:00:00. > :00:00.favourite, after scoring 56 goals last year. We will also have the
:00:00. > :00:16.action and reaction from Arsenal's trip to Aston Villa.
:00:17. > :00:23.Hello, welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us
:00:24. > :00:35.tomorrow. With me are Hugh Muir, the diary editor at the Guardian, and
:00:36. > :00:40.Deborah Haynes from the Times. The Independent is leading with news
:00:41. > :00:44.that a trade deal could lead to UK companies being sued. The Daily
:00:45. > :00:46.Telegraph quotes the Labour Leader are saying that the foundations of
:00:47. > :00:50.the middle-class are being undermined by job in security and
:00:51. > :00:54.worries about living standards. The Express is claiming that a spokesman
:00:55. > :00:58.for the Prime Minister says that immigration was allowed to run out
:00:59. > :01:02.of control before 2010. The Daily Mail says that children as young as
:01:03. > :01:06.15 are to be allowed to watch films filled with obscene and which. The
:01:07. > :01:11.Guardian is leading with a story claiming that a top police officer
:01:12. > :01:16.is trying to force Channel 4 to hand over documents about the
:01:17. > :01:21.whistle-blower who revealed that under cover offices spied on
:01:22. > :01:28.relatives of Stephen Lawrence. The Times has a beaming picture of
:01:29. > :01:31.Benedict Cumberbatch at the Golden globes in Los Angeles. But we are
:01:32. > :01:35.not interested in that. Deborah Haynes, step up to the plate. Army
:01:36. > :01:44.wastes millions on botched IT system, that is your lead story. It
:01:45. > :01:47.is a story about a whole new recruitment programme for the army.
:01:48. > :01:52.There has been a lot in the news about the plan to shrink the regular
:01:53. > :01:56.army and build of the reserves. This story that we have got in
:01:57. > :02:01.tomorrow's paper reveals just the scale of the IT fiasco that is
:02:02. > :02:05.behind the recruitment side of things. Basically, the idea was that
:02:06. > :02:10.they wanted to make army recruitment more efficient by making it online,
:02:11. > :02:14.so that people could, instead of going to recruitment offices, sit in
:02:15. > :02:17.their home and apply online. Lots of industries and businesses are doing
:02:18. > :02:27.that, to save money? Exactly. The problem is, they spent ?15.5 million
:02:28. > :02:31.on an IT system that doesn't work. Until they fix the problem, they are
:02:32. > :02:35.wasting ?1 million per month, at a time when money is very scarce. We
:02:36. > :02:40.are having to lose soldiers because we cannot afford to keep them.
:02:41. > :02:45.Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, is thinking about having
:02:46. > :02:49.to scrap the whole thing and pay ?48 million to a company to build
:02:50. > :03:05.another IT system. OK, I suspect many people out there would be,
:03:06. > :03:10.like, oh, no, another cock-up. As you say, another day, another IT
:03:11. > :03:14.mess up. You can look at the universal credit problems they have
:03:15. > :03:20.hard, HMRC, they have hard IT problems within the NHS. It does
:03:21. > :03:24.seem that whenever the Government embark on a large IT project we end
:03:25. > :03:28.up here, saying, what has happened, how can it have gone so wrong? I
:03:29. > :03:34.wonder what kind of lessons you learn from that. Is it that these IT
:03:35. > :03:37.projects are just too big? They go outside, contract them out and there
:03:38. > :03:43.is a problem with the contracting process? At some point, it has been
:03:44. > :03:46.said that there is just a kind of competence problem with the
:03:47. > :03:49.Government and people wonder whether or not the Government actually has
:03:50. > :03:53.control of Whitehall and would be able to manage the project is
:03:54. > :03:57.properly. There is a specific instance here, about the MOD, about
:03:58. > :04:00.the defence and soldier recruitment. It does seem to follow
:04:01. > :04:05.a pattern that goes throughout the Government. We do show in the story
:04:06. > :04:08.that the reason why this went wrong is because the army went with an
:04:09. > :04:14.option to use a consortium of countries that are already
:04:15. > :04:19.contracted by the MoD to provide information technology solutions,
:04:20. > :04:24.instead of going with Capita, which it is thinking of going with now,
:04:25. > :04:28.who had the ability and know how to produce the system that was needed.
:04:29. > :04:31.Yes, it is another IT problem. But the impact, the effect of this,
:04:32. > :04:36.means that recruitment targets are being missed. Because this whole
:04:37. > :04:40.recruitment partnering programme, this whole plan to reform the way
:04:41. > :04:48.that the army recruits soldiers is not fully commented yet, Capita,
:04:49. > :04:51.which is in charge now, or in the lead, with partnership with the
:04:52. > :04:55.army, an recruitment, is not being penalised for meeting the target
:04:56. > :04:59.because it is not at full operating capability. The MoD is having to,
:05:00. > :05:06.once again, cover the cost of failure. Well, the taxpayer is. The
:05:07. > :05:09.taxpayer is, exactly. This chips away at the credibility. Every time
:05:10. > :05:17.one of these fiascoes happen and people say, hang on, I thought we
:05:18. > :05:20.were strapped for cash, I thought you were shrinking the army, you
:05:21. > :05:22.seem to be trying to recruit people and you are not even doing that
:05:23. > :05:27.properly. I think there is a cumulative effect of all of this. It
:05:28. > :05:30.does not sound good, but one way the Army is trying to save money
:05:31. > :05:37.according to the Daily Telegraph, that is to ask soldiers to use less
:05:38. > :05:43.ammunition? Yes, an internal Army magazine has told troops to stop
:05:44. > :05:50.firing unused ammunition at the end of exercises. Can you imagine how
:05:51. > :05:53.you would feel if you were one of the soldiers, reading the story on
:05:54. > :05:57.the front of the Times, and you read this, this is practical, what we
:05:58. > :06:01.have to do as part of our job, and we are being told by people higher
:06:02. > :06:04.up that we have to use less ammunition. Terrible timing. Of
:06:05. > :06:10.course, they could not have known what Deborah and the Times was up
:06:11. > :06:15.to. Again, it just chips away at the credibility. How much money is that
:06:16. > :06:24.going to save, compared to the millions wasted at the IT system? It
:06:25. > :06:27.does seem sensible, it says not to fire unused ammunition. Save a
:06:28. > :06:30.couple of bullets for next time something. It just shows the level
:06:31. > :06:34.to which they are having to scrimp and save to save any sort of money.
:06:35. > :06:40.At the same time, haemorrhaging cash. Something needs to be done.
:06:41. > :06:44.The big thing is, nobody is ever held responsible. People who fail in
:06:45. > :06:52.the MoD get promoted. Why am I laughing? OK. Let's stick with the
:06:53. > :06:55.Telegraph, actually. The top of it, interesting story, I can save the
:06:56. > :07:01.middle classes. Ed Miliband suggesting that life for those in
:07:02. > :07:07.the middle-class is proving very difficult at the moment? Yes, again,
:07:08. > :07:10.he is returning to talking about the squeezed middle. Very much his
:07:11. > :07:16.feeling for the election strategy is that he has two secure a sizeable
:07:17. > :07:24.vote there. So, he is now saying that the middle-class face a crisis
:07:25. > :07:29.of confidence over their living standards he obviously has his
:07:30. > :07:32.private polling and it is telling him there is a problem. He has been
:07:33. > :07:39.appealing to the squeezed middle, the middle classes. I'm not sure it
:07:40. > :07:42.is working out as he hoped it would. That is why this is in the Daily
:07:43. > :07:47.Telegraph. If you want that kind of vote, you go to the Tory heartland
:07:48. > :07:53.to try to convince them on their own territory. But is Ed Miliband part
:07:54. > :07:56.of the problem? He is reiterating a message that has been successful for
:07:57. > :08:00.him, the squeezed middle. But he feels he has to push it up there
:08:01. > :08:03.again because Labour are not getting the kind of traction in the polls
:08:04. > :08:09.that perhaps they should be at this point in the Parliament? He is
:08:10. > :08:12.touching on a point that is close to some of our hearts, life is really
:08:13. > :08:16.expensive, especially if you have children and it is really hard to
:08:17. > :08:19.make ends meet. You do worry about how you're going to afford to send
:08:20. > :08:21.your children to university. It is something that is a really emotive
:08:22. > :08:27.issue. Was really unimpressed with the string of policies that he is
:08:28. > :08:33.supposed to be doing to fix the problem. The top one is, to link
:08:34. > :08:40.benefit payments to employment history. How is that going to pay
:08:41. > :08:45.for my children to go to nursery? Does not really answer the problem.
:08:46. > :08:49.Well, you cut the bill. He's arguing if you have a history of work and
:08:50. > :08:55.now you are on benefits, you will get more benefits. If you don't, it
:08:56. > :09:00.will be cut. But there is no direct answer to the problem is that the
:09:01. > :09:06.middle-class are facing. Here is his problem, on the front page of the
:09:07. > :09:11.Guardian, an ICM poll that says he has dropped two points over the
:09:12. > :09:15.month, now at 35%, just three points ahead of the Conservatives. That is
:09:16. > :09:18.in our poll, I am sure he is doing his own private polling and he knows
:09:19. > :09:22.that the lead that he had, which has never been a substantial one, and
:09:23. > :09:26.his personal rating has not been healthy either, he knows that is
:09:27. > :09:29.slipping, he knows he has to do something. Thus, stories like this
:09:30. > :09:34.one that we see today in the Telegraph. Let's go onto the
:09:35. > :09:41.Independent. UK sovereignty at risk from EU-US trade deal. What is this
:09:42. > :09:45.about? At an interesting story, there is obviously this trade deal
:09:46. > :09:48.that is going on. There is a concern that if it happens you are going to
:09:49. > :09:52.be in a situation where multinational companies will be able
:09:53. > :09:56.to sue a country if they don't like the sort of policies it is adopting.
:09:57. > :10:00.It says this sort of thing is actually happening at the moment. It
:10:01. > :10:04.gives a couple of good examples. Apparently, in Australia, it is
:10:05. > :10:08.being sued by Philip Morris for introducing plain cigarette
:10:09. > :10:15.packaging. In Canada, it is being sued by this US drugs firm for
:10:16. > :10:19.revoking patterns on drugs, on the grounds that the benefits may have
:10:20. > :10:26.been overstated. Two policies that the public would totally sympathise
:10:27. > :10:29.with, but the worry is that it might penalise foreign investors. There is
:10:30. > :10:33.a warning by MPs and pressure groups about the trade deal that is
:10:34. > :10:37.currently being negotiated, as to whether the impact could be on the
:10:38. > :10:44.UK, for example, as well, if we were to implement this policy. 200 groups
:10:45. > :10:47.protesting, we do not have here exactly which they are. But it does
:10:48. > :10:52.appear to be a critique coming from the left, which is quite unusual.
:10:53. > :10:56.For the most part, when you hear criticism of the various works of
:10:57. > :11:00.the EU and European Commission, it normally comes from the right. UKIP
:11:01. > :11:06.are making great hay with that. There is a traditional scepticism
:11:07. > :11:12.and concern about the reach of Europe, which has come from the
:11:13. > :11:15.left. Way back in Labour history, that has been quite a respectable
:11:16. > :11:20.opinion. We don't hear that much about it now. Theys on the right,
:11:21. > :11:24.would they support a deal that seems to be beneficial towards big
:11:25. > :11:30.business? Exactly. They probably would, wouldn't they? At the same
:11:31. > :11:34.time, wouldn't they be angry about potentially being sued, potentially,
:11:35. > :11:37.this country being sued by multinationals? That's why it could
:11:38. > :11:43.take us into an interesting place, if you have this confluence of the
:11:44. > :11:49.left and right. Both having different reasons to be unhappy with
:11:50. > :11:54.the eyew, but both be -- EU, but both unhappy. The front page of the
:11:55. > :12:00.Independent, this is an interesting story. The man who invented this
:12:01. > :12:04.thing, the Kalashnikov, he went to his, not his priest, but local
:12:05. > :12:12.church and said - I feel bad that I invented this thing. AK-47, what an
:12:13. > :12:18.iconic weapon, used across the world for revolutions, for terrorists, all
:12:19. > :12:23.sorts of reasons, such a cheap weapon, easy to use and has been the
:12:24. > :12:28.cause of, you know, millions of deaths, would you say? I don't know.
:12:29. > :12:32.It's very interesting that the man who, I presume became very rich off
:12:33. > :12:41.the back of it... I don't think he did, actually. He did it for the
:12:42. > :12:47.honour of the Soviet Union. This is the problem with invention, you
:12:48. > :12:51.invent great things or terrible things for mankind much you never
:12:52. > :12:55.know how it's going to turn out. If he hadn't invented AK-47s, someone
:12:56. > :13:00.else would have invented something similar. But it is interesting. It
:13:01. > :13:03.makes you wonder about people who invent weapons of mass destruction,
:13:04. > :13:12.for example, whether they, how they feel. Oppenheimer regretted to his
:13:13. > :13:16.dying day the invention of nuclear fission, and the atom bomb.
:13:17. > :13:21.Interesting that the Orthodox Church decided it was going to release this
:13:22. > :13:24.letter that he sent. Maybe it shows there's hope for us all. Even the
:13:25. > :13:29.man who invented the killing machine. All right. OK. We're going
:13:30. > :13:33.to end it there. Deb raw, Hugh, you're back at the top of the
:13:34. > :13:39.Deborah, Hugh, you're back at the top of the next hour, in fact at 11.
:13:40. > :13:46.30, an hour's time. At 11pm, we will have much more on our lead story,
:13:47. > :13:50.involving the benefits of fracking, apparently. And the incentives
:13:51. > :13:54.offered by the Government to local councils to have this kind of
:13:55. > :13:57.activity in their own backyard. ( Stay with us here on BBC News for
:13:58. > :14:11.that. Coming up now it's time for Sportsday.
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