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Hello and welcome to our look at the morning's papers. With me are the | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
political journalist, Sean Dilley, and the journalist and feature | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
writer Eva Simpson. Let's start with a look at the front pages. The | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Observer has a warning from the cabinet minister in charge of | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Scotland that complacency could lead to sleepwalking in to a split from | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
the UK. The Sun has an exclusive. It says the Tory MP Mark Menzies has | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
quit his job as a ministerial aide over sex allegations. The | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Independent leads with a new climate report that says we risk a future of | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
dying forests, catastrophic wildfires and insect plagues as | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
climate change worsens. A picture of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
with Prince George features on the front of the Mail on Sunday. The | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Telegraph carries an interview with the former Archbishop of Canterbury | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Rowan Williams, in which he claims that affluent western lifestyles | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
have pushed the environment towards crisis point. The Sunday Times says | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Labour are planning to slash university tuition fees in a bid to | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
woo votes from Middle England. And the Express leads with the claim | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
that the government is struggling to contain the problem of our pets | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
being infected with TB. Let's begin. Plenty of different | :01:30. | :01:41. | |
stories making the front pages this week. Let's start with the Observer, | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
that warning from Alistair Carmichael, a cabinet minister, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
saying we are in danger of losing the Scottish independence poll | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
because of complacency. I suppose as a political spokesperson, we should | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
start with you? Spokesperson? And I just say, Alex Salmond, watching | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
this at home, will probably be throwing his tartan tea cosy at the | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
telly, when you said that Alistair Carmichael is in charge of | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
Scotland. But he saying it is not impossible, people could take their | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
eye off the ball and Scotland could's everybody could sleepwalk | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
into independence. I find it surprising if anybody really thinks | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
that. The Republicans, the pro`independence camp in Scotland, | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
they would say clearly there is complacency within the no campaign, | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
and that this would suggest this is a device in which to show the | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
priorities in not being complacent. It's also good to give people a bit | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
of a shake. I don't think it will happen, but when people can get | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
complacent, it they think, we are not going to break away, everything | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
will be fine. If there is an summary reminding them saying, do vote for | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
what you want, if you don't, and you don't get the right result, you | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
can't complain. Alistair Carmichael can give his coalition government | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
colleague advice. David Cameron has a lot to say on the independence | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
debate. Let's be very clear, 83% of people in Scotland, I'll say that | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
again, 83% of Scottish people voted for someone that was not David | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Cameron due to the Conservative's history in Scotland. If you want to | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
be respected, I guess you should stand up if you want to be heard, | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
speak up. You say they are putting up the wrong person to talk about | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
this? Entirely the wrong people. People are not stupid enough, north | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
or south of the border, to be persuaded by these arguments. It is | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
entirely the wrong thing to do, for mistrusted politicians in | :04:06. | :04:06. | |
Westminster to tell Scottish people what to do. Be quiet, zip it like | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
the fellow of the little map off Rainbow. That phrase comes from the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
newspapers. You know this, I'm a journalist, we use ridiculous | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
phrases. I wasn't criticising you. Just interesting that phrase is | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
being used, we will have to see if Alistair Carmichael's comments | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
layout in any direction. Staying with the Observer, looking at | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
opinion polls, Labour's support has slumped to its lowest level since | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
soon after the 2010 election, this, of course, after the budget. Is this | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
going to put a lot more pressure on the readership? According to this, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
it is at its lowest since the last election, 2010. They say it is down | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
two points, they are now 133%. Yes, Ed Miliband, reading these, will be | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
panicking. The suggestion was, after the budget, that things would even | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
out again. To be this far behind, when people are so cross with what | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
is going on with the cuts and the rest of... I don't think he'll panic | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
too much. The is doing better than Ed Balls, with his flat`lining | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
motion, would have suggested. There is a poll we are going to come onto | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
that says they are on 40 points. From what you know, are their senior | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Labour figures that are beginning to panic? I don't think so. At the end | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
of the day, oppositions have everything to win, not to lose. I | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
think they are a little bit worried. There's been an awful lot of talk | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
about Ed Balls, whether he is the right man to lead the economic | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
poverty for the Labour Party. But then he has an awful lot of friends | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
as well as those that would seek to criticise the new personality. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Having said that, this close to an election, you're right, there is | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
another poll in the Sunday Times that paints a different for the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Labour Party. The European election will be the worry. You were saying | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
about UKIP's position, 15 points, being significant? They are on 15, | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
the Lib Dems, that is the surprising thing, they are on ten. I think if | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
anyone should be worrying, it should be them. The kingmakers, as they are | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
potentially going to be again. The paper also refers to the so`called | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
omnishambles budget of March 2012, when the polls were much closer. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
When they were going around putting on pasty taxes and claiming to eat | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
Cornish pasties at stations that don't exist. You would think this | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
one was gone through with a fine tooth comb? The last thing you want | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
to ask about economics is new chancellors. To be fair, you could | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
give George Osborne that point. When there is plenty of sunshine above, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
the coalition have always said they intend to get the economy back on | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
track. As long as the economy is not crashing and burning, as it looked | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
like it very well could, things will look slightly better for David | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Cameron. It's not uprising, these figures. After the budget, the | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
response from Ed Miliband, the general consensus was that it wasn't | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
very robust. We have been saying for ages it was not going to work... On | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
that very point, the Sunday Times lead story has a claim that Labour | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
will take an axe to student fees, saying that instead of this cap of | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
9000, which sparked riots when it was debated in 2010, apparently Ed | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Miliband is thinking of pledging to cut it to ?6,000, or even more. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
There is no doubt that is going to be a major decision maker for some | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
people. It's very appealing. If it is going to be their policy, it | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
would appeal to lots of middle England, middle`class parents. But I | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
think tuition fees have often been used as a bit of a political | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
football. The last time this came home to roost for the Lib Dems, when | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
they claimed they would not introduce student tuition fees, they | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
pledged to vote against it and the minute they got in, they did it. | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
They were in coalition, to be fair. It's all well and good saying we are | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
going to do this, but voters are not stupid, they have seen is not a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
country before. They are saying they are going to have a graduate tax. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
See this, it is the face of a very cynical political journalist! They | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
claim that it is currently ?9,000. We're watching you, Labour, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
conservatives and Lib Dems. You are suggesting this was put out but is | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
not going to happen? It's very nice, the idea to get rid of debt | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
and everything. If there is a graduate tax... It's carefully | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
worded, they say you will still pay. Old conservatives, as opposed to the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
new Progressive Conservatives we have now, there would probably say | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
it would be punishing success. Old Labour would say, as all of the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
parties do, those with the broadest shoulders, mine are very broad at | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the moment, plenty of running needs to be done, they should take the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
main burden. It is appealing. Just to recap, we were talking about fees | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
of ?3000 a year. There was a riot and I'm afraid I was injured in the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
line of duty. Very seriously! Firstly assaulted by protesters and | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
then accidentally hit by the City of London Police. Cheers, guys(!) That | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
was whilst helping a casualties. What he's is that he would reduce | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
it. Keen to get onto the Telegraph, that have a very different story, | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
talking about a climate catastrophe. This is according to | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. He seems to be more | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
in the news now than when he was Archbishop? SOCA he's got a lot of | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
time on his hands, so he can write for papers like the Sunday | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Telegraph. He has written for them exclusively and he is saying it's | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
the Western lifestyle. It is the use of fossil fuels to blame for climate | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
change. The reason why he has written is because the UN | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
intergovernmental panel on climate change is publishing its latest | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
report, which apparently runs into thousands of pages and it is all | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
about the consequences of the rise in global temperatures. Which will | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
tell us, at the end of the century, it will cost ?60 billion a year, our | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
use of fossil fuels. A lot of money, a very worrying report and worrying | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
words. 60% of the NHS budget, in real terms. I think the climate is | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
something people care about very deeply. Is it something that the | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Church show... Well, I suppose you could say... He has written this | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
piece in his capacity as a chairman of Christian Aid. He says the people | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
that are going to suffer the most are South America, Africa and Asia. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Some of the poorest people are going to suffer the most, which is why | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
he's been very vocal. The language is good, inasmuch as one thing an | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
awful lot of people get frustrated about, however neutral one may be, | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
the worst climate change denier is there. It's word association that is | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
unfortunate. It's a lot more measured and tempered. Briefly, a | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
look at the Mail on Sunday. A picture of Prince Charles. Della | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
there's no story on the front page! It is a nice photo. And adorable | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
photo. Looking more and more like Prince William in that. Some people | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
will come plain how close the dog is to the Prince. That is it, thanks to | :12:22. | :12:33. | |
our guests, who will be back at 11:34 another look at the papers. At | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
11 we will have the latest on the resume search for the missing | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
Malaysia Airlines plane. Coming up next, Reporters. | :12:41. | :12:43. |