:00:00. > :00:00.his future by Geoffrey Boycott. And we'll have all the action from the
:00:00. > :00:15.league cup finals which have taken place this evening.
:00:16. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:21. > :00:22.bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jenni Russell, columnist at The
:00:23. > :00:25.Times, and Tim Collins, former speech writer to Margaret Thatcher
:00:26. > :00:31.and now head of the political unit for the PR firm Bell Pottinger. The
:00:32. > :00:34.Independent leads with questions over the death of Abbas Khan, the
:00:35. > :00:38.British surgeon found dead in a prison cell in Syria.
:00:39. > :00:41.prison cell The paper asks, why would he kill
:00:42. > :00:43.himself? The Daily Mirror says Lord
:00:44. > :00:47.Hanningfield is facing a police probe over clocking in claims but
:00:48. > :00:52.the BBC understands The Met has yet to respond to calls from a Labour MP
:00:53. > :00:55.to look into the allegations. The Telegraph says fracking is
:00:56. > :01:03.planned for half of Britain under Government plans to increase the
:01:04. > :01:06.search for shale gas. David Cameron is rushing through
:01:07. > :01:09.curbs on access to benefits for Romanians and Bulgarians, according
:01:10. > :01:13.to The Guardian. The Express says we're in the middle
:01:14. > :01:17.of a house price boom and that the market is booming all over Britain.
:01:18. > :01:23.The Mail claims that women over the age of 65 drink more often than the
:01:24. > :01:25.under-40s. And The Times leads with the
:01:26. > :01:27.conviction of a former headteacher of a prestigious prep school for
:01:28. > :01:41.historic child sex offences. Many of the papers dominated by
:01:42. > :01:48.Syria but also the story about migration. This is clearly the
:01:49. > :01:52.government in a panic over what the British population will think when
:01:53. > :01:57.the restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians working here are lifted
:01:58. > :01:59.on January one. They said a few months ago that they didn't think
:02:00. > :02:03.they could do anything to restrict those benefits but we know
:02:04. > :02:08.behind-the-scenes the policy unit and other people have been working
:02:09. > :02:11.hard on proposals. Now Cameron has announced that when people arrive
:02:12. > :02:16.here in January, instead of claiming benefits after one month, they will
:02:17. > :02:22.wait three months. The other thing which is interesting is that I don't
:02:23. > :02:35.know if you have seen coverage about the remaining Roma people begging --
:02:36. > :02:40.Romanian Roma people begging. The border agency will now be able to
:02:41. > :02:45.send an EU national back to their country and ban them for one year if
:02:46. > :02:53.they have been found guilty of begging. That is a dramatic change
:02:54. > :02:59.because up to now there has been nothing that they could do. Do you
:03:00. > :03:04.get the feeling it has been rather leaving it a bit late? This is
:03:05. > :03:07.clearly a panicked reaction because something like three quarters of the
:03:08. > :03:12.British population say they are worried about the idea that migrants
:03:13. > :03:16.may come for just the same reasons as Polish people did several years
:03:17. > :03:23.ago. They look at pregnancy that wages are here -- they look at
:03:24. > :03:35.Britain and see that wages are higher. If we had a similar
:03:36. > :03:44.opportunity, wouldn't we take it? We gather that The Sun has a poll.
:03:45. > :03:48.There was one published earlier this week that show that public opinion
:03:49. > :03:54.is more nuanced. Although three quarters of people will say that if
:03:55. > :03:59.people are coming year to pay taxes then they are perfectly fine. I
:04:00. > :04:03.think what the Prime Minister is addressing is a small minority of
:04:04. > :04:11.those who might be coming over here who are attracted by the strength of
:04:12. > :04:19.the British welfare state. We are slightly different in that we don't
:04:20. > :04:23.have a contribution record, like other European countries where you
:04:24. > :04:34.have to have a record of contribution. The public are not
:04:35. > :04:42.against any form of migration. They just welcome people who are here to
:04:43. > :04:54.work. In The Telegraph, this headline, Cameron will block
:04:55. > :04:59.benefits to EU migrants. Different but they have obviously all had the
:05:00. > :05:04.same briefing. For once, The Telegraph is less friendly to the
:05:05. > :05:09.Prime Minister than The Guardian. It says he wants to make the UK are
:05:10. > :05:23.less attractive place for EU migrants. But The Guardian gives the
:05:24. > :05:32.full quote. It finishes with EU migrants who want to live off the
:05:33. > :05:39.state. I don't think it is as simple as that. There is a large minority
:05:40. > :05:45.in Britain to whom UKIP appeals who don't want migrants to come even if
:05:46. > :05:48.they are coming to work. There are people in society worried about
:05:49. > :05:54.their culture or job rates being affected. The arrival of migrants,
:05:55. > :05:59.hard-working and willing to work for lower wages, has undercut people's
:06:00. > :06:07.labour power. People are worried about that. That point is picked up
:06:08. > :06:12.in The Guardian. A Conservative MP says that if you're thinking about
:06:13. > :06:17.economic rationality, minimum wage in Romania is about ?1 per hour. Why
:06:18. > :06:23.wouldn't you want to move from one to the other. It has to be looked at
:06:24. > :06:29.in the way that all these things are managed, what is the impact of those
:06:30. > :06:33.who are low skilled and on low wages in the United Kingdom who may feel
:06:34. > :06:38.they are missing out? It is possible to manage migration in a sensible
:06:39. > :06:44.way. We can't carry on thinking either everybody in or nobody in. We
:06:45. > :06:52.have to work out who will strengthen and improve public services and
:06:53. > :06:59.economic strength. But there is a whole of questions about
:07:00. > :07:04.infrastructure and skills and such. The Sun has the headline draw a red
:07:05. > :07:11.line on immigration or else. The Sun, still Britain's biggest selling
:07:12. > :07:16.newspaper, indicates that there are a large number of people who think
:07:17. > :07:21.that people are only coming year to claim benefits. This is The Sun
:07:22. > :07:25.hand-wringing to their readership which I find that unpleasant. It
:07:26. > :07:30.seems to be saying foreigners are not welcome. I think it is
:07:31. > :07:34.understandable that people worried about rapid change. I think people
:07:35. > :07:39.are less concerned about the nature of people who are about to arrive so
:07:40. > :07:45.much as protesting about what has happened and the last decade. It was
:07:46. > :07:54.an extraordinary rate of immigration. Most of us dislike
:07:55. > :08:02.change unless we have chosen it. To be fair to The Sun, it highlights
:08:03. > :08:05.Romania and Bulgaria. What is is doing is linking this into the
:08:06. > :08:19.renegotiation the Prime Minister says he wants to have about
:08:20. > :08:22.Britain's status in Europe. One of the basic four freedoms of the
:08:23. > :08:26.European Union is freedom of labour. The Prime Minister is saying that
:08:27. > :08:32.there are a number of other countries, like the Germans, who are
:08:33. > :08:42.concerned about the possibility that freedom of movement. These proposals
:08:43. > :08:51.to curb it could be welcomed by other countries. So, a different
:08:52. > :08:54.topic altogether. Plastic banknotes, according to The
:08:55. > :08:59.Guardian, will come into use by 2016. Apparently the decision has
:09:00. > :09:07.already been made by the bank. I am astonished by this. We now all have
:09:08. > :09:14.to pay 5p for plastic bags at checkouts and now we are going to be
:09:15. > :09:20.producing these hideous things. I suspect we might be more careful
:09:21. > :09:24.with plastic banknotes. Yes, but we are adding to the total of plastic
:09:25. > :09:32.in the world. Isn't there are arguments that they take more
:09:33. > :09:36.handling than our paper not? So it is claimed. But what will it feel
:09:37. > :09:41.like? We're talking about the second half of the second decade of the
:09:42. > :09:48.21st century and we are talking about having paper currency at all?
:09:49. > :09:55.We should be moving towards having it all done by a smart card and away
:09:56. > :09:59.from cash. More and more shops and services are doing things
:10:00. > :10:06.electronically. Why are they going on the assumption that we will still
:10:07. > :10:11.be using cash? If you get your wallet stolen then you will be
:10:12. > :10:17.awfully glad that the existence of cash and that you don't just have to
:10:18. > :10:20.have this electronic medium. Well you won't get the cash in the wallet
:10:21. > :10:28.back but you would be compensated for anything on your card. On to the
:10:29. > :10:34.FT. This story says that everyone is trying to curry favour with Ukraine.
:10:35. > :10:43.Russian deal with Ukraine, bloated EU. They say that the gas price has
:10:44. > :10:55.been slashed and $15 billion bond pledge. I think across Europe, the
:10:56. > :11:01.view has been taken that it is intolerable that the Russians are
:11:02. > :11:05.leaning on the Ukrainians. I suspect that could be some bad things going
:11:06. > :11:08.on in terms of internal democracy but I think we should look at it
:11:09. > :11:12.sometimes from the other side's point of view. If the EU were to
:11:13. > :11:19.expand and take in Ukraine, that would mean security guarantees would
:11:20. > :11:25.go to include the Ukraine and later expand for the Ukraine. If you're in
:11:26. > :11:33.Russia, the Ukraine is right next to Russia. It is a tremendous security
:11:34. > :11:41.threats to them if they have NATO right up, absorbing Ukraine. And
:11:42. > :11:46.people aren't that wild about Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK.
:11:47. > :11:54.If we bring in Ukraine it's another 60 million people. Ukraine is more
:11:55. > :11:57.or less equally divided between the Russians in the North who would like
:11:58. > :12:02.to stay close to Russia and people in the South who suffered
:12:03. > :12:08.appallingly under Stalin who are less keen on it. I think it is the
:12:09. > :12:15.scale here of the bride Russia is offering. It is cutting the price by
:12:16. > :12:19.one third at which it will sell gas. It is also reversing the ban on
:12:20. > :12:25.Ukrainian imports, which is apparently one of the reasons the
:12:26. > :12:29.Ukrainian economy went into decline. When Russia offer ideal to the
:12:30. > :12:31.Ukraine, we call it a bribe but when the EU do it it is standard
:12:32. > :12:37.commercial practice. This is why think it looks rather different from
:12:38. > :12:44.Moscow. I think we take a view which has not really been justified by our
:12:45. > :12:47.activities in the west of the last ten or 15 years that we have the
:12:48. > :12:57.right to lecture other countries about national security. Cutting our
:12:58. > :13:02.gas bills by a third... I think it is fascinating that unless they
:13:03. > :13:11.hadn't been these protests in Ukraine wouldn't have had such a
:13:12. > :13:16.good deal now. The Daily Mail headline - women over 65 are
:13:17. > :13:19.drinking more often than the under 40s.
:13:20. > :13:27.That's very surprising, isn't it? Is bigger blue possibly not. --
:13:28. > :13:32.Possibly not. I would imagine most over 65 is our sitting there five
:13:33. > :13:37.days a week with a glass of wine with dinner. They are not out there
:13:38. > :13:40.in the streets hitting people and having drunken fights and being
:13:41. > :13:45.taken home in ambulances, which is what tends to happen to the younger
:13:46. > :13:50.age bracket. I really doubt some of these figures here. It says that 14%
:13:51. > :13:56.of over 65s drink five times a week and only 2% of those aged 16 to 24
:13:57. > :14:01.do. I think I know those 2%, in that case, so I don't know where the
:14:02. > :14:05.others are! It's actually rather wonderful that the daily wail which
:14:06. > :14:10.was running -- Daily Mail which a few years ago was running campaigns
:14:11. > :14:15.about how terrible youth drinking was is now talking about the
:14:16. > :14:19.grannies. And how young women are doing all right. I suspect, is
:14:20. > :14:26.usually the case, it is about the difference between quantity and
:14:27. > :14:30.frequency but I think above all, across all age groups, perhaps a bit
:14:31. > :14:34.less would be good. The last story - great fun. The Telegraph - just say
:14:35. > :14:48.no, it's not worth the trouble and strife. A study to assess weather
:14:49. > :14:56.men sink into deep depression during a marriage where he had been asked
:14:57. > :15:01.to obey every wish of his wife. That would depress any man or woman. You
:15:02. > :15:06.are being turned into a slave. It was one man and one woman. My wife
:15:07. > :15:10.is watching this so obviously, I always agree with everything she
:15:11. > :15:14.says and I'm perfectly cheerful. Thank you very much to you both for
:15:15. > :15:19.your input. Jenni Russell and Tim Collins.
:15:20. > :15:22.Stay with us because at midnight, we'll have the latest on the search
:15:23. > :15:28.for the missing teenager Jayden Parkinson. Police have cordoned off
:15:29. > :15:41.a graveyard in Didcot. But coming up next, it's time the Sportsday.
:15:42. > :15:47.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Katie Gornall. Our headlines this
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:15:55. > :15:57.find the "Ki" to knock out Chelsea. Not an ideal place to play football
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