:00:00. > :00:00.to keep the week it in the opening one-day international against
:00:00. > :00:00.Pakistan tomorrow. We will have the rest of the day's
:00:00. > :00:10.sport in Sportsday, in around 15 minutes, after the papers.
:00:11. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:20. > :00:21.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.
:00:22. > :00:23.With me are the Evening Standard columnist Rosamund Urwin
:00:24. > :00:27.and political commentator Lance Price.
:00:28. > :00:32.The Financial Times leads with David Cameron's plans
:00:33. > :00:36.for changing Britain's relationship with the EU.
:00:37. > :00:39.The inquest into the death of singer Nick Cave's son Arthur
:00:40. > :00:43.The Telegraph leads with a speech by Sir John Major
:00:44. > :00:46.in which he describes the level of inequality in modern Britain
:00:47. > :00:54.The Express says there were 1.2 million illegal entries into the EU
:00:55. > :00:59.and the paper says that's why Britain should leave the EU.
:01:00. > :01:01.The Guardian says the Chancellor has been dealt
:01:02. > :01:03.a blow by a Conservative-controlled committee of MPs
:01:04. > :01:06.who are condemning plans to cut working tax credits.
:01:07. > :01:08.David Cameron's is pictured inside a jelly on the Sun,
:01:09. > :01:12.which claims his stance on migrant benefits is wobbling.
:01:13. > :01:18.The Independent also goes with the Prime Minister's bid to
:01:19. > :01:28.renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership.
:01:29. > :01:29.There are more allegations from the Mail
:01:30. > :01:33.The paper also shows the Duchess of Cornwall jokingly brandishing
:01:34. > :01:41.a knife, during a visit to a winery in Australia.
:01:42. > :01:52.At least we hope she is joking. We begin them. We kick off than with
:01:53. > :01:56.the Independent. But here are the Eurosceptics. They really were, some
:01:57. > :02:08.of them, angry in the chamber of the house. One of them saying, " Is that
:02:09. > :02:14.it?! " he called it a single rule. He is obviously a campaigner for
:02:15. > :02:20.out. There is a feeling that David Cameron gave rather vague proposals
:02:21. > :02:24.and then watered down the ones that seem like a red line only six months
:02:25. > :02:29.ago. There has been a quick change of heart on this. The Europe
:02:30. > :02:34.Minister went even further and said," Let's see what other people
:02:35. > :02:40.suggest we do instead. " Obviously, he is willing to find some ground to
:02:41. > :02:44.move on this. It has not exactly pleased the Eurosceptics. Some
:02:45. > :02:48.people are suggesting that he has stitched up a deal already with
:02:49. > :02:53.Angela Merkel along time ago, and the other EU leaders, to get all
:02:54. > :02:58.this through. What is your reading? Will he have a battle on his hands?
:02:59. > :03:04.There is a battle on his hands. It is not all about Angela Merkel. The
:03:05. > :03:11.other EU leaders have to agree on treaty changes. That is a tall
:03:12. > :03:14.order. Some have pointed out that this may be unachievable and we
:03:15. > :03:20.should be out altogether. There is no doubt that Chancellor Merkel
:03:21. > :03:23.wants the UK to stay in Europe. I think that David Cameron does as
:03:24. > :03:31.well. She keeps saying that anything is possible. That is the way that
:03:32. > :03:35.renegotiations work. It does not make it or attractive necessarily to
:03:36. > :03:39.the people who have to decide in the referendum, all of us, because it
:03:40. > :03:43.tends to be deals. It is difficult to pin down who said what to whom
:03:44. > :03:48.because it is done behind closed doors. David Cameron has a difficult
:03:49. > :03:53.task on his hands to persuade a very sceptical Conservative Party and a
:03:54. > :03:58.public and Bill about Europe as well and they are in bill at about
:03:59. > :04:01.Europe. This was his date is set out his stall. The headlines he will get
:04:02. > :04:07.tomorrow at the last things he wanted. A different style from
:04:08. > :04:12.Margaret Thatcher's negotiations. It is not exactly no, no, no, is it
:04:13. > :04:18.that is what the Eurosceptics wanted to hear. They want another Thatcher.
:04:19. > :04:24.That is what the Sun have focused on. They had David Cameron in a
:04:25. > :04:31.jelly, say that he or balls on a plate. He will not like that. He
:04:32. > :04:36.will not like that at all. -- wobbles on a plate. David Cameron is
:04:37. > :04:41.in a difficult position here. It does not want this to be the
:04:42. > :04:48.defining moment of his premiership. Is this all goes wrong and we vote
:04:49. > :04:54.to leave, he is done for. He has fixed his term. How does he stay in
:04:55. > :04:58.office after that? It would be game over. It is a policy that he
:04:59. > :05:05.created, isn't it? To deal with the far right of his party and to deal
:05:06. > :05:12.with UKIP. It was affixed to keep Tory party quiet. He now has to keep
:05:13. > :05:18.the price that decision -- pay the price for that decision to do that.
:05:19. > :05:22.It was a short-term fix and now he faces a difficult decision to get
:05:23. > :05:27.through this. I'm very pro- European and I think that we will vote yes. I
:05:28. > :05:30.have to wish him well even though we do not necessarily think it was the
:05:31. > :05:34.right decision. Will the referendum settle this whole debate that has
:05:35. > :05:43.been so dominating politics. Long? If he loses, he will have to go. --
:05:44. > :05:48.dominating politics for so long? It is a once and for all decision. As
:05:49. > :05:53.we have seen in Scotland, once in a generation. A new Conservative
:05:54. > :05:59.Party, new Prime Minister, they could say we will look at it again.
:06:00. > :06:06.Moving on from Europe, the Guardian has a fresh blow for George Osborne
:06:07. > :06:11.on tax credits. What is that about? The Work and Pensions Select
:06:12. > :06:17.Committee which is controlled by the Tories, has said that they would
:06:18. > :06:23.want tax credit changes, cuts, to be brought in slower. This is what
:06:24. > :06:29.Frank Field had put before the House of Commons. This is not quite the
:06:30. > :06:33.same way as doing it. In order to cut spending, George Osborne wants
:06:34. > :06:39.to save ?4.4 billion by cutting tax credits. The problem is that this
:06:40. > :06:43.will hit the so-called striders, hard-working people, not the
:06:44. > :06:49.scroungers but this government sees as the mortal enemy of everything.
:06:50. > :06:52.People in work and people with children, and people trying to make
:06:53. > :06:57.a better life. This is incredibly difficult for them to push, this
:06:58. > :07:05.time. What the government is doing is putting up the minimum wage for
:07:06. > :07:08.those over 25 at least. That is supposed to offset that. If you
:07:09. > :07:12.bring in more slowly, the idea is that it will have the fact that
:07:13. > :07:17.people will not be badly punished. They have been forced to go back on
:07:18. > :07:23.the tax credits by the House of Lords? It is obvious that he will
:07:24. > :07:27.have to budge on this. The biggest concern comes from the conservatives
:07:28. > :07:31.who had serious doubts about it. Some of them are saying that this
:07:32. > :07:34.could be the administration's poll tax, it could lead to that much of a
:07:35. > :07:41.reaction in the public. It is interesting. When I was working for
:07:42. > :07:45.the Labour government when the tax credits were introduced, it was
:07:46. > :07:49.fiendishly complicated. It was Gordon Brown's baby and he
:07:50. > :07:54.understood it and few others did. You understood it, didn't you? I did
:07:55. > :07:58.my best. There was not much gratitude in the country when it was
:07:59. > :08:01.delivered. We wondered why people want more grateful but as soon as
:08:02. > :08:06.the threat comes up to take it away, it becomes... Does it have the
:08:07. > :08:12.same resonance as the poll tax? It is not quite as simple as the poll
:08:13. > :08:15.tax. Not as easy to grasp. We will not see writing in the streets and
:08:16. > :08:20.all of those dreadful scenes again. One of the reasons we won't you that
:08:21. > :08:25.as well as Thatcher refusing to budge on the poll tax, George
:08:26. > :08:31.Osborne will budge on tax credits. Speaking of issues are so could --
:08:32. > :08:36.social equality which the TAT credits -- tax credits are supposed
:08:37. > :08:38.to address, interesting comments from the former Conservative Prime
:08:39. > :08:49.Minister John Major, saying that the lack of equality in Britain is
:08:50. > :08:54."shocking". Major is a boy from Braxton who grew up in a council
:08:55. > :08:57.house and went on to become Prime Minister. He has experienced here.
:08:58. > :09:04.Not many politicians have that kind of experience. This is a personal
:09:05. > :09:11.intervention. He is admitting that he failed when he was empowered to
:09:12. > :09:15.do much about inequality, as it was not a big issue when he was in
:09:16. > :09:23.power. There is now this massive gap that has opened up between the rich
:09:24. > :09:29.and poor. It is something that he is finding desperately unfair, that a
:09:30. > :09:32.child may start with worst prospects than some others. It was across the
:09:33. > :09:37.idea that you have no security and no peace of mind if you grow up in
:09:38. > :09:40.those circumstances. He would deny it of course, but this is another
:09:41. > :09:44.attack on the tax credit policy. There is a nod in there to the
:09:45. > :09:49.increase in the living wage as you are saying. And improving government
:09:50. > :09:53.finances being a prerequisite for ending poverty. He says that he
:09:54. > :09:57.failed to do it in his having years as PM. It raises the question of
:09:58. > :10:02.whether equality will be reduced or increased under the next... The only
:10:03. > :10:07.Conservative Prime Minister we have had since John Major, David Cameron.
:10:08. > :10:11.It is an easy one for the Labour Party and opposition to say, if you
:10:12. > :10:15.will cut tax credits and also cut taxes on the rich, you will make it
:10:16. > :10:17.worse. Former Prime Minister John Major, in
:10:18. > :10:25.the Daily Mirror, former prime minister Gordon Brown saying that
:10:26. > :10:30.the Tories are betraying Britain with the tax credit cuts. Quite rare
:10:31. > :10:36.interventions from Gordon Brown. We have had a few in the last year or
:10:37. > :10:39.so. It is not speak up very often. I think that he is very right in the
:10:40. > :10:45.arguments that he is making. This is the least of their problems. You
:10:46. > :10:49.would expect Gordon Brown, the architect of tax credits, to be a
:10:50. > :10:53.very vocal supporter of them. He does that, pointing out exactly have
:10:54. > :10:57.we had been discussing earlier, the people hardest hit are those who
:10:58. > :11:03.want to work. They are not people on benefits of our people with kids and
:11:04. > :11:09.all the rest of it. There is an older and ageing politics that
:11:10. > :11:12.is... The opposition are in front of you, your enemies are behind you and
:11:13. > :11:18.the the George Osborne has to worry about other Conservative benches,
:11:19. > :11:24.not Gordon Brown. We can talk now about the Times's
:11:25. > :11:31.report on Sunday trading. This is an interesting kind of coalition of
:11:32. > :11:36.rebels who, as the Times say, brought down the shutters on longer
:11:37. > :11:40.Sunday trading hours, including the SNP, the Scottish National party,
:11:41. > :11:44.even though this is something that applies to England and Wales. They
:11:45. > :11:48.are claiming this as a victory even though they could not have won it
:11:49. > :11:53.alone. We will not have longer trading hours on a Sunday. I'm
:11:54. > :11:56.puzzled about this being an issue. Most supermarkets get around it by
:11:57. > :12:00.opening up the smaller stores at that stay open till 11pm anyway.
:12:01. > :12:10.They found their peaks anyway in big cities. But not that big... The tiny
:12:11. > :12:13.little... It is confusing for shoppers. Mike small supermarkets
:12:14. > :12:18.stay open longer and the big ones cannot? Well, quite. Is this
:12:19. > :12:21.something that government should be doing? I don't want shops open all
:12:22. > :12:25.the time that this isn't something the government should be doing. The
:12:26. > :12:31.last paragraph of this story is fascinating. It is a different angle
:12:32. > :12:36.on the story. The Queen comments on something political which she rarely
:12:37. > :12:46.does. She was igniting the Liberal Democrat who lost his seat. He said
:12:47. > :12:51.that there were more women than before and she said that there were
:12:52. > :12:55.more Scots. That is bizarre. There are more Scottish Nationalists but
:12:56. > :13:00.many of the MPs who were defeated in Scotland were also Scots. Not sure
:13:01. > :13:06.what she was getting out there. The SNP a saying that this is another
:13:07. > :13:11.example of them acting as the effective opposition at Westminster.
:13:12. > :13:15.But if Labour had done well in the election, they could be almost
:13:16. > :13:17.working hand-in-hand with Labour in government, that was the theory
:13:18. > :13:24.before the last election. Absolutely. The SNP on this one have
:13:25. > :13:29.jumped on the bandwagon, basically. It does not affect them. They
:13:30. > :13:34.already have the right trading laws in Scotland as it stands. It used
:13:35. > :13:39.the Labour's opposition, which is bigger than the SNP in Parliament.
:13:40. > :13:43.The deadly bit in the mix once again is the Tory backbenchers who do not
:13:44. > :13:49.agree with David Cameron. Now, perhaps Camilla has an idea for
:13:50. > :13:55.the way that David Cameron might deal with these backbenchers. I
:13:56. > :14:00.hesitate to suggest... She is looking ferocious there, isn't she?
:14:01. > :14:06.This is the kind of photograph that makes the picture editor's day. It
:14:07. > :14:11.is in several papers. Normally, a royal photo opportunity, they are
:14:12. > :14:15.happy and smiling. This looks like something out of an hour through
:14:16. > :14:20.Hitchcock film, doesn't it? I rather applaud her for not playing along
:14:21. > :14:24.and smiling the entire time and having a bit more personality. I
:14:25. > :14:30.rather like the idea that she was at the same time, warning her husband,
:14:31. > :14:36.Prince Charles, to behave himself. Don't mess with the Duchess! Don't
:14:37. > :14:41.mess with the Duchess! Finally, we have a cartoon from the
:14:42. > :14:48.Daily Telegraph. It is my favourite cartoon on the Russian athletes. It
:14:49. > :14:53.is rather brilliant. We have to bear is in a cave and one is saying to
:14:54. > :14:58.the other, I would never eat a Russian athletes, they are so pumped
:14:59. > :15:02.full of chemicals. That is a rather beautiful summary of the day. It has
:15:03. > :15:07.been the dominant story of the week, the doping scandal. The idea that
:15:08. > :15:12.this was based on its sponsored doping... Back to the Cold War, back
:15:13. > :15:16.to the Soviet days... It is not on the front pages of many papers but
:15:17. > :15:25.it will be a huge story that will develop and it may turn into almost
:15:26. > :15:29.a Cold War test of strength. Blimey Putin and the Russian authorities
:15:30. > :15:33.seem unrepentant. He is accused of using sport as part of his foreign
:15:34. > :15:38.policy. He will get the states dependent on Russia for oil or gas
:15:39. > :15:44.to threaten to boycott the bits as well if Russia were to be under
:15:45. > :15:46.pressure not to compete. -- boycott the Olympics as well.
:15:47. > :15:49.That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you, Rosamund and Lance.
:15:50. > :15:52.Coming up next, it's time for Sportsday.