09/07/2014

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:00:13. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

:00:21. > :00:22.us tomorrow. With me are Miranda Green, the former press secretary to

:00:23. > :00:26.the Liberal Democrats and Liam Halligan, a commentator, at the

:00:27. > :00:29.Telegraph. Tomorrow's front pages. The Financial Times says the

:00:30. > :00:32.government has ordered a review into the sell`off of state assets just

:00:33. > :00:36.days before MPs publish a report into last year's privatisation of

:00:37. > :00:38.Royal Mail. Teachers could be stripped of the right to hold

:00:39. > :00:43.rolling strikes, without fresh ballots, according to the Telegraph.

:00:44. > :00:49.The Express says following four simple rules could add ten years to

:00:50. > :00:52.your life. The charity Christian Aid has branded the singer Katie Melua

:00:53. > :00:59."a fallen hero", after she was named in a list of celebrities involved in

:01:00. > :01:02.a tax avoidance scheme. The cyclist Chris Froome is shown with blood on

:01:03. > :01:07.his face on the front of The Guardian, after multiple crashes

:01:08. > :01:09.made him abandon the Tour de France. After the Home Office lost records

:01:10. > :01:11.about allegations of child abuse, The Independent claims documents

:01:12. > :01:17.relating the transfer of fugitives have also disappeared from the

:01:18. > :01:20.Foreign Office. Tax avoidance schemes are the main issue on The

:01:21. > :01:23.Times. It claims some tax avoiders won't have to pay back the money

:01:24. > :01:28.they owe, because inspectors didn't challenge their tax returns in time.

:01:29. > :01:31.And the Daily Mail explores an unusual theory for Brazil's World

:01:32. > :01:45.Cup semi final defeat. They ask if it was down to the pop star Mick

:01:46. > :01:59.Jagger. So let's begin... I am interested to hear your views on

:02:00. > :02:05.that. The Times, it has been made a celebrated cause in the last few

:02:06. > :02:13.months. Yes, the attempts to tackle tax avoidance. This scheme was used

:02:14. > :02:21.by 1600 people, not just celebrities but also doctors, barristers and so

:02:22. > :02:28.on. Those people try to shelter billions of pounds in revenue in a

:02:29. > :02:32.complex mechanism involving fabricated losses that they could

:02:33. > :02:46.then offset. What I would say in their dissent is that `` defence, it

:02:47. > :02:50.is not that many people in the grand scheme of things. It is a good story

:02:51. > :02:58.that you have to look into the numbers to see the scale. I think it

:02:59. > :03:05.is because of staff shortages. Is this illegal? No. What is the

:03:06. > :03:10.problem? That is a metaphysical problem. Most would say that you

:03:11. > :03:15.have a moral obligation to arrange your tax affairs but I think many

:03:16. > :03:20.people would reasonably say that if you set up a company's structure

:03:21. > :03:23.with the sole intention of importing taxes rather than carrying out

:03:24. > :03:39.commercial affairs, in a court of law, you will often be judged to be

:03:40. > :03:42.E `` evading. Many of these celebrities are people who work with

:03:43. > :03:48.major charities, and that is the point here. Herston eight put out a

:03:49. > :04:01.statement saying that it is morally wrong for people to avoid paying

:04:02. > :04:04.their fair share `` Christian Aid. Particularly for celebrities who

:04:05. > :04:10.have a relationship with these groups. It is a great story for the

:04:11. > :04:19.Times, they have made the running on this one. But if you are a celebrity

:04:20. > :04:23.and have loads of cash and handed over to your financial advisor to

:04:24. > :04:33.deal with as they see fit to be advantage to you, `` be, are you

:04:34. > :04:44.going to say how are you doing this? Of course you are. What am I

:04:45. > :04:48.going to say? Katie Melua is one of the few people who paid the money

:04:49. > :04:52.back before she was required to and so we should be making that clear in

:04:53. > :04:58.fairness to her. It is not just celebrities, there are lawyers and

:04:59. > :05:10.doctors and so on. Ignorance is no excuse before the law. But it is not

:05:11. > :05:13.illegal. No, but in the current climate where the fiscal laws are so

:05:14. > :05:24.tight on so many people, they do come under scrutiny and rightly so.

:05:25. > :05:32.Some missed their own deadline which is amusing. We're going to go to

:05:33. > :05:36.this one, no hope of limiting migrants. After David Cameron's

:05:37. > :05:41.extraordinary victory and defeat over failing to prevent Jean`Claude

:05:42. > :05:48.Juncker the coming head of the European commission, we have moved

:05:49. > :05:54.into the more serious business of whether or not Britain can bring any

:05:55. > :05:58.concessions out of our European Union partners on our terms of

:05:59. > :06:08.membership, on the way it operates, in order to try to get a yes vote in

:06:09. > :06:12.the referendum. Here we have a story which we are likely to see many more

:06:13. > :06:18.of in the next year or so which is Russell 's saying, no, not really.

:06:19. > :06:25.David Cameron had a meeting with all of the Eurosceptic MPs including the

:06:26. > :06:29.UKIP representatives and Jean`Claude Juncker has said very clearly that

:06:30. > :06:36.free movement is not something that is going to be limited in the future

:06:37. > :06:39.and that is, of course, the fundamental right within the

:06:40. > :06:49.European Union to go and work where you want to. He is really upping the

:06:50. > :06:51.ante on Cameron saying that he doesn't believe that everyone moving

:06:52. > :07:02.around the labourer market is a parasite or a criminal `` labour. He

:07:03. > :07:08.is paraphrasing the rhetoric of some political parties and has been

:07:09. > :07:20.reported to have put his thumbs up off`camera but it was actually on

:07:21. > :07:27.camera when a Labour MEP brought it up. Do you think he will be voting

:07:28. > :07:36.for a Labour at the next election? I think it is unavoidable. There is no

:07:37. > :07:46.question of any negotiation. He got his what he is basically saying ``

:07:47. > :07:53.that is what. He is basically saying to Cameron, this is what happens

:07:54. > :07:59.when you mess with me. But what you are seeing in this story is what you

:08:00. > :08:05.see again and again, a throwaway remark leading to what the British

:08:06. > :08:12.Eurosceptic press can use to create the most perfect headline. Free

:08:13. > :08:17.movement is a marginal issue as only something like 3% actually choose to

:08:18. > :08:22.utilise it. Now David Cameron is saying that important concerns are

:08:23. > :08:28.being dismissed as marginal issues. You must vote to leave. He was

:08:29. > :08:39.pushing his finger over the red button on that one. The Telegraph,

:08:40. > :08:43.we must stop roving school strikes. Much of the public will be surprised

:08:44. > :08:49.that the ballot for this strike that is taking place tomorrow actually

:08:50. > :09:02.took place many years ago. The summer of 2012. We have one in 8

:09:03. > :09:09.million children `` over 8 million affected and that is the issue that

:09:10. > :09:15.David Cameron is flagging. He is putting pressure on the Lib Dems and

:09:16. > :09:22.on Labour. Ed Miliband is saying that he doesn't support or oppose

:09:23. > :09:27.the strikes, it seems to be a classic case of say nothing and then

:09:28. > :09:33.you will get elected. But the Lib Dems are going to come under

:09:34. > :09:40.pressure as well. There seems to be an error about what David Cameron is

:09:41. > :09:45.trying to do here `` air, which raises into the voters minds, Tori

:09:46. > :09:56.performs about trade unions back in the 80s `` Tory reforms. They may

:09:57. > :10:04.also include manifesto laws which means unions must have a majority in

:10:05. > :10:09.order to be able to vote. This strike is not only an a mandate that

:10:10. > :10:14.his two years old, it also includes less than one in ten actual

:10:15. > :10:17.teachers. It is a difficult one for the Lib Dems. They're going

:10:18. > :10:25.to work out where they stand on this and at the moment, they are making

:10:26. > :10:30.it clear that they don't want any change. I think it is very

:10:31. > :10:35.interesting where the public would be honest. I tend to feel that there

:10:36. > :10:46.is not a great appetite for a ban on strikes in certain sectors, key

:10:47. > :10:53.public sectors like transportation. I don't think a crackdown is the

:10:54. > :10:57.answer. But to this issue of rolling strikes, what they called a ballot

:10:58. > :11:03.for discontinuous action, which means that the union can decide to

:11:04. > :11:06.call a walkout whenever they want, I am not sure that the public would

:11:07. > :11:18.see that as a fair way of going about things. I think there may be

:11:19. > :11:26.room for reform there. We're going to hear a loss about this going up

:11:27. > :11:32.to May 2015. They will be trying to expose Ed Miliband as not wanting to

:11:33. > :11:35.come down on one side or the other. That's right. Even the leader of one

:11:36. > :11:40.of the unions has said that it is time for them to make up their

:11:41. > :11:47.mind. Labour has no friends on either side of the dispute. That is

:11:48. > :11:54.from their own supporters. Now the Financial Times. The issue of

:11:55. > :12:00.privatizing of the Royal Mail which is very controversial for the

:12:01. > :12:07.reasons that the share price rose considerably from where it had been

:12:08. > :12:11.set on the day of flotation and Vince Cable has been under fire

:12:12. > :12:22.continuously since that time for the handling of the privatized Asian. ``

:12:23. > :12:28.privatisation. He has called an investigation as to how they raise

:12:29. > :12:32.money and it will involve a former Labour minister who is an expert on

:12:33. > :12:45.city affairs. A group of MPs are about to ask `` reduced a critical

:12:46. > :12:49.report on privatisation. Many made an absolute killing buying and

:12:50. > :12:59.selling shares in the prior week 's. They have been flogging them off

:13:00. > :13:02.straightaway. Absolutely and ministers are now saying that a

:13:03. > :13:10.further ?20 billion worth of assets sales could be considered. I think

:13:11. > :13:23.it is probably an attempt by the business department to make some

:13:24. > :13:27.preemptive action. This guy is very financially savvy. When you do have

:13:28. > :13:33.an asset sale, you do undervalue it deliberately, don't you? If it is an

:13:34. > :13:38.IPO, a share flotation, there are other ways of doing it. You do not

:13:39. > :13:45.necessarily need to sell it directly into the stock market. There are

:13:46. > :13:57.many ways to do things. We have ?20 billion worth of sales slated over

:13:58. > :14:04.the next few years. A number of assets, nuclear asset, Royal Mail

:14:05. > :14:11.and it was tough on Vince Cable. They sold off 60% of it and it went

:14:12. > :14:18.up huge amounts. That was just froth. You could say that that is

:14:19. > :14:23.several hospitals lost by the government. They will have egg on

:14:24. > :14:28.their face, imagine if it was the other way around. We're going to go

:14:29. > :14:43.very briefly onto this one and you will have to explain it. Rolling

:14:44. > :14:54.Stone laughed off the idea of being cursed. He has got a Brazilian son,

:14:55. > :14:57.Mick Jagger, from a sling and back in 2010 in South Africa, he wore a

:14:58. > :15:03.Brazilian shirt and they bus to Holland and so we can't always get

:15:04. > :15:11.what he wants... Very good. Can't get no satisfaction. He has said

:15:12. > :15:21.that he took advantage Dove response ability of the first `` he took

:15:22. > :15:33.responsibility for the first goal but not the other six. Very good.

:15:34. > :15:39.That is all for now, be sure to stay with us at the top of the hour for

:15:40. > :15:48.more on the airport security issue. But now, what is the score at the

:15:49. > :15:50.World Cup? It is time to find out.