10/03/2016 The Papers

were beaten by Borussia Dortmund in Germany. -- Spurs. We will also have

6-nation rugby, Twenty20 cricket and badminton. That's all after The

Papers. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers With me are the barrister and

broadcaster Sophia Cannon and Joe Watts, who's political correspondent

at the London Evening Standard. The Times leads with what it calls

the "extraordinary attack" by President

Obama on David Cameron over Libya. In the Guardian, Labour's pledge to

borrow billions of pounds to spend on public investment projects,

combined with "iron discipline" Comments by the Archbishop

of Canterbury that Britain has a genuine and justified

fear of mass immigration make The Telegraph leads with

the resignation of the chairman of the House

of Commons Standards Committee. The i reports that George Osborne is

to pave the way for inflation-busting rises

in council tax. The European Central Bank's interest

rates cut makes the lead story A daily vitamin drink costing ?3.50

could help slow the progression of early onset Alzheimer's disease,

according to the Daily Express. New Day says that a new

combination of breast cancer drugs We haven't seen a lot of labour

macro on the papers of late. What they are back on the Guardian. --

Labour. The pledge of AU indiscipline. -- iron.

McDonald is being very wise. After the election, it is clear the

Conservatives didn't win it and the Labour lost it on the issue of

fiscal credibility. He is trying to say that he will balance the budget

in five years and moreover he will borrow money and spend that an

investment. So it says there will be no shortcut for regaining financial

credibility with the electorate. We have a long way to go before we can

regain the trust that was lost after the financial crisis of 2008, which

happened on Labour's watch. There is no silver bullet. It is key that

Labour also has other people who want to be the Chancellor. We have

Rachel Reeds, Angela Eagle and today we had Dan Jarvis talking about how

he would do it better. Can Labour balance the budget? I hope so.

Labour have addressed this in the past and acknowledged that they have

to rebuild trust over the economy. Absolutely. If you look at how far

behind George Osborne and David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls

were on economic credibility, they were quite a long way behind. But

McDonald and Corby are even further behind. The report into why Labour

lost the election raised this issue quite broadly. One of the things it

said was that Labour should never have given up the fight about

allowing the Conservatives to pin the blame for the economic crash

onto Labour and a lot of people said Labour should have fought back of a

lot more harshly. It is interesting to hear McDonald say that it

happened on their watch. He is not quite accepting any responsibility,

but he says, look, we were there, it was our watch and to that extent we

do bear responsibility for the time that it happened. To what extent is

what he seemed slight revision of what he has previously said about

how or we balance the books and over what timescale? In terms of talking

about how he would balance it, it isn't too far different from what we

have said before. They have been talking about balancing the

day-to-day budget and about a link to invest before. I think the

difference is that he is talking about it happening over on

Parliament, says there is more meat on the bones, he is talking about

giving new tough powers to the AB are hold the government to account.

-- ABR. The report to Parliament, rather than the government. And if

the ABR thinks the government isn't being credible or is pushing the

boundaries of borrowing then it can raise the alarm. So there are few

new measures, whether it works or convincing the public is another

thing. But you've got to start somewhere. Let's look at Obama on

the Independent. It says Obama savages Cameron over Libya, blaming

France and the UK for not doing enough to stop Libya turning into a

mess. I would love to be a party to the communications that are whizzing

across the Atlantic as we speak. Downing Street must have been taken

completely by surprise. It was an interview given to a magazine, it

wasn't some off-the-cuff or overheard remark. It is right up

there. This is Obama saying exactly what he thinks in public. It is

quite an unusual thing for a sitting president to do. This was a Game of

Thrones, House of Cards full frontal attack in writing. You can imagine

the hotline between the US and the UK Robert Aleem burnt through. --

probably burnt through. It is unprecedented for him to put the

boot to Prime Minister while they are both in office. Even though this

issue of Benghazi has its own echo in the States, what the president is

saying is you showed up to the game and walked away at half-time and

look at the mess and we laid firmly at your door. This is savage. Well,

the White House has told the BBC, they are keen to make it clear, that

the United States deeply values the special relationship with Britain.

This was just hours after the criticism. For David Cameron, he has

a lot going on domestically at the moment. The next election is a while

away. Bat Francois Hollande has an election coming up. -- But. This

could be a real kick in the teeth for him. The youth think this

matters to the French people? They know France was involved in the

airstrikes. The thing is, if people join the dots about what happened in

2011 to what happened in France in 2015 and the current crisis, which

is knocking on the door of Europe, yes, I think Hollande could be in

trouble. But there was a lot of commentary about the fact that

President Obama hasn't got involved to the extent that a lot of people

would have liked him to in problems in the Middle East. He made it

clearly wasn't going to, didn't he? You could understand I suppose, not

necessarily here in Britain, but you could understand his frustration,

but America has asked to do so much and Brits -- and gets criticised

when they do it. They were trying to make sure they weren't getting too

big for their boots with China. They have left a lot to the Europeans to

sort out. This is him saying, look, you haven't cut the mustard. Moving

onto the Telegraph. Cash probe. Labour MP stepping aside and the

Telegraph says it is because of an investigation that they've held into

events at Parliament. This is all wonderfully incestuous, how the

common standard system works. We've got this commissioner who has made a

complaint about how an MP has acted. One of the MPs on that panel has now

had a complaint made about them to the commission. The commissioner is

now investigating him and will go back to the panel that he sits on.

What is his name? Kevin Barron. He has stepped aside, not stepped down.

Legally, the overarching issue is whether Parliament is suffering and

equally whether MPs should regulate themselves. Because some members of

this body are not MPs and whether they should have a right to

adjudicate upon naughty MPs, and bring them into line. This has been

questioned. At the moment they are merely advising and they don't have

any right on that panel. Lord Lester, a very famous QC, is looking

at this whole issue of whether Lady members of this panel can regulate

their MP peers. -- lay members. The issue of sleaze was raised in the

90s. That's right. The whole issue is that recently we had Sir Malcolm

Rifkind and Jack Straw saying laws were barred by this issue as well.

It was pertinent and a question that is going to come back time and time

again. The Daily Mail. Outrageous to dismiss the public's concerns. A

warning that the Archbishop of Canterbury says, it isn't right to

fear migration. It is we need to address the questions raised by

migration head-on. If you look at what has happened over the past 20

years, there are many people out there saying it is the fact that the

fears haven't been addressed that has led in the UK and around Europe

to the rise of more marginal political groups. Because they are

the people who are talking about immigration first when the

mainstream parties perhaps weren't addressing the fears that people

had. So this is the Archbishop sort of coming to this debate now. What

he is saying is saying isn't particularly controversial. Other

people have saying we need to address these fears. As Johnson has

been talking about it. -- Boris Johnson. But he is the Archbishop

and it is important that he is giving voice to this issue. I am

obviously the daughter of an immigrant. The debate goes way

back, it goes back until... It is the issue that Englishness, is it so

essential that it would be destroyed by immigration? Is it really saying

that? Or is it about the practical issues of if you have tens of

thousands of people arriving all at one time where do they live? Where

do they go to school? I agree. It is perfectly normal to feel that you

love parts of your country and your heritage and when there is a

fundamental change, paradigms shift, which happens all at once, that is

normal to react in a way that you would be concerned or worried. -- a

paradigm shift. That is normal and I agree entirely with the Archbishop.

Let's have a look at the Sun. These are pictures of Madonna on stage,

suggesting she had been drinking, but we don't know whether she had.

And the story is around access to two of her children. Yes. I think,

like most mothers, we would be conflicted with this story. First of

all, her sons are based overseas, one is adopted, money is adopted, on

his/her own son, and it is this idea of how children change. -- one is

her own. It is how you deal with this in modern families. I have a

lot of sympathy for Madonna. I don't think it should be played out in

public and I certainly don't think it would be right for me to comment

any further. No, and of course it's a horrible matter and it is a rather

lurid headline. But behind it a family in a great deal of pain. Yes.

It shouldn't necessarily be completely played out in public, but

then again Madonna is there onstage talking about it. These days

especially people do kind of live their lives through celebrities,

when celebrities go through something people relate to it and

talk to -- about it more. Maybe one thing that will come out of it is

people will talk more about this custody battles and that could be a

good thing. The Times. Firstly, Cambridge students in political

correctness row. There were supposed to be students at Pembroke College

who are going to hold a themed party but decided against it. Why was

that? There is a strange atmosphere in universities at the moment,

whether people are being too politically correct about issues. We

obviously had the thing with Cecil Rose and at Cambridge we have the

issue of the bronze chicken, but I think was taken from Nigeria and

they were talking about sending it back. -- that I think. There's

nothing wrong with holding a party based on around the world in 80 days

but given there is this atmosphere at the moment, the potential for

offence was so great, but they just called it. The offence was supposed

to because the buy dressing in costumes of different cultures. One

of the first memories I have is of dressing in national costume. What

it is one thing to get your national costume and another to dress in

another's cultural costume. I like to dress my twins as a cowboy and

native Indian. You do? Not any more. It is not seem to be politically

correct. But an Indian headdress on a child, unless they are a native

American. -- don't put. This is music to my ears! I think we have

some breaking news in a second. I shall have a look at that in a

moment. Staying with the Times. A picture of a little dog. It is

called" -- called 'Stupid Dog Picture'. This one has its hair in

curlers. It isn't so stupid. Culturally insensitive, I'm sure! It

is the whole idea that when you turn to social media people in equal

numbers talk about their dogs, their cats and their children. It's a

multi-million pound industry and moreover people want to know which

breed is this and who is doing what. But it isn't a lot of dignity

for that dog. No, but it brings in the billions like to watch and

equally like to see what happening. I have a crossbreed, formerly known

as a mongrel. She would not take kindly to that happening. Thank you

both for looking at the papers for us tonight. A bit of breaking news.

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