07/04/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.well. That is in 15 minutes. `` in the

:00:00. > :00:20.Scottish Premier League. Welcome to our look ahead to what

:00:21. > :00:23.the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are political

:00:24. > :00:27.commentator and writer Joe Phillips and the Daily Telegraph 's senior

:00:28. > :00:32.political correspondent, Christopher Hope. Let's look at the front pages.

:00:33. > :00:37.The Telegraph shows the photographs sent in why Peaches Geldof. It was

:00:38. > :00:41.her last tweet of her and her mother, Paula Yates, who died 13

:00:42. > :00:45.years ago. The paper's lead article is on demands from inserted MPs that

:00:46. > :00:50.the Culture Secretary Maria Miller should be sacked because her toxic

:00:51. > :00:53.expenses scandal is damaging the party. The Daily Express shows the

:00:54. > :00:57.Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George who, along with the Duke, are

:00:58. > :01:00.touring New Zealand. The paper also reports that fierce

:01:01. > :01:05.competition is leading to a slashing of Easter and summer holiday prices.

:01:06. > :01:09.The Daily Mirror also dedicates its front page to Peaches Geldof and

:01:10. > :01:14.that final photograph tweeted shortly before her death.

:01:15. > :01:17.A photograph of Peaches Geldof at the premiere of The Wolf Of Wall

:01:18. > :01:21.Street movie is on the front page of the Guardian and the paper's lead

:01:22. > :01:25.article is on concerns by food inspectors that infected animals

:01:26. > :01:27.could enter the food chain if proposed changes to abattoir

:01:28. > :01:32.inspections go ahead. And the Daily Mail concentrates on

:01:33. > :01:38.the unexpected death of Peaches Geldof and quotes her father, Bob

:01:39. > :01:43.Geldof's words, we are beyond pain. That is the story we start with.

:01:44. > :01:50.Jo, Peaches posted this picture with her mum . Hours later, she was dead

:01:51. > :01:54.herself. She sent that photograph yesterday. Yes, apparently. There is

:01:55. > :02:00.nothing anybody can sensibly say that is more articulate than what

:02:01. > :02:04.her father has said already. It is a horrific tragedy and as yet

:02:05. > :02:08.unexplained. Obviously, as this picture indicates, people are

:02:09. > :02:13.drawing attention to the tragic death of her mother, Paula Yates,

:02:14. > :02:19.over a decade ago. That we don't know what happened. As we look at

:02:20. > :02:22.the photographs we have seen and the images you have been showing

:02:23. > :02:29.throughout the evening, she was a beautiful, full of life young woman

:02:30. > :02:35.with two young children. Hugely intelligent, very driven, very

:02:36. > :02:41.creative. We don't know any more than that. It is just a terrible

:02:42. > :02:45.thing. But Christopher, given the fact that she is the daughter of

:02:46. > :02:51.Paula Yates and so Bob Geldof, well`known figures, obviously, even

:02:52. > :02:53.though the circumstances surrounding her death are completely unexplained

:02:54. > :02:58.at the moment and we have no idea what happened, there is stuff for

:02:59. > :03:03.the papers to write? There is. It broke at 6pm, which is the worst and

:03:04. > :03:08.the best time for a newspaper, because we have to find news for the

:03:09. > :03:13.next morning, but the later it breaks, the more news we can write.

:03:14. > :03:19.As a hardened political journalist, Home Office were stunned by this

:03:20. > :03:26.news. `` our office were shocked. We don't know why or how she died.

:03:27. > :03:29.Newspapers have to go on what they have, which is a photograph she put

:03:30. > :03:34.up last night on Instagram, saying, me and my mum. People are trying to

:03:35. > :03:41.draw conclusions from that, but we don't know the answers yet. The risk

:03:42. > :03:45.is that to imply something now might be wrong in the morning. That is the

:03:46. > :03:53.danger of being a newspaper journalist. But of course, you get

:03:54. > :03:57.idiots and same people on Twitter and social media, which I am sure

:03:58. > :04:04.are abuzz with allsorts of theories. It is so shocking. She was a mum of

:04:05. > :04:10.two young children. That is the tragedy. And someone who was a

:04:11. > :04:13.classic wild child, but apparently had turned her life around. Her

:04:14. > :04:18.first marriage ended unfortunately, book she married again and had two

:04:19. > :04:24.children. I spoke to a taxi driver who ferried her around, and he said

:04:25. > :04:30.she was doting on the kids and she had thrown that celebrity life, to a

:04:31. > :04:40.degree, the way. So again, we wonder why this would happen. We don't know

:04:41. > :04:45.if it was some illness she had. It is a properly shocking story. Let's

:04:46. > :04:50.go on to the Telegraph, which also has that picture of the last tweet

:04:51. > :04:59.from Peaches Geldof of her and her mother, who died 13 years ago. Paula

:05:00. > :05:02.Yates. We rarely use the word heartbreaking at the Daily

:05:03. > :05:10.Telegraph. But it is a heartbreaking statement from Bob Geldof. To lose

:05:11. > :05:17.his ex`wife and then his daughter like this is shocking. Next to that

:05:18. > :05:22.on the front page, a story that you penned, Mr Hope. Billy MPs call for

:05:23. > :05:29.Miller to be sacked. You are not going to let this go away `` Tory

:05:30. > :05:35.MPs call for Miller to be sacked. There are no new facts here in terms

:05:36. > :05:39.of the Maria Miller situation, but it is looking forward to a meeting

:05:40. > :05:41.of backbenchers which David Cameron will address on Wednesday

:05:42. > :05:45.afternoon. On Thursday, the House of Commons rises for Easter, so there

:05:46. > :05:49.is a feeling that we are going towards an end point in the story.

:05:50. > :05:54.Whether it is an end point for Maria, we don't know. Even when we

:05:55. > :05:59.broke the story, I was not part of that, but it was certainly written

:06:00. > :06:10.as a kind of page four inside story. We had moved on from the

:06:11. > :06:15.expenses scandal. It was really the reaction of Maria Miller's team,

:06:16. > :06:19.with talk about Leveson, that put it on the front page. It is how it has

:06:20. > :06:25.been handled by Maria Miller and her team as much as the original sin

:06:26. > :06:30.which has kept the story going. You can see the legalistic way she went

:06:31. > :06:34.after things. Not as big as Watergate, but it is not the

:06:35. > :06:41.original crime, it is how you deal with it. That is why it is an

:06:42. > :06:46.ongoing news story. But as David Cameron said, she apologised. The

:06:47. > :06:50.committee that is in place, rightly or wrongly, said she should pay back

:06:51. > :06:55.just shy of ?6,000. David Cameron says that is the end of the matter.

:06:56. > :07:00.Why isn't it? Because it is politics, and it is how it looks. I

:07:01. > :07:03.was watching Question Time last the day, and it is quite a drive

:07:04. > :07:06.programme, and then someone mentioned Maria Miller's expenses

:07:07. > :07:11.and the whole place changed. There was a feeling of anger. There was

:07:12. > :07:14.this anti`politics feeling amongst people and the expenses story gets

:07:15. > :07:20.them going in a way which no other story does. It is all about

:07:21. > :07:25.perception. To be honest, two weeks ago, a lot of people would not have

:07:26. > :07:30.even known who Maria Miller was. Now we know exactly what she looks like.

:07:31. > :07:35.It is this assumption and the perception that it is acceptable for

:07:36. > :07:43.the taxpayer. I mean, her constituency is Basingstoke. Chris

:07:44. > :07:47.and I come in from outside London and we have not got second homes. It

:07:48. > :07:51.is that sort of assumption and the fact that she made 1 million quid on

:07:52. > :07:56.the sale of it was. We all know London prices are bonkers. That is

:07:57. > :08:00.not her fault. But it is this mealy`mouthed, weaselly worded, I am

:08:01. > :08:06.going to stick to the rules. It was only this much. It is like trying to

:08:07. > :08:11.appeal with a traffic warden. It is meat and drink to Nigel Farage and

:08:12. > :08:14.the anti`politics people. Christopher, why has David Cameron

:08:15. > :08:20.stuck by her? If all this is swirling around and we all know that

:08:21. > :08:25.a huge possibility is perception, why has he stuck by her? Two

:08:26. > :08:28.reasons. First, he doesn't like being bounced into a decision he has

:08:29. > :08:32.not thought of himself. He does not want to be pushed by newspapers or

:08:33. > :08:36.journalists. He is also bruised by the Andrew Mitchell affair, when

:08:37. > :08:39.after a month of bad headlines, he reacted and allowed Andrew Mitchell

:08:40. > :08:47.to resign when he should not have resigned. History is now reviewing

:08:48. > :08:55.that choice. I think he hung Andrew Mitchell out to dry. He reacted too

:08:56. > :09:00.quickly. We took about the ten day rule. If a story is still a story,

:09:01. > :09:05.that is the time. If it goes beyond the Easter recess, she could cling

:09:06. > :09:11.on. I can't see what would take it that far. I don't know what would be

:09:12. > :09:16.the new fact that will keep it going beyond this week. But there is still

:09:17. > :09:20.furious about this out there. Jo, bearing in mind that there are only

:09:21. > :09:25.five women in the Cabinet, four full`time members, put those figures

:09:26. > :09:29.into context. There are four men who went to the same Oxford college in

:09:30. > :09:35.the Cabinet. There are three men called Dave, and there are four

:09:36. > :09:39.women. Is that the problem here, you cannot get rid of a woman? If that

:09:40. > :09:44.is the problem, he is showing even worse judgement, because having a

:09:45. > :09:48.woman who is perceived to have not had properly, in other words, having

:09:49. > :09:53.a bad woman although I am not saying she's bad person, having somebody

:09:54. > :09:57.who is not up to it does not make it right just because she is a woman.

:09:58. > :10:02.There are other women, better women. It is not exactly as though

:10:03. > :10:07.she has set the world on fire is an amazing Culture Secretary. She did

:10:08. > :10:12.push through Same Sex Marriage Bill. There are other people. If that is

:10:13. > :10:19.the best you can get, don't bother, because it does no one any favours.

:10:20. > :10:28.We will stay with the Telegraph. Scots will pay more for energy after

:10:29. > :10:33.separation. Do we believe these stories? Will we believe what's in

:10:34. > :10:38.your paper! I can't help think that all these stories about what

:10:39. > :10:41.terrible things are being to befall Scotland if they vote for

:10:42. > :10:46.independence are guaranteed to bring the Scots together like nothing

:10:47. > :10:51.else. Wind people up. We have seen... The fear factor. Half these

:10:52. > :10:54.things seem to be absolutely frightening for no reason and it's

:10:55. > :10:59.actually working against it because it's brought the yes campaign ` it's

:11:00. > :11:10.narrowed the gap. Is this stuff being fed to you? Not to me, Clive!

:11:11. > :11:19.OK. It's being fed to Simon Johnson. I am sure Simon went out there and

:11:20. > :11:23.dug this story up. Absolutely. This is chapter five or six in a series

:11:24. > :11:30.of looking at different policy areas and saying why this won't work for

:11:31. > :11:34.you. It's about the fear of doing something and it's trying to

:11:35. > :11:39.stoke... And the timing. I am sure the Department of Energy and Climate

:11:40. > :11:43.Change publish all sorts of fascinating documents but to do it

:11:44. > :11:47.on the day or just before Alex Salmond is going to make a speech at

:11:48. > :11:56.a conference seems coins dental. You might say that `` coins dental.

:11:57. > :12:00.Let's quickly go on to The Guardian. Alert over infected meat risk. I

:12:01. > :12:06.thought this was over. So did we. This is a worry. We think back to

:12:07. > :12:13.the horsemeat episode which cut out ` any food health scare stories

:12:14. > :12:19.always cut out of the bubble we inhabit about reporting news policy,

:12:20. > :12:22.this affects millions immediately. They're saying new rules from

:12:23. > :12:30.Brussels mean that the inspectors can't check on quality of meat and `

:12:31. > :12:33.where does the meat come from, how far back can you trace it? These are

:12:34. > :12:38.interesting stories and they can spiral out of control. It is a scare

:12:39. > :12:47.story. It's very much about could, may happen, might happen, if these

:12:48. > :12:52.changes go ahead. It's come from Unison, as far as I can tell. So

:12:53. > :12:57.they've an axe to grind? They may be flagging up a concern about health.

:12:58. > :13:01.It is very much about it could enter the food chain. For The Guardian I

:13:02. > :13:06.am surprised they've done it in such a... You would have expected this

:13:07. > :13:11.from The Telegraph! The Daily Mail or The Express actually. I am

:13:12. > :13:17.joking! I agree with The Guardian on that, a good story. It is.

:13:18. > :13:22.All right. We are going to end it there. We will be back in an hour's

:13:23. > :13:26.time for another look at the stories behind the headlines. Stay with us,

:13:27. > :13:30.at the top of the hour we are going to have much more on the tragic

:13:31. > :13:36.untimely death of the broadcaster and author Peaches Geldof. She has

:13:37. > :13:52.died at the age of 25. Coming up now it's time for Sportsday.

:13:53. > :13:59.Hello. Welcome to Sportsday. I am John Watson. Tonight: Sunderland

:14:00. > :14:08.remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League as they concede five

:14:09. > :14:09.at Tottenham. Aberdeen in second in the Scottish