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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
With me are the political commentator Lance Price, and | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The Observer's main story is a poll it carried out on the EU | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
referendum, which suggests the out camp is leading. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
The Sunday Express claims police have been given six more months to | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
find out what happened to Madeleine McCann, who went missing | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
from a holiday apartment in Portugal nine years ago. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The Mail on Sunday alleges the Government | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
overspent its foreign aid budget by some ?200 million last year. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The Sunday Times carries an investigation into doping in sport, | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
and claims one doctor has prescribed banned performance enhancing drugs | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
British aid to Tanzania is the headline on the | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Sunday Telegraph, which suggests the Foreign Office should suspend | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
aid to the country following disputed elections in Zanzibar. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And the Simpsons characters Smithers and Mr Burns are pictured on | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Smithers is due to declare his love for his boss, Mr Burns, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Should have given you a spoiler alert. Let's begin with this doping | :01:09. | :01:23. | |
story. British doctor claims he joked 150 sports stars. -- doped. It | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
is treating its own story with caution, and we have not | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
substantiated this other. They are treating it with caution, and they | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
say there is no independent evidence that this doctor actually did treat | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
any of the players he claims he treated. Having said that, they | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
dedicated a great deal of space to the story in the paper, suggesting | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
they have confidence in it, and the Sunday Times have a good track | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
record on these sorts of stories. They have exposed scandals in the | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
past. It is a difficult one to read, because the number of people that he | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
is supposed to have treated is huge, and sports included Premier League | :02:11. | :02:23. | |
footballers, and even Strictly Come Dancing, but it is all based on | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
interviews with him. It was undercover recording, and it appears | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
an athlete went to see him. An athlete who had a heating camera at | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the behest of the good team at the Sunday Times -- heating camera. The | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
doctor was prepared to provide this athlete with testosterone, even | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
though he did not need it for medical reasons, and therefore it | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
does seem to clear that this doctor was prepared to break the code, at | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
least according to the story. The context is that this is the kind of | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
person who would give people who are not unhealthy drugs that enhance | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
performance. But there is no independent corroboration that he | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
did give specific athletes, who we are told are high-profile, so I | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
would not be surprised if the Sunday Times comes back to this, and it may | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
be that the story insides some people to come forward and say we | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
know about this chap. The Doctor himself has denied all of the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
allegations, and we have had a statement from the UK anti- doping | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
chief executive, is very long statement, so we will only read a | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
little bit where they say they are concerned and shocked by the | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
allegations made in the Sunday Times and that the media have shown how | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
valuable they are in protecting clean sport and in the fight against | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
doping. It says much further in the statement that under current | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
legislation, they only have the power to investigate athletes and | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
entourage including medics who are themselves governed by a sport, and | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
they will be humanly pursue any incident of doping or support | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
personnel assisting them. If it is true and he is denying it, this | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
doctor, but he was prescribing drugs with serious side effects, even | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
though there was no medical condition that would justify such a | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
prescription, that would be a breach of the GMC code. You would think the | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
anti- doping organisation would have referred him to the GMC, and that | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
did not happen. That is the allegation outstanding against the | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
anti- doping organisation. If you add this to all of the other stories | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
we have heard, it is got to the point where a lot of people must be | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
thinking they are all at it, and it is unfair to those athletes who are | :04:48. | :05:01. | |
clean. The Olympic Games, I went to watch a lot of the athletics when I | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
played table tennis, and the suspicion that whoever came the line | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
first, you would wonder what they are on. When it gets to that level | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
of cynicism, clean sport does begin to look threatened. Let's move on to | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
the Observer and look at the Brexit story. The young hold the key to | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Brexit as leave takes lead, and this is an online poll. The name of the | :05:27. | :05:41. | |
polling organisation, Opinium, said the younger demographic, more | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
outward looking and feeling more European, however, were they go out | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
and vote on the big day? Older people tend to turn up and younger | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
people proportionately don't do so in such large numbers, and therefore | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
this could be bad news for the remaining camp. It is not that far | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
away, but things can change so close to a poll, can't they? It is a long | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
way. We have several weeks of campaigning and we have not gotten | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
into the short campaigning politics, where it really gets... The two | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
sides lock horns and the media will be full of it. A lot of people still | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
have not made their minds, and one of the interesting parts of the poll | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
is that when some of those don't knows are pressed, they tend to move | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
towards staying in the European Union rather than leaving. That | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
gives some hope to the remaining campaign, but overall, it is a | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
warning to the remain campaign that they can't afford to be complacent. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
They have to get their vote out and that may be difficult. German firm | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
offers still plant hope, this is after the uncertainty over Port | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Talbot. It does seem that has been a potential buyer, the German | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
industrial conglomerate, who have been looking at the British steel | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
industry, and possibly investing in it and taking over Port Talbot and | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
the other plants. But clearly the big issue is how much money the | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
British government are willing to put behind it. You have nothing to | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
say? Sorry! I wasn't sure. You nodded at me. I wasn't sure if you | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
wanted me to say something. Let's move on. A couple of foreign aid | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
stories. 170 new million -- 172 main pounds is what we overspent by | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
mistake. It is a minimum amount. -- million. It was a commitment to | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid, and I emigrate believer of paying | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
money to people who need it, and I have some misgivings about that | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
being ring-fenced. -- and I am a believer. More of that budget needs | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
to be spent on evaluation. Can we be sure the money we are spending is | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
making a difference in terms of nutrition, disease, education | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
outcomes? I have done some work on this and I don't think it is as good | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
as it could be in terms of its rigour. How well monitored are these | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
schemes? They are well monitored. Charities have gone through the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
hoops to get some of this foreign aid, and it is difficult. The | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
question always comes back to outcomes. How can you showed that | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
the money, if we give it to you, will be properly invested and | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
produced the outcomes you say you will? They will be times when that | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
fails, and the outcomes are not the ones expected at the beginning, and | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
of course there will be times when money is creamed off and there is | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
corruption and all the rest of it. But if you look at that and the size | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
of the phone aid budget, although it's .7% is the United Nations | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
target, not just rent up at the British government, it sounds | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
substantial -- 0.7%. If you look at the waist in defence procurement and | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
that sort of thing, of course some money will be misspent and some will | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
go astray. But we should be proud of the fact we invest as much as we are | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
in the poorest of the world. In the Observer, the Prime Minister under | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
fire for how little is being spent in Libya. You can't win. This is a | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
criticism that there are people in desperate need any amount of money | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
going there is paltry, to quote. There was an educational project | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
built brilliant on the surface, English textbooks, maths and all | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
sorts of things in Rick Kenya. Some children were interviewed and said | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
we are benefiting from this -- remote Kenya. But when they did a | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
trial, it turned out when you compare the People get in the books | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
with another community not getting them, it made no difference at all | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
it was very few of the children spoke English. You have to have | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
rigourous evaluation to find out if something is making a difference. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Anger of middle-class savers is Bill the devious inheritance tax tops ?4 | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
billion. -- as Bill for devious inheritance tax. It will bring a lot | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
of money for the Treasury. If you are a couple that can leave more to | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
your kids than before, this can refer to the situation before those | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
new allowances coming. But the number of family estates on which | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the tax was paid is 40,000, which I thought was a small figure. Normally | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
we talk about property prices or money in property, and property | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
prices in London and the south-east are very high. I'm surprised it is | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
as low as 40,000. I think inheritance tax is a real bugbear | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
for people. They have a ready pay tax, capital gains tax, National | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Insurance. And VAT. And they think why do we have to pay to gain? And | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
petrol duty. But the person who inherits is not the one who paid the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
tax. And finally, dear residents, stop stressing my council tax by | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
complaining. Sorry! We have moved on! Should we not bother with this? | :11:29. | :11:40. | |
This is the council in Dorset who had their parents out, their quills. | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
-- pens. I'm glad to hear people are writing letters to their local | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
council to protest, and the local council said they can't cope whose | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
it is causing stress to their staff. I have to give a shout out to my | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
friend Richard. We sat by a pool in Spain and he said he was writing a | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
letter to the council because he is angry about a sign they had put up. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
That is their specific duty. Do you think? That is it. We have no time | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
for more, thankfully. I'm very grateful for your expensive | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
comments, and your jacket. The camera was struggling with | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Matthew's show. Thank you very much. -- shirt. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Coming up next, it's The Film Review. | :12:36. | :12:37. |