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:00:14. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:19. > :00:20.bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jennifer Howze, journalist and

:00:21. > :00:29.co`founder of Brit Mums, and the Sunday Post's Westminster

:00:30. > :00:33.correspondent James Millar. Thank you for joining us this evening.

:00:34. > :00:37.Tomorrow's front pages: The Mail leads with claims that

:00:38. > :00:39.migrants who don't speak English can buy language certificates, helping

:00:40. > :00:41.them en route to British citizenship.

:00:42. > :00:44.The Independent has a picture of a British`born man it says is

:00:45. > :00:49.suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria. The

:00:50. > :00:52.Mirror claims NHS bosses pocketed hundreds of millions of pounds in

:00:53. > :00:56.extra pay last year, as nurses were hit by a one percent fall in their

:00:57. > :00:59.wages. The Express says the taxpayer is

:01:00. > :01:04.paying for asylum seekers to be secretly housed in hotels.

:01:05. > :01:10.The number of people being investigated by the HMRC has doubled

:01:11. > :01:12.according to the Telegraph. The Financial Times leads with

:01:13. > :01:17.India's election and the historic victory by Narendra Modi and the

:01:18. > :01:19.BJP. And the Guardian's headline has

:01:20. > :01:31.allegations that child protection services are going to be privatised.

:01:32. > :01:35.And The Times leads with a report from war correspondent Anthony Loyd,

:01:36. > :01:39.describing the moment he and a colleague were captured in Syria

:01:40. > :01:45.this week. Let's begin, and we will start with

:01:46. > :01:50.the Mail, with the headline, cheat your way to a passport. As a

:01:51. > :01:58.non`British born London living journalist, what do you make of this

:01:59. > :02:02.story? Well, I am British now but I took the citizenship test. In fact,

:02:03. > :02:06.couple of friends of mine have just taken it. It has been getting harder

:02:07. > :02:12.and harder to become a citizen with the English language test and the

:02:13. > :02:15.citizenship test. As a native English speaker, I did not have to

:02:16. > :02:19.worry about that but most people I know like that the test is Mayor,

:02:20. > :02:25.because it was only introduced in the past decade or so. `` they like

:02:26. > :02:32.that the test is there. This was secret filming at one centre,

:02:33. > :02:35.according to the Mail. They basically say that you can buy a

:02:36. > :02:42.certificate which says you have passed the test and you don't even

:02:43. > :02:47.need to sit it. If true, James, very serious allegations. It feeds into

:02:48. > :02:51.immigration being a big story with the European elections coming up and

:02:52. > :02:56.UKIP gaining a lot of their support on the back of an anti`immigration

:02:57. > :03:02.ticket. This does suggest that, once again, the government is not on top

:03:03. > :03:07.of the problem as much as they could be. They have this target of tens of

:03:08. > :03:11.thousands of immigrants by the end of the parliament. That is not going

:03:12. > :03:17.to happen, certainly if you can cheat your way to a passport. On a

:03:18. > :03:21.similar vein, we will move onto the Express, because it is a different

:03:22. > :03:29.story but looking at that, migration issue. Their headline ` asylum

:03:30. > :03:33.seekers in 4`star hotels. The allegation that asylum seekers are

:03:34. > :03:39.being secretly housed in hotels, luxury hotels, with a spark, summing

:03:40. > :03:46.pool and health club, at a cost to taxpayers of ?900,000. `` a swimming

:03:47. > :03:51.pool. This is equating all immigrants with asylum seekers, of

:03:52. > :03:55.course. It ignores, and it is preying on the idea that asylum

:03:56. > :03:58.seekers are here to exploit the country. There are many asylum

:03:59. > :04:05.seekers who are here legitimately seeking asylum. But of course, if

:04:06. > :04:09.they are being housed in hotels, or other inefficient ways, that just

:04:10. > :04:12.does not work. There is no suggestion that these are bogus

:04:13. > :04:18.asylum seekers, to use the old`fashioned term. Until they are

:04:19. > :04:24.processed, we won't necessarily know. But the bill is big and it

:04:25. > :04:29.will annoy a lot of people. Yes, absolutely. Interestingly, it

:04:30. > :04:34.involves GeForce S, most famous, of course, for making a right old mess

:04:35. > :04:39.of the Olympics. Everyone hated them in 2012, and yet they are still

:04:40. > :04:48.getting these come back `` contacts, and still making a mess of

:04:49. > :04:51.things. However many in the sudden influx of new arrivals turn up, it

:04:52. > :04:57.begs the question, what do you do with them? To be fair to the

:04:58. > :05:02.company, this is apparently a result of simply too many, a sudden influx

:05:03. > :05:09.leading to overcrowding. As you say, they have to have a bed

:05:10. > :05:15.somewhere, I suppose. Exactly. This caused a bit more debate between you

:05:16. > :05:20.outside, the Telegraph headline ` innocent victims of tax raiders. The

:05:21. > :05:23.Telegraph has an interesting take, saying the number of people being

:05:24. > :05:28.investigated by the taxman has doubled in one year. According to

:05:29. > :05:33.this, it is claimed that they tend to be going after self`employed

:05:34. > :05:37.people. And an interesting list of those it says have been targeted `

:05:38. > :05:44.middle`class professionals, doctors, lawyers, teachers. James. Where do

:05:45. > :05:47.you start with this? You are quite supportive. More self`employed

:05:48. > :05:53.people have been investigated because there are more self`employed

:05:54. > :05:56.people. The country is bust, so probably HMRC should be trying to

:05:57. > :06:00.catch those who are fiddling their taxes. The idea that being a

:06:01. > :06:05.teacher, doctor or lawyer make sure a soft target I find quite

:06:06. > :06:10.remarkable, because you can still be a crook and be a teacher, doctor or

:06:11. > :06:19.lawyer. I think we have to just make clear that, yes, in any sense... I

:06:20. > :06:22.am not suggesting that they all are. But this paper is suggesting these

:06:23. > :06:27.are sometimes just mistakes on, the catered forms. If anyone has tried

:06:28. > :06:33.to fill these out, they run two pages and pages. What bothers me

:06:34. > :06:37.about this story and will bother a lot of people is that individuals,

:06:38. > :06:45.they are soft targets. Individuals are pursued and they mostly pay up,

:06:46. > :06:48.especially working people. They are not independently wealthy, not

:06:49. > :06:51.corporations. You go after them for the little things, rather than

:06:52. > :06:56.tackling the big things that have been in the news about confiscated

:06:57. > :06:59.tax avoidance schemes the government needs to go in and close some

:07:00. > :07:03.loopholes, or corporations that maybe are not paying their fair

:07:04. > :07:08.share. Those are more difficult, but once they attacked those, they get

:07:09. > :07:11.more revenue ward at once, they get more revenue going forward because

:07:12. > :07:15.those people pay going forward. Innocent mistakes, one`time

:07:16. > :07:21.mistakes, or even over a few years, how much revenue will be brought him

:07:22. > :07:24.from this? They are putting the figure at ?35 billion of tax lost

:07:25. > :07:30.every year, but not through the innocent victim angle, which is what

:07:31. > :07:33.this is all about. I see no evidence that these are innocent victims.

:07:34. > :07:38.There is no figure for how many people have been convicted or not.

:07:39. > :07:48.It is difficult to know how many are genuine mistakes. HMRC is not exempt

:07:49. > :07:51.from making mistakes. Indeed not. Onto the Independent, and they have

:07:52. > :07:56.gone for a story that I have not seen on any other pages for

:07:57. > :08:03.Saturday's papers, the British face of Boko Haram. James, do you want to

:08:04. > :08:06.explain that? It is interesting that it is on the front page because it

:08:07. > :08:12.is a link to Boko Haram, in Nigeria, who have kidnapped over 200

:08:13. > :08:16.schoolgirls. That was a big story last weekend and has kind of drifted

:08:17. > :08:20.off the front pages, sadly, because it is still, clearly, a terrible

:08:21. > :08:29.story. It is back on the front page because this chap is, well, they are

:08:30. > :08:32.trying to extradite him to Nigeria for a couple of bombings he is

:08:33. > :08:40.accused of in the suburbs of Abuja, the capital. The story is that he

:08:41. > :08:44.was radicalised when he was a student at University in Wales. This

:08:45. > :08:49.is something which the Americans have been warning about for a long

:08:50. > :08:52.time, both in America and Britain, the radicalisation of young people,

:08:53. > :08:56.going abroad to fight and the fear of them coming back here to the

:08:57. > :09:00.mainland as well. This is a Welsh university student. When you read

:09:01. > :09:09.this, they seem to have gone through it fairly detailed, about his links,

:09:10. > :09:13.they believe. Yes. I think it taps into this concern about this fear of

:09:14. > :09:20.radicalisation. Mostly young men, although some young women as well,

:09:21. > :09:25.being drawn to these extreme groups and really struggling in the UK. How

:09:26. > :09:28.do we deal with that, keep it from appealing to them? What is it that

:09:29. > :09:33.is appealing to them that makes them want to go and kill hundreds of

:09:34. > :09:38.people, often innocent people, to be a part of this movement? The paper

:09:39. > :09:42.says that experts were warning last night that this could signal the

:09:43. > :09:44.start of a new wave of British Nigerian extremists travelling to

:09:45. > :09:49.fight for Boko Haram. It is something which will be it big

:09:50. > :09:53.concern obviously to security experts, but the naming of this

:09:54. > :10:00.person is quite a step for the Independent. You don't want to start

:10:01. > :10:06.causing a fright, but there is a big Nigerian diaspora in Britain.

:10:07. > :10:11.Presumably that is where the links are, there is a lot of traffic back

:10:12. > :10:16.and forward. There is an interesting element to the story, that he was

:10:17. > :10:19.detained and then released, following a campaign by family and

:10:20. > :10:33.human rights groups, and now, once again, back in custody. Staying with

:10:34. > :10:37.the Independent, and this recent ruling from the European court. The

:10:38. > :10:44.paper is listing a lot of different examples of people. Some of them are

:10:45. > :10:48.extraordinary... Yes, this interests me in particular because I live in

:10:49. > :10:55.the online and social media world in my day`to`day job. But it does feel

:10:56. > :11:00.like, yes, a famous actor who had an affair with a teenager, tax dodgers,

:11:01. > :11:04.people who have been convicted of crimes, basically. They say half of

:11:05. > :11:09.people who are pitched a shilling to get things removed `` who are

:11:10. > :11:14.petitioning to get things removed have a criminal past. It is

:11:15. > :11:18.disturbing. It basically gives this power to Google to decide what is

:11:19. > :11:23.worth reporting, what is worth being available, in terms of the

:11:24. > :11:31.information age. I think Google is saying, we do not want to be

:11:32. > :11:35.determining whose past... It is quite troubling, some of these are

:11:36. > :11:40.serious issues. Indeed, a couple of politicians in there. It does not

:11:41. > :11:45.say they are British politicians. There is one former MP now trying to

:11:46. > :11:49.get the election, trying to get details of past conduct removed.

:11:50. > :11:56.That led to much fun in Westminster yesterday, trying to guess who it

:11:57. > :12:00.might be. I will not mention names. That was one of the less serious

:12:01. > :12:06.cases, but then there is the man who tried to kill his family, trying to

:12:07. > :12:14.lose right to a news report. How can he possibly have the right to have

:12:15. > :12:19.that deleted? The only paper I have seen at the moment with the Indian

:12:20. > :12:25.elections on is the FT. We have not got all of the papers in yet. But

:12:26. > :12:32.the BJP 's weeping to power, and this could be a bit of a sea

:12:33. > :12:36.change? Yes, it is interesting. `` the BJP sweeping to power. It is the

:12:37. > :12:42.biggest election in the world, hundreds of millions of votes, 500

:12:43. > :12:46.million votes had to be counted. And 100 million of those were new

:12:47. > :12:53.voters, they say. And he was particularly appealing to younger

:12:54. > :12:55.voters. Yes, and it was all about economic revival and basically

:12:56. > :13:02.business likes him, so, he has got a lot of support. Here is a new

:13:03. > :13:05.character, but it is an old story, he is promising economic revival,

:13:06. > :13:10.while the economy is not doing as well as it was. That will go down

:13:11. > :13:17.well in hard times. Whether he can pull it off, of course... One of the

:13:18. > :13:21.commentators in this story says he could be in power for 15 years. But

:13:22. > :13:27.he will have to deliver on his promises. Interestingly, it says

:13:28. > :13:32.Indian stocks have jumped by more than 4.5%. We must leave it there.

:13:33. > :13:37.That is it for the papers this hour. A big thanks to Jennifer and James.

:13:38. > :13:42.They will be back with us at half past 11 for another look at the

:13:43. > :13:47.papers. Stay with us. Here on BBC News, at 11 o'clock ` as hundreds of

:13:48. > :13:52.British tourists are evacuated, we bring you more on today's terror

:13:53. > :14:05.attacks in Nairobi. Coming up next, Sportsday.

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