06/04/2014

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:00:15. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:21. > :00:32.bringing us tomorrow. With me are theologian and writer Vicky Beeching

:00:33. > :00:38.and broadcaster Henry Bonsu. We will be speaking to them in a moment.

:00:39. > :00:42.Here's an old of mine! We will look at the front pages in brief first.

:00:43. > :00:44.The Independent leads on the Labour leader Ed Miliband promising to

:00:45. > :00:46.rescue Britain's struggling middle classes.

:00:47. > :00:50.The Telegraph has Maria Miller on its front page. Miller faces

:00:51. > :00:58.questions over the tax on her home sale.

:00:59. > :01:01.The front page of the Metro has The Hunt For Costa Killer, The story of

:01:02. > :01:03.an ex`pat millionaire shot dead in Spain.

:01:04. > :01:06.The Guardian also leads on Maria Miller. PM At Odds With Top Tories

:01:07. > :01:09.As Pressure Grows On Miller. The Mail leads on To Polite To Make

:01:10. > :01:19.A Fuss. Elderly people enduring appalling NHS care. They are afraid

:01:20. > :01:31.to speak up. Here is the son which has an EastEnders exclusive on its

:01:32. > :01:39.front page. You are back on the BBC! I will become yours one day! You

:01:40. > :01:43.will. The Maria Miller saga continues even though Grant Shapps

:01:44. > :01:47.has asked us to draw a line under it which is possibly the worst thing a

:01:48. > :01:52.politician can ask the press to do. She faces question of attacks on a

:01:53. > :02:00.home sale. Is this a new revelation? A bit more information.

:02:01. > :02:02.She is in the sights of the Daily Telegraph because they feel they

:02:03. > :02:06.were bullied by one of her advisers a couple of years ago and they feel

:02:07. > :02:10.that she is vulnerable and they smell blood so they are keeping the

:02:11. > :02:15.story going and the latest leg of it is that she may have questions to

:02:16. > :02:20.answer over precisely the designation of her home. For the

:02:21. > :02:25.vast majority of her time in that house, 19 years, it was designated

:02:26. > :02:31.as her second home and then just before she sold it, allegedly, it

:02:32. > :02:35.was designated as her first home, avoiding 28% capital gains tax,

:02:36. > :02:39.netting her a profit of ?1 million, they say. There are also calls for a

:02:40. > :02:44.resignation. What we have seen in the papers over the weekend is

:02:45. > :02:48.unnamed ministers coming forward, junior ministers coming forward and

:02:49. > :02:57.now they are getting more senior. It is putting David Cameron and the

:02:58. > :03:00.government in a difficult position and it is also the wider position

:03:01. > :03:02.which the Daily Telegraph going to and also other papers. The Guardian

:03:03. > :03:05.has PM at odds with top Tories as pressure grows over Miller. It is

:03:06. > :03:10.not just about her any more. This is about public trust. The public

:03:11. > :03:14.Standards Committee is under scrutiny, whether or not politicians

:03:15. > :03:19.can mark their own homework and whether the public have trust in

:03:20. > :03:28.them to uphold things. To see the figure that she owed reduced from

:03:29. > :03:32.45,002 under 5000 seems a bit mind`boggling, especially to hear

:03:33. > :03:37.Iain Duncan Smith defending her when he leads the department that is

:03:38. > :03:40.responsible for benefit cuts. People are struggling with benefit cuts and

:03:41. > :03:42.if they fiddle their own books they are looking at having their house

:03:43. > :03:46.repossessed but in her case she gets a slap on the wrist and she can walk

:03:47. > :03:52.away. We are all feeling a huge sense of empathy for people who are

:03:53. > :03:57.dealing with low incomes and benefit issues so this is particularly

:03:58. > :04:02.inflammable in that environment I think. Iain Duncan Smith has also

:04:03. > :04:05.been saying, and he is quoted in the Guardian saying, that he thinks

:04:06. > :04:08.there should perhaps be a review of the independence of the

:04:09. > :04:13.investigators, will that be enough to get public trust back? Well, if

:04:14. > :04:17.we consider the way we have tried to reform the way the police are

:04:18. > :04:21.policed cop with the police complaints authority being a

:04:22. > :04:26.toothless tiger and now we have the IPC see that people would like to be

:04:27. > :04:30.reformed. If we do not allow that, why should we allow a broken system

:04:31. > :04:36.to continue when you have the Parliamentary standards commission

:04:37. > :04:42.and even their chairman says it cannot work with the MPs marking

:04:43. > :04:47.their own home work any more. A lot of MPs think if only the public knew

:04:48. > :04:51.what a great job they all do then in order for that to happen they need

:04:52. > :04:54.this stuff to be eradicated. Iain Duncan Smith has been calling it a

:04:55. > :04:57.witchhunt and saying that Maria Miller has done such great work with

:04:58. > :05:01.Leveson Report same`sex marriage and that is why she is under fire but

:05:02. > :05:06.you cannot bring these things into it. This has to be treated in its

:05:07. > :05:12.own merit. There are other stories as well. We will stay with the

:05:13. > :05:16.Guardian. Number ten plans a curb on betting machines. We have heard

:05:17. > :05:20.David Cameron talking about this before. Yes, I do not bet myself or

:05:21. > :05:24.even have a flutter on the Grand National but this is to do with

:05:25. > :05:29.something to do with fixed odds betting terminals which are known as

:05:30. > :05:33.the crack cocaine of gambling and people spend huge amounts of time on

:05:34. > :05:39.these losing huge amounts of money and apparently the Prime Minister

:05:40. > :05:43.wants safeguards introduced. This government said that new Labour had

:05:44. > :05:50.legalised 24`hour gambling and drinking but it has not done much

:05:51. > :05:55.about this. At the moment they take up 9% of high`street floor space

:05:56. > :05:58.with these machines. In really poor areas! They are popping up

:05:59. > :06:02.everywhere and David Cameron thinks you need to have more crackdowns are

:06:03. > :06:06.so if you have been playing for 30 minutes you need a pop`up, if you

:06:07. > :06:10.have bet more than ?250 you need a pop`up to tell them to consider what

:06:11. > :06:15.they are doing and giving the people a moment to step back. Adrenaline

:06:16. > :06:23.flows. I have spoken to people who are really addicted and they get

:06:24. > :06:25.lost in the excitement. You forget it is real money. Safeguards that

:06:26. > :06:29.encourage people to step back would be important. If you are betting so

:06:30. > :06:36.much money every minute you do not have time to think. Exactly. If you

:06:37. > :06:39.are libertarian you want to avoid introducing rules and regulations

:06:40. > :06:43.where possible and allow self`regulation but if it is not

:06:44. > :06:48.working then there is a role for government, even big government. It

:06:49. > :06:54.would not be the start of a week without a story about the NHS. The

:06:55. > :06:57.Daily Mail brings us this one about elderly patients who are in during

:06:58. > :07:02.appalling care in the NHS but they are too frightened or too polite to

:07:03. > :07:06.complain. This is classic British nurse coming back to bite people.

:07:07. > :07:10.They are saying that people do not want to make a fuss because they are

:07:11. > :07:13.polite and they are concerned that if they do make complaints it will

:07:14. > :07:18.come around and come back to haunt them in the way the staff treat

:07:19. > :07:23.them. It says that over half of people receiving care on the NHS are

:07:24. > :07:27.over 65 but only two thirds of the complaints that coming from them.

:07:28. > :07:30.The balance is not correct. There should be more people in that age

:07:31. > :07:34.group complaining but there are not so it is clear people are not

:07:35. > :07:39.speaking up. These are the complaints as they are being

:07:40. > :07:44.treated, not just. We have seen a lot of cases of elderly people being

:07:45. > :07:48.vulnerable and starved on wards are not getting water or food and we see

:07:49. > :07:51.their relatives having to do their own sting operations to show

:07:52. > :07:54.excepting what is happening to them and they are incredibly vulnerable

:07:55. > :07:57.and you see the relatives getting nervous about their care and they

:07:58. > :08:01.are the ones that have to speak up for them but what if you do not have

:08:02. > :08:06.relatives? What if you are on your own? We are all aware that we will

:08:07. > :08:09.live longer and struggle financially if forced Aristide follows on and we

:08:10. > :08:15.are worried about being in this position. There are forms you can

:08:16. > :08:21.fill in when you have had NHS care but that can be too late. Shall we

:08:22. > :08:29.go back to the Daily Telegraph. There are a lot of stories on their

:08:30. > :08:33.front page. The latest about HS2 and be hitches, the trains are too quick

:08:34. > :08:37.according to the Daily Telegraph. One of the reasons we want to spend

:08:38. > :08:47.this money is to reduce the time it takes from London to Birmingham or

:08:48. > :08:51.even from London to Manchester but apparently they will be too fast and

:08:52. > :08:55.they want to slow them down for environmental reasons. A committee

:08:56. > :09:00.is going to make this clearer later this week but then what is the

:09:01. > :09:02.point? It is basically a massive glitch coming in as the

:09:03. > :09:07.environmental watchdog says that the emissions will be a problem said the

:09:08. > :09:13.speed will have to slow down and if they do so down to this degree they

:09:14. > :09:16.will only be 25 minutes faster than existing services and if you think

:09:17. > :09:24.about the cash we are investing for 25 minutes knocked off the journey

:09:25. > :09:27.it is not much. A lot can happen in 25 minutes. The chap who build Eden

:09:28. > :09:33.Centre what's a couple of billion chucked his way, we should listen to

:09:34. > :09:38.him! A Polish MP who is living as a migrant in London has tried to

:09:39. > :09:43.follow the exact procedure that Polish people take with a cheap

:09:44. > :09:47.airline and taking a job, it is a fascinating story. This is basically

:09:48. > :09:51.undercover. He is doing what the Polish immigrants do to see why it

:09:52. > :09:55.is so good. He is attempting to live on a minimum wage and figure out why

:09:56. > :09:59.so many Polish people prefer Britain to their homeland. He wants to see

:10:00. > :10:03.why it is better and take the secrets that he discovers back to

:10:04. > :10:10.Poland. He says that around 70% of young people in Poland consider

:10:11. > :10:12.emigrating. They have a massive problem. 40% are thinking of

:10:13. > :10:17.applying for British nurses and ship. I can tell him, he does not

:10:18. > :10:21.need to go through all of this! He is putting his money where his mouth

:10:22. > :10:25.is. He is enduring what it is like to come over here. It is not easy.

:10:26. > :10:30.You should go down to Victoria Station where a lot of migrants

:10:31. > :10:35.arrive and also a lot of them end up living rough. Some do struggle. The

:10:36. > :10:41.thing about this is that the young Polish people come here because we

:10:42. > :10:45.are this multicultural, multiethnic, hopefully outward looking country.

:10:46. > :10:49.These are all the things that Nigel Farage probably hates about Britain

:10:50. > :10:52.and that is why the polls are coming here. There must be an election

:10:53. > :10:57.coming on because it says here that Ed Miliband is to the rescue of the

:10:58. > :11:00.middle classes. He has promised to rescue the struggling middle classes

:11:01. > :11:05.and warned that the cost of living crisis could last for another five

:11:06. > :11:13.years. Some Labour MPs are not very impressed with this. He is supposed

:11:14. > :11:16.to have made a big lurch to the left to keep the unions on board but here

:11:17. > :11:19.he is talking about Britain's great cities, unleashing them and

:11:20. > :11:23.liberating them and not allowing managed decline as people in the

:11:24. > :11:26.Tory government say. He is worried and he needs to say something very

:11:27. > :11:30.significant because the gap between the Tories and Labour has narrowed

:11:31. > :11:34.from about 15% to 1% since the budget. He needs to say something

:11:35. > :11:39.really significant. A lot of Labour MPs are not really sure about

:11:40. > :11:43.rescuing the middle classes. He needs to reach out beyond people on

:11:44. > :11:46.a low income so that people in the squeezed middle know that Labour is

:11:47. > :11:50.the party for them as well. He wants to rebuild the middle classes and he

:11:51. > :11:53.is highlighting the things that are the foundations of the middle`class

:11:54. > :11:57.such as pensions, university education, getting on the housing

:11:58. > :12:00.ladder, this government has put those under threat and he wants to

:12:01. > :12:13.restore those for the middle class who are looking at their own

:12:14. > :12:16.children and thinking they were worse off be worse off than they

:12:17. > :12:19.have been. Many thanks for taking us through some of the stories. You

:12:20. > :12:22.will be back at 11:30pm to do more of that. Thank you for joining us.

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