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good night at White Hart Lane. We will also hear from Alastair Cook on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
who might open the batting with him in South Africa, on Sportsday after | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Papers. Welcome to our look ahead to what | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
the papers will bring us tomorrow. With me are the Guardian's political | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
correspondent Rowena Mason and the Independent's economics editor Ben | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Chu. Let's look at the front pages, starting with the Telegraph, leading | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
with our top story at the BBC, the delayed decision on airport | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
expansion. The paper says the CBI has branded it gutless. The same | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
story dominating the Times front page with claims that the owner of | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
British Airways could threaten to give up on Heathrow. The Metro | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
reports on more wet weather misery in Cumbria, describing residents | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
fleeing their village as flooding returned. The Independent says | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
private investors are being enticed to purchase rooms in care homes. Obi | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
in women is as dangerous as terror threat in the Daily Mail after | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
comments by England's Chief Medical Officer. The Guardian leads with the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
latest in a series of allegations about the retailer Sports Direct. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
The express claims that the number of asylum seekers coming to the UK | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
has increased 60% in three months. We will start, Rowena, with the | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Telegraph and a story that broke in the last couple of hours, the | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
government has now confirmed it will not take the decision on whether to | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
have another runway or an extension to Heathrow until next summer. Many | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
people are upset about that. A lot of people. We did suspect this would | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
happen, the story was leaked out in troops and drabs over the last week, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
but nevertheless, my e-mail inbox was flooded with statements from | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
various serious business groups, I ensure Ben's was as well, saying | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
they are disgusted and frustrated, and yet again they just want | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
certainty. If you are a cynic comic you would say this is all to do with | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
a certain Mr Goldsmith, a certain race for City Hall in London, and a | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
final decision suggesting that perhaps it should be Heathrow that | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
gets the extra runway or an extension, that would potentially | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
scupper his chances of winning. They have given this explanation which is | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
all about air quality, they need to do more tests on air quality before | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
they make a decision, which will take time, but it is really a green | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
figleaf, as you intimated. The mayoral elections... That is what it | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
is about in your view? Is that Goldsmith pledged to resign as an MP | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
if they gave the go-ahead to Heathrow, he is standing for the | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
London mayoralty. If they took the decision now he would have to resign | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
and it would take the wind out of the Tory campaign for London mayor. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
It is not what they want. It sits a lot of people, Labour as well, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
because Sadiq Khan is against it as well. It is a very predictable thing | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
they have done, albeit one that is quite embarrassing for the minister | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
because they did say, they set up the Howard Davies Review two years | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
ago, they said they would take the decision after the election, and | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
they have discovered it is still politically contentious, surprise, | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
surprise, now had picked it out for six months and will probably find | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
another reason to do it in six months -- kicked it out. Boris | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Johnson, the current mayor, doesn't think it should be Heathrow, Sadiq | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Khan thinks it should be Gatwick, Zac Goldsmith doesn't think it | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
should be Heathrow, the only people who seem to think it should be | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Heathrow are Heathrow and Mr Davies. But Davies is perhaps the man who | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
matters the most. Well, it is still possible for David Cameron to | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
override what Howard Davies has said because in his report he did still | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
leave other options on the table, saying Gatwick was viable. The | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
statement the government put out this evening was interesting in that | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
it did not mention the word Heathrow, it just said "We want more | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
a court capacity in the south-east, there are several viable options | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
recommended and we will decide later on". So it is possible that the wind | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
could be blowing more in the direction of Gatwick. They are happy | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
tonight, the chief executive there, he was well chuffed! Going on to the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Independent, Ben, very interesting story, your front page, scandal of | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
buy to let care homes. This is an interesting story, a care home | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
provider in the North of England, relatively small but with a quite | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
ominous business model, is telling investors, if you put up money we | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
will build a care home and you will basically have the right to the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
proceeds of individual rooms. This is where this buy to let concept | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
comes from. As well as having the right to the revenues of individual | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
rooms it seems to promise investors 10% annual returns, which is | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
incredibly high. So this draws attention to quite an ominous, as I | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
say, development in terms of who controls these care homes, but also, | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
will these care homes be viable? If they are promising those returns can | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
they live up to them? Will they squeeze the quality of care of the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
residents in order to make those returns? Or put up the prices? Yes, | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
there are lots of quite scary imprecations of running a care home | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
on that high-risk business model. Rowena, the fact is, this isn't | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
illegal, though. No, it doesn't seem to be, and the sector is one which | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
is sadly quite unregulated. It does seem incredibly high, a 10% return. | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
Looks like the rate of an Icelandic banks not long ago! It is a time | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
when care homes are suffering council cuts, a lot of squeeze on | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
their profits, so, I suppose it underlines the pressures care homes | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
are under, but they have to think of these wheezes, but hopefully it is | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
quite a small area of business they have moved into for now. Onto the | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Guardian. The prime minister ready to soften stance on benefits for | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
migrants, he has been in Poland today, and the Polish by Minister | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
made it clear she didn't agree with him. Absolutely. It seems to be | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
preparing for a retreat, unsurprisingly. The Prime Minister | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
last month outlined his four main menu of reforms he wants, and a key | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
one was this toughening up on the benefits that people who move across | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
borders in the EU can receive in the state they go to, so in the UK | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
people from Poland or wherever would not be able to get tax credits for a | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
period of time before they can collect them. He has run into | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
serious resistance on this, not least from the Polish government, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
and now the Guardian's line is that he seems to be rolling back from | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
that and saying, maybe my demands will not be as concrete or as strict | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
as I intimated last month. So that suggests he may be able to come back | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
with something, but will it be enough to satisfy the folk in the | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
backbenches? Quite. He has come up with his four demands he wants from | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
the Yukon but I think the only one the public is that keen on and | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
interested in is the one about curbing benefits for migrants, that | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
is the big prize for him. So it is not very surprising that he is | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
having to roll back from this idea of a four-year limit on benefits for | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
migrants, because almost every other country in Europe is opposed to it | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
and thinks it is discriminatory. The question is, can he find something | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
else that will help? There has been the suggestion in recent days that | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
they could be an emergency brake on migration especially designed for | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
Britain. Whether Brussels over -- Brussels allows that to happen | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
remains to be seen because we have this summit next week. OK, onto the | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Daily Express, Reina, continuing the theme of migrants, new surge in | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
asylum seekers, 410,000 in just three months. Guess, it is probably | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
hardly surprising, this, given the turmoil there has been in Syria, the | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
Middle East and North Africa. The 410,000 is a big number but that is | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
for the whole of the European Union, and the number, if you look at the | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
UK alone, I think it is 12,000 between July and September. That is | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
in the small print! That is an increase and highlights the | :09:20. | :09:20. | |
difficulty that Cameron has of sticking to this target he will | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
never make of only tens of thousands of migrants, net migrants coming to | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
the UK, but... It is a consequence of the terrible war and turmoil | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
there is in the world. And it feeds into that whole debate as well that | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
we spoke about earlier, Ben, about the Prime Minister, as far as the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
public are concerned, getting some kind of result from Brussels on the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
amount of money given in benefits to migrants. If you are seeing one | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
headline suggesting there are still more coming, another one saying he | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
will have to roll back on that, that doesn't look good. This is a big | :10:03. | :10:19. | |
problem with the debate. These are asylum seekers, not migrants, and | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
they all get muddled together, the headline seem to be about people | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
coming here, but it is important to make the distinction between people | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
fleeing for their lives and people coming for economic reasons. The | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
line can be blurred but it is important not to throw out the | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
humanitarian imperative of taking in people fleeing for their lives. This | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
goes to the point about the migrant thing. The economics of the prime | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
minister's position, if we cut benefits for economic migrants they | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
will not want to come, saying it is a pull factor. There is no evidence | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
to suggest it is a big pull factor, the supposed generosity of the UK | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
benefit system, so it is the Charente. He says he wants this | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
concession from Europe but Stephen Miquel says it problem went have a | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
"Anyway, according to the Obi at. Our final story, the bake off his | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
back but the celebrity one. Interesting faces there on the front | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
of the express. Samantha Cameron, rowing, and Ed Balls. A fantastic | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
line-up they have managed to get here with these political figures | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
from both sides of the spectrum, you can imagine really good arguments! | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
LAUGHTER. Not just going not know about cake. I am sure Mr balls will | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
be very gentlemanly. He has a good sense of humour, he has a reputation | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
for being a hard task masker in his Shadow Chancellor role, but he is a | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
very funny chap and very genial so hopefully he will have good banter | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
with Samantha. Samantha Cameron is not very talkative, we have not | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
heard much from her. We know what happened when her husband spoke in | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
the kitchen! We do, that's right! You got it, exactly! He said he | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
wasn't standing again. Rowena and Ben will be back in an hour. Now it | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
is time for Sportsday. | :12:11. | :12:14. |