:00:00. > :00:00.Bolton. In Rugby Union Wales and Scotland in their squads for the Six
:00:00. > :00:00.Nations. We will hear from the coaches on Sportsday after the
:00:00. > :00:14.Papers. Hello and welcome to
:00:15. > :00:16.our look ahead to what the papers With me are the broadcaster
:00:17. > :00:21.Henry Bonsu and former Labour Trade Tomorrow's front pages,
:00:22. > :00:26.starting with... The Financial Times leads with
:00:27. > :00:28.the Governor of the Bank of England's decision not to raise
:00:29. > :00:31.interest rates. Mark Carney's comments also make
:00:32. > :00:35.the front page of the Express. 13-month-old Poppi Worthington
:00:36. > :00:37.is pictured on the Telegraph. A judge has ruled she was
:00:38. > :00:39.sexually assaulted by her father The questions surrounding
:00:40. > :00:48.Poppi Worthington's death are also The Guardian quotes new research,
:00:49. > :01:01.which suggests the NHS has the most stressed doctors
:01:02. > :01:02.in the Western world. The Daily Mail claims up to 1.5
:01:03. > :01:05.million workers could be facing A Treasury plan to target
:01:06. > :01:11.higher rate tax payer's pensions And the Times carries a warning
:01:12. > :01:15.from a leading vet that throwing sticks for dogs could be bad
:01:16. > :01:29.for their health. Who would have guessed? We'll start
:01:30. > :01:34.with the Times. This is their own investigation. A millionaire in
:01:35. > :01:42.Middlesbrough who is paid by G4 S to house asylum-seekers? This story has
:01:43. > :01:47.a very inflammatory headline. It gives you the impression that
:01:48. > :01:51.neo-Nazis are running around Middlesbrough, throwing red paint on
:01:52. > :01:59.houses they know belong to asylum-seekers. Actually does much
:02:00. > :02:07.more sobering. This guy is a multimillionaire, according to the
:02:08. > :02:11.paper, and his company is a property company which is a contractor for G4
:02:12. > :02:18.S and they hold the contractor for the Home Office asylum system in the
:02:19. > :02:22.north-east of England and the Times has done an investigation and found
:02:23. > :02:29.that 168 of the houses belonging to this man in two of Middlesbrough's
:02:30. > :02:38.poorest districts have red front doors. People have cottoned onto
:02:39. > :02:41.this. They have been throwing things and the question is whether or not
:02:42. > :02:48.it is a conspiracy or whether it is equal incidence. We don't know the
:02:49. > :02:52.motivation behind it. Is a policy? If so, whose policy? I would guess
:02:53. > :02:56.that they should be looking a little more closely into where they house
:02:57. > :03:02.asylum-seekers if this has already been raised in Middlesbrough, which
:03:03. > :03:04.it seems it has. You need to make sure for your contractual
:03:05. > :03:18.obligations that these people are housed safely. This company doesn't
:03:19. > :03:25.-- goes and finds the housing. I think our country has done what we
:03:26. > :03:28.are proud to do at times like this switches find homes for people that
:03:29. > :03:40.are stateless did fear of their lives -- which is. If what you are
:03:41. > :03:45.saying is that you have 168 of these houses and they all have red doors
:03:46. > :03:50.and none of the other houses in the area do, statistically, you have to
:03:51. > :03:56.use the control, haven't you? We haven't spoken to them so we don't
:03:57. > :04:01.know. If it comes out that this man was painting red paint on these
:04:02. > :04:04.houses to indicate that asylum-seekers were living there,
:04:05. > :04:10.that is not only disgraceful, but the contractor should be put to
:04:11. > :04:15.account. But as far as I know, he has 500 houses and paints all of
:04:16. > :04:19.them red. The Immigration Minister says he is deeply concerned by this
:04:20. > :04:22.issue and has commissioned Home Office officials to conduct an
:04:23. > :04:27.urgent audit of the asylum seeker housing in the Northeast. He says he
:04:28. > :04:29.expects the highest standards from his contractors and if they find
:04:30. > :04:39.evidence of discrimination it will be dealt with immediately. I will
:04:40. > :04:44.tell you something else, as Henry rightly pointed out, this article
:04:45. > :04:48.says, following the identification of that house having an asylum
:04:49. > :04:55.seeker, they're getting all kinds of other things come other vandalism.
:04:56. > :04:58.That has nothing to do with whether this man is painting a red door but
:04:59. > :05:04.it has to do with disgusting behaviour for people who should not
:05:05. > :05:07.be on our streets. It has been a long-held policy and some of the
:05:08. > :05:11.poorest areas of our country of housing asylum-seekers in the
:05:12. > :05:14.poorest areas. They attract attention because they look
:05:15. > :05:20.different and because people think that they're getting BMWs and mobile
:05:21. > :05:24.phones and they're getting no such thing. They are in poor housing in
:05:25. > :05:33.their desperate. Moving on to the Financial Times -- and they are.
:05:34. > :05:36.This idea that the first country you arrive in at the edge of the
:05:37. > :05:41.Schengen zone is where you should claim asylum? That has always been
:05:42. > :05:46.the case and now Brussels is saying they're going to change it, because
:05:47. > :05:49.if you are a country of eventual destination, and you have gone
:05:50. > :05:54.through Greece and Italy into sweetened, Germany or Britain, that
:05:55. > :06:03.country cannot say they're sending you back -- Sweden. Is not been able
:06:04. > :06:17.to do it increase since 2011 -- they have not been able to you can pass
:06:18. > :06:22.that law --. You can pass that law but this is probably a statement of
:06:23. > :06:31.what is happening. This is not in use review programme but it is a
:06:32. > :06:36.paper review programme. Hold the line. He thinks he is the editor of
:06:37. > :06:47.this programme. The Financial Times has done it as a factual analysis.
:06:48. > :06:53.The same story in the Sun. We are stuffed. I would submit to you that
:06:54. > :06:59.the referendum is in dire danger of becoming a referendum on something
:07:00. > :07:04.else entirely. I am passionate about reforming the European Union.
:07:05. > :07:09.Whatever David Cameron comes back with is not what people will want to
:07:10. > :07:15.vote on. We're going to be voting on and long-held prejudices. It is a
:07:16. > :07:20.worry because the immigration issue is the proper and genuine issue for
:07:21. > :07:24.a referendum but it is the analysis, which I would submit that
:07:25. > :07:31.ashes about on which we can form our own view, as opposed to this --
:07:32. > :07:37.analysis. That is a good point. But it is semantics. Very few are
:07:38. > :07:43.returned anyway and very few go back to their first country of entry.
:07:44. > :07:47.What it deprives the Prime Minister of is the ability to say that they
:07:48. > :07:53.can be sent back to where they came in. That is a problem when you are
:07:54. > :07:58.trying to sell Europe. It is a problem because we hear from other
:07:59. > :08:03.papers tomorrow that he wants to get this referendum mailed by June of
:08:04. > :08:08.this year. If Donald Tusk gets his way, this ruling will change in the
:08:09. > :08:17.next 2-3 months and that will make very difficult headlines for David
:08:18. > :08:22.Cameron in the summer. It is not just the Sun saying this, the IMF is
:08:23. > :08:30.also saying that Europe is struggling. Help me with this. So,
:08:31. > :08:37.you haven't asylum-seekers, a genuine one or it could be an
:08:38. > :08:43.economic migrant, but they come through Greece and make their way to
:08:44. > :08:54.Calais. And the British police say go back? There is not a lot they can
:08:55. > :09:04.do. Perin a developed economy, so why do they still want to get to
:09:05. > :09:14.Britain? You could say Britain is an -- is a victim of their own success.
:09:15. > :09:25.Are using the French don't respect human rights -- argue. I think
:09:26. > :09:33.Britain is better and so today. Bringing you back to the papers.
:09:34. > :09:50.Guardian. The governor of the Bank of England. He has said there will
:09:51. > :09:56.be no rise in rates. In his view. Isn't it his ultimate decision? It
:09:57. > :10:00.isn't. He is only one vote although we have considerable influence. I
:10:01. > :10:07.would like people to understand that there are different economic views
:10:08. > :10:10.from all parts of society. There are a group of people who make this
:10:11. > :10:20.decision and yes the Governor is a very influential part of it, but he
:10:21. > :10:32.has only one vote. The Financial Times says he is quite bullish about
:10:33. > :10:35.it. He's incredibly good. He was the George Clooney of banking but he has
:10:36. > :10:38.not been getting very good press since he was brought here from
:10:39. > :10:42.Canada. People have said he is getting it wrong more often than he
:10:43. > :10:49.is getting it right. Was giving us this long view, forecasting us to
:10:50. > :10:52.make the decisions about houses and so forth. Let me ask you one
:10:53. > :10:59.question. We've had the statement from the Chancellor and from Mark
:11:00. > :11:09.Carney, do you share this pessimism as the former boss of the CBI? Not
:11:10. > :11:13.only that, the current boss will be saying, what does that have to do
:11:14. > :11:22.with anything? What I do get quite a few businesses in different sectors
:11:23. > :11:29.-- but I do chair quite a few businesses in different sectors. And
:11:30. > :11:35.I can tell you now, there is no issue in the economy at any level,
:11:36. > :11:40.in any sector, on activity. There is an issue on profitability and
:11:41. > :11:45.margins. Some of this is because of exchange rate issues with our export
:11:46. > :11:57.markets. Some of it is because of a lack of skilled labour. One of the
:11:58. > :12:03.reasons George Osborne quite rightly said the other day, this is another
:12:04. > :12:08.year and we will keep at it, it is because they want to set this
:12:09. > :12:12.economy up with strong foundations. Maybe he is preparing the ground for
:12:13. > :12:15.the slowdown to impact us adversely and getting ready to blame the
:12:16. > :12:23.international global financial system. When Labour said it, it was
:12:24. > :12:30.about them not fixing everything and it had nothing to do with the global
:12:31. > :12:38.economy. Let's focus on the papers. Not all of us are running
:12:39. > :12:42.businesses. The Daily Mirror points to the plus in this story which is
:12:43. > :12:47.another year of cheap mortgages. Businesspeople would say thank
:12:48. > :12:52.heavens and so will housing builders. But the people who should
:12:53. > :12:57.say thank you the most are those with mortgages. That means that
:12:58. > :13:02.everybody who is saving money and have got money in the bank paying
:13:03. > :13:10.interest on their savings, they won't be very happy. Pensioners
:13:11. > :13:18.won't be happy either. Particularly those who have pension pots over ?1
:13:19. > :13:24.million. That's right. We used to talk about Gordon Brown in terms of
:13:25. > :13:43.this thief rating people's pensions. Did you call him a thief?
:13:44. > :13:50.You didn't! Henry! Any -- anyway come at this is to punish those
:13:51. > :13:56.whose pension is over a million. Is that a lot? If you have been saving
:13:57. > :14:02.since you were 21 and you are hitting 65 or so... I understand
:14:03. > :14:08.that there are many people saying they will never have that pension,
:14:09. > :14:11.but it isn't a great deal when you saved it over a million years. You
:14:12. > :14:20.are saying middle income earners could accumulate that? Very easily.
:14:21. > :14:27.He's not going like headlines like this. That is usually the Tory
:14:28. > :14:36.accusation, that it is Labour. Take the politics out of this. It is the
:14:37. > :14:41.Daily Mail! You get tax relief on your pension. When you take it out,
:14:42. > :14:47.you pay tax on the monthly money but you get a tax-free on the first
:14:48. > :14:50.25%, which is the lump sum you can take out. There is something in
:14:51. > :14:58.equitable in that from a taxation point of view. The argument, when
:14:59. > :15:03.you are looking at how you can raise taxes at a time like this, I
:15:04. > :15:09.understand that the argument that you should enjoy tax freedom on the
:15:10. > :15:16.way out isn't just wrong one. What if they said you were going to get
:15:17. > :15:21.your whole pension pot taxed? It would be disgraceful. That has
:15:22. > :15:31.nothing to do with income. You really bet on the weigh-in and you
:15:32. > :15:36.paid on the way out -- relieve it. Is money in and money out suffers
:15:37. > :15:45.from taxation, I see the logic. Getting back to the Daily Mail,
:15:46. > :15:51.there is talk of this levy, and also we are talking about a penalty
:15:52. > :15:54.charge of about 55% although it doesn't say exactly what part of
:15:55. > :16:06.your pension is going to face this. Has been there for many years. --
:16:07. > :16:14.that has. Gordon Brown did that. George Osborne has brought it down
:16:15. > :16:27.again. That has happened for many years. Did you bring it in? No. We
:16:28. > :16:28.are out of time. I am going to call it before there is a knockout
:16:29. > :16:32.punch. Coming up next it's time
:16:33. > :16:35.for Sportsday.