:00:05. > :00:09.shortly after 7am. He was taken to a police station in the capital.
:00:09. > :00:14.Gary Glitter was brought out of his home in central London and taken
:00:14. > :00:21.into custody early this morning. He was arrested as part of Operation
:00:21. > :00:29.Yewtree, the police investigation into the stream of their
:00:29. > :00:33.allegations. The former pop star, real name Paul Gadd, has already
:00:33. > :00:37.served prison offences for child abuse in Britain and Vietnam. His
:00:37. > :00:42.name has been mentioned in connection with Jimmy Savile. Lord
:00:42. > :00:45.Patten told a Sunday newspaper the scandal has put the BBC's
:00:45. > :00:49.reputation on the line. He said the corporation was dedicated to
:00:49. > :00:55.finding out the truth. Labour say the investigations the BBC has set
:00:55. > :00:59.up are not enough. We need an overarching enquiry, not two
:00:59. > :01:05.inquiries at the BBC and many others. It should be independent
:01:05. > :01:09.because there are big lessons to be learned here, not just for the BBC,
:01:09. > :01:13.although the epicentre was there, but elsewhere. The police
:01:13. > :01:18.investigation into child sexual exploitation by Jimmy Savile and
:01:18. > :01:22.others has produced over 300 alleged victims. In the days ahead,
:01:22. > :01:29.police are expected to make several more as a rest -- several more
:01:29. > :01:33.arrests. An independent think-tank is suggesting that a crackdown in
:01:33. > :01:39.gang culture may have backfired. The Centre for Social Justice
:01:39. > :01:49.claims in some cases arrest actually read to more violence. --
:01:49. > :01:55.let him more. A BBC investigation has found some care homes in
:01:55. > :02:00.England that were awarded five star ratings are failing to meet the
:02:00. > :02:03.standard regulations. The Care Quality Commission says it does not
:02:03. > :02:09.endorse the ratings and advises people to visit the homes before
:02:09. > :02:13.making a decision about care. In the United States, President Obama
:02:13. > :02:16.has held a conference call with emergency cheese to discuss
:02:16. > :02:20.preparations for the arrival of one of the bigger storms to hit the
:02:20. > :02:25.eastern seaboard for many years. Hurricane Sandy is already more
:02:25. > :02:30.than 1000 kilometres wide and is likely to collide with a winter
:02:30. > :02:34.storm from the West. A state of emergency is in place across the
:02:34. > :02:41.east coast. The authorities are warning of heavy flooding and power
:02:41. > :02:51.outages. That is the news for an hour. There will be more work at
:02:51. > :02:55.
:02:55. > :03:05.There is a plan for growth and a parliamentary seat for Boris
:03:05. > :03:12.
:03:12. > :03:16.The head-to-head that we did on cutting child benefit, there has
:03:16. > :03:24.been a Stormont Twitter. It has grabbed the attention. It is
:03:24. > :03:27.provocative, but the Government likes picking fights on welfare.
:03:27. > :03:30.They look at the focus groups and the Poles and they have concluded
:03:31. > :03:35.that public opinion is in their favour. In the words of one adviser,
:03:35. > :03:39.it is impossible to avoid flak the British public on the right on two
:03:39. > :03:44.issues, crime and welfare. I suspect by the time of the next
:03:44. > :03:53.election, Labour will acknowledge the same thing and move towards
:03:53. > :03:57.that position. This is interesting, because what you say is spot on,
:03:57. > :04:01.but it seems the Conservatives have already won this battle. They are
:04:01. > :04:05.always going to be the party that is toughest on claimants. If they
:04:05. > :04:10.want to win the election, it is not the battle of strength they need to
:04:10. > :04:14.win, it is compassion. On that front they are not doing so well.
:04:14. > :04:19.The point is about sending out a message, it is not saving money, it
:04:19. > :04:24.is sending out a message. It is saying if you cannot afford to
:04:24. > :04:27.support your children yourself, you should not have a big family. You
:04:27. > :04:31.need to take responsibility for your own children. That makes
:04:31. > :04:36.complete sense apart from the fact that the policy get away and number
:04:36. > :04:40.of anomalies, urine work with three children and you lose your job, you
:04:40. > :04:44.on benefits and the supply have triplets. Lots of these stories
:04:44. > :04:49.will have human resonance with the public, and they will carry on that
:04:49. > :04:52.image of the Conservatives been the nasty party. You can only take
:04:52. > :04:58.welfare benefits away from people down when you attack people at Top
:04:58. > :05:05.End. They are doing a little bit with child benefit. You raise the.
:05:05. > :05:11.Earlier on, they are not attacking well-off pensioners. This policy
:05:11. > :05:17.has been a long time in coming, the better of currently get child
:05:17. > :05:24.benefit and are going to lose it. Over �50,000 per year will be
:05:24. > :05:33.tapered. There will be none if you're over �60,000. It is popular
:05:33. > :05:38.with the public at large but maybe not with Conservative supporters.
:05:38. > :05:42.The big concerns many Conservatives had about it is that it is attacks
:05:42. > :05:52.against aspiration. If you aspire to earn more, you will be losing
:05:52. > :05:56.benefits. The margins are often about 65%. So that Tory supporters
:05:56. > :06:00.are not happy with this. It is one of these policies that is popular
:06:00. > :06:04.with the country. I do not agree with Mark fields. I think many of
:06:04. > :06:10.the people affected by this policy, I am one of them, I will lose money
:06:10. > :06:16.under this, but I think it is right. I do not think if you're a high
:06:16. > :06:21.earner you married been given child benefit. There was a lot of merit
:06:21. > :06:26.in the proposals to make the tax system clearer and make sure work
:06:26. > :06:29.pays. Those are good principles, but what they are planning with
:06:29. > :06:37.child benefit is the exact opposite of those principles. There will be
:06:37. > :06:44.a lot of confusion about what happens, and an issue of unfairness.
:06:44. > :06:47.If one family is earning �50,000 but all of them work they will not
:06:47. > :06:51.lose it, but others will lose it. Those anomalies strike home with
:06:51. > :06:58.people, especially when you are selling at home on increased
:06:59. > :07:03.fairness. That anomaly came apart when George Osborne announced that.
:07:03. > :07:10.David Cameron the next we ran away from it, they have never been able
:07:10. > :07:17.to get around this anomaly, and 500,000 people may need to do self-
:07:17. > :07:22.assessment. There is yet more pages to a tax guide that has trebled in
:07:22. > :07:27.size over the past 10 years. Even the taper is a concession the made
:07:27. > :07:30.after announcing it because initially it was a sharp Cup. I
:07:30. > :07:35.agree that the interesting thing about this is usually austerity is
:07:35. > :07:43.an attack from the left. This is austerity were the critics are from
:07:43. > :07:47.the right. It is an example of the idea that austerity is supported in
:07:47. > :07:53.the abstract by Conservatives but any specific interest that attacked
:07:53. > :07:58.their people goes down badly. Labour can hardly be seen to be
:07:58. > :08:03.defending child benefit for people on �60,000 per year. They cannot,
:08:03. > :08:08.and the truth is there will always be hard-luck cases, and the trouble
:08:08. > :08:10.is in the Times of austerity we need to make tough decisions. The
:08:10. > :08:16.difficulty for the coalition comes when we speak about winter fuel
:08:16. > :08:23.allowance for the well-off, like that. If they were radical, they
:08:23. > :08:28.would increase the threshold when 40% clicks into 50,000, then at
:08:28. > :08:33.50,000 you would lose your child benefit. Simple policy, do not add
:08:33. > :08:38.to the Tax Guide, end of story, but it is not a radical Tory government.
:08:38. > :08:42.The number of people track into that tax band is huge. That's my
:08:42. > :08:50.point. Speaking of radical Tories, Michael Heseltine is coming out
:08:50. > :08:53.with a report on getting more investment and jobs in regions. It
:08:53. > :09:00.seems like the Liberal Democrats will enjoy this. Michael Heseltine
:09:01. > :09:06.is a fascinating figure. I think his report will recommend lots of
:09:06. > :09:12.things. The Tories would prefer tax incentives, local bureaucracy cuts.
:09:12. > :09:15.The Liberal Democrats will be attracted to resurrection of
:09:15. > :09:24.regional development agencies. cannot do that, they just got rid
:09:24. > :09:30.of them. Exactly. What is curious about this is not so long ago
:09:30. > :09:34.another person dead a review, his report was largely ignored. It
:09:34. > :09:37.seems this time there has been a bit more co-operation between the
:09:37. > :09:44.Tories and Lib Dems to get something they can agree on, but I
:09:45. > :09:50.would not hold out much expectation. Michael Heseltine, I do not know
:09:50. > :09:54.why he took so long. It is exactly what you'd expect. No surprise. Why
:09:54. > :09:58.didn't they know that when they asked him? They wanted to bring on
:09:58. > :10:03.the old guard, look credible. Regardless of how this place in
:10:03. > :10:07.Westminster, it will play well with the public. This week we had jobs
:10:07. > :10:10.lost through a local factory closing. The other thing that is
:10:10. > :10:19.interesting is you're seeing a shift in opinion from the
:10:19. > :10:23.Conservatives, and from civil servants, about the nature of
:10:23. > :10:28.pursuing austerity. It seems to be a difference between this and
:10:28. > :10:38.George Osborne's opinion. depends whether this is the start
:10:38. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:46.of things to come or not. If it is, will anybody do it? No, I want to
:10:46. > :10:50.come onto Boris Johnson. There is a rumour that the sitting MP for
:10:50. > :10:53.Croydon South will not stand in the next election, I want to remind
:10:53. > :10:58.people that Boris Johnson has given his word he would not do anything
:10:58. > :11:03.like that. He said he will stay mayor until 2016. This is what he
:11:03. > :11:12.told me on the Daily Politics. If a Tory constituency approaches you
:11:12. > :11:17.between now and 2016, a standard be their candidate -- to stand and be
:11:17. > :11:25.their candidate, your answer is a categorical no question mac it is.
:11:25. > :11:30.Do you believe them? Of course not. You remember when he was faced with
:11:31. > :11:35.a lurid allegations about his private life? He said it was not
:11:35. > :11:39.true, it turned out to be true. I would ignore what he says about not
:11:39. > :11:44.wanting a seat. Having said that, I don't think he will make his
:11:44. > :11:48.intentions clear until the last minute. He has two problems,
:11:48. > :11:52.unwinding from the commitment, but also, is there a way of leaving
:11:52. > :11:55.City Hall and looking for a seat in Parliament without nakedly
:11:55. > :12:00.telegraphing your interest in deposing the leader of the
:12:01. > :12:07.Conservative Party? It is too obvious. I don't think he will need
:12:07. > :12:15.to look hard, icy will be found. Even to take it and accept the
:12:15. > :12:22.offer of a Sikh, it will be obvious. Could he be bold? I'll was Bob Ken
:12:22. > :12:27.Livingstone had a transition period. -- I always thought. When Conrad
:12:27. > :12:31.Black made him Spectator editor, he promised not to take a seat in
:12:31. > :12:37.Parliament, four months later, he was the candidate for Henley.
:12:37. > :12:41.think he will, but not yet. I don't think he can do it without
:12:41. > :12:45.precipitating a leading crisis. -- leadership. Every time he opens his
:12:46. > :12:52.mouth in Parliament, it will be interesting what David Cameron says.
:12:52. > :12:56.More importantly, and I saw them at the Conservative Party conference,
:12:56. > :13:00.there is an issue about how he plays outside London. This is not
:13:00. > :13:10.the man leading the equivalent in America up of the street party
:13:10. > :13:11.
:13:11. > :13:15.movement. -- Tea Party. That movement is too vulgar for Boris.
:13:16. > :13:20.He has work to do for himself before he can win. I think when the
:13:20. > :13:25.time changes, he will say the facts of change and his country needs him.
:13:25. > :13:30.Conrad Black said to him, you cannot have your cake and eat it,
:13:30. > :13:37.Boris Johnson said that is our policy. What is the point of cake
:13:37. > :13:44.if you cannot eat it? Exactly. We must hold something will happen
:13:44. > :13:51.because it will add to the gaiety of the nation. That is all for
:13:51. > :14:01.today. I'll be back next week. Remember, if it is Sunday, it is
:14:01. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :16:38.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 156 seconds
:16:38. > :16:43.Good afternoon. I thought we'd start off with a quick look at
:16:43. > :16:47.Hurricane Sandy first of all which has caused floogd and damage across
:16:47. > :16:50.the Caribbean. It's now barrelling in towards the eastern side of the
:16:50. > :16:54.United States -- flooding and damage.
:16:54. > :16:57.It could cost considerable problems over the next few days. We are
:16:57. > :17:02.looking at hurricane force winds on the eastern part of the United
:17:02. > :17:06.States but also the potential of 200 millimetres of rain. This rain
:17:06. > :17:10.combined with a strm sturge and high tides could cause flooding
:17:10. > :17:16.problems in places -- this storm surge.
:17:16. > :17:22.For us, we've lost yaesd sunshine and replaced it with grey and
:17:22. > :17:27.cloudy skies. -- we've lost yesterday's sunshine. For the hills
:17:27. > :17:32.of Cumbria and north-west Wales we could see 3 millimetres of rain. If
:17:32. > :17:37.we look at the forecast this afternoon, in central and eastern
:17:37. > :17:41.areas and eastern Scotland, cloudy and cool. No great rainfall amounts
:17:41. > :17:43.forecast. Overnight our band of rain will continue to slide its way
:17:43. > :17:47.southwards, where it'll linger across England and Wales. Given the
:17:47. > :17:51.cloud, the breeze and further outbreaks of rain, temperatures
:17:51. > :17:54.will barely shift a degree from what we have by day. Further north
:17:54. > :17:59.and west with broken cloud temperatures will fall to four or
:17:59. > :18:03.Will or five. There could be the odd fog patch on Monday morning.
:18:03. > :18:08.Monday will start off on a wet note. Around the coast of south-east
:18:08. > :18:14.England the potential for hefry and thundery rain. That front reluctant
:18:14. > :18:17.to clear away. -- heavy. More rain working into the north-west of
:18:17. > :18:21.Scotland. Temperatures no great shakes. Cool for this stage of
:18:21. > :18:25.October. Tuesday's weather forecast a bright and breezy day but it
:18:25. > :18:29.looks like we'll see low pressure to the north-west bringing
:18:29. > :18:33.outbreaks of rain. Through the day it'll include over in Northern
:18:33. > :18:36.Ireland and across northern England and Wales. That's the fist part of
:18:36. > :18:41.the week. A relatively quiet spell. From Wednesday onwards the weather
:18:41. > :18:44.is much windier and wetter and temperatures are going to continue
:18:44. > :18:48.to disappoint. Low pressure in charge for Wednesday's weather
:18:48. > :18:52.forecast this. Weather front is slow-moving bringing heavy
:18:52. > :18:56.outbreaks of rain. Across Dumfries and Galloway the hills of come
:18:56. > :19:00.briey and north-west Wales, we could see as much as 30 to 40
:19:00. > :19:05.millimetres of rain which could cause problems given the wet spell
:19:05. > :19:08.we are looking at over the next 24 hours. Elsewhere, gales developing
:19:08. > :19:11.around the Irish Sea coast. Wednesday night sees that weather
:19:11. > :19:15.front swing across the country bringing rain further east. The
:19:15. > :19:18.weather front will be prone to be slow-moving in eastern areas of
:19:18. > :19:21.England and east of Scotland so there could be rain on Thursday but
:19:21. > :19:25.elsewhere the winds will fall lighter. There will be dry and
:19:25. > :19:28.bright weather to come but further rain expected across the north and
:19:28. > :19:32.west. As we end the week, the weather forecast becomes
:19:32. > :19:36.complicated. Our area of low pressure develops two centres of
:19:36. > :19:40.low pressure. We are certain we'll have an increased wind across the
:19:40. > :19:42.north and west of Scotland will gales returning across the north-
:19:42. > :19:45.west of the British Isles and outbreaks of rain. Showers or
:19:45. > :19:49.longer spells elsewhere but there is a weather scenario that calls
:19:49. > :19:55.for an area of will he pressure to scoot across England and Wales.