08/01/2014 The Papers

winter, it is just a case of when. -- of FIFA. We will also have the

latest action from the lakeside. Welcome to our look ahead to what

the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Beth Rigby,

political editor at the Financial Times, and the freelance journalist

John Kampfner. We are good to start with the independent which has this

headline... The Telegraph says coalition

planning reforms are causing physical harm to the countryside.

And the Daily Express says Britain is in for a blast of Siberian snow

after a week of flooding. The Guardian also leads on the Mark

Duggan inquest. The Daily Mail has a striking image from outside the

inquest. We are going to stalk with a story

which has dominated the headlines this afternoon and this evening, the

Mark Duggan inquest. A lot of people I think are still, despite a lot of

analysis in the media, and I do not know why we have got that flooding

picture, scratching their heads, wondering how it can be that a jury

can find that this man did not have a gun at the time he was shot, and

yet he was lawfully shot. No, this is the conclusion of three months of

deliberation, that there has not been an unlawful killing verdict,

and as you said, he did not have a gun when he was shot, there was not

a gun in his hand, and yet, there has not been any punishment or

verdict of unlawful killing. As the family said tonight, there is no

justice and no peace. So, an attempt to draw a line under this matter has

left unanswered questions. This is not going to go away, and I wonder

whether it will though couple more tensions within Tottenham in the

coming weeks, as the implications of what has happened are played out.

Partly, John Kampfner, part of the reasoning in people's minds in terms

of understanding what is going on is because they do not trust the police

anyway. Yes, and the police have formed. There was the Jean Charles

de Menezes case the killing of Ian Tomlinson and others, and there is

the question not just of what happens, but in this case, there

seems to have been some question marks over the evidence come and the

placing of the minicab involved afterwards, and the role of the

supposedly independent police complaints commission. There are

still a lot of questions. It saddens everybody to say it, because any

healthy democracy needs, does not just want, it needs a police force

which is credible and which has universal trust across all

communities, and even if you look, a completely separate case, but the

Andrew Mitchell case, involving the former Conservative Cabinet

Minister, that threw up early different questions about the

credibility of the police. This is really a moment for all parties to

grapple with police process, as much as what happens after an incident,

regrettable as it is, about the killing of one person, but the whole

process of engagement before and after. Interestingly, tonight,

Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met Commissioner, has come out and said,

in the future, firearms policemen will work cameras on them when they

go into these situations and incidents, so that there is video

evidence. There is a feeling I think within the police that in the case

of the Lee Rigby Woolwich murder, that because there was video

evidence, the public could see very clearly what happened and how the

police responded, and then you can have complete transparency. Whereas

this is a case where an eyewitness says, he was holding up a mobile

phone, the police said, we thought he was holding a gun. A gun emerges

in the grass, did he throw the gun, was the gun placed there? It is the

police's word against an eyewitness, and it does not give the family any

piece. Yes, officers wearing cameras is something which happens in a very

interesting report we have had this morning, where one US police officer

was cleared, exonerated, because the video footage really showed him give

a warning to the perpetrator, showed the perpetrator had a weapon, and

the officer fired. That God forbid, if our police ever became anything

close to the American gun culture, anybody who has ever been stopped

driving a car in America, hands on the steering wheel, it is a very

frightening, trigger-happy culture. The one silver lining on this or.

The is that people remember, they can name the people killed in

situations like this because it is so rare. I think the police want to

improve transparency. They clearly have gone away with unease as well

and recognised that really, there are still unanswered questions, and

are going to try to change the process going forward. If you look

at the figures for the last month,. And search in Tottenham and the

surrounding borough, 686 cases of stop and search, which is double the

month before, and apparently, if you are black, you are twice as likely

to be stopped as a white person. This is in the middle of a campaign

to ease stop and search. So, clearly, there are issues in dealing

with suspects in the Tottenham area, and clearly, a big problem, and a

big headache, in trying to improve police relations with the public.

There is also an issue about dealing with gun crime and with gangs, and a

note of sympathy for the police, they are dammed if they do and

dammed if they don't. Stop and search seems by any standards to be

an incredibly crude and invasive and publicly humiliating way of doing

it. It would be great if there was a better way of doing it, in which you

could really tackle gun crime and gang culture, that you have got to

get right into the heart of communities. You can only do that if

you have the trust of communities. Going onto the Daily Mail, mayhem at

the High Court... And moving on to the Daily

Telegraph... It is already becoming a bit

politicised. You have got different towns in the way the different in

the Daily Mail, he is a gangster. As John was saying, the political lines

are dividing here. You have got Diane Abbott, the London MP in

Hackney, who was branded irresponsible today, after she said,

if they believed he did not have a gun in his hand when he was shot,

how can they find it was a lawful killing? And David Lambie the MP for

Tottenham, also raised some questions. The Daily Mail, for all

what might -- one might think about the loose use of the term gangster,

we should not forget, that was the paper that went out on a limb over

the killing of Stephen Lawrence, and did not just go out on a limb

journalistically, in effect changed a verdict and changed procedures.

So, they have obviously done this advisory, put it that way. One other

point in terms of the Duggan family, immediately in the aftermath of his

death, the police did not go round to the house, his then girlfriend

had to go to his mother to get a birth certificate so she could prove

to the police that she knew him. You know, over two years, there must

have been this tension building up where the family feel like they

haven't been handled properly and then they have a verdict they

disagree with. That is potentially quite explosive. Just a side issue,

it is not just the police in this issue going to the press first.

There have been recent incidents where the CPS go to the police first

when it is a question of whether they prosecute somebody or not. You

would think you would heal with the people involved first, whether they

are victims, whether they are alleged perpetrators or whatever,

before you start releasing information. That is one of the

whole question around the leather is an inquiry. But that is for another

time. Indeed. Interestingly, a trick you see a lot in the United States,

prosecutors or whatever going to the press and setting out their stall

ahead of a trial. We are going to stick with the Telegraph and talk

about the coalition's legacy of rural harm, what is this about?

Well, depending on your point of view, it is about nimbyism all

legitimate concerns, if you live in the green belt, about rapacious

development destroying communities, etc. We have the potential blight,

or progress, depending on your point of view, of HS2, the high-speed link

between London and the Midlands in the North. We have questions about

wind farms. This is a senior figure in the Conservative Party, almost

telling the Telegraph what its readers want to hear, that those

people that live in the Home Counties are seriously worried about

increased planning permissions for building in the green belt. Is this

something that the coalition, or the conservative half of the coalition,

should be worried about in terms of the election coming up and their

core base, people in the countryside? This has been the kind

of hands off our land thing has been a long-running Telegraph campaign

ever since the Conservative led coalition set up what they call the

National planning policy framework. What this was was an attempt to take

hundreds of pages of planning regulation and streamline it, so you

can actually get more community development through. The big stress

for the Conservatives and the Lib Dems has been that this was not

about building on green belt. What he is suggesting is that developers

are getting clever barristers, etc, to kind of circumnavigate these

checks and balances. There is some argy-bargy. There is a housing stock

rises in the UK. 90% of the UK is not built on. George Osborne has

done a help to buy scheme and flooded the mortgage market with

money, so that people can buy homes. If we don't start building more

homes, we are just creating another housing bubble. Yes, the Tories

might have some problems in rural areas, with some voters who do not

like these plans. Not so much so that they are worried about not

doing it, because they recognise there is a bigger constituency of

people that need houses. Lets go on to the Guardian. A high-profile foot

wall has announced that he is gay. Thomas Hitzlsperger has told's he

was told a big wave would crush on him if he made his sexuality

public. There aren't actually many British or English footballers that

have come out, only two, Justin Fashanu and Robbie Rogers. The

suggestion is that there are many more and they fear coming out

because of repressionrepercussions. I find it strange that footballers

are scared of coming out as gay, when all of the polling shows that

young people don't actually care. Have you been on the football

terrace recently? That's the problem. And I met Chelsea

supporter! Is this a particular football issue, or a sport issue? We

had Tom Daley. He came out and that was OK. The odd rugby player, as

well. We have to leave it there. We will get to Splash at 11:30. Coming

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