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:00:00. > :00:00.were beaten by Borussia Dortmund in Germany. -- Spurs. We will also have

:00:00. > :00:00.6-nation rugby, Twenty20 cricket and badminton. That's all after The

:00:00. > :00:16.Papers. Hello and welcome to

:00:17. > :00:18.our look ahead to what the papers With me are the barrister and

:00:19. > :00:23.broadcaster Sophia Cannon and Joe Watts, who's political correspondent

:00:24. > :00:28.at the London Evening Standard. The Times leads with what it calls

:00:29. > :00:30.the "extraordinary attack" by President

:00:31. > :00:35.Obama on David Cameron over Libya. In the Guardian, Labour's pledge to

:00:36. > :00:37.borrow billions of pounds to spend on public investment projects,

:00:38. > :00:40.combined with "iron discipline" Comments by the Archbishop

:00:41. > :00:48.of Canterbury that Britain has a genuine and justified

:00:49. > :00:51.fear of mass immigration make The Telegraph leads with

:00:52. > :00:56.the resignation of the chairman of the House

:00:57. > :00:57.of Commons Standards Committee. The i reports that George Osborne is

:00:58. > :01:00.to pave the way for inflation-busting rises

:01:01. > :01:08.in council tax. The European Central Bank's interest

:01:09. > :01:11.rates cut makes the lead story A daily vitamin drink costing ?3.50

:01:12. > :01:14.could help slow the progression of early onset Alzheimer's disease,

:01:15. > :01:17.according to the Daily Express. New Day says that a new

:01:18. > :01:34.combination of breast cancer drugs We haven't seen a lot of labour

:01:35. > :01:39.macro on the papers of late. What they are back on the Guardian. --

:01:40. > :01:48.Labour. The pledge of AU indiscipline. -- iron.

:01:49. > :01:53.McDonald is being very wise. After the election, it is clear the

:01:54. > :01:58.Conservatives didn't win it and the Labour lost it on the issue of

:01:59. > :02:02.fiscal credibility. He is trying to say that he will balance the budget

:02:03. > :02:11.in five years and moreover he will borrow money and spend that an

:02:12. > :02:13.investment. So it says there will be no shortcut for regaining financial

:02:14. > :02:17.credibility with the electorate. We have a long way to go before we can

:02:18. > :02:24.regain the trust that was lost after the financial crisis of 2008, which

:02:25. > :02:27.happened on Labour's watch. There is no silver bullet. It is key that

:02:28. > :02:40.Labour also has other people who want to be the Chancellor. We have

:02:41. > :02:46.Rachel Reeds, Angela Eagle and today we had Dan Jarvis talking about how

:02:47. > :02:52.he would do it better. Can Labour balance the budget? I hope so.

:02:53. > :02:54.Labour have addressed this in the past and acknowledged that they have

:02:55. > :03:00.to rebuild trust over the economy. Absolutely. If you look at how far

:03:01. > :03:04.behind George Osborne and David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls

:03:05. > :03:11.were on economic credibility, they were quite a long way behind. But

:03:12. > :03:17.McDonald and Corby are even further behind. The report into why Labour

:03:18. > :03:21.lost the election raised this issue quite broadly. One of the things it

:03:22. > :03:25.said was that Labour should never have given up the fight about

:03:26. > :03:29.allowing the Conservatives to pin the blame for the economic crash

:03:30. > :03:32.onto Labour and a lot of people said Labour should have fought back of a

:03:33. > :03:38.lot more harshly. It is interesting to hear McDonald say that it

:03:39. > :03:41.happened on their watch. He is not quite accepting any responsibility,

:03:42. > :03:46.but he says, look, we were there, it was our watch and to that extent we

:03:47. > :03:52.do bear responsibility for the time that it happened. To what extent is

:03:53. > :03:55.what he seemed slight revision of what he has previously said about

:03:56. > :04:01.how or we balance the books and over what timescale? In terms of talking

:04:02. > :04:05.about how he would balance it, it isn't too far different from what we

:04:06. > :04:08.have said before. They have been talking about balancing the

:04:09. > :04:11.day-to-day budget and about a link to invest before. I think the

:04:12. > :04:15.difference is that he is talking about it happening over on

:04:16. > :04:18.Parliament, says there is more meat on the bones, he is talking about

:04:19. > :04:26.giving new tough powers to the AB are hold the government to account.

:04:27. > :04:31.-- ABR. The report to Parliament, rather than the government. And if

:04:32. > :04:34.the ABR thinks the government isn't being credible or is pushing the

:04:35. > :04:39.boundaries of borrowing then it can raise the alarm. So there are few

:04:40. > :04:41.new measures, whether it works or convincing the public is another

:04:42. > :04:51.thing. But you've got to start somewhere. Let's look at Obama on

:04:52. > :04:55.the Independent. It says Obama savages Cameron over Libya, blaming

:04:56. > :05:03.France and the UK for not doing enough to stop Libya turning into a

:05:04. > :05:05.mess. I would love to be a party to the communications that are whizzing

:05:06. > :05:11.across the Atlantic as we speak. Downing Street must have been taken

:05:12. > :05:14.completely by surprise. It was an interview given to a magazine, it

:05:15. > :05:20.wasn't some off-the-cuff or overheard remark. It is right up

:05:21. > :05:25.there. This is Obama saying exactly what he thinks in public. It is

:05:26. > :05:33.quite an unusual thing for a sitting president to do. This was a Game of

:05:34. > :05:35.Thrones, House of Cards full frontal attack in writing. You can imagine

:05:36. > :05:43.the hotline between the US and the UK Robert Aleem burnt through. --

:05:44. > :05:47.probably burnt through. It is unprecedented for him to put the

:05:48. > :05:53.boot to Prime Minister while they are both in office. Even though this

:05:54. > :06:00.issue of Benghazi has its own echo in the States, what the president is

:06:01. > :06:03.saying is you showed up to the game and walked away at half-time and

:06:04. > :06:10.look at the mess and we laid firmly at your door. This is savage. Well,

:06:11. > :06:14.the White House has told the BBC, they are keen to make it clear, that

:06:15. > :06:18.the United States deeply values the special relationship with Britain.

:06:19. > :06:26.This was just hours after the criticism. For David Cameron, he has

:06:27. > :06:29.a lot going on domestically at the moment. The next election is a while

:06:30. > :06:35.away. Bat Francois Hollande has an election coming up. -- But. This

:06:36. > :06:39.could be a real kick in the teeth for him. The youth think this

:06:40. > :06:45.matters to the French people? They know France was involved in the

:06:46. > :06:51.airstrikes. The thing is, if people join the dots about what happened in

:06:52. > :06:55.2011 to what happened in France in 2015 and the current crisis, which

:06:56. > :07:03.is knocking on the door of Europe, yes, I think Hollande could be in

:07:04. > :07:06.trouble. But there was a lot of commentary about the fact that

:07:07. > :07:10.President Obama hasn't got involved to the extent that a lot of people

:07:11. > :07:14.would have liked him to in problems in the Middle East. He made it

:07:15. > :07:20.clearly wasn't going to, didn't he? You could understand I suppose, not

:07:21. > :07:23.necessarily here in Britain, but you could understand his frustration,

:07:24. > :07:30.but America has asked to do so much and Brits -- and gets criticised

:07:31. > :07:36.when they do it. They were trying to make sure they weren't getting too

:07:37. > :07:40.big for their boots with China. They have left a lot to the Europeans to

:07:41. > :07:48.sort out. This is him saying, look, you haven't cut the mustard. Moving

:07:49. > :07:52.onto the Telegraph. Cash probe. Labour MP stepping aside and the

:07:53. > :07:57.Telegraph says it is because of an investigation that they've held into

:07:58. > :08:02.events at Parliament. This is all wonderfully incestuous, how the

:08:03. > :08:08.common standard system works. We've got this commissioner who has made a

:08:09. > :08:12.complaint about how an MP has acted. One of the MPs on that panel has now

:08:13. > :08:18.had a complaint made about them to the commission. The commissioner is

:08:19. > :08:26.now investigating him and will go back to the panel that he sits on.

:08:27. > :08:33.What is his name? Kevin Barron. He has stepped aside, not stepped down.

:08:34. > :08:37.Legally, the overarching issue is whether Parliament is suffering and

:08:38. > :08:43.equally whether MPs should regulate themselves. Because some members of

:08:44. > :08:48.this body are not MPs and whether they should have a right to

:08:49. > :08:52.adjudicate upon naughty MPs, and bring them into line. This has been

:08:53. > :08:59.questioned. At the moment they are merely advising and they don't have

:09:00. > :09:04.any right on that panel. Lord Lester, a very famous QC, is looking

:09:05. > :09:11.at this whole issue of whether Lady members of this panel can regulate

:09:12. > :09:17.their MP peers. -- lay members. The issue of sleaze was raised in the

:09:18. > :09:25.90s. That's right. The whole issue is that recently we had Sir Malcolm

:09:26. > :09:29.Rifkind and Jack Straw saying laws were barred by this issue as well.

:09:30. > :09:36.It was pertinent and a question that is going to come back time and time

:09:37. > :09:41.again. The Daily Mail. Outrageous to dismiss the public's concerns. A

:09:42. > :09:47.warning that the Archbishop of Canterbury says, it isn't right to

:09:48. > :09:52.fear migration. It is we need to address the questions raised by

:09:53. > :09:55.migration head-on. If you look at what has happened over the past 20

:09:56. > :10:00.years, there are many people out there saying it is the fact that the

:10:01. > :10:05.fears haven't been addressed that has led in the UK and around Europe

:10:06. > :10:09.to the rise of more marginal political groups. Because they are

:10:10. > :10:11.the people who are talking about immigration first when the

:10:12. > :10:15.mainstream parties perhaps weren't addressing the fears that people

:10:16. > :10:20.had. So this is the Archbishop sort of coming to this debate now. What

:10:21. > :10:23.he is saying is saying isn't particularly controversial. Other

:10:24. > :10:29.people have saying we need to address these fears. As Johnson has

:10:30. > :10:32.been talking about it. -- Boris Johnson. But he is the Archbishop

:10:33. > :10:35.and it is important that he is giving voice to this issue. I am

:10:36. > :10:42.obviously the daughter of an immigrant. The debate goes way

:10:43. > :10:48.back, it goes back until... It is the issue that Englishness, is it so

:10:49. > :10:54.essential that it would be destroyed by immigration? Is it really saying

:10:55. > :11:01.that? Or is it about the practical issues of if you have tens of

:11:02. > :11:05.thousands of people arriving all at one time where do they live? Where

:11:06. > :11:11.do they go to school? I agree. It is perfectly normal to feel that you

:11:12. > :11:15.love parts of your country and your heritage and when there is a

:11:16. > :11:20.fundamental change, paradigms shift, which happens all at once, that is

:11:21. > :11:28.normal to react in a way that you would be concerned or worried. -- a

:11:29. > :11:32.paradigm shift. That is normal and I agree entirely with the Archbishop.

:11:33. > :11:38.Let's have a look at the Sun. These are pictures of Madonna on stage,

:11:39. > :11:44.suggesting she had been drinking, but we don't know whether she had.

:11:45. > :11:53.And the story is around access to two of her children. Yes. I think,

:11:54. > :12:06.like most mothers, we would be conflicted with this story. First of

:12:07. > :12:10.all, her sons are based overseas, one is adopted, money is adopted, on

:12:11. > :12:19.his/her own son, and it is this idea of how children change. -- one is

:12:20. > :12:23.her own. It is how you deal with this in modern families. I have a

:12:24. > :12:26.lot of sympathy for Madonna. I don't think it should be played out in

:12:27. > :12:30.public and I certainly don't think it would be right for me to comment

:12:31. > :12:38.any further. No, and of course it's a horrible matter and it is a rather

:12:39. > :12:43.lurid headline. But behind it a family in a great deal of pain. Yes.

:12:44. > :12:47.It shouldn't necessarily be completely played out in public, but

:12:48. > :12:50.then again Madonna is there onstage talking about it. These days

:12:51. > :12:53.especially people do kind of live their lives through celebrities,

:12:54. > :12:59.when celebrities go through something people relate to it and

:13:00. > :13:03.talk to -- about it more. Maybe one thing that will come out of it is

:13:04. > :13:10.people will talk more about this custody battles and that could be a

:13:11. > :13:13.good thing. The Times. Firstly, Cambridge students in political

:13:14. > :13:22.correctness row. There were supposed to be students at Pembroke College

:13:23. > :13:28.who are going to hold a themed party but decided against it. Why was

:13:29. > :13:31.that? There is a strange atmosphere in universities at the moment,

:13:32. > :13:37.whether people are being too politically correct about issues. We

:13:38. > :13:46.obviously had the thing with Cecil Rose and at Cambridge we have the

:13:47. > :13:48.issue of the bronze chicken, but I think was taken from Nigeria and

:13:49. > :13:59.they were talking about sending it back. -- that I think. There's

:14:00. > :14:03.nothing wrong with holding a party based on around the world in 80 days

:14:04. > :14:08.but given there is this atmosphere at the moment, the potential for

:14:09. > :14:12.offence was so great, but they just called it. The offence was supposed

:14:13. > :14:22.to because the buy dressing in costumes of different cultures. One

:14:23. > :14:26.of the first memories I have is of dressing in national costume. What

:14:27. > :14:32.it is one thing to get your national costume and another to dress in

:14:33. > :14:38.another's cultural costume. I like to dress my twins as a cowboy and

:14:39. > :14:45.native Indian. You do? Not any more. It is not seem to be politically

:14:46. > :14:56.correct. But an Indian headdress on a child, unless they are a native

:14:57. > :15:00.American. -- don't put. This is music to my ears! I think we have

:15:01. > :15:03.some breaking news in a second. I shall have a look at that in a

:15:04. > :15:16.moment. Staying with the Times. A picture of a little dog. It is

:15:17. > :15:26.called" -- called 'Stupid Dog Picture'. This one has its hair in

:15:27. > :15:32.curlers. It isn't so stupid. Culturally insensitive, I'm sure! It

:15:33. > :15:35.is the whole idea that when you turn to social media people in equal

:15:36. > :15:41.numbers talk about their dogs, their cats and their children. It's a

:15:42. > :15:45.multi-million pound industry and moreover people want to know which

:15:46. > :15:54.breed is this and who is doing what. But it isn't a lot of dignity

:15:55. > :16:00.for that dog. No, but it brings in the billions like to watch and

:16:01. > :16:03.equally like to see what happening. I have a crossbreed, formerly known

:16:04. > :16:07.as a mongrel. She would not take kindly to that happening. Thank you

:16:08. > :16:13.both for looking at the papers for us tonight. A bit of breaking news.

:16:14. > :16:17.The former US presidential candidate Ben Carson has announced that he is

:16:18. > :16:24.going to endorse Donald Trump in his race for the White House. That's

:16:25. > :16:27.just come to us via Reuters, quoting the Washington Post. The former US

:16:28. > :16:30.presidential candidate Ben Carson will endorse Donald Trump. Coming up

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