:00:13. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:20.bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster Alice Arnold, and
:00:21. > :00:26.Alison Phillips, weekend editor at The Mirror. Tomorrow's front pages:
:00:27. > :00:30.Tony Benn features on the front page of the The Independent - "Death of a
:00:31. > :00:34.maverick" is their headline. The Daily Mirror have the missing
:00:35. > :00:37.plane as their main story. They speculate "Hijackers flew plane
:00:38. > :00:40.towards remote island". The Daily Express take on the same
:00:41. > :00:43.story is "Pirates stole missing plane".
:00:44. > :00:46.The Daily Mail lead with a story about GM crops. Their headline,
:00:47. > :00:51."Scientists' hidden links to the GM food giants".
:00:52. > :00:54.The i report the Chancellor is rejecting big tax cuts for middle
:00:55. > :00:56.earners, despite a campaign from Conservative MPs. "Osborne's Budget
:00:57. > :01:01.snub to middle classes" is their headline.
:01:02. > :01:05.The Times headline is "Tories offer squeezed middle a tax reprieve".
:01:06. > :01:08.The Daily Telegraph report that non-Europeans can buy EU citizenship
:01:09. > :01:13.entitling them to live and work in Britain. Their headline, "For Sale -
:01:14. > :01:16.EU citizenship". And the Guardian have a picture of
:01:17. > :01:19.Tony Benn on their front page. The main headline though refers to their
:01:20. > :01:30.exclusive on the Co-op bank, "Co-op shambles exposed".
:01:31. > :01:33.Perhaps predictably, we begin with tributes that have been paid
:01:34. > :01:37.throughout the day following the death of Tony Benn, the veteran
:01:38. > :01:45.former Labour MP who has died this morning at the age of 88. An
:01:46. > :01:51.extraordinary man in many ways, because unlike most people he became
:01:52. > :01:57.more radical with age. Yes, after he left the Cabinet. He was an MP for
:01:58. > :02:01.50-year is. It was in his later life that he became a real thorn in the
:02:02. > :02:06.side of the Labour Party as years went by. There were some amazing
:02:07. > :02:10.tributes today but also a lot of people saying, I did not agree with
:02:11. > :02:13.him at the time. Although I respect his convictions and sense of
:02:14. > :02:17.principle, there are a lot of people who did not agree with what he said,
:02:18. > :02:22.he caused all sorts of problems for the Labour Party during that period.
:02:23. > :02:28.But is it fair to blame him for the mess the party got itself into? It
:02:29. > :02:30.is interesting that Bob Crowe died earlier this week and similar things
:02:31. > :02:39.were said. Different circumstances but both avid socialists from
:02:40. > :02:43.different backgrounds. And yet they were both left of the current Labour
:02:44. > :02:52.Party, and they caused a lot of difficulties. The Independent
:02:53. > :02:55.headline says, death of a maverick. But was he a maverick? Some
:02:56. > :02:59.commentators are saying that towards the end of his life many of his
:03:00. > :03:06.ideas have become fashionable, acceptable by lots of people. When
:03:07. > :03:09.he was first involved in the Stop the War Coalition it was
:03:10. > :03:12.extraordinary but with the benefit of history we have seen that what he
:03:13. > :03:18.was saying was so right. I interviewed him last August and he
:03:19. > :03:23.was very frail by that point. But he was still absolutely extraordinary.
:03:24. > :03:30.His real passion for the stop the War campaign was a huge part of his
:03:31. > :03:35.life. He was a wonderful orator as well. He spoke so well. Proper
:03:36. > :03:42.sentences, proper thought out phrases that he was saying
:03:43. > :03:47.beautifully. At a time when we feel so many politicians are beige, all
:03:48. > :03:51.saying the same thing, and all saying it in management-speak which
:03:52. > :03:55.they think people want to hear. What was interesting about him was that
:03:56. > :04:05.there was a clarity to what he was saying and he really believed it.
:04:06. > :04:12.The Mirror has champion of the powerless. So many ways of
:04:13. > :04:19.describing him. That was the Ed Miliband quote. Also in the mirror
:04:20. > :04:23.there are excerpts from his diaries. He was also an extraordinary diarist
:04:24. > :04:28.and he believed so much that what went on in parliament should be
:04:29. > :04:31.properly recorded. He really believed in the importance of
:04:32. > :04:38.openness. And wonderful photographs of him, with his pipe. Giles Fraser
:04:39. > :04:42.said today he was the only man he ever let smoke a pipe in his church,
:04:43. > :04:51.which I thought was lovely. He had that quirkiness, with his shooting
:04:52. > :04:54.stick and carrying a rucksack. Unlike the death of most public
:04:55. > :04:57.figures where everybody says all the right things, people like Denis
:04:58. > :05:03.Healey have been very candid today about how much damage he felt he did
:05:04. > :05:10.to the Labour Party. That is quite unusual, and probably something Tony
:05:11. > :05:16.Benn would applaud. Exactly. I think he would have liked that. He would
:05:17. > :05:20.have hated everybody to go frantic because he died. He kept his marbles
:05:21. > :05:28.right to the end and he would have known that this was happening, and
:05:29. > :05:32.would have expected this kind of reaction. You mentioned his
:05:33. > :05:35.opposition to the Iraq war and how critical he was of that. He was also
:05:36. > :05:43.critical of the Falklands conflict, wasn't he? He got that wrong and it
:05:44. > :05:48.did the Conservatives a lot of good. He was also anti-Europe, which is
:05:49. > :05:52.different and two where Labour is now. He was out of kilter with the
:05:53. > :05:57.common views at the time and cause a lot of problems for a lot of people.
:05:58. > :06:01.I think it is better if people are regarded in an honest context,
:06:02. > :06:06.rather than, didn't they do a jolly good job, because people are multi
:06:07. > :06:12.dimensional. This move onto the Daily Express. Are we moving into
:06:13. > :06:16.the realms of fantasy? We just don't know what has happened to this
:06:17. > :06:24.Malaysia Airlines which disappeared a week ago. Pirates stole missing
:06:25. > :06:29.plane - experts new theory, according to the Daily Express. We
:06:30. > :06:35.have been asking what constitutes a pirate. Probably they mean a
:06:36. > :06:39.hijacker, don't they? They don't mean the plane went into the sea and
:06:40. > :06:45.pirates took it. It is a bit of a confusing headline, but I think they
:06:46. > :06:50.are trying to talk about it being hijacked, which to all intents and
:06:51. > :06:56.purposes means it was hijacked by hijackers. I am assuming it means
:06:57. > :07:02.people are taking it for financial benefit, rather than some kind of
:07:03. > :07:08.political or terrorist act or cause. This has come about because it went
:07:09. > :07:11.missing. They reckon it was giving out signals that it was moving in
:07:12. > :07:15.the air for five hours with the engine still working, but not going
:07:16. > :07:23.east as had been thought but West towards India, and that is where it
:07:24. > :07:27.may have... That is why they have widened the search area. And they
:07:28. > :07:32.say it could have landed on a secret location, like a desert island. But
:07:33. > :07:40.planes need runways, generally, to land, you know. And wouldn't
:07:41. > :07:44.somebody on board try and possibly. The mobile phone thing is
:07:45. > :07:52.interesting, because they are traceable. Everybody's mobile
:07:53. > :07:56.phones. The whole thing is quite extraordinary. I cannot imagine it
:07:57. > :08:01.is sitting under a coconut tree on a desert island. But when we do not
:08:02. > :08:07.know the answers, people start to fill in the blanks. There are all
:08:08. > :08:11.sorts of people looking for it now. The United States are worn over this
:08:12. > :08:17.and they do not seem to be able to help. But it is a huge area they are
:08:18. > :08:22.trying to search. It seems strange in this day and age that things can
:08:23. > :08:28.disappear. We don't like mysteries any more because normally GPS can
:08:29. > :08:31.solve any mystery. In the Daily Telegraph, this is Michael Gove who
:08:32. > :08:38.famously did not go to Eton, a grammar school boy. The adopted son
:08:39. > :08:47.of an Aberdeen fish processor, says the Telegraph. He says it is a sad
:08:48. > :08:53.fact that so many of the people surrounding David Cameron did go to
:08:54. > :08:57.Eton. And rightly so. It is a good thing that in his position as
:08:58. > :09:02.Minister for education he is making this point. You imagine that a lot
:09:03. > :09:06.of young kids growing up today would think what hope do I have of getting
:09:07. > :09:11.into government unless I go to Eton? I am not sure it is still the case
:09:12. > :09:15.but up until recently there were more format Eton schoolboy 's than
:09:16. > :09:20.women in the Cabinet. Anything where you have a group that is that small
:09:21. > :09:27.and can have so much power is clearly wrong. Sense of entitlement,
:09:28. > :09:33.anyone? I think there are about 1000 boys at Eton, roughly. It is quite a
:09:34. > :09:40.big public school. So we are talking about 200 each year. And we are
:09:41. > :09:47.talking about a choice between 4000 or 5000 people here, which is tiny.
:09:48. > :09:51.That is tiny! But Michael Gove doesn't say that the reason he is
:09:52. > :09:57.stressing this is because it Tony Hamza equipped for these jobs, is
:09:58. > :10:01.being put patient, because there have been historic failings in the
:10:02. > :10:12.state system. -- Eton schoolboys are equipped for these jobs. They have
:10:13. > :10:16.this sense of entitlement and this extraordinary education funded by
:10:17. > :10:23.very rich parents. It does help them. Other people in the state
:10:24. > :10:27.system could be and will be very good state leaders but the system,
:10:28. > :10:32.such as it is, where we have this emphasis on private education, does
:10:33. > :10:35.not enable that to happen. It helps them because people like to be
:10:36. > :10:39.surrounded by people like themselves. Whether they have a
:10:40. > :10:42.sense of entitlement or not, they are entitled because David Cameron
:10:43. > :10:51.went to Eton and surrounds himself with his friends. But George Osborne
:10:52. > :10:55.did not. He went to Saint Pauls. The Tories offer the squeezed middle
:10:56. > :10:59.eight extra preview. According to the Times, there is a conflict with
:11:00. > :11:02.some of the headlines tonight. George Osborne is promising to help
:11:03. > :11:12.the squeezed middle in the next manifesto, but probably not in the
:11:13. > :11:18.next Budget. The Times says they offer a packs reprieve and the i
:11:19. > :11:23.says a snub to middle classes which seems to be contradicting each
:11:24. > :11:28.other. -- a tax reprieve. But the Chancellor is expected to increase
:11:29. > :11:32.the personal allowance to ?10,500 on the Budget on Wednesday. That's what
:11:33. > :11:37.the proposal is. Because the whole thing is about the who % tax rate
:11:38. > :11:43.and when it kicks in -- 40% tax rate. Historically it was not
:11:44. > :11:48.supposed to be more - it was supposed to be for the wealthy. It
:11:49. > :11:54.wasn't supposed to be... And Lord Lawson who was the Chancellor at the
:11:55. > :12:00.time said he didn't intend for that. And now 1 million are expected to go
:12:01. > :12:04.into the next tax rate and that's not necessarily a good thing. But
:12:05. > :12:11.the i is saying Osborne's Budget's snub to middle classes. The Times is
:12:12. > :12:16.looking ahead, isn't it? To the next manifesto. The i is concentrating on
:12:17. > :12:21.what is around the corner. What is happening is the Times has been fed
:12:22. > :12:25.information to make everyone think, or to make middle income readers of
:12:26. > :12:29.the Times think there is hope around the corner and if they hang on to
:12:30. > :12:34.the next manifesto, it will get better. That's what it looks like.
:12:35. > :12:38.And Labour will seize on this and say - yes, we are right there is a
:12:39. > :12:42.cost of living crisis which is the phrase they have neatly slotted into
:12:43. > :12:46.lots of our usage. We have to be very careful that we don't sort of
:12:47. > :12:50.take it as read Tharaya is exactly what we are seeing, that's -- that,
:12:51. > :12:57.that is exactly what we are seeing. That's what Labour is saying what we
:12:58. > :13:02.are suffering for. And Labour sauce there should be tax reductions for
:13:03. > :13:06.people on lowest incomes. -- and Labour is saying. There is help for
:13:07. > :13:11.people on lower incomes on Wednesday. But on the other end of
:13:12. > :13:13.the spectrum, the really high millionaires that have gone out of
:13:14. > :13:20.this Government, are perhaps the ones he should really be focussing
:13:21. > :13:26.his attention on. The Guardian has an exclusive on what is happening at
:13:27. > :13:30.the co-op. Shambles exposed from the group's senior independent director
:13:31. > :13:36.trying to overhaul the boardroom saying he sees reckless behaviour
:13:37. > :13:41.which could hinder the group. It is across all of its areas of interest.
:13:42. > :13:46.Every area of it is a disaster. The funeral home business, the pharmacy
:13:47. > :13:52.and farming conglomerate all of it needs to be radically reformed. It
:13:53. > :13:58.seems to be that the Co-op is ungovernable. It almost seems it is
:13:59. > :14:04.worse with the Co-op because we are led to believe it is run by its
:14:05. > :14:07.members for its members. It is a cooperative. It had an amazing
:14:08. > :14:11.history but I think earlier this week with the Chief Executive
:14:12. > :14:14.quitting so sudden will you, it certainly sent out this message that
:14:15. > :14:18.it was in a complete shambles. And we don't know what they are going to
:14:19. > :14:23.do. It sounds like things are going to go downhill. He is saying it'll
:14:24. > :14:26.deteriorate further unless it is radically reformed. It is such a
:14:27. > :14:31.popular name on the high street. It is sort of sad to think that a
:14:32. > :14:36.cooperative with those ideals, perhaps it is saying that it can't
:14:37. > :14:43.survive in today's economics. But John Lewis is a sort of
:14:44. > :14:47.ethically-minded partnership. It is poor management, with the crystal
:14:48. > :14:53.meth guy. That's the papers for this hour but
:14:54. > :14:54.Alice and Alison will be back with us in the next hour. But coming up
:14:55. > :15:16.next, time for Sportsday. Welcome to Sportsday.
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