:00:00. > :00:00.Thursday Brailsford who says Sir Bradley Wiggins is close to a new
:00:00. > :00:16.contract at Team Sky. That is in Sportsday after The Papers.
:00:17. > :00:24.Welcome to our lookahead to what the newspapers bring us tomorrow. With
:00:25. > :00:29.me from Glasgow is journalist Ruth Wishart, and in London is former
:00:30. > :00:35.government adviser and academic similar bungalow while. Let's look
:00:36. > :00:39.at the front pages. Scotland typically continues to dominate ``
:00:40. > :00:44.Zamila Bunglawala. Most dominating with the prime Minister's plea in
:00:45. > :00:47.Aberdeen to stay. David Cameron is on the front of the Guardian,
:00:48. > :00:52.describing how the Prime Minister highlighted concerns of what he said
:00:53. > :00:56.would be a painful divorce. The Financial Times, which has come out
:00:57. > :00:59.in support of the No campaign, leaves with supposed recriminations
:01:00. > :01:05.at Whitehall about the Better Together strategy. Scotland's Daily
:01:06. > :01:08.Record has a pledge by the main Westminster parties to extend more
:01:09. > :01:14.power to Scotland if the country votes No. The front page of the
:01:15. > :01:18.Metro is a different story, leading on the murder of two young British
:01:19. > :01:25.backpackers found dead on a beach in Thailand. Finally the Daily Mail
:01:26. > :01:28.splashes on the cancer doctor in Cambridgeshire alleged to have
:01:29. > :01:36.preyed on more than 800 sick children. We will start with the
:01:37. > :01:43.daily Record. Ruth in Glasgow, its front page, signed by the three
:01:44. > :01:50.Westminster leaders, Miliband, Cameron and Clegg, and it is their
:01:51. > :01:53.promise to devolve more power to Hollywood, and also, interestingly,
:01:54. > :01:59.in the middle, it states categorically that the final say on
:02:00. > :02:03.how much is spent on the NHS will be a matter for the Scottish
:02:04. > :02:08.parliament. Could this perhaps affect some of those who are
:02:09. > :02:15.undecided, do you think? I am not sure. It is an extraordinary front
:02:16. > :02:19.page, set out as you can see as a parchment with a pledge from the
:02:20. > :02:24.party leaders. The NHS has become a contentious issue over the last few
:02:25. > :02:31.weeks of the campaign. Health is devolved in Scotland as you know,
:02:32. > :02:34.and so, the argument from the yes campaign has been, although it is
:02:35. > :02:39.devolved with power over how it is run and it is run differently from
:02:40. > :02:43.England, with the hip `` fear has been that privatisation in England
:02:44. > :02:47.will affect the NHS budget in England and our budget in Scotland
:02:48. > :02:52.is tied to that, so for the sake of argument if ?100 is taken from the
:02:53. > :02:57.NHS England budget ?10 comes from the Scottish budget. Whether or not
:02:58. > :03:02.saying we will have the final say means much or not, we don't know,
:03:03. > :03:08.because at the end of the day, we have a fixed budget under the
:03:09. > :03:14.Barnett formula, to deal with, and then it can use the money to patch
:03:15. > :03:18.up the gaps in the NHS. But it means within a fixed budget that you have
:03:19. > :03:23.to take it out of something else. Zamila, do you think this might sway
:03:24. > :03:27.those people who are undecided? As Ruth said, the NHS has become in the
:03:28. > :03:33.last three or four weeks really critical to the campaign for both
:03:34. > :03:36.sides. Yes, but as Ruth said, if the same money was spent on the NHS to
:03:37. > :03:40.take away from other budgets, people will read between the lines and
:03:41. > :03:44.recognise that maybe other sectors of their economy may not do as well
:03:45. > :03:48.because many will have to be taken from other industries or services.
:03:49. > :03:52.But the wider point is, some people are undecided, but I don't know if
:03:53. > :03:56.it is just about the NHS, it is the bigger point of the union. In the
:03:57. > :04:01.formulation, they have touched on the NHS but shouldn't figure out
:04:02. > :04:05.that this is the only issue people are teetering on, because the wider
:04:06. > :04:09.issue of the union will be important for the pro union position. I think
:04:10. > :04:13.in Scotland, lots of people are still talking about the issue we
:04:14. > :04:16.don't know in wider terms what will happen, so it is nice that it has
:04:17. > :04:20.homed in on the NHS, but I don't think that will convince anybody on
:04:21. > :04:24.what will happen after the vote on Thursday. Also the issue of sticking
:04:25. > :04:28.with the Barnett formula, just because of the Thursday maybe
:04:29. > :04:32.everyone will breathe a sigh of relief and we are not independent,
:04:33. > :04:36.it will not go away, this problem, we will have to talk about it on
:04:37. > :04:41.Friday morning whatever happens. The Barnett formula, to be clear, is the
:04:42. > :04:49.mechanism by which money is given to devolved parliaments depending on
:04:50. > :04:54.their size and population. Ruth, the bottom of the Record, it says,
:04:55. > :04:59.Record View, now voters can make an informed choice. Is there a sense
:05:00. > :05:05.from some people where you are that the facts have been put before the?
:05:06. > :05:10.We are swimming in literature about the referendum. LAUGHTER Are you fed
:05:11. > :05:17.up of the? I am not, drowning not waving in terms of the information
:05:18. > :05:23.overload. The Record is Labour supporting which is why at has put
:05:24. > :05:29.this on the front page, these party leaders jointly running the Better
:05:30. > :05:32.Together or No campaign. There is no question whether paper stands. You
:05:33. > :05:35.have brought up an important point about the bonnet for Miller, one of
:05:36. > :05:39.the fears has been that as soon as things are done and dusted on Friday
:05:40. > :05:42.morning, the first thing that would happen would be that the Barnett
:05:43. > :05:46.formula would disappear. For me a more important part of that pledge
:05:47. > :05:51.is where it says, because of the continuation of the Barnett
:05:52. > :05:56.allocation, that is an important caveat they have put in. If I could
:05:57. > :06:00.quickly say, one other thing, they say much further up, this
:06:01. > :06:06.declaration, this foul, they say the Scottish Parliament, it is permanent
:06:07. > :06:11.`` this promise, we didn't think it was temporary, extensive new powers
:06:12. > :06:15.the parliament will be delivered by the process and timetable agreed.
:06:16. > :06:19.The problem with that is that these three parties have different ideas
:06:20. > :06:22.about what powers should be delivered. The process can only be
:06:23. > :06:26.agreed by the Westminster Parliament, and timetable has been
:06:27. > :06:31.suggested by Gordon Brown, who lets face it, is now an opposition
:06:32. > :06:34.backbench MP. I am sure his heart is in the right place but how much
:06:35. > :06:40.leveraging as I don't know. Lets go on to the Financial Times and Zamila
:06:41. > :06:48.in London. Cameron in final pitch to Scots fans blame game begins. It
:06:49. > :06:52.could well go down as `` heeded out `` could go down as the prime as to
:06:53. > :06:57.who oversaw the destruction of the union. People are wondering whose
:06:58. > :07:03.fault it is if that happens. It is a very good piece suggesting the Prime
:07:04. > :07:07.Minister says we avoid this pride painful divorce. We could amend some
:07:08. > :07:14.divorces are amicable, but the article leads on the former and
:07:15. > :07:18.current Cabinet secretaries warning how the No campaign would approach
:07:19. > :07:23.the issue of fear mongering and how fear tactics might come across as
:07:24. > :07:26.negative, so they would have do appeal to Yes voters and have a
:07:27. > :07:31.broader campaign. That hasn't been the case. So come Friday morning, if
:07:32. > :07:35.it is a Yes vote, yes, these issues will come back to the fore because
:07:36. > :07:38.if there were voices and concerns raised early in government from
:07:39. > :07:41.senior civil servants, they should have been heeded, this advice would
:07:42. > :07:45.have gone to ministers, people should have listened to a broader
:07:46. > :07:49.approach, because of course many people are undecided so they would
:07:50. > :07:53.have had to have an idea of how you would appeal to people who genuinely
:07:54. > :07:58.have not made up their minds, and scaremongering is in the best way.
:07:59. > :08:04.Last week when we saw lots of ministers from across Westminster,
:08:05. > :08:07.MPs across Minister of `` Westminster arriving in Scotland, it
:08:08. > :08:11.looked like a last ditch desperate attempt, which is not the message
:08:12. > :08:15.you want to send, now we really think we are going to lose so let's
:08:16. > :08:21.pay attention. That would have been patronising to many voters, even
:08:22. > :08:25.those voting No. Sure. Ruth, David Cameron has made his last pitch in
:08:26. > :08:32.person, his last scheduled pitch, twice in seven days, has all felt as
:08:33. > :08:37.if he is desperate now and will say anything? Well, I think that is
:08:38. > :08:40.slightly unfair although I absolutely take the point that the
:08:41. > :08:44.three party leaders suddenly leaping into action, all arrive in the same
:08:45. > :08:51.day with a bunch of flowers, looked a bit last`minute. Also a trainload
:08:52. > :08:55.of MPs, a handful of whom were Scottish, and many of whom were from
:08:56. > :08:58.the House of Lords, probably wasn't the smartest tactic either. But as
:08:59. > :09:03.far as the blame game goes, to be fair to Mr Cameron, words you often
:09:04. > :09:08.hear Fort `` not words you often hear from me, what really panicked
:09:09. > :09:12.him was that in all the opinion polls, one of the subtexts was that
:09:13. > :09:18.the Labour vote was moving towards Yes. The blame game appear to a
:09:19. > :09:26.large extent is that some of the other parties blame the Labour Party
:09:27. > :09:31.for not holding the line. The Labour Party, more than 40 MPs up there,
:09:32. > :09:37.that is the folk that seems to have shifted towards the yes campaign.
:09:38. > :09:43.The Financial Times, the other story, a triple shock for world
:09:44. > :09:48.economies. It is not just Ukraine and Syria, the Scottish vote as
:09:49. > :09:55.well, it could send us into recession. Very rarely do words fail
:09:56. > :10:02.me! When I look at this, there are three pictures, Ukraine, which is
:10:03. > :10:09.the in middle of a bitter civil war, the middle east, going up in flames,
:10:10. > :10:14.and the yes campaign. There has been a minor skirmish on twitter, but I
:10:15. > :10:22.hardly think that the analogy is very role made. This is the OECD, a
:10:23. > :10:28.reputable organisation, there is uncertainty. Any issue on this scale
:10:29. > :10:34.would affect an economy of this size. They should begin in some
:10:35. > :10:40.credit to suggest, in addition to other global issues, this might tip
:10:41. > :10:46.the balance, but it has to be in proportion. We do not know what
:10:47. > :10:51.proportion Scotland would have. The OECD is credible, the warning will
:10:52. > :10:56.be heeded, compared to the other scaremongering tactics we have
:10:57. > :11:01.heard. In a sense, it is interesting, that they have said
:11:02. > :11:07.this now. Real concerns, not just scaremongering. We do not know the
:11:08. > :11:12.scale, so it is disproportionate to say it is the same problem as the
:11:13. > :11:17.Middle East. You will be back in an hour. Many thanks to you both.
:11:18. > :11:23.Stay with us, at the top of the hour, much more on the referendum,
:11:24. > :11:28.as the fateful day draws ever closer. We will have Allah says on
:11:29. > :11:32.the efforts by both sides ahead of Thursday's vote `` we will have
:11:33. > :11:37.analysis. Now, Sportsday.