:00:00. > :00:09.England will be without their number eight for the rest of the Six
:00:10. > :00:17.Nations because of injury. That is after the papers.
:00:18. > :00:21.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing
:00:22. > :00:29.us tomorrow. With me are Dame Joan Bakewell and The Times columnist,
:00:30. > :00:35.Hugo Rifkind. We are going to start with the Metro, that claims HSBC has
:00:36. > :00:41.awarded its boss and ?8 million pay package in an attempt to get round
:00:42. > :00:48.the cap on bankers' bonuses. The Guardian gives more detail on that
:00:49. > :00:52.story, saying the bankers will get a ?32,000 per week bonus. The express
:00:53. > :00:59.is leading with a health story that the new pill could save millions of
:01:00. > :01:02.people from developing type two diabetes. The Daily Telegraph has
:01:03. > :01:06.learned that David Cameron wants to make a manifesto pledge not to sign
:01:07. > :01:11.a second power-sharing agreement even if they fall short of a Commons
:01:12. > :01:24.majority at the next election. The daily Star has a pun in reference to
:01:25. > :01:38.Piers Morgan, whose Cheryl has been axed. The Daily Mirror leading with
:01:39. > :01:44.the story that the Queen and Prince Charles cash in on housing benefits.
:01:45. > :01:47.No manifesto after the next election, one assumes the
:01:48. > :01:55.Conservatives have polled to an inch of their lives on this. For a
:01:56. > :01:59.fleeting moment I assumed even David Cameron was assuming there would be
:02:00. > :02:05.a Labour majority. We know he is worried, he watches the opinion
:02:06. > :02:10.polls and he takes measure of what the public are saying and he is
:02:11. > :02:13.frightened of UKIP and clearly frightened of the Labour pitch so it
:02:14. > :02:18.is a very strange move that he should do this because if he is
:02:19. > :02:23.promising there will be no coalition and there is a hung parliament, does
:02:24. > :02:30.that mean he will just not negotiate? It is a very strange
:02:31. > :02:36.hostage to fortune. Is he perhaps being clever? The polls suggest the
:02:37. > :02:44.public don't want another coalition. Nobody votes for
:02:45. > :02:49.coalition, on -- unless you vote for Lib Dem, I suppose you do. The idea
:02:50. > :02:54.of entering this election saying it is a clear choice, you can see how
:02:55. > :02:58.that might concentrate the minds of the tiny percentage of people who
:02:59. > :03:02.vote UKIP, if not necessarily anybody else, but the really
:03:03. > :03:08.confusing thing is that this is a new world and we now have fixed term
:03:09. > :03:15.parliaments. Nobody is quite sure how they work. In the past, we had
:03:16. > :03:30.minority government and it fell and if it lost the vote it was
:03:31. > :03:33.replaced. Now, what happens? I thought it was very ill thought
:03:34. > :03:38.through, this fixed term parliaments. Given the fact he has
:03:39. > :03:43.so many more months ago, he is making promises that don't really
:03:44. > :03:48.mean anything. How can you promise there won't be a coalition? It is
:03:49. > :03:52.not inconceivable a minority government could fall and be
:03:53. > :03:58.replaced by a coalition of the other two parties without an election even
:03:59. > :04:03.happening. A coalition of UKIP and the Lib Dems, how about that! We
:04:04. > :04:09.have seen demonstrably the Liberal Democrats and Labour 's darting to
:04:10. > :04:13.cosy up to each other, preparing the ground for a possible coalition. Is
:04:14. > :04:20.he trying to distinguish the Conservatives from the other two in
:04:21. > :04:23.that regard? I guess he is saying if you are going to vote Liberal
:04:24. > :04:30.Democrat, which is a strange place to start because nobody is, don't
:04:31. > :04:34.think you will get a tempo down version of the current government,
:04:35. > :04:41.what you will get is Prime Minister Ed Miliband. The Coalition has put a
:04:42. > :04:47.lot of checks on Tory policies and they have not been able to carry
:04:48. > :04:54.them through which has irritated the backbenchers. David Cameron is
:04:55. > :05:00.appeasing these people, those people, the people in the north, he
:05:01. > :05:04.doesn't know where he is. I think he is confused and worried. Is he also
:05:05. > :05:15.saying the current relationship hasn't worked? He didn't have an
:05:16. > :05:21.option. The backbenchers are saying he could have ruled as a minority
:05:22. > :05:28.government and that is the point. How long would a minority government
:05:29. > :05:35.last? Who knows? The thing is that it doesn't... I mean they have done
:05:36. > :05:39.quite a lot, this Government. The Tories may have not done everything
:05:40. > :05:43.they meant to but there have been a lot of changes, a lot of deficit
:05:44. > :05:48.reduction, it has happened so I don't think he can be that unhappy
:05:49. > :05:52.with how it has panned out. It is the fixed term parliament business,
:05:53. > :06:03.they have a whole year of election campaigning now. He has very
:06:04. > :06:07.ungrateful backbenchers. They wanted it to go further and further and the
:06:08. > :06:12.more he concedes, the more they demand so it is a sign of weakness
:06:13. > :06:18.in a leader if you constantly concede to your extremes, isn't it?
:06:19. > :06:23.Someone wrote not that long ago that Tony Blair picked a fight with his
:06:24. > :06:27.party and ground them to dust, David Cameron picks a fight with them and
:06:28. > :06:32.then gives in to them, which is a strange way to behave. An
:06:33. > :06:55.interesting story on the front of the Daily Telegraph, Mike, Zara and
:06:56. > :07:00.baby Mia say hello to a fortune. Zara Phillips is not technically a
:07:01. > :07:05.royal, she has got to earn her keep and riding horses doesn't earn that
:07:06. > :07:13.much. Selling your story is not earning money! It is a celebrity
:07:14. > :07:16.circuit and she decided to join it. Families and celebrity circuit
:07:17. > :07:29.overlap a great deal now so that's fine. She can do that if she wants.
:07:30. > :07:33.Dame Joan has spoken! It is OK! She can reserve hoping to see in the
:07:34. > :07:40.future if she chooses to do so but it turns out she may not choose to
:07:41. > :07:50.do so. This story may make people's blood boil, the HSBC chief dodges EU
:07:51. > :08:02.bonus cap, the bank pays 1 million plus to its staff of 239. Twice the
:08:03. > :08:08.average salary. It is really Draconian, isn't it? The banks are
:08:09. > :08:12.getting around this by bundling money in other ways. The chief
:08:13. > :08:22.executive of HSBC is now getting allowances worth 32 -- ?32,000 per
:08:23. > :08:27.week on top of his salary. 239 HSBC bankers who received more than ?1
:08:28. > :08:30.million last year, I don't understand why they give them all
:08:31. > :08:35.the money. That's not true, I do understand because the people who
:08:36. > :08:41.give the money are getting the money. The shareholders have a good
:08:42. > :08:47.amount of it as well, in this crazy circus of over rewarded people.
:08:48. > :08:57.Remember his name, Stuart Gulliver. We are taking note of your name and
:08:58. > :09:03.your pay, and the fact you think 200% bonus is not enough. It is
:09:04. > :09:09.crazy. They are living in a different world. He would argue he
:09:10. > :09:14.is in the global market, HSBC has staff around the world and he has to
:09:15. > :09:22.have the best people so he has got to give them oodles of cash. It is
:09:23. > :09:26.important! They might all leave, 230 people would walk out of this bank
:09:27. > :09:34.unless they have more than 200% of their bonus? How hard can it be?
:09:35. > :09:40.When footballers are massively rewarded you can see the logic
:09:41. > :09:48.because you can see the money they directly bring into the club. You
:09:49. > :09:54.say it is a global world but the EU is putting a cap on bankers'
:09:55. > :10:03.bonuses. Everybody thinks that should happen. Except the banks!
:10:04. > :10:10.Because they can. Stuart Gulliver, remember the name. He can go on his
:10:11. > :10:17.travels all around the world, first class. Onto the express. Hence may
:10:18. > :10:22.change school term dates to end holiday rip-offs. This is holiday
:10:23. > :10:26.companies who whack up the prices because they know a lot of families
:10:27. > :10:37.have to travel at certain times of the year. I remember when I was a
:10:38. > :10:40.child in Lancashire, when it was one week the factories would close and
:10:41. > :10:44.everyone would go to Blackpool, then come back, and the next week another
:10:45. > :10:49.set of factories would close and they would go to Blackpool so the
:10:50. > :10:59.factories staggered their closing so everybody had a decent spread. What
:11:00. > :11:04.is happening here? I don't quite understand why school terms can't be
:11:05. > :11:08.staggered between the summer months. From the beginning of July to
:11:09. > :11:13.mid-September there is decent weather anyway. They can be
:11:14. > :11:18.staggered now. It is up to the individual school apparently. That
:11:19. > :11:22.seems reasonable. It is what they do in Holland, which is why when you go
:11:23. > :11:28.on holiday there are thousands of Dutch people because the schools are
:11:29. > :11:36.staggered. I don't see lots of Dutch people. You don't go to Holland! I
:11:37. > :11:40.was at school in Scotland and there were holidays at different times.
:11:41. > :11:45.Speaking as a parent, it is incredibly expensive going on
:11:46. > :11:48.holiday during holiday time. That is an interesting issue which we will
:11:49. > :11:53.look at further in an hour, I expect, when we will have another
:11:54. > :11:58.stab at the stories behind the papers. Stay with us for that.
:11:59. > :12:03.Coming up at 11 o'clock, we will have much more on BBC News including
:12:04. > :12:07.the special report from inside the Damascus refugee camp, where 20,000
:12:08. > :12:13.people are struggling to survive with little food or medicine. Stay
:12:14. > :12:23.with us for that. Coming up next it is Sportsday.
:12:24. > :12:25.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Hugh