19/01/2016 The Papers

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Papers. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers With me are the broadcaster

Henry Bonsu and former Labour Trade Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with... The Financial Times leads with

the Governor of the Bank of England's decision not to raise

interest rates. Mark Carney's comments also make

the front page of the Express. 13-month-old Poppi Worthington

is pictured on the Telegraph. A judge has ruled she was

sexually assaulted by her father The questions surrounding

Poppi Worthington's death are also The Guardian quotes new research,

which suggests the NHS has the most stressed doctors

in the Western world. The Daily Mail claims up to 1.5

million workers could be facing A Treasury plan to target

higher rate tax payer's pensions And the Times carries a warning

from a leading vet that throwing sticks for dogs could be bad

for their health. Who would have guessed? We'll start

with the Times. This is their own investigation. A millionaire in

Middlesbrough who is paid by G4 S to house asylum-seekers? This story has

a very inflammatory headline. It gives you the impression that

neo-Nazis are running around Middlesbrough, throwing red paint on

houses they know belong to asylum-seekers. Actually does much

more sobering. This guy is a multimillionaire, according to the

paper, and his company is a property company which is a contractor for G4

S and they hold the contractor for the Home Office asylum system in the

north-east of England and the Times has done an investigation and found

that 168 of the houses belonging to this man in two of Middlesbrough's

poorest districts have red front doors. People have cottoned onto

this. They have been throwing things and the question is whether or not

it is a conspiracy or whether it is equal incidence. We don't know the

motivation behind it. Is a policy? If so, whose policy? I would guess

that they should be looking a little more closely into where they house

asylum-seekers if this has already been raised in Middlesbrough, which

it seems it has. You need to make sure for your contractual

obligations that these people are housed safely. This company doesn't

-- goes and finds the housing. I think our country has done what we

are proud to do at times like this switches find homes for people that

are stateless did fear of their lives -- which is. If what you are

saying is that you have 168 of these houses and they all have red doors

and none of the other houses in the area do, statistically, you have to

use the control, haven't you? We haven't spoken to them so we don't

know. If it comes out that this man was painting red paint on these

houses to indicate that asylum-seekers were living there,

that is not only disgraceful, but the contractor should be put to

account. But as far as I know, he has 500 houses and paints all of

them red. The Immigration Minister says he is deeply concerned by this

issue and has commissioned Home Office officials to conduct an

urgent audit of the asylum seeker housing in the Northeast. He says he

expects the highest standards from his contractors and if they find

evidence of discrimination it will be dealt with immediately. I will

tell you something else, as Henry rightly pointed out, this article

says, following the identification of that house having an asylum

seeker, they're getting all kinds of other things come other vandalism.

That has nothing to do with whether this man is painting a red door but

it has to do with disgusting behaviour for people who should not

be on our streets. It has been a long-held policy and some of the

poorest areas of our country of housing asylum-seekers in the

poorest areas. They attract attention because they look

different and because people think that they're getting BMWs and mobile

phones and they're getting no such thing. They are in poor housing in

their desperate. Moving on to the Financial Times -- and they are.

This idea that the first country you arrive in at the edge of the

Schengen zone is where you should claim asylum? That has always been

the case and now Brussels is saying they're going to change it, because

if you are a country of eventual destination, and you have gone

through Greece and Italy into sweetened, Germany or Britain, that

country cannot say they're sending you back -- Sweden. Is not been able

to do it increase since 2011 -- they have not been able to you can pass

that law --. You can pass that law but this is probably a statement of

what is happening. This is not in use review programme but it is a

paper review programme. Hold the line. He thinks he is the editor of

this programme. The Financial Times has done it as a factual analysis.

The same story in the Sun. We are stuffed. I would submit to you that

the referendum is in dire danger of becoming a referendum on something

else entirely. I am passionate about reforming the European Union.

Whatever David Cameron comes back with is not what people will want to

vote on. We're going to be voting on and long-held prejudices. It is a

worry because the immigration issue is the proper and genuine issue for

a referendum but it is the analysis, which I would submit that

ashes about on which we can form our own view, as opposed to this --

analysis. That is a good point. But it is semantics. Very few are

returned anyway and very few go back to their first country of entry.

What it deprives the Prime Minister of is the ability to say that they

can be sent back to where they came in. That is a problem when you are

trying to sell Europe. It is a problem because we hear from other

papers tomorrow that he wants to get this referendum mailed by June of

this year. If Donald Tusk gets his way, this ruling will change in the

next 2-3 months and that will make very difficult headlines for David

Cameron in the summer. It is not just the Sun saying this, the IMF is

also saying that Europe is struggling. Help me with this. So,

you haven't asylum-seekers, a genuine one or it could be an

economic migrant, but they come through Greece and make their way to

Calais. And the British police say go back? There is not a lot they can

do. Perin a developed economy, so why do they still want to get to

Britain? You could say Britain is an -- is a victim of their own success.

Are using the French don't respect human rights -- argue. I think

Britain is better and so today. Bringing you back to the papers.

Guardian. The governor of the Bank of England. He has said there will

be no rise in rates. In his view. Isn't it his ultimate decision? It

isn't. He is only one vote although we have considerable influence. I

would like people to understand that there are different economic views

from all parts of society. There are a group of people who make this

decision and yes the Governor is a very influential part of it, but he

has only one vote. The Financial Times says he is quite bullish about

it. He's incredibly good. He was the George Clooney of banking but he has

not been getting very good press since he was brought here from

Canada. People have said he is getting it wrong more often than he

is getting it right. Was giving us this long view, forecasting us to

make the decisions about houses and so forth. Let me ask you one

question. We've had the statement from the Chancellor and from Mark

Carney, do you share this pessimism as the former boss of the CBI? Not

only that, the current boss will be saying, what does that have to do

with anything? What I do get quite a few businesses in different sectors

-- but I do chair quite a few businesses in different sectors. And

I can tell you now, there is no issue in the economy at any level,

in any sector, on activity. There is an issue on profitability and

margins. Some of this is because of exchange rate issues with our export

markets. Some of it is because of a lack of skilled labour. One of the

reasons George Osborne quite rightly said the other day, this is another

year and we will keep at it, it is because they want to set this

economy up with strong foundations. Maybe he is preparing the ground for

the slowdown to impact us adversely and getting ready to blame the

international global financial system. When Labour said it, it was

about them not fixing everything and it had nothing to do with the global

economy. Let's focus on the papers. Not all of us are running

businesses. The Daily Mirror points to the plus in this story which is

another year of cheap mortgages. Businesspeople would say thank

heavens and so will housing builders. But the people who should

say thank you the most are those with mortgages. That means that

everybody who is saving money and have got money in the bank paying

interest on their savings, they won't be very happy. Pensioners

won't be happy either. Particularly those who have pension pots over ?1

million. That's right. We used to talk about Gordon Brown in terms of

this thief rating people's pensions. Did you call him a thief?

You didn't! Henry! Any -- anyway come at this is to punish those

whose pension is over a million. Is that a lot? If you have been saving

since you were 21 and you are hitting 65 or so... I understand

that there are many people saying they will never have that pension,

but it isn't a great deal when you saved it over a million years. You

are saying middle income earners could accumulate that? Very easily.

He's not going like headlines like this. That is usually the Tory

accusation, that it is Labour. Take the politics out of this. It is the

Daily Mail! You get tax relief on your pension. When you take it out,

you pay tax on the monthly money but you get a tax-free on the first

25%, which is the lump sum you can take out. There is something in

equitable in that from a taxation point of view. The argument, when

you are looking at how you can raise taxes at a time like this, I

understand that the argument that you should enjoy tax freedom on the

way out isn't just wrong one. What if they said you were going to get

your whole pension pot taxed? It would be disgraceful. That has

nothing to do with income. You really bet on the weigh-in and you

paid on the way out -- relieve it. Is money in and money out suffers

from taxation, I see the logic. Getting back to the Daily Mail,

there is talk of this levy, and also we are talking about a penalty

charge of about 55% although it doesn't say exactly what part of

your pension is going to face this. Has been there for many years. --

that has. Gordon Brown did that. George Osborne has brought it down

again. That has happened for many years. Did you bring it in? No. We

are out of time. I am going to call it before there is a knockout

punch. Coming up next it's time

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