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:00:00. > :00:19.Papers. Hello and welcome to our look at the
:00:20. > :00:22.morning's papers. With me are the Times columnist,
:00:23. > :00:26.Jenni Russell, and the broadcaster David Davies.
:00:27. > :00:29.Let's start with the front pages. The Financial Times reports on the
:00:30. > :00:32.investigation into Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, who's
:00:33. > :00:34.caught up in a corruption scandal from her time in the French
:00:35. > :00:37.Government. The Telegraph looks at the council
:00:38. > :00:40.officials in Rotherham who it says failed to act to prevent the sexual
:00:41. > :00:43.abuse of more than a thousand children.
:00:44. > :00:46.The Sun has an interview with a woman who tells of her abuse by
:00:47. > :00:51.gangs of Asian men, which started when she was eleven.
:00:52. > :00:54.In an interview with the Guardian, the deputy children's commissioner
:00:55. > :00:57.warns that children are at risk of serious abuse across England because
:00:58. > :01:01.of a culture of wilful blindness about the scale of sexual
:01:02. > :01:04.exploitation. The Express urges David Cameron to
:01:05. > :01:09.get tough with foreign benefit cheats.
:01:10. > :01:12.The Mirror leads on the warning from Britain's most senior police chief
:01:13. > :01:16.that hundreds of Britons who fought in Syria and Iraq have returned
:01:17. > :01:19.home. The Mail focuses on Rotherham and
:01:20. > :01:24.those in charge at the council over the last decade, who it says won't
:01:25. > :01:27.accept the blame for the scandal. And the Times says David Cameron is
:01:28. > :01:36.hesitant about agreeing to join US air strikes against Islamic State
:01:37. > :01:43.militants. Let's begin with the Daily Mail. There is a picture of
:01:44. > :01:50.format people who it claims, we won't take the blame. They are
:01:51. > :01:58.senior officials at Rotherham Council. If we are to believe that
:01:59. > :02:00.no one other than the former leader of the council in rather excerpts
:02:01. > :02:16.Annie responsibility for what happened, `` accepts. `` rather run.
:02:17. > :02:23.`` Rotherham. Joyce Thacker and others, who do they think should
:02:24. > :02:30.accept the blame? Presumably, a number of people should be
:02:31. > :02:37.responsible for what happened to 1400 children over a remarkable
:02:38. > :02:44.number of years. Initially, what struck me was the silence of so many
:02:45. > :02:49.of the authorities yesterday. Now, today, one or two people have stood
:02:50. > :02:55.up including the Police and Crime Commissioners who is fighting, he
:02:56. > :03:00.would have to say, perhaps even a surprising rearguard action
:03:01. > :03:06.because, having been elected, I don't know what the turnout was in
:03:07. > :03:11.Rotherham, South Yorkshire, for the Police and Crime Commissioners, but
:03:12. > :03:16.removing a Police and Crime Commissioners seems to be pretty
:03:17. > :03:22.easy to get one in on a low turnout but it might be difficult to get one
:03:23. > :03:27.out. He feels there is a collective responsibility. He was the leader,
:03:28. > :03:33.the head of children's services during some of the time these
:03:34. > :03:45.offences took place. Over the last 16 years. He would rather lead dumb
:03:46. > :03:49.`` rather leave the Labour Party. His defence has been extraordinary,
:03:50. > :03:54.saying these are systemic failures, failure of the system, as if the
:03:55. > :04:01.people in the system don't have agency. The investigators, the
:04:02. > :04:08.police, the bosses who didn't want to hear the truth, we no reports
:04:09. > :04:14.from 12 years ago said there were reports of abuse. And in 2003, 2006,
:04:15. > :04:20.and everyone hoped the problem would go away. It is not plausible that
:04:21. > :04:24.these people shouldn't be held to account. The police are getting off
:04:25. > :04:29.lightly. People on the front of the pages are council officials of
:04:30. > :04:35.various kinds and yet the police were often called to episodes where
:04:36. > :04:38.we had teenage girls found in bed with Asian men distressed, naked,
:04:39. > :04:50.underaged and no action was taken by police. They were deeply complicit
:04:51. > :04:57.and should also be named and blamed. Shaun Wright claims it came as a
:04:58. > :05:06.huge surprise. That is wilful blindness. If you have no idea, if
:05:07. > :05:10.this isn't a single isolated case, 1400 children, it isn't possible
:05:11. > :05:17.that he heard nothing about it during those years as director.
:05:18. > :05:21.Where does his confidence come from that he still carries the confidence
:05:22. > :05:28.of the people of South Yorkshire in him staying in his post?
:05:29. > :05:36.Presumably, he thinks he has fought hard to be in the post and that he
:05:37. > :05:38.has the legitimacy, when Police and Crime Commissioner, the arguments
:05:39. > :05:41.won't, for Police and Crime Commissioner, who thought it was a
:05:42. > :05:48.good idea, but the arguments won't ever properly propounded either
:05:49. > :05:55.government and the end product was the hopeless levels of turnout that
:05:56. > :05:59.climaxed in the West Midlands. No one, when they planned the Police
:06:00. > :06:02.and Crime Commissioner, thought of a situation where you would get rid of
:06:03. > :06:06.someone fast. There isn't a mechanism to get rid of him. There
:06:07. > :06:12.won't be another election for four years. I would like to ask him
:06:13. > :06:17.personally, but does he feel that because you can't kick him out, he
:06:18. > :06:20.doesn't have to leave. Or is he believing he is such a brilliant
:06:21. > :06:26.Police and Crime Commissioner that he should stay? We are less than 36
:06:27. > :06:31.hours on from this and my instinct is that the political pressure will
:06:32. > :06:36.be too much. The Labour Party, the Home Secretary, it will be
:06:37. > :06:41.interesting to see. One distressing thing is that some people who have
:06:42. > :06:44.worked in institutions for ever get a sense of complacent
:06:45. > :06:47.invulnerability. They think the system works or doesn't work but
:06:48. > :06:51.none of us need to take responsibility. It's not my fault.
:06:52. > :07:00.Everyone else knew and no one did anything. That doesn't work in the
:07:01. > :07:05.contemporary world. Care chief played down sex claim concerns in
:07:06. > :07:11.the Times. Joyce Thacker, features on the front of the Daily Mail. She
:07:12. > :07:17.told a meeting that agencies needed to retain a sense of proportionality
:07:18. > :07:25.about sex abuse because they only accounted for 2.3% of the council
:07:26. > :07:33.safeguarding work Rotherham. `` safeguarding work in Rotherham.
:07:34. > :07:39.Investigations by the chief reporter at the Times which led to the
:07:40. > :07:42.enquiry that came out yesterday. Andrew Norfolk published so many
:07:43. > :07:48.details about the appalling nature of what was going on that in the end
:07:49. > :07:54.people had to take notice. When you have... That report yesterday was as
:07:55. > :07:58.startling as any I can remember in modern times. When you have
:07:59. > :08:08.something like that, people trawl back to see what deed, who said what
:08:09. > :08:11.over the past six months. This is two years after commissioning the
:08:12. > :08:15.report and long after she would have read the reports in the Times which
:08:16. > :08:21.have been vindicated by the official reports. There is no justification
:08:22. > :08:27.for downplaying the seriousness of this you would also have to remind
:08:28. > :08:33.Mr Vacco that 2.3% of the council safeguarding work as she puts it
:08:34. > :08:47.amounts to 1400 cases of abuse. Some safeguarding. The Mirror. 250
:08:48. > :08:56.jihadis back in Britain. These are Britons who have gone, not to
:08:57. > :09:00.sightsee. You would love to think the government had a clear policy at
:09:01. > :09:06.home and abroad as to how to tackle the murderous thugs of Islamic
:09:07. > :09:12.extremism. The Metropolitan Commissioner at home throws in his
:09:13. > :09:17.two pennyworth, it is a real worry. They are in a network of terrorists
:09:18. > :09:27.with 250 Britons who fought in Syria and D`mark are already home and more
:09:28. > :09:32.will want to come home. `` Iraqi. My namesake, the former Home Secretary,
:09:33. > :09:37.David Davis, his call has been backed by Mr Hogan Howe, stripping
:09:38. > :09:43.citizenship from Briton is to go to war to fight alongside Islamic
:09:44. > :09:50.extremists. I suspect we will enter a period of great debate about
:09:51. > :09:57.people's civil rights and when people come through airports and
:09:58. > :10:05.when do you take away passports? All of those issues. I suspect, if you
:10:06. > :10:12.have a crystal ball, we will hear a lot more about it in the future. It
:10:13. > :10:15.is difficult. We are a member of the international community. You can't
:10:16. > :10:19.take a passport away. Some say that if you do, they go into a black hole
:10:20. > :10:27.and perhaps they could become even more, what's the word West they can
:10:28. > :10:32.go into areas of life where they can be even more of a problem for
:10:33. > :10:38.society. You can't make people stateless. We are civilised society
:10:39. > :10:45.and we need evidence. Collect intelligence on people, but it is
:10:46. > :10:51.playing to the gallery, the Mandi district people's passports. I would
:10:52. > :11:03.like people followed. `` the manned. `` Dem and. How do you track
:11:04. > :11:09.these people? I don't want to trivialise this. I remember these
:11:10. > :11:11.arguments in 2000 when we had a problem with English football
:11:12. > :11:18.supporters are broad and we were told you can't take passports away
:11:19. > :11:25.from people in a civilised society. Some of us absolutely supported
:11:26. > :11:30.that. Equally, we knew who were the group of people, a significant sized
:11:31. > :11:36.group, who were consistently going abroad, causing problems for our
:11:37. > :11:40.country and surprise surprise, legislation was produced to enable
:11:41. > :11:45.passports to be taken away for periods of time. That is different
:11:46. > :11:49.from making someone stateless. You can remove someone's passport and
:11:50. > :11:56.prevent them from travelling but David Davis's proposal was saying,
:11:57. > :12:01.he no longer have citizenship. The Daily Telegraph. You have been
:12:02. > :12:08.working on this story for the Times, Jenny. Declare the social mix
:12:09. > :12:11.of your staff. This is a report by the social mobility commission that
:12:12. > :12:13.says that class should be as important in any recruitment
:12:14. > :12:20.decision as race or gender because return is in a strangle hold of the
:12:21. > :12:27.traditional elite `` Britain. The figures are shocking. Three quarters
:12:28. > :12:31.of High Court judges and half of all senior diplomats and permanent
:12:32. > :12:37.secretaries, something like two thirds of the Cabinet and one third
:12:38. > :12:43.of BBC executives have either been to reach or private schools and the
:12:44. > :12:52.dominance of this tiny group of people who are educated in only 7%
:12:53. > :12:57.of the population educated privately means that those with talent and
:12:58. > :13:00.mobility don't reach the top `` Oxbridge. It isn't good for the
:13:01. > :13:05.country because we aren't using talent properly. You are in an
:13:06. > :13:15.interview and what, does someone say, or school do you go to? Do they
:13:16. > :13:24.listen to your accent, how posh you sound? I think this is the failure
:13:25. > :13:28.of the generation and of the education system under successive
:13:29. > :13:35.governments. I want to be clear what my old friend, former Labour Cabinet
:13:36. > :13:39.minister who became the coalition social mobility Sara, I am glad to
:13:40. > :13:47.see he is alive, Alan Milburn, what does he mean when employers should
:13:48. > :13:50.make a contextual evaluation of academic achievements to give
:13:51. > :14:00.greater weight. Does that mean to give those with good grades at poor
:14:01. > :14:06.performing schools? If you went to a private school and got an a grade,
:14:07. > :14:17.but the person at a state school gets to be great, they should get
:14:18. > :14:22.the position ? That is because students in the system have been
:14:23. > :14:25.cramped. There is so much self`motivation from children from
:14:26. > :14:33.state schools. It is the case that if you go to Winchester, Eaton,
:14:34. > :14:36.Radley, and get fantastic teaching, that isn't the same as going to a
:14:37. > :14:45.tough competence is where the teaching is terrible. Look at the
:14:46. > :14:52.character, diligence, ability, and nurture that. I am on your side. I
:14:53. > :15:09.am worried as to who is playing God in this. Who is deciding that, by
:15:10. > :15:12.the weight... `` by the way. They are asking you to think about the
:15:13. > :15:18.fact that people come from different backgrounds. There is a untapped
:15:19. > :15:20.potential. It isn't coming through. They say to businesses to work out
:15:21. > :15:28.fast track schemes for people who have been to university so you don't
:15:29. > :15:32.just pick people who have gone through the system. When you are an
:15:33. > :15:36.infant in a working`class household you get spoken to less than in a
:15:37. > :15:40.middle`class households and hear far less encouraging words. From that
:15:41. > :15:46.time you are disadvantaged onwards. At the moment, the system doesn't do
:15:47. > :15:51.anything but widen the divide. We have been trying to do this for 20
:15:52. > :15:57.years. That is why it is said we need a national campaign on this. We
:15:58. > :16:02.have been trying to do this for so long. We have to do something
:16:03. > :16:10.different. What if I went to a not very good private school? You are
:16:11. > :16:24.not in the same class as an eight Tony on. `` Etonian. I will come and
:16:25. > :16:34.have breakfast with you any day. It has been brilliant having you. Stay
:16:35. > :16:37.with us on BBC News. More on Shaun Wright's resignation from the Labour
:16:38. > :16:43.Party in the wake of the abuse enquiry. The worlds of sport.
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