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And we will hear from Roger Federer, who has got big plans for next year. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
That is coming up after the papers. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are the economist | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Bronwyn Curtis and the broadcaster and former football | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
administrator David Davies. The I newspaper says | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
the advertising watchdog will investigate drug company claims | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
about over-the-counter painkillers. The FT has a special investigation | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
into finances of so-called 'Fox Hunt' is the Metro's headline | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
after the radio DJ Neil Fox was According to the an opinion poll | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
in the Express - the majority of voters want Britain | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
to quit the European Union. The Daily Telegraph also claims | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
voters head for the Brexit as the paper reports the results | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
of a separate survey. The Guardian says MPs are calling | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
for an inquiry into low wages The picture is of the British | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
astronaut Tim Peake who will blast off on a mission | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
of a lifetime tomorrow morning. And the Mail says the UK's top civil | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
servant has been attacked over plans Starting with the Telegraph. Voters | :01:17. | :01:33. | |
had before Brexit. A surge in support for leaving the EU. What do | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
you put this down to? We talked an hour ago about an Internet poll. An | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
hour later, we have an ICM poll. The significance is the first time since | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
2013 that ICM has found voters even split. It is in the middle of the | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
story. It is written up, that is the significance. Forgive me for saying | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
this, but I am not aware of an active pro- Europe campaign at the | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
moment. All the running is being made by the Brexit people. If the | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
idea of the government is to lower expectations about what he is going | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
to achieve in any negotiation, it used to be called a renegotiation, | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
but whatever he is doing in the summit and the next one in February, | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
he has done a successful job of lowering expectations. Do you think | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
this is down to the whole debate about migrants and refugees? That | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
has put a lot of people off the idea of staying within the European | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Union? The net migration figure is still way above the tens of | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
thousands the government said it would fall down too. I think | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
migration is clearly an emotive issue. People get very upset about | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
this. I was thinking more of those that | :03:13. | :03:33. | |
came before that. Just interesting, these polls. These campaigns to | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
leave. It is up, it was only 40% want to leave. It is about | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
immigration, terrorism, who is coming in, what are we doing. And it | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
worries people. They feel that David Cameron is going to Europe and he is | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
not getting anything. If he is not getting anywhere, we will never get | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
anywhere. We are economically tied to Europe. How do you account that? | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
From where I am coming from, if he thinks that, if his aim is | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
ultimately to say, I have got some sort of a deal, it is interesting, I | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
heard on BBC radio, an interview with a former Polish Foreign | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Minister, who said, why is he getting lost on these issues? In | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Poland we are much tougher on people who come in than Brits. But that | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
would mean reducing payments to Brits as well. That is his problem. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
But you can argue after months and months of this migrant issue, it is | :04:57. | :05:08. | |
quite remarkable. It could be worse. I expected it to be worse at this | :05:09. | :05:19. | |
stage. The book is kept saying, Scotland will vote no. The bookies | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
are saying even more strongly at this stage, the EU vote will be to | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
stay in. We will stay with the Telegraph. Pensioner Bonds, saving | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
rates are slashed by half. You are saying this is something we should | :05:43. | :05:56. | |
have been aware of. These were fantastic interest rates. 2.8% for a | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
year was very tasty. What they have done is said, one year you have got | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
your 2.8%. It is going to drop unless you move it somewhere else. | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
That is not even in the top ten rates for a one-year bond. It is | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
really unattractive. When it was announced, it was a great thing. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Announced as a great thing. We just had the Autumn statement. We did not | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
hear anything. I am disappointed, but I think we have had fantastic | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
rates, so we cannot complain. When some of us were drawn into this, I | :06:48. | :06:59. | |
could not possibly comment, we were told, you have to do it now. Because | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
they will close it in weeks. They did not do that. When I read this | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
story, I am quite surprised. Pensioners, plus poor pensioners, we | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
do not need to be courted quite so much this year. Something like a | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
general election. It slipped my mind. Anyway. You cannot get the | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
deal on that. Savers have not done well for a long time. But you will | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
get clobbered on tax. That was in the Autumn statement, but people | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
will still rather go for that. Margaret Thatcher will be turning in | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
her grave. She always used to say, Savers matter. That was her | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
expression. She had some difficult times. Taxes make short jihadists | :08:10. | :08:22. | |
have income. This is an interesting story. The front page of the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Financial Times. You think, ISIS, it must all be oil money. That is what | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
is funding it. But the story says they get at least as much from | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
taxation. They took over the second biggest city in Iraq. A lot of | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
taxpayers. Extortion and confiscation. There is a war spoils | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
offers. They pay the militants a fifth of whatever they seize. They | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
are quite keen to go out and this is stuff. I was really surprised by | :09:03. | :09:14. | |
that. You cannot bomb that. This is it. The whole thing about giving the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
RAF the right to bomb in Syria. The idea was to target the oil tankers | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
and the oil fields. But they are getting all their cash by extorting | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
shopkeepers. Within hours of the BBC and everybody reporting that we were | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
going to bomb in Syria, we were told these oilfields, there was so much | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
oil being sold. Bronwyn might be able to help me with this. Who is | :09:46. | :09:57. | |
selling oil, who is buying the oil? Once you get into the oil market | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
there are a lot of brokers and middlemen. Nobody knows who they | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
are? They handle a lot of oil. You do not know. It is like all of these | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
things. Where has it come from? A lot of it would be of similar | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
quality. It is hard to tell. I think it will just keep happening. Saddam | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
Hussein lived under sanctions and he flogged barrel after barrel. There | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
will always be someone willing to take it, because it is cheaper than | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
getting it from Saudi Arabia. No wonder the problem is as deep as it | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
is. It will continue. You have a country with a border that is | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
hundreds of kilometres long. And there are Islamic State sympathisers | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
within Turkey. This is perhaps a naive question. An FT investigation | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
indicates ISIS gets as much from taxation and extortion. An FT | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
investigation? That is well known how they have been getting the | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
funding. You put FT investigation on the front. The BBC would end up | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
saying a BBC investigation. It all helps. On to the mail. I was | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
wondering what had happened to our old friend William. He has been out | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
of the headlines for a bit of time. Now he is back. He is saying this | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
government goes on like this, with my OneWorld alliance and all the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
rest of it, I could refocus my operations in Ireland and Spain. The | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
government has not given clearance for a new runway at Heathrow. Even | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
after what happened last week, I have to declare an interest, the | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
person who came up with the report into this is a friend of mine. A | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
highly intelligent man. He must be asking, we still do not know why the | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
government has postponed this yet again, do we? Other than the London | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
elections. I do not know anything. Is a political hot potato right now. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
They are looking at the environmental concerns highlighted | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
in the report. But Howard Davies, your friend, she noted all of that. | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
-- he noted. It is a | :13:04. | :13:08. |