09/04/2016

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:00:21. > :00:21.I was just commenting that Anthony south of the weather

:00:22. > :00:25.I was just commenting that Anthony Joshua has won the boxing. Welcome

:00:26. > :00:30.to our look at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

:00:31. > :00:31.With me are the political commentator Jo

:00:32. > :00:34.Phillips and Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday People.

:00:35. > :00:40.The Sunday Telegraph leads with the story that dominates tomorrow's

:00:41. > :00:43.the details of the prime minister's financial affairs, after David

:00:44. > :00:50.The Sunday Times also has the story, including a claim that the PM could

:00:51. > :00:53.avoid paying on inheritance tax on a gift from his mother,

:00:54. > :00:57.Cameron's decision to be transparent is hailed as "historic"

:00:58. > :01:05.But it says the PM now faces a fresh row about his wealth.

:01:06. > :01:10.The financial disclosures also make the front of the Observer

:01:11. > :01:12.which concedes is "unprecedented" by a sitting Prime Minister.

:01:13. > :01:16.And the Express also pours over the details but says it also wants to

:01:17. > :01:28.The Sunday Times is one of those with this on the front page. PM

:01:29. > :01:36.reveals hidden wealth. Cameron could now avoid inheritance tax on

:01:37. > :01:38.?200,000 gift from mother. So inevitably everybody is spending

:01:39. > :01:44.their Saturday afternoon is looking out the fine print. What did you

:01:45. > :01:49.find? We didn't get this bit, for a start, which is quite interesting

:01:50. > :01:54.and again he didn't put enough out there. So it's a bad headline for

:01:55. > :02:01.something that is actually quite good. As far as the tax return goes

:02:02. > :02:03.it tells us exactly what he paid, ?76,000 last year in total. He

:02:04. > :02:11.should have done it four years ago, which is when he promised to do it.

:02:12. > :02:15.The problem he has had all week is not disclosing what he should have

:02:16. > :02:20.disclosed. What it was easy. Just be honest and upfront about it. Once

:02:21. > :02:31.again it there was a little bit here that we didn't know about before.

:02:32. > :02:37.Nigel is absolutely right. It is a classic on how not to handle a

:02:38. > :02:44.crisis. The story itself is not damaging. And David Cameron is a PR

:02:45. > :02:48.man! Wants. It is absolutely ridiculous. He has done nothing

:02:49. > :02:54.illegal. You could argue whether you think there's anything wrong in him

:02:55. > :02:57.having access to money, but he has always said he is never going to

:02:58. > :03:01.apologise for having a privileged background. This is actually a story

:03:02. > :03:08.about how he could avoid inheritance tax, although as we were corrected

:03:09. > :03:15.last time how the state of his mother could avoid inheritance tax

:03:16. > :03:19.if she lives for another two years. In which case the money she has

:03:20. > :03:25.given him is a lifetime gift. That's what lots of people do. But

:03:26. > :03:33.newspapers can make it looked like you've done something a bit askew,

:03:34. > :03:39.because it comes on the back of these days of comment. That's right,

:03:40. > :03:43.he hasn't done anything wrong. The tax issue doesn't apply yet and

:03:44. > :03:47.won't apply for another two years. On less than that if anything

:03:48. > :03:53.happens. But the whole thing is he should have got it out there. Just

:03:54. > :03:59.put it there and say, look, there's this bit and the spit. It is a

:04:00. > :04:03.private matter. It is not a private matter when you are a public figure

:04:04. > :04:08.and you are in charge of the country. And he promised he would do

:04:09. > :04:13.it. And you have a go at other people for avoiding taxes, putting

:04:14. > :04:17.money offshore. When all those things happen you have to be

:04:18. > :04:26.absolutely transparent. Why hasn't gone so wrong, if it is so obvious

:04:27. > :04:33.to everybody? I think because he didn't like the idea of actually

:04:34. > :04:36.doing it. I do believe he got very angry about some of the things that

:04:37. > :04:41.were said about his father. So there is a personal element here, which

:04:42. > :04:45.then obviously impairs your judgement. Let's look at the Mail on

:04:46. > :04:50.Sunday. They seem to be getting ahead of themselves. Cameron tax

:04:51. > :04:56.bill Dodge. The way they are talking it is as if he has already dodged

:04:57. > :05:06.the tax. Hopefully there won't be any tax to pay. Even the Times says

:05:07. > :05:14.Dodge. Again, all this stuff is illusion. I can't believe any of

:05:15. > :05:17.these journalists, many of whom we know, they are probably not

:05:18. > :05:20.operating the same system. Especially because property prices

:05:21. > :05:26.have gone bonkers. Lots of people are actually giving money to their

:05:27. > :05:30.adult children now to avoid inheritance tax being paid when they

:05:31. > :05:34.die. It is quite a sensible way to actually pay for somebody in care

:05:35. > :05:41.and things like that. It is avoidance not invasion? Exactly.

:05:42. > :05:48.This isn't avoidance. It is a system. That's right. Minimising

:05:49. > :05:56.your tax bill, that's all he is doing. But is it really all about

:05:57. > :06:05.the money? No, says page five of the Mail on Sunday. I believe this man

:06:06. > :06:16.is quite close to David Cameron and was one of his former speechwriters.

:06:17. > :06:23.He has written a very interesting piece. He is perhaps not a natural

:06:24. > :06:27.Tory. He has got a very good link with him and he says here, you know,

:06:28. > :06:33.all the things he liked about Cameron were more important to

:06:34. > :06:36.voters than his background and up until now he said people were

:06:37. > :06:40.prepared to judge Cameron on his policies, rather than a posh accent.

:06:41. > :06:43.What he's really arguing is that this is about a Brexit. He has taken

:06:44. > :06:47.his eye off the ball because the only thing he is thinking about is

:06:48. > :06:52.Brexit and that's colouring everything. What difference will

:06:53. > :06:56.this financial affairs staff make the people's view of whether we

:06:57. > :07:01.should stay in or out of the EU? Because it isn't connected at all,

:07:02. > :07:07.really, in some ways. It makes him look a little untrustworthy and he

:07:08. > :07:11.is trying to sell online which is, we will be better off in Europe,

:07:12. > :07:15.trust me. So that I think does make a difference. At the moment an awful

:07:16. > :07:20.lot of what happens with the referendum really does hang on

:07:21. > :07:24.personal integrity. If what we've seen in the last four days isn't how

:07:25. > :07:29.you handle an issue like this, let us take a letter from the Archbishop

:07:30. > :07:31.of Canterbury, who rather elegantly has delegated his way through a

:07:32. > :07:38.pretty difficult personal revelation. Church leaders rally

:07:39. > :07:44.around Welby and he has discovered that his dad isn't that many thought

:07:45. > :07:46.he was. That's right. I think the Archbishop has been absolutely

:07:47. > :07:48.magnificent about this and what he should do is go to number 10 and

:07:49. > :07:55.give David Cameron some lessons on how to handle it. He you are

:07:56. > :07:58.confronted with some surprising news, that the farther you thought

:07:59. > :08:07.was the father actually isn't. So what Justin Welby does is he takes a

:08:08. > :08:15.DNA test... Having been alerted by journalists. Yes. He finds that the

:08:16. > :08:21.DNA test is positive and then he goes out and says, OK, that's the

:08:22. > :08:24.way it is. I am a bit worried about what the Marmite think about all

:08:25. > :08:31.this. But he makes a statement which is a very moving statement and says,

:08:32. > :08:39.look, I am surprised, but... Very candid about the difficulties that

:08:40. > :08:43.his parents faced. And his mum has been a recovering alcoholic for

:08:44. > :08:48.ages, decades, and his father died and he has said openly that family

:08:49. > :08:53.life was a bit messy. But dignity... And she is completely

:08:54. > :08:58.candid about who she slept with a few days before she got married. I

:08:59. > :09:09.think it is extraordinary. That's it. The Sunday Times, again, they

:09:10. > :09:19.are doing well tonight. Anti- doping agency betrayed whistleblower. He

:09:20. > :09:28.was prescribed drugs by this man, Dr Mark Bonar. But this man, who admits

:09:29. > :09:35.he has cheated, says he has been betrayed. He went to the UK and it

:09:36. > :09:40.being agency after he was banned for two years from competitive cycling

:09:41. > :09:45.because he refused a drug test, not because he was found having taken

:09:46. > :09:50.anything but subsequently he admitted doing that. He went to the

:09:51. > :09:59.agency and said, this is what this doctor has been doing. Here are the

:10:00. > :10:03.prescriptions. And the agency said, we can't do anything about this, but

:10:04. > :10:08.they didn't pass the case to the General Medical Council, which is

:10:09. > :10:11.frankly all they had to do. They argue it wasn't within their

:10:12. > :10:17.jurisdiction, which is one of the big problems. On a story I've

:10:18. > :10:21.written for tomorrow, David Cameron has now considered making doping in

:10:22. > :10:25.sport a criminal offence. It is a good way of dealing with it because

:10:26. > :10:29.it's a catch all device. They obviously missing people if there's

:10:30. > :10:36.argument about whether or not they've got the jurisdiction to do

:10:37. > :10:42.it. Stay with the Times. GCHQ wizards kept Harry Potter secret. I

:10:43. > :10:47.find this astonishing. What happened was that the founder of this

:10:48. > :10:51.publishing company, who printed the Harry Potter books, got a call in

:10:52. > :10:55.2005 and it was from the spooks are GCHQ who said, we think we've

:10:56. > :11:02.discovered a copy of one of the Harry Potter books on internet. And

:11:03. > :11:05.obviously they used huge security to try to stop it getting out. It

:11:06. > :11:11.turned out that it was actually a fake, but great fun. It makes me a

:11:12. > :11:16.bit sort of uncomfortable that GCHQ is here to make sure that we are all

:11:17. > :11:19.safe and monitor signals from terrorists and if they are actually

:11:20. > :11:26.looking at things like this is that quite doing their job? Don't be such

:11:27. > :11:31.a spoilsport! It was a quiet night in Cheltenham. But they saw

:11:32. > :11:37.something on internet. That's really what happened. They saw something.

:11:38. > :11:41.It's a bit like police helicopters hovering over celebrities and

:11:42. > :11:46.getting pictures of them. I wonder what the words were that sent the

:11:47. > :11:50.flag up. They read it out to the editor and they said it was a fake.

:11:51. > :11:59.But I love the GCHQ comment, saying, we don't comment in defence

:12:00. > :12:08.against the dark arts. Finally, the Grand National was ranted. Rule the

:12:09. > :12:14.World won it. He is owned by Michael O'Leary, the owner of Ryanair. And

:12:15. > :12:18.people said that at least his racehorse arrives on time! And it

:12:19. > :12:25.was actually at Aintree, not Aintree international. But this is a most

:12:26. > :12:32.fantastic photograph. The jockey, who is 19, his first time in the

:12:33. > :12:37.Grand National, he is absolutely smothered in mind and it is a really

:12:38. > :12:44.beautiful photograph. We can only imagine what that feels like. For

:12:45. > :12:51.once in his life Michael O'Leary seems to have luck on his side. My

:12:52. > :13:02.horse fell at the first fence. What was it called? Hadrian's something a

:13:03. > :13:10.rather. I wonder if there was trumpet fanfare as Rule the World

:13:11. > :13:14.arrived on time. Do you think they charge the jockey extra for a

:13:15. > :13:21.saddle? That story is a gift! Thank you very much to both of you. Nice

:13:22. > :13:25.pics of stories. That's it from The Papers tonight. I hope you enjoyed

:13:26. > :13:28.it. The Film Review is coming up next.