01/04/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the writer David Torrance and the Broadcast

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The 'i' leads with an allegation that the Royal Navy

It says the islands have been left without warship protection

for the first time since before the war of 1982.

The Mail reports on a plot to behead British troops.

It says the details emerged following the conviction

of Junead Khan for a similar plot against American

The Times says there's been fierce criticism of David Cameron's

handling of the steel crisis after China imposed huge tariffs

The Guardian reports that the Prime Minister has defended

Britain's decision to reject higher tariffs on Chinese steel,

as the Business Secretary Sajid Javed faces the anger of steel

The Financial Times reports that Tata Steel is just

"going through the motions" as hopes fade of a sale

The Telegraph says that as many as 33,000 people with granny flats

attached to their houses will face tax bills for second homes.

The Express says migrant mothers from other European Union countries

have cost the National Health Service ?1.3 billion

The Mirror leads with more details about the death of Ronnie Corbett.

The paper says he hid his suffering from Motor Neurone Disease

You could be forgiven for thinking to's paper review comes from the

1980s. There are so many stories that feel like they belong to 30

years ago. First of all, the plight of the steel industry. Here it is on

the times. Oh, the irony. Sorry, steal. China putting up a tariff

against British Steel, particularly Welsh steel. But Britain seem to be

so wary of doing the same for Chinese imports. But it's quite

interesting after a bad week for the government where we have had Anna

Soubry on Monday saying that all options were on the table.

We see that now there is a fresh human mediation for the British

government since it seems that not only has it now admitted that it has

been blocking the European Union efforts to stop China flooding the

EU with cheap steel by blocking its attempt, at raising tariffs, against

China, but China has no such problem in moving extremely swiftly because

we learn here in the times that ministers appear to have been caught

up in China's announcement which is that it is imposing new tariffs of

46% on some steel products produced in Japan, South Korea and the

European Union, and some of the very specific products that are targeted

and caught up in this union say in Wales is in fact products produced

in Newport by first Tata subsidiary. It is confusing with the government

saying one thing and the paper saying another. Trying to suggest

that it wasn't a matter of weeks or months ahead. A couple of the

newspapers today have that picture of Sajid Javid being confronted by

the steelworkers, lots of wagging fingers and angry looks. The quote

in the Guardian which appears to contradict the previous line is the

Prime Minister was speaking from Washington argues that the UK was

right to block plans, EU plans, as he argued they would rewrite not to

be the tariff rules on steel but the entire tariff infrastructure of the

EU. There is definitely been a change there and as you say, it has

not been a good week so far and that is yet another twist. Let's look at

what it says on the FT. Some commentators suggesting that it is

not really inch Tata's interest to find a buyer. The FT has various

quotes suggesting that Tata has already made up its mind. Others

speculating teaming up with a Dutch company. But there is an interesting

aspect to this within the UK. There are two plants in Lanarkshire,

Clydebridge and DL which survived the steel closures in the 80s, the

processed steel, and Tata sold those to the Scottish Government for ?1

and the government has subsequently sold on for ?1 so no cost for the

taxpayer and it seems that That he is wanting to turn them around. That

is a very particular type of processing, though, isn't it? A

niche operation. Although aspects of the new pot plants as well. I find

it weird that FT and the time tab mentioned -- haven't mentioned that.

Is there any suggestion that Liberty would be interested in the Welsh

plants? It has been raised, although that must be slightly political. Let

us move on. Staying with the Financial Times. This new tax is the

new stamp duty on second homes or investment properties and everybody

was trying to beat the April the 1st deadline giving solicitors are bit

of a headache as they were trying to get their conveyancing done. It

seems like a lot of the managed it. Yes, to the extent that the economic

's director no-ball Francis of the can construction products

Association is pointing out that there will be a distortion as a

result of this in property transactions, so big spike in the

first half of the year and then big dip. As everyone has been rushing to

beat the deadline. It is quite a major shift because by to let has

been around for 20 years, double the size of the Private rented sector.

People have done well out of it but it does distort the rental market

and it is interesting to me that it is a Conservative Chancellor that is

taking this action, that after all, the Conservatives are the property

owning democracy of home ownership. Even they are taking action to try

and tackle the distortions. It is a very British and dominant. It is

quite interesting to see these new lines caught my attention. The

British have become landlords in their millions as buy to let

mortgages were first launched 20 years ago doubling the size of the

Private rented sector. It has distorted the price, particularly in

the south-east. Isn't it looked upon as the madness for owning property

in France? I think the particular part, yes, France is a country where

you rent much more than you by and I think that French people find the

most bizarre is what they think is a very feudal system where you're

buying, for example, let's talk about London, you by, or in

Manchester Birmingham or wherever, and think you buy it outright and

then oh, no, after... You only have 100 or 110 please. This seems very

bizarre. This is wit to my eyes as well. In Scotland there is no such

system. It is all freehold. It is a very specifically English form of

property management. They have changed the tax rules on what is tax

deductible and what you get relief on as an owner. People still want to

buy them, even though there is not so much money, supposedly, going to

be in by two late fools not to look at the interest rates.

Hopefully most people don't put money under their mattresses because

that is not very advisable. What you do with money that you have? Bricks

and mortar is still seen as a way to protect your money. Although you

still need to have a lot of money to do buy to let as it takes a big

deposit. But what you don't do is build a granny flat. The Daily

Telegraph is telling us that granny flats are hit by tax rates and will

be regarded as stand-alone properties. If it spills over your

garage, can it really be regarded as a second property? An unintended

consequence, apparently of the new tax regime and it will catch 33,000

homeowners. I think there will be grannies, there will be families

really raking in their boots, particularly if you think about how

disjointed and different our lives are now and how the whole advantage

of having a grandparent or grandparents with you the whole

child care, the knowledge that is passed on and everything, and to be

caught up in something like that. And not having to put older people

in care homes. You can't even get out of this because you can't sell

it off? No, it seems an unintended consequence. To qualify for the 3%

extra stamp duty they must be valued at ?40,000 or more and be able to be

sold separate residence. I don't know much about granny flats and I

understand that will pre-much all of them. It is also the contrast with

the government, a few years ago it was encouraging people to have these

annex as a means to try to combat distortions within the property

market. It seems George Osborne hasn't done his homework. Maybe

though have to think about that. Let's look at the Guardian. This is

an appalling story. First man jailed for forcing his wife into servitude.

A lot of campaigners saying this is an important conviction. He had an

arranged marriage with a woman from Pakistan. They were apparently both

happy to get married but then his wife was treated in the most

appalling way. Yes, she was objected to two years to physical and mental

torture. He struck her, he threw tins of cat food at her, he sent

streams of abusive and demeaning text messages. He told her to jump

in front of a vehicle or read it, he broken nose, assaulted her. The list

just goes on. And it was a neighbour, we understand, who raised

the alarm as he saw her being pulled by her hair. On that point, it seems

legal experts and charities who described the case as

ground-breaking also describe it as the tip of the iceberg. The

implication is that there are a lot of other cases like this. But we

simply don't know about. One of the ways this remains a secret is as

this man did, the abuser, she said she felt like a prisoner. What they

do is isolate you. He made her work from 5am until 12pm, -- 12am, it you

get so little sleep. What sort of state are you in to go out and get

help. We need to make it clear that people can get help but, how do we

let them know? They are trapped. In most cases they're not given access

to telephones or the Internet because from the other person's

point of view it would be too risky. It's interesting on the sentencing,

it appears that there will be concurrent sentences and he could be

free within 12 months, as the Guardian says, less than half the

time that she lived under his control. Having worked at the

Conference, chaired Conference on trafficking to do with women in

prostitution, we think of police in this country -- we think of women

and think why don't they pick up the phone and call someone? A lot of

these women don't trust the police because the countries where they are

from the police are corrupt. You may think it's terribly easy to contact

the police that they may have all kinds of reasons for not contacting

them. And they are terrified to. And The "i" has a story

about the Royal Navy Why is that? Why can't we managed to

patrol these islands which the islanders of which tell us want to

remain British? According to the fuller story and according to

Labour, it is a cumulative effect of defence cuts from conservatives,

presumably from previous administrations over the last 20

years. Of course the MoD budget has not been safe from posterity over

the last two administrations. I'm not sure whether this is serious or

not, Emily Thornbury, the Shadow Defence Secretary, said the

situation is not acceptable and demand the MoD immediately dispatch

a warship to the region. Which may send an interesting signal to

Argentina which this week was told by the UN that they are the

Malvinas. . They do belong in a Marine territory of Argentina. This

is a UN working group that has come up with a ruling that is not legally

binding. Possibly to be compared in a different way with Julian Assange

some weeks ago working group who said he was having his human rights

infringed after being locked up in the Ecuadorian Embassy. It is a

catchy headline here. Britain struggles to patrol South Atlantic

while warship wait for repairs. When you have an economic problem and a

difficult situation at home, don't cry for Argentina, but they have a

lot to cry out, it's much easier to concentrate on a foreign matter. The

MoD has pointed out that they don't agree with that headline, it would

surprise you to hear. It is fully under control and the situation is

fine. Yes, I can't say radio one is my

station of predilection. Perhaps not target audience. Perhaps not. This

is what Radio 1 used to be about, distinctive music, new music. John

Peel and Jo Wiley. They used to flag up bands and acts that weren't

known. It's a difficult balancing act

It is the balance between the two. It would be nice to hear more new

music. Also its coverage of concerts and festivals. I think that is

extremely important to encourage new talent but they face a lot of

competition with streaming and all kinds of other things and of course

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