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which killed 13 people 4.5 years ago. `` multiple shooting. All | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
personnel had been ordered to be sheltered immediately. We will bring | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
you more as we get it. Welcome to our look ahead to the | :00:00. | :00:27. | |
papers tomorrow. I have a political commentator and the City editor at | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
the mail on Sunday. The front pages are in now. The Daily Telegraph has | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the health risks of the current smoggy conditions. The Guardian | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
claims that ministers want to make GCSEs tougher by picking Mark from | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
students in England with those in China. The Metro covers the case of | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
a businessman who bled to death on the road after being stabbed by | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
carjackers. The headline in the Mera is warning people to keep their | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
children indoors because of the killer smog. The Mail is leading | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
with Nigella Lawson who has apparently been banned from the US | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
after admitting that she took cocaine. The Express headlines | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
booming property prices, saying that the price of the average home has | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
soared by ?16,000 in months. The Times is claiming that the PM is | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
being pressured to prevent Scots from voting in the next election if | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
they vote on independence. The Sun has a take on the dust cloud over | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
the UK with a headline Desert Island. That is where we begin. | :01:31. | :01:44. | |
Desert island. Stay inside alert. The take of the Sun seems to play up | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
the freak weather conditions. The desert sand was the most bizarre | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
thing about this. It was visible on cars all over the country, or least | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
those I have seen in London. The visible effect. Following the story | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
on, the very bottom of the story points out that Britain faces fines | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
of ?200 million after legal action was launched over the persistent | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
lack of UK air quality. That may be lurking beneath this. You have a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
freak event because it comes on top of what might be at persistent | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
problem. It isn't just dust from the Sahara. It is pollution from | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
factories in the UK and across Europe. There is confusion about | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
this story. You read what different and watchdogs and apartments are | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
advising. Some advise to stay indoors, especially if... Some | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
schools have kept children from going into the playground because of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
it. Other advisers are seemingly saying that it isn't that bad. On | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
the front page of the Times, they call it a blunder. They say that the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Met Office admitted that it overstated the threat and people | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
panicked. It is one of these stories which, because there are pretty good | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
photographs to go along, you can see, it is perhaps being over eight. | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
Asthmatic people are feeling it. `` over`egged. That is a lot to do with | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
the Saharan dust which is a freak weather condition. Indeed. Let's go | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
to the Times. Pressure on camera and to prevent Scots from voting if they | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
vote for independence. That could be that they don't have a say in the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
election? This is interesting. It is interesting that he has kept Nigel | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Karadzic and Nick Clegg of the front page. If you look across the front | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
pages, the debate is not nearly as prominent as we might have thought. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
`` Farage. That may be because they don't want to give Nigel Farage a | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
leg up. The Times has got their story through its own merit but I | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
don't think the timing is coincidence. It says that the PM is | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
being lobbied by senior conservatives who want to ban the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
59th Scottish constituencies from taking part in the election if they | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
vote for independence. That has run applications. If you take away those | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
59 constituencies which are all not Tory except one, the political | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
landscape comes a very different. In order to do it, you have to get the | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
bill passed through Parliament. Can you see Labour MPs voting for that? | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
In some ways, it is a story to highlight the what gifts of the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
whole independence debate and to make people who might be tempted to | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
vote for independence thing twice. An interesting political story. Very | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
interesting. It says that it if there is a voter independence, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
camera and should resign according to some MPs. He helped put this the | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
agenda and allowed it to happen. His position will be extremely | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
difficult. I'm sure that he does not want to get an history as the Prime | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Minister who saw the breakup of the union. Back to the electoral thing. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
I think it unpacks a host of possibilities that the Scottish | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
referendum poses which should have been unthought of before. The | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
opposite possibility, the general election takes place and Scotland | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
votes Yes to independence but the Scottish constituencies still had | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
seats in Westminster. Let us imagine that we are in the situation we were | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
in in 2010 where we have a negotiation and hung parliament. You | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
may end up with a government which depends upon Scottish seats. The | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
alternative to them, if they do vote, is that they vacate their | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
seats. That would be halfway through a British Parliament. We would have | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
to renegotiate and have a new coalition or would there be a new | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
general election? It hones in on the problems of the referendum could | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
cause. It is clever electioneering cause. It is clever electioneering | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
as far as the referendum is concerned because of exactly that. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
No matter what happens, if we do vote for independence, it is going | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
to be an absolute muggle. It is the drip, drip that is being fed to the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
newspapers. In good and interesting stories, but it is to make people | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
think, " Don't vote for independence." That public down | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
south of the border will think of this, I wonder. A lot of people | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
would think, why would they vote for independence? Why would they vote | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
our Prime Minister? If there is any Yes for independence, the Scottish | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
MPs would vacate their seats but they would vacate their seats after | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the election, not before it. Very interesting story. Well done, the | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
Times. Let's go to the Guardian. To the GCSE marks paid to China's | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
scores. We had been hearing that the pressure that the Chinese are under | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
to get good grades. `` pegged. Is this what he is suggesting? There | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
are those who would think twice about putting their children under | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the kind of pressure we hear about in Shanghai and Singapore and far | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Eastern countries about educational performance. We have also talked | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
about the question already of whether we are comparing like with | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
like. The way these educational performance data is collected in | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
other countries, is it can parable to what is going on here? It is a | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
very difficult thing. It isn't a coincidence and that the Guardian | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
has chosen to headline it in a way that they have done. You immediately | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
think of Tiger mums, and hot housing. In this country, we tend to | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
be negative about China. When these comparative studies come and they | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
show that our 15`year`old children are not doing as well as other | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
countries, that is also negative. You can't have it both ways. Code is | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
correct to push the stand`up as long as we do not go down that | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
high`intensity, pressurised situation. `` Gove is correct. There | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
were other statistic about problem`solving in 15 `year`olds. We | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
did very, very well. Our kids to do very well in something. GCSEs are | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
meant to be more about teaching children to think rather than to | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
regurgitate. We should applaud where applause is necessary. It is a | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
classic cliche, isn't it? They make Apple products in China but they | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
don't develop them. Something to ponder. Let's go to the Mirror and | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
the big debate tonight. The rumble in central London. One line from it | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
from central `` Nigel Farage, migrants have created a white | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
underclass. Farage plays the race card. He KOs Nick Clegg. It is no | :09:38. | :09:51. | |
coincidence that he used this phrase. He seems to pull back from | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
it a little bit but I can't help feeling that there was a deliberate | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
plan. He knew the constituency to which he was trying to appeal. The | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
thing about the Mirror which surprises me is the opinion piece on | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
the verdict which suggests that Nick Clegg was victorious, or least | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
delivered some serious blows on Farage which I don't think was the | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
case to be honest. Nick Clegg was defensive throughout the debate. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
There were areas, notably Syria and the Keating issue where he landed | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
some blows but not sure that most people think that that was central | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
to the debate. I think that a lot of commentators, especially on the Left | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
were startled and frightened by the blatant appeal that Farage was | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
making to the Mirror readers. Labour Party, working, what he would call | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
working`class voters, which of course have not really being in the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
UKIP train before, but today it was very, very clear that he was going | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
for them, help labour. Labour voters definitely because he was talking | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
about hard`working people taking our jobs and that sort of thing that in | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
a different way from the way he has done it in the past. `` help Labour. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
They will want to knock him out as soon as possible. Deliberate Mac | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
party has suggested that they have made mistakes on immigration and | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
they should not allow the barriers to be completely blown open. `` the | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Labor Party. Labor Party has tried to address the issue. Had they | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
adjusted well enough? `` addressed it. People developer position which | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
is hard to shake in either direction. If the kernel of an idea | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
is in the mind of people and you are a politician with a mind to do so, | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
you can reach out to it. It has power. The antiestablishment | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
argument which he was pushing so much, it will appeal to Labour | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
voters. The establishment is conservatives and LibDem at the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
moment. He's pushing that more now than he was when the establishment | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
was the Labour. He is the outsider. Apparently it's a big shout out for | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the Prime Minister for Waitrose. It doesn't sound like it is connected, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
but I think that this is really... ! You can draw the link here. An off | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
the cuff remark that David Cameron made. He was visiting John Lewis and | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
said how much he loves Waitrose and he finds Waitrose customers are more | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
talkative and engage more with him. He would have thought that that was | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
a nice and flattering and friendsly thing to do. It send a dodgy message | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
because it sounds like David Cameron only connects with Waitrose | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
shoppers. And then, of course, most of us these days aren't are doing a | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
lot of shopping in Aldi and the pound shop. I was going to say ` | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
that's exactly where he should be making that comment down in Aldi or | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Pound Stretcher. I'm saying that it is a serious political mistake, but | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
the us and them message that Nigel Farage is so desperately trying to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
be on the us, he's looking like a them. Has he dropped the clankinger | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
then? Yes, as Daisy says. I think that it is intriguing and it gives | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
us a window. Where you shop, supermarket`wise, in a lot of | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
people's minds, is a proxy for social class and social positioning | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
and some things have been thrown in the air by that. We have a middle | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
class that's felt a squeeze and, as Daisy says, is increasingly drawn to | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
places like Aldi and Lidl. Well, I wonder where he will make his | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
statement from tomorrow, Aldi? You can imagine Ed Miliband making hay | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
in Prime Minister's Questions, "You wouldn't know, you only shop in | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
Waitrose! ". He says when he's in his local town, he shops as | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Sainsbury only because there isn't a Waitrose, that's going to stick! It | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
will. Back to the Express, house prices soaring by ?16,000. No end in | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
sight for prices and London is way outstripping. It usually does, but | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
it is getting ridiculous now, isn't it? It is. This is beginning to | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
shape up to be quite a serious issue. The imbalance that there is | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
between London. But interestingly, in the figures that came out | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
yesterday, there was other hot spots in certain parts of Manchester, that | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
were extremely hot on house prices. But it is becoming a serious issue. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
I don't want to be an alarmist, but house prices are galloping at a rate | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
which is at odds with what we're seeing in the rest of the economy | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
and poses some quite serious dilemmas for the Bank of England | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
about how it deals with this. They're very torn, it seems to me, | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
and obviously they're aware of this, in that they don't feel that they | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
can raise interest rates to calm down this behaviour because it could | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
be destructive to the economic recovery, but at the same time, they | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
need to communicate to people that interest rates will go up and house | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
prices could be a burden. Deutsch Bank has just said that it believes | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
that rate rises will come sooner rather than later. They've changed | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
their mind on that. And coming back to the London property market, there | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
were figures out this weekend showing... And we've known this for | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
a while, that more billionaires than any other city in the world, are | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
buying property in London because they see it as a safe haven for | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
their money. It's not to live in, but purely an investment. That | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
brings in massive implications for mansion tax and so on. The average | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
house that the billionaires is buying is ?22 million for the | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
average house. And you can see that generally, as house prices rise, so | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
does stamp duty. The Treasury's coiffers grow so there are lots of | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
incentives for the Government to be happy about this. And then we get | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
back to boom and bust. Exactly, but as you say, lots of reasons for the | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
Government to be happy with the election around the corner. | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Absolutely. Daysy and Simon, great to have you both in looking at the | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
stories behind the headlines. Many thanks for that. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
We'll now go to that breaking news I was telling you about earlier. The | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
apparent shooting, an incident. At the | :16:25. | :16:25. |