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executive in 2017. And coming up, we hear about the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
architects using visualisation technology to build cities of the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
future. Welcome to look ahead to what the | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
papers will bring us tomorrow. I'm joined by the author and journalist | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Rachel Shapley and by Matthew Green, who is also a journalist and | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
an author as well. `` Rachel Shapley. Some of the front pages. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
This is The Independent, which like many leads on Chancellor George | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
Osborne's plans to cut tax on inherited pensions. The Financial | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Times reports on an allegation that Apple is rocketing from illegal tax | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
deals with the Irish Government. The Daily Telegraph talks about Osborne | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
scrapping what the paper calls the death tax. The Guardian looks at | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
panic that there could be more defections from the Conservatives to | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
UKIP. Also a breast cancer drug which could extend life. The Daily | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Mail has an exclusive interview with brain tumour patient Ashya's | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
parents. The Mirror reports on the actress Lynda Bellingham's fight | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
with her terminal cancer. The paper says she wants to have one last | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Christmas with her family. And in The Sun, George Clooney shows off | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
his new bride. They married in Venice yesterday. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
George Osborne's announcement this evening dominates many of the papers | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
tomorrow. The Independent headline, Osborne offers tax sweetener as | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Tories seek to limit damage. I wonder if Mr Cameron's first words | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
tomorrow morning when he reads the papers will be, that is more like | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
it. Yes, they have got off to an horrendous start with the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
resignation and the defection of a Tory MP to UKIP. It is a lurching | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
start to say the least. And of course, George Osborne is going to | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
try to change the focus to the economy where actually, the | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Conservatives can point to some improvement in recent months and | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
really try to change the mood music and the whole conference. Said the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
pledge is that inherited pensions for those under the age of 23 if you | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
are a grandchild or child will no longer have to pay 55% tax. There is | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
not a lot of doubt that this will make life easier for the people who | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
are going to be affected by it but it is interesting that Osborne, who | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
has an appalling tax record, he has failed by his own objectives, to fix | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
the economy, we have seen the longest possible recovery... He | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
doesn't say that, of course. He doesn't but this is a way of | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
avoiding all of that. One of the reasons people are suffering so much | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
will be provided some relief by this is because the cost of living is so | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
astronomical. So all those hard earned savings are worth less than | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
they should be. So this is quite a convenient way for Osborne to avoid | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
that conversation with this kind of crowd`pleaser to kick`off the | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
conference. The Daily Telegraph refers to it as the death tax. It | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
was hugely unpopular. It may win over some of the voters but there | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
will be people cautious. I was talking to a pensions expert | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
earlier. Because the next Government and the one after that and the one | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
after that have to inherit this scrap of the so`called death tax, as | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
The Daily Telegraph put it. And it may well appeal to some people, but | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
probably it is other issues that really worrying voters at the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
moment, immigration, even perhaps membership of the EU, and those are | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the issues that UKIP has mounted its challenge on. So there is a big | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
question over whether this will be enough to persuade a lot of | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
undecided voters. There is an interesting point in The Daily | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Telegraph hear about a polling survey by Lord Ashcroft which shows | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
that Labour is headed for a comfortable majority at the next | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
election, which is more pretty devastating news for the | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Conservatives. The Telegraph goes into bat on a story just underneath. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
I could campaign to leave the EU, once Mr Cameron. So he is now | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
raising the bar because of UKIP, it seems. Yes, this is a UKIP policy, | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
about pledging to have a referendum about staying in the EU, and now we | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
are seeing the Conservative Party slightly dilutes or hedge its bets | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
on this, but again, is this something that voters care about? Is | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
this the most pressure and issue for voters? Or is it just a game being | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
played by political parties? I suspect most voters are not overly | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
preoccupied with the EU. They are when it comes to immigration. And | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
one of the things that he wants to re`negotiate with the EU is a limit | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
on migration from within the EU. That is why you keep winning | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
support. I have travelled around the UK in the last year to small towns | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
researching my book and there is a lot of concern about stories about | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Polish people turning up to the local factory and taking all the | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
jobs because they were ten times harder than everyone else, and I | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
think it is a real issue out in the regions. Here in London, we are | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
predictable with the fact that when you walk in virtually to any coffee | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
shop and someone is serving but they are not from Britain and have just | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
moved here, but out in the regions of England, people are worried. But | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
it is how you friend the question. If you say, how argue `` it is how | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
you frame the question, do you say, are you worried about migration, or | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
do you say what are you worried about being worse off than you were | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
before the economic crash? That is the real reason people are worried | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
about migration and if all those problems were addressed, I suspect | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
immigration would not be such a big deal, if the economy was not such a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
great concern. The Telegraph says he has promised to renegotiate | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Britain's membership of the EU, including greater powers to limit | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
migration. That is UKIP territory. If he fails to do that, he would be | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
the one that could lead the campaign for Britain to leave the European | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Union altogether. That is a bold statement. I think the headline | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
might be a bit of a stretch if it is coming from the quote he made to the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Andrew Marr show this morning when he said, if I thought it was not in | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Britain's interests to be in the EU, I would not argue for us to be | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
in it. There is a lot of ambiguity. You can tell there is going to be a | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Conservative conference this week because of the sheer amount of | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Conservative pledges in the headlines, including one on the | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
front page of the Metro, three more years of wages misery. Oh. Right. | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Exactly. This is a story based on a report from Ernst Young, a survey | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
saying basically wages will stagnate for the next three years, which | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
reinforces your point to some extent, about the fact that this | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
recovery, while some of the data is looking better, hasn't really | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
trickled down to the average person. It is not a recovery for most | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
people. It is based on an overheated housing market. It is completely | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
fraudulent and set up to fail and as we can see from this survey, most | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
people in real terms are still struggling and suffering and | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
wondering which of the parties it is going to address `` is going to | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
address that, and at the moment, none of them are seen beastie | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
tackling the issue issue. We had a warning from Ed Balls at the Labour | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Party conference that it would get worse before better. There is not | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
one party offering what the majority population is calling for, which is | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
less austerity, which is a re`nationalisation of utility | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
companies, things that not of these parties is presenting as an option. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
The Financial Times, crackdown in Hong Kong and `` as China's worry | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
grows. This is Beijing's plan to put forward a list of people who can run | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
for the election in Hong Kong. Yes, future protests taking part in Hong | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Kong over... Pressing for electoral reforms, and it revives memories of | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
1989, Tiananmen Square and so on. Where is is going to go? It seems | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
that the students and activists are digging in and the police are | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
getting more heavy`handed. There is a lot of concern. | :08:55. | :09:24. | |
Excuse me, could you tell me the way to...? | :09:25. | :09:27. |