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:00:00. > :00:00.next 90 days or lose his world title. And how England won their

:00:00. > :00:00.first Ashes of the winter, beating Australia in Perth. That is all

:00:00. > :00:19.after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:20. > :00:22.to what the morning's papers will be bringing us. With me are Louise

:00:23. > :00:24.Court, Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan, and James Miller who

:00:25. > :00:32.is a political journalist for the Sunday Post. Welcome. Do not believe

:00:33. > :00:36.all you have heard. It is only 12 minutes.

:00:37. > :00:39.The i says the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is being accused of

:00:40. > :00:43."fiddling data" on economic recovery. The Mail claims teachers

:00:44. > :00:47.who take drugs are to be allowed back into the classroom under new

:00:48. > :00:50.rules. The Daily Telegraph says that NICE is urging patients to be more

:00:51. > :00:54.assertive with their doctors, in order to get the medicines they're

:00:55. > :00:57.entitled to. The Times has a picture of President Hollande of France

:00:58. > :01:01.meeting the Pope at the Vatican. Its lead story is the number of terror

:01:02. > :01:05.arrests in the UK, as fears grow about the threat posed by Britons

:01:06. > :01:09.travelling to and from Syria. The Daily Express warns that gales are

:01:10. > :01:12.about to batter Britain again. The Mirror has an investigation into

:01:13. > :01:17.abortion drugs which it says are available on the internet for as

:01:18. > :01:19.little as 78p. The Guardian says 185 Nepalese construction workers have

:01:20. > :01:26.been killed in the last year, while working on projects for the 2022

:01:27. > :01:36.World Cup in Qatar. And the FT lists a string of currencies hit by the

:01:37. > :01:40.fall of the Argentine peso. Let's begin. We start with the i, a

:01:41. > :01:47.story that has been reported throughout the day. The headline

:01:48. > :01:52.is" Prime Minister accused of fiddling data on economic recovery.

:01:53. > :01:54.Leading economists denounce government assertions over rising

:01:55. > :02:00.household income is dubious at best". We almost what we can do with

:02:01. > :02:06.statistics and it depends what you want them to say. Absolutely. I

:02:07. > :02:10.don't think the Prime Minister has personally fiddled the data, but you

:02:11. > :02:19.can obviously do what you like with statistics to an extent. The second

:02:20. > :02:22.hit is IFF Star rector -in 2015 average pay will be lower than it

:02:23. > :02:35.was pre-recession and lower than in 2010. -- the IFA is director.

:02:36. > :02:41.We know when the general election will be, and all political parties

:02:42. > :02:44.are getting their ducks in a row. Labour have been talking about cost

:02:45. > :02:50.of living prices for months and this is the way the coalition are coming

:02:51. > :02:53.back at that. The challenge is that if you say to everybody, it is all

:02:54. > :03:00.better and everything is great, if it will don't feel it, it will

:03:01. > :03:03.cheese them off being told this. Isn't the theory that you nudge

:03:04. > :03:08.people in the right direction and eventually they will believe it?

:03:09. > :03:14.There has been research done that people are actually behaving,

:03:15. > :03:18.although the climate is getting better, as if they are in the midst

:03:19. > :03:21.of a recession. They don't trust what is happening and they have

:03:22. > :03:28.changed their spending habits. To tell people it is fabulous, it

:03:29. > :03:33.infuriates people who don't feel it. With some of the statistics quoted

:03:34. > :03:37.earlier today, we are meant to be ?3 better off on the average wage

:03:38. > :03:42.which, you know, you can hardly buy a copy for that. That is probably

:03:43. > :03:49.what people are giving up, treats like Coffey. There are regional

:03:50. > :03:53.differences, aren't there? We know employers are being encouraged pass

:03:54. > :03:58.on any profits, any improvements they are seeing to their staff,

:03:59. > :04:04.rather than holding onto that benefit. But, as you say, people are

:04:05. > :04:08.not necessarily behaving as if the recession is coming to an end.

:04:09. > :04:11.People think the economy is going to get worse, which is bizarre, given

:04:12. > :04:17.that the government is hammering everybody with the good news. Again,

:04:18. > :04:21.I suppose it suggests that people don't necessarily trust the

:04:22. > :04:25.statistics they are being given, and headlines like this possibly feed

:04:26. > :04:29.into that, maybe they feed it. It is a bit of a chicken and egg. Do

:04:30. > :04:34.people not trust the stats because of the stories, or do the papers put

:04:35. > :04:39.it on the front page because they know people will not believe any

:04:40. > :04:43.stats put in front of them? People know how they feel about the money

:04:44. > :04:50.in their wallet, or not in it. Which is why they don't trust the stats.

:04:51. > :04:55.They trust cold, hard cash. The Guardian has kind of a related story

:04:56. > :05:00.insofar as what a future Labour government would do in economic

:05:01. > :05:04.terms. Ed Balls gives Labour a dilemma, to raise tax cut spending.

:05:05. > :05:08.The Shadow Chancellor has his colours to the mast, giving a

:05:09. > :05:12.binding commitment that a Labour government will run a budget surplus

:05:13. > :05:17.by the end of the next Parliament. He is a bit of a hostage to fortune

:05:18. > :05:23.with that idea. It is about trust and labour wanting people to trust

:05:24. > :05:27.them with the economy again. Absolutely, and to persuade voters

:05:28. > :05:29.that they will be tough on government spending and they have an

:05:30. > :05:36.economic plan for sustained recovery. I think also, when you

:05:37. > :05:39.have got the coalition going out and saying, we are making things better,

:05:40. > :05:45.Labour have to come to the table with something that they are going

:05:46. > :05:49.to be doing. But I think it is a very brave statement. Things are

:05:50. > :05:52.getting better, that is the thing, isn't it? Even if it is a small

:05:53. > :05:56.amount at the moment, which is possibly why it falls feels able to

:05:57. > :06:00.say he will run a surplus, because he thinks the economy will be in a

:06:01. > :06:07.position where he can do that. It is a bit of a risk, and he does say it

:06:08. > :06:11.is a binding commitment. I do not quite understand how it is binding,

:06:12. > :06:18.other than he gets voted out if he does not meet the commitment.

:06:19. > :06:22.Whether he goes to jail, or what! It is one of those difficult positions

:06:23. > :06:25.for shadow ministers. They have two attack what is currently going on

:06:26. > :06:28.and then give a solution for how they would change it. They cannot

:06:29. > :06:32.say on the one hand more debt is being racked up where the Coalition

:06:33. > :06:36.Government and then not have a plan to deal with it. It is whether he

:06:37. > :06:40.chooses to tax us, or to keep cutting away at the welfare budget,

:06:41. > :06:49.which they have also been critical of. It depends which voters they are

:06:50. > :06:53.after. If they are after the middle ground, by saying you will raise

:06:54. > :06:58.tax, is it going to go down as popular? No. But if you are talking

:06:59. > :07:03.to the labour homeland, if you are saying we are going to cut spending,

:07:04. > :07:08.that is going to cause problems. So they are in a tough place. They have

:07:09. > :07:12.to get the message out maybe earlier than they might like. They can't

:07:13. > :07:17.change tack just a few weeks before the election because nobody would

:07:18. > :07:20.believe it. With the economy turning a corner, the cost of living a tag

:07:21. > :07:25.line which they have been running is beginning to wear a bit thin. It

:07:26. > :07:27.looks like the figures might actually begin to play into the

:07:28. > :07:31.hands of the Tories in terms of the cost of living crisis if not being

:07:32. > :07:37.over, if there is one, will at least not be as bad, there will be light

:07:38. > :07:41.at the end of the tunnel. Daily Telegraph says you should be pushy

:07:42. > :07:46.with your GP to get the best drugs. We are encouraged to adopt an

:07:47. > :07:50.American attitude, according to NICE, who decide which drugs are

:07:51. > :07:54.local authorities should be funding. That assumes you are confident in

:07:55. > :07:59.front of your GP and I am sure many people still feel deferential in

:08:00. > :08:04.front of a family doctor. And it assumes that you even know which

:08:05. > :08:11.drugs are available to you and you should be getting. Absolutely. This

:08:12. > :08:18.story, the chairman of NICE says we must be more like the Americans. You

:08:19. > :08:21.go in and demand the drugs you want. That is very different because the

:08:22. > :08:27.whole health service in America is very different. We have all done

:08:28. > :08:31.it. You go to the doctor and you say, I am going to ask this and

:08:32. > :08:36.this, and you come out and go, I forgot to ask any of that, because

:08:37. > :08:41.you get the white coat syndrome. He says he wants people to be more like

:08:42. > :08:43.Americans but American people are a product of the American health

:08:44. > :08:49.system, which is alien to us. Completely alien. If you look at the

:08:50. > :08:53.trouble that Obama has had getting very minor social insurance compare

:08:54. > :09:01.to what we had in 1948-9, when the NHS started. It is a very weird

:09:02. > :09:05.story and what he is trying to say. We are told all the time the NHS is

:09:06. > :09:11.on its knees and he is saying there are loads of these drugs, just ask

:09:12. > :09:18.for them and be more assertive. The but only the ones that NICE has

:09:19. > :09:21.approved. That is the vital part. We hear stories about wonder drugs that

:09:22. > :09:28.NICE will not approve, and aren't they bad people. Doesn't he have a

:09:29. > :09:32.point that maybe some of us could take more responsibility for our

:09:33. > :09:39.health, to get ourselves informed about what we are entitled to? Yes,

:09:40. > :09:42.there is a big part to play for that in terms of talking about

:09:43. > :09:45.information prescriptions. Send people home with basically a fact

:09:46. > :09:53.sheet so they find out about their condition. But that is not the same

:09:54. > :09:57.as being pushy. That is being well informed. He says he does not want

:09:58. > :10:02.people to be confrontational. It is a fine line between being pushy and

:10:03. > :10:07.confrontational. It is assuming you go there and are educated and

:10:08. > :10:12.articulate, but if you are a little old lady who goes there, who may not

:10:13. > :10:17.be up-to-date to go on the internet and find out what she should have,

:10:18. > :10:22.it's outrageous. If you have a parent with a chronically sick

:10:23. > :10:25.child... I am fairly sure this doctor, this professor would not

:10:26. > :10:32.want people coming in who have just been on the internet. Everybody

:10:33. > :10:37.knows, anybody who has been unwell and looks on the internet, they go

:10:38. > :10:43.to the doctor going, what have I got? ! This other story in the Daily

:10:44. > :10:48.Telegraph, Heinrich Himmler's love letters to his wife, documenting the

:10:49. > :10:53.rise and fall of the Nazi regime, being made public for the first

:10:54. > :10:58.time. They are in a bank vault at the moment in Tel Aviv. It will make

:10:59. > :11:02.fascinating if uncomfortable reading. What I find fascinating

:11:03. > :11:05.about this is you wonder how the Israeli family got hold of these

:11:06. > :11:16.letters. It is an extraordinary story. Whenever you see any Nazis

:11:17. > :11:21.painted in a humanlike, it is always mind-boggling. Is it a good thing or

:11:22. > :11:24.a bad thing? He is a monster. Is it a good thing to think that he is

:11:25. > :11:34.like the rest of us and we are all capable of it, in a way, or is it a

:11:35. > :11:39.bad thing to have him humanised? Let's look at the Daily Mail.

:11:40. > :11:43.Drug-taking teachers let back into class. New roles allow convicted

:11:44. > :11:49.users to keep their jobs if they have a convicted record. How will

:11:50. > :11:53.parents feel about that idea, if these people are supposed to be

:11:54. > :11:59.morally guiding their children for several hours a week? There have

:12:00. > :12:03.been rows before between the teaching union and some teachers,

:12:04. > :12:08.because when schools have tried to enforce compulsory drug teaching,

:12:09. > :12:13.and it is a debate that happens in America as well because teachers say

:12:14. > :12:18.it is against Civil Liberties, and a lot of parents, you would not want

:12:19. > :12:25.some drug crazed teacher teaching your children. Should people be

:12:26. > :12:28.given a second chance? Realistically I don't think most parents will mind

:12:29. > :12:36.because most parents have been doing the same. Do you think? We are how

:12:37. > :12:41.long since the drugs revolution of the 60s? We are not talking major

:12:42. > :12:47.drugs offences. It may not be what you want for your kids. Minor drugs

:12:48. > :12:57.offences. I don't think we are talking Howard Marks. Personal use.

:12:58. > :13:01.Let's move on to a final one. It is in the 's times,

:13:02. > :13:09.there is a picture of three of the national uniforms that the teams

:13:10. > :13:14.will be wearing. The Chevron one is for Norway, the one in the middle is

:13:15. > :13:24.the United States and the one on the right, the semi-rainbow, and Adidas

:13:25. > :13:30.creation for Germany. They are beyond shocking. The French and the

:13:31. > :13:35.Italians are great. But everybody else's outfits are just awful. You

:13:36. > :13:38.think, these poor athletes, they have dedicated the last three years

:13:39. > :13:43.of their lives to getting up at dawn, no boozing and they have to

:13:44. > :13:49.wear the most outrageous outfits. Which one would you choose? Blimey.

:13:50. > :13:59.The Chevron is, I suppose. Don't combine with your tie! James and

:14:00. > :14:04.Louise will be back at 11:30pm. Stay with us because we will be looking

:14:05. > :14:09.at the government's claimed that new figures on wages prove most of us

:14:10. > :14:16.are better off. Now it is time for Sportsday.

:14:17. > :14:20.Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. The

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