28/09/2014 The Papers

executive in 2017. And coming up, we hear about the

architects using visualisation technology to build cities of the

future. Welcome to look ahead to what the

papers will bring us tomorrow. I'm joined by the author and journalist

Rachel Shapley and by Matthew Green, who is also a journalist and

an author as well. `` Rachel Shapley. Some of the front pages.

This is The Independent, which like many leads on Chancellor George

Osborne's plans to cut tax on inherited pensions. The Financial

Times reports on an allegation that Apple is rocketing from illegal tax

deals with the Irish Government. The Daily Telegraph talks about Osborne

scrapping what the paper calls the death tax. The Guardian looks at

panic that there could be more defections from the Conservatives to

UKIP. Also a breast cancer drug which could extend life. The Daily

Mail has an exclusive interview with brain tumour patient Ashya's

parents. The Mirror reports on the actress Lynda Bellingham's fight

with her terminal cancer. The paper says she wants to have one last

Christmas with her family. And in The Sun, George Clooney shows off

his new bride. They married in Venice yesterday.

George Osborne's announcement this evening dominates many of the papers

tomorrow. The Independent headline, Osborne offers tax sweetener as

Tories seek to limit damage. I wonder if Mr Cameron's first words

tomorrow morning when he reads the papers will be, that is more like

it. Yes, they have got off to an horrendous start with the

resignation and the defection of a Tory MP to UKIP. It is a lurching

start to say the least. And of course, George Osborne is going to

try to change the focus to the economy where actually, the

Conservatives can point to some improvement in recent months and

really try to change the mood music and the whole conference. Said the

pledge is that inherited pensions for those under the age of 23 if you

are a grandchild or child will no longer have to pay 55% tax. There is

not a lot of doubt that this will make life easier for the people who

are going to be affected by it but it is interesting that Osborne, who

has an appalling tax record, he has failed by his own objectives, to fix

the economy, we have seen the longest possible recovery... He

doesn't say that, of course. He doesn't but this is a way of

avoiding all of that. One of the reasons people are suffering so much

will be provided some relief by this is because the cost of living is so

astronomical. So all those hard earned savings are worth less than

they should be. So this is quite a convenient way for Osborne to avoid

that conversation with this kind of crowd`pleaser to kick`off the

conference. The Daily Telegraph refers to it as the death tax. It

was hugely unpopular. It may win over some of the voters but there

will be people cautious. I was talking to a pensions expert

earlier. Because the next Government and the one after that and the one

after that have to inherit this scrap of the so`called death tax, as

The Daily Telegraph put it. And it may well appeal to some people, but

probably it is other issues that really worrying voters at the

moment, immigration, even perhaps membership of the EU, and those are

the issues that UKIP has mounted its challenge on. So there is a big

question over whether this will be enough to persuade a lot of

undecided voters. There is an interesting point in The Daily

Telegraph hear about a polling survey by Lord Ashcroft which shows

that Labour is headed for a comfortable majority at the next

election, which is more pretty devastating news for the

Conservatives. The Telegraph goes into bat on a story just underneath.

I could campaign to leave the EU, once Mr Cameron. So he is now

raising the bar because of UKIP, it seems. Yes, this is a UKIP policy,

about pledging to have a referendum about staying in the EU, and now we

are seeing the Conservative Party slightly dilutes or hedge its bets

on this, but again, is this something that voters care about? Is

this the most pressure and issue for voters? Or is it just a game being

played by political parties? I suspect most voters are not overly

preoccupied with the EU. They are when it comes to immigration. And

one of the things that he wants to re`negotiate with the EU is a limit

on migration from within the EU. That is why you keep winning

support. I have travelled around the UK in the last year to small towns

researching my book and there is a lot of concern about stories about

Polish people turning up to the local factory and taking all the

jobs because they were ten times harder than everyone else, and I

think it is a real issue out in the regions. Here in London, we are

predictable with the fact that when you walk in virtually to any coffee

shop and someone is serving but they are not from Britain and have just

moved here, but out in the regions of England, people are worried. But

it is how you friend the question. If you say, how argue `` it is how

you frame the question, do you say, are you worried about migration, or

do you say what are you worried about being worse off than you were

before the economic crash? That is the real reason people are worried

about migration and if all those problems were addressed, I suspect

immigration would not be such a big deal, if the economy was not such a

great concern. The Telegraph says he has promised to renegotiate

Britain's membership of the EU, including greater powers to limit

migration. That is UKIP territory. If he fails to do that, he would be

the one that could lead the campaign for Britain to leave the European

Union altogether. That is a bold statement. I think the headline

might be a bit of a stretch if it is coming from the quote he made to the

Andrew Marr show this morning when he said, if I thought it was not in

Britain's interests to be in the EU, I would not argue for us to be

in it. There is a lot of ambiguity. You can tell there is going to be a

Conservative conference this week because of the sheer amount of

Conservative pledges in the headlines, including one on the

front page of the Metro, three more years of wages misery. Oh. Right.

Exactly. This is a story based on a report from Ernst Young, a survey

saying basically wages will stagnate for the next three years, which

reinforces your point to some extent, about the fact that this

recovery, while some of the data is looking better, hasn't really

trickled down to the average person. It is not a recovery for most

people. It is based on an overheated housing market. It is completely

fraudulent and set up to fail and as we can see from this survey, most

people in real terms are still struggling and suffering and

wondering which of the parties it is going to address `` is going to

address that, and at the moment, none of them are seen beastie

tackling the issue issue. We had a warning from Ed Balls at the Labour

Party conference that it would get worse before better. There is not

one party offering what the majority population is calling for, which is

less austerity, which is a re`nationalisation of utility

companies, things that not of these parties is presenting as an option.

The Financial Times, crackdown in Hong Kong and `` as China's worry

grows. This is Beijing's plan to put forward a list of people who can run

for the election in Hong Kong. Yes, future protests taking part in Hong

Kong over... Pressing for electoral reforms, and it revives memories of

1989, Tiananmen Square and so on. Where is is going to go? It seems

that the students and activists are digging in and the police are

getting more heavy`handed. There is a lot of concern.

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