:00:00. > :00:00.Duff has died at the age of 84. He worked with 16 world champions in
:00:00. > :00:27.his career, including Frank Bruno and Joe Calzaghe.
:00:28. > :00:33.With the are my guests. We can start with the Sunday Times. They say the
:00:34. > :00:38.Conservatives are now neck and neck with Labour in the opinion polls,
:00:39. > :00:41.after a positive reaction to the Budget. It prompted some Labour MPs
:00:42. > :00:46.to criticise Ed Miliband's performance. The front page of the
:00:47. > :00:50.Independent has a picture of the stand`off at that military base in
:00:51. > :00:55.Crimea. The main story about a scientific breakthrough in energy
:00:56. > :00:58.technology. The mail says an inquest has heard allegations that the TV
:00:59. > :01:02.comedian groomed a teenager who later killed himself. And the
:01:03. > :01:07.Telegraph says Islamic law will soon be enshrined in the British legal
:01:08. > :01:13.system and guidelines for solicitors on drawing up Shari compliant Wills.
:01:14. > :01:22.We start with the Sunday Times. This story that Tories are now neck and
:01:23. > :01:26.neck with Labour. This article will have us believe we've got Labour in
:01:27. > :01:33.disarray, the Tories thinking and outright majorities on its way. Is
:01:34. > :01:39.that the true picture? As we will discover, the headline is so often
:01:40. > :01:43.not quite what it seems. Although there is no doubt that this is a
:01:44. > :01:48.pole, you grab pole for the Sunday Times, which put the Conservatives
:01:49. > :01:56.just one point behind Labour. I think for the last, oh, it's been
:01:57. > :02:00.ages they've been stuck. So it's not insignificant. It is very
:02:01. > :02:04.significant, except it is only one point. What is significant is what
:02:05. > :02:10.people are saying within the Labour ranks, some of whom are quoted, some
:02:11. > :02:16.of those mysterious figures. It all comes down to presentation. Although
:02:17. > :02:23.the subheadline says knives come out for Miliband, what it is saying is
:02:24. > :02:29.they are urging Ed Miliband to stop waffling, to use clear, simple
:02:30. > :02:32.language, to talk to people on the doorstep in language they
:02:33. > :02:36.understand. I think the fact that all of these quotes are saying the
:02:37. > :02:41.same thing, it's not about policy its presentation. It is quite an
:02:42. > :02:46.interesting story. He is never going to have the Tony Blair factor. He is
:02:47. > :02:49.not a man with jazz hands and a neat turn of phrase. He's a great
:02:50. > :02:55.character but he's not Tony Blair, nor would he want to be Tony Blair.
:02:56. > :02:59.This is bad news, this poll. At this time in the electoral cycle, you'd
:03:00. > :03:03.really be thinking in terms of ten or 12 points ahead. He's been
:03:04. > :03:08.hovering around seven or eight points ahead, so that's not great in
:03:09. > :03:14.the first place. To be so close is not good at all. Two things have
:03:15. > :03:18.happened. First of all, George Osborne's Budget. That has affected
:03:19. > :03:22.it hugely. The second thing is, and this is some of the criticism there,
:03:23. > :03:27.not so much the clear language, they've got to find the language
:03:28. > :03:32.they need to use. They've lost the argument over the economy. It would
:03:33. > :03:36.seem that people do accept that austerity was necessary, that we are
:03:37. > :03:40.pulling out of recession, recovery is on the way, people now believe
:03:41. > :03:44.that, they believe they're going to be better off. Of course, what the
:03:45. > :03:49.Budget did was take away some of the elements of Ed Miliband's second
:03:50. > :03:55.tier, the cost of living crisis. He's had a bad week in the sense the
:03:56. > :03:59.Tories have had a great week. It might be this poll will be reversed
:04:00. > :04:04.by next week, but those elements have caused this. One of the
:04:05. > :04:08.criticisms is his lacklustre performance in the Commons in
:04:09. > :04:12.response to the Budget. But it is terribly unfair because... The
:04:13. > :04:18.opposition don't get to see the Budget, they are having to guess.
:04:19. > :04:22.Given that, most of the public think, OK, it's tough but we
:04:23. > :04:30.recognise we've got to do it and things are generally improving. What
:04:31. > :04:38.have you got left to say? You can be a showman, saying this that and the
:04:39. > :04:42.other, and hope that that is what happens. But what they are now
:04:43. > :04:46.saying is they agree on the pensions changes. They should have said that
:04:47. > :04:51.straightaway and then moved onto something else. They are saying he
:04:52. > :04:56.needs different people around him, a reshuffle of his writers. Yes. We
:04:57. > :05:01.know the Westminster world long enough that quite often it is those
:05:02. > :05:07.advisers, some of whom will be quite young and enthusiastic, who perhaps
:05:08. > :05:12.aren't listening, haven't got that new ones, that year to the ground.
:05:13. > :05:16.Some of this criticism isn't new. You have John Mann, the Bassetlaw
:05:17. > :05:22.MP, mining constituency. He is saying we don't want this hamster
:05:23. > :05:26.language, we want the language of real people. Now the Independent on
:05:27. > :05:36.Sunday. Their main story is about energy. I want to focus on that
:05:37. > :05:42.picture, reporting on the seizing of that Belbek base in Crimea. We have
:05:43. > :05:48.seen today this ramping up of the military force Russia in eastern
:05:49. > :05:52.Crimea. Yes. It's quite a stark and rather startling photograph. The
:05:53. > :05:56.Independent is always very good on its photographs, sometimes you don't
:05:57. > :06:00.know what the story is but the photographs are amazing and it's
:06:01. > :06:03.very clear what is. These are armed troops storming the Belbek base
:06:04. > :06:09.yesterday. It's the last key Ukrainian installation in Crimea.
:06:10. > :06:15.But it has suddenly, over the last, well, even over the last 12 hours,
:06:16. > :06:23.it seems to have got a lot more violent. You sort of wonder, what is
:06:24. > :06:28.Putin's game, where is this going? I don't find this a surprise. But if
:06:29. > :06:36.you've got... We've gone through various stages here. Putin is with
:06:37. > :06:39.Crimea, it is now part of Russia. It seems to be the next logical step
:06:40. > :06:44.would be to make sure you don't have any Ukrainian troops in it. I can
:06:45. > :06:49.understand what is going on. The worst side of it is the West is
:06:50. > :06:52.totally impotent to stop any of this. So what will happen, and let's
:06:53. > :06:56.hope it happens without too much bloodshed, is Ukrainian troops will
:06:57. > :07:01.be taken out of Crimea, Russian troops will be in there. Then
:07:02. > :07:07.perhaps we can calm down then. We will talk about Ukraine later. Let's
:07:08. > :07:11.turn our attention to the Observer. It's not their main story, but
:07:12. > :07:15.pension reform raising a Care Bill threat. A suggestion coming from the
:07:16. > :07:20.Joseph Rowntree Foundation, saying that there's a risk if cash in your
:07:21. > :07:24.pension for the Lamborghini lifestyle and don't go for the
:07:25. > :07:30.annuity, you may find yourself open to a large amount of costs for your
:07:31. > :07:37.care in old age. The Lamborghini bit first of all. It costs ?186,000.
:07:38. > :07:50.Most average pension pots are about ?25,000. What they are talking
:07:51. > :07:54.about, this idea... We need to see the detail of these pension
:07:55. > :07:59.reforms. The idea that the charities are talking about here is if you
:08:00. > :08:04.blow all of your money first off, don't expect free social care later
:08:05. > :08:07.on. I don't quite understand this because I would have thought anybody
:08:08. > :08:11.could blow their money, whether they've got an annuity or whatever.
:08:12. > :08:15.The idea is if you need social care, that is what you will get. So
:08:16. > :08:19.the idea that you will certainly have to try and find the money from
:08:20. > :08:23.somewhere else and you haven't got it seems to me and possible.
:08:24. > :08:29.Obviously, if you have an asset, a home, you will have to sell it to
:08:30. > :08:35.provide for care in old age. Again, it's a story where the detail. We
:08:36. > :08:43.were pondering this. It doesn't make sense at all because at the moment
:08:44. > :08:49.there is a cap, around ?22,000, on savings. Up to that you get free
:08:50. > :08:53.social care. But it's all based on this ill informed decision. It is
:08:54. > :08:58.terribly patronising. The idea that the Tories were criticised for
:08:59. > :09:02.having the bingo and beer poster, but this is frightfully patronising.
:09:03. > :09:10.This idea that older people don't know how to deal with their money.
:09:11. > :09:15.The Sunday Telegraph now. Their main story, Islamic law is adopted by
:09:16. > :09:19.British legal chiefs. This is a suggestion that there's been advised
:09:20. > :09:24.that out to solicitors on how to draw up Sharia law compliant Wills.
:09:25. > :09:27.Once again we have a headline that slightly misleading. It's not
:09:28. > :09:33.Islamic law that is being drafted into British law. They are talking
:09:34. > :09:38.about a sharia law compliant will. All of us have the right to make our
:09:39. > :09:43.will and decide who we want to leave our assets to. Sharia law will will
:09:44. > :09:49.be no different from that. The difference there is it would be
:09:50. > :09:55.drafted in the mosque, and that would then be accepted as a legal
:09:56. > :10:00.document. I think it's going too far to suggest that suddenly Islamic law
:10:01. > :10:04.is now going to be a part of British law. But the suggestion is that
:10:05. > :10:08.lawyers and society in general might be twitchy about laws that come in
:10:09. > :10:13.that somehow deny women certain right of inheritance and so on. Yes.
:10:14. > :10:17.Ground`breaking guidance produced by the Law Society, high street
:10:18. > :10:21.solicitors will be able to write Islamic world that deny women an
:10:22. > :10:25.equal share of inheritance, exclude unbelievers, prevent children born
:10:26. > :10:31.out of wedlock or adopted children. As Nigel says and as we all know, we
:10:32. > :10:36.can do... Anyone of us can decide to leave all of our assets to the cat.
:10:37. > :10:40.People do what they want. I think the problem is it's about
:10:41. > :10:46.challenge. Hidden away in here is the guidance, it goes on to suggest
:10:47. > :10:48.that the Sharia law principles could potentially oval rule British
:10:49. > :10:54.practice in some disputes. I think that is where there may be the
:10:55. > :10:57.nitty`gritty... We are in a different ball game should that
:10:58. > :11:02.happen, yes. Let's return to Ukraine. They are reporting what the
:11:03. > :11:11.Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has had to say about Putin, saying
:11:12. > :11:14.he has been bullying, after the annexation of Crimea. Saying,
:11:15. > :11:19.essentially, that the EU must stand firm. But there's a multitude of
:11:20. > :11:22.positions in the EU. The idea of sanctions wrapping up seems to have
:11:23. > :11:36.got to a certain rampant and no further. At the moment, we are in
:11:37. > :11:44.the heat `` we are impotent. The answer from William Hague is that
:11:45. > :11:49.Europe must invest in fracking. On the other hand, we are seeing that
:11:50. > :11:52.they are in this terrible tangle. So many of the European countries want
:11:53. > :11:57.to take this big stands, make a moral decision on what they are
:11:58. > :12:02.doing, but we are so tied up we were almost I need. We can bring in
:12:03. > :12:09.travel restrictions, to guide sanctions against a dozen people, or
:12:10. > :12:16.however many it is, but it is not actually making any difference. He
:12:17. > :12:21.is a belief. We will be back on 60 minutes to have another look through
:12:22. > :12:30.some awe of the papers. Do stay with us. At 11.00pm we'll have more on
:12:31. > :12:54.the crisis in Ukraine, as Russia tightens its grip on Crimea.
:12:55. > :13:04.Hello and welcome. I am Zeinab Badawi. From here we send out
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