposals and one is much easier to bring public opinion with

than the other. This issue of the percentage that you would need in

your ballot to call any strike and they say they should have a simple

majority. More than 50% should vote for striking. They have got

themselves into difficult territory with that because a lot of people on

the left say, hang on, MPs are not required to be elected with more

than 50%. I have those figures! US Presidents! One of the other

proposals but I find the bill will find easier to get the backing for

his having one ballot that enables the union to call strikes over a

very long period. Without going back to members. The rolling ballot. This

strike that we are going to ensure tomorrow, speaking as a parent, the

ballot for this was called two years ago in the summer of 2012. I think

there might be some case for looking at that and I think they will find

it more difficult to get cross`party agreement. I was going to say, which

one of those scenarios does your lot not like? Because David Cameron

would like to change the law right by but he cannot because he is in

the coalition. That is right. Changing the law suddenly in a

reaction to this one`day tomorrow would be extreme but, certainly, if

David Cameron could win convincingly at the next General Election and

have a working majority, they are determined to do this and I think

they probably would get support for something to do with a requirement

for a fresh ballot for each strike. The Lib Dems might be able to work

with the possibility of preventing rolling strikes right now? I am not

sure that the public are aware that rolling strikes or something that

unions are allowed to do. Which is why Cameron is highlighting this.

The right to strike is precious and hard fought over many years. And no

reasonable person would suggest that is not the case. There are shades of

Norman Tebbit in this... No reasonable person? There are lots of

people who reckon that Bob Crow and his people should not be going out

or should ever have gone out at all because this is a vital public

service? I don't think any mainstream politician will stand on

any platform of not striking ever. The right is there forever. But a

lot of reasonable swing voters and the Tories are trying to smoke the

Lib Dems are at, they would say, should we be striking on it ballot

from the summer of 2012? This is just England and Wales but we are

expecting 3000 schools, one in every eight, to be closed down. And

possibly another aspect is that this is collocated but this might get

through, if only one in ten teachers have voted, even though it might be

half of the union that has called the ballot. That will also raise

eyebrows. What also will is this, from the electoral commission. No MP

was elected in 2010 with more than 50% of the vote. Only 35 MPs had

more than 40%. Eight MPs were winners with less than 20%. That is

a difference... Between first past the post and, I will take my life in

my hands, because the constituency is a race and this is in winery

decision. Vote or not? They are good numbers. I wanted to get that.

Absolutely, and all day, those in the Tory party who are the

staunchest proponents of this crack down on union powers have been

trying to fight the numbers you have quoted. They are getting themselves

into a dig mess with this but on the other issue, rolling strikes, that

is much... One of the big union leaders in this country is trying to

have talks with Gordon Brown, now in the coalition government, to talk

about other ways for outing to take place. Perhaps, supervising the

workplace or online. He says he has been met with a wall of silence and

the suggestion for the leadership of this country is they do not want

more people to be able to vote on strike if necessary? I heard that

interview. It was really interesting. It was a very clever

lie because he was calling out the government and saying, you are not

concerned about democracy and unions. He legitimised the result of

the strike by not motoring bigger turnout. Exactly. `` endorsing. Many

apologies if your children are not at school! Make sure they're not

going on and are plain! Constructive games. `` onto an aeroplane. The

Daily Telegraph, budget airlines shone these new checks? We have been

trying to work the side and the Department for Transport says that

travellers flying to and from any British airport going forward will

have to show they can turn off and on their electronic devices. To

prove they are working. And they are not Fukushima. But the budget `` the

budget airlines say they are sticking up for little people who

will feel harassed by all of these extra checks and we think we don't

need to reply but if they must comply, they must. They are

exploiting this confusion. It has been rushed in and also, this will

be more difficult tomorrow because is another strike at Heathrow. Some

of the border agency people. And we are expecting tens of thousands of

passengers affected. Reverse be the case? If you have a budget airlines

saying we will not check people, this is no problem, would you want

to get onto that plane? Given that someone in Yemen is trying to work

out how to stick bombs into batteries? People do get divided, at

an batteries? People do get divided, at

airport there or the tumour types who are really grateful at these

stringent security checks. `` are the tamer. And other people find it

cringeworthy. This will frighten some people. All right, we will go

to the Telegraph. Sabres could be an independent Scotland? So, business

and the banks with some notable exceptions have been quiet on the

Scottish referendum so the votes are on September 18, enormous decision.

Do they sever those ties with the UK, or leave the UK. And UBS warns

that there are people making naive assumptions about the effects of any

potential yes vote and separation. And they warn that savers could just

take their money out of Scotland overnight. September 19. Goodbye,

all of those millions of savings. Bring them south of the border, take

them elsewhere in Europe, offshore. That would completely alter the size

of the Scottish economy and that would have all sorts of knock`on

effects. In some sense, the technicals, they will be explained

by Liam, but... I think the phrasing of this, saying naive assumptions

are being made, is quite powerful. The effect will be huge. Alex

Salmond and the SNP are trying to say that there will be a lot of

continuity. They want to get the point. It is an assumption and the

yes campaign will say it is just scare tactics. It is an assumption.

In response though, that argument can be made that there is a UK

Government backing for British savers funds up to about ?85,000 and

if they would draw that, then the Scottish banking system will be

vulnerable. if they would draw that, then the

Scottish banking system will UBS are rehashing some research they did in

Czechoslovakia and savings did flow back from Slovakia into the Czech

Republic. Whoever their friends are in politics, they are slightly plain

to the back that the yes campaign has been suppressing the business

lobby's right to talk about this. We will discuss this more in the next

hour. The Financial Times, take it on the chin, Brazil, like ask Ritz.

Hundreds of millions of people were in tears yesterday. They should've

taken it on the chin like us because we are used to losing. Matthew Engel

who does all the sports coverage for the Financial Times is always

wonderful. And Simon Cooper, I should say. This is a wonderful

piece. It is saying not only do we Ritz have a stiff upper lip and we

can take sporting losses, but because we lose all the time and is

always another sports coming, we can hope we win in the next one. It has

not been a great summer. Chris Froome won the Tour de France last

year, he has crashed several times and is now out. We had our worst

World Cup since 1958. Andy Murray crashing out of Wimbledon. And the

cricket as well, but we haven't had right on the beach or teargas. This

is true, but the only game Brazil play really, really, really well is

football. We don't play any sport well, but they do play football well

and if it goes to pot, so does the nation. I have been told that I have

two stop you, Miranda. In her prime! It is not me, it is someone

in my ear. We will have more discussions later. Time now for

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