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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
With me are the political commentator Lance Price, | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
and the Times columnist Matthew Syed. | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
Tomorrow's front pages starting with: | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The Observer's main story is a poll it carried out on the EU referendum, | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
which suggests the Out camp is leading. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
The Sunday Express claims police have been given six more months | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
to find out what happened to Madeleine McCann, | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
who went missing from a holiday apartment in Portugal nine years | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
The Mail on Sunday alleges the government overspent its foreign | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
aid budget by some two-hundred-million | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
The Sunday Times carries an investigation into doping | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
in sport, and claims one doctor has prescribed banned performance | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
enhancing drugs to 150 well-known sporting figures. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
British aid to Tanzania is the headline on the Sunday | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Telegraph, which suggests the Foreign Office should suspend | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
aid to East African nation of Zanzibar, following disputed | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
elections there.And the Simpsons characters Smithers and Mr Burns | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
are pictured on the front page of the Independent. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Smithers is due to declare his love for his boss Mr Burns | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
We'll get to that if we have time. We start the Sunday Times and doping | :01:28. | :01:45. | |
scandal story. A British doctor claims he gave 150 sports stars... | :01:46. | :01:57. | |
Quite an extraordinary admission. He used secret filming. He didn't say | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
it, thinking it would become public. This hinges on the credibility of | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the doctor. He was talking to somebody who were saying they were a | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
sprinter, who was in need of help, and he was using these names as a | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
way of conveying his credibility and the idea that because the other | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
stars are taking drugs, it might be a good idea for you to do so and any | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
money for it. There is a lot of coverage on the inside pages and one | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
would need to deconstruct it to see whether there is sufficient evidence | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
to take this seriously. The wider context, very serious issues over | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
the Tour de France the number of years ago. It seems to me as a | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
sports journalist, I spend so much time talking about corruption, | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
drugs, Fifa, people in suits leeching money, and it is a terrible | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
shame for the people who are clean, which as many athletes and many | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
officials. This doctor says he has never met a clean athlete. For the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Times to go with this story, we have to stress we are the BBC cannot | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
substantiate it. They must be fairly confident. You would think so, and | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
they have got pages and pages of it. There is an awful lot of copy inside | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
the paper about it. To put it on the front page suggests they have got | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
confidence. But right there on the front page, it says even the Sunday | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Times has no independent evidence that this guy did treat the players. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
Or that the clubs were aware of it or anything else. So it is really | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
just based on the secret recording of him. He may have been bragging, | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
who knows. Let's talk about the observable stop the young hold the | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
key to Briggs said. Brexit. It is whether the young people are | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
actually going to turn out and vote at all. Whether or not you can rely | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
on an opinion poll so early in the campaign, a lot of people have made | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
up their minds, and they do say the report that when the do not knows | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
are pushed, most of them said they were leaning towards staying in | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
there that changes the poll somewhat. The interesting point is | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
this one, that it seems the headline is the young hold the key to Brexit. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
It does seem that the young are broadly speaking more in favour of | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
staying within the European Union than the older generation. This is | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
fact, the older generations are those that are more likely to vote. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
If you cannot get the younger people who perhaps travel more, I'm | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
familiar with European Union, have a less sort of... A different | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
perspective, if you cannot get them to the ballot box when the | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
referendum is held, then the main campaign have got a problem. This is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
an online poll, some are done by phone, they can give different | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
results. I read a story about sampling techniques and polls and | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
whether they take into account some of the anomalies you describe. And I | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
fell asleep... No, I didn't, I found it very interesting! Opinion polls | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
have come in for a real hard time since the general election. And I | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
suspect that these will change all the way through to the boat itself. | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Young people are more in favour of staying in,/ the broader outlook on | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
the world, and they are less likely to turn out to vote. But they are | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
also not the people who voted for and European Community in the 70s, | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
and a lot of people think, this is not what I voted for back then. The | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
number of people voting for the second time in the EU referendum is | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
actually relatively small. The key to whether we stay in not rest on | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
those people who have grown up with the European Union, they don't ram | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
begging before that, they don't remedy EC, they certainly don't | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
remember Britain when it was outside any kind of European co-operation. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
So, for them, the EU is normal. The people who are the strongest views | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
about pulling out, they still have a nostalgic view about what Britain | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
used to be. The German firm offers steel plant hope. This is talking | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
that the future of the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Matty. A | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
suggestion that there might be a lifeline coming. If that is true. It | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
is to double to know, given that tartar have been looking for a buyer | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
for a long time.... -- Tata Steel. This will be a real lifeline. It is | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
not just an economic scenario, this is a community. People pot-macro | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
lives, families, and the knock-on effect of other industries which | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
rely on this. This will give some hope and I don't think there will be | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
taking it terribly seriously just yet. Other commentators suggest, why | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
would you keep paying more than steel then you need to? If you can | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
have cheap steel from Sweden and China, why would you do that? And | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
also if you take on the British steel plants, you have this an | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
enormous pension liability as well. You have to wonder about the timing | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
of all this. The government was clearly taken by surprise by the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Tata Steel announcement. If this deal was already a positivity, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
perhaps there is something about them trying to put Russia on the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
government to make a deal. Let's move the Mail on Sunday. 100 of them | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
and T ?2 million is what we overspent on foreign aid last year | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
by mistake. That is enough to keep poor Albert alive for six months | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
which shows how much money it is losing every week. -- Port Talbot. I | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
have to declare an interest in the Mail on Sunday a week ago ran a | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
story that involved me with my picture in the paper, about the | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
foreign aid budget, and how I was paid as a media consultant to go to | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
Armenian... I would pay you two. I am pleased to hear that, added | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
people want my e-mail address... The point was they got the figures wrong | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
by 100% and they didn't check with me. They did not check details with | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
me. So, I'm afraid when I read stories in the Mail on Sunday, I | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
treat it all with a bit of a pinch of salt. That is not to say they | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
haven't got a point, which is we are spending a lot of money on foreign | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
aid. The vast majority of it is extraordinarily well spent and there | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
are some very difficult decisions to be made and it is easy to criticise | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
the few things here and there go wrong. I have suspicions about that. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
It is not just the fact that there was evidence that some of the money | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
gets siphoned off in corruption, it is also the lack of evaluation that | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
even in those schemes and about a nation that look good, they have | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
glossy brochures, it looks like the narrative is very good, when | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
randomised controlled trials evaluate that inflation to a | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
controlled good, -- group, it is not doing any good at all. There is not | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
enough rigour to test out whether these projects are making a | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
difference in education, in terms of food and all the other things, | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
disease and malnutrition. There was a great deal more than you give them | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
credit for. It has got tighter and tighter in recent years. I have been | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
involved through a charity in making applications for the money. The | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
amount of evidence you have to give for the genuine impact that your | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
schemes will have is considerable. The impact, unless it is assessed | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
relative to a proper controlled trial, it is very doable to know | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
whether it is making any difference because it is just observational | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
data. Yes, but you have to see what difference it is making on the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
ground. Some of that Caley will be observational, does it look like | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
they are better schools, a better assessment of the ability of | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
journalists to hold governments to account, which is the sort of thing | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
I was involved in, but it isn't possible to run controlled tests | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
against every single foreign aid... If you did, your budget will be | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
spent on that. The Telegraph, the anger of middle-class savers. 40,000 | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
family estates will have to pay in inheritance tax this year, which to | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
us seems quite low. You would have thought it would be more. They are | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
getting more money from the number of homes taxed. I think people get | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
upset. They think they have paid VAT and everything else, and now one of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
my memory -- family members died and I have to pay tax again. But this | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
hits much wealthier people. The idea that this is a middle-class tax, it | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
is 40,000. But it hits more people this days. The threshold has gone | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
up. But the body prices as also gone up. A lot of this is about a | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
property, it is about the value of people pot-macro is. Clearly it is | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
unfair whether value of people pot-macro has gone up and what | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
started off as a rotary modest assets by the time they come to the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
end of their lives, has turned into a huge one. But if you think of the | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
value of properties in London and the south-east, it is only 40,000 | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
families that appeared to be affected. Finally, another sports | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
story. Fun and games with the Windies but England aim for the last | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
laugh. West Indian women meeting Australia, too. Who is your money | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
on? I heard someone say this is a good news story, no drugs, no | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
corruption, it has a terrific competition. The bookies say even | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
money, 11 to ten on the favourites but I am going to go for England. I | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
haven't got a clue. No point sitting there and pretending. That is it | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
bought this evening. But because it is Saturday, Matthew and love are | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
staying and will come back later and I know you will be as pleased as we | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
are. Coming up next, it is time for Reporters. | :13:08. | :13:10. |