21/09/2014 The Papers

Gross are searching closer to the bridge in West London where she was

last seen. Welcome to our look at what the

papers will bring us tomorrow. With ours is Susie Boniface, the Fleet

Street Fox, and Tim Stanley, a columnist for the Telegraph. What

are you known as? With my hair, I was compared to Danny La Rue this

evening! The FT says the Prime Minister faces more angry questions

from Tory backbenchers following the promise of more devolution for

Scotland. The Independent says that Labour plans to limit child benefits

to an annual rise of 1% if they win the next General Election. The Metro

has the body of Hannah Witheridge being flown home. The Telegraph says

Ed Miliband has been backed into a corner over his refusal to sign up

for the government plans for home rule in England and the Guardian has

picked cheers of Emma Thomasson, one of the leading ladies at the protest

marches against climate change. The Financial Times, then. Tory anger as

Cameron tracks on the English pledge. `` backtracks. This was

promised in a Roche, wasn't it? This is a problem, massive constitutional

change being talked about but this came from that FrontPage file which

itself came from the back of one opinion poll showing that there was

a possibility of independence and in the vote and that turned out to be

false. They have tied themselves into this timetable which Gordon

Brown has promised will definitely happen no matter what and I am

certain that Gordon Brown is not the Prime Minister and it is not up to

him! I cannot think of any former Prime Minister who is telling want

anyone else what to do. They get to this point where they don't know

what will happen but something must add it does not matter what anybody

does, they will be said to have lost or annoyed somebody, whether it

Scotland or elsewhere or something and it will be a dogs backlist. Yes,

I agree with all of that. It is extraordinary that we have had this

massive vote in which 56% of the Scottish people said they wanted to

stay in the union and they voted for no change and how many days later? I

have lost track. Four days later and were discussing devo max for

Scotland, which in the general panic was something they had to put on the

table, but also English votes for English voters and possibly regional

assemblies and this constitutional convention and the Financial Times

says Tory MPs are angry that the Prime Minister has not committed

himself to devo max and giving English control over English

Parliamentary votes. It is only Sunday! He is having his big

meeting... They promised so much! It is tomorrow at Chequers, about what

he will do, and already Tory MPs are saying, when West make you cannot

make up a constitution overnight, it is the Americans a couple of

decades. We will come back to this in a different guise with a Ed

Miliband being cornered. We stay with the Financial Times, the global

call for climate change action and thousands of people around the world

on the streets calling upon politicians to do something useful

in New York. Isn't much chance of success? This shows how pointless

those marches are because the point of the story is... Stay at home,

don't protest! I believe you should put pressure on government to do

something but the point of this is that China and India are not taking

part in these talks and will not pledge themselves to anything. We

can introduce all these low wattage bulbs that we want and ban all of

the over energetic vacuum cleaners who want to China and India are not

going to do this, what is the point? Doesn't the rest of the world have

to set an example? EU emissions are 10% of the total and China is 28%

but that is because China makes everything, European manufacturing

is that a low because of the recession and the economies are

different and it is quite simple, they will have more manufacturing

and more emissions and fuel rules. I do nothing China really feels that

they need to what Emma Thomasson, with the best will in the world,

thanks. They tend not to follow western examples on things, not on

human rights... George Bush was ignoring the summit and the only

reason they have cut this is because the industry has collapsed. The

Labour plan to freeze child benefit at the conference, we hear all sorts

of pledges and potential policies. There is a suggestion that child

benefit with the rising by only 1% in the first to make financial

years. But does seem contradictory. `` two financial years. When they

wanted to cut child benefit for people over ?43,000, they said

everybody should because universal benefits can be useful? Labour have

definitely gone back, and they are not fixing one of the mistakes in

the coalition cuts, which was it were not going to introduce cuts for

2`parent families when they both worked and earned under ?42,000 and

they still got child benefit, single parents, they got nothing. The

system needs re`form, we spend ?31 billion every year on child benefit

and child tax credit and pain that two people who seem wealthy is

something which a lot of people might have albums with, it needs

reforming but cutting this by 1% sounds like a lot and a lot of

papers are making a big deal out of this that over one year it will make

a difference of ?10. It will save ?400 million. Ten quid per child. If

it was not captured 1% you might get 20 quid extra in your child benefit

but if it was, you would only get ten quid. When you put things

together you see those savings. Politically this is very

significant, the problem is this has been overshadowed by Scotland and he

did not want that to happen. Two different things have changed, the

Tories could always say, what are your reforms going to be? They are

saying this 1% cut. Labour has always been hooked on the idea of

universal at the back they are saying in the mirror, that they will

take away some of the winter fuel benefits from the very wealthy.

Good. I would agree and that something Cameron will not do and he

has been pressured by people and his staff but he is still hooked on

universal concepts. Overnight the position has flipped and Labour has

the potential to look tougher on welfare and public policies. I think

he is hooked on keeping pensioners happy because they vote for him.

That is rather mean`spirited out OK. The Daily Mirror, Balls out... I

just realise what that sounds like! You cannot see this but Ed Balls has

been playing football and he has accidentally cut one of our

newspaper reviewers! Rob Merit from the Northern Echo. He has come off

worse and I have, says Rob. He did not score any goals. The point is

that it will get tough. He says he will cut ministerial pay by 5%,

which will win votes, but at the moment they get 100 and ?43,000 odd

bird year but that will be cut to ?128,000, not the most difficult

thing. It says that a vet and Ed Balls will lose ?13,000 between

them. Does remind us that it is weird... They are married to each

other. It is still not properly form but it will go some way to getting

votes and the people will like it. David Cameron and Gordon Brown took

pay cuts. It is not the same pay cut they would expect nurses and

teachers to take. They also would expect a rise of ?74,000 per year as

a starting salary. They will lose tea and biscuits. They are! The

Telegraph, you will be pleased, Miliband cornered over home rule. He

refused to say whether he backs the plan to ban Scottish MPs from voting

on English laws. This so`called West Lothian problem. I thought he was

clear he wanted to give English MPs greater scrutiny of legislation? But

they would be allowed to vote? He has admitted apparently that that

was unfair. So he has conceded in principal, apparently, that this is

unfair but the problem that he has is the classic Labour won, he is

worried that he could win the next election but because of the spread

between people voting in Parliament, he might not be able to control

English legislation. This could be nothing because I looked this up and

I must write this down, since 1997, out of around 3000 laws, the vote,

the impact of Scottish roads has only mattered in 21 cases. In

Parliament. It is not very important that they'd affect things like

foundation hospitals so they did matter but if they calculate that is

the small number that are affected, having said that, I think that this

grand idea for constitutional convention signs like he had heard

of the idea and was not quite sure what it was. I think they are right.

He has thrown something up, taking it out of the long grass because it

wants to win in 2015. Surely there will be more consultation on at? We

are not constitutional experts and it is like tapestry, it has been

woven over time and you pull one thread because it does not look

right, such as the West Lothian question, and it comes apart because

if you take Scottish MPs out of initials, you say no Scottish MP

could be Prime Minister so the Scots would be one step further to

independence again. And the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

They would still have issues like foreign policy and defence? They

made a difference over the vote on Syria. The reason Scotland has a

parliament is because there is a case to be made for it, there is no

precedent for a lot of what is proposed, such as regional semis,

where would they be? It has been written, as Ed likes to say, not on

the back of a cigarette packet. That is all we have time for. We have

more to get through so we shall bring you back later. For another

look at the front pages. Stay with us. We will have more on the Labour

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