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million-dollar question. And, we look at the track championships in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
cycling in London next week. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
the senior political correspondent at the Telegraph, Kate McCann, | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
and the political correspondent The i reports on what life is | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
like for people living under the rule of the so-called | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
Islamic State group in Syria. The International Monetary Fund is | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
urging the world's top economies to work | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
together to try and boost growth, The Telegraph claims | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Justice Secretary Michael Gove could be facing the sack | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
after he challenged the legality The Metro says internet giant Google | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
is facing a ?1.3 billion tax bill in France, that's ten times | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
the amount they paid to Britain. The two investigations | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
into how police failed victims of sexual abuse in Rotherham are | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
the Guardian's main story. The Sun has an interview with former | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
television presenter Stuart Hall, who's finished serving a jail | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
sentence for indecent assaults. There's claims in the Express that | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
the French will let thousands of migrants head for Britain | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
if the UK opts to leave the EU. And the Mail has a picture of the | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
singer Adele, who's swept the board at the Brit awards, along with a | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
warning that more than one million We will start with the suggestion | :01:24. | :01:40. | |
that Michael Gove could be fired after the referendum on whether or | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
not we should stay in the EU in June because he is perceived to have used | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
his office as the justice secretary to attack David Cameron's deal. I | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
think with this story we don't really know whether David Cameron | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
will have calmed down after the referendum. He might be feeling this | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
way now, but come June we don't know what the result is going to be and | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
we don't know is he will need a unity cabinet to keep Michael Gove | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
in the tent along with Boris Johnson. The most interesting aspect | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
of this for me is the bitterness of the off the record briefing that is | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
now going on between the two different warring Tory camps. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
They'll already whispering into your ears about who is doing this. This | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
is an anonymous minister saying that they might befriends, but it would | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
be hard to see how Michael Gove can continue as just a secretary after | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
what he has done to Cameron. I suppose David Cameron might feel | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
justified in feeling that he has been stabbed in the back. It is a | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
funny one, because what is playing out across most of the front pages | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
is not really anything to do with an argument about whether we should | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
leave or remain in the EU, it is an argument between friends. David | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Cameron and Michael Gove are very good friends, so anyone who has read | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
the article in the Daily Mail today by Michael Gove's wife, saying that | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
he agonised about this, saying that the PM would feel let down. This is | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
not just about politics, it is friendship. That is the same as | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Boris Johnson in the PM. When David Cameron reacted to Boris Johnson's | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
coming out to campaign for Brexit, he was angry. It was a personal, | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
heart and not head reaction. This is something the country wants to see | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
leadership on. What they don't want to see is an argument among Tory | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
cabinet ministers about who is right and who is wrong and who has | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
betrayed whom. But that was always the danger of that, wasn't it? We | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
know what John Major called some of the people in his party who feel | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
this way about the EU. We know about the divisions that run deep, very | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
deep. It was going to happen. That is why we are seeing stories like | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
this today. David Cameron may well decide to move Michael Gove out of | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
the cabinet after the referendum, because while politics is the most | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
important thing, he is not going to sack him tomorrow as it wouldn't | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
make any sense. But he may decide to sideline Michael Gove at the end of | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
this process and say, I expected more from you and I am very | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
disappointed. And he might keep Boris in the camp, because if Boris | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Johnson keeps his word and doesn't become the poster boy for the leave | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
campaign, which could become very damaging, if he can do that then he | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
may be rewarded with the top job. He knows it could be Michael Gove's | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
job. Michael Gove is simply stating what is there for everyone to see, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
that until this deal becomes part of the official treaty of the EU, it is | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
still potentially possibly maybe challengeable in the European court | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
of justice. That is what the leave campaign assay, but on the other | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
side Downing Street is adamant that there deal is -- that their deal is | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
watertight. They have lined up a number of people, Donald Tusk and | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Dominic Grieve, it was a very slick operation. Donald Tusk has said that | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
he believes this deal has legal force and the European Court of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Justice will have to take it into account. Michael Gove says we have | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
no control over who we let in, and warns of a huge new influx this | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
year. Michael Gove popping up again, and when he pops up in a story you | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
know that it is legitimate, or so you think because that has been the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
case so far. It is a problem David Cameron has to deal with. This story | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
about migration will be one of the main focus is for the EU referendum | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
campaign, particularly on the Leeds side. They know that many people who | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
want to see the back of the European Union are concerned about migration. | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
-- leave. Neither side can say for sure that this is or is not going to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
be the case, but what people are frightened about is that it might | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
be. Unfortunately, at the moment, the remain campaign can't say that | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
that won't happen. The French to let migrants head for Britain, outrage | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
at threat to scrap border checks at Calais. Why would the French keep | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
the British border in France if we leave the EU? This is an interesting | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
story, because this is the Calais regional president who is saying | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
that if Britain left the EU, then he would want to move the border over | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
to the UK. And that is exactly the argument David Cameron has been | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
making about this. He is saying that it is actually Paris and the EU that | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
is keeping the agreement as it is. It is also an argument that has been | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
very strongly rebutted from the leave campaign. Saying that this is | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
scaremongering and it would never happen. The more this argument gets | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
repeated, David Cameron will want this to be out there. He will be | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
willing to Cali politicians on -- Calais politicians on. This is about | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
as feasible as the deal being struck down by the European Court of | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Justice? It is based on an agreement. I think all the arguments | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
about these treaties and how it is or is not interpreted by the courts, | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
someone was making the point today that lots of EU treaties can be | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
interpreted differently by other European countries, so saying it | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
won't be legal until it is in that treaty doesn't mean much, because | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
sometimes the treaties themselves are challenged. A lot of this comes | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
down to goodwill, and at the moment that is stretched because Calais has | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
a real problem. The French aren't getting much out of this deal. They | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
are getting some support, some financial support and political | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
support, but I think those relationships will be stretched to | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
the limit if the UK does decide to leave. Are we seeing Michael Gove | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
being put out there will voluntarily taking the mantle of the spokesman | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
for the leave campaign? It won't just be him, we have also seen Iain | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Duncan Smith come out and make a similar argument in his brief about | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
welfare, and saying that the emergency brake won't be effective. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
But I think Michael Gove is taking a bigger role in this already after | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
just four days, and maybe David Cameron will have expected that. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
It'll be a surprise to David Cameron that good friend has defied him and | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
rejected his deal, and also that he has been quite so bullish and out | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
there in his arguments against the EU. We had better move on to the | :09:23. | :09:47. | |
Guardian. Police failings in Rotherham. There is a source in here | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
saying that more than 50 officers are being investigated, and we were | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
saying before how that would have an impact on the community in | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Rotherham. Particularly when you find that 1600 children in the town | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
at that time alone could have been victims of these kinds of attacks. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
That is a shocking number of people for a relatively small area. I think | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
there are big questions being asked of the police, but as Rowena pointed | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
out earlier, it is not just the police at fault, but local | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
government and others who knew about it. It is neighbours, friends, | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
family, people who work in the child-care system, they may have | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
been aware of failings and maybe they weren't reported early enough | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
or taken seriously as they should have been. For some people, the Fiat | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
also of being potentially labelled racist in pointing out these issues | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
that seem to be emanating from such a tiny section of the Pakistani | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
community -- the fear. There is this argument about it that people in | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
local government were so frightened about being labelled racist that | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
they didn't act on it. That seems to me to be very good excuse -- to be | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
not a very good excuse. This is such an appalling scandal on such a huge | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
scale, that doesn't seem inadequate reason. Absolutely not. The French | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
demand 1.3 billion of Google in taxes. Ten times what Britain got. | :11:28. | :11:43. | |
This is a demand, they haven't actually managed to get this money. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
It is ten times what the UK got, which was ?130 million from Google | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
over a 10-year period. At least they are asking for it. There is some | :11:55. | :12:04. | |
criticism here with George Osborne saying it was a victory for the UK. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
This group have come out and said that the payment was | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
disproportionately small. HMRC didn't bother levelling any kind of | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
fines for late payment at Google either. We would expect that if we | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
didn't submit our tax returns on time. It is not the end of this for | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
the UK, and HMRC had in fact said in another committee hearing that they | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
could look again at Google's tax bill if other countries were | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
perceived to get larger pay-outs. So there could be a review? Yes, there | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
could be. So if the French are successful, a bit more restitution | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
may be. Don't think this will be the end of this story, I think there | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
will be political pressure. People have started asking questions | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
between the links between Downing Street and Google, and was that too | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
cosy relationship? Are revolving door between Whitehall and the | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
company, and the close was of Eric Schmidt, the CEO, who was on David | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Cameron's business group. I think there are more questions to ask | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
about what pressure Google put on the government to not look too | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
closely at this in the past. Very quickly, do we have time for one | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
more? I'm getting conflicting messages. It is all over, I am being | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
told. We have run out of time. Thank you both for coming. Sportsday | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
next. | :13:44. | :13:46. |