31/08/2014 The Papers

to impose new sanctions on Russia. It will get you in trouble. Coming

up in this week's The Film Review, Mystery Road, the latest crime drama

from down under. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are James Lyons, the deputy

political editor for the Daily Mirror, and Oliver Brown, who is

chief sports feature writer from the Daily Telegraph. Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with: Thank you for being with us again. The Metro

focuses on our main story tonight ` the finding of five`year`old Ashya

King in Spain. The paper says that his parents are being kept from

seeing him following their arrest. The FT leads with calls by the

Russian President for talks on the question of statehood for south`east

Ukraine. Vladimir Putin says it must be a key part of negotiations to end

the conflict. The Telegraph also concentrates on the situation in

Ukraine. It says that NATO allies are being told to increase their

defence budgets due to the growing threat from Russia. The Guardian

goes with news that David Cameron will make it easier for intelligence

agencies to access information about airline passengers, as part of

efforts to stem the flow of British`born jihadis travelling to

and from Syria and Iraq. The Express splashes on the claim that EU red

tape is costing retired Brits thousands of pounds in pension

pay`outs. The Daily Mail says that figures show customers are being

charged at least three times the price their suppliers pay for gas.

There is a front page of the Times, running with the news that

Conservative grassroots organisations are putting pressure

on David Cameron to tighten up the UK borders. And finally, The

Independent Leading with the news that David Cameron faces the

damaging new revolt from Europe from up to 100 Conservative MPs over

leaving the EU. So let's begin. Plenty to get our teeth into there.

We will start with the Guardian, and the lead story about new powers

potentially for spy agencies, as they say. This is all about airline

passengers, and list that the government might want to get a look

at. We saw a dramatic statement from David Cameron on Friday, talking

about the fact the spooks have raised the terror threat level.

Tomorrow we will hear what he will do in response to that. One of the

things he will be doing is compelling the outlines to give more

information and more timely information to the security services

about exactly who they are ferrying around. This is obviously aimed at

helping the security services, preventing would be to ``

jihadists, who are going to Iraq and Syria to fight with ISIS. At the

moment it is a voluntary system observed by the airlines, but some

are much further than others. Tomorrow there will be a new law to

bring us in line with the US where it is mandatory, they have to do it

for legal reasons. The airlines will have to give more information, and

they will have to give more notice to the security services. At the

moment sometimes they only get this information half an hour before a

flight takes off. Clearly Cameron and Nick Clegg have had a busy

weekend thrashing out ideas about what they might do to fight the

terror threat, and some very contentious issues, I think.

Absolutely, it is interesting that one of the key details is the

intensifying cooperation with Germany and Turkey, which gives you

some illustration of the staging post spy which the jihadists are

getting to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamic State. You wonder what

the ramifications of getting the intelligence agencies to have access

to flight list will be. I think the days of getting on a flight at the

last minute, on a standby list, are going to be over, if you have to be

vetted in advance in this fashion. I think there will be quite profound

replications for air travel. Watch this space if you are a frequent

flyer, as to what impact that might have on your doing and check in

time. Staying with this issue of fighting the so`called terror

threat, the Daily Telegraph, right down the bottom, not their lead

story, they are talking about one of the more contentious issues, and the

fact that one of the things thrown out a David Cameron apparently is

the idea that terrorist suspect would be forced to relocate. This is

related to control orders we saw. This is a power they had when the

old control order regime was in place. The courts could move someone

from my neck of the woods, offer example, and make them go and live

in Norfolk, where they would be more easy to track and a lot less

trouble. That went when control orders went and were replaced with

what we have to call TPIMs. There was a lot of speculation David

Cameron would take the opportunity to bring it back, and now it looks

very much like he is not going to when he finally stands up tomorrow.

And that is for two reasons. There are concerns on the Tory side about

human rights, we don't want to breach those laws. But more

importantly there is a lot of opposition a thing from the Liberal

Democrats, who are very reluctant to be seen signing up for anything that

might offend their few remaining supporters. We have heard from two

vocal former leaders today criticising David Cameron over this.

We have had Paddy Ashdown and Campbell, who suggested that a third

measure expected tomorrow, basically temporarily travel bans, but that

could actually be illegal. Bolivar, you wanted to come in. Two

interesting to see what rhetoric David Cameron captures the Seoul ``

Mac `` Oliver. `` captures this all in. It was called in on helpful

measure. In the struggle against extremism, there is obviously the

legal minefield about what a temporary ban on actually means. And

it seems to be some question about whether, even if you do strip

someone of their passport after they leave the country, they still could

have a legal entitlement to get back in. Staying with borders for us, and

slightly moving sideways, the Times says reclaim our borders, Prime

Minister warned. An interesting story they have hear about the idea

of getting immigration under control and the fact that many Tory MPs are

getting very cross about the fact that David Cameron has missed

targets and may not be able to renegotiate any way of stopping

immigration from within the EU, of course. Two including missing them

spectacularly of course with those figures of 243,000 one of the

suggestions in the Conservative home manifesto seems to be to scrap the

whole notion of targets altogether. And to introduce this points `based

system. Which seems to have worked in Australia, where the emphasis is

firmly upon the skills that are required for economic growth and new

immigrants are required to buy health and welfare insurance cover

which would be, I think when the targets have been missed by Coyte

this margin it would be an interesting possibility to explore.

This is an absolutely excellent piece of mischiefmaking, it

represents one strand of thought within the Conservative Party. And I

think, crucially, the point is that they are calling for David Cameron

to persuade the EU to abandon the free movement of people within the

EU, which is one of its founding principles. It is not going to

happen, he knows it will not happen. He is definitely not going to try

and get that, because he can't get it. This is the grassroots, or the

Tory right, whatever you want to call them, pushing him, and pushing

him, and trying to push into a corner. It is just part this whole

running issue that immigration in Europe has become. It is now this is

suppurating sore. Lets pour a little more salt into the suppurating sore.

Tory Eurosceptics to defy the party. The suggestion that up to 100

Conservative MPs will declare that they will vote to leave the EU, no

matter what concessions he wins. Absolutely, it seems like a

specially miserable news for David Cameron, however you dress it up.

The Independent peace points out the parallels with the 97 elections,

when obviously... David Cameron will obviously be pleased with that

parallel being drawn. Yes, given that he stood unsuccessfully. The

pressure that was obviously placed back in 1997 with the idea indicates

that David Cameron could be under significant rebellion. This becomes

a major headache with the general election next year, all thoughts

turning to polls and what the general public thinks. The point

here being, as we have seen, Douglas Carswell defecting to UKIP, and the

threat about what voters think of emigration. All eyes are on Clacton,

rather than the general election, they want to get that out of the way

first. We are seeing a miscalculation by the Tory right and

David Cameron. The Tory Right are trying to, well, it depends. If you

take them at face value, they are making a massive miscalculation.

UKIP UKIP. If they are going to go on banging on about Europe and

immigration, they are just fuelling the fire that is sweeping through

their constituencies. If you think this is a sinister plot to try and

realign the Tory party with elements of UKIP, then that makes more sense.

Then what David Cameron has done, which is foolish, he keeps throwing

red meat to the Eurosceptics, and he will never keep these people happy.

They just want out, as we see here in the Independent. A just want to

leave, and everything short of that they are not interested in. Lets

change gear and turned to the Metro. One of the key stories we have been

talking about all weekend is the story, the difficult, delicate story

of Ashya King. His parents are in police custody, possibly facing

extradition, and the headline in the Metro, parents kept from seeing

Cancer son, page five. This is such a difficult story, as it has so many

elements, but one eventually comes back to the idea that this is a

family who are really struggling. Two it is a heartbreaking story. It

is exceptionally difficult to ascribe blame. Difficult to blame

the police for a child going missing for Southampton General Hospital,

but equally impossible to blame the parents for seeking the best

possible treatment for their son, wherever they see fit, including

looking for this proton beam therapy, which is available and the

Czech Republic for ?100,000. It would be available here for another

six years, and so we have this impasse which is not helping the

little boy at all, and that his parents are not by his bedside but

being interrogated by two sets of police and could face extradition.

What is also interesting about this story from a logistical point of

view is how different sides of the debate have come out through social

media. The family itself have been able to use YouTube and so on, even

though they are thousands of miles away, to get their story across.

They have, and they have done it very effectively. And equally, the

grandmother has been speaking very eloquently about the situation. I

think actually is this goes along, I think there will be a lot of parents

who actually feel very angry on their behalf. That they are being

treated in this way, when, you know, as we have said, they are basically

just trying to seize every chance they can to save their son 's life.

Lets just squeeze in the Daily Mail. Their front page, I feel we see this

story so often it gets depressing for people, but this is all about

the price of gas, and the suggestion again that gas supplied are not

passing on any savings they make in wholesale gas to consumers. Neatly

illustrated by a pensioner who probably doesn't have to worry.

Cliff Richard is back, that is a whole other debate. Customers being

charged at least three times the price that suppliers pay for gas,

speaking to the consequences of a complete lack of competition in the

industry, which will only fuel the sense of outrage. Winter is coming,

and a lot of people are genuinely very worried about staying warm. And

we hear the same thing every time from industry, which is that they

have to buy a long way in advance and hedge the price, but it never

seems that the wholesale price goes up and bills come down. It always

seems that the wholesale price comes down and bills come up. In the

suggestion in the media is that the politicians are failing to grasp the

nettle and get stuck into them. You will find Ed Miliband insisting he

is getting stuck in, and I'm sure we will see the residence of the pledge

he made last year resurrected again as the sort of cold days come

around. To freeze prices. I think there is going to be headaches for

the Tories. That is all we've got time for. Thank you both. Many

thanks for being with us this evening. Stay with us here on BBC

News. We'll have the latest on the arrest of Ashya King's parents and

their attendance at a courthouse in Spain. But coming up next it's time

for Film Review.