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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
With me are the journalist and author Rachel Shabi | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
and Toby Young, author and associate editor | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
Tomorrow's papers, starting with the FT. | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
The FT's main picture features three serving leaders implicated | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
in the Panama tax leaks story - Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson from Iceland, | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The Kremlin said "Putinphobia" was behind the leaks. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
"Wish you were hiding your money here" is The i's take | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
They say that half the companies exposed are based in | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
The Telegraph lead on a poll claiming that the EU Remain campaign | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
is gaining ground with the headline, "project fear is working". | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
A handful of walnuts a day could help us live longer | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
by preventing heart disease according to research published | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Back to the Panama Papers in the Guardian. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
They put David Cameron centre stage, they say the PM has insisted his | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
late father's offshore fund, which avoided paying any tax | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
That's also the top story in The Times. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
They claim that Ian Cameron's investment fund paid no UK tax | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
And The Mail also go with those leaked documents, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
"Cameron dragged into Tax havens storm." | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
No letters talk about some of those stories. We will start with The | :01:46. | :01:55. | |
Guardian that has access to a lot of the leaked material. Rachel, tell us | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
what they have on their front page. There are going with David Cameron's | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
father. They are focusing on a couple of things on the front page, | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
they followed from these leaks but also David Cameron and the fact that | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
his father avoided paying UK tax. David Cameron has insisted that this | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
is a private matter and he says it was looked into if years ago, or he | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
responded to it if you years ago. This is problematic when the father | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
of the Prime Minister is making use of these tax havens. I don't think | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
it is problematic. There are two things I find really annoying. The | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
liberal left led by The Guardian condemns The Daily Mail as morally | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
disgusting for using Ed Miliband's father to attack him when they ran | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
that story about Ralph Miliband. Why is it acceptable to use David | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
Cameron's father to attack him when it is unacceptable to use Ed | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Miliband's father to attack him? Whatever your view about the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
morality of using tax shelters offshore to legally avoid paying | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
tax, I don't see how David Cameron can be held responsible for the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
actions of his father. If he can then every single Guardian | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
journalist is equally responsible because they use the tags heading in | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
2008. -- they use the tax haven. If the Prime Minister's late father is | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
named in these kinds of documents it would be strange of the newspaper | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
didn't mention it. It would be audited and mention it but the | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
suggestion is that there is something dodgy. He benefited from | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
his father's perfectly legal use of tax shelters, but he had no choice | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
over whether to benefit or not. He had no choice about whether to | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
benefit but he could stop bashing people who do not have the | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
privileges he had, but more importantly he is the Prime | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
ministers since he has the power to close these loopholes. The whole | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
thing that it's still annoying is not who has benefited or not, it is | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the fact that the people that are benefiting from it are so closely | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
allied to the governments that failed to prevent its. This idea | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
that the Prime Minister has the power to close the loopholes is only | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
partly true, because if you're going to resolve this issue, and you can | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
debate how serious it is, it has to be global. Of course, I'm not saying | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
the David Cameron is any more guilty. There is a conclusion of the | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
leaves are perpetuated the system and they are in it together. It is | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
an important story and it reveals the extent of corruption by | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
political leaders across the globe, but the attempt to turn it into a | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
partisan issue and to use it to bash the Conservatives or capitalism or | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
the leaders in the West is ridiculous. The only way you can | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
improve it is not a partisan story is that there was a progressive | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn and they did not close the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
loopholes. Then you create accused them of being hypocritical. George | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
Osborne has close more tax loopholes in his six years than Gordon Brown | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
did in ten years. That is why said a progressive Labour government. It | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
strikes me it is not necessarily a left- right issue. The issue of | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
whether people should pay the right amount of tax. That is what is so | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
annoying to most people is the fact that most people are bearing the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
brunt where we are paying our taxes and taking collective responsibility | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
for the running of the country and elites are not. They are getting a | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
way out. It emerged that the last general election that Labour's | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
greatest and it was the tax avoid. One of the reasons Ken Livingstone | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
lost the mayoral election was because it emerged he was avoiding | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
tax, powerful illegally. This was one of the loopholes that George | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Osborne shut down. We need to move on. The Financial Times, they are on | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
the same story. They have taken the more international view of it in | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
terms of who else is mentioned and might be feeling uncomfortable. I | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
think this is a blow against David Cameron and it will be forgotten | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
about in 24 hours. I hope it will not. The story about Vladimir Putin | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
is much more serious. The story is that people closely connected to him | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
are funnelling billions of pounds through these offshore tax shelters | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
and investing in the alias industries -- in various industries. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
It paints a picture of Vladimir Putin at the centre of a web of | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
corruption, which comes as no surprise to anyone who has been | :07:34. | :07:44. | |
following his regime. This will hurt Labour because of links with | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Vladimir Putin. You are now free styling to ludicrous degree. I am | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
denying that connection. We should focus on... We must... No leader is | :07:57. | :08:08. | |
any less more guilty than the other. To say that Vladimir Putin is more | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
corrupt... To say he is more corrupt then David Cameron is wrong? You | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
have to let me finish one sentence. There are other things coming and we | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
will hear about other leaders. This points to corruption on a scale that | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
is very widespread. I do not think it is justifiable for the Kremlin to | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
accuse the British media or the global media of being against likely | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
near Britain because other leaders have also been accused. -- being | :08:43. | :08:58. | |
against Britain. -- Vladimir Putin. Somehow the accusations against | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Vladimir Putin cannot be presented as being similar. They are all | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
avoiding paying tax. I'm going to move it all now. There is another | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
subject here you both agree on, Project Fear is working is the front | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
page of The Daily Telegraph. We were talking about this earlier and we do | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
agree that who can trust the polls as they seem to be swinging every | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
day. I don't think anything can be revealed from which way the polls | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
are going, but I do think that the gentleman quoted in this piece has | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
said the one true thing he will ever say which is that the outcome of the | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
referendum will hinge on which side can turn out their supporters. I | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
think that is likely to be the case. I fear that a lot of people will | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
stay at home. I think The Daily Telegraph has over emphasising the | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
results of this poll, the paid for it. It is the telephone poll and | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
generally they show a stronger trend to remain badly. The general trend | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
over the past couple of weeks has been towards leaving rather than | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
remaining, insofar as there is any detectable movement in the polls and | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
we need to take it with our pension of salt especially as they could not | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
affect the last general election results. Rachel made the point about | :10:40. | :10:49. | |
turnout been key. The campaigns are virtually tied at the moment so this | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
idea of the people who are not sure whether they will bother will make a | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
difference. Project Fear doesn't alienate a lot of people. They will | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
be less likely to vote and the lower the turnout than were likely they | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
are to win. You could argue that the campaign to leave is also quite | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
fearful and they are turning people away in equal numbers. Note The | :11:16. | :11:32. | |
Times. They were talking about people preaching jihad. This goes | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
back to 1993. It is a terrible story. The story has been uncovered | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
by Andrew Norfolk from The Times and is producing good journalism these | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
days. This story is that one of the biggest Islamic sects which controls | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
almost half of the 16,000 mosques in Britain invited an extremist cleric | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
for a 30 day visit in 2003. He went on a tour of the mosques lecturing | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
young Muslims and urging them to seek weapons training in Pakistan | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
and they are linking this to one of the London suicide bombers, who it | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
seems attended one of these lectures. It speaks to the wider | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
story about the tolerance within our own news on community for Islamic | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
extremism being far greater than is often claimed by representatives of | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
the Masonic unity. I don't think it points to that at all. This is a | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
really frightening story and it is very troubling if it is true. I | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
don't think there is intolerance for Islamist extremism amongst British | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
Muslim communities. I have spent a lot of time with those people and | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
they are just as worried as anyone else. There was a BBC poll a few | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
years ago after the Charlie Hebdo though murders where a large number | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
of Muslims said that they got what was coming to them. I don't think | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
they said they got what was coming to them. Are we talking about | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Charlie Hebdo? There is a difference between condemning what happens to | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
the cartoonist which everyone does and, at the same time, questioning | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
the kinds of cartoons they were running. No one is suggesting that | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
to question Charlie Hebdo is to condemn them to death. A bit like to | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
get one more story and if I can. I know you sought earlier ritual. It | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
is in The Telegraph. This is a story saying that magicians are failing to | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
check children because they do not blink as much as adults and the | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
premise of this is that slight of hand happens when you blink and | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
because children do not blink predictably... It seems like | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
complete rubbish. The notion that children are not taken in by magic | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
because they blink too much. When the magician takes the woman out of | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
the cabinets and Solitaire and have, the rest of us are blinking so we do | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
not notice. It was on the front of The Telegraph so it must be true and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
accurate. On that note thank you both very much. | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Thank you Rachel Shabi and Toby Young. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
These headlines have just come in. There is an alarming rise in | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
children self harming. The Daily Mirror says that the Prime Minister | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
also has questions to answer. And The Independent says that Europe | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
closes its doors to refugees under the EU's repulsive. Do not forget | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
that the front pages are lying on the BBC news website where you can | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
read them in detail. You can see us there as well. Each addition of The | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Papers was posted on the page shortly after we had finished. Now | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
it is time for the weather. The heaviest of the showers have now | :15:43. | :15:58. | |
faded away. There was thunder and lightning earlier Ron but that is | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
now mostly gone. For the rest of the night | :16:02. | :16:03. |