:00:00. > :00:00.today and the best action as India and England began a five test series
:00:00. > :00:15.in the cricket. Hello and welcome to
:00:16. > :00:17.our look ahead to what the papers With me are Miranda Green,
:00:18. > :00:21.the former Press Secretary to the Liberal Democrats and Liam Halligan,
:00:22. > :00:26.a commentator at the Economist. The Financial Times says
:00:27. > :00:34.the Government has ordered a review into the sell`off
:00:35. > :00:37.of state assets just days before MPs publish a report into last year's
:00:38. > :00:41.privatisation of Royal Mail. Teachers could be stripped
:00:42. > :00:44.of the right to hold rolling strikes without fresh ballots,
:00:45. > :00:49.according to the Telegraph. The Express says
:00:50. > :00:50.following four simple rules could The charity Christian Aid has
:00:51. > :00:57.branded the singer Katie Melua a fallen hero after she was named
:00:58. > :01:00.in a list of celebrities involved The cyclist Chris Froome is shown
:01:01. > :01:06.with blood on his face on the front of The Guardian
:01:07. > :01:11.after multiple crashes made him And after the Home Office lost
:01:12. > :01:16.records about allegations of child abuse, The Independent claims
:01:17. > :01:18.documents relating the transfer of fugitives have also disappeared
:01:19. > :01:33.from the Foreign Office. We start with the Guardian. The
:01:34. > :01:38.Prime Minister will crack down on strikes as 1,000,001 out. Cameron
:01:39. > :01:46.was branded a bully after a threshold on union ballots. Big
:01:47. > :01:51.public sector Walker tomorrow, the Prime Minister, his words timed to
:01:52. > :01:54.perfection? He has said and Boris Johnson has spoken out strongly on
:01:55. > :01:59.this as well, that he wants to see in the Conservative manifesto at the
:02:00. > :02:07.General Election, proposals to limit the power of unions to strike in
:02:08. > :02:11.keep a big sector roles. It is interesting because are two
:02:12. > :02:14.different proposals and one is much easier to bring public opinion with
:02:15. > :02:19.than the other. This issue of the percentage that you would need in
:02:20. > :02:23.your ballot to call any strike and they say they should have a simple
:02:24. > :02:29.majority. More than 50% should vote for striking. They have got
:02:30. > :02:33.themselves into difficult territory with that because a lot of people on
:02:34. > :02:41.the left say, hang on, MPs are not required to be elected with more
:02:42. > :02:46.than 50%. I have those figures! US Presidents! One of the other
:02:47. > :02:53.proposals but I find the bill will find easier to get the backing for
:02:54. > :02:56.his having one ballot that enables the union to call strikes over a
:02:57. > :03:03.very long period. Without going back to members. The rolling ballot. This
:03:04. > :03:11.strike that we are going to ensure tomorrow, speaking as a parent, the
:03:12. > :03:16.ballot for this was called two years ago in the summer of 2012. I think
:03:17. > :03:20.there might be some case for looking at that and I think they will find
:03:21. > :03:31.it more difficult to get cross`party agreement. I was going to say, which
:03:32. > :03:35.one of those scenarios does your lot not like? Because David Cameron
:03:36. > :03:40.would like to change the law right by but he cannot because he is in
:03:41. > :03:43.the coalition. That is right. Changing the law suddenly in a
:03:44. > :03:49.reaction to this one`day tomorrow would be extreme but, certainly, if
:03:50. > :03:54.David Cameron could win convincingly at the next General Election and
:03:55. > :03:57.have a working majority, they are determined to do this and I think
:03:58. > :04:02.they probably would get support for something to do with a requirement
:04:03. > :04:07.for a fresh ballot for each strike. The Lib Dems might be able to work
:04:08. > :04:14.with the possibility of preventing rolling strikes right now? I am not
:04:15. > :04:17.sure that the public are aware that rolling strikes or something that
:04:18. > :04:22.unions are allowed to do. Which is why Cameron is highlighting this.
:04:23. > :04:27.The right to strike is precious and hard fought over many years. And no
:04:28. > :04:35.reasonable person would suggest that is not the case. There are shades of
:04:36. > :04:40.Norman Tebbit in this... No reasonable person? There are lots of
:04:41. > :04:45.people who reckon that Bob Crow and his people should not be going out
:04:46. > :04:49.or should ever have gone out at all because this is a vital public
:04:50. > :04:54.service? I don't think any mainstream politician will stand on
:04:55. > :05:00.any platform of not striking ever. The right is there forever. But a
:05:01. > :05:04.lot of reasonable swing voters and the Tories are trying to smoke the
:05:05. > :05:09.Lib Dems are at, they would say, should we be striking on it ballot
:05:10. > :05:15.from the summer of 2012? This is just England and Wales but we are
:05:16. > :05:21.expecting 3000 schools, one in every eight, to be closed down. And
:05:22. > :05:27.possibly another aspect is that this is collocated but this might get
:05:28. > :05:31.through, if only one in ten teachers have voted, even though it might be
:05:32. > :05:38.half of the union that has called the ballot. That will also raise
:05:39. > :05:43.eyebrows. What also will is this, from the electoral commission. No MP
:05:44. > :05:51.was elected in 2010 with more than 50% of the vote. Only 35 MPs had
:05:52. > :06:02.more than 40%. Eight MPs were winners with less than 20%. That is
:06:03. > :06:07.a difference... Between first past the post and, I will take my life in
:06:08. > :06:12.my hands, because the constituency is a race and this is in winery
:06:13. > :06:19.decision. Vote or not? They are good numbers. I wanted to get that.
:06:20. > :06:23.Absolutely, and all day, those in the Tory party who are the
:06:24. > :06:26.staunchest proponents of this crack down on union powers have been
:06:27. > :06:31.trying to fight the numbers you have quoted. They are getting themselves
:06:32. > :06:37.into a dig mess with this but on the other issue, rolling strikes, that
:06:38. > :06:42.is much... One of the big union leaders in this country is trying to
:06:43. > :06:48.have talks with Gordon Brown, now in the coalition government, to talk
:06:49. > :06:54.about other ways for outing to take place. Perhaps, supervising the
:06:55. > :06:58.workplace or online. He says he has been met with a wall of silence and
:06:59. > :07:02.the suggestion for the leadership of this country is they do not want
:07:03. > :07:07.more people to be able to vote on strike if necessary? I heard that
:07:08. > :07:13.interview. It was really interesting. It was a very clever
:07:14. > :07:16.lie because he was calling out the government and saying, you are not
:07:17. > :07:20.concerned about democracy and unions. He legitimised the result of
:07:21. > :07:30.the strike by not motoring bigger turnout. Exactly. `` endorsing. Many
:07:31. > :07:41.apologies if your children are not at school! Make sure they're not
:07:42. > :07:51.going on and are plain! Constructive games. `` onto an aeroplane. The
:07:52. > :07:57.Daily Telegraph, budget airlines shone these new checks? We have been
:07:58. > :08:00.trying to work the side and the Department for Transport says that
:08:01. > :08:05.travellers flying to and from any British airport going forward will
:08:06. > :08:16.have to show they can turn off and on their electronic devices. To
:08:17. > :08:21.prove they are working. And they are not Fukushima. But the budget `` the
:08:22. > :08:24.budget airlines say they are sticking up for little people who
:08:25. > :08:28.will feel harassed by all of these extra checks and we think we don't
:08:29. > :08:32.need to reply but if they must comply, they must. They are
:08:33. > :08:39.exploiting this confusion. It has been rushed in and also, this will
:08:40. > :08:45.be more difficult tomorrow because is another strike at Heathrow. Some
:08:46. > :08:50.of the border agency people. And we are expecting tens of thousands of
:08:51. > :08:55.passengers affected. Reverse be the case? If you have a budget airlines
:08:56. > :08:59.saying we will not check people, this is no problem, would you want
:09:00. > :09:04.to get onto that plane? Given that someone in Yemen is trying to work
:09:05. > :09:07.out how to stick bombs into batteries? People do get divided, at
:09:08. > :09:10.an batteries? People do get divided, at
:09:11. > :09:22.airport there or the tumour types who are really grateful at these
:09:23. > :09:26.stringent security checks. `` are the tamer. And other people find it
:09:27. > :09:35.cringeworthy. This will frighten some people. All right, we will go
:09:36. > :09:39.to the Telegraph. Sabres could be an independent Scotland? So, business
:09:40. > :09:45.and the banks with some notable exceptions have been quiet on the
:09:46. > :09:49.Scottish referendum so the votes are on September 18, enormous decision.
:09:50. > :10:00.Do they sever those ties with the UK, or leave the UK. And UBS warns
:10:01. > :10:03.that there are people making naive assumptions about the effects of any
:10:04. > :10:07.potential yes vote and separation. And they warn that savers could just
:10:08. > :10:17.take their money out of Scotland overnight. September 19. Goodbye,
:10:18. > :10:22.all of those millions of savings. Bring them south of the border, take
:10:23. > :10:25.them elsewhere in Europe, offshore. That would completely alter the size
:10:26. > :10:29.of the Scottish economy and that would have all sorts of knock`on
:10:30. > :10:36.effects. In some sense, the technicals, they will be explained
:10:37. > :10:41.by Liam, but... I think the phrasing of this, saying naive assumptions
:10:42. > :10:46.are being made, is quite powerful. The effect will be huge. Alex
:10:47. > :10:49.Salmond and the SNP are trying to say that there will be a lot of
:10:50. > :11:01.continuity. They want to get the point. It is an assumption and the
:11:02. > :11:07.yes campaign will say it is just scare tactics. It is an assumption.
:11:08. > :11:13.In response though, that argument can be made that there is a UK
:11:14. > :11:20.Government backing for British savers funds up to about ?85,000 and
:11:21. > :11:21.if they would draw that, then the Scottish banking system will be
:11:22. > :11:23.vulnerable. if they would draw that, then the
:11:24. > :11:33.Scottish banking system will UBS are rehashing some research they did in
:11:34. > :11:41.Czechoslovakia and savings did flow back from Slovakia into the Czech
:11:42. > :11:52.Republic. Whoever their friends are in politics, they are slightly plain
:11:53. > :11:57.to the back that the yes campaign has been suppressing the business
:11:58. > :12:01.lobby's right to talk about this. We will discuss this more in the next
:12:02. > :12:10.hour. The Financial Times, take it on the chin, Brazil, like ask Ritz.
:12:11. > :12:14.Hundreds of millions of people were in tears yesterday. They should've
:12:15. > :12:26.taken it on the chin like us because we are used to losing. Matthew Engel
:12:27. > :12:32.who does all the sports coverage for the Financial Times is always
:12:33. > :12:36.wonderful. And Simon Cooper, I should say. This is a wonderful
:12:37. > :12:43.piece. It is saying not only do we Ritz have a stiff upper lip and we
:12:44. > :12:47.can take sporting losses, but because we lose all the time and is
:12:48. > :12:53.always another sports coming, we can hope we win in the next one. It has
:12:54. > :12:56.not been a great summer. Chris Froome won the Tour de France last
:12:57. > :13:03.year, he has crashed several times and is now out. We had our worst
:13:04. > :13:09.World Cup since 1958. Andy Murray crashing out of Wimbledon. And the
:13:10. > :13:17.cricket as well, but we haven't had right on the beach or teargas. This
:13:18. > :13:21.is true, but the only game Brazil play really, really, really well is
:13:22. > :13:27.football. We don't play any sport well, but they do play football well
:13:28. > :13:36.and if it goes to pot, so does the nation. I have been told that I have
:13:37. > :13:41.two stop you, Miranda. In her prime! It is not me, it is someone
:13:42. > :13:58.in my ear. We will have more discussions later. Time now for
:13:59. > :14:06.Our headlines this evening. Stalemate
:14:07. > :14:13.Are we heading for extra`time in Sao Paulo?