:00:00. > :00:00.football transfer news. And we will look ahead to Andy Murray's
:00:00. > :00:18.second-round match at the Australian Open. That is all in 15 minutes.
:00:19. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing
:00:25. > :00:29.us tomorrow. With me are the journalist known as the Fleet Street
:00:30. > :00:32.Fox, and Kieron Stacey, the political correspondent for the
:00:33. > :00:38.Financial Times. The front pages are already in, many of them. The Daily
:00:39. > :00:41.Telegraph is leading on the Lib Dem's party decision not to
:00:42. > :00:43.discipline Lord Rennard over allegations he harassed women
:00:44. > :00:47.activists because of insufficient evidence. The mirror is leading on
:00:48. > :00:53.William Roache's trial at Preston Crown Court. Onto the Guardian, and
:00:54. > :01:00.it says Labour will bring in more competition to high-street banks.
:01:01. > :01:06.The express is claiming scientists searching for a cure for cancer have
:01:07. > :01:11.made a major breakthrough. The Daily Mail says official crime statistics
:01:12. > :01:14.simply cannot be trusted. And the times says hundreds of teachers have
:01:15. > :01:18.been accused of having a sexual relationship with a pupil in the
:01:19. > :01:22.past five years. We are going to start with The Daily
:01:23. > :01:27.Telegraph, and a story that has dogged the Liberal Democrats for
:01:28. > :01:31.quite some time now. Click cowardice on sex case appear. This refers to
:01:32. > :01:38.Lord Rennard. -- Nick Clegg cowardice. Sticky yellow yes, the
:01:39. > :01:42.Lib Dem peer was apparently accused of harassing various activists. And
:01:43. > :01:45.there has been a police investigation which has found it
:01:46. > :01:49.does not have enough to proceed with. This is an internal Lib Dem
:01:50. > :01:53.enquiry led by a QC, and the only thing they have been able to come up
:01:54. > :01:57.with is that there has been a personal violation of space. He has
:01:58. > :02:00.denied all the charges but it seems incontrovertible. They do say there
:02:01. > :02:04.is credible evidence against him but not enough to be beyond reasonable
:02:05. > :02:12.doubt. He does seem to have been a bit of a sex pic, really. He has
:02:13. > :02:17.been unreasonable. OK, he has been a bit of a sex pig, but nothing as far
:02:18. > :02:22.as the police is concerned. Nothing that rises to the level of a
:02:23. > :02:25.criminal investigation and the Liberal Democrats don't think it
:02:26. > :02:30.warrants him to be kicked out of the party. It is just somebody who has
:02:31. > :02:35.acted in a terribly ungentlemanly fashion. But Nick Clegg and Tim
:02:36. > :02:39.Farron, the party chairman, have said they do think there is an issue
:02:40. > :02:43.here. They do things Lord Rennard needs to reflect upon his actions
:02:44. > :02:47.and issue an apology and they don't want him involved in the future
:02:48. > :02:52.developer and of the party. -- they do think. However, you does not
:02:53. > :02:58.appear to be reflecting on his actions and is looking forward to
:02:59. > :03:03.going back to work. -- he does not. The issue is, according to this Lib
:03:04. > :03:08.Dem report, that he violated the personal space of female activists.
:03:09. > :03:14.So he has been exonerated in a very muddled way. He has been exonerated
:03:15. > :03:17.from serious sexual offences but the Liberal Democrats are saying there
:03:18. > :03:21.is something a bit murky going on that you might not like, ladies, but
:03:22. > :03:25.there is nothing we can do about it. He doesn't want to apologise and
:03:26. > :03:30.we cannot make him. No sanctions whatsoever. So a member of a party
:03:31. > :03:33.who has acted in a way that other members think is unreasonable. So
:03:34. > :03:41.they have completely fudged it and made a mess of it. Where does Nick
:03:42. > :03:44.Clegg stand? I think Nick Clegg will brush it off and move on. Why don't
:03:45. > :03:50.think we will get any more allegations other than the ones that
:03:51. > :03:54.are already out there. -- I. And it is not in any one's interest to keep
:03:55. > :04:00.going further. That said, I think there is a wider problem here. And
:04:01. > :04:04.you do see instances, particularly of elder men in positions of power,
:04:05. > :04:09.abusing that power and abusing the trust. The trust of people who work
:04:10. > :04:13.for them and around them, particularly younger women. And I
:04:14. > :04:18.have sat there at a dinner, for example, where I have seen it, and
:04:19. > :04:22.an older senior politician essentially gropes a young female
:04:23. > :04:26.journalist under the table. And what was incredible about that, this
:04:27. > :04:28.stuff happens... You see it in various walks of life at various
:04:29. > :04:33.times but this man just seem to think you could get away with it.
:04:34. > :04:40.And in fact did get away with it. But you saw it. They did get away
:04:41. > :04:45.with it. You didn't lean across and say anything. It didn't feel my
:04:46. > :04:49.place to say it. Therein lies the problem. Women think they need to
:04:50. > :04:54.just not make a fuss. Other people think it is not my place, what is
:04:55. > :04:57.going on? But something is amiss. Something is not right in that
:04:58. > :05:01.situation and it should be everybody feels able to say something.
:05:02. > :05:05.Particularly in politics you have the culture of a lot of middle-aged
:05:06. > :05:09.men dominating the positions of seniority and power. That happens in
:05:10. > :05:13.a lot of workplaces but especially in politics, where there is a late
:05:14. > :05:16.late-night, boozy culture for a long time, though that is starting to die
:05:17. > :05:20.away. It can be quite an intimidating place for many women to
:05:21. > :05:25.work and you kind of think when women are brave enough to come out,
:05:26. > :05:30.these Lib Dem female activists, who have done so, put their names on the
:05:31. > :05:38.record and said, this has happened to me, and that must be a really
:05:39. > :05:41.tough thing to go through. I'd think anything the Lib Dems have said
:05:42. > :05:44.suggests these woman lying but what is difficult to say is how much this
:05:45. > :05:49.crosses the boundary and where does the boundary lie. The police made it
:05:50. > :05:54.clear the evidence wasn't there to reach the bar they had set for this
:05:55. > :06:01.to precipitate a Chronicle investigation, but where does this
:06:02. > :06:07.leave women and politics? -- reciprocate a criminal
:06:08. > :06:11.investigation. The Conservatives perhaps have looked at this more,
:06:12. > :06:16.possibly just in terms of policy. But is this the kind of thing that
:06:17. > :06:23.is going to put women of? Of course it is! You are not going to want to
:06:24. > :06:28.go to a meeting with pepper spray and protection! It puts voters off.
:06:29. > :06:34.And it puts people off wanting to join. Lord Rennard's job, when he
:06:35. > :06:38.rejoins the party, will be on the party committee writing the election
:06:39. > :06:42.manifesto. They do have a particular problem, the Lib Dems. They don't
:06:43. > :06:45.have a single female member. One of the things that has gone wrong here
:06:46. > :06:49.is essentially allegations went through a strain of different people
:06:50. > :06:54.none of who really got it, none of whom thought instinctively, we have
:06:55. > :07:00.to do something about it, this is woolly serious. They all looked at
:07:01. > :07:06.it and thought, somebody else can deal with this. -- really serious.
:07:07. > :07:10.Ideal with these guys a lot. There is no suggestion there is sexism or
:07:11. > :07:15.that this is endemic in the party. It is sometimes difficult, I guess,
:07:16. > :07:19.as a man just to understand instinctively how or why a lady in
:07:20. > :07:23.that situation can feel and possibly where the boundaries. I am sure the
:07:24. > :07:29.party has learned a lot. We're going to stick with the Telegraph. Anchor
:07:30. > :07:33.bonuses. This is the time of year where all those bankers are rubbing
:07:34. > :07:41.their hands, salivating. -- bankers' bonuses. Tuscan yachts,
:07:42. > :07:48.except for! Rubbing their hands! But we are angry because we own half
:07:49. > :07:56.that bank. Yes, nearly all of it. 80%. And George Osborne can, if you
:07:57. > :08:04.want to do, simply say no to whatever their bonus is. -- if he
:08:05. > :08:10.wants to. They are going to say, please can we pay bonuses up to two
:08:11. > :08:13.times their salary. That is a significant amount, particularly
:08:14. > :08:17.with senior staff. But there is a very good reason to have bonuses,
:08:18. > :08:22.which is that in good times, do give hefty bonuses and in lean times you
:08:23. > :08:29.take the bonus of way and you manage to keep people in jobs, so rather
:08:30. > :08:34.than pay people a lot of money and then have to sack them later, it is
:08:35. > :08:39.a push on. But it is the level of bonuses. It depends what your salary
:08:40. > :08:44.is. Two times your salary if you are on a quite moderate one is not so
:08:45. > :08:49.much. It is the whole package. How much is the whole package? That is
:08:50. > :08:53.the question. If you are paying somebody ?1 million there is a good
:08:54. > :08:59.case for saying 500,000 of that should be salary and 500,000 of that
:09:00. > :09:02.is a bonus. That is entirely sensible. But why do they have to
:09:03. > :09:06.get a bonus at all? No other industry, really... We don't get
:09:07. > :09:12.paid bonuses. And then told, you have done well this year. We don't
:09:13. > :09:17.have the same swings people in the city do. The problem in the City is,
:09:18. > :09:24.they haven't taken the bonuses await in tough times. Oh, pull them! But
:09:25. > :09:29.we are only just coming out of the recession we were in. We are talking
:09:30. > :09:34.about bankers who are potentially earning ?1 million getting a ?2
:09:35. > :09:37.million bonus. As you say, Kieron, it might seem OK to pay them in the
:09:38. > :09:42.good times but we're only just coming out of a really bad economic
:09:43. > :09:48.slump. It might be doing well for some people, the economy, on paper,
:09:49. > :09:52.but it is not doing well for others. They are struggling a lot. It is
:09:53. > :09:57.terrible, terrible PR. If we had a serious banking crisis only just,
:09:58. > :10:01.and banking wants to continue with public trust, they cannot have this
:10:02. > :10:06.tin ear for the public mood, saying, well, we need to have twice as
:10:07. > :10:08.salary. They need to change their payment systems and convince all of
:10:09. > :10:13.us they have changed their ways, but, then again, does it matter?
:10:14. > :10:18.Because we cannot cope without the banks and they can do what they
:10:19. > :10:27.like, to some extent. Let's go on to The Guardian. Should the banks be
:10:28. > :10:30.broken up? Is that the real way to deal with this? More smaller banks,
:10:31. > :10:38.so therefore you don't have these five monoliths who can dictate
:10:39. > :10:43.everything? Well, the issue previously was the energy companies
:10:44. > :10:48.and that didn't work, so why don't have a lot of confidence in Ed
:10:49. > :10:53.Miliband giving them this morning -- this warning. -- I. Part of the
:10:54. > :10:58.problem is it is already happening. This is something Europe is doing.
:10:59. > :11:01.But it doesn't come in for another year and the Government is fighting
:11:02. > :11:09.this in the courts, so it may never happen if they win? I think it will
:11:10. > :11:14.happen, we're just gearing up for that. Part of the reason RBS will
:11:15. > :11:19.have to ask for this is because the EU laws allow you to ask for leeway.
:11:20. > :11:22.On the Labour policy, this is something that governments always
:11:23. > :11:25.say, they want more competition in the market, and the reason that
:11:26. > :11:28.things are not going well in the energy market for consumers is the
:11:29. > :11:37.lack of companies. Running a bank is not easy, you need a lot of capital.
:11:38. > :11:43.It is not a free school! All right, OK, let's stay with the Guardian,
:11:44. > :11:47.apparently the Austro-Hungarian Empire's decision to declare war on
:11:48. > :11:52.Serbia in 1914 had nothing to do with the start of the First World
:11:53. > :11:56.War, apparently! Thank God for the Guardian, bringing the news right up
:11:57. > :12:01.to date, up-to-the-minute, illustrating their front page like
:12:02. > :12:05.that. This is what Franz Ferdinand's family say, by the way.
:12:06. > :12:09.The First World War was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz
:12:10. > :12:13.Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and one of his descendants are said, it
:12:14. > :12:19.wasn't our fault, you know, guys, we didn't start this mess! The Guardian
:12:20. > :12:23.has finally got around to reporting it 100 years on, fair enough, it is
:12:24. > :12:27.the centenary year for the start of the war, but what is interesting is,
:12:28. > :12:31.further down in this copy, he says, the descendants says, this was
:12:32. > :12:36.already happening, it was in the starting blocks, the assassination
:12:37. > :12:38.was the blue touch paper to light the inevitable conflagration of the
:12:39. > :12:42.First World War. He says, if you have to blame someone, the greatest
:12:43. > :12:46.blame would lie with nationalism itself, which was really which
:12:47. > :12:52.started the First World War in terms of the Serbian-Bosnian conflict,
:12:53. > :12:55.Austria, Hungary, Russia, Britain and Germany, nationalism, and a
:12:56. > :12:59.couple of weeks ago Michael Gove was doing what? Banging the Nationalists
:13:00. > :13:04.drum, saying it was our finest moment, a great British achievement.
:13:05. > :13:07.I am more prepared to listen to Franz Ferdinand's many times over
:13:08. > :13:14.grandson saying nationalism is a bad thing. Not the band, not the pop
:13:15. > :13:19.group, by the way! But you might be a little bit sheepish this year, and
:13:20. > :13:24.in fact over the next four years, if you are related to the Ferdinand
:13:25. > :13:29.family! They are out there doing interviews. I think this is a
:13:30. > :13:32.brilliant piece of journalism! Who goes up to their news editor and
:13:33. > :13:46.says, do you know who I really want to interview?! I want to hear the
:13:47. > :13:51.pitch! I have got a really good story! It is a bit old, we have done
:13:52. > :13:57.it before... My news editor would say, if it is not new, it is not
:13:58. > :14:02.news, and this qualifies. Let's just throw the Guardian in the bin!
:14:03. > :14:06.Thanks for that, you will be back in an hour for a look at some of the
:14:07. > :14:09.stories behind the headlines here on the Papers, but stay with us,
:14:10. > :14:14.because at the top of the hour we will be looking at the decision of
:14:15. > :14:21.the Prime Minister that he is not going to allow bonuses that go
:14:22. > :14:25.beyond the overall bonus pot four, certainly, RBS at any rate. We will
:14:26. > :14:27.bring you more on that at the top of the hour, but now the time for
:14:28. > :14:40.Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm
:14:41. > :14:44.Karthi Gnanasegaram. The headlines this evening: The 99th goal of the
:14:45. > :14:47.season for City puts them into the fourth round of the FA Cup after a
:14:48. > :14:51.5-0 win over Blackburn.