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Rennick sisters triumph. And the rest of the action on an eventful | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
evening in the pool. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are the broadcaster | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
David Davies and the political Two super heavyweights. Are you | :00:17. | :00:31. | |
happy with me referring to you in that way? I think David has more | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
weight than me on him. We will argue over classifications later. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The Telegraph's main headline is the news that Britain has | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
the fastest`growing economy of the main developed countries, | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
The Express has the Queen at the Commonwealth Games on their front | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
If you can see in the corner of that box, the Queen has snuck into a | :00:49. | :01:03. | |
selfie being taken by the Australian hockey team. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The Independent splits it's front page between a picture | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
of injured children in Gaza and claims that new Government | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
figures show that council tax rises are hitting Britain's poor hardest. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Gaza features on the front page of the Metro too, with an arresting | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
picture of a grief`stricken father who's son has died in the shelling. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
And the Guardian continues their story about hygiene | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
The paper says the health secretary is demanding an investigation | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Let's begin with news that will be very pleasing to the Chancellor. The | :01:26. | :01:40. | |
UK has the fastest`growing economy, growing faster than those of other | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
major developed nations according to the International Monetary Fund. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
This will be interesting reading, because it was only last year that | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the IMF was saying that his policies were not a sensible idea? No, they | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
will be delighted in the Treasury over the story. Nobody seems to be | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
denying it is true. It is good news. Even Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, for | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
once, seems to be accepting that growth is racing ahead. You can look | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
it into microwaves. As you say, a year ago, the IMF were warning that | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Mr Osborne, the Chancellor, was playing with fire and there should | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
be a and B. Now they are saying they are moving through faster. If they | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
got it wrong a year ago, they could be getting it wrong today! Why do we | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
take them so seriously? Well, we took them seriously when they were | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
not particularly complimentary? Well, I share Lance's cynicism about | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
some of the figures. Even though the IMF, I see, I love the language, and | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
upside surprise, it calls the news. The figures are new, but the fact | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
this has been happening and we have been outperforming countries like | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
America, like Brazil, like South Africa, that is not new. The | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
interesting thing for me is if the government is going to get the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
credit for this next May. Now, Lance is better qualified than I am to say | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
that. My view is that they may well do. But events, dear boy, between | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
now and May, who knows what? The chief economist at PwC has said this | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
upgrade is a symbolic upgrade. But he says the recovery is not yet | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
sustainable. It's still a shaky recovery, the economy is still | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
fragile. It is not surging ahead. The question is how deep the growth | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
goes and how many sectors of the economy at effects. It does not | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
automatically translate into political support. In 1997, when my | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
old boss Tony Blair swept to power, any fair observer would say that the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
economy had been growing strongly under the Conservatives in the year | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
or so, more than a year before the election. But it wasn't enough? | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Interesting, I would be interested to hear how you play this in | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
opposition. If there is some good economic data, which everybody says | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
they want because they want everybody to benefit from it, how do | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
you judge the reaction to it? You don't want to be too effusive. There | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
is a real debate, and you can tell it has been going on in the Labour | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
leadership. Most of the time, Ed Balls is pretty curmudgeonly. He is | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
curmudgeonly about a lot of things. Of course, it is his job to oppose | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the Chancellor and shoulder problems there are. He seems to be changing | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
tack. If anybody would listen to me, which they don't, I would advise, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
you do say that things are getting better, they could have got better a | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
lot quicker and Britain could still be in a much stronger position. The | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
question is, do people out in the country, particularly outside London | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
and the south`east, do they feel this? Do they feel, hey, it matters | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
that we are doing better than the United States, than Brazil, than | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
South Africa? Or is this still a south`east, London and London thing? | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
Let's stay with The Telegraph. Gold Rush rescues the summer of sport. A | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
clutch of gold medals, of course, they have been won by Scotland and | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
England. There are pictures of some of those lucky winners. Alistair | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Brownlee, at the top, he beat his brother in the triathlon. Jodie | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Stimpson, lower left, the first gold of the games in the women's event. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Sophie Thornhill and her guide, Helen Scott, winning the women's | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
sprint tandem finals. Allow me to help. Here we are. We are doing this | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
more and more often, I rather like it. Who was this? Ashley Mckenzie | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
took gold in the judo. We also saw Ross Murdoch beat Michael Jamieson | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
in the men's 200 metres. So, the Scots have had some success. Perhaps | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
in Scotland they may notice that it is a lot of English success on the | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
front page of the Daily Telegraph. But, hey, before Lance says it, it | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
is not a vintage year for British sport. But things are on the up. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Rory McIlroy, supporters of his in golf, they will confirm that. There | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
is the Ryder Cup to come. Perhaps the BBC Sports Personality Of The | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Year will be a serious short list, as opposed to an effective short | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
list of one. But this is a fantastic event. You know, it will be | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
interesting. One or two of the papers, and we might talk about it | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
later on, they are starting the undertones of what impact it will | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
have on the referendum debate. At the moment, there are some fantastic | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
sporting performances going on. Yes, they are coming from home nations at | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
the moment. The cartoonist on the Telegraph has already interwoven | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
sport and politics. It looks like the judo, is it judo? Anyway, in the | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
judo arena. Is this judo or a discussion about keeping the pound? | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Inevitably, it will have an impact on the way that we see the games, | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
because of this referendum not very far away. Because we are only weeks | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
away from the referendum and the games are taking place in Glasgow. | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
That is the link, that is all you need to say. We were talking about | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
the impact of the economy, the impact of sport on how people vote | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
is much harder to read. Is it a great occasion for Scotland, so it | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
shows how well Scotland could do culturally, sporting, by themselves? | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Or does it show what Scotland is able to do while in the United | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Kingdom anyway, so why bother with independence? Let's move on to the | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
independent, council tax rises hit Britain's poor hardest. More than 2 | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
million of the poorest people in England are facing rising tax | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
demands because the government is cutting further into the benefit | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
system. Some of these people would have been protected from having to | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
pay the whole council tax bill. The full consequences of this | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
government's welfare reforms, Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms, they | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
are still emerging several years after they were introduced. You | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
know, this story, in its own way, millions of families on blowing | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
firms have received council tax demands for the first time. The | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
impact that remains to be seen. Are they people... Again, we get back to | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
the earlier subject, are they people that are going to vote come next | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
May? Are they people who are not going to support the government | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
anyway? All of those questions come into it. It's interesting that the | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
impact of the welfare reforms, some of which people across the board | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
have supported, some of which, certainly, the bedroom tax being the | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
best example, they most certainly haven't. What the impact will be | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
will be interesting. If they can't pay they will be taken to court? In | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
London, 16,000 people had been referred to bailiffs for nonpayment. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
If you aren't the impact of the changes to council tax on housing | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
benefit, the number of people affected is enormous. Some of those | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
people, if they are in work, will have benefited from the raising tax | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
allowances. But people never voted to say thank you for something that | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
they have been given. They certainly remember what has been taken away | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
from them. Let's stay with the independent and we will look at this | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
and The Metro together. Understandably, what is happening in | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Gaza is on the front page of many papers. Not even a UN school is | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
safe, and human appalled by the attack, that is how the Independent | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
is reporting it. A picture of a grief stricken father of a boy | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
killed in the shelling. An investigation was being carried out | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
by Israel into how this. `` how this happened. It does now appear that | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
Israel is preparing to admit it probably was one of its missiles? | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Yes, they seem to be changing their story as the day went on. One of the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
other papers, the Guardian, they have been detailing the tweets that | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
the IDF was putting out. Latterly, they did seem to be accepting it was | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
their responsibility. We have been here before. The last time there was | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
a major assault on Gaza, almost copycat, there was a missile strike | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
on a school. It was where the United Nations had a school and they were | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
trying to get the civilians out. I think the Israelis factor in | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
international outrage into their decisions on this. They know what | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
the response is going to be. They know that the front pages of | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
newspapers all over the world are going to be screaming out what they | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
are screaming now. But they still think they have to do what they have | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
to do. I don't know what you think about this, but there are very | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
impressive spokespeople on their behalf who come across a very often, | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
as very reasonable and, on the one hand, on the other, and yet, | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
tonight, it was a very difficult case for their spokesperson to make. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
He was, right, as you say, edging towards, well, perhaps it was us. | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
The warning had gone out, there was supposed to be an opportunity to get | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
people out, and then that was never actually given? I never know how | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
that works. How do you know how long it is going to take for people to | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
get out? And where do they shelter anyway, if half of the Gaza Strip is | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
a no`go area by Israel's own admission? It was the United Nations | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
themselves trying to negotiate with the Israelis about when a strike | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
might start. The Israelis issued a warning that civilians should be | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
moved away from the area. The UN also have very good spokespeople and | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
make a very good case for trying to defend civilians in war zones. You | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
know, clearly, they are outraged by the way that the Israelis had been | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
behaving. There will come a point when they think that they have taken | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
it far enough and international outrage is too great, we have to | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
stop? I haven't planned a campaign like this and I hope I never have to | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
get involved in that sort of thing. They will calculate how far they | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
need to go to achieve their military objectives, they will calculate the | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
response of the international media, because they have been there before, | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
they have seen it before and they know this sort of tragic incident is | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
going to happen. They will have in the back of their minds, even if it | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
is not on paper, what the tolerance level, at which point they have to | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
say, we have achieved all we have been able to achieve. | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Your interview with the Hamas leader. He is edging towards at | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
least a temporary ceasefire. These events, however awful they are, tend | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
not... They tend not to last endlessly. You know, you sense | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
they're moving in a direction towards some sort of a temporary | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
ceasefire. Let's hope you are right. That is it for The Papers this hour. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
David and Lance will be with us again at 11.30pm for a look at the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
stories making the front pages. Coming up next. It's time for | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
Sportsday. Hello, and welcome to Commonwealth | :14:24. | :14:36. | |
Games Sportsday, I'm Katie Gornall. Scotland rule the pool as | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
Ross Murdoch snatches Gold from the It's a sister act in the Judo | :14:39. | :14:50. | |
as Kimberly and Louise Renicks | :14:51. | :14:53. |