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:00:00. > :00:10.Coming up, Dad's Army hits the big screen, we will have more on the

:00:11. > :00:16.latest releases in The Film Review. Hello and welcome to

:00:17. > :00:19.our look ahead to what the papers With me are Caroline Wheeler,

:00:20. > :00:22.who's the Political Editor at the Sunday Express, and the

:00:23. > :00:28.political commentator Vincent Moss. The Sunday Express leads

:00:29. > :00:30.on the announcement that a new "supergroup" will be unveiled

:00:31. > :00:33.this week, uniting voices calling A key adviser to Margaret Thatcher,

:00:34. > :00:43.Lord Powell, believes the former Prime Minister

:00:44. > :00:46.would have supported David Cameron's Brussels deal - that's according to

:00:47. > :00:50.the Sunday Times. The Observer fears government plans

:00:51. > :00:52.to restrict council homes for the very poorest will mean that

:00:53. > :00:56.tens of thousands of families will The Sunday Telegraph leads on a

:00:57. > :01:00.letter it's received from more than 40 Conservative Party Associations

:01:01. > :01:02."angered", it says, by David Cameron's instruction to Tory MPs to

:01:03. > :01:06.ignore their views on Europe. The Mail

:01:07. > :01:09.on Sunday claims that the Help for Heroes charity is being investigated

:01:10. > :01:11.by the charity commission. Finally,

:01:12. > :01:12.The Independent on Sunday dedicates its front page to the efforts being

:01:13. > :01:15.taken to tackle obesity, but criticises the policies of both the

:01:16. > :01:27.NHS and the Department of Health. That is where we will begin. The

:01:28. > :01:41.front page, tackle obesity? Fat chance. The Independent on Sunday

:01:42. > :01:47.has interviewed the former adviser on this issue, and she says it will

:01:48. > :01:51.be a mistake if this only focuses on the weight of children and

:01:52. > :01:56.youngsters, and that it is about making sure parents are part of it.

:01:57. > :02:04.It says that parents must be part of it, and it is not just about getting

:02:05. > :02:08.parents involved. Funnily enough, I spoke to her a couple of weeks ago

:02:09. > :02:13.and the big message she had was that it is about changing attitudes of

:02:14. > :02:16.parents. Her message was about not as a parent giving your children

:02:17. > :02:20.sweets as treats, which I am wholly guilty of, and when there is ever

:02:21. > :02:25.any bribery in our house, the sweetie teams come out. I can see

:02:26. > :02:29.what she is saying that when we have so many overweight adults we can't

:02:30. > :02:32.just focus on children, but I think the whole strategy that the

:02:33. > :02:36.government is looking at, is that if we don't start with them from

:02:37. > :02:40.youngsters and see them grow up with good eating habits we will end up in

:02:41. > :02:45.a worse situation than we are in now. But we grow up with habits of

:02:46. > :02:48.our parents. Parents are so influential and that is what is so

:02:49. > :02:53.terrifying, they copy what you are doing. If you are not eating well,

:02:54. > :02:58.chances are your kids want either. That is a big problem the government

:02:59. > :03:05.has, they will announce their strategy, and it is things like that

:03:06. > :03:10.carrot and stick approach that is the problem. How long do you go down

:03:11. > :03:15.the road of putting prices up on things rather than trying to nudge

:03:16. > :03:22.people in the right direction? I get the sense they haven't made a

:03:23. > :03:25.decision on this. Every week, I ask if their strategy is coming out, and

:03:26. > :03:30.every week I get the answer, there is no fixed date. It was supposed to

:03:31. > :03:34.come out at the end of last year, it didn't. It was supposed to come out

:03:35. > :03:40.in January, it didn't. So I wonder if they are still considering and

:03:41. > :03:48.weighing it up carefully. The Observer, working people moving out

:03:49. > :03:52.of public housing. This is that individuals earning more than

:03:53. > :03:56.?40,000 a year in London will have to pay a market rent for their

:03:57. > :04:01.social housing. The argument is that they simply won't be able to do

:04:02. > :04:04.that, particularly in areas like London where the cost of housing and

:04:05. > :04:08.rent is much higher. In essence, it could force people out of the

:04:09. > :04:15.capital, or simply force people out of their council homes. It is one of

:04:16. > :04:18.those more worrying aspect of the unintended consequence of a movement

:04:19. > :04:21.by the government that is trying to limit benefits and reduce the

:04:22. > :04:27.welfare state. If you earn significantly less than ?30,000 or

:04:28. > :04:32.?40,000, aren't people more deserving of council homes, which

:04:33. > :04:36.are subsidised? It is about prioritising, and giving social

:04:37. > :04:41.housing to those in greatest need, but the reality is that if you are

:04:42. > :04:45.somebody who is on ?40,000, you may just be on a family income of

:04:46. > :04:51.?40,000, you may have three children and live in three or 4-bedroom

:04:52. > :04:58.council house, which you are paying ?500 a month for. But in London, a

:04:59. > :05:05.similar property in London would cost you ?1500, and that would be

:05:06. > :05:09.unaffordable. They might have to lead anywhere in central London,

:05:10. > :05:13.they may work in hospitals will have shiftwork, and they would have to

:05:14. > :05:17.leave. It adds to the ceiling where cities like London will start to

:05:18. > :05:21.become ghettos for the rich and wealthy because people on lower

:05:22. > :05:27.incomes won't be able to stay. Even under the Labour government there

:05:28. > :05:32.was no emphasis on building more council homes, it was social housing

:05:33. > :05:35.but not council homes. That is right. I think the government is try

:05:36. > :05:41.to grasp the nettle on this. The point is that building housing takes

:05:42. > :05:44.time, and we need to find somewhere where we can build them, when we

:05:45. > :05:49.have rigorous planning enforcement laws in place where we can't build

:05:50. > :05:53.on this that land, it is hard to find a space. I think the government

:05:54. > :05:58.is keen to build more homes but they keep finding that many barriers are

:05:59. > :06:01.in place to let them do it. Humanitarian disaster looms in

:06:02. > :06:08.Aleppo as Assad's forces cut off rebels. This is the power of the

:06:09. > :06:13.government forces backed by Russian airstrikes. The situation in Aleppo

:06:14. > :06:16.is going to deteriorate very fast. About a million people stuck there,

:06:17. > :06:24.half of them will be under siege by these troops, who have put a circle

:06:25. > :06:27.around them. The warning is that the number of people heading towards the

:06:28. > :06:31.Turkish border have doubled in a day, and they will get higher and

:06:32. > :06:35.higher as long as the attacks on Aleppo continue. It looks like there

:06:36. > :06:40.is no end in sight, and that is essentially the warning. They are

:06:41. > :06:43.talking about approximately 400,000 people living in non-

:06:44. > :06:47.government-controlled areas, and they are expected to remain. But

:06:48. > :06:50.there are serious concerns from all organisations that there is

:06:51. > :06:56.effectively a siege situation. And supply lines have been cut off to

:06:57. > :06:59.get aid in. And this plays into the fact that it will fuel the migration

:07:00. > :07:04.problem we are seeing in Europe, and exacerbated even further with more

:07:05. > :07:09.migrants making those perilous journeys across the sea and coming

:07:10. > :07:13.to Britain. That can feed into this European debate that we are having

:07:14. > :07:20.about the control over our borders. It is a desperate situation on many

:07:21. > :07:27.levels. Now we have a clutch of EU stories. Rivals unite to fight for

:07:28. > :07:33.EU except, says the Sunday express. Who is coming together? We have seen

:07:34. > :07:38.this incredible week of bitter infighting from the out campaign,

:07:39. > :07:41.and I think there is a sense they need to draw a line under that and

:07:42. > :07:45.get together and speak with one voice. We are told this is what will

:07:46. > :07:48.happen, there will be the creation of a large supergroup, the

:07:49. > :07:57.amalgamation of two of the biggest groups, which is grassroots out,

:07:58. > :08:03.leave. EU. I'm told there are 47 in total which is a huge number. I'm

:08:04. > :08:07.glad we don't have to list them all. So am I. They are going to come

:08:08. > :08:12.together and make this group, they will become the official outgroup

:08:13. > :08:15.which gets all the benefits of being registered with the Electoral

:08:16. > :08:19.Commission, and give David Cameron a run for his money. It will make it

:08:20. > :08:25.easier than for the groups to start having a clear debate, rather than

:08:26. > :08:28.these disparate messages. They think so, because at the moment all the

:08:29. > :08:36.public has seen his legions of stories about the bitter feuds and

:08:37. > :08:41.mudslinging that has gone on. Reasons to stay and reasons to go

:08:42. > :08:48.had not been coming out, but the top lines have been on permutations of

:08:49. > :08:52.these feuds. They need to start to spell it out in terms we can

:08:53. > :08:59.understand, why we should vote to stay or leave. There is a helpful

:09:00. > :09:06.guide in the Sunday Express today, with an article set out by Lord

:09:07. > :09:11.Rose, who is leading the in campaign, and Nigel Farage who is

:09:12. > :09:24.leading the out campaign. The Sunday Times... Someone with a very good

:09:25. > :09:36.Ouija board might know this! Lord Powell, who was in -- her adviser in

:09:37. > :09:42.the 1980s, he says that Margaret Thatcher would vote yes. Lord Tebbit

:09:43. > :09:49.is saying that Lord Powell is not really anyone important, and he

:09:50. > :09:53.claims that she would never have gone along with it. This isn't

:09:54. > :10:07.helping with cohesion, is it? Not really. They still go into MP's

:10:08. > :10:10.officers and they still have her face adorning the walls. This is a

:10:11. > :10:14.figure they are trying to use to galvanise support behind David

:10:15. > :10:25.Cameron's deal or non- deal that he is trying to do. Show us respect,

:10:26. > :10:29.Tories tell PM, with 44 local party chiefs not happy that they have been

:10:30. > :10:36.effectively snubbed by the PM. This is all in relation to what the PM

:10:37. > :10:39.said earlier this week, which is basically that MPs should listen to

:10:40. > :10:45.their hearts and minds rather than their local associations. The

:10:46. > :10:49.association is really your bread and butter, they put you in the position

:10:50. > :10:54.of being a Parliamentary candidate, and there won't be many eurosceptic

:10:55. > :10:59.groups. They will feel that they did David Cameron and enormous favour by

:11:00. > :11:02.knocking on doors and delivering leaflets, and they will feel

:11:03. > :11:06.aggrieved that perhaps he is trying to pull the rug from underneath them

:11:07. > :11:10.and not get the MPs to represent their views. The Mail on Sunday

:11:11. > :11:16.thinks it has found a cabinet minister who will fight to leave the

:11:17. > :11:25.EU. They are referring to the employment minister. After she was a

:11:26. > :11:29.Conservative Party press officer she left to work for the referendum

:11:30. > :11:34.party, so she always had eurosceptic credentials. There is now less

:11:35. > :11:36.Westminster guessing game where cabinet ministers are likely to go

:11:37. > :11:41.towards the outside of the argument. The culture Secretary is

:11:42. > :11:48.one, Iain Duncan Smith is another. People starting to speculate about

:11:49. > :11:59.who will stick their head above the parapet and align themselves with

:12:00. > :12:05.the out campaign. Priti Patel has been claimed to be that person. Now,

:12:06. > :12:11.claims there has been some kind of data leak that was upsetting for a

:12:12. > :12:19.soldier who was being cared for. The allegations are that in at least one

:12:20. > :12:25.case, medical records were shared beyond the team caring for this

:12:26. > :12:30.soldier. There are allegations of bullying as well. While the Charity

:12:31. > :12:35.commission is investigating, the charity also stressed that it is not

:12:36. > :12:44.a full stature tree investigation, so they are now just looking at

:12:45. > :12:48.these concerns -- statutory. Why they are focusing on this week is

:12:49. > :12:54.because there are questions focusing on charities at the moment. We have

:12:55. > :12:58.seen questions about the death of Oliver Cook, who was hounded to

:12:59. > :13:10.death by a charity, and H and K as well. Tell us about this section.

:13:11. > :13:16.They are responding to these allegations, there are accusations

:13:17. > :13:22.of staff being gagged. They say they have had almost 10,000 visitors to

:13:23. > :13:25.their centres last year by veterans, they are proud of what they do in

:13:26. > :13:29.the dedicated service they provide, and they take their responsibility

:13:30. > :13:35.very seriously, and ensure that they are the best stuff to look after

:13:36. > :13:42.people. Any allegations otherwise are unfair. Finish with a couple of

:13:43. > :13:45.sports stories. A picture of Dylan Hartley, the England rugby captain,

:13:46. > :13:59.celebrating the victory over Scotland in the Calcutta happy knack

:14:00. > :14:06.cup. -- the Calcutta Cup. This all started over the Six Nations, some

:14:07. > :14:10.may disagree that England did beat Scotland today. Rugby does seem to

:14:11. > :14:14.unfairly feature of most of the front pages. A lot of people follow

:14:15. > :14:29.it, but football is a much story, and the story of Leicester City.

:14:30. > :14:44.Those of little faith, you would have got 5000/1 four Leicester City

:14:45. > :14:51.to win the Premier League. Gary Lineker said that he would wear his

:14:52. > :14:56.underpants to present the news if Leicester City one. Up next, The

:14:57. > :15:07.Film Review.