06/05/2014 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me are financial analyst Louise Cooper and Michael

Booker, deputy and editor of The Daily Express. Tomorrow's front

pages. The Independent quotes Vince Cable and his comments on the

proposed takeover of AstraZeneca. He says Britain's future should be as a

knowledge company, not a safe open `` safe haven. The Mail says,

squeeze on help to buy mortgages. The experts make claims British

police would excavate a `` of 25 sites at the holiday resort where

Madeline McCann went missing. The Mirror says British police have

a new lead in the case. The Guardian says an NHS initiative

has been put on hold after the Cabinet office queried its

credibility. Financial Times leads with

AstraZeneca and a warning from Sweden about promises Pfizer failed

to live up to when it bought a Swedish company.

And the Times says medics and MPs are joining forces to demand justice

for NHS whistleblowers who lose their jobs.

According to The Daily Mail, a squeeze on help to buy mortgages.

The controversial scheme to make mortgages cheaper is expected to be

reined in? This is what we have been told. It

has been said that something needs to be done about the housing bubble

which could upset economic growth in Britain. They are overcooking this

bubble, which we believe is mainly in London, which is interesting when

you look at the Help to Buy scheme. It is most popular in the north`west

and Scotland, where prices are around ?150,000. Whereas in London

the average price is about ?500,000, which is where the bubble is.

Interesting that it seems to be the thing they will go out, rather than

making people get higher deposits and scrutinise mortgage

applications, it is the people who are benefiting the most in areas

where prices are as... Well, the bigger bubble. There might be

smaller bubbles all over the place. Interesting that this is where they

will be attacking it. There seems to be a growing consensus, that it is

beginning to potentially, certainly in London and the south`east, to be

getting out of control. If I was going to be really sceptical of

George Osborne possible motives, a housing bubble has helped the Tory

chances of getting re`elected in 2015. It has boosted their offers

slightly, with stamp duty and inheritance tax, and also the help

to buy scheme will boost their coffers because the government

shares and any upside to a house price is secured. If they aren't

elected and they don't win the 2015 election and we have created a house

price bubble, Labour have to clear up the mess. Politically, it's a bit

of a win`win strategy. It just shows how obsessed we have now become with

house prices, because you mentioned earlier the new questionnaire that

you have two fill in if you want a mortgage. There was a joke, I don't

know if you watch the TV show Vera, but the detective sidekick Compleat

to his wife how much she spent at the hairdresser on their mortgage

application. `` complained. We have clearly become far too obsessed with

house prices. We do love talking about it. It's fine if you have got

a house but if you haven't you are really in big problems. Especially

with Help to Buy scheme. It's helping overwhelmingly first`time

buyers. The thing tanks say we should raise deposits. Other people

say interest rates should rise. Is this the easiest and quickest fix to

look like you are doing something? It is the simplest thing to do. It

is also the thing that you as the government introduce. You can just

grey matter back a little bit. `` Rain in a little bit. George Osborne

did say in Brussels yesterday, we should be vigilant about the housing

market. This government has given the Bank of England the power and

tools to do that. There is speculation the Bank of England

might do something, to do with the Help to Buy scheme, asking the

government to produce it, but the Bank of England might do something

next month. The Times, pressure grows to deliver justice for

whistleblowers. MPs join doctors and nurses to come `` to condemn NHS

sackings. A lot of pressure put on the new head of the health service

is to look into cases, especially of six former staff and they have asked

for a public enquiry after people have had genuine concerns about

things going on an NHS and came forward with these concerns. Instead

of being looked at carefully and looked after, for what they were

prepared to do, they ended up losing their jobs and being vilified.

Trying to get jobs within damages again they found themselves

blackballed completely. You can understand why people are upset. Now

we have a group representing nurses wanting an enquiry into these cases.

The Times have a sad case of a radiographer who for 27 years worked

in the NHS, in London. She noticed that on her colleague's timesheets

that doctors were claiming for shifts that they shouldn't have. She

was a whistleblower, came forward and she was then investigated for

fraud and she then lost her job. Can't get a new one. She has been

applied for many other jobs but when it comes up that she was a

whistleblower the jobs melt away. So, she is now... And as a

radiographer, the NHS is public the one real employer. She now has

breast cancer and experts say it is as a result of the stress. I'm sure

there are other people, and there are other cases, where people have

been vilified. At Jeremy Hunt said, especially after the Mid

Staffordshire case, that the NHS would protect whistleblowers. The

point about whistleblowers in the whole of society, they actually play

a vital role because regulators are generally pretty incompetent. The

best people placed to highlight things that are going wrong in the

financial sector in the NHS, wherever, are whistleblowers. If you

look at the financial sector, I think it was one of the big banks

that actually did whistleblower. I read an interview from the guy. He

said his life was destroyed. He couldn't get a new job, he was very

ill, the bank turned around and sued him. In America, the American

regulator for the financial industry does actually pay whistleblowers are

better `` a percentage of any fine imposed on the wrong firm. I think

it's not just the NHS. Whistleblowers are very important

for society and they should be treasured and looked after, whereas

it seems in all sections they are actually vilified and treated

shabbily. People care so much about the job a lot which is why they come

forward. These are the people we want working in these institutions.

Yes. Staying with the Times. The busy turmoil as Lord Patten quits

after heart surgery. Very sad story for Lord Patten. Clearly loved his

job at the BBC and clearly very unwell at the moment. It does

question the BBC's succession policy, as in companies that plan is

to have a whole bunch of people coming up ready for the top job and

there is a collation that perhaps the direction `` director`general at

Birkenhead could step up. Clearly the BBC has had its fair share of

scandals and problems over the past few years. It needs somebody at the

top taking control and taking responsibility for some of the

things that have gone wrong and some of the ways to change it going

forward. A big job one would hope and that it gets big routes to fill

it. He did have a pretty difficult time as chairman of the trust. The

digital initiative, no one here knows what that is about. The Jimmy

Savile enquiry, of course, a disaster. And executive payoffs. A

lot of that stuff had nothing to do with him. On human terms, that has

probably had a huge effect on his health. The stress of all that, what

he has gone through, obviously there hasn't been a huge amount of

sympathy before we found out about his heart problem. In those terms,

those three years must have been hell. We think sometimes these

people are bullet`proof but it has to affect them. He is probably

better off out of the BBC at the moment but it leaves the BBC with a

huge problem. Finding a replacement probably won't be easy. Over to the

Financial Times. Swedish alert over Pfizer push for AstraZeneca. The

Swedes say to be careful in allowing this to happen. This is Sweden's

finance minister who says that back in 20 `` back in 2002 when Pfizer

took over a company there, they made some very strong commitments, of

course we have worries about jobs and research in this country, about

7000 jobs at stake here, and he says they made strong commitments to

research present in Sweden. He says they can overcome to the conclusion

that they scaled down and focus on cost reduction. It seems that what

they said upfront, they didn't actually deliver on. We have

politicians from all sides, we have various views. Vince Cable is

looking at this closely. Ed Miliband looking at it closely as well. There

is a story next to this on the Financial Times' FrontPage, that

voters are turning against the business culture. Two thirds of

voters, `` want the government to be tougher with big business. You can

therefore understand why the Lib Dems and Labour are looking at this

closer because they can see that it is evolving. If they are going to be

on the side of jobs, rather than big reason is, coming in and flashing

big paycheques... But should politicians be getting involved? Is

about shareholders. Politicians should look at it but they should

not be tempted to interfere too much. What's the point of looking at

it then? French model, which is to protect business, when the French ``

when the French yoghurt maker was interested in buying Danone, the

French said it was in their interests to protect yoghurt. I

would hardly say the French model is one to mimic because the French

economy is in pretty dire straits and many of their businesses are not

doing well. Being protectionist hasn't worked for the French. One

comment I would make is AstraZeneca, by refusing to speak to

Pfizer and driving the offer price up, if Pfizer ends up paying more

money for AstraZeneca, they will drop more jobs because they need to

make the financials work. So, I would caution AstraZeneca management

to be too aggressive demanding very top dollar from Pfizer because that

means Pfizer will have to cut even more cost to make the deal work.

We will see what happens with that. Onto the Express. Your paper. The

world's greatest. He says that without a smile. On the front of the

paper. Release of prisoners as police step up hunt. A man on day

release, even though he was supposed to be stepping `` serving three life

sentences. Michael Wheatley. This has been going on since Saturday.

This guy, 13 life sentences, just walked out of prison in Kent. He got

that nickname by pistol whipping victims during bank raids. You

wonder, it sets off alarm bells, but at the same time, the liberal in

the, you don't hear of all of the guys who come out and back in. This

is a remarkable case. There are thousands of these guys everywhere.

You can understand why Tory MPs have had a go at the officials who

allowed this one out AT hasn't come back. Then again, we are dealing

with the rationale of a guy called the Skull Cracker. But he had to

serve at least eight years. He has done that. That's the law. But he

hasn't stayed within the law now. He can't be trusted. I find it bizarre

when we talk about politicians wanting to get re`elected. You do

actually have the power to do something about it. You set the laws

in place that allow this to happen. Why are you then complaining it is

happening. We have an independent judiciary in this country. But

sentencing follows guidelines. They are only guidelines. We do have

professionals that serve in the prison sent... That serve in the

prison system, that underlies him. Sometimes people are only human and

they do make mistakes. I hope there isn't anyone called Fence Jumper

coming up for parole. We shouldn't laugh! I am going to give you a

quote here. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica

Lewinsky, I never told anybody to light, never. These allegations are

false and I need to go back to work for the American people. Who is

that? Bill Clinton! It is the front of the Independent because she is

apparently speaking about the relationship for the first time.

They have a great photo of her with this enormous smile on her face.

Bill Clinton has a pretty big smile on his face as well. Easy, tiger!

They look pretty pleased to see each other. This is an interview she did

with Vanity Fair magazine. She is now 40, a great age for women, and

this is going back almost 20 years. I feel a bit sorry for him. She says

it ruined her life. `` sorry for her. You can see why. She is one of

the most famous women in the world, for the wrong reasons. It would be

difficult to go on and have a career afterwards, a normal life. Husband,

kids, everything else we moan about bite it is what gives us so much

joy. I feel sorry for her, that almost 20 years later she is still

having to do this. She did write a book at the time. She did. I covered

this story from the beginning to the end. It hasn't ended yet. She

started making handbags. Ten years ago she wrote the book. I met her

when she was promoting the book. Me, Andrew Morton, a photographer, and

some other people, in a fish and chip shop in Leeds, she had has been

signing some books in Leeds. She had fish and chips and a pint of beer,

and I moved the bins so her car could get in. A nice one! It has

been great having both of you in. Many thanks. Stay with us, at the

top of the hour we will bring you more political reaction to that

potential American takeover of the British drugs firm AstraZeneca. Now,

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