07/09/2014 The Papers

will travel from Malaga Airport in a private plane for Prague. Detectives

looking for missing schoolgirl Alice Gross arrest a second man on

suspicion of murder. The 14`year`old was last seen on a canal towpath in

Hanwell in West London ten days ago. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the

theologian and writer Vicky Beeching and Martin Bentham, home affairs

editor of the Evening Standard. Tomorrow's front pages, now.

Scotland's referendum dominates the front pages. The Telegraph warns

there are ten days to save the Union. The Times says David Cameron

and Ed Miliband will unite this week in a last`ditch attempt to stave off

an independence vote. The Herald reports that a three`party timetable

for more autonomy will be published to try and win over undecided

voters. Don't let me be the last Queen of Scotland, says the Mirror,

reporting that the monarch expressed her concern to the Prime Minister at

Balmoral. The Mail says the Queen will still be in Scotland on

September 18th, the day that Scots could decide to leave the Union. And

on a different subject, the Guardian reports President Obama will

announce a new game plan for tacking the Islamic State, saying it won't

be another Gulf War. The Daily Telegraph is one of

another papers using this similar headline, ten days to save the

union. Cameron and Brown launch a last ditch effort to stave Scottish

independence. It was mentioned earlier in the day that these

measures which would have automatically have been offered to

Scotland at some point. But this is devolution with a timetable. Yes. We

have been hearing all along about devo max and this promise of devo

max is. This morning, George Osborne said they would spell it all out. It

seems in this story... Senior Conservatives have questioned why

this announcement is being made now when hundreds of thousands of people

have already cast their vote. It seems a bit late. And it is

frustrating, sitting here, because he still cannot say exactly what it

is which is going to be proposed. It is not convincing to have no details

at this late stage, when postal votes have already been cast.

Speculation a document could be published tomorrow. Someone is

probably frantically typing it out now. This whole thing has been about

devo max. It sounds like a boy band. Or a fizzy drink. It may have been

planned but I think if it has been planned in this way, there will be

recriminations flying around on the anti` independence site. People will

say they have made a mess of this campaign. It has been a long time

that the better together campaign has been lacklustre. And this

illustrates that, really. This comes very late in the day. You have got

to be specific. Why wait until you have shocking opinion polls? There

seems to be panic that has set in at the realisation that this could

actually happen. Everyone is suddenly worried. We were talking

about that earlier. And people on Twitter have agreed. In Scotland,

they say they are consumed by this. But in England, we are hundreds of

miles away and ideological way a long way away, it would seem, as

well. One of our correspondents said that it is a very broad coalition

that is trying to say we should keep the Union together. That in itself

is potentially problematic. The suggestion that parties are coming

together to speak with one voice... One person on Twitter says, all the

parties? I don't think so. The SNP, for example. I like how you are

bringing in Twitter, by the way. This comes a conversation. There is

a lot of talk on my timeline about this. Very passionate views. Very

strongly held. And people very keen to let them know directly to us.

Young people as well. There is a sense of frustration that not

everybody understands the momentum that has grown around this. The

effort that we will see over the next few days... Could it be

counter`productive if they are trying to throw things out at this

last page? Could it be enough to swing the undecided voters? They

cannot sit on their hands and do nothing. And the Times is making the

point that Labour in particular... Gordon Brown is going to make

numerous visits and numerous campaigning messages during the next

ten days. For Labour, this is very important, as well as it is for the

Tories, but in different ways. Labour would lose 41 MPs in the

national parliament in Scotland became independent. And one of the

things that has been happening is that Labour support in the opinion

polls, Labour supporters in general, apart from the older ones, are going

over to the independence side. Clearly from the Labour Party point

of view, they first had this potential impact if there is a

remnant of the United Kingdom left, that they will be hugely

disadvantaged in any future election, also, they have to fight

to maintain some of their own supporters for saving the Union. If

the Scottish people see this scramble and wonder... Maybe we

really do have this moment to take our power back and we have really

worried Westminster by this shift in the polls, it could in some

instances look like a scramble, and it could add power to the Yes

campaign. Parties unite in last`ditch bid to save the Union.

One on social media says that there has never been any suggestion about

devo max on any of the Unionist parties full of it has been

mentioned but as part of... Not as part of the Better Together campaign

until now, right? It has been talked about but it has been quite

unspecific. Very vague. That is why people would say they have not heard

about it. It was all about increased taxation raising powers, control of

the benefits and so on, different welfare policies, for example, but

spelling out exactly what those additional powers will be has not

yet happened and that is where the problem lies. Now, it is too little

too late, isn't it? It feels like it. That is what the Nationalists

are saying, isn't it? The Mirror. Ten days to save the Union. Don't

let me be the last Queen of Scotland. The Queen, outwardly,

maintains a neutral stance. She does not express preference one way or

another, but according to one source, she is apparently a

unionist. And this is of great concern. Slightly lightheartedly, of

course, one on Twitter suggests that descendants must be considered from

the weather was the last monarch of Scotland. That person would have to

be traced. `` from whoever was the last monarch of Scotland. Someone

with an interest in genealogy can be shopping at a supermarket and get a

tap on the shoulder. Someone in some corner of Scotland or even somewhere

else in the world. But a constitutional issue that somebody

somewhere will have to work out. She could remain the Queen of Scotland,

of course. Clearly, there was an act of union that was originally a King

of Scotland who became our king, and therefore the two grounds united 100

years after that happened. `` two crowns. The other question is if the

Scots became independent, if they would go to a republic. And that is

what they are raising in this story. There are all sorts of issues there.

Perhaps the most important ones are not relating to the future of the

Microsoft but the future of the monarchy and so on, but the economic

matters and the people in each country. Whichever way `` not

relating to the future of the Queen herself or the future of the

monarchy and so on, but economic matters and the people in each

country. Whichever way it goes, the outcome will be fascinating. Many

people have been treating it as a distant thing but with ten days to

go and this shift in the opinion polls, it is quite exciting. And the

ramifications down here with what happens, should this occur, there is

talk that the pound could fall... Although, it has gone off in recent

months, so it would just returned to its normal level. `` gone up.

Ministers could resign, producing a crisis of leadership for David

Cameron. Ed Miliband would have his own crisis of leadership. All of the

leaders of different parties here would be seen as having somehow

failed to prevent this cataclysmic change. Let's move away from the

Scottish referendum if we can tear ourselves away. I have not been

gripped until really this week. It would be great to be up there. It

would be great to feel that momentum. Now, Obama to reveal ISIS

strategy but pledges no Iraq War. This is a strategy we are expecting

to hear on Wednesday. A strategy that Barack Obama has been rather

slow in coming forward with. Rather like the story we have been talking

about. Indeed. He admitted a week or so ago that he had no strategy for

dealing with ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State, whatever you want to call it.

He has announced that there will be won but he is emphatic that there

will not be troops on the ground. I think that will probably work, air

strikes, because there are already forces on the ground. The Iraqi

army, the Kurdish fighters with American support. There is the

possibility of using those with air support to drive back the Islamic

State. It will not be easy and clearly, he hopes to set out exactly

how he can do that. And he hopes to set out whether he has tangible

support from some of the neighbouring countries. Tangible

support, not just local support. That is the difference. The Arab

League say they will make all the necessary efforts to get rid of

Islamic State. And that seems to be critical, according to commentators,

that it is not seen as a Western imposed effort led by the US. It is

the common threat that everybody is scared by and everybody is

disowning. It is so good to hear continually in this nation be Muslim

leaders talking against this ideology is a real threat. Within my

religious commentary work, I have heard people make snide comments

about Islam and it is so not true. What they're doing is not in any way

a representation of the Islamic faith and it is so good to see the

leaders speaking out against doubt. But a warning from the military here

that they must not overextend themselves. `` see the leaders are

speaking out against that. But there is a warning from the military

leaders here that we must not overextend ourselves. Yes. If we get

involved, the have to be very clear what the objective is and if our

troops get involved, we must be fully equipped. They were not fully

equipped when they went into Iraq last time. There is time to think

about this and we should do it properly if we are going to do

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