02/04/2016

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:00:00. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:20.With me are the political commentator Lance Price,

:00:21. > :00:31.and the Times columnist Matthew Syed.

:00:32. > :00:34.Tomorrow's front pages starting with:

:00:35. > :00:37.The Observer's main story is a poll it carried out on the EU referendum,

:00:38. > :00:41.which suggests the Out camp is leading.

:00:42. > :00:44.The Sunday Express claims police have been given six more months

:00:45. > :00:46.to find out what happened to Madeleine McCann,

:00:47. > :00:50.who went missing from a holiday apartment in Portugal nine years

:00:51. > :00:55.The Mail on Sunday alleges the government overspent its foreign

:00:56. > :00:57.aid budget by some two-hundred-million

:00:58. > :01:01.The Sunday Times carries an investigation into doping

:01:02. > :01:03.in sport, and claims one doctor has prescribed banned performance

:01:04. > :01:07.enhancing drugs to 150 well-known sporting figures.

:01:08. > :01:09.British aid to Tanzania is the headline on the Sunday

:01:10. > :01:12.Telegraph, which suggests the Foreign Office should suspend

:01:13. > :01:16.aid to East African nation of Zanzibar, following disputed

:01:17. > :01:21.elections there.And the Simpsons characters Smithers and Mr Burns

:01:22. > :01:24.are pictured on the front page of the Independent.

:01:25. > :01:27.Smithers is due to declare his love for his boss Mr Burns

:01:28. > :01:45.We'll get to that if we have time. We start the Sunday Times and doping

:01:46. > :01:57.scandal story. A British doctor claims he gave 150 sports stars...

:01:58. > :02:02.Quite an extraordinary admission. He used secret filming. He didn't say

:02:03. > :02:07.it, thinking it would become public. This hinges on the credibility of

:02:08. > :02:12.the doctor. He was talking to somebody who were saying they were a

:02:13. > :02:16.sprinter, who was in need of help, and he was using these names as a

:02:17. > :02:20.way of conveying his credibility and the idea that because the other

:02:21. > :02:25.stars are taking drugs, it might be a good idea for you to do so and any

:02:26. > :02:29.money for it. There is a lot of coverage on the inside pages and one

:02:30. > :02:37.would need to deconstruct it to see whether there is sufficient evidence

:02:38. > :02:40.to take this seriously. The wider context, very serious issues over

:02:41. > :02:46.the Tour de France the number of years ago. It seems to me as a

:02:47. > :02:50.sports journalist, I spend so much time talking about corruption,

:02:51. > :02:56.drugs, Fifa, people in suits leeching money, and it is a terrible

:02:57. > :03:01.shame for the people who are clean, which as many athletes and many

:03:02. > :03:06.officials. This doctor says he has never met a clean athlete. For the

:03:07. > :03:10.Times to go with this story, we have to stress we are the BBC cannot

:03:11. > :03:16.substantiate it. They must be fairly confident. You would think so, and

:03:17. > :03:22.they have got pages and pages of it. There is an awful lot of copy inside

:03:23. > :03:27.the paper about it. To put it on the front page suggests they have got

:03:28. > :03:30.confidence. But right there on the front page, it says even the Sunday

:03:31. > :03:38.Times has no independent evidence that this guy did treat the players.

:03:39. > :03:42.Or that the clubs were aware of it or anything else. So it is really

:03:43. > :03:49.just based on the secret recording of him. He may have been bragging,

:03:50. > :04:01.who knows. Let's talk about the observable stop the young hold the

:04:02. > :04:04.key to Briggs said. Brexit. It is whether the young people are

:04:05. > :04:11.actually going to turn out and vote at all. Whether or not you can rely

:04:12. > :04:15.on an opinion poll so early in the campaign, a lot of people have made

:04:16. > :04:19.up their minds, and they do say the report that when the do not knows

:04:20. > :04:22.are pushed, most of them said they were leaning towards staying in

:04:23. > :04:29.there that changes the poll somewhat. The interesting point is

:04:30. > :04:33.this one, that it seems the headline is the young hold the key to Brexit.

:04:34. > :04:37.It does seem that the young are broadly speaking more in favour of

:04:38. > :04:42.staying within the European Union than the older generation. This is

:04:43. > :04:47.fact, the older generations are those that are more likely to vote.

:04:48. > :04:51.If you cannot get the younger people who perhaps travel more, I'm

:04:52. > :04:57.familiar with European Union, have a less sort of... A different

:04:58. > :05:00.perspective, if you cannot get them to the ballot box when the

:05:01. > :05:06.referendum is held, then the main campaign have got a problem. This is

:05:07. > :05:12.an online poll, some are done by phone, they can give different

:05:13. > :05:14.results. I read a story about sampling techniques and polls and

:05:15. > :05:21.whether they take into account some of the anomalies you describe. And I

:05:22. > :05:28.fell asleep... No, I didn't, I found it very interesting! Opinion polls

:05:29. > :05:32.have come in for a real hard time since the general election. And I

:05:33. > :05:40.suspect that these will change all the way through to the boat itself.

:05:41. > :05:43.Young people are more in favour of staying in,/ the broader outlook on

:05:44. > :05:51.the world, and they are less likely to turn out to vote. But they are

:05:52. > :05:54.also not the people who voted for and European Community in the 70s,

:05:55. > :05:58.and a lot of people think, this is not what I voted for back then. The

:05:59. > :06:04.number of people voting for the second time in the EU referendum is

:06:05. > :06:09.actually relatively small. The key to whether we stay in not rest on

:06:10. > :06:12.those people who have grown up with the European Union, they don't ram

:06:13. > :06:17.begging before that, they don't remedy EC, they certainly don't

:06:18. > :06:23.remember Britain when it was outside any kind of European co-operation.

:06:24. > :06:27.So, for them, the EU is normal. The people who are the strongest views

:06:28. > :06:33.about pulling out, they still have a nostalgic view about what Britain

:06:34. > :06:37.used to be. The German firm offers steel plant hope. This is talking

:06:38. > :06:40.that the future of the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Matty. A

:06:41. > :06:46.suggestion that there might be a lifeline coming. If that is true. It

:06:47. > :06:55.is to double to know, given that tartar have been looking for a buyer

:06:56. > :07:00.for a long time.... -- Tata Steel. This will be a real lifeline. It is

:07:01. > :07:04.not just an economic scenario, this is a community. People pot-macro

:07:05. > :07:09.lives, families, and the knock-on effect of other industries which

:07:10. > :07:13.rely on this. This will give some hope and I don't think there will be

:07:14. > :07:17.taking it terribly seriously just yet. Other commentators suggest, why

:07:18. > :07:23.would you keep paying more than steel then you need to? If you can

:07:24. > :07:29.have cheap steel from Sweden and China, why would you do that? And

:07:30. > :07:33.also if you take on the British steel plants, you have this an

:07:34. > :07:36.enormous pension liability as well. You have to wonder about the timing

:07:37. > :07:40.of all this. The government was clearly taken by surprise by the

:07:41. > :07:43.Tata Steel announcement. If this deal was already a positivity,

:07:44. > :07:48.perhaps there is something about them trying to put Russia on the

:07:49. > :07:53.government to make a deal. Let's move the Mail on Sunday. 100 of them

:07:54. > :07:57.and T ?2 million is what we overspent on foreign aid last year

:07:58. > :08:02.by mistake. That is enough to keep poor Albert alive for six months

:08:03. > :08:11.which shows how much money it is losing every week. -- Port Talbot. I

:08:12. > :08:16.have to declare an interest in the Mail on Sunday a week ago ran a

:08:17. > :08:20.story that involved me with my picture in the paper, about the

:08:21. > :08:30.foreign aid budget, and how I was paid as a media consultant to go to

:08:31. > :08:35.Armenian... I would pay you two. I am pleased to hear that, added

:08:36. > :08:40.people want my e-mail address... The point was they got the figures wrong

:08:41. > :08:45.by 100% and they didn't check with me. They did not check details with

:08:46. > :08:52.me. So, I'm afraid when I read stories in the Mail on Sunday, I

:08:53. > :08:57.treat it all with a bit of a pinch of salt. That is not to say they

:08:58. > :09:02.haven't got a point, which is we are spending a lot of money on foreign

:09:03. > :09:04.aid. The vast majority of it is extraordinarily well spent and there

:09:05. > :09:08.are some very difficult decisions to be made and it is easy to criticise

:09:09. > :09:14.the few things here and there go wrong. I have suspicions about that.

:09:15. > :09:18.It is not just the fact that there was evidence that some of the money

:09:19. > :09:22.gets siphoned off in corruption, it is also the lack of evaluation that

:09:23. > :09:28.even in those schemes and about a nation that look good, they have

:09:29. > :09:30.glossy brochures, it looks like the narrative is very good, when

:09:31. > :09:36.randomised controlled trials evaluate that inflation to a

:09:37. > :09:42.controlled good, -- group, it is not doing any good at all. There is not

:09:43. > :09:45.enough rigour to test out whether these projects are making a

:09:46. > :09:50.difference in education, in terms of food and all the other things,

:09:51. > :09:55.disease and malnutrition. There was a great deal more than you give them

:09:56. > :09:59.credit for. It has got tighter and tighter in recent years. I have been

:10:00. > :10:03.involved through a charity in making applications for the money. The

:10:04. > :10:09.amount of evidence you have to give for the genuine impact that your

:10:10. > :10:13.schemes will have is considerable. The impact, unless it is assessed

:10:14. > :10:17.relative to a proper controlled trial, it is very doable to know

:10:18. > :10:23.whether it is making any difference because it is just observational

:10:24. > :10:27.data. Yes, but you have to see what difference it is making on the

:10:28. > :10:32.ground. Some of that Caley will be observational, does it look like

:10:33. > :10:36.they are better schools, a better assessment of the ability of

:10:37. > :10:40.journalists to hold governments to account, which is the sort of thing

:10:41. > :10:45.I was involved in, but it isn't possible to run controlled tests

:10:46. > :10:52.against every single foreign aid... If you did, your budget will be

:10:53. > :11:02.spent on that. The Telegraph, the anger of middle-class savers. 40,000

:11:03. > :11:12.family estates will have to pay in inheritance tax this year, which to

:11:13. > :11:15.us seems quite low. You would have thought it would be more. They are

:11:16. > :11:22.getting more money from the number of homes taxed. I think people get

:11:23. > :11:27.upset. They think they have paid VAT and everything else, and now one of

:11:28. > :11:31.my memory -- family members died and I have to pay tax again. But this

:11:32. > :11:38.hits much wealthier people. The idea that this is a middle-class tax, it

:11:39. > :11:43.is 40,000. But it hits more people this days. The threshold has gone

:11:44. > :11:48.up. But the body prices as also gone up. A lot of this is about a

:11:49. > :11:52.property, it is about the value of people pot-macro is. Clearly it is

:11:53. > :11:57.unfair whether value of people pot-macro has gone up and what

:11:58. > :12:01.started off as a rotary modest assets by the time they come to the

:12:02. > :12:05.end of their lives, has turned into a huge one. But if you think of the

:12:06. > :12:09.value of properties in London and the south-east, it is only 40,000

:12:10. > :12:15.families that appeared to be affected. Finally, another sports

:12:16. > :12:26.story. Fun and games with the Windies but England aim for the last

:12:27. > :12:33.laugh. West Indian women meeting Australia, too. Who is your money

:12:34. > :12:37.on? I heard someone say this is a good news story, no drugs, no

:12:38. > :12:42.corruption, it has a terrific competition. The bookies say even

:12:43. > :12:49.money, 11 to ten on the favourites but I am going to go for England. I

:12:50. > :12:58.haven't got a clue. No point sitting there and pretending. That is it

:12:59. > :13:01.bought this evening. But because it is Saturday, Matthew and love are

:13:02. > :13:07.staying and will come back later and I know you will be as pleased as we

:13:08. > :13:10.are. Coming up next, it is time for Reporters.