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statement on the case of three-year-old Mikaeel. With the let | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
you know when that starts. -- we will let you know. | :00:07. | :00:19. | |
Welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
tomorrow. With me are Yasmin Alibhai-Brown from the Independent | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
and Eleanor Mills from the Sunday Times. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
We start with the Independent on Sunday. A report on leaks connecting | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
the police and News International was buried. Gamers Janet Smith will | :00:49. | :01:01. | |
say that Jimmy Savile's behaviour was recognised by BBC executives, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
but they took no action. The Sunday Times reports that Prince | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Charles will share official duties on the beaches of Normandy this | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
summer when the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the D-day | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
landings. The mail says that the Prime | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Minister intends to stop printing welfare literature in any language | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
other than English. Let's start with that story on the | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
mail on Sunday. The headline, speak in English, or lose benefits. This | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
drives me nuts! English is my fourth language. I did not even speak it | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
until I was eight. This idea that unless you learn English you some of | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
criminal. What if Spain decided to do this to the Britons living in | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Andalusia. Would that be all right? Eleanor? This is another one of | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
those lurches to the right to try to put off the UKIP tendency, isn't it? | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
This is pure politics. This is responding to the popularity of | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
things like benefits straight and the opinion polls that everyone | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
thinks we should be cracking down on welfare and that people think it is | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
too easy for people to get benefits. This is a knee jerk political | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
reaction to that. We would want it to happen to Britons living in | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Spain, Italy or France. There would be an outcry if those countries had | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
these sorts of knee jerk policies? I completely understand, Yasmin. But I | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
also think that there are people who come to England and claim our | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
benefits. You have to ask at some point, shall be endlessly spending | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
money who have no railings to this place except for the fact that they | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
have wound here -- wound up here as economic migrants. That is so wrong. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
Maybe that is a way of doing it. I'm not saying... If you go into | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
schools, school after school will tell you, I'd even this government | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
admitted it ten days ago, some of the top achieving schools are | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
achieving high results because migrant children, who don't speak in | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
-- English have gone there and work so hard that they have raised | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
standards. So can we stop punishing people who speak other languages? I | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
agree with you. I am the governor of a local primary school which has | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
over 50% of children who do not speaking this as a first language. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
And they do incredibly well. In London, where we have most | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
immigrants, we have the best schools. There is an immigrant | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
culture which values education. That is not say that we should have an | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
open door policy everybody who comes here not speaking English and wants | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
to claim benefits. Onto the Observer, serious topics | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
with the headline, revealed, how Savile abused up to 1000 on BBC | :04:20. | :04:32. | |
premises. This is Dame Janet Smith, who was a former Court of Appeal | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
judge who previously led the enquiry into Harold Shipman. She has led a | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
report into the proclivities of Jimmy Savile. She is saying probably | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
there were 1000 people abuse at the BBC in dressing rooms and green | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
rooms. That allegedly BBC executives knew about it and did nothing. The | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
most chilling phrase, every chat -- every chance he had, he took it. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
There was never a quiet day for Jimmy Savile. That is chilling. And | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
to be fair, it sounds as if it is revolving around a one source. And I | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
commented from the BBC press office, we will not be commenting on the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
article. We will be responding to the review when it is published. | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Therefore, that is the situation at the BBC at the moment. It wasn't | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
just Savile, though, was it? The Hull City were tall thing, it came | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
out in a letter to the police. I took a letter that the BBC -- that | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
someone wrote to me about the BBC and that is the first time anybody | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
thought about what Stuart Hall had been getting away with. It was not | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
just the BBC, the whole of our society seems to have colluded in | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
ignoring these victims. There have been these high-profile court cases | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
about every high-profile chap from the 80s, the entire cast of | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
characters from my childhood on trial for the most horrendous | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
thing! And all deny it. Yes, but it is not looking good. Onto another | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
story with the Observer. This one is the main photograph story. Richard | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Harris, the former special adviser to the Liberal leader Nick Clegg, | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
talks about her disgust about how the party has handled the Lord | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Rennard harassment case. -- Bridget Harris. I find this, not shocking, | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
but is if we are back in some 18th century, or something. This is | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
supposed to be the modern, nice guy party. Liberal party. What is | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
stopping... Apparently, it is the Lib Dem peer 's, and I can believe | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
that, who are starving Nick on this. He was quite robust, as much as he | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
could be. I think he was in a corner and he had to do something. But I | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
notice that the laws come together. It is a club. It is up to Nick Clegg | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
to say that this is wrong. Lord Rennard has denied all of it. And he | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
was cleared by the commission that Nick Clegg setup. That is not enough | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
for Yasmin! The women you are coming out now are disappointed and saying | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
they want an apology. I don't think women make these things up because | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
they haven't got enough washing-up to do. It is very hard to take | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
npower. I wasn't suggesting that. -- to take on power. There was a great | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
deal of theory that this chap had got away with it and he seems to be | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
coming back into the fold. -- there was a great deal of anger. Bridget | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Harris is saying that she doesn't want to be part of a party that | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
allows this go on. The Liberal Democrats have seven female MPs and | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
while they carry on treating women in this way, they are unlikely to | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
get more. It puts of women going into public life and this -- and we | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
need more of them. This is a disaster. The quote from Bridget | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Harris is, this is a classic Lib Dem farce. Well, she should know! It is | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
tough on Nick Clegg as well. It is tough, but this is when... He often | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
becomes Nick Clegg, I can be very authorities -- very authoritative. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
This is time for him to do it. It shows him in a bad light unfairly. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
These are not his values. It was Nick Clegg who said that they would | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
make the commission look into it, and the problem is that if you let | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
the commission direct and they come up with a decision that you do not | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
like, you are in trouble. It is like Cameron and 11 as an enquiry. It | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
seems like the easiest political enquiry -- the easiest political | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
decision to leave it to an enquiry, but you should make them yourselves | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
-- make your decisions yourselves. Whatever the actuality, there is the | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
perception that these women are making complaints, even if they did | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
not happen, these are the perceptions. Perceptions are very | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
important. There was enough evidence that bad things were going on. As a | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
leader, he should have said that should not be going on. Just to | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
repeat that any allegations have been strenuously denied. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Onto the Sunday Times. The headline, Queen and child star to | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
job share. Eleanor, the subheading merge staff teams to begin this | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
week. -- Queen and Charles to job share. They are basically saying | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
that the Queen is finding longwall travel exhausting. Prince Charles | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
went to the Commonwealth conference. It seemed like Prince | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
Charles will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting. We discovered that we | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
will not call it a Regency, because that would cause constitutional | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
issues. But Charles will be doing a lots more. Camilla has been | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
shadowing the Queen in not more. She is 88, she has not been well and | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
this is the beginning of a shift. Charles will be taking over quite a | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
lot of her roles. I think it is a momentous moment. Julie six, when | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
they go for the D-day landings in France, June the 6th, will be the | :11:28. | :11:40. | |
passing of the bat. Some comments in from our royal correspondent, he | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
says that we have known the communication teams are being named | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
-- are being merged and Prince Charles is taking on more. The | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
newspaper's line that the Queen's visit to the D-day landing site may | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
be the Queen's final trip, he is very sceptical about. Yasmin, trying | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
to get you excited in a royal story is eat -- is not easy. I am not | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
going to be excited. Why do you have this on your front page? It is not a | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
front-page! A job share between two privileged people. I am sorry, I am | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
a Republican. Can I be excused? Know! -- no, you can't! On the basis | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
that news is what people are interested in... Something serious, | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
yes. But a job share between the monarchy in the air is not a big | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
story. There will be people shouting at their televisions in support and | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
against. But the Queen has insisted that she will go on and not abdicate | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
and this is the first sign that she is maybe feeling her age. | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
Onto the Sunday Times's second story. Sugar watchdog work for | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Coca-Cola. This is a proper front-page story. I'm sure it | :13:09. | :13:20. | |
carries on. It is depressing that one of the country's leading | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
nutritional experts, tasked by the government to propose new ways of | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
instructing people not to have too much sweet stuff because it is very | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
bad for you, is a paid adviser to Coca-Cola and Mars. I find this | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
utterly depressing. He gets money from Coca-Cola and advises them at | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
board level. Monthly. Sorry, for Mars. And cocoa -- Coca-Cola fund | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
his Ms -- funds his research. This is happening everywhere. Academic | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
life is now is infiltrated because of cuts and so on... Well it's | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
funded... We are losing that ethical space between commercial interest | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
and academic neutrality. Someone in the Government should have said, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
hang on, this is a conflict of interest, you are can't advise us on | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
sugar and Mars and coke coalament We are -- Coca-Cola. We are living in a | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
time where everything is sponsored. We no longer have it in politics, | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
academics. That's really dangerous. In America it's much worse, by the | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
way. It's all incredibly powerful sugar lobby. The last couple of | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
weeks people saying sugar is the new tobacco. I'm not an expert on the | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
science of the health claims for sugar or against, but there's a very | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
strong, big business lobby, which has massive financial interests in | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
keeping our food pumped up with cheap sugar. A huge industry. With | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
regards to the comments, from the Times, then, defend your stance. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
You've got that as a story on the front page, but it's small in | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
comparison to the main story about the Queen and Prince Charles. I | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
think they're both jolly good stories. A lot of, probably in terms | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
of selling newspapers, the Queen and Charles are a good headline. That | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
will go around the world. What is, do you think people don't know that | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
Charles is now taking up much more stuff that the Queen isn't doing? In | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
what sense is this a surprising story for anyone? I think it is | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
surprising because the Queen has been so adamant that she wasn't | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
going to do it. Slowly, in the last six or seven months, even I, turn | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
away, have noticed that Charles and Camilla have been doing many more | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
official functions. And Prince William. Yes. All of them. , there's | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
an abundance of stories, Harry coming out of flying apaches. Yes | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
taking a desk job. Coming back to London. William back in London. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
There's a sense of the new generation taking over at the | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Palace. That is important. The Queen's been a massive figurehead | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
for a large part of the globe for a long time. She's not going to do | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
that, that is a big story. Whether you're a republican or not, she's | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
massive news. The sugar thing is completely crucial and very | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
important. It's on the front page too along with two other very good | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
stories. Enough! And fantastic stuff inside too. That's enough selling. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
You completely scuppered your OBE chances. You know I sent mine back. | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
I did. You had to mention that. You did? I sent mine back. She's had the | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
call and she said no. I sent the thing back. I took it and then sent | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
it back. It's the past. I thought you were a rerepublican. We are | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
waiting for the police statements in Scotland about the three-year-old | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
Mikaeel Kular and that statement by police, was due to happen outside | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Police Scotland headquarters. That was due about five or so minutes | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
ago. That hasn't actually begun yet. We could perhaps maybe talk to | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Robert Hall, who's our reporter who | :17:23. | :17:24. |