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of their first match tomorrow against the West Indies. That is in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the next 15 minutes, after the papers. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
With me are Head of News for The Times Fay Schlesinger | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
and energy correspondent for the FT Kiran Stacey. | :00:23. | :00:36. | |
Let's start with the New Day. Fay, the great British schools shake-up. | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
An interesting choice of picture on the front page. I have no idea what | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
it is. I think it is a sponge and a classroom window. The shake-up is | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
about a bit more than sponges. They are all going to become academies? | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
One of the key announcements from tomorrow's Budget will be that by | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
2022, every school in England will be an academy. That means they go | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
from being under the control of the local authority to getting their | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
funding direct from the Department for Education. It is a big change. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
We have had local authority is running our schools since 1902, sat | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
over 100 years. The theory is that you can have more power for the | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
people. It will put the power back in the hands of those that want to | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
run the academy chintz. If a school refuses to turn into an academy, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
there will be taken over by the government, so this is a real push | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
to get standards up. We are almost inexplicably behind on maths | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
especially compared to places like Shanghai. And we cannot work out | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
why, so this is a push to give more power to these schools to do better. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
They will also allow schools to open for an hour longer and give them | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
funding to do so. Kiran, the jury is out as to whether turning a school | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
into an academy mix the standards better. Sir Michael Wilshaw, the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
chief inspector of schools, only last week said that in three or four | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
cases, it has not worked. It is always going to vary, because it is | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
giving more power to the people who run these schools. So some will get | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
better and some will get worse. One theory is that a lot of them have | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
got better so far because it gives schools a bit of extra cash and a | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
boost in confidence. And parents decide, I want to send my kids there | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
instead of the comprehensive down the road. So it sucks pupils away | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
from those comprehensives. If every school is an academy, we will see | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
whether the theory works across all schools. If so, great. But if what | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
has been happening is that good pupils are sucked out of other | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
schools, we will see this model fail. Fay, no national collective | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
bargaining as far as teachers' salaries are concerned. And no | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
national curriculum. It is a freefall. It is a real mark of this | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
government that they are trying to put power back in the hands of | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
people. We have seen it with clinical commissioning groups within | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
the health service as well. They are trying to move away from having the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
local council in control and putting it back into the hands of those at | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
the coal face. It is a bit of an experiment. It is great, as long as | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
it is then carefully controlled. When we start seeing standards | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
falling, you have to wrestle control back. There is a big question about | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
what happens to failing academies. We are not sure what will happen to | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
schools that do not succeed when they turn into academies. Maybe the | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
government has to step in. It could be a big centralisation programme. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
It could end up not being power to the schools, it could be the central | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
government taking back control. Now to the Financial Times. Kiran, | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
Osborne to break promise of fiscal claustrophobic? It is a good | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
headline. George Osborne is going to have his hands tied tomorrow. There | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
is a spending gap in his Budget of ?18 billion because although the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
economy is growing, wages are not. That means the tax receipts are not | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
flowing through to the Treasury in the way George Osborne thought they | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
would. So instead of being able to have a big giveaway as we get | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
further through this Parliament, he is going to have to make further | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
cuts of about 4 billion by the end of this Parliament. That means when | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
it comes to Budget Day is like tomorrow, he will not be able to do | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
what he loves to do, which is pull a rabbit out of the hat at the end. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Don't speak too soon! Well, he might pull a rabbit out of the hat, but it | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
will not be an expensive one because he doesn't have the money to play | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
with. So we think he's going to miss one of his big fiscal targets, and | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
that is cutting debt as a share of GDP. He promised he would cut it | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
every year. That will not happen, because the tax revenues are not | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
flowing through. Fay, how does the Conservative government continue to | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
sell the austerity line before the targets are being missed? This is an | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
argument that junior doctors make. If you are trying to scale back, why | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
are you not hitting your targets? For Osborne, it plays into his hands | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
to have an element of economic instability, both in the run-up to | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
the next elections, and also in the run-up to the EU referendum. He | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
wants us to stay in the EU. Any sense of not being on course | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
economically would play into the hands of those who want to stay with | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
the EU, because we don't know what happens with Brexit. This is the | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
political calculation Osborne has made throughout. He has missed | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
target after target, but each time he has said the alternative is | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
worse, so stick with me. That has become even bigger for him now that | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is in charge of the Labour Party. The Independent, | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Russia set to ditch Assad. He has pulled his forces out of Syria. This | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
piece is arguing that the West hopes that is the case. We had the | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
extraordinary announcement yesterday that Putin would pull out a loss of | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
his forces. There is a whole set of things at play. He might be wanting | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
to concentrate on Ukraine and has too much on his plate. He has | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
massive financial problems with the state of oil at the moment. He might | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
feel, I made Assad stronger and now I can get out and still keep him as | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
an ally. Or he might be saying here is a weak leader and we will get rid | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
of him. There is no one to replace Assad, frankly. But if he does bail | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
out on him, we could have to delete different landscape. We are running | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
out of time. Kiran, there is a reason you are sitting to Fay's | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
left! A little item on the front of the Daily Telegraph. BBC battle for | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
prime spot on the sofa. That is because Louise Minchin and the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
replacement for Bill Turnbull, Dan Walker, are sitting on the sofa and | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
having a Barney as to who sits on the left are going to the viewer and | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
who sits camera right, viewer right. Kiran? This is a revelation to me. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Apparently, the camera left seat signals seniority in TV circles. | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
This is something we newspaper hacks had no idea about. We have our own | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
equivalent. If you open a newspaper, the right-hand page is more | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
important because people look at it first. I guess that is the argument, | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
that because you read from left to right, when you look at a screen, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
you look from left to right. This is a key argument about sexism at the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
BBC. I think you will find that watching television news with | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
co-presenters works on every challenge Click channel. You will be | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
back in an hour to look at more of the stories behind the news. Now, | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Sportsday. Hello, I'm Olly Foster, | :08:39. | :08:51. | |
these are our headlines this | :08:52. | :08:54. |