12/05/2014 The Papers

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15 minutes, after the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the barrister

Sophia Cannon, Torcuil Crichton, Westminster editor at The Daily

Record. Tomorrow's front pages: The Telegraph says senior figures in the

health service are claiming thousands in expense claims for fine

dining, taxi fares and hotels. And there is an image from the video

released by Boko Haram militants of the girls they kidnapped in Nigeria.

The Sun says thieves have broken into the home of Peaches Geldof

twice since her death last month. The Metro covers the story of a

blogger who found the police on his doorstep after he mocked UKIP on

Twitter. The Guardian says the Conservative Party has recorded its

first poll lead in two years as support for Labour apparently drains

away. The Mail says the NHS wants mothers who are having their second

child to give birth at home. And Rolf Harris is pictured outside

court at his trial. The Times reports celebrities are leaving tax

avoidance schemes for fear of being named and shamed. That's after the

recent revelations about members of Take That. The I covers Ed

Miliband's promise that everyone will get to see their GP within 48

hours. The Tories have dismissed the pledge as an unfunded pie`in`the`sky

policy. And the Financial Times looks ahead to tomorrow, when MPs

will question the chief executive of Pfizer about his company's plans for

AstraZeneca. So let's begin. We will start with a Gordian. `` with the

Guardian. David Axelrod is apparently coming over tomorrow, it

has been tweeted tonight. ET these headlines and he might as well just

turn around and go. He has a reputation for turning around poles

for Barack Obama and the like. This is an eating boost for David

Cameron, just over a week out from the European election polls it shows

that the Tories are up while Labour is down. For the first time, Labour

is behind the Tories. No other polls are available. Unfortunately, Ed

Miliband tells the same story. There was a poll recently showing Labour

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

call it a trend, because they are posting at the same time. The

picture is that labour is slipping. This was Ed Miliband's election to

lose, and it looks like he has lost it. Hang on, hang on. For one thing,

we are a year out, for another, the excess boats have gone to UKIP. We

are losing the momentum we used to have. The prerogative used to be the

Prime Minister of the date would call a snap election and be on top

of the campaign. Now we have this stale, flaccid, fairly laid back

approach. I agree we are losing an edge with his fixed term by the

parliaments. We miss out on the break as we got with Gordon Brown.

To be honest, it looks like we are moving into what we are quite used

to in Scotland. Three cornered fights in politics, with UKIP

sucking energy not just from the Tories but also from Labour. Which

they claimed to be doing, anyway. Deep down, these polls are the worst

result, showing that David Cameron has positive appeal raising for the

first time in a long time. George Osborne has come back from his own

shambles to now being trusted on the economy. He must be coated in

catalogue. For a lot of people, the economy is doing well. it is for a

lot of people. The concern is, this was Ed Miliband's to lose. During

the debate in Parliament over issues such as the Budget, it sat there ``

Ed Miliband sat there. There was no personality, policy, or performance.

On energy, he has something to say. Let's go to the I. An MP pledges GP

appointments within 48 hours. Will that resonate? It will. The NHS is

in difficulty, but the problem is it is not deliverable or believable. I

don't know about that. This was a previous policy. When I used to go

to my GP in the east end of London, I could get a 48 hour appointment.

The coalition government did away with that policy. Labour says they

will bring it back. But unfortunately they will bring it

back in the context of cutting bureaucrats, which never sounds

good. That is why the Tories are calling it an funded and pie in the

sky. But he has touched on the concern of society, that something

is wrong, and they want to get it right. Miliband has the ideas

right. Is it simply that? Is it simply the fact that labour's record

on the economy is not that good? They allowed their record to be told

as them rather than the banks causing the deficit. Labour sorted

out their leadership while the Tories communicated effectively.

That became the narrative. A lot of people believe that narrative. The

narrative is impotence and incompetence, that is what has

carried them through. And is not an amazing housing market, low interest

rates, an economy doing well, high growth compared with other G20

countries. That is what it is founded on, large growth next year,

and they can say they rescue the economy. It is not simple

incompetence. How do you fight against those basic figures? Not

everyone is there. We have the highest rental figures at the

moment. The rental policy never carried through. The weight Ed

Miliband will fight this is to ask people whether these are the guys

who are going to look after your? Or are they just going to look after

the people at the top of the society. It is the same problem Mitt

Romney had against Barack Obama in the last election. The economy was

turning up, difficult to argue that things are doing well, but they

would be better under us. That is why they got Barack Obama's man to

come and work for them. David Axelrod. It will be nice to see how

their approach changes. The start shamed into paying tax. As I said,

it only takes a minute for these celebrities to lose their shine.

Everything changes. No one will forget attacks dodger. You can't

just do what you like with your tax affairs, you have to be responsible.

I don't like this story, this gap in the papers where they expected Gary

Barlow to hand back his OBE. He didn't face up, and the Times have

this splash inside and how he had to pay the tax back, I understand why

they are pushing it, it is their story. But industry experts telling

us about tax dodging rate is falling dramatically, as it would after

headlines like that. Particularly as the public opprobrium along with

having to pay the money back. Image and name will be tarnished. It is

the greatest honour in any one's career to be awarded an OBE. I think

Gary Barlow is praying he can keep it. But the counterpoint is that no

one will suggest to give it back, he should just have it back to show

contrition. It is up to him, isn't it? The unfortunate thing is he will

probably have to place a more to pay his tax bill `` played some more to

pay his tax bill. A picture here of one of the kidnapped girls.

Apparently this video is of some of these girls, released by Boko Haram.

This is the first proof of life, it has been suggested by a negotiator.

Indeed, but it now shows that terrorism does not need a gun or a

bomb. It just needs an image and hashtag. That is the notion here. It

will frighten a whole generation of Nigerian schoolgirls out of school.

A shocker is that when I look behind this, they were taken from a physics

exam. These were the brightest and the best of this area's girls. They

were the strongest. These are the engineers, Doctors, the women who

were going to make that big jump forward. To help the Nigerian

economy. A legacy of this is not them being taken, it is the other

girls who will not get to school. These were the lucky girls. They

were getting an education. But because of their own religion, their

location, their school, they were snatched away. They attack moderate

Muslims as well. Indeed, 17 of the girls were Muslim. It is an unspoken

war on women. They are the targets, the easy targets. If you wish to

make a point, you go for the women make a point, you go for the women

of your country. A chilling image. Young girls being held and being

made to recite the Koran. And they are being told that they are

bargaining chips as the terrorists want prisoners freed and are willing

to use them as bargaining chips. What is the fear of girls with

books? This is the issue, Pakistan, Nigeria, which country will be next?

Moving to the Financial Times. The MPs see a cast iron pledge on

AstraZeneca. The Pfizer chief being grilled on his intentions to take

over the company. It is the science committee, committees are the new

rock and roll in Parliament. Use used to see action in the chamber,

but now the committee cross examination is where it is at. We

had Amal Ahmed talking about these promises in a letter that Pfizer

would keep 20% of their research in the UK. `` Kamal Ahmed. They will

apply this unless circumstances changed significantly. That is the

problem. That is the debt out of jail. We are at the Zenith of

capitalism, in 2008, our banks were too big to fail. The issue now is

that if our pharmaceutical companies are too big to fail, it will affect

the health of the planet. If these companies are turned into the

biggest companies we have, who will do the research and development? It

will affect the health of the economy. ?4 billion of money, we

know what Pfizer do. They buy up their competitors, they cut the

jobs, and they moved the development back to home base. They don't move

the research back to home base, because that is publicly funded.

They want the government to do that. They will privatise the profits and

publicise the cost. The issue is that here we have a national health

service. It is based on a socialist ideal. In America, it is the

capitalist ideal. So it is that crashed valve of our health

services. Pfizer would argue that they are going to take the company

over and make it even more profitable than it already is, which

would be popular. This is the biggest personality, not in the

Commons. Talking about the legacy of several Tory government in relation

to the issue of the EU. It is designed only for one year and one

year alone. The person sitting there thinking, I will vote UKIP. It is

Boris being Boris. He is saying that Margaret Thatcher was not honest.

She banged the table but she was the Prime Minister who took us a further

into the EU than any other Prime Minister. A bit of honesty, a bit of

confessing from Boris Johnson. I am sure the kind of comments that the

Conservative party likes to hear. Many thanks. Stay with us because at

midnight we will have much more on that new video showing hundreds of

schoolgirls who have been abducted in Nigeria. Now it is time for

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