:00:00. > :00:07.Opposition Leader in Ukraine has turned down the post of PM. It was
:00:08. > :00:18.offered to him by the President after months of street protests.
:00:19. > :00:23.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing
:00:24. > :00:26.us tomorrow. With me are broadcaster Bonnie Greer and Nigel Nelson, who's
:00:27. > :00:34.Political Editor of The Sunday People. Let's have a quick look at
:00:35. > :00:37.some of the front pages. The Independent on Sunday looks at
:00:38. > :00:39.rising energy costs and explores the possibility of communities
:00:40. > :00:41.generating their own electricity with the help of government funding.
:00:42. > :00:44.The Sunday Express reports on comments allegedly made by Princess
:00:45. > :00:53.Michael of Kent in which she describes senior members of the
:00:54. > :00:56.royal family as boring. The front page of the Observer reports on
:00:57. > :00:59.comments made by former PM Tony Blair in which he argues that
:01:00. > :01:02.religious extremism has become the biggest source of conflict around
:01:03. > :01:04.the world. The paper also reports on President Hollande's private life
:01:05. > :01:07.after the French leader announced his split from long-term partner
:01:08. > :01:09.Valerie Trierweiler. The Mail on Sunday's front page concerns the
:01:10. > :01:12.conservative MP Aidan Burley and allegations about his behaviour at a
:01:13. > :01:17.Nazi-themed stag party at a French ski resort. The Sunday Times also
:01:18. > :01:21.reports President Hollande's split from his long-term partner. And the
:01:22. > :01:24.paper points to criticism within the Labour Party at a promise by the
:01:25. > :01:35.Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to re-introduce the 50p top rate of
:01:36. > :01:38.tax. The Sunday Telegraph takes up the same theme and says that
:01:39. > :01:41.Labour's former City Minister Lord Myners is also against the move,
:01:42. > :01:45.which he says takes the party back to Old Labour.
:01:46. > :01:50.Let's have a look at those stories in a bit more detail. Let's start
:01:51. > :01:56.with the Sunday Times. Everybody picking up on Ed Miliband's
:01:57. > :02:09.announcement, and Ed Balls sloop was an announcement of a higher tax for
:02:10. > :02:13.earners over ?150. It is people who donate money to Labour who are upset
:02:14. > :02:17.about this. There will be a row about this, because there is a shift
:02:18. > :02:24.in the party, and it is going a bit left. Some of the old socialist
:02:25. > :02:28.ideals are coming back. No longer is socialist a dirty word in the Labour
:02:29. > :02:33.party, as it was under Tony Blair. There is a bit of social engineering
:02:34. > :02:40.here, but the one point eight both Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are being
:02:41. > :02:43.consistent on is that there is going to be a recovery, the people who
:02:44. > :02:48.should benefit should be the whole country and not just those people at
:02:49. > :02:52.the top. They have been consistent about this, and I think that is what
:02:53. > :02:56.is throwing the Conservative Party off. This whole cost of living
:02:57. > :03:01.crisis, the Labour Party has been able to make this a real doorstop
:03:02. > :03:10.issue. This is something people can talk about, and also the 50p tax is
:03:11. > :03:14.something people can talk about. We don't feel this, even if it is
:03:15. > :03:21.happening, the recovery, we don't feel it. And people don't feel it,
:03:22. > :03:26.so it is a very clever move on the part of the Chancellor, who has been
:03:27. > :03:31.slammed for the past few weeks, because he hasn't been saying
:03:32. > :03:36.anything. He has been sitting there silent, and suddenly he drops this
:03:37. > :03:41.bombshell in a very assured way, and has now scattered forces. The
:03:42. > :03:44.Conservative Party is not going to look good defending this, and
:03:45. > :03:54.anybody who is a Conservative Party strategist knows they are not going
:03:55. > :03:58.to look good. You not by that this. People wanting to come to London,
:03:59. > :04:09.the Hyannis that we need, it will put them off coming? That idea is
:04:10. > :04:13.old-fashioned. You see things on Twitter, talking about it not
:04:14. > :04:20.driving people away when Margaret Thatcher did this. People are
:04:21. > :04:26.different now, they use a term called rent seekers. They are people
:04:27. > :04:33.who want to live in their assets. This is a very stable country,
:04:34. > :04:37.compare to the countries many of these people are coming from. We
:04:38. > :04:42.don't know how much wealth these people are adding to the country. It
:04:43. > :04:49.won't put them. They won't be happy about it, but they won't be put off.
:04:50. > :04:52.The idea is that it could disrupt the recovery, which seems to be the
:04:53. > :04:59.line coming both from the Lib Dems and from the Tories. It is nonsense,
:05:00. > :05:04.you are talking about 1% of the working population, who earn more
:05:05. > :05:08.than ?150,000. The other question is, they are quibbling over figures.
:05:09. > :05:12.The government is saying it only raises about 100 million. Ed Balls
:05:13. > :05:19.said in his speech today that in the three years he was in place and the
:05:20. > :05:28.Labour, in the early days of the coalition, it raised ten billion.
:05:29. > :05:34.This could be a ?15 billion tax raiser. It is significant money.
:05:35. > :05:53.Let's move on to the next story. Would you pay ?100,000 to go into ?
:05:54. > :06:00.-- to go into space? Apparently, Richard Branson is collating $80
:06:01. > :06:06.million, on ticket money for this space tourist thing that has been
:06:07. > :06:09.going since 2007. They called it something like a high altitude
:06:10. > :06:16.bungee jump. You go into outer space, just, you are weightless... A
:06:17. > :06:19.lot of people have paid their deposits, and it was meant to have
:06:20. > :06:25.taken off in 2007, and it still hasn't. The latest estimate is
:06:26. > :06:32.Richard Branson saying it could go in autumn this year. The point is
:06:33. > :06:36.made that the only thing he has done so far is send a rocket into the
:06:37. > :06:43.atmosphere for 20 seconds. He has competition as well. Would you do
:06:44. > :06:52.it, Nigel? If I had ?100,000 I would do it. No way. You guys would go?
:06:53. > :06:56.You can leave me behind. That move on to the Observer. Extremist
:06:57. > :07:05.religion at root of 20th-century wars can according to the former PM.
:07:06. > :07:11.He is saying this again very publicly. The point is that Tony
:07:12. > :07:21.Blair spent most of his time with his Faith foundation. The idea is to
:07:22. > :07:24.find ways of bringing peace in areas of conflict where religion plays a
:07:25. > :07:30.part in the conflict. We are seeing it happening in Egypt, in Syria, at
:07:31. > :07:40.the moment. Not so long ago, it happened here in Northern Ireland.
:07:41. > :07:43.Tony Blair's argument is there is no point in going out there and try to
:07:44. > :07:50.find political solutions solely for these conflicts, we have two sold
:07:51. > :07:58.the religious differences as well. This is from a man who made Iraq a
:07:59. > :08:01.moral issue. Suddenly, instead of going to do whatever they thought
:08:02. > :08:09.they needed to do, this becomes a battle between and evil. Suddenly,
:08:10. > :08:12.Tony Blair set up a foundation that wants to talk about religion. This
:08:13. > :08:17.actually doesn't give you any solutions. He brings up a very old
:08:18. > :08:23.problem, but as far as I'm concerned he helped to create. We will be
:08:24. > :08:33.reading the conclusions of the report into that this summer.
:08:34. > :08:38.Exactly. We hope. There is a picture that of President Francois
:08:39. > :08:45.Hollande. What you make of this? Damaged politician? This is very
:08:46. > :08:49.difficult. My husband and I have a home in France, and it is very
:08:50. > :08:57.difficult to explain to people outside of France that the French,
:08:58. > :09:00.three things. Private life of a public politician is something they
:09:01. > :09:05.don't discuss, they really don't. So, it is possible for the President
:09:06. > :09:11.to issue a statement as a private person. The second thing is that
:09:12. > :09:16.there is no first Lady of France. This is something that has come into
:09:17. > :09:21.the public consciousness. There is no legal status at all, so she is
:09:22. > :09:31.his girlfriend, and she is out of the palace. And there is another
:09:32. > :09:45.thing, which celebrity culture. The French super invasion of privacy. --
:09:46. > :09:52.sue for. There is a big cultural shakeup in France. I find this
:09:53. > :09:56.privacy idea bizarre. I don't think many politicians would survive this
:09:57. > :10:06.year, would they? No, not in America either. It must be an issue of the
:10:07. > :10:11.character of their president, and what that is. In which case, how
:10:12. > :10:14.would he behave as a character? I would have thought his treatment of
:10:15. > :10:23.women must be an important part of that. Can we move on? We could have
:10:24. > :10:27.a whole debate on this, as much of the world is. Just back to British
:10:28. > :10:39.politics on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph. We are back to the
:10:40. > :10:48.50p tax rate. They have quoted the former Minister extensively. That is
:10:49. > :10:51.significant because he was a Labour minister under Gordon Brown. It is
:10:52. > :10:55.the first sign of the battle that will go on within the party about
:10:56. > :11:00.this. He is talking about it going back to old labour. He was very
:11:01. > :11:06.insulting to Ed Balls, where he turns around and says this economist
:11:07. > :11:11.would not pass a GCSE. He really doesn't like Ed Balls at all. He was
:11:12. > :11:18.part of the government that first introduced it. Doesn't it go back to
:11:19. > :11:21.what you said in the beginning? How much it Alistair Darling collect
:11:22. > :11:25.when he brought this in? There seems to be a dispute about that. Is it
:11:26. > :11:32.billions or millions? This is the question. Ed Balls is quoting
:11:33. > :11:35.figures that he says he has got from revenue and Customs, which are the
:11:36. > :11:41.latest figures, and he has come up with this figure of 10 billion. It
:11:42. > :11:46.is an awful lot of money, and even the groups who don't like to say
:11:47. > :11:51.that this 1% of earners over 150,000 actually pay a third of all the tax.
:11:52. > :11:55.So, the figure is a possibility. Over the next few days, you will
:11:56. > :12:04.have a load of figures being thrown around as they argue over them.
:12:05. > :12:08.Let's move on to the Independent. The headline is about the big six
:12:09. > :12:12.energy companies. This is an exclusive, but from what we can
:12:13. > :12:19.gather it involves government funding, -- government funding
:12:20. > :12:29.communities to create their own energy. I think it is a great idea.
:12:30. > :12:34.Some people can get money from electricity companies, by selling
:12:35. > :12:39.back to the grid. You can do it with wind turbines, solar panels... Some
:12:40. > :12:43.of the things that have happened before have been with wind turbines.
:12:44. > :12:46.At a village in Gloucestershire, the people they are getting ?300 off
:12:47. > :12:58.their electricity bills, and they are doing it by ?250 off the bill,
:12:59. > :13:03.and ?50 when they sell the extra electricity they produce back to the
:13:04. > :13:09.grid. But it is one group. They don't want a whole village full of
:13:10. > :13:15.them, just one is enough. I would have thought these would be awfully
:13:16. > :13:33.popular. I don't know if I would want wind turbines in my road. The
:13:34. > :13:44.Sunday Express, according to a royal, they are boring. This is
:13:45. > :13:56.Princess Michael of Kent. She called, she has described a divorcee
:13:57. > :13:59.from Bohemia. She has talked about how the older royals are boring, the
:14:00. > :14:02.new generation is lovely, Princess Diana was it, and basically just
:14:03. > :14:25.pushing her book -- thick. Thank you for bringing us through
:14:26. > :14:28.the papers. Coming up next, the film review.