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Hello and welcome to our look ahead of what the papers will be bringing | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
in the morning. Joining me is the political correspondent at the | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Evening Standard and the broadcaster John Stapleton. Welcome. A look at | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
those front pages first. The FT is saying that the new Work and | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabb, stunned Parliament by suggesting the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
government's welfare crackdown was at an end. The ice is the welfare | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
U-turn has fostered the Budget and that Mr Osborne's plans lie in | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
ruins. -- The i says. The teenager jailed for the | :00:48. | :01:00. | |
manslaughter of PC David Phillips yelled "Watch this" before he ran | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
over the police officer. The paper says the jurors were not told that | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
beforehand. That story also leads in the Daily Mirror. It says the young | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
daughter of the police officer begged her mother to bring him home. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
And how she dreams that her husband is still life is in the New Day. The | :01:22. | :01:33. | |
cost of investigating child abuse has gone above ?1 billion a year, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
according to the Times. The mail calls the end of operation midland | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
without any prosecutions a humiliation for Scotland Yard. We | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
will cover most of those in the next 15 minutes. Let's start with the FT. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
The coverage of Tories, and welfare cuts, and what they are describing | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
as turmoil. It is astonishing, really. When you think back a week | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
ago to the eve of the Budget, and the one thing George Osborne had to | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
do was to deliver a safe Budget, non-confrontational, keep his | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
backbenchers happy, given there is so much banks than division going on | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
over the referendum, anyway. But that hasn't happened. The last few | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
days gives you prove it hasn't happened. And what was branded a | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Budget shambles last time with the tax credits cuts. With the tax | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
credits U-turn after it was defeated in the House of Lords. That's almost | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
pales into insignificance with the resignation of the Work and Pensions | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Secretary. Touring and for between the government, between Cameron and | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
George Osborne, IDS on the other, and it all blowing up today with the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Conservatives this afternoon in the House of Commons. -- toing and | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
froing. The FT reports that there is unlikely to be any other welfare | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
cuts other than those announced. But are there? To make ends meet, to | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
make sure the figures stack up. I came away from this puzzled. He | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
created a clear impression there would be no more welfare cuts within | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
this Parliament. But within a short time I was hearing his department | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
saying, hang on, he is saying there are no plans for welfare cuts, which | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
is a different thing. There are no plans at the moment. There could be | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
some in 18 months. They want to keep their options open. It could be a | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
further shambles. The government will not be coming forward with any | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
further... Exactly, and some have already been announced, which due to | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
the implement it. The big problem this creates is George Osborne had | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
banked on welfare cuts providing ?4.4 billion worth of savings. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Already having missed one or two of his three fiscal rules, he is now | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
desperate to meet the last one for the economy to be in surplus. How do | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
you fill the shortfall? Where is it going to hit? Councils, policing? | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Are they going to come forward with more welfare cuts? The Budget is | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
huge for welfare. Will the government finally decide they will | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
have to that have other aspects of the welfare system? One of the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
criticisms from Iain Duncan Smith over the weekend was they seemed | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
prepared to cut from the most needy in society, the disabled, but not | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
looking at the perks for those who can afford it. A good quote from the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
new Work and Pensions Secretary, behind every statistic there is a | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
human being, and perhaps sometimes in government we forgot that. It is | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
a bit late. I was in the House of Commons and that was met by a feud | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
guffaws on the opposite benches. Exactly. -- few. George Osborne and | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
Iain Duncan Smith were nowhere to be seen. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Take us to the Telegraph, John. They are sticking with the same topic. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
But interestingly the Mayor of London has had something to say. | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
Yes, Boris Johnson, she spends a lot of time following him. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Professionally speaking. Guess, not a super fan, professionally. He | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
branded the welfare cuts a mistake. -- yes. While we only hearing this | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
now from Boris? Why didn't the signal his disquiet about this? As | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
one could say about Iain Duncan Smith. He supported this proposal, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
apparently, didn't say anything when the government hinted at the back | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
end of last week they would be withdrawing it. Then suddenly, at | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
the very end of the week, says sorry, I have had enough, I am | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
going. Why didn't any of them come out and say they were against it? | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Tiny, positioning. It is also about personalities. The Daily Mail | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
pointed that out today. And a few hours after, I interviewed Boris | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Johnson, and the topic didn't come up. We are talking about housing, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
business rates, and the ship attacks. He didn't mention it. And | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
there are rumours that he has been away this weekend. -- sugar tax. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Being away has never stopped Boris Johnson. I think it is fair to say | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
that Boris's decision to weigh in now will depend on how low George | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
Osborne's stock goes. I am referring to your reference of personality in | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
politics. This is about the context now for the leadership of the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Conservative Party. In some quarters there is a feeling that irrespective | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
of the outcome of the referendum David Cameron will face a leadership | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
battle. As a keen observer, would you reckon George Osborne's chances | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
of the leadership are dead and buried? I wouldn't say dead and | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
buried. Boris Johnson and George Osborne have gone up and down. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Certainly in the past George Osborne has hit problems with previous | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
budgets but managed to rebuild. Yes. And he had a repeat a shot being a | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
lucky Chancellor, who found ?27 billion down the back of a House of | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Commons sofa. He is a formidable political operative. The big problem | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
for him in all of this is it confirms the stereotype, that he | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
lacks heart, and it is all about the political manoeuvring. Boris will be | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
looking to capitalise on this. If nothing else, and he is the most | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
popular politician in the country because he is full of charisma and | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
cheer, the public like that about him, it is a stark contrast. What | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Boris before now was lacking was a natural constituency on the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
backbenches, which he would need to succeed in order to win a leadership | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
context, or even get down to the final two. His Brexit position | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
helped that. Suddenly he had the support of half of the backbenches. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
This will support him further. The gap between him and George Osborne | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
has always been exemplified in the Treasury's mind and the supporters | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
of it as Boris being the buff who knew run anything, and Osborne was | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
always the dependable one. -- Boris being the buffoon. John, take us to | :08:36. | :08:47. | |
the New Day. When I dream I sleep my husband is alive and we are | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
together. This is the wife of the murdered police officer. So brutally | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
murdered by Clayton Williams, a 20-year-old, lout, frankly, a drug | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
addict. And it was manslaughter in the end. Not guilty of murder. He | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
stole a car. He ran over PC David Phillips who was trying to stop him. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
A victim's statement, which I heard courtesy of the BBC News at | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
lunchtime, was devastated, actually. She talked about the fact that she | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
dreams at night, she wakes up, thinks he is beside her, and he | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
isn't there. Her seven-year-old now has nightmares. This lout has | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
devastated their lives. She is a very brave lady. She gave interviews | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
after the court case. Very composed and considered. The poor woman and | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
her entire family, having their lives turned upside down by this | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
idiot. It is devastating. Several other newspapers focusing on it, as | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
well. Before we look at some of the other stories, let me remind those | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
of you just joining us of those front pages we have been talking | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
about. The FT talking about the Tories' end to welfare cuts in a bid | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
to end turmoil. The i Is featuring the welfare U-turn. Boris Johnson's | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
remarks on the subject on the Daily Telegraph. And you will see the | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
Metro's take on PC David Phillips and what his widow has said. The | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Daily Mirror with that story, as well. Then you can see the New Day | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
that John was alluding to. And the times with the police investigation | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
to alleged BIP paedophile activities and the Daily Mail focusing on that, | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
as well. We will stay with that. The Daily Mail is, as you saw, | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
fleetingly making no secret of where it stands on that story. Yes. Not | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
impressed with Scotland Yard, to say the least, and the fact that the IP | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
paedophile murder enquiry, operation Midlands, took 16 months, cost ?1 | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
million and did not result in a single conviction. -- VIP paedophile | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
murder. They described it as a shambles. It says it is an | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
embarrassment for the force. That it should be apologising for the lives | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
it has ruined, the reputations it has shattered. Strong words. The sun | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
newspaper has also got a comment, can he stay, the Met commissioner, | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
can he stay in charge when their only surviving member of the now, | :11:44. | :11:55. | |
and let it -- alleged survivor of the paedophile ring should stepped | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
down. There will be a lot of questions. People will say of course | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
in this situation the police didn't reach the situation they should have | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
done. But what happens when somebody does turn out to have done | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
something? A number of problems for the Metropolitan. Early on in the | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
enquiry a very senior officer said there had been references to the | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
boy, boy at the time, making the allegations. They said it was | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
credible. Now we have found other isn't even sufficient evidence to | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
that the case forward. Secondly, not the way they did, but in | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
circumstance -- secondly, not what they did, but the way they did it in | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
certain circumstances. Particularly with those who were named as | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
culprits. I don't go along with the notion that just because an enquiry | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
to result in a prosecution that the boss should resign. They have no | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
option. If somebody makes a complaint of this nature, a serious | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
allegation, they have no option but to investigate. The Times has an | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
interesting line saying the police are spending ?1 billion per year on | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
child sex abuse cases. I was talking not that long ago to a senior police | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
officer who was telling me about this. He said we have to investigate | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
this. It is our duty. They are terribly, terribly time-consuming, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
and the more of these cases we do the more people come forward. Which | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
is a good thing. We cannot knock the fact people will come forward | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
because of it. But it is time consuming. And because of the | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
historical nature, they will not result in a prosecution, which begs | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
the question, should we have a statute of limitation? One more, it | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
will have to be fleeting, Novak Djokovic, sexist prize money plan is | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
what The i are calling it. The ball is in your court. Martina | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Navratilova has suggested that women could boycott tournaments over | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
parity of prize money and have a tennis players, men or women, are | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
viewed by the organisers. I don't dig it is a bad idea. There have | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
been many high profile tennis players from Martina Navratilova, | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
over the years, to the Williams sisters, to many others, and I think | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
they should stick it to them. -- I don't think it is a bad idea. Stick | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
if you tennis balls at them. CHUCKLES | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Thank you both very much indeed. Before we go, let me just remind you | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
of some of the front pages. The Guardian saying David Cameron was | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
forced to concede that the ?4 billion black hole created by | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
scrapping disability cuts would not be filled by reducing spending. The | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Independent is calling George Osborne the missing Chancellor after | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
he didn't attend the Budget debate in the House of Commons today. PM | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
Harvey Proctor has called for the head of the Metropolitan Police to | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
stand down. Do not forget, after this show you can see all of the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
front pages online on the BBC website, and you can read a detailed | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
review of the papers on there seven days a week. And you can see each | :15:21. | :15:34. | |
edition of The Papers every day straight after we have finished. | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
It has been settled across much of the UK recently with little rain. | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
Another couple of essentially dry days over the next two days. Then it | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
turns wet and windy from Thursday. Overnight it | :15:59. | :16:00. |