22/01/2014 The Papers

for one matter. -- Juan Mata. It could be a brilliant day for the

Industry Minister they look to retain the Ashes. That is all. -- it

could be a brilliant day for the English women as they look to retail

the Ashes. Hallow. Welcome to our look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. Bring me are the political

editor of the Daily Mirror and the political correspondent of the sun

on Sunday. Many front pages are in. In the daily Telegraph, claims from

Iain Duncan Smith that the coalition 's welfare reforms will make Britain

great again. Pictures of protesters throwing petrol bombs in the centre

of care. A striking image of anti-government demonstrators and

police in the Ukraine. That is on the front of the Guardian. In the

Daily Mail, a different story. It claims Nick Clegg is struggling to

contain another sex scandal. That is after allegations against Nick

Hancock. Markets are braced for a pre-election rise in interest rates

at the drop in unemployment figures announced today. And the Metro,

which you can get in 50 cities around the country, has views of

parents being fined ?60 if children are late to school. I will stop

benefit Street Britain. This is what has been reported. Iain Duncan Smith

is saying that minutes released by the monetary policy committee

suggested that tightening in the eligibility requirements for some

state benefits might have led to an intensification of job searches.

Basically, because of his benefit reforms, unemployment is going down.

I am sure he will be suggesting that. I would like to look at the

minutes in full. I thought this was the result of a fantastic economic

boom the Government were supposed to be creating by letting house prices

rocket in the south-east. This story comes off the back of the fantastic

job figures out today. It is a really welcome fall in unemployment.

What is not mentioned is the double sting in the tail. The same set of

figures showed the value of peoples wages is still going down in real

terms. Wages went up by only .9% in the year to November, which is half

the rate of inflation. Further down the line, there is the prospect of

an interest rate rise. The Bank of England has said that when

unemployment hits 7% of the Bank of England has said that when

unemployment hits 7%. To think about rate rises again. I goalposts. -- I

suspect they will be moving the goalposts. It has been the biggest

fall in unemployment, which is great news. That is what Iain Duncan Smith

is highlighting in part in his speech. He is also saying the

benefit reforms are transforming the country. He is the kind of the

cuddly side of the benefit crackdown to George Osborne. Compared to

George Osborne, who is the nasty side. He has always believed that

changing the benefits actually transforms lives. That is the most

important thing. People trapped on benefits, it is bad for them and it

is bad for society. It is not just about fixing the benefits. It is

about transforming lives. Most people would agree with that. We

have Benefit Street in the headlines. The Channel 4 show has

been very popular. It does not actually mention Benefit Street

anywhere in the speech. He does go on to talk about these hidden

ghettos that nobody sees. If you live on your father-in-law 's

country estate, M Iain Duncan Smith, any get ministerial limo to work

every day, you're not going to see it. Let's move on to the daily

express. It is claiming that millions are still trapped in these

ghettos. Craig, this is suggesting that Iain Duncan Smith has not gone

far enough. It is from the exact same speech. A totally different

reading of the exact speech. In Duncan Smith says that if people are

trapped on benefits, at the very worst, it makes them turn to

criminality. Iain Duncan Smith was someone who said he did not want to

demonise people on benefits, except. He is making a link between benefits

and criminality. I am aware of quite a few people who commit crimes who

are on very decent salaries. I'm not quite sure why he is raising this.

Is he definitely raising this or is this an extrapolation from the Daily

Express he is saying the present system makes criminals out of those

trapped in its clutches. Too many end up in the shadow economy or

working cash in hand. He is not saying they are going out rioting, I

he is saying that when you go into work you get penalised by the tax

system and it is not worth people working. They end up doing a couple

of shots behind the bar and taking cash in hand. That is a criminal

offence. It might not be crime as we think of it but they are criminals.

They would be a not more pleased with what the Daily Telegraph has

written. We are going to stay with the daily express. Tories face

backlash on EU migrants. There are dozens of Tory MPs plotting to rebel

next week and two folk to try to put work permit restrictions on

Bulgarians and Romanians migrates. -- and to work to try. Anyone who is

prepared to get on a plane and change countries to look for a job

on New Year's Day, deserves it, frankly. This is the immigration

bill coming back, which they delayed through this parliamentary fudge

before Christmas, precisely so that Nigel Mills, who put down this

amendment which was supported by some Tories would no longer apply.

That did not put them. We think it is coming next week. Must be dawning

on David Cameron that he cannot win with these people. -- it must be

dawning. He has encouraged Euroscepticism. He needs to do that

with UKIP now, doesn't he? Let's move on. Several front pages

carrying dramatic photographs of the clashes in Ukraine. In the daily

Telegraph, there are events which are being described over there. Here

is in flames. That is like a scene from Dante 's Inferno. In the

Guardian, we go forward together to face bullets. The opposition has

been meeting the President this evening and those talks did not get

anywhere. The opposition leaders have said to their comrades, we are

going to go back out onto the streets. That story could develop

over the next few days and has in fact been dominating. We should

explain it all started because the president was seen to push forward

with this to take the country bit closer to the European Union. He

decided not to do that. He decided to get closer to Moscow. Was it not

a voluntary move? This is a serious point. It is on the doorstep of

Europe or in Europe depending on geographical definition. It is

serious stuff. People are getting killed. There is a bizarre impasse.

They keep going into one square with demonstrators are congregating,

clearing it out and letting them back in again. The demonstrations

have developed over the past couple of days because the Government

decided it would clamp down on people having a right to join

together in the street and protest and stuff. A situation is

developing. Let's go on to the Daily Mail. Further embarrassment, it

seems, for the Liberal Democrats. A new sex storm shames the Lib Dems.

That is the headline. This is a terrible week getting even worse for

Nick Clegg. He needed this like a hole in the head. This is Mike

Hancock, who had had the whip taken away from him but he is a Lib Dem

councillor in Portsmouth. Some frankly horrific allegations that

have come out in a report by a QC which is probably best not

discussed. It comes after Lord Wren Arndt, the scandal which is less

graphic than this but it does not paint Lib Dems in a particularly

good light. These allegations have been floating around for almost four

years. The party has failed to do anything about them. We must say

there is a criminal case to answer. This report that was leaked today,

into the allegations about Nick Hancock, the local Lib Dems voted to

suppress it. I think there will be big questions asked about why Nick

Clegg has not got involved in trying to sort this out beforehand. It

comes of course as they are desperately trying to close down the

Nick Reynold row. We saw the wife of Nick Clegg coming out today denying

she was fuelling the problem. There is now an investigation into

the investigation which could rumble on for 14 weeks. It could go on to

the next election. So it is the leadership's handling of the crisis

which is that the four here? They are trying to play catch up. In both

of these cases, nothing happened. This is 2011. The Lord Rennard

allegations are also fairly historic. It is now a case of it is

all out in the open. It will rumble on and on and on, unfortunately for

the Lib Dems. An interesting story on the front page of the Guardian,

this is an exclusive and it is saying a repeat of Afghanistan or

Iraq invasion ruled out for the war weary UK. This is an interesting

story. What it seems to be saying is the top brass in the MoD who think

not only is Britain very sick of intervention abroad, after Iraq and

Afghanistan, but the changing make-up of Britain is also making us

less prone to intervention. This comes at a time when people who

think we should be intervening more abroad are pointing to Syria and the

horrors happening there and saying this is why we cannot afford to

stand back. It is a dilemma. Is it because there are more people from

different countries and backgrounds. Exactly. It is not just it is the

ball from areas where you might be taking military action, more so that

it is the global outlook that there is. Any time you see a leak from the

Ministry of Defence you have to wonder what the agenda is. This

looks to me like either top brass or senior officials coming up with

America and the new way of saying, if we say it is this reason,

actually hides the fact that we cannot afford to do another

Afghanistan or Iraq. The other thing is it comes on the day we find out

another 1400 soldiers are getting their marching orders. Some fancy

deflection there. So, the Guardian, you have been had. Thank you. You

are going to be back in an hour's time for another spin around Fleet

Street. Stay with us because at the top of the hour we will have much

more on the biggest fall in people out of work for 14 years, according

to the Office for National Statistics. Stay with us here, it

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