14/06/2014 The Papers

The England team arrive at the stadium for their World Cup clash.

Kick`off is in half an hour. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Oliver Brown, Chief Sports Feature Writer

from the Telegraph and Kate Devlin, Political Correspondent at the

Herald. Let's look at tomorrow's front pages

and we will start with the Observer. That says Labour is calling for

cross party talks on how religious education is conducted in the State

sector as the paper highlights its own survey on the funding of Faith

schools. The Independent on Sunday highlights

the crisis in Iraq as Iran offers to help and the US sends an aircraft

carrier to the Gulf. The Mail on Sunday says the Prime

Minister, David Cameron, has issued a pledge to tackle extremism and

reassert British values enshrined in the Magna Carta. The Sunday

Telegraph highlights how the number of families that pay inheritance tax

will rise this year. The Sunday Times has more allegations about the

Qatar World Cup bid. FIFA ignored warnings about a terrorist attack

closing down the event. The Sun carries a story about Mick Jagger

and his alleged relationship with an American ballet dancer. Well, lets

begin now. And this evening we're going to start with the Independent

and the story that's been dominating our news about now, the problems in

Iraq, Iran, the US, all pledging to join in and the Independent there

with the headline, "Baghdad fights back." Kate. It is very interesting.

Baghdad is fighting back, but also the US appears to be fighting back

as well and in the Independent it points out that the US is sending an

aircraft carrier to the Gulf which is a different change from Barack

Obama who on Friday said to the Baghdad Government that he expected

them to really show now that they could do something about this

insurgency and his quote was, "We can't do it for you." Which is a

very strong message to be sending and now 24 hours later, it doesn't

appear as if the American president has 100% confidence that they will

be able to do that. Oliver strangely bringing together two old opponents,

America and Iran looking as if they might go together on this? A bit of

an unholy alliance. Barack Obama wants flexibility in the options he

has. He has been adamant not to send ground forces into the area. He has

got the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and he has the option of sending

missiles from Turkey and Qatar. Maybe we should see it as at least

the Iranians are willing to co`operate. Otherwise with these

forces, only 60mph from Baghdad that there would be a serious escalation

otherwise. We were speaking to a London School of Economics expert.

He said this was unprecedented this possible co`operation between

America and Iran and it is odd that it should come about? Indeed. You

have got to factor in national interests into all these things as

well. Of course. Decades of antipathy and problems and they seem

to be po continuationly thinking `` potentially thinking about

co`operating. Let's come back to the UK and The Telegraph. I guess we

should give this one to you Oliver being a Telegraph man. The headline

is, "Middle`class face tax sting. " What the story is about, as property

prices have gone up so many more people will find themselves paying

inheritance tax. The single most remarkable part of this story the

inheritance tax threshold remains as ?325 thou. In the US `` ?325 thou.

The Americans don't know how lucky they are. It is the breaking of an

electoral promise and George Osborne said that he would raise the

threshold for inheritance tax to ?1 million. That won't change until at

least 2018. But I think there are two fundamental injustices to this.

The taxing of assets such as family homes bought with income taxed when

it was earned in the first place and also that this gives a whole new

meaning to the notion of being taxed to the end. Surely, accumulating

wealth to pass on to the next generation and ensuring that one's

children are, you know, are not saddled with this kind of tax burden

is a fairly natural human instinct. Kate, there would be a lot of people

arguing hang on ?325,000 for a couple is a lot of money and if you

have got that much money, you should have to pay something on it? One of

the repercussions, why this is happening is because of the

increases that we have seen in the London property market and if a lot

more people are being left more money by their parents, I wonder

what that would do to the London property market. This money does

need to come back into the system. It is complicated how you want to do

that. But I do think we are in an election year and it would be very

trog to see where this `` interesting to see where this goes.

It would put more pressure on David Cameron and in March he was tackled

on this issue by a pensioner and he said that inheritance tax should

only be paid for by the rich. Are you suggesting this is bait offered

before the general election? I think the parties will be looking at these

issues. OK. In the past the Liberal Democrats have signalled that ` they

talked about a mansion tax. This is a tax that the Conservatives talked

about. That was the stumbling block 325,000 remained so because the

Liberal Democrats blocked any move favoured by Osborne to shift it to

?1 million so we can blame them for this burden for the next four years.

They haven't really, I mean in all the years of coalition, they haven't

really managed to convince more people about this mansion tax idea

is a good one. It has problems because people would be potentially

property rich, but cash poor. And if you are taxed on a large lump sum

and you live in London for instance where property prices has gone crazy

that if it goes down to your children they too have got to pay

the high prices in order to afford a property. It is a double`edged sword

and one that's difficult for anyone to square the circle. On to the The

Daily Mail. Sorry on to the Observer next because it links in with a

story about the Mail. On The Observer, headline, "Taxpayers' cash

should not be used to fund Faith schools, say voters." This is that

they have done this survey and it shows clearly that actually people

are anti`funding these sorts of schools? Absolutely. It shows a

clear majority who think that public money should not be used, but it

shows 60% who think the schools promote division and segregation and

I'm probably a little bit surprised at how high these poll numbers are

actually. I went to a faith school and I have to say I am, I do think

there are problems with them. I grew up in Northern Ireland. I went to a

Catholic school and I do think that part of the problems that continue

in Northern Ireland are about the sectarianism. It is unfortunately

and not through anybody's intention, but it is caused by being in

separate schoolsful I am sure many of the schools would say the

standards of exam qualifications are better than many other schools, so

whether it is a faith school or not, the standard is better? Labour are

keen not to antagonise parents. Mr Hunt said they represent an

important part of the electoral landscape. It is striking if you

take the figures in a global sense that there are 6,800 Faith schools

in the UK, but only 18 of them are Muslim and I think within this

Observer article the Church of England came out with a statement

saying that no one could credit bly argue that that they are hot beds of

extremism and you have to imagine that the majority of those schools

aren't fostering those views and aren't liable to be infiltrated by

extremists. This is a background to the Trojan horse story and that's

why I jumped the gun. The Mail is a story that's similar, but different

if that makes sense with the headline, "Cameron tells UK Muslims

be more British." And what being British is about and those so`called

British values that's very much up for debate. I'm uneasy about this up

surge. Michael Gove said that he didn't regard it as terribly British

to have this statement of British values and that seems to be exactly

what David Cameron is doing. He mentioning he wants more muscular

reassertion of British values pointing out that it is the 800th

anniversary of Magna Carta next year, but it happens to be the year

of a general election and you have to get to the penultimate paragraph

of this Mail on Sunday splash to find out how he identifies these

values and the acceptance of personal association social

responsibility and a free press. I'm uncomfortable, we are one step away

from being like the Americans. I seem to remember the last Prime

Minister who thought that was Gordon Brown and it didn't do much for him.

I think there is an argument to be made here that you know, there is

probably something, but I do feel that it's such an uphill battle and

it is interesting that they have kind of gone for this because I do

think it will be a struggle to kind of convince people. The University

of Manchester looked at the 2011 census and around 14% of some

Britons anyway were prepared to say that they were British. It is quite,

maybe it's, we are a bit under stated as British people. Maybe

that's one of the values. All right. Well, of course, tonight it would be

wrong not to mention the World Cup even in the press review. The first

match taking place at the worst possible time for Fleet Street

because all the papers have gone to press, but the Sunday Times going

with the headlines, "FIFA ignored own terror alert." The Sunday Times

coming out with explosive stuff about this. It is explosive. They

have done superb work on this story for the last three weekends it has

been a must read. What I'm slightly wary of, I don't think they have

found the smoking gun, but the latest revelation is fascinating and

the person in charge of the security operation at the 2010 World Cup in

South Africa warned FIFA that it would be a terrorist to hold a World

Cup in Qatar due to its proximity where the Al`Qaeda presence and it

seemed that FIFA ignored this. There is detail about the corruption. We

ought to say allegedly ignored that. We don't have the response back yet.

No, but the fascinating detail about this engrained culture of corruption

at FIFA. Chris Eton saying he received a wonderful watch and

cufflinks from the country's ruler. Kate, trinkets? I agree they have

done sterling work on this. I think I probably do wonder about the

terrorist story. I just feel it is very, it is probably difficult to

find any country in the world that wouldn't potentially be a terror

risk when you hold this kind of event. Briefly, we have got a

statement from Qatar saying that allegation that they are involved

statement from Qatar saying that allegation that they are in paying

officials is baseless and designed to tarnish their reputation. It goes

on saying following successive weekends of headlines, officials are

fighting back and they say that their mref is they are without ``

belief is they are without merit. We will have more as the papers come

out. Thank you very much. Of course, now just quarter of an hour before

kick`off. I was going to ask your prediction for the score. We will do

that in an hour's time. prediction for the score. We will do

that in We will catch Kate and Oliver back at 11.30pm for another

look at the store ies making the news tomorrow. Here, Iran offers to

help Baghdad and Washington stop Sunni insurgents from capturing more

territory inside Iraq.? Coming up next, it's Reporters.