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