:00:00. > :00:00.events from the Cheltenham Festival by Tom Scudamore won the big race of
:00:00. > :00:17.the day, the world hurdle. That is in 15 minutes after the papers.
:00:18. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:21. > :00:24.With me are Liam Halligan Economics correspondent at The Sunday
:00:25. > :00:30.Telegraph and broadcaster Penny Smith.
:00:31. > :00:38.We are going to kick off with the disability benefit story and some
:00:39. > :00:49.unhappy Conservative MPs. Compare and contrast the i. Osborne's
:00:50. > :00:55.enriches the 10% richest of households. You do wonder if anybody
:00:56. > :01:00.thought do you know what, this is a really bad idea, cutting taxes for
:01:01. > :01:05.the rich and taking all the money from the disabled, surely somebody
:01:06. > :01:11.somewhere said maybe not. Should we just not. It's Budget Day two, we
:01:12. > :01:19.have gone from do the numbers add up and will he get his selfless to the
:01:20. > :01:25.sugar tax, was it all a diversionary tactic to save ?1.3 billion, a hefty
:01:26. > :01:30.slice of cash but not much in the overall scale of public finances.
:01:31. > :01:35.What the government now has realised is that it only has a majority of 12
:01:36. > :01:43.and there are plenty of Tories, not the majority of course who are
:01:44. > :01:48.against Britain leaving the European Union, there could be a lot of
:01:49. > :01:51.trouble for the Chancellor, a lot of this has to be seen through the
:01:52. > :01:58.prism of the upcoming referendum and when you have Eurosceptic Tories and
:01:59. > :02:04.Labour MPs getting together, getting the Chancellor in Havelock, his life
:02:05. > :02:07.will be difficult. You said 300,000 people may be affected, and some
:02:08. > :02:14.interpretations and and the Telegraph it is more 640. They could
:02:15. > :02:20.have their so-called independence payments removed which for many is
:02:21. > :02:24.important. George Osborne has said overall spending on disability
:02:25. > :02:28.spending is going up and I quote, the most honourable people will be
:02:29. > :02:32.protected. The trouble is no matter which way you cut it, no matter
:02:33. > :02:36.which way you slice it, it would not have seemed quite so bad to so many
:02:37. > :02:41.people I am sure and he may well be able to spin it some other way
:02:42. > :02:46.except that it is the richest 10% of households which are getting richer.
:02:47. > :02:51.And that is the fundamental problem. It is a rapid retreat. They don't
:02:52. > :02:58.want to have anything kicking around that people can use to get angry in
:02:59. > :03:05.the to the referendum. If you are one of the third of British voters
:03:06. > :03:12.in filly the fence, this could be a reason why, I think it is out of
:03:13. > :03:15.order. There will be lots of people who are thinking I don't need the
:03:16. > :03:21.extra money at the expense of disabled people. Let's move on to
:03:22. > :03:31.new day. From the government 's point of view,... This is rather
:03:32. > :03:35.good women have paid out more than ?240 million in VAT in the last
:03:36. > :03:42.years another tampon tax is dead. This has come from Europe. It is
:03:43. > :03:47.very interesting. The EU has a rule that there should be a minimum of 5%
:03:48. > :03:53.VAT on everything and then for things that aren't we have to get
:03:54. > :03:56.waivers. Food medicine and other essentials. Until recently women's
:03:57. > :04:06.parts filly sanitary products were David Cameron has been to a European
:04:07. > :04:10.summit and he is saying to the people there, you have to give me
:04:11. > :04:16.something because it looks as though we can't control our own taxation
:04:17. > :04:24.ends products and it is not clear it will happen but it's seems to have
:04:25. > :04:28.support on this product. Also it is not that necessary to have a race
:04:29. > :04:35.for a man because many people don't use them. The hipsters. Once again
:04:36. > :04:42.the policies you will see up to June the 23rd will be seen through the
:04:43. > :04:51.prism. Staying with taxes, there might be another one on Kofi Kops?
:04:52. > :04:59.-- the cups? I didn't realise you couldn't recycle these paper cups.
:05:00. > :05:03.It is a blend of paper and plastic. Which makes it complicated and
:05:04. > :05:07.difficult. I have stopped using them since then because I thought if I
:05:08. > :05:10.have not got time to sit down and have a copy then I will make one
:05:11. > :05:15.when I get to work or when I'm sitting at home. There is a
:05:16. > :05:18.difference with a plastic bag tax because if you go into a supermarket
:05:19. > :05:24.buying if you did you don't necessarily need a bag but you do
:05:25. > :05:28.need a cup. What do you say put it in the pocket. You do need a
:05:29. > :05:31.receptacle of some description so will people carry around their own
:05:32. > :05:39.plastic cups in their bags's why not. It takes more room than a
:05:40. > :05:45.plastic bag stuck in your briefcase. In the olden days if you when forgot
:05:46. > :05:54.you would sit down and you would get a biscuit. Nowadays people expect to
:05:55. > :05:59.rush in, get their fix and rush out again and actually if you care about
:06:00. > :06:06.your coffee, have a quick espresso, Negi tank get out. Rory Stewart is a
:06:07. > :06:09.pretty clever guy, the environment minister. He is not somebody likely
:06:10. > :06:16.to have spoken completely off-the-cuff. He has put some
:06:17. > :06:22.thought into this. It is billions of cups that end up in landfills. Smell
:06:23. > :06:31.the copy. School parent governors. To be scrapped according to the
:06:32. > :06:36.front of the Guardian? I'm a school governor so I'm reading this
:06:37. > :06:40.closely. The rules as they currently stand there are slots on boards of
:06:41. > :06:47.governors specifically for parents, they don't have to bring any skills
:06:48. > :06:56.that they can be elected by other parents. In the new White Paper the
:06:57. > :07:01.Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has floated the idea that these roles
:07:02. > :07:07.may be abolished in favour of folk with specific skills that might be
:07:08. > :07:11.useful. That doesn't mean that parents can't be elected at they
:07:12. > :07:17.have to have some of those skills. That is a loss. That is a loss for
:07:18. > :07:20.the governance of our schools if a parent who is not normally in
:07:21. > :07:26.business but could have all kinds of interesting insights from outside
:07:27. > :07:31.the world of boardrooms and office politics cannot become a governor
:07:32. > :07:36.because a lot of these parents end up writing up the hierarchy to
:07:37. > :07:41.become chairs and deputy chairs. And what do they bring when they do all
:07:42. > :07:46.of that? General streetsmart in what kids need and want which people with
:07:47. > :07:54.lots of professional qualifications sometimes don't necessarily have.
:07:55. > :08:02.The union don't look happy on this. It has come hot on the heels of
:08:03. > :08:07.saying every school needs to be an academy so I imagine it is being
:08:08. > :08:15.knocked around from pillar to post. And six from colleges. We will have
:08:16. > :08:21.more time but for the moment, thank you both for coming. That is it for
:08:22. > :08:30.The Papers this hour. We are back in an hour's time. Stay with us.
:08:31. > :08:32.Stay with us here on BBC News: At eleven, the Chancellor rejects
:08:33. > :08:35.growing criticism of his Budget, amid warnings of a slowdown
:08:36. > :08:59.But coming up next it's time for Sportsday.
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