16/07/2014 The Papers

metres at the Commonwealth Games. We will also have the latest from the

Tour de France, and the Open championship which begins tomorrow.

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

us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell, and

Peter Conradi, Foreign Editor at the Sunday Times. Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with: The Mail's main story is that the Minister in

charge of Care for the Elderly, Norman Lamb, is now backing a change

in the law on assisted dying. The Telegraph leads on the heatwave due

to hit the UK this week ` it says stay indoors. And English athletes

at the Commonwealth Games have apparently been briefed about what

to do if they're booed by the Scots. Consumers are being warned about the

health risks of barbecuing chicken in the Scottish Herald, after cases

of food poisoning rose by a quarter. The extreme health alert dominates

the front page of the Express. The Times say 10,000 suspected

paedophiles were identified in the police operation by the National

Crime Agency. 660 have so far have been arrested. It also has a picture

of punters in the sunshine on the River Cam. The deaths of four

Palestinian boys, all brothers, in an Israeli strike on a beach in

Gaza, is the main story in the Guardian. The picture shows another

boy who was injured in the attack. The Mirror says Nick Clegg is

calling for an end to the coalition's changes to the payment

of housing benefits, dubbed the bedroom tax by critics. The paper

says it is a shocking Lib Dem U`turn, that will create a deep rift

in the Coalition. We will start with that, the front page of the Daily

Mirror. Nick Clegg says we must axe the bedroom tax. They were all for

it awhile ago. It's. Danny Alexander writes a piece going with it, trying

to justify this Liberal Democrat U`turn. And one can sympathise with

him a bit, in so far as there was a problem that they identified, a

housing shortage, the fact that people were receiving the benefit

and were living in properties that were too big for them, at the same

time as other people didn't have enough space, you can sort of see

the logic behind it. But in practice it appears not to have worked.

Because the overall shortage of housing, so you get a situation

where a parent the only one in 20 people have actually been able to

move to a smaller home `` we are apparently. The Daily Mirror is

dubbing it is David Cameron's Poll Tax. They are looking to the

election. The Liberal Democrats I spoke to a few minutes ago pointed

to the report revealing that almost half of tenants with a spare room

are now in arrears with rental payments, after a cut in the

benefits. It is a dead parrot of attacks. It is completely over. It

hasn't worked. As you rightly quote, there is also an announcement

that figures last year from 60 councils found they had 160,000

homes affected either tax, but only 9000 one or 2`bedroom places to

offer. They haven't built enough houses. So even when people respond

to what is meant to be the incentive of the bedroom tax, there is no way

to solve it. It is a dead tax. It is not working. The spare room subsidy,

they call it. They have to pay more than ?40 more. Will the conservative

end of the coalition look at this report and say it isn't pursuing? It

will be very difficult for them ideological E to give up on it. I am

sure they will come back and say there are better ways to implement

it `` ideological E. Everyone says to build more houses, it is an easy

thing to say in the difficult thing to do. I can't see them dropping it.

Which means the rift within the coalition will continue. But that is

something which perhaps the Liberal Democrats want as we get closer to

the election. They want to put distance between the two. And this

is a good way to do it, it sounds though it you have softened towards

people who are suffering. And it is interesting in politics and

reporting, when you name something the bedroom tax, not that they

called at that, but once the media referred to it as a bedroom tax, you

have used the word itself, which is enough to make it a headline. I

tried to balance it. It will always be a headline, and everyone knows

what it is, like the Poll Tax was not called a poll tax. It is a bad

mannerism, and the Lib Dems have left it late to make their views

felt. Not too late for the next election. Perhaps not. Perfect

timing for the next election. Going to the Daily Mail, an issue which is

something that you have written about and care about. The care

Minister is acting the right to die bill. The vote on a bill on assisted

dying. The vote is exciting in the House of Lords. There is a great

deal, I have never known so much lobbying. And people changing their

minds. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, Desmond Tutu, people are

beginning to shift their point of view. What seems to be emerging from

what I have learnt in the house is that people who oppose the bill feel

that it is worth having a debate about the issues. Because it has

exercised such interest in the press, among the church, which is up

in arms and against it. Popular opinion polls show a general

favour. So it looks as though it will get its second reading and we

can go on to actually debate the misinformation, the nuances of the

bill, which are quite specific, with detailed safeguards. It is a very

modest oppose all, and I think that may now happen. So that it will be a

very interesting day. 130 people are coming to speak in the house of

laws. It will go on into the night. `` the House of Lords. The Mail, the

man in charge of care for the elderly has shifted on this

particular issue. That is interesting. We didn't expect that,

but it is such an important issue, by definition it can touch all of

as. It is interesting the intervention from Desmond Tutu ``

all of us. He was responding to what he believed was the way Nelson

Mandela was treated. People have been writing to me in great numbers

saying they watched that parents suffering in great pain and asking

me to vote for the bill. Others say it that they watched their mother

suffer and they died in a Christian way and they want me to vote against

it. Everyone is using personal experience to come to different

conclusions. It is extremely personal. It is a matter of

conscience, a conscience vote, there is no government direct to make

directive on it. It is one to watch. Onto the Times. Police tracked down

thousands of suspected paedophiles. 660 people arrested, but they think

that 10,000 in all suspected paedophiles have been targeted by

the police in this operation. It is an extraordinary story. 660 arrests,

10,000 in the headlines, read down on the story, we get the agency

estimating that there are 50,000 people in the UK who access child

abuse images. One wonders, by the time one get to the end of the

article, what figure we will have reached. It is a shocking figure.

For those of us in the last few weeks who have watched the latest

revelations about historic sex abuse, we think of it is something

in the 70s and 80s, and now here we are with all these people, according

to this report, apparently, who at accessing this material. There are

some quite interesting quotes in here. The deputy director`general of

the National Crime Agency is saying that we have to be... We have to

think very carefully what this means about society. How we tackle it,

extraordinary. That is the thing. This is something that the police

cannot arrest their way to a conclusion in this particular issue.

Because as you have said, the numbers just go up and up and up. We

can't arrest our way out of it, we have to understand it. This is a

crime type we need to understand better. I don't understand it. It

doesn't affect my kind of life, but it is clearly expensive, in its

operation. And with all the technology, it will leap ahead of

the attempts to stop it. Because people are even now trying to defeat

police attempts to run it down. So it is with us to stay, and it needs

understanding. It is very mysterious to me. Indeed, very much so. Staying

with the front page of the Times. Cameron's man in Brussels, Lord

Hill. It is hoped he will help him get reforms to institutions in

Brussels. But people in Brussels haven't heard of him. We have heard

of him because he was Leader of the House until recently. He was

extremely courteous, he didn't want to leave by all accounts. He was

that that ``... He was mild`mannered, he was not a great

mighty beasts, roaring away. So we were sorry to see him go. So here is

your man for Brussels, is that what you are saying? What David Cameron

want someone in Brussels to do, I suspect he might know more about

Lord Hill's skills as a negotiator which have not been required in a

House of Lords. At the veto threat is a suggestion that from some

technocrats in Brussels that this man clearly has the ear of Mr

Cameron, obviously, he is his man, therefore he is potentially someone

who doesn't particularly careful rustles, Europe, and will therefore

not yet the requisite votes `` care for Brussels. There are two things

at work here. One is the technocrats in Brussels. What Jean`Claude

Juncker thinks of it, because he will be the man who decides which

job he has. But before he even gets his job, there is the problem that

the European Parliament, elected members of Parliament, they have to

decide whether to endorse him or not. There is a danger that they

won't. I think the best thing in the story here from the Times is that

Jean`Claude Juncker had to search Google for Lord Hill's name when he

heard the name. Some might say the same thing about Jean`Claude Juncker

when we first heard his name as well. Very much so. I should add

that David Cameron is in Brussels trying to introduce him. He is his

chaperone, trying to introduce Lord Hill to the assembled politicians

over there. There were discussing specifically the foreign affairs

post in the EU this evening. They haven't come to a conclusion with

that, as far as the other jobs are concerned, and certainly the ones

that David Cameron would like Lord Hill to get, trade and so on, the

big economic posts, that decision will not be taken for a few months.

This is going to run and run. Indeed, a bit like the Commonwealth

Games, which is where we turn to now. Front page of the Daily

Telegraph, what do we do if we get booed by the Scots? They gave them

some enormously valuable advice. They tell them not to react. Stay

cool and stay calm. I'm sure if they are rude, there would be an element

of good humour about it. I can't imagine it will be violent, and of

course it will be aggressive, because doing is. But I think it

might be rather good humoured, in the spirit of the games `` booing.

We want the English to know that we are Scots. In the crucible of the

independence vote, it might be less good`natured? The idea that it makes

a headline, a whole paragraph about them being worried, and they are

told not to react. Probably good advice. The most amusing thing about

it for me is someone who works in newspapers, looking at the Scottish

edition, they don't actually put that story in there. Certainly not

on the front page. It shows some wise decision`making at the office.

That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you Joan Bakewell and Peter

Conradi. Stay with us here on BBC News. Coming up next it's time for

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