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defence of the Davis Cup off to a good start. And we will be the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
result from a host of Rob the matches from both codes. That is | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
after the Papers. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are the | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Mirror's Deputy Political Editor Jack Blanchard and the Daily | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley. The Independent claims that Facebook | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
may pay little or nothing in additional tax for | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
the next few years, despite today's The Culture Secretary John | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Whittingdale tells the Telegraph that the Prime Minister should | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
release figures that show the true number of European Union | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
migrants living in the UK. A Home Office Minister tells | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
the Daily Mail that human rights laws mean some illegal immigrants | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
can't be deported from the UK. Meanwhile the Express says | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
the number of new asylum applications lodged across the EU | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
last year rose to 1.2 million. The Times reports that | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
George Osborne has abandoned an overhaul of pension tax | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
after a revolt from Tory MPs. And, 20 years since 16 pupils and | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
a teacher were killed at Dunblane primary school, the headteacher back | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
in 1996 has given an emotional We start with pensions and how the | :01:10. | :01:24. | |
Guardian is looking at it. George Osborne forced to give up radical | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
reforms in the budget. I wonder how much of this is because he doesn't | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
understand any more than anyone else does. The tax on pensions is | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
graduated, which means if you are high earner you end up saving a | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
great deal of money. The idea was that that would be replaced with a | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
flat tax of around 20%. It was suggested the Chancellor would then | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
make up for any losses that people might have suffered while they were | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
paying into their pension by saying that when you came to take money | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
out, it wouldn't be taxed. So, a kind of neat way round the problem. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
The problem is that it would have put people off from investing in | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
their pension, which is what the government should be encouraging | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
people to do, but also, would anyone trust a future government not to tax | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
pensionable income? So he has backed down. It is a sign that the proposal | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
is flawed, but also that he feels politically weak. The government is | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
facing a referendum on the EU, is desperate not to alienate the Tory | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
grassroots, and they probably calculated that this person would | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
have done exactly that. It might surprise some that he is feeling | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
weak, given some of the changes he has managed to get through. He | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
hasn't had the best year, and he is making a bit of a habit of this. Is | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
2012 budget, he had to rewrite a lot of it, with U-turns on various | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
taxes. His budget last year, the first one as in all Tory Chancellor, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
he had to do a U-turn on the tax credit cards that he had just | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
announced. Now he is you turning on his budget before he has even | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
announced his budget, which is a new record to him and not a good look. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
He has tried to slip it out on Friday night in the hope it wouldn't | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
make the front pages, but that didn't go too well. How much do you | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
think, Jack, is down to the fact that he has leadership aspirations, | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
and if he upsets the voters or his own backbenchers that might thwart | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
him. I think everything George Osborne does is down to the fact | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
that he has leadership aspirations. He is trying to fight his own party | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
on too many fronts. The last thing he needs to do is go picking a fight | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
with them on pensions as well as Europe. As soon as we saw the scale | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
of the opposition from the press, who should be his allies, from the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
MPs standing behind him, to the grassroots, as soon as he realised | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
what he was getting himself into, he has gone straight back. How much is | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
down to the fact it was a flawed policy rather than political | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
expediency? Who knows. The fact that it was trailed and then withdrawn is | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
suspicious. George Osborne is a Chancellor who is very good at | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
pulling rabbits out of hats. He surprised everyone with his living | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
wage announcements, and the changes to pensions he made before the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
election with annuity reforms. Having made us all think he is weak | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
and you turning right now, when it comes to the budget he could do | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
something incredible that makes us all think he is absolutely amazing | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
again. We all know how that feels, performance and sleight of hand! | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Facebook to pay its fair share of tax, but not yet. We had only just | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
got used to the idea that this was actually happening today, and now we | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
are told not to be too excited about it. Yes, because they are sitting on | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
?21 million worth of deferred tax relief, which means they could end | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
up not paying the money until quite sometime in the future. So on the | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
face of it it looked like they were doing the right thing, but we're not | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
going to any money yet. There is method in their madness. There is a | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
new tax system coming in saying that if you don't pay your 20% corporate | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
tax, we will charge a 25%. It is not clear whether that will have caught | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
them in the way that they were using pirated to pay their taxes. I don't | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
know. They have certainly moved before they were taken out. The | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
problem is that they haven't given us any real detail of exactly how | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
they will do it. They say they will put more of their UK profits through | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
the UK tax revenues, which is good news, but what is interesting is you | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
don't see anything from the government today saying this is a | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
huge success. If you think back to the Google success a few weeks ago, | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
when the Chancellor came out saying this was a huge success of the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
government, and it turned out most people didn't see it that way. They | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
are saying nothing about this, they are being completely quiet, they | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
want to see the details about getting caught up. Let's look at the | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
Telegraph. A cabinet minister has warned that Britain's public | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
services are creaking at the seams. This is coming from the culture | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Secretary. And not just from John Whittingdale, but it is something | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
that the eurosceptic side of the referendum debate have been saying | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
for some time. Part of what looks like a co-ordinated attack on David | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Cameron. He was ambushed at PMQs on Wednesday by David Davis, a | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
prominent Eurosceptic, who asked why there is this difference between the | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
official number of people who have moved to the country, and the number | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
of national insurance numbers that have been registered by people | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
abroad. The difference is extraordinary. 257,000 EU migrants | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
last year. Over the same time, 630,000 EU citizens registered for a | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
national insurance number. That is a huge difference. What they are | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
trying to suggest is that a lot more European migrants are coming to work | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
than statistics would suggest. But those statistics might also be | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
wrong. We don't know how many people have got a national insurance number | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
who aren't here. Yes, you can get one, and hold it for a few weeks and | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
then go back. I think they are trying to prove a point that they | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
are coming to work, rather than claim benefits. That shoots the Fox | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
when it comes to the Brussels summit deal. David Cameron said he had | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
stopped the issue of benefits, and that would stop people from coming. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
They are trying to shoot at. It is a pity that the EU debate has become | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
harder about internal Tory propping or about immigration. -- plotting. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
It should be about sovereignty and issues of trade and things like | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
that. But I think this will be the issue it keeps coming back to. If | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
you think the Eurosceptics are playing this card too strongly, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
don't forget the government has tried it by claiming that if Britain | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
leaves the EU, migrants will stream across the Channel and set up camp | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
in Dover instead of in Calais. Everyone is playing the migrant | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
card. There is also talk of the migrants issue and Europe on pages | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
eight and nine of the Daily Mail. Tory civil war erupts. We rather | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
like these pictures of Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel cosying | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
up. Who would want to leave the EU when you can see how happy they can | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
be as part of it? It is a glorious thing. The more serious story | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
alongside the pictures are the plotting against David Cameron, the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
open plotting against David Cameron, that is now starting to happen among | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
his own party. We are two weeks into a four-month campaign, and already | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
very senior Conservatives are starting to say David Cameron will | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
have to go if he loses the referendum. Some are starting to him | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
that he might have to go if he wins it. How bad will this get? We have | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
weeks of this! Why would he have to go if he wins? He would have to go | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
if he won Andy that wasn't large. -- and the gap wasn't large. Also at | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
the party felt that he had been bullied or the campaign had been | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
very acrimonious. The EU referendum is on one hand about a | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
straightforward policy choice to be in the EU or not. On another level | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
it is about so much more. For the Tories it is a generational battle | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
between Thatcherites and Liberals, and people are settling old scores | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
with this. That is what we are seeing. The irony is that this could | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
end up damaging the PM and encouraging a lot of Labour voters | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
to join in with the league side. If they calculate that the EU | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
referendum is evolving into a vote of confidence in David Cameron, a | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
lot of centrist and centre-left voters don't like David Cameron, and | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
they might come out and vote was to damage him. A lot of this might | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
deflect the debate away from the EU and towards domestic issues. But a | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
lot of people will look at that and wonder what people are talking | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
about, with wet and dry and generational, I understand that for | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
the conservative movement it is important. But for most people it is | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
about jobs, people moving to the country, will my business be | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
stronger or more secure part of the union or not? They will be looking | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
at it in a hardheaded way. They see the Conservative Party tearing | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
itself apart over Europe yet again, and it will only end up damaging one | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
thing, and that is the Conservative Party. That is indisputable, but | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
just to add, if you look at the polls what is really interesting is | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
that if you simply ask people how they will vote, it is close. If you | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
distinguish between those who are definitely going to vote and those | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
who aren't, leave has a significant majority. If people judge this whole | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
debate as an intra- Tory spat, a lot of people will stay at home. I | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
suspect it will be the Europhiles who stay at home. I think this all | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
works to the advantage of the leave campaign. The more toxic the debate | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
becomes, I think it helps the Tory right. So, possibly the complete | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
opposite. I am relieved, that allows balance! The Express, OJ Simpson. | :12:00. | :12:09. | |
This story never seems to go away. A nice that has been found in the | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
house that formerly belonged to OJ Simpson has been discovered, but | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
apparently it had been in the possession of a police officer for a | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
long time, and we are hearing that he intended to put it on display | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
somehow. We don't even know whether it has anything to do with the death | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
of his wife. The details still need to come out in the wash, but as a | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
headline, how eye-catching was at this afternoon when we saw, knife | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
found that OJ's house. Anyone who was old enough to remember the mid- | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
90s and what happened will be interested in this story. I believe | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
there is a TV show at the moment going over the old ground in some | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
detail, that a lot of people are watching. It is a real revival. They | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
might have to make another episode of the TV show! It is a fantastic | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
archaeological find, and I understand that they also found the | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
part of the covenant and the holy Grail nearby. -- the Ark of the | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
covenant. I was at work, and somebody asked who OJ is. I said, | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
don't lie, you are not that young! Someone who is feeling very young | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
despite his venerable years. Rupert Murdoch has married Jerry Hall. I | :13:33. | :13:47. | |
don't understand why people are not happy about this. People have a lot | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
of reasons why they have relationships, and people see things | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
in each other that we can't seen each other, and I am very happy that | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
these two have found each other. You are romantic, I love it. I can think | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
of a few veteran journalists who will see some irony in Rupert | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
deciding to exchange vows on Fleet Street, the street he destroyed 30 | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
years ago almost single-handedly. Yes, he didn't choose to get married | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
in Wapping. No, and who would? It is an awful place, no one would want to | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
go work there. If you live in Wapping, we apologise. Thank you | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
both for coming. Hello and welcome to | :14:31. | :14:45. | |
Sportsday, I'm Azi Farni. Coming up, Great Britain | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
win gold at the World Track | :14:48. | :14:51. |