:00:00. > :00:00.after beating Liverpool in the late kick-off. We will look back on day
:00:00. > :00:00.one in Melbourne in the fourth Ashes Test. Andy Murray's return to action
:00:00. > :00:00.after back surgery. And we will find out who won the King George VI
:00:00. > :00:21.Chase. Welcome to our look ahead to what
:00:22. > :00:24.the papers are bringing us tomorrow. With me is solicitor, Michael
:00:25. > :00:31.Caplan, and a mince pie bearing Neil Midgley, of the Daily Telegraph.
:00:32. > :00:34.Starting with the Telegraph. Shoppers have given retailers a
:00:35. > :00:39.Christmas boost today in what may have been Britain's biggest one-day
:00:40. > :00:42.shopping spree on record. The Guardian says voters are turning
:00:43. > :00:47.away from politics, not because they are apathetic but because they are
:00:48. > :00:50.angry. The FT finds evidence that the Boxing Day sales may not have
:00:51. > :00:55.been as profitable as retailers were hoping. They say shoppers have been
:00:56. > :00:58.demanding much deeper discounts from stores. The Times says civil
:00:59. > :01:02.servants are having to rely on private sector expertise to complete
:01:03. > :01:16.some of the Government's biggest infrastructure projects. The mirror
:01:17. > :01:18.says the Boxing Day sales promote a frenzy on the high street, with
:01:19. > :01:21.shoppers spending ?60,000 a second. The independent save the NHS is
:01:22. > :01:23.accused of covering up failings at a London centre for rape victims.
:01:24. > :01:25.Let's begin with a quick flick through the front pages of the
:01:26. > :01:31.papers that are covering the Boxing Day sales. The Daily Mirror, an
:01:32. > :01:36.extraordinary figure. ?60,000 a second. All sorts of records being
:01:37. > :01:41.broken. Were you amongst them, Michael? I certainly wasn't, I
:01:42. > :01:45.stayed at home. What I find very interesting, not so much that, but
:01:46. > :01:50.the effect internet shopping is having at the moment. According to
:01:51. > :01:54.one report here, people have spent almost an hour on the internet
:01:55. > :01:58.during Christmas Day, actually shopping will stop John Lewis say
:01:59. > :02:03.50% of all their purchases from mobile devices. It's one thing
:02:04. > :02:08.people going to shops, I wonder how long that is going to last because I
:02:09. > :02:11.think there's a changing landscape. The FTR group of people who really
:02:12. > :02:21.did turn out, they weren't doing shopping online. I think the point
:02:22. > :02:30.is you can sell anything if you sell it cheap enough. This is always Jeff
:02:31. > :02:33.Randall's point, my former colleague in the Telegraph, what is important
:02:34. > :02:37.for a retailer is how much profit they make. It's not how many people
:02:38. > :02:41.they get through the doors or how much stuff they flog. If you sell
:02:42. > :02:44.something below cost then there's not really much point in selling it
:02:45. > :02:49.in the first place. But it does seem that it has been a very good day for
:02:50. > :02:56.retailers, just in terms of getting people through the doors. There's a
:02:57. > :03:00.lot... This is a great thing for news reporters, there aren't many
:03:01. > :03:05.new facts on Boxing Day. When you are putting together the paper,
:03:06. > :03:09.there's a lot of... Christmas Day TV ratings, lots of figures, and
:03:10. > :03:15.there's lots of figures here about retail. 10 million people, up from
:03:16. > :03:22.9.8 million last year, a 1.5% increase, went shopping today,
:03:23. > :03:26.apparently. So one in six of everybody in the country. The Daily
:03:27. > :03:31.Telegraph says they've spent ?2.7 billion. We don't know yet. Aren't
:03:32. > :03:35.these statistics are a little bit made up? They could be misleading
:03:36. > :03:41.because you just don't know how much is returned. With internet
:03:42. > :03:46.shopping, people do have a cooling off period. I'm a bit dubious about
:03:47. > :03:51.some of these figures. Even know it is your paper. In defence of the
:03:52. > :03:55.fine reporting by paper, this is money that has been spent today. You
:03:56. > :04:01.can get pretty good estimates of that, just from credit card
:04:02. > :04:06.companies. Most of this money is spent on cards of one description or
:04:07. > :04:12.another. But people are holding out for a bargain. There might not be a
:04:13. > :04:16.lot of profit. But it's better than... For the retailers, it's
:04:17. > :04:20.better than people not going out and shopping. I just have visions of
:04:21. > :04:23.people all over the country sitting there on Christmas night and I feel
:04:24. > :04:28.slightly depressed by it. They've got their new tablet, what am I
:04:29. > :04:36.going to do with it? I'm going to go shopping. I find it revolting. I
:04:37. > :04:41.don't know how people have time. I've been cooking! When I was
:04:42. > :04:45.younger, it was the New Year's Day sale. And there are sales during the
:04:46. > :04:51.summer as well. Do you really need a Boxing Day sale? It does seem like
:04:52. > :04:56.it has got closer and closer to Christmas. A lot of sales were on
:04:57. > :05:01.before Christmas. What happened to this so-called cost of living
:05:02. > :05:07.crisis? Where are we finding this money to spend? The credit cards. A
:05:08. > :05:12.lot of people do buy things on a card. If it is over the internet,
:05:13. > :05:16.you have to do it on a card. That has revolutionised things and does
:05:17. > :05:20.make a difference. We will see how well placed people to pay the vet
:05:21. > :05:28.bills off in January. The Guardian, few Rebus MPs. -- view re-with MPs.
:05:29. > :05:32.The main reason for not voting is we are not bored, but people are angry.
:05:33. > :05:36.That is why people are refusing to engage politically. This will give
:05:37. > :05:40.the MPs something to work on, because they are always trying to
:05:41. > :05:45.work out how they attract the under 30 voter. This is another way to get
:05:46. > :05:49.a story for the 27th of December. Do an opinion poll, so you've got your
:05:50. > :05:56.own statistics to put on the front page. It's an interesting one to do.
:05:57. > :06:00.People were asked, what was the emotion they most readily felt when
:06:01. > :06:04.they were asked about politics and politicians. Anger came ahead of
:06:05. > :06:14.apathy, respect, boredom and inspiration. Only 2% of people... It
:06:15. > :06:18.was disenchantment generally. But what I do find worrying is the
:06:19. > :06:23.Guardian do refer to a number of high-profile people who say they've
:06:24. > :06:28.never voted and will not vote. I think that's sad, because it's one
:06:29. > :06:33.of the rights of people. I always encourage everyone, exercise your
:06:34. > :06:38.vote. I think that is open to some criticism of these high-profile
:06:39. > :06:42.people saying, well, I haven't voted. Russell Brand was very
:06:43. > :06:46.outspoken in that interview with Jeremy Paxman, he said he doesn't
:06:47. > :06:49.vote because he doesn't think it makes any difference and doesn't
:06:50. > :06:54.really bring about change. If we all thought that then it never would.
:06:55. > :06:59.The worry is that younger people, because one of the aspects of this
:07:00. > :07:04.which brings it home is back in the 1960s, there were three quarters of
:07:05. > :07:10.a population voting. Equally, to all age groups. In the last election,
:07:11. > :07:17.less than half of 18 to 30s voted. It would be sad if in 2015 that is
:07:18. > :07:21.repeated. But there is less difference these days between the
:07:22. > :07:25.parties. When I was first politically sentience in the early
:07:26. > :07:31.1980s, we had Margaret Thatcher facing Michael Foot in the Commons.
:07:32. > :07:34.There were real differences in ideology. Talking about new killer
:07:35. > :07:40.disarmament, socialism versus capitalism almost an almost Russian
:07:41. > :07:46.version of socialism on one side and a very right-wing capitalism on the
:07:47. > :07:52.other. Now Miliband and Cameron are arguing about very small economic
:07:53. > :07:55.distinctions in particular. There are very few, very small
:07:56. > :07:59.differences, but there are differences. People have to listen
:08:00. > :08:04.to the debates between all the leaders and make up their own minds.
:08:05. > :08:09.Let's move on to the picture story on the Guardian. Sinking feline
:08:10. > :08:14.flood warning. A cat being carried to safety in Kent which was one of
:08:15. > :08:18.the places in the south-east of England that has born the brunt of
:08:19. > :08:27.this weather. A grim time for a lot of people. Very sad pictures in Kent
:08:28. > :08:31.and Surrey, people having to leave their homes on Christmas Day,
:08:32. > :08:36.flooding, no electricity. It also brings home the animal population.
:08:37. > :08:39.Here we have a cat being rescued. This must have taken its toll on
:08:40. > :08:47.animal throughout the whole country. I saw horses wading through
:08:48. > :08:54.knee deep water up in the Midlands. And more to come, unfortunately.
:08:55. > :09:00.This is the lull between the two storms. Let's look at the Financial
:09:01. > :09:04.Times. Cameron's enterprise zones fall far short of job creation
:09:05. > :09:10.targets. These targets hark back to the days, speaking of the 1980s,
:09:11. > :09:13.when Michael Heseltine was up in Liverpool and creating new
:09:14. > :09:17.opportunities and trying to encourage investment particularly in
:09:18. > :09:20.the north. Didn't he say that Tories were supposed to be not
:09:21. > :09:25.interventionist, but he would intervene before breakfast, lunch
:09:26. > :09:30.and dinner? President of the board of trade, as he restyled himself in
:09:31. > :09:37.that role. Enterprise zones are a very odd policy for the Tories to a
:09:38. > :09:41.spouse, because the are big government. The idea of a Tory
:09:42. > :09:48.economic policy surely should be for government backed road to get out of
:09:49. > :09:52.the way. The idea here was to create jobs. These enterprise zones, which
:09:53. > :10:01.create over 50,000 jobs, it's going to fall short of that. What was even
:10:02. > :10:05.more stark and sad is that revelation that 1,000,016 to
:10:06. > :10:08.24-year-olds are neither in training, education or working.
:10:09. > :10:13.That's where something has got to be done by the Government. Those people
:10:14. > :10:19.need to be getting into either training or work. There is the big
:10:20. > :10:26.problem that David Cameron has to tackle before the next election, at
:10:27. > :10:34.least perceived increasing divide between the haves and have-nots. The
:10:35. > :10:40.cost of living crisis. If it's real. There clearly is a squeeze on
:10:41. > :10:43.disposable incomes. But it's also a recovery. The Conservatives have
:10:44. > :10:48.laid their stall out. Recovery will come through economic recovery.
:10:49. > :10:53.Clearly, this is an indication it won't come through jobs. That is the
:10:54. > :10:57.worry. Where will you have an economic recovery if you don't have
:10:58. > :11:03.it through jobs, especially for the younger people? Now the
:11:04. > :11:07.independent, Salmond hit legal reality of Scotland's EU status. The
:11:08. > :11:10.idea that it might not be quite so simple for Scotland to be fast
:11:11. > :11:17.tracked into membership of the EU, should it become independent from
:11:18. > :11:24.the rest of the UK, as Alex Salmond is hoping. He certainly hoping it
:11:25. > :11:29.would be. Fast tracked within 18 months and it would be very smooth
:11:30. > :11:32.and quick. That clearly is not going to happen. There are seriously
:11:33. > :11:37.unresolved issues, according to this exclusive in the app independent.
:11:38. > :11:44.There will be problems with voting rights and opt outs. Apparently
:11:45. > :11:53.further financial questions. The one you miss out of the list is the use
:11:54. > :11:58.of the Euro. As far as I knew, Alex Salmond wanted to keep the pound. It
:11:59. > :12:03.will be a sterling zone alongside the eurozone. One thing which is
:12:04. > :12:05.guaranteed to make a lot of Scottish people think twice about voting in
:12:06. > :12:09.favour of independence would be if they thought they were going to be
:12:10. > :12:15.in some way hoodwinked into getting the you wrote. They've seen what
:12:16. > :12:21.happens to other countries in the eurozone, particularly small
:12:22. > :12:27.companies -- is. It's pretty good for lawyers. On to most things? You
:12:28. > :12:35.make sure it is so. I try not to. But in reality, will this issue make
:12:36. > :12:40.or break independence? No, but I think there's going to be an awful
:12:41. > :12:44.lot more of this as we get towards the referendum in 2014. There's
:12:45. > :12:49.going to be a lot more pulling on the thread which will unravel the
:12:50. > :12:57.knitting that Alex Salmond is trying to do, of his perfect independent
:12:58. > :13:03.sweater. It's a more complex issue. They are all complex. Think about
:13:04. > :13:06.the future of the BBC, for example. It is very quickly getting into
:13:07. > :13:11.difficult territory about what happens to the BBC north of the
:13:12. > :13:23.border, and to BBC services which Scottish people value. Whitehall
:13:24. > :13:26.forced to call on the experts, consultants needed to rescue
:13:27. > :13:35.troubled projects that have proven to be riskier than expected. In the
:13:36. > :13:43.past when consultants have been used that has ended up costing a lot of
:13:44. > :13:49.money. My guess is we are looking across the Atlantic to Washington
:13:50. > :13:56.and have seen the disaster that has befallen the Obama administration,
:13:57. > :14:02.with the health care website simply not working. Those issues of
:14:03. > :14:07.competency and can you get the business of government done? They
:14:08. > :14:19.are very damaging if you get them wrong. They are looking at the HS2
:14:20. > :14:22.high-speed rail line as well. ?40 million written off on universal
:14:23. > :14:28.credit schemes. Anyone listening will think that is a huge figure
:14:29. > :14:33.around should there not be some kind of enquiry? The hope is that the
:14:34. > :14:39.enquiry would not cost more money but clearly there has to be some
:14:40. > :14:45.kind of accountability. It sounds to me is that Margaret Hodge is going
:14:46. > :14:51.to be very busy. Much more to talk about when we are back at 11:30pm
:14:52. > :15:09.with more of the front pages. Coming up next, time for Sportsday.
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