15/12/2013

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:00:00. > :00:00.Cabinet. From prison officer to pop star, mother of two Sam Bayley wins

:00:00. > :00:19.the X Factor after scooping more than a million viewers votes.

:00:20. > :00:28.Hello and welcome to the look ahead at what is in the papers tomorrow.

:00:29. > :00:37.We will start with the times. It says BBC executives where paid

:00:38. > :00:42.millions of pounds in Sweden is because of a culture of cronyism.

:00:43. > :00:46.The Daily Mail has a picture of Peter O'Toole who has died at the

:00:47. > :00:51.age of 81. The main story on the front page is that the UK is still

:00:52. > :00:57.giving China millions of pounds in aid. In the Independent, reports

:00:58. > :01:02.that young people are keen on remaining members of the EU. In the

:01:03. > :01:07.daily Telegraph, claims that pensioners could spend ?150,000 in

:01:08. > :01:14.care before the Government foots the bill. In the Guardian, Eric Miliband

:01:15. > :01:20.will try to solve the UK housing crisis. -- Ed Miliband. You would

:01:21. > :01:27.think that there is an election on! A few policy pieces. We will start

:01:28. > :01:32.with the BBC and the report by the committee of MPs, looking into the

:01:33. > :01:39.culture of pay-outs by the BBC. What are they telling us? It is another

:01:40. > :01:43.day and another BBC story. Viewers will remember the hearings of the

:01:44. > :01:47.Public Accounts Committee at the House of Commons over the summer

:01:48. > :01:53.were a series of BBC executives were in the hot seat as they were grilled

:01:54. > :01:58.by MPs over huge payoffs in some cases that have been made to

:01:59. > :02:01.departing executives. The report that is the culmination of those

:02:02. > :02:06.hearings is out tomorrow. The Times is really going for it. What I think

:02:07. > :02:15.will be interesting is how the BBC response. I would expect, having

:02:16. > :02:18.watched the BBC face a series of criticisms from the committee and

:02:19. > :02:22.others there will be self-flagellation in public. What

:02:23. > :02:26.will be interesting is what happens behind-the-scenes and whether that

:02:27. > :02:30.gets ignored or if the director-general and the chairman of

:02:31. > :02:34.the BBC trust decide that now is the time to really draw a line under it

:02:35. > :02:42.and stop the bad headlines and move on. There is more reading for the

:02:43. > :02:47.BBC to do. In a a few ways, they have already reacted. The new

:02:48. > :02:51.director-general has been very critical of the payments and has put

:02:52. > :02:56.a cap on severance pay. That has already taken place. I expect that

:02:57. > :03:00.would be exactly the approach is BBC will take tomorrow. It would be a

:03:01. > :03:03.very difficult day for them. They will be able to say, we have taken

:03:04. > :03:07.some action and we have taken some action and we're not where we were.

:03:08. > :03:14.A lot of pressure on Lord Paul, I think. And also on points out, he

:03:15. > :03:20.was responsible for agreeing a knot of the severance payments. He is in

:03:21. > :03:24.New York at the new York times. There have been many questions

:03:25. > :03:30.following him there about his time at the BBC. That will all raise its

:03:31. > :03:32.head to morrow. None of this is new. It is relaunched by the Public

:03:33. > :03:40.Accounts Committee with their report. -- its head tomorrow. The

:03:41. > :03:44.Times has gone for it in a very full-blooded way. The Daily Mail has

:03:45. > :03:50.got it as well but not quite as big. In a way, we have to interpret the

:03:51. > :03:55.way the Times has done it. They do have a dog in this race and they are

:03:56. > :03:59.not very keen on the BBC. Just before we move on, do you think the

:04:00. > :04:03.one good thing that comes out of times in this territory is the focus

:04:04. > :04:09.of how public money is spent? We have had banks that we have also had

:04:10. > :04:14.the NHS, the BBC and politicians themselves. I think that is true. I

:04:15. > :04:18.also think that Margaret Hodge, the chairwoman of the committee has to

:04:19. > :04:24.take particular credit or blame, depending which side of the fence

:04:25. > :04:30.you sit on, her style is very assertive and she does not shy away

:04:31. > :04:36.from taking coal industry is in fact, but also individuals, and

:04:37. > :04:43.almost turning them into public enemy number one. -- taking whole

:04:44. > :04:50.industries. Why are we giving China ?27 million in aid? They say we are

:04:51. > :04:56.giving China millions of pounds even though they are so wealthy they have

:04:57. > :04:59.just sent a rocket to the moon. Official figures revealed that

:05:00. > :05:03.Britain gave Beijing 27.4 million last year. I think you can go

:05:04. > :05:09.through the aid budget and pick out cases like this. It is pretty

:05:10. > :05:15.difficult to justify that. I think one must be careful about generally

:05:16. > :05:20.criticising the budget in its entirety. In a lot of cases, you

:05:21. > :05:25.need to ask yourself, what is aid for? In some cases, it is just to

:05:26. > :05:29.help the poor and to help countries develop. In this age as well, a lot

:05:30. > :05:32.of the budget is about influence and making sure that Britain has some

:05:33. > :05:36.influence in the world. The other leaders were used to pull just do

:05:37. > :05:45.not work any more. Aid is one of them. It is a difficult argument to

:05:46. > :05:49.make in a time of austerity. I do think it is one that should be made

:05:50. > :05:52.in a sensible debate. We have a history of supporting financially

:05:53. > :05:56.fairly wealthy countries. We have given aid to Russia, China and

:05:57. > :06:06.India. The current International Development Secretary, I think her

:06:07. > :06:12.first key policy announcement, is that our foreign aid to India. In

:06:13. > :06:17.2015. She has also said it. To South Africa. She was criticised at the

:06:18. > :06:21.time to making policy on the basis of pressure from Conservative MPs,

:06:22. > :06:26.like Peter Bone, who was quoted in this article. He was sceptical about

:06:27. > :06:31.why we were spending so much British money, especially in times of

:06:32. > :06:34.austerity, on wealthy countries. She nevertheless pressed ahead. I

:06:35. > :06:39.suspect we might see more countries on the list. David Cameron was in

:06:40. > :06:45.China recently asking for them to invest in Britain. That is one of

:06:46. > :06:49.the things that aid is going on in China, for economic development. I

:06:50. > :06:56.was in China with George Osborne recently. I really noticed that it

:06:57. > :07:01.is the second wealthiest economy in the world but that wealth is hugely

:07:02. > :07:07.concentrated on urban areas. The divide is not much between rich and

:07:08. > :07:12.poor in the cities, it is the urban wealthy and the rural poor. It is a

:07:13. > :07:19.massive gap. There are definitely very worthy individual committees in

:07:20. > :07:23.the Chinese countryside. The argument is, why doesn't the wealthy

:07:24. > :07:29.elite channel some of that money to other parts of the country? You will

:07:30. > :07:34.find those countries in which we feel we can exercise some influence

:07:35. > :07:38.will keep their aid. I do not think we will continue to throw good money

:07:39. > :07:45.after bad. I think we may be more thoughtful about it but we will

:07:46. > :07:49.still use it as that lever. In the Independent, young people want the

:07:50. > :07:53.UK to stay in Europe. We did not think would be reading that headline

:07:54. > :07:57.- ever. Do you think this is a generation gap we are looking at?

:07:58. > :08:04.Young people have grown up with Britain being in the EU. Is it a

:08:05. > :08:09.surprise? Are you surprised by it? I remember in my days of newsround, we

:08:10. > :08:12.did lots of surveys on EU membership. That generation is

:08:13. > :08:18.probably the generation we're at now. They got it. We did a whole

:08:19. > :08:24.tour of EU countries. They knew why we were doing it. Young people

:08:25. > :08:29.travel and they will feel a lot of the archaic views they hear... That

:08:30. > :08:34.is what I mean. Is it a generation gap? Now you can leave school at 16

:08:35. > :08:40.and hopefully go and work anywhere within the European Union, not

:08:41. > :08:44.anywhere within Britain. It is the generation that will have welcomed

:08:45. > :08:48.the arrival of huge numbers of Eastern European, in particular, but

:08:49. > :08:54.EU migrants in general in the midnight in 90 's. We have grown up

:08:55. > :08:59.in schools with Polish kids and parents working with Italians and so

:09:00. > :09:09.on. We are much more Europhile in our attitudes. At school you have

:09:10. > :09:14.lessons about how the EU works. Is this a generation which will vote as

:09:15. > :09:24.to whether we're in or out? X Factor got votes. I was astonished to hear

:09:25. > :09:28.that. I think we are quantifying the situation we knew existed. It

:09:29. > :09:32.probably is not a huge surprise. There will be a problem for David

:09:33. > :09:36.Cameron. He needs to play this very carefully. The Tories want a younger

:09:37. > :09:40.vote. That is part of what they have been trying to achieve. Can he

:09:41. > :09:46.continue to sound as shrill as he does in Europe? I am not sure he

:09:47. > :09:50.can. Also, it is also said in this survey that the young people are

:09:51. > :09:54.quite worried about the aggressive language of politicians towards

:09:55. > :09:57.Eastern European migrants. That is another area that David Cameron

:09:58. > :10:04.needs to tackle but he needs to be very careful. He will repel this

:10:05. > :10:07.young vote that he will need. Let's move on to the daily Telegraph. We

:10:08. > :10:15.are looking at the elderly generation. Pensioners face a bill

:10:16. > :10:24.of ?150,000. If that is the case, that will be pretty shocking. It was

:10:25. > :10:29.a bout -- about half that. The Government promised to cap it at

:10:30. > :10:33.?72,000. They have not included the cost of hotel and accommodation and

:10:34. > :10:38.cost of living, which are obviously key elements of any care package.

:10:39. > :10:42.That would suggest the overall bill will be a lot higher and Labour is

:10:43. > :10:46.claiming the average bill would be ?150,000 over five years. The

:10:47. > :10:50.promise brought in by the gun was to prevent people having to raise funds

:10:51. > :10:57.by selling their homes. -- by the Government. It appeals to those who

:10:58. > :11:03.are much more likely to vote. Labour has produced these figures, possibly

:11:04. > :11:05.with an attempt to undermine the sort of conservative domination of

:11:06. > :11:11.the older section of the population, suggesting that not all

:11:12. > :11:16.government proposals for that age group are necessarily workable.

:11:17. > :11:20.Charities like Age Concern suggest it was a myth that pensioners were

:11:21. > :11:24.more protected against the costs they face. The Government will have

:11:25. > :11:33.questions to answer tomorrow when the care bill comes before

:11:34. > :11:39.Parliament. It can be anything up to ?600 a week to stay in a care home.

:11:40. > :11:46.This is a good bit of business for Labour. This is a scary headline. On

:11:47. > :11:50.the daily Telegraph front page, right in the Tory heartland, what

:11:51. > :11:54.will now happen is that Tory ministers will need to respond to

:11:55. > :11:57.this. If you look at it politically, it is another case of

:11:58. > :12:01.labour feeling that they are pulling the Government onto their territory

:12:02. > :12:05.and forcing the Government to try and stop them from setting the

:12:06. > :12:09.agenda. It is a very political day in terms of some of the stories on

:12:10. > :12:14.the front pages today. Labour will be very pleased with this. I hear

:12:15. > :12:18.everything you are saying. I hear the political agenda. A lot of

:12:19. > :12:22.people will be watching. This is a big issue - a big problem. Any

:12:23. > :12:28.politician I can find an answer to it will win a lot of votes. The

:12:29. > :12:33.reality is that the state cannot afford, the councils in particular,

:12:34. > :12:39.local authorities cannot afford care bills for everyone. People have come

:12:40. > :12:43.around to accepting that they have to contribute to their own care

:12:44. > :12:47.costs if they can afford it. It is about what seems the fairest way in

:12:48. > :12:52.terms of individual incomes and support from the state. If you are

:12:53. > :12:58.in a big house that has increased in value over the years, should it be

:12:59. > :13:02.up to you to sell it? Children, who sometimes have to pick up... I say

:13:03. > :13:08.children, middle-aged people who have to pick up parents care bills,

:13:09. > :13:13.they will think it is about inheritance. It is very emotive.

:13:14. > :13:17.Thank you for taking us through the papers. A really wide selection of

:13:18. > :13:25.stories are all connected. Many thanks to my guests. Do stay with us

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