10/04/2016 The Papers

in Mumbai, on the first day of a seven-day visit to India and Bhutan.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

With me are Kevin Schofield, who's the Editor of Politics Home

The Mail leads with questions over the integration of Muslims

in society, but also has a large splash attacking

the principle of inheritance tax, and urging Mr Cameron to stand up

The Telegraph says David Cameron will make a 'robust defence'

of tax-free gifts within families when he stands up in the Commons

The Mirror reports the Prime Minister faces a 'public

grilling' over what it calls a 'second secret stash of shares'.

The Times says the focus is shifting to the Chancellor, George Osborne,

and his tax returns, along with those of the rest of the Cabinet.

The Guardian has more on the Panama Papers, pointing to links

between a top government tax official and a law firm that acted

for the offshore fund belonging to Mr Cameron's late father.

The FT leads with warnings over negative interest rates,

they're intended to encourage growth but could undermine consumer

spending, according to a major asset management group.

And the pressures on A is the focus for the Metro, it has a story

about a grandmother forced to wait in a corridor for nearly 13 hours.

We will begin with the Daily Mail. Enough of this madness. Instead of

grovelling, the Prime Minister should be shouting from the rooftops

that, for most people, inheritance tax is immoral itself. Politics has

been talked about a lot this week, some people think that inheritance

tax is quite right because the person who is receiving it hasn't

ended, why should they get this big lump sum? I think we should cast our

minds back to 2007, when Gordon Brown, we all expected him to go to

the country. There was a party conference at the time, George

Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, made the announcement that he was going

to raise the threshold for inheritance tax. It would take a lot

of people out of that threshold, people who would be eligible for

that. It went through the roof, Gordon Brown cancelled the election

and a lot of people put it down to that. That would suggest to me that

inheritance tax is not very popular with the vast majority of the

population. And if Labour are talking about cracking down on that

and making it more punitive, then I don't know how electorally popular

they will be. The Daily Mail, did they have to choose that

particularly unattractive photograph? It is an interesting

choice. They are being supportive of the prime Minister? Yes, you would

have thought... It is a very shallow comment, but is nevertheless. It is

strange, the Prime Minister can rely on support from certain newspapers

for some things, but lately, regarding the referendum, his

constituency has been different. The trouble with all of these things at

the moment, I know I like to move you want to these things, do

things... Could you hold on? Row on. It is all coming under the same

thing, which is taxes and money. This is about one Tory MP saying

that the Prime Minister has been a clod -- go. That he has gone too far

in agreeing to publish his tax details. The tax return itself is a

very blunt thing, it only tells you what is declared in the last 12

months. The Prime Minister, one Tory MP, was said to have been a clod.

That gives me shivers, because it reminds me of what my music teacher

used to write in my book. It is interesting that it feeds into a

feeling that the prime Minister is a bit under siege at the moment. At

the centre is still the steel situation. You also have the Brexit

referendum coming up, it becomes a referendum not as whether we should

be part of the EU but on the government itself. Political support

seems to have abandoned them a little bit. They haven't come out

and said, for Brexit, but they have become more Eurosceptic. George

Osborne has said he doesn't have any funds held offshore. Is it just a

matter of principle that people want to see his tax return? It does seem

that way. If one person withheld everything, then... Should everybody

to add? -- do it? Downing Street have said it should only be the

Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition who should do it. I

think, as an example of how David Cameron acts tactically to try and

get himself out of trouble in the short term... It didn't work in the

beginning. It's sort of like saying, I didn't do it, oh, a big boy made

me do it... That sort of thing. Calculation. Going back to the mail,

a warning on UK Muslim ghettos. A nation within a nation developing. A

warning from Trevor Phillips who used to head up the human rights

co-ordination. Trevor Phillips, former head of the Human Rights

Commission -- Human Rights Commission. He has warned that not

enough has been done to encourage Muslims to integrate with the wider

society. He is saying that you could wind up with debts of villages

unless action is taken to stop housing estates becoming almost

exclusively Muslim. One of the solutions he offers is that schools

would have to consider a 50% limit on Muslims or other minorities as I

don't see how that would work in practical terms at a time when there

is enough pressure on school places anyway. If you then introduce a

quota on ethnicity... He said that the integration of Muslims would be

one of the hardest tasks. It hasn't worked. When you look at the

statistics, he is talking about these Muslim ghettos. The statistics

are, this is from a survey of more than 1000 people, over 200 Muslims

would not give police a terrorist tipoff. In another half of Muslims

believe that homosexuality should be illegal in Britain. There are all

sorts of things in this. To say that all Muslims are the same is quite

ridiculous. There is a high star, what British Muslim is really think.

It has really caught people 's imagination on Twitter. People say

this is so tiresome and passe, can't we just be treated like everybody

else? Cream on my jam, or jam on my cream? What do Muslims really

think? Not all Muslims are the type that this article is discussing. It

also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are trying to put

Muslims... We do know that things like polls and surveys to throw out

skewed suggestions in general. We have known that before. Getting back

to the Times. If I can find it... DNA kit reveals what's really in

your dinner. Is it really beef in your beef was -- Reef -- beef

lasagne. It says that you would be able to quickly carry out your own

test. This is a London-based laboratory creation which they think

will be about the same cost as a laptop. My favourite part is there

was an appetite for genetic analysis beyond application, including a

Swiss project called beer, it decoded, mapping the ingredients in

beer and a group of pensioners who are using PE kit to research

mushrooms in Pembrokeshire. -- the kit. You can carry it around with

you and take your food to see if your food is a Honda % beef or if it

has some horse meat in it. If your sushi is really tuna. Food companies

would have a fit. Gene tests, the latest weapon against Spanish

invaders. She's obsessed with that story. There has been quite a lot

about this. This is about the Spanish invader, the Bluebell.

According to some sources, they smell more of onions than they do of

bluebells. I love the smell of onions. British bluebells are a bit

droopy and they are more blue. They were brought over in the 17th

century. There were plant collectors, couldn't help

themselves. They are describing it as gaudy and overtaking the native

variety. And an institute near Cambridge has teamed up with

volunteers to use the latest genome technology to fight the Spanish

subspecies. You could just use the DNA kit. And then go and bury it.

Goodness me. That poor Bluebell. Is just one of those things. I noticed

when this first came up, people said, leave them alone, they are

lovely! Leave them and get on with it. We can't do that, we will have

letters! Purchase a newspaper tomorrow, otherwise we would have

nothing to discuss. The cat and dog videos? Coming up next, it's the

Film Review.