10/06/2014 The Papers

British players on the tennis courts, on the day that an heirloom

arose no because her role as Andy Murray's coach `` Amelie Mauresmo.

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

bringing us tomorrow. With me are broadcaster Henry Bonsu and former

trade minister Lord Digby Jones. Pretty much all of the papers are in

now, let's have a look at some of them. Starting with The Metro,

dedicating its front page to the increasing pressure international

football chiefs are putting on FIFA president Sepp Blatter to resign.

The Telegraph warns that millions of over 50's could risk harming their

health if they follow new NHS guidance telling them to take

statins. The Independent asks if the West will have to intervene in Iraq

again, after Islamic militants seized control of the northern city

of Mosul. The Guardian claims men in Asia are being kept as slaves to

work on fishing boats in Thailand. The seafood they harvest is being

sold to supermarkets including Walmart and Tesco. The Daily Mail

leads on the fallout from a major backlog of passport applications.

The Financial Times leads with OFGEM's calls for energy suppliers

to cut costs for householders, following a drop in the price of

wholesale gas and electricity. Energy prices also make the front

page of the Scotsman. And The Times claims London Mayor Boris Johnson is

heading for a clash with the Home Secretary Theresa May, over buying

Britain's first water cannon. So let's begin.

We will start with the Scotsman, is it me, or is it getting hot in

here? It is! I can feel it coming through the cameras here, the blood

boiling. Indeed. But many viewers at this particular story. Energy firms

will be quizzed over price cut failures. Wholesale energy prices

have fallen 38% in the last few years. Our bills haven't, what is

going on? You would expect the energy firms to show they are in

step with the public. Of course, they increased our bills and energy

by 10.4% last year. If prices have fallen to their lowest since June

2010, Ofgem has written a letter. That is all that has happened. The

papers have jumped on this, to show that they are in step with British

people 's concerns. There is a price squeeze that we are all feeling.

So, these companies, they are all now under pressure to explain why

they haven't yet passed those price reductions on to consumers. It is

essentially a pressure on them, and I think one or two of them could go

for broke and so, OK, we will be the first to cut prices. OK. You are a

former trade minister, this is supposed to be a competitive market

but the fact is, that all of the Big six, certainly, they are bound by

the same cost pressures. Whether it is the cost of getting energy to our

houses, the cost of having to deal with government initiatives, green

initiatives, that kind of thing. It is not a competitive market though,

is it? If you look at food, that is the biggest part of a household

budget, but... I think it is energy. No it isn't. We know who won

the battle against anorexia! We dealt with this, mate! Exactly! If

you look at Fede, if the commodity costs of something, like wheat, or

milk drops... You do not suddenly see one of the big for dropping

their prices before everyone else `` food. It is not only an issue about

energy, like you raised, but about domination of the market. The bit

that I don't get, they have been under the cosh, they are every

single piece of market research, saying that they are not trusted or

liked. They have two win the trust back of the British people. Wouldn't

you think that 24 hours before the story came, one of them would

say... Wholesale prices have gone down. At midnight we will drop our

prices. ``to. If there were 100 adverts in papers... I don't get

it, like bankers, when they are losing money, they pay themselves

bonuses. They don't get it. Is that because of group thinking? It is

because they can. The other thing I don't understand, this story is not

only in the Scotsman, also in the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express...

It is a big story. British Gas says that they buy their gas in advance,

so wholesale prices do not sleep through immediately. That is

rubbish! If you think about it, you basically hedge, don't you? ``

sleep. Then, you know exactly what you're fixed cost is. ``seep. Other

costs are rising, they say. Like transport. What I don't understand

is that there is nothing new in this. This is an suddenly, director!

These prices are going down... I will tell you who should be worried

``eureka. Ed Miliband goes down and gets populist... Let's have a price

freeze. But it must work both ways. If you get the energy market that is

cyclical and you have frozen the price by statute, they are not going

to drop it, are they? They will say they will not raise it or drop it.

That is a big lesson to him. That's a good point, if Ed Miliband had

been in power and he had frozen prices six, seven, eight months

ago... We would all be in trouble now, wouldn't we? It depends on

where you fix this price. It depends on energy rates. I wouldn't trust a

politician to run a bath, let alone a business. They did the job for

business, but not in politics. It is poli`tricks! You cannot have

politician saying they will fix the prices of eggs. Then you would have

a lot of people saying "how dare they!" But the energy companies

should be able to say... They missed a trick. One of them could have

publicly started. I expect they are watching it now. They all watched

this, of course! And if not, we know where they live! ``watch. That is an

interesting comment, we do not encourage that kind of behaviour!

Let's move on! On to the Financial Times, an important story this. What

we are seeing is the potential continuing fracture of Iraq. People

forget about this, but a few years ago, Mosul was never off the

television. And the Lodz. We are talking about a radical Sunni

group. Operating in Syria, Isis. `` ``Fallujah. Mosul has essentially

been taken over. People are pointing the finger at President Obama, who

promised that he would end the war in Iraq. He has wound down the

presence to nothing, but now they are saying you should have left a

presence there because now look at what has happened. He was dammed if

he did and darned if he didn't. Everyone, including the Republicans

and John McCain, are saying that. `` dammed. I go through Parliament

Square to get to the Lords, and there is always a demonstration. You

leave Iraq, and this is what you get. It is interesting, here is a

country that is trying so hard to rebuild. And because it is not in

the news, these things happen. Today, I bet you that there are

people having such a hard time in Crimea in the minority, in Libya,

Syria... They are not in the news, for some reason, we do not believe

that it's happening. This has been happening here for a long time.

Because it doesn't make the news, we don't think it is happening. You

wouldn't expect this to be on the front page of the Financial Times

really. That is interesting, as to why. It is strategic. Because of

Iraqi oil. I think they care about human beings as well! I know you

find that difficult on the BBC... But the concern is, in Western

capitals, that Isis, this brutal group, they are the ones leading the

beheadings in Syria. They have taken to strategic cities. Let's move on

to the Guardian, `` two. Fishmeal sold in shops in the UK. We spoke

about this at 10:30pm. I am glad it has been brought up again. Excellent

journalism by the Guardian, this is exactly where the power of Western

commerce can make a difference to people 's lives. If you are going to

stop this, or stop the abuse of textile workers in Bangladesh,

whatever it may be, at the end of the day, there are two agents who

can do this, the massive buying power of the big supermarkets of the

Western world, and secondly, you and I, whether we are going to start

quizzing our supermarket destinations, down the road, where

do you get your fish from? What do you do? Those two things together

will make a difference to people 's lives in Thailand. Put it on the

front page of a newspaper. Get it spoken about on the BBC, and

everything else, that is the only way to get these massive... The

power of a supermarket is huge. That is the way to drive it forward

economically. Tesco, Morrisons, Walmart, the Co`op... Huge financial

concerns, like Costco. And the biggest supermarket in Europe, they

are French. They are all on board here, saying they will look into

this. They say that slavery is unacceptable. The question is, what

will they do? In three months time, the Guardian could run this again.

How was it for you? The journalists who wrote this very good let's hope

they do well. It was entered for the one world media awards, you hear the

stories about these guys, from Burma and Thailand, tricked into this. It

is a long`term debt bondage, 20 years of no pay. You will not get

governments in the developing world to change this. They do not want

civil disturbance, they want a quiet life, this government. The only way

you can do this is the buying power of a Western multinational, if you

get them on board, venue and I appreciate that we could have to pay

more Bush. `` and then you and I. `` can pay more for our fish. Then you

ask, are you in the can process? We do not ask that. David Cameron, no

action on EU migrants. The PM defies calls to regain border controls. Did

he really have a lot of leeway to do anything? Not really. By treaty, we

have agreed the free movement of goods, services and people for many

different countries. I think it is 27 or 28. It is 28 now. And that

migration has not fallen into the tens of thousands but has gone up

again. Two more than 20,000. That is a pledge that will be met by the

next general election. ``to. The Prime Minister is under pressure to

bring back border control for those within the European Union, he

cannot, he has admitted that, but is going to do more to stop people from

outside of the EU coming in. What really worries me is that a lot of

the businesses in which I advice, we have a problem with skilled labour,

India is a good example, the home of a lot of good quality unskilled

labour, they want to come here and work hard, bring skill and create

wealth for themselves and for Britain. They want to live in peace.

What is happening, on the back of "sorry, I cannot do anything about

EU migration...". It is the brown people. Not necessarily. And

Canadians, there are not a lot of brown people in Canada. Get a chip

off your shoulder. Seriously, we should be having quality Indian

migration. Of course. And, some from the EU should not be coming. What is

happening, "oh, we cannot do anything about inside the EU" . You

sound like you from UKIP! Most people are hovering on the border

between the Tory party and you could, they will look at this and

say, maybe I should not return to the Conservatives `` UKIP. My

argument was nothing to do with UKIP or Tory, but business needs. You

have two create tax and build schools and hospitals.

been given clearance by the Home Secretary. He does not listen to her

and she has been distracted with the row between her and Michael Gove. It

is all about who will succeed Mr Kamran. I have missed lead you, it

is three `` misled `` Mr Cameron. They won't have been built in

Britain, that's what annoys me. Henry, thank you so much for the

exhausting... It wasn't bad as the previous hour, was it? Thank you for

looking at the stories behind the headlines. Stay with us on BBC News.

At the top of the hour, ALT industry correspondent looks at what the

suggestion is the energy companies aren't passing on to us. Various

falls in the cost of wholesale crisis for energy `` our. Before

that, it is time for Sportsday. Good evening and welcome to

Sportsday. UEFA make their voice heard of a number of European

football chiefs urged Sepp Blatter to step down as FIFA president in

the wake of recent corruption