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