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Bolton. In Rugby Union Wales and Scotland in their squads for the Six | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Nations. We will hear from the coaches on Sportsday after the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Papers. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are the broadcaster | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Henry Bonsu and former Labour Trade Tomorrow's front pages, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
starting with... The Financial Times leads with | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
the Governor of the Bank of England's decision not to raise | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
interest rates. Mark Carney's comments also make | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
the front page of the Express. 13-month-old Poppi Worthington | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
is pictured on the Telegraph. A judge has ruled she was | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
sexually assaulted by her father The questions surrounding | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Poppi Worthington's death are also The Guardian quotes new research, | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
which suggests the NHS has the most stressed doctors | :00:49. | :01:01. | |
in the Western world. The Daily Mail claims up to 1.5 | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
million workers could be facing A Treasury plan to target | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
higher rate tax payer's pensions And the Times carries a warning | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
from a leading vet that throwing sticks for dogs could be bad | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
for their health. Who would have guessed? We'll start | :01:16. | :01:29. | |
with the Times. This is their own investigation. A millionaire in | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Middlesbrough who is paid by G4 S to house asylum-seekers? This story has | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
a very inflammatory headline. It gives you the impression that | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
neo-Nazis are running around Middlesbrough, throwing red paint on | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
houses they know belong to asylum-seekers. Actually does much | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
more sobering. This guy is a multimillionaire, according to the | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
paper, and his company is a property company which is a contractor for G4 | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
S and they hold the contractor for the Home Office asylum system in the | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
north-east of England and the Times has done an investigation and found | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
that 168 of the houses belonging to this man in two of Middlesbrough's | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
poorest districts have red front doors. People have cottoned onto | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
this. They have been throwing things and the question is whether or not | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
it is a conspiracy or whether it is equal incidence. We don't know the | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
motivation behind it. Is a policy? If so, whose policy? I would guess | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
that they should be looking a little more closely into where they house | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
asylum-seekers if this has already been raised in Middlesbrough, which | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
it seems it has. You need to make sure for your contractual | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
obligations that these people are housed safely. This company doesn't | :03:05. | :03:18. | |
-- goes and finds the housing. I think our country has done what we | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
are proud to do at times like this switches find homes for people that | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
are stateless did fear of their lives -- which is. If what you are | :03:29. | :03:40. | |
saying is that you have 168 of these houses and they all have red doors | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
and none of the other houses in the area do, statistically, you have to | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
use the control, haven't you? We haven't spoken to them so we don't | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
know. If it comes out that this man was painting red paint on these | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
houses to indicate that asylum-seekers were living there, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
that is not only disgraceful, but the contractor should be put to | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
account. But as far as I know, he has 500 houses and paints all of | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
them red. The Immigration Minister says he is deeply concerned by this | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
issue and has commissioned Home Office officials to conduct an | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
urgent audit of the asylum seeker housing in the Northeast. He says he | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
expects the highest standards from his contractors and if they find | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
evidence of discrimination it will be dealt with immediately. I will | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
tell you something else, as Henry rightly pointed out, this article | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
says, following the identification of that house having an asylum | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
seeker, they're getting all kinds of other things come other vandalism. | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
That has nothing to do with whether this man is painting a red door but | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
it has to do with disgusting behaviour for people who should not | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
be on our streets. It has been a long-held policy and some of the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
poorest areas of our country of housing asylum-seekers in the | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
poorest areas. They attract attention because they look | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
different and because people think that they're getting BMWs and mobile | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
phones and they're getting no such thing. They are in poor housing in | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
their desperate. Moving on to the Financial Times -- and they are. | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
This idea that the first country you arrive in at the edge of the | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Schengen zone is where you should claim asylum? That has always been | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
the case and now Brussels is saying they're going to change it, because | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
if you are a country of eventual destination, and you have gone | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
through Greece and Italy into sweetened, Germany or Britain, that | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
country cannot say they're sending you back -- Sweden. Is not been able | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
to do it increase since 2011 -- they have not been able to you can pass | :06:04. | :06:17. | |
that law --. You can pass that law but this is probably a statement of | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
what is happening. This is not in use review programme but it is a | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
paper review programme. Hold the line. He thinks he is the editor of | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
this programme. The Financial Times has done it as a factual analysis. | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
The same story in the Sun. We are stuffed. I would submit to you that | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
the referendum is in dire danger of becoming a referendum on something | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
else entirely. I am passionate about reforming the European Union. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Whatever David Cameron comes back with is not what people will want to | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
vote on. We're going to be voting on and long-held prejudices. It is a | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
worry because the immigration issue is the proper and genuine issue for | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
a referendum but it is the analysis, which I would submit that | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
ashes about on which we can form our own view, as opposed to this -- | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
analysis. That is a good point. But it is semantics. Very few are | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
returned anyway and very few go back to their first country of entry. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
What it deprives the Prime Minister of is the ability to say that they | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
can be sent back to where they came in. That is a problem when you are | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
trying to sell Europe. It is a problem because we hear from other | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
papers tomorrow that he wants to get this referendum mailed by June of | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
this year. If Donald Tusk gets his way, this ruling will change in the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
next 2-3 months and that will make very difficult headlines for David | :08:09. | :08:17. | |
Cameron in the summer. It is not just the Sun saying this, the IMF is | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
also saying that Europe is struggling. Help me with this. So, | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
you haven't asylum-seekers, a genuine one or it could be an | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
economic migrant, but they come through Greece and make their way to | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Calais. And the British police say go back? There is not a lot they can | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
do. Perin a developed economy, so why do they still want to get to | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
Britain? You could say Britain is an -- is a victim of their own success. | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
Are using the French don't respect human rights -- argue. I think | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
Britain is better and so today. Bringing you back to the papers. | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
Guardian. The governor of the Bank of England. He has said there will | :09:34. | :09:50. | |
be no rise in rates. In his view. Isn't it his ultimate decision? It | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
isn't. He is only one vote although we have considerable influence. I | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
would like people to understand that there are different economic views | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
from all parts of society. There are a group of people who make this | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
decision and yes the Governor is a very influential part of it, but he | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
has only one vote. The Financial Times says he is quite bullish about | :10:21. | :10:32. | |
it. He's incredibly good. He was the George Clooney of banking but he has | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
not been getting very good press since he was brought here from | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Canada. People have said he is getting it wrong more often than he | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
is getting it right. Was giving us this long view, forecasting us to | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
make the decisions about houses and so forth. Let me ask you one | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
question. We've had the statement from the Chancellor and from Mark | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
Carney, do you share this pessimism as the former boss of the CBI? Not | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
only that, the current boss will be saying, what does that have to do | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
with anything? What I do get quite a few businesses in different sectors | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
-- but I do chair quite a few businesses in different sectors. And | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
I can tell you now, there is no issue in the economy at any level, | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
in any sector, on activity. There is an issue on profitability and | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
margins. Some of this is because of exchange rate issues with our export | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
markets. Some of it is because of a lack of skilled labour. One of the | :11:46. | :11:57. | |
reasons George Osborne quite rightly said the other day, this is another | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
year and we will keep at it, it is because they want to set this | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
economy up with strong foundations. Maybe he is preparing the ground for | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
the slowdown to impact us adversely and getting ready to blame the | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
international global financial system. When Labour said it, it was | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
about them not fixing everything and it had nothing to do with the global | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
economy. Let's focus on the papers. Not all of us are running | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
businesses. The Daily Mirror points to the plus in this story which is | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
another year of cheap mortgages. Businesspeople would say thank | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
heavens and so will housing builders. But the people who should | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
say thank you the most are those with mortgages. That means that | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
everybody who is saving money and have got money in the bank paying | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
interest on their savings, they won't be very happy. Pensioners | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
won't be happy either. Particularly those who have pension pots over ?1 | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
million. That's right. We used to talk about Gordon Brown in terms of | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
this thief rating people's pensions. Did you call him a thief? | :13:25. | :13:43. | |
You didn't! Henry! Any -- anyway come at this is to punish those | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
whose pension is over a million. Is that a lot? If you have been saving | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
since you were 21 and you are hitting 65 or so... I understand | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
that there are many people saying they will never have that pension, | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
but it isn't a great deal when you saved it over a million years. You | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
are saying middle income earners could accumulate that? Very easily. | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
He's not going like headlines like this. That is usually the Tory | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
accusation, that it is Labour. Take the politics out of this. It is the | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
Daily Mail! You get tax relief on your pension. When you take it out, | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
you pay tax on the monthly money but you get a tax-free on the first | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
25%, which is the lump sum you can take out. There is something in | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
equitable in that from a taxation point of view. The argument, when | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
you are looking at how you can raise taxes at a time like this, I | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
understand that the argument that you should enjoy tax freedom on the | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
way out isn't just wrong one. What if they said you were going to get | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
your whole pension pot taxed? It would be disgraceful. That has | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
nothing to do with income. You really bet on the weigh-in and you | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
paid on the way out -- relieve it. Is money in and money out suffers | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
from taxation, I see the logic. Getting back to the Daily Mail, | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
there is talk of this levy, and also we are talking about a penalty | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
charge of about 55% although it doesn't say exactly what part of | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
your pension is going to face this. Has been there for many years. -- | :15:55. | :16:06. | |
that has. Gordon Brown did that. George Osborne has brought it down | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
again. That has happened for many years. Did you bring it in? No. We | :16:15. | :16:27. | |
are out of time. I am going to call it before there is a knockout | :16:28. | :16:28. | |
punch. Coming up next it's time | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
for Sportsday. | :16:33. | :16:35. |