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Papers. Hello and welcome to our look at the

morning's papers. With me are the Times columnist,

Jenni Russell, and the broadcaster David Davies.

Let's start with the front pages. The Financial Times reports on the

investigation into Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, who's

caught up in a corruption scandal from her time in the French

Government. The Telegraph looks at the council

officials in Rotherham who it says failed to act to prevent the sexual

abuse of more than a thousand children.

The Sun has an interview with a woman who tells of her abuse by

gangs of Asian men, which started when she was eleven.

In an interview with the Guardian, the deputy children's commissioner

warns that children are at risk of serious abuse across England because

of a culture of wilful blindness about the scale of sexual

exploitation. The Express urges David Cameron to

get tough with foreign benefit cheats.

The Mirror leads on the warning from Britain's most senior police chief

that hundreds of Britons who fought in Syria and Iraq have returned

home. The Mail focuses on Rotherham and

those in charge at the council over the last decade, who it says won't

accept the blame for the scandal. And the Times says David Cameron is

hesitant about agreeing to join US air strikes against Islamic State

militants. Let's begin with the Daily Mail. There is a picture of

format people who it claims, we won't take the blame. They are

senior officials at Rotherham Council. If we are to believe that

no one other than the former leader of the council in rather excerpts

Annie responsibility for what happened, `` accepts. `` rather run.

`` Rotherham. Joyce Thacker and others, who do they think should

accept the blame? Presumably, a number of people should be

responsible for what happened to 1400 children over a remarkable

number of years. Initially, what struck me was the silence of so many

of the authorities yesterday. Now, today, one or two people have stood

up including the Police and Crime Commissioners who is fighting, he

would have to say, perhaps even a surprising rearguard action

because, having been elected, I don't know what the turnout was in

Rotherham, South Yorkshire, for the Police and Crime Commissioners, but

removing a Police and Crime Commissioners seems to be pretty

easy to get one in on a low turnout but it might be difficult to get one

out. He feels there is a collective responsibility. He was the leader,

the head of children's services during some of the time these

offences took place. Over the last 16 years. He would rather lead dumb

`` rather leave the Labour Party. His defence has been extraordinary,

saying these are systemic failures, failure of the system, as if the

people in the system don't have agency. The investigators, the

police, the bosses who didn't want to hear the truth, we no reports

from 12 years ago said there were reports of abuse. And in 2003, 2006,

and everyone hoped the problem would go away. It is not plausible that

these people shouldn't be held to account. The police are getting off

lightly. People on the front of the pages are council officials of

various kinds and yet the police were often called to episodes where

we had teenage girls found in bed with Asian men distressed, naked,

underaged and no action was taken by police. They were deeply complicit

and should also be named and blamed. Shaun Wright claims it came as a

huge surprise. That is wilful blindness. If you have no idea, if

this isn't a single isolated case, 1400 children, it isn't possible

that he heard nothing about it during those years as director.

Where does his confidence come from that he still carries the confidence

of the people of South Yorkshire in him staying in his post?

Presumably, he thinks he has fought hard to be in the post and that he

has the legitimacy, when Police and Crime Commissioner, the arguments

won't, for Police and Crime Commissioner, who thought it was a

good idea, but the arguments won't ever properly propounded either

government and the end product was the hopeless levels of turnout that

climaxed in the West Midlands. No one, when they planned the Police

and Crime Commissioner, thought of a situation where you would get rid of

someone fast. There isn't a mechanism to get rid of him. There

won't be another election for four years. I would like to ask him

personally, but does he feel that because you can't kick him out, he

doesn't have to leave. Or is he believing he is such a brilliant

Police and Crime Commissioner that he should stay? We are less than 36

hours on from this and my instinct is that the political pressure will

be too much. The Labour Party, the Home Secretary, it will be

interesting to see. One distressing thing is that some people who have

worked in institutions for ever get a sense of complacent

invulnerability. They think the system works or doesn't work but

none of us need to take responsibility. It's not my fault.

Everyone else knew and no one did anything. That doesn't work in the

contemporary world. Care chief played down sex claim concerns in

the Times. Joyce Thacker, features on the front of the Daily Mail. She

told a meeting that agencies needed to retain a sense of proportionality

about sex abuse because they only accounted for 2.3% of the council

safeguarding work Rotherham. `` safeguarding work in Rotherham.

Investigations by the chief reporter at the Times which led to the

enquiry that came out yesterday. Andrew Norfolk published so many

details about the appalling nature of what was going on that in the end

people had to take notice. When you have... That report yesterday was as

startling as any I can remember in modern times. When you have

something like that, people trawl back to see what deed, who said what

over the past six months. This is two years after commissioning the

report and long after she would have read the reports in the Times which

have been vindicated by the official reports. There is no justification

for downplaying the seriousness of this you would also have to remind

Mr Vacco that 2.3% of the council safeguarding work as she puts it

amounts to 1400 cases of abuse. Some safeguarding. The Mirror. 250

jihadis back in Britain. These are Britons who have gone, not to

sightsee. You would love to think the government had a clear policy at

home and abroad as to how to tackle the murderous thugs of Islamic

extremism. The Metropolitan Commissioner at home throws in his

two pennyworth, it is a real worry. They are in a network of terrorists

with 250 Britons who fought in Syria and D`mark are already home and more

will want to come home. `` Iraqi. My namesake, the former Home Secretary,

David Davis, his call has been backed by Mr Hogan Howe, stripping

citizenship from Briton is to go to war to fight alongside Islamic

extremists. I suspect we will enter a period of great debate about

people's civil rights and when people come through airports and

when do you take away passports? All of those issues. I suspect, if you

have a crystal ball, we will hear a lot more about it in the future. It

is difficult. We are a member of the international community. You can't

take a passport away. Some say that if you do, they go into a black hole

and perhaps they could become even more, what's the word West they can

go into areas of life where they can be even more of a problem for

society. You can't make people stateless. We are civilised society

and we need evidence. Collect intelligence on people, but it is

playing to the gallery, the Mandi district people's passports. I would

like people followed. `` the manned. `` Dem and. How do you track

these people? I don't want to trivialise this. I remember these

arguments in 2000 when we had a problem with English football

supporters are broad and we were told you can't take passports away

from people in a civilised society. Some of us absolutely supported

that. Equally, we knew who were the group of people, a significant sized

group, who were consistently going abroad, causing problems for our

country and surprise surprise, legislation was produced to enable

passports to be taken away for periods of time. That is different

from making someone stateless. You can remove someone's passport and

prevent them from travelling but David Davis's proposal was saying,

he no longer have citizenship. The Daily Telegraph. You have been

working on this story for the Times, Jenny. Declare the social mix

of your staff. This is a report by the social mobility commission that

says that class should be as important in any recruitment

decision as race or gender because return is in a strangle hold of the

traditional elite `` Britain. The figures are shocking. Three quarters

of High Court judges and half of all senior diplomats and permanent

secretaries, something like two thirds of the Cabinet and one third

of BBC executives have either been to reach or private schools and the

dominance of this tiny group of people who are educated in only 7%

of the population educated privately means that those with talent and

mobility don't reach the top `` Oxbridge. It isn't good for the

country because we aren't using talent properly. You are in an

interview and what, does someone say, or school do you go to? Do they

listen to your accent, how posh you sound? I think this is the failure

of the generation and of the education system under successive

governments. I want to be clear what my old friend, former Labour Cabinet

minister who became the coalition social mobility Sara, I am glad to

see he is alive, Alan Milburn, what does he mean when employers should

make a contextual evaluation of academic achievements to give

greater weight. Does that mean to give those with good grades at poor

performing schools? If you went to a private school and got an a grade,

but the person at a state school gets to be great, they should get

the position ? That is because students in the system have been

cramped. There is so much self`motivation from children from

state schools. It is the case that if you go to Winchester, Eaton,

Radley, and get fantastic teaching, that isn't the same as going to a

tough competence is where the teaching is terrible. Look at the

character, diligence, ability, and nurture that. I am on your side. I

am worried as to who is playing God in this. Who is deciding that, by

the weight... `` by the way. They are asking you to think about the

fact that people come from different backgrounds. There is a untapped

potential. It isn't coming through. They say to businesses to work out

fast track schemes for people who have been to university so you don't

just pick people who have gone through the system. When you are an

infant in a working`class household you get spoken to less than in a

middle`class households and hear far less encouraging words. From that

time you are disadvantaged onwards. At the moment, the system doesn't do

anything but widen the divide. We have been trying to do this for 20

years. That is why it is said we need a national campaign on this. We

have been trying to do this for so long. We have to do something

different. What if I went to a not very good private school? You are

not in the same class as an eight Tony on. `` Etonian. I will come and

have breakfast with you any day. It has been brilliant having you. Stay

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