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Europe's clubs risk financial exclusion. That is in Sportsday | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
pension analyst Ros Altman and London Evening Standard journalist | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
Mihir Bose. They are so much more than that, of course, but that is | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
the shorthand. Tomorrow's front pages, starting with: The Telegraph | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
leads on comments by Nick Clegg that the Queen should lose her | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
constitutional role as head of the Church of England. The Times has the | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
same story. It says senior Cabinet ministers are split over the role of | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
the church. The Guardian reports on Russian forces carrying out fresh | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
manoeuvres on the Ukrainian border. The paper also says the Gherkin is | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
for sale for more than ?500 million. An extra cup or two of coffee a day | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
could help slash the risk of diabetes ` that's according to the | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Express. Today's court appearance by the Coronation Street actress | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Barbara Knox dominates the Mirror's front page. She denies drink | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
driving. And the Metro says tenants faced with paying the spare room | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
subsidy in South Wales are offered a free Creme Egg. A housing | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
association wants them to keep up with their payment. I did not say | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
welcome, but you are. So let's begin. The Times is looking at this | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
idea of whether the Church of England should be the established | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
church and whether the Queen should be the head of it. Nick Clegg thinks | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
not. I find this idea strange. We are a Christian country with strong | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Christian traditions and values. I don't understand what the Vantage to | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
anybody would be of sending a message that somehow, we want to | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
divorce the Queen from the church, or the country from this Christian | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
tradition. We are very tolerant. We don't have a religious issue in | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
terms of church and date. So from my perspective, I think the prime | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
minister is right. This is something that is important to Britain, the | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Christian tradition. I think this has come about because Cameron wrote | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
that article just before Easter about this being a Christian | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
country, and of course, it is. The traditions and history of this | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
country are embedded in Christianity. I think Nick Clegg | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
wanted to stand apart, if you like. That has always been liberal policy. | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Nobody knew it until Nick Clegg made the broadcast! Or not outside the | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
party. I can't see the advantage of doing that. If you had an opinion | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
poll and went around and ask people, is the Queen the head of the church | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
quez Mac I don't think people would say yes. I am not a believer or a | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Christian. I am of a completely different faith and I don't believe | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
there is a heaven where I will always score 100. But I think we | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
respect all faiths, and I don't see why this issue should, . It has | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
become a slightly political issue between parties trying to appear | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
that they have distinct positions on an issue on which they should not | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
have a position. It is a shame we have got politics interfering in | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
religion. But that is how it will be decided in the end, through | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
politicians, if we disestablish the church. That in itself is sad. It is | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
a different matter for the bishops in the House of Lords. That was a | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
historic situation. Whether it should carry on is a different | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
matter. That is a political decision. We can have Anglican | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
bishops or other religious faiths in the House of Lords, or none. Do we | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
need to have the monarch, whether the Queen or Vince Charles, who has | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
talked about wanting to be seeing the defender of the faiths, not just | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the faith, when he becomes king? Do we need the head of state to be head | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
of the Church? We would still be a Christian country. After all, for | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
some people it is rather unpalatable that the monarch is the head of the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Church of England, because it was a matter of convenience for Henry | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
VIII, who established it. The question is, if the monarch is the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
head of church and the head of the state, does the state, a liberal? | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
Does the state become something that prosecutes other religions. If not, | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
what difference does it make 's if it gives an advantage to Christians | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
over non`Christians, that would be an issue to be tackled. If it | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
doesn't, why should it matter if the country is Christian or not? The | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
fact that it doesn't is something we should be proud of, that we can show | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
that in a Christian country, Utah right all faiths and religions, or | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
none. The Telegraph has the same story. It has a quote from Nick | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
Clegg saying it would be better for the state to stand on its own two | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
feet. I don't see how that would be better for the church. It would not | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
make the church any more popular. I don't see you would benefit. `` who | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
would benefit. The fact that people do or do not go to church does not | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
make them any more or less Christian. Let's stay with the | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Telegraph for a second. Cameron says risk could be given a safe Tory | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
seat, adding to speculation over the return of Boris Johnson to | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Parliament. The prime minister admitted that the mayor of London | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
could fight the Tory chief whip seat at the general election. He has | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
still got a job of the mayor of London, hasn't he? Well, Cameron | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
says he could be both. He gave a rugby analogy, which is interesting. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
And useful for you! I think this is Cameron tried to say, I am not | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
worried about are struggles in becoming an MP. The background is | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
clearly what happens at the next election, should the Tories not win. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
There would probably be a move to remove Cameron, and Cameron is | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
saying firstly, I am going to win the election and be leader. Boris | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
would be somebody who would help me. What was the rugby analogy? Boris | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
used to play rugby, and he said he would be a good member of the scrum. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
And he also said beforehand, if someone drops the ball, I will pick | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
it up and run with it. So this is Cameron saying, if you want to, you | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
have an opportunity. But it will be up to the people of the party you | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
are in that constituency as to whether he is selected to stand, and | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
up to Boris whether he wants to. Keep your friends close and your | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
enemies closer? Absolute glee. `` absolutely. He is on a hiding to | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
nothing if he says he shouldn't come back. Let's look at the Guardian. | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
Putin warning as Ukraine's troops hit back. We have got Russian forces | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
who are carrying out fresh military drills on the border. They are | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
warning Kiev to be careful. We have had five pro`Russian people dying in | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Sloviansk at the hands of their own government. You wonder, what did | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Putin expect? If Russia has invaded Ukraine, is Ukraine going to just | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
sit there and say, don't worry, guys? They have gone into Crimea and | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
taken that. With the blessing of most people who live there. Indeed, | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
but when it comes to the rest of Ukraine, where do they draw the | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
line? If you remember, Putin, when he celebrated Crimea coming back to | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Russia, said, I don't want any other part of Ukraine. So this is a bit of | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
power politics that he is playing. But I do feel that the West, looking | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
back, has not played the Ukraine situation very well. What should | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
they have done? Firstly, they encouraged Ukraine to be part of the | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
European Union without realising how it would play with Russia. The West | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
are not going to send in troops. So they are making noises against | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Russia and Russia has the upper hand. But the people of Ukraine | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
generally, not Crimea, wanted to belong to the EU. And strategically, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
having Ukraine within the EU makes a lot of sense from the point of view | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
of gas supply and so on. So they're all these geopolitical forces. The | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
Ukrainian people have removed and elected a president, so there are | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
also soft nuances. We don't know what is actually going on. We see | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
these kinds of headlines, but we are not sure what it means. And we don't | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
know how much support the Russians may have in the eastern part of | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
Ukraine. These are imponderables. And there are ethnic Russians in | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
other Baltic states as well. Where do you stop? Let's stay with the | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
Guardian. Barclays shareholders scorned the bank over bonuses. A | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
huge amount of criticism from the shareholders at their annual meeting | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
today, with the board being accused of greed after handing out 2.4 | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
billion pounds in bonuses last year. This was also supposed to stop. Some | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
of the quotes from shareholders are fantastic. It is jam tomorrow for | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
the investors, but champagne today for the investment bankers. I liked | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
this one ` we are paying for Manchester United, but we are | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
getting Colchester United. Fans of Colchester United will not be happy | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
with that! This shareholder meetings are being attended by private | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
investors who can make a noise, but do not have much clout. The City | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
investors have already supported most of them. Standard life has | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
stood out against it. The interesting comment in this piece is | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
where the Barclays head of the remuneration committee is being, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
standard life should not have spoken out at the public meeting, they | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
should have told us privately if they were not happy. But that is not | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
how it should be. Prophets down 10%, bonuses up 20%. It is not surprising | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
that shareholders are little miffed. This is the ridiculous thing about | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
company democracy. You can make a lot of noise, but don't have any | :10:54. | :11:06. | |
impact. Experts say the risk of diabetes can be reduced by drinking | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
coffee. There are so many conflicting reports about what we | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
should think and eat. If you drink three cups of coughing, you might | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
never get to sleep but at least you would not have diabetes. Well, I | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
should start with three tomorrow, because I normally drink two. | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
Caffeinated? Caffeinated. Caffeine free, that would require five cups, | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
probably! Let's look at the business pages of the Telegraph, and it says | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
optimism is rising on the high streets. I suppose the good weather | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
helped to bring us out shopping? And the UK economy is doing really well. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
We see lots of negative stories, whenever we hear something positive | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
about the economy, there is always a but. If you look at it, the high | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
street is rising, the front page of the Telegraph, talking about | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
property at a seven`year high. For first`time buyers. And we have seen | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
manufacturing optimism at its highest level since the 1970s. This | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
economy is doing really well. Are you sure this is not another | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
bubble? Exports are not going up. I agree with you, exports are an | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
issue. Productivity is a bit of a puzzle. But it looks as if the | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
economy is firing on most of its cylinders. Investment? Investment is | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
starting to kick in, that is really important, so we need to get exports | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
going. What about people who are much, much worse off, who might have | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
been on benefits, and who are not able to partake in any high street | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
boom? They are not, but the way the economy works, once you start | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
getting this general uplift, it filters out. And you have also seen | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
some of the figures which came out yesterday, where a lot of the people | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
who were previously on benefits are now in work, and that itself | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
produces more growth and prosperity. So, this is a long game, not | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
something which is going to be solved immediately for everybody. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
And certainly there has been an increase in inequality, to some | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
degree, but what is going on now is that it is filtering through the | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
rest of the economy. We hope it will not lead to regional disparity. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Let's look at a story which might be connected to regional disparity. We | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
mentioned those figures for first`time buyers, at a seven`year | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
high. That will be surprising to a lot of people, how are people | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
affording it? Well, we have got the help`to`buy scheme, we have got | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
cheap finance, and also help with subsidised finance for first`time | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
buyers with very small deposits. They are not hurry first`time | :14:10. | :14:26. | |
buyers? No, they are not. `` not all Qatari? Stay with us, we will be | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
back to bring you the latest on the suspended peace talks between Israel | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
and Palestine. Coming up next, Sportsday. | :14:46. | :15:00. | |
Welcome to the programme. Our main stories tonight's ` Chelsea's title | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
hopes take another hit, as Ramires is banned for the rest of the | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
season. And Benfica have the advantage in their Europa League | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
semifinal against | :15:16. | :15:16. |