12/05/2014

Download Subtitles

Transcript

:00:00. > :00:00.5000, or 10,000 metres. And we will have all the rest of the day's

:00:00. > :00:15.sports news, including a whole host of managers on the move. That's in

:00:16. > :00:19.15 minutes, after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to

:00:20. > :00:22.what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the barrister

:00:23. > :00:27.Sophia Cannon, Torcuil Crichton, Westminster editor at The Daily

:00:28. > :00:30.Record. Tomorrow's front pages: The Telegraph says senior figures in the

:00:31. > :00:34.health service are claiming thousands in expense claims for fine

:00:35. > :00:38.dining, taxi fares and hotels. And there is an image from the video

:00:39. > :00:45.released by Boko Haram militants of the girls they kidnapped in Nigeria.

:00:46. > :00:48.The Sun says thieves have broken into the home of Peaches Geldof

:00:49. > :00:51.twice since her death last month. The Metro covers the story of a

:00:52. > :00:54.blogger who found the police on his doorstep after he mocked UKIP on

:00:55. > :00:57.Twitter. The Guardian says the Conservative Party has recorded its

:00:58. > :01:04.first poll lead in two years as support for Labour apparently drains

:01:05. > :01:09.away. The Mail says the NHS wants mothers who are having their second

:01:10. > :01:14.child to give birth at home. And Rolf Harris is pictured outside

:01:15. > :01:17.court at his trial. The Times reports celebrities are leaving tax

:01:18. > :01:21.avoidance schemes for fear of being named and shamed. That's after the

:01:22. > :01:25.recent revelations about members of Take That. The I covers Ed

:01:26. > :01:31.Miliband's promise that everyone will get to see their GP within 48

:01:32. > :01:36.hours. The Tories have dismissed the pledge as an unfunded pie`in`the`sky

:01:37. > :01:39.policy. And the Financial Times looks ahead to tomorrow, when MPs

:01:40. > :01:49.will question the chief executive of Pfizer about his company's plans for

:01:50. > :02:00.AstraZeneca. So let's begin. We will start with a Gordian. `` with the

:02:01. > :02:07.Guardian. David Axelrod is apparently coming over tomorrow, it

:02:08. > :02:12.has been tweeted tonight. ET these headlines and he might as well just

:02:13. > :02:16.turn around and go. He has a reputation for turning around poles

:02:17. > :02:20.for Barack Obama and the like. This is an eating boost for David

:02:21. > :02:26.Cameron, just over a week out from the European election polls it shows

:02:27. > :02:35.that the Tories are up while Labour is down. For the first time, Labour

:02:36. > :02:41.is behind the Tories. No other polls are available. Unfortunately, Ed

:02:42. > :02:48.Miliband tells the same story. There was a poll recently showing Labour

:02:49. > :02:54.on 32, a poll in The Sun Gives labour a 1`point lead. But we can't

:02:55. > :03:02.call it a trend, because they are posting at the same time. The

:03:03. > :03:07.picture is that labour is slipping. This was Ed Miliband's election to

:03:08. > :03:17.lose, and it looks like he has lost it. Hang on, hang on. For one thing,

:03:18. > :03:26.we are a year out, for another, the excess boats have gone to UKIP. We

:03:27. > :03:31.are losing the momentum we used to have. The prerogative used to be the

:03:32. > :03:37.Prime Minister of the date would call a snap election and be on top

:03:38. > :03:42.of the campaign. Now we have this stale, flaccid, fairly laid back

:03:43. > :03:48.approach. I agree we are losing an edge with his fixed term by the

:03:49. > :03:56.parliaments. We miss out on the break as we got with Gordon Brown.

:03:57. > :04:00.To be honest, it looks like we are moving into what we are quite used

:04:01. > :04:06.to in Scotland. Three cornered fights in politics, with UKIP

:04:07. > :04:11.sucking energy not just from the Tories but also from Labour. Which

:04:12. > :04:20.they claimed to be doing, anyway. Deep down, these polls are the worst

:04:21. > :04:25.result, showing that David Cameron has positive appeal raising for the

:04:26. > :04:28.first time in a long time. George Osborne has come back from his own

:04:29. > :04:34.shambles to now being trusted on the economy. He must be coated in

:04:35. > :04:41.catalogue. For a lot of people, the economy is doing well. it is for a

:04:42. > :04:45.lot of people. The concern is, this was Ed Miliband's to lose. During

:04:46. > :04:53.the debate in Parliament over issues such as the Budget, it sat there ``

:04:54. > :05:03.Ed Miliband sat there. There was no personality, policy, or performance.

:05:04. > :05:12.On energy, he has something to say. Let's go to the I. An MP pledges GP

:05:13. > :05:19.appointments within 48 hours. Will that resonate? It will. The NHS is

:05:20. > :05:26.in difficulty, but the problem is it is not deliverable or believable. I

:05:27. > :05:30.don't know about that. This was a previous policy. When I used to go

:05:31. > :05:36.to my GP in the east end of London, I could get a 48 hour appointment.

:05:37. > :05:42.The coalition government did away with that policy. Labour says they

:05:43. > :05:46.will bring it back. But unfortunately they will bring it

:05:47. > :05:49.back in the context of cutting bureaucrats, which never sounds

:05:50. > :05:56.good. That is why the Tories are calling it an funded and pie in the

:05:57. > :06:01.sky. But he has touched on the concern of society, that something

:06:02. > :06:08.is wrong, and they want to get it right. Miliband has the ideas

:06:09. > :06:14.right. Is it simply that? Is it simply the fact that labour's record

:06:15. > :06:20.on the economy is not that good? They allowed their record to be told

:06:21. > :06:27.as them rather than the banks causing the deficit. Labour sorted

:06:28. > :06:34.out their leadership while the Tories communicated effectively.

:06:35. > :06:39.That became the narrative. A lot of people believe that narrative. The

:06:40. > :06:45.narrative is impotence and incompetence, that is what has

:06:46. > :06:50.carried them through. And is not an amazing housing market, low interest

:06:51. > :06:56.rates, an economy doing well, high growth compared with other G20

:06:57. > :07:01.countries. That is what it is founded on, large growth next year,

:07:02. > :07:04.and they can say they rescue the economy. It is not simple

:07:05. > :07:11.incompetence. How do you fight against those basic figures? Not

:07:12. > :07:14.everyone is there. We have the highest rental figures at the

:07:15. > :07:20.moment. The rental policy never carried through. The weight Ed

:07:21. > :07:25.Miliband will fight this is to ask people whether these are the guys

:07:26. > :07:31.who are going to look after your? Or are they just going to look after

:07:32. > :07:37.the people at the top of the society. It is the same problem Mitt

:07:38. > :07:41.Romney had against Barack Obama in the last election. The economy was

:07:42. > :07:48.turning up, difficult to argue that things are doing well, but they

:07:49. > :07:53.would be better under us. That is why they got Barack Obama's man to

:07:54. > :08:00.come and work for them. David Axelrod. It will be nice to see how

:08:01. > :08:10.their approach changes. The start shamed into paying tax. As I said,

:08:11. > :08:16.it only takes a minute for these celebrities to lose their shine.

:08:17. > :08:22.Everything changes. No one will forget attacks dodger. You can't

:08:23. > :08:30.just do what you like with your tax affairs, you have to be responsible.

:08:31. > :08:35.I don't like this story, this gap in the papers where they expected Gary

:08:36. > :08:45.Barlow to hand back his OBE. He didn't face up, and the Times have

:08:46. > :08:49.this splash inside and how he had to pay the tax back, I understand why

:08:50. > :08:59.they are pushing it, it is their story. But industry experts telling

:09:00. > :09:05.us about tax dodging rate is falling dramatically, as it would after

:09:06. > :09:11.headlines like that. Particularly as the public opprobrium along with

:09:12. > :09:17.having to pay the money back. Image and name will be tarnished. It is

:09:18. > :09:23.the greatest honour in any one's career to be awarded an OBE. I think

:09:24. > :09:28.Gary Barlow is praying he can keep it. But the counterpoint is that no

:09:29. > :09:34.one will suggest to give it back, he should just have it back to show

:09:35. > :09:40.contrition. It is up to him, isn't it? The unfortunate thing is he will

:09:41. > :09:50.probably have to place a more to pay his tax bill `` played some more to

:09:51. > :09:55.pay his tax bill. A picture here of one of the kidnapped girls.

:09:56. > :10:01.Apparently this video is of some of these girls, released by Boko Haram.

:10:02. > :10:07.This is the first proof of life, it has been suggested by a negotiator.

:10:08. > :10:12.Indeed, but it now shows that terrorism does not need a gun or a

:10:13. > :10:18.bomb. It just needs an image and hashtag. That is the notion here. It

:10:19. > :10:24.will frighten a whole generation of Nigerian schoolgirls out of school.

:10:25. > :10:29.A shocker is that when I look behind this, they were taken from a physics

:10:30. > :10:34.exam. These were the brightest and the best of this area's girls. They

:10:35. > :10:39.were the strongest. These are the engineers, Doctors, the women who

:10:40. > :10:50.were going to make that big jump forward. To help the Nigerian

:10:51. > :10:56.economy. A legacy of this is not them being taken, it is the other

:10:57. > :11:01.girls who will not get to school. These were the lucky girls. They

:11:02. > :11:04.were getting an education. But because of their own religion, their

:11:05. > :11:15.location, their school, they were snatched away. They attack moderate

:11:16. > :11:22.Muslims as well. Indeed, 17 of the girls were Muslim. It is an unspoken

:11:23. > :11:25.war on women. They are the targets, the easy targets. If you wish to

:11:26. > :11:32.make a point, you go for the women make a point, you go for the women

:11:33. > :11:37.of your country. A chilling image. Young girls being held and being

:11:38. > :11:45.made to recite the Koran. And they are being told that they are

:11:46. > :11:50.bargaining chips as the terrorists want prisoners freed and are willing

:11:51. > :11:57.to use them as bargaining chips. What is the fear of girls with

:11:58. > :12:03.books? This is the issue, Pakistan, Nigeria, which country will be next?

:12:04. > :12:16.Moving to the Financial Times. The MPs see a cast iron pledge on

:12:17. > :12:25.AstraZeneca. The Pfizer chief being grilled on his intentions to take

:12:26. > :12:30.over the company. It is the science committee, committees are the new

:12:31. > :12:35.rock and roll in Parliament. Use used to see action in the chamber,

:12:36. > :12:41.but now the committee cross examination is where it is at. We

:12:42. > :12:48.had Amal Ahmed talking about these promises in a letter that Pfizer

:12:49. > :12:55.would keep 20% of their research in the UK. `` Kamal Ahmed. They will

:12:56. > :13:01.apply this unless circumstances changed significantly. That is the

:13:02. > :13:09.problem. That is the debt out of jail. We are at the Zenith of

:13:10. > :13:12.capitalism, in 2008, our banks were too big to fail. The issue now is

:13:13. > :13:19.that if our pharmaceutical companies are too big to fail, it will affect

:13:20. > :13:23.the health of the planet. If these companies are turned into the

:13:24. > :13:28.biggest companies we have, who will do the research and development? It

:13:29. > :13:37.will affect the health of the economy. ?4 billion of money, we

:13:38. > :13:41.know what Pfizer do. They buy up their competitors, they cut the

:13:42. > :13:46.jobs, and they moved the development back to home base. They don't move

:13:47. > :13:49.the research back to home base, because that is publicly funded.

:13:50. > :13:55.They want the government to do that. They will privatise the profits and

:13:56. > :14:01.publicise the cost. The issue is that here we have a national health

:14:02. > :14:05.service. It is based on a socialist ideal. In America, it is the

:14:06. > :14:11.capitalist ideal. So it is that crashed valve of our health

:14:12. > :14:17.services. Pfizer would argue that they are going to take the company

:14:18. > :14:30.over and make it even more profitable than it already is, which

:14:31. > :14:36.would be popular. This is the biggest personality, not in the

:14:37. > :14:41.Commons. Talking about the legacy of several Tory government in relation

:14:42. > :14:47.to the issue of the EU. It is designed only for one year and one

:14:48. > :14:56.year alone. The person sitting there thinking, I will vote UKIP. It is

:14:57. > :15:02.Boris being Boris. He is saying that Margaret Thatcher was not honest.

:15:03. > :15:06.She banged the table but she was the Prime Minister who took us a further

:15:07. > :15:24.into the EU than any other Prime Minister. A bit of honesty, a bit of

:15:25. > :15:36.confessing from Boris Johnson. I am sure the kind of comments that the

:15:37. > :15:42.Conservative party likes to hear. Many thanks. Stay with us because at

:15:43. > :15:46.midnight we will have much more on that new video showing hundreds of

:15:47. > :15:49.schoolgirls who have been abducted in Nigeria. Now it is time for

:15:50. > :16:10.Sportsday. Welcome to Sportsday. The United

:16:11. > :16:13.days are over. Rio Ferdinand will leave Old Trafford this summer after

:16:14. > :16:16.12 years at the club that he says made his dreams come true. It came

:16:17. > :16:18.down to