:00:00. > :00:00.Many apologies for that, some gremlins in the system.
:00:07. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:10. > :00:13.Joining us from Glasgow this evening is Torcuil Crichton, the Westminster
:00:14. > :00:16.Editor for the Daily Record, and here with me is Hugh Muir,
:00:17. > :00:36.The mac congratulations on the new job. We will start with the papers.
:00:37. > :00:39.``. Women could prove decisive factor, according to the Telegraph
:00:40. > :00:41.and the Metro has families of two Britons paying tribute to loved ones
:00:42. > :00:43.killed in the Thai resort. The Financial Times reports two
:00:44. > :00:46.of the mobile operators that contributed to the demise of Phones
:00:47. > :00:48.4U are in talks with the administrator to
:00:49. > :00:51.buy parts of the company. As well as reporting
:00:52. > :00:53.on the referendum, the Guardian carries a story that US ground
:00:54. > :01:07.troops could be sent to Iraq. Those are some front pages and we
:01:08. > :01:13.will start with the Guardian. I will start with you, this is your paper.
:01:14. > :01:21.The Scottish independence would, NHS leaked fuel campaign clashes. Whose
:01:22. > :01:25.hands with the NHS be safer in, independent Scotland or with the
:01:26. > :01:31.union? This is an issue that has come to the forefront again today?
:01:32. > :01:35.Were getting very much to the endgame and both sides are trying to
:01:36. > :01:42.focus on what they can see as the critical issues that might get them
:01:43. > :01:46.over the line. The NHS has been at the heart of this and the feeling
:01:47. > :01:51.throughout has been that the Labour vote amongst the old no voters will
:01:52. > :01:58.settle this on the NHS Israeli important to them and both sides are
:01:59. > :02:03.keen to show that they will be more protective of the NHS and you can
:02:04. > :02:08.guarantee the NHS will be safe. What the no campaign has got today is
:02:09. > :02:17.this league that they say they have that shows, that purports to show
:02:18. > :02:23.there would be heavy cuts in the NHS even with independence and the yes
:02:24. > :02:26.campaign says we can guarantee the NHS in Scotland, the only way to
:02:27. > :02:31.guarantee the NHS in Scotland and the no campaign is pouring cold
:02:32. > :02:37.water on that with this league helping them to do that with a
:02:38. > :02:40.whistle`blower. In the next 48 hours the SNP will have a much different
:02:41. > :02:48.interpretation of that and they will make their own claims for the NHS.
:02:49. > :02:53.This issue shows just how tense and fraught this is getting and will
:02:54. > :03:01.get. Yes, it will get worse, and Torcuil Crichton, the SNP makes
:03:02. > :03:05.clear that if the NHS as far as Scotland is concerned stays within
:03:06. > :03:10.the rebate of Westminster, in terms of funding, then there will always
:03:11. > :03:17.be the potential for cuts in the future? Or creeping privatisation?
:03:18. > :03:19.That is a good point? It is one that will infuriated the Labour Party
:03:20. > :03:25.because of the roof has been any game changer in this long campaign
:03:26. > :03:29.over two years and with less than two days left to go, it is an alex
:03:30. > :03:34.Salmond has turned the danger of leaving the United Kingdom into a
:03:35. > :03:42.story of the danger of staying with the UK. And the Tories `` the story
:03:43. > :03:47.using this is the claim that the NHS will be privatised if you stay in
:03:48. > :03:53.the union. And that seems to have had an effect on his Labour voters
:03:54. > :03:57.at the SNP need to get over the finish line and that infuriates
:03:58. > :04:03.Labour because Labour knows that the NHS in Scotland is fully devolved,
:04:04. > :04:06.the only people who can privatise it in Scotland or the Scottish
:04:07. > :04:10.government. So they have been fighting back hard on that and this
:04:11. > :04:15.story today in the Guardian picks up on a story that was in the Glasgow
:04:16. > :04:17.Herald this morning showing that NHS management in Scotland under
:04:18. > :04:22.devolution and the Scottish government face ?450 million of cuts
:04:23. > :04:28.over the next two years. They will have to cut back and close wards and
:04:29. > :04:33.hospitals and reorganise things. And Labour say this is a silver bullet
:04:34. > :04:36.that shows that it is the SNP themselves cutting back on health
:04:37. > :04:43.spending and not the UK government. And the SNP have hit back but this
:04:44. > :04:45.makes the case for independence, but with one click in the box on
:04:46. > :04:52.Thursday you'll be free from austerity changes. The Daily
:04:53. > :04:58.Telegraph, women give the no campaign eight boost, according to
:04:59. > :05:03.The Daily Telegraph poll. And the position of women, which side the
:05:04. > :05:08.majority will come down on. That has been pretty influential in
:05:09. > :05:15.determining a lot of opinion polls? I am sure that Alistair Darling will
:05:16. > :05:20.be delighted by this because right from the outset, he has been helping
:05:21. > :05:25.that he could, with that very pragmatic approach, appeal to women.
:05:26. > :05:31.The feeling was... That very approach but lots of women off? It
:05:32. > :05:37.still does! I think that he has been thinking they would be looking
:05:38. > :05:42.through this lost and making the decision based on the hard, cold
:05:43. > :05:46.facts and that has been the criticism of this, there have been
:05:47. > :05:52.too many cold, hard facts and know the romance of the campaign or the
:05:53. > :06:00.grand vision. Of staying within the UK. Part of his reasoning for having
:06:01. > :06:03.a campaign like that is to try to get flat facts about what will
:06:04. > :06:07.happen to individual households, what will happen to people that hold
:06:08. > :06:14.the purse strings in the family? It might be old`fashioned but that is
:06:15. > :06:22.how the policy sees things. He will be pleased that this survey of 150
:06:23. > :06:30.Scots and within that, the six team % lead for the no vote amongst
:06:31. > :06:37.women. That is directly contrasted by the figures for men, 47 no and 53
:06:38. > :06:44.yes. That does look like women could hold the key here. There seems to
:06:45. > :06:47.be, according to this, and this is just one poll, suggesting that women
:06:48. > :06:52.are moving a little bit more towards the no campaign but isn't it perhaps
:06:53. > :06:59.problematic that so late in the day, we're getting this shift for
:07:00. > :07:05.Alistair Darling and Cameron and Westminster, happening so late? I
:07:06. > :07:09.will tell you something, Alistair Darling will not be pleased with
:07:10. > :07:17.this tonight, this is one of three polls in the Telegraph shows 58`42,
:07:18. > :07:21.the Scotsman has 48`52 and the Daily Mail has 58, 42. That is too close
:07:22. > :07:25.to call and Alistair darling and want to be 20 points ahead and they
:07:26. > :07:29.are in the fight of their lives. Darling says this would always go to
:07:30. > :07:37.the wire and it does look as if it is going to. More women have been
:07:38. > :07:44.persuaded back into the no camp by this Rauch of economic stories in
:07:45. > :07:49.the past week and because they are coming around to making their
:07:50. > :07:54.decision that perhaps a more rational and cautious decision about
:07:55. > :07:58.finance and the way things go, I am not a sociologist, I cannot explain
:07:59. > :08:05.why women more than men are less inclined to vote independence but
:08:06. > :08:10.these are very tight, 52, 48, with just 36 hours left to go. It shows
:08:11. > :08:17.the result to play for. Before we go, let his move to The Times. MPs
:08:18. > :08:24.warn of a Dalyan. That goes to the fact that for many people in the
:08:25. > :08:29.union, it should not be this close? And the stakes have been made, no
:08:30. > :08:34.question? As a result, we get all of this time are being thrown at the
:08:35. > :08:37.yes camp, devo max, super Max, some would suggest. And MPs in England
:08:38. > :08:48.are talking about rebelling. This week has been extraordinary,
:08:49. > :08:53.the things that the no campaign have had to promise to Scotland. What
:08:54. > :08:58.will annoy particularly English MPs is the promise they will retain the
:08:59. > :09:01.Barnett formula, the funding formula Scotland has seen to benefit from
:09:02. > :09:05.disproportionately. Tory MPs have always hated that formula and they
:09:06. > :09:10.have talked about getting rid of it. Even Lord Barnett himself thinks
:09:11. > :09:16.it's an old`fashioned formula. The idea that the Tories have had to say
:09:17. > :09:21.they will keep the formula will infuriate the backbenches of David
:09:22. > :09:24.Cameron. Keeping the Barnett formula was something Gordon Brown, Nick
:09:25. > :09:33.Clegg and Ed Miliband is the way to keep the union. It has been
:09:34. > :09:40.extraordinary in two senses. In the daily record we got all three party
:09:41. > :09:45.leaders, to sign a pledge, a promise to keep the Scottish Parliament, to
:09:46. > :09:49.give it more powers, and to ensure an equal and fair distribution of
:09:50. > :09:54.funding across the UK and that includes keeping the Barnett
:09:55. > :09:59.formula. And for very good reason, it gives Scotland because of the
:10:00. > :10:04.sparsity of its population, a bigger share. It is surprisingly Tory MPs
:10:05. > :10:10.in Westminster have kept a lid on the rebellion till now. Hopefully
:10:11. > :10:18.you will both be back for a full ten, 12 minutes in about one hour's
:10:19. > :10:19.time. Thank you for that. Stay with us on BBC News because it's time for
:10:20. > :10:37.the sport. Hello and welcome to sports day.
:10:38. > :10:40.This is what is coming up on the programme. Liverpool begin their
:10:41. > :10:47.Champions League campaign with a victory but they leave it late to
:10:48. > :10:48.beat Ludogorets. Defeat for Arsenal in Germany in their opening group