09/04/2016 The Papers

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to our look at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are the political commentator Jo

Phillips and Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday People.

The Sunday Telegraph leads with the story that dominates tomorrow's

the details of the prime minister's financial affairs, after David

The Sunday Times also has the story, including a claim that the PM could

avoid paying on inheritance tax on a gift from his mother,

Cameron's decision to be transparent is hailed as "historic"

But it says the PM now faces a fresh row about his wealth.

The financial disclosures also make the front of the Observer

which concedes is "unprecedented" by a sitting Prime Minister.

And the Express also pours over the details but says it also wants to

The Sunday Times is one of those with this on the front page. PM

reveals hidden wealth. Cameron could now avoid inheritance tax on

?200,000 gift from mother. So inevitably everybody is spending

their Saturday afternoon is looking out the fine print. What did you

find? We didn't get this bit, for a start, which is quite interesting

and again he didn't put enough out there. So it's a bad headline for

something that is actually quite good. As far as the tax return goes

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

should have done it four years ago, which is when he promised to do it.

The problem he has had all week is not disclosing what he should have

disclosed. What it was easy. Just be honest and upfront about it. Once

again it there was a little bit here that we didn't know about before.

Nigel is absolutely right. It is a classic on how not to handle a

crisis. The story itself is not damaging. And David Cameron is a PR

man! Wants. It is absolutely ridiculous. He has done nothing

illegal. You could argue whether you think there's anything wrong in him

having access to money, but he has always said he is never going to

apologise for having a privileged background. This is actually a story

about how he could avoid inheritance tax, although as we were corrected

last time how the state of his mother could avoid inheritance tax

if she lives for another two years. In which case the money she has

given him is a lifetime gift. That's what lots of people do. But

newspapers can make it looked like you've done something a bit askew,

because it comes on the back of these days of comment. That's right,

he hasn't done anything wrong. The tax issue doesn't apply yet and

won't apply for another two years. On less than that if anything

happens. But the whole thing is he should have got it out there. Just

put it there and say, look, there's this bit and the spit. It is a

private matter. It is not a private matter when you are a public figure

and you are in charge of the country. And he promised he would do

it. And you have a go at other people for avoiding taxes, putting

money offshore. When all those things happen you have to be

absolutely transparent. Why hasn't gone so wrong, if it is so obvious

to everybody? I think because he didn't like the idea of actually

doing it. I do believe he got very angry about some of the things that

were said about his father. So there is a personal element here, which

then obviously impairs your judgement. Let's look at the Mail on

Sunday. They seem to be getting ahead of themselves. Cameron tax

bill Dodge. The way they are talking it is as if he has already dodged

the tax. Hopefully there won't be any tax to pay. Even the Times says

Dodge. Again, all this stuff is illusion. I can't believe any of

these journalists, many of whom we know, they are probably not

operating the same system. Especially because property prices

have gone bonkers. Lots of people are actually giving money to their

adult children now to avoid inheritance tax being paid when they

die. It is quite a sensible way to actually pay for somebody in care

and things like that. It is avoidance not invasion? Exactly.

This isn't avoidance. It is a system. That's right. Minimising

your tax bill, that's all he is doing. But is it really all about

the money? No, says page five of the Mail on Sunday. I believe this man

is quite close to David Cameron and was one of his former speechwriters.

He has written a very interesting piece. He is perhaps not a natural

Tory. He has got a very good link with him and he says here, you know,

all the things he liked about Cameron were more important to

voters than his background and up until now he said people were

prepared to judge Cameron on his policies, rather than a posh accent.

What he's really arguing is that this is about a Brexit. He has taken

his eye off the ball because the only thing he is thinking about is

Brexit and that's colouring everything. What difference will

this financial affairs staff make the people's view of whether we

should stay in or out of the EU? Because it isn't connected at all,

really, in some ways. It makes him look a little untrustworthy and he

is trying to sell online which is, we will be better off in Europe,

trust me. So that I think does make a difference. At the moment an awful

lot of what happens with the referendum really does hang on

personal integrity. If what we've seen in the last four days isn't how

you handle an issue like this, let us take a letter from the Archbishop

of Canterbury, who rather elegantly has delegated his way through a

pretty difficult personal revelation. Church leaders rally

around Welby and he has discovered that his dad isn't that many thought

he was. That's right. I think the Archbishop has been absolutely

magnificent about this and what he should do is go to number 10 and

give David Cameron some lessons on how to handle it. He you are

confronted with some surprising news, that the farther you thought

was the father actually isn't. So what Justin Welby does is he takes a

DNA test... Having been alerted by journalists. Yes. He finds that the

DNA test is positive and then he goes out and says, OK, that's the

way it is. I am a bit worried about what the Marmite think about all

this. But he makes a statement which is a very moving statement and says,

look, I am surprised, but... Very candid about the difficulties that

his parents faced. And his mum has been a recovering alcoholic for

ages, decades, and his father died and he has said openly that family

life was a bit messy. But dignity... And she is completely

candid about who she slept with a few days before she got married. I

think it is extraordinary. That's it. The Sunday Times, again, they

are doing well tonight. Anti- doping agency betrayed whistleblower. He

was prescribed drugs by this man, Dr Mark Bonar. But this man, who admits

he has cheated, says he has been betrayed. He went to the UK and it

being agency after he was banned for two years from competitive cycling

because he refused a drug test, not because he was found having taken

anything but subsequently he admitted doing that. He went to the

agency and said, this is what this doctor has been doing. Here are the

prescriptions. And the agency said, we can't do anything about this, but

they didn't pass the case to the General Medical Council, which is

frankly all they had to do. They argue it wasn't within their

jurisdiction, which is one of the big problems. On a story I've

written for tomorrow, David Cameron has now considered making doping in

sport a criminal offence. It is a good way of dealing with it because

it's a catch all device. They obviously missing people if there's

argument about whether or not they've got the jurisdiction to do

it. Stay with the Times. GCHQ wizards kept Harry Potter secret. I

find this astonishing. What happened was that the founder of this

publishing company, who printed the Harry Potter books, got a call in

2005 and it was from the spooks are GCHQ who said, we think we've

discovered a copy of one of the Harry Potter books on internet. And

obviously they used huge security to try to stop it getting out. It

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

bit sort of uncomfortable that GCHQ is here to make sure that we are all

safe and monitor signals from terrorists and if they are actually

looking at things like this is that quite doing their job? Don't be such

a spoilsport! It was a quiet night in Cheltenham. But they saw

something on internet. That's really what happened. They saw something.

It's a bit like police helicopters hovering over celebrities and

getting pictures of them. I wonder what the words were that sent the

flag up. They read it out to the editor and they said it was a fake.

But I love the GCHQ comment, saying, we don't comment in defence

against the dark arts. Finally, the Grand National was ranted. Rule the

World won it. He is owned by Michael O'Leary, the owner of Ryanair. And

people said that at least his racehorse arrives on time! And it

was actually at Aintree, not Aintree international. But this is a most

fantastic photograph. The jockey, who is 19, his first time in the

Grand National, he is absolutely smothered in mind and it is a really

beautiful photograph. We can only imagine what that feels like. For

once in his life Michael O'Leary seems to have luck on his side. My

horse fell at the first fence. What was it called? Hadrian's something a

rather. I wonder if there was trumpet fanfare as Rule the World

arrived on time. Do you think they charge the jockey extra for a

saddle? That story is a gift! Thank you very much to both of you. Nice

pics of stories. That's it from The Papers tonight. I hope you enjoyed

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