10/04/2016

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:00:00. > :00:18.in Mumbai, on the first day of a seven-day visit to India and Bhutan.

:00:19. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

:00:23. > :00:55.With me are Kevin Schofield, who's the Editor of Politics Home

:00:56. > :00:58.The Mail leads with questions over the integration of Muslims

:00:59. > :01:01.in society, but also has a large splash attacking

:01:02. > :01:04.the principle of inheritance tax, and urging Mr Cameron to stand up

:01:05. > :01:07.The Telegraph says David Cameron will make a 'robust defence'

:01:08. > :01:10.of tax-free gifts within families when he stands up in the Commons

:01:11. > :01:13.The Mirror reports the Prime Minister faces a 'public

:01:14. > :01:16.grilling' over what it calls a 'second secret stash of shares'.

:01:17. > :01:19.The Times says the focus is shifting to the Chancellor, George Osborne,

:01:20. > :01:22.and his tax returns, along with those of the rest of the Cabinet.

:01:23. > :01:25.The Guardian has more on the Panama Papers, pointing to links

:01:26. > :01:27.between a top government tax official and a law firm that acted

:01:28. > :01:30.for the offshore fund belonging to Mr Cameron's late father.

:01:31. > :01:32.The FT leads with warnings over negative interest rates,

:01:33. > :01:35.they're intended to encourage growth but could undermine consumer

:01:36. > :01:37.spending, according to a major asset management group.

:01:38. > :01:40.And the pressures on A is the focus for the Metro, it has a story

:01:41. > :01:44.about a grandmother forced to wait in a corridor for nearly 13 hours.

:01:45. > :01:47.We will begin with the Daily Mail. Enough of this madness. Instead of

:01:48. > :01:50.grovelling, the Prime Minister should be shouting from the rooftops

:01:51. > :02:04.that, for most people, inheritance tax is immoral itself. Politics has

:02:05. > :02:09.been talked about a lot this week, some people think that inheritance

:02:10. > :02:13.tax is quite right because the person who is receiving it hasn't

:02:14. > :02:19.ended, why should they get this big lump sum? I think we should cast our

:02:20. > :02:29.minds back to 2007, when Gordon Brown, we all expected him to go to

:02:30. > :02:34.the country. There was a party conference at the time, George

:02:35. > :02:37.Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, made the announcement that he was going

:02:38. > :02:46.to raise the threshold for inheritance tax. It would take a lot

:02:47. > :02:51.of people out of that threshold, people who would be eligible for

:02:52. > :03:00.that. It went through the roof, Gordon Brown cancelled the election

:03:01. > :03:06.and a lot of people put it down to that. That would suggest to me that

:03:07. > :03:10.inheritance tax is not very popular with the vast majority of the

:03:11. > :03:17.population. And if Labour are talking about cracking down on that

:03:18. > :03:24.and making it more punitive, then I don't know how electorally popular

:03:25. > :03:26.they will be. The Daily Mail, did they have to choose that

:03:27. > :03:31.particularly unattractive photograph? It is an interesting

:03:32. > :03:37.choice. They are being supportive of the prime Minister? Yes, you would

:03:38. > :03:44.have thought... It is a very shallow comment, but is nevertheless. It is

:03:45. > :03:47.strange, the Prime Minister can rely on support from certain newspapers

:03:48. > :03:55.for some things, but lately, regarding the referendum, his

:03:56. > :04:01.constituency has been different. The trouble with all of these things at

:04:02. > :04:08.the moment, I know I like to move you want to these things, do

:04:09. > :04:15.things... Could you hold on? Row on. It is all coming under the same

:04:16. > :04:24.thing, which is taxes and money. This is about one Tory MP saying

:04:25. > :04:30.that the Prime Minister has been a clod -- go. That he has gone too far

:04:31. > :04:36.in agreeing to publish his tax details. The tax return itself is a

:04:37. > :04:48.very blunt thing, it only tells you what is declared in the last 12

:04:49. > :04:55.months. The Prime Minister, one Tory MP, was said to have been a clod.

:04:56. > :05:03.That gives me shivers, because it reminds me of what my music teacher

:05:04. > :05:08.used to write in my book. It is interesting that it feeds into a

:05:09. > :05:19.feeling that the prime Minister is a bit under siege at the moment. At

:05:20. > :05:28.the centre is still the steel situation. You also have the Brexit

:05:29. > :05:32.referendum coming up, it becomes a referendum not as whether we should

:05:33. > :05:37.be part of the EU but on the government itself. Political support

:05:38. > :05:43.seems to have abandoned them a little bit. They haven't come out

:05:44. > :05:51.and said, for Brexit, but they have become more Eurosceptic. George

:05:52. > :05:58.Osborne has said he doesn't have any funds held offshore. Is it just a

:05:59. > :06:07.matter of principle that people want to see his tax return? It does seem

:06:08. > :06:20.that way. If one person withheld everything, then... Should everybody

:06:21. > :06:25.to add? -- do it? Downing Street have said it should only be the

:06:26. > :06:34.Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition who should do it. I

:06:35. > :06:37.think, as an example of how David Cameron acts tactically to try and

:06:38. > :06:46.get himself out of trouble in the short term... It didn't work in the

:06:47. > :06:55.beginning. It's sort of like saying, I didn't do it, oh, a big boy made

:06:56. > :07:01.me do it... That sort of thing. Calculation. Going back to the mail,

:07:02. > :07:09.a warning on UK Muslim ghettos. A nation within a nation developing. A

:07:10. > :07:20.warning from Trevor Phillips who used to head up the human rights

:07:21. > :07:24.co-ordination. Trevor Phillips, former head of the Human Rights

:07:25. > :07:31.Commission -- Human Rights Commission. He has warned that not

:07:32. > :07:37.enough has been done to encourage Muslims to integrate with the wider

:07:38. > :07:42.society. He is saying that you could wind up with debts of villages

:07:43. > :07:48.unless action is taken to stop housing estates becoming almost

:07:49. > :07:54.exclusively Muslim. One of the solutions he offers is that schools

:07:55. > :07:59.would have to consider a 50% limit on Muslims or other minorities as I

:08:00. > :08:04.don't see how that would work in practical terms at a time when there

:08:05. > :08:12.is enough pressure on school places anyway. If you then introduce a

:08:13. > :08:19.quota on ethnicity... He said that the integration of Muslims would be

:08:20. > :08:27.one of the hardest tasks. It hasn't worked. When you look at the

:08:28. > :08:33.statistics, he is talking about these Muslim ghettos. The statistics

:08:34. > :08:41.are, this is from a survey of more than 1000 people, over 200 Muslims

:08:42. > :08:49.would not give police a terrorist tipoff. In another half of Muslims

:08:50. > :08:59.believe that homosexuality should be illegal in Britain. There are all

:09:00. > :09:07.sorts of things in this. To say that all Muslims are the same is quite

:09:08. > :09:11.ridiculous. There is a high star, what British Muslim is really think.

:09:12. > :09:18.It has really caught people 's imagination on Twitter. People say

:09:19. > :09:28.this is so tiresome and passe, can't we just be treated like everybody

:09:29. > :09:36.else? Cream on my jam, or jam on my cream? What do Muslims really

:09:37. > :09:40.think? Not all Muslims are the type that this article is discussing. It

:09:41. > :09:45.also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are trying to put

:09:46. > :09:52.Muslims... We do know that things like polls and surveys to throw out

:09:53. > :10:08.skewed suggestions in general. We have known that before. Getting back

:10:09. > :10:11.to the Times. If I can find it... DNA kit reveals what's really in

:10:12. > :10:30.your dinner. Is it really beef in your beef was -- Reef -- beef

:10:31. > :10:39.lasagne. It says that you would be able to quickly carry out your own

:10:40. > :10:45.test. This is a London-based laboratory creation which they think

:10:46. > :10:50.will be about the same cost as a laptop. My favourite part is there

:10:51. > :10:56.was an appetite for genetic analysis beyond application, including a

:10:57. > :11:01.Swiss project called beer, it decoded, mapping the ingredients in

:11:02. > :11:13.beer and a group of pensioners who are using PE kit to research

:11:14. > :11:18.mushrooms in Pembrokeshire. -- the kit. You can carry it around with

:11:19. > :11:24.you and take your food to see if your food is a Honda % beef or if it

:11:25. > :11:36.has some horse meat in it. If your sushi is really tuna. Food companies

:11:37. > :11:45.would have a fit. Gene tests, the latest weapon against Spanish

:11:46. > :11:51.invaders. She's obsessed with that story. There has been quite a lot

:11:52. > :11:56.about this. This is about the Spanish invader, the Bluebell.

:11:57. > :12:02.According to some sources, they smell more of onions than they do of

:12:03. > :12:13.bluebells. I love the smell of onions. British bluebells are a bit

:12:14. > :12:18.droopy and they are more blue. They were brought over in the 17th

:12:19. > :12:26.century. There were plant collectors, couldn't help

:12:27. > :12:34.themselves. They are describing it as gaudy and overtaking the native

:12:35. > :12:39.variety. And an institute near Cambridge has teamed up with

:12:40. > :12:45.volunteers to use the latest genome technology to fight the Spanish

:12:46. > :12:58.subspecies. You could just use the DNA kit. And then go and bury it.

:12:59. > :13:09.Goodness me. That poor Bluebell. Is just one of those things. I noticed

:13:10. > :13:13.when this first came up, people said, leave them alone, they are

:13:14. > :13:23.lovely! Leave them and get on with it. We can't do that, we will have

:13:24. > :13:29.letters! Purchase a newspaper tomorrow, otherwise we would have

:13:30. > :13:40.nothing to discuss. The cat and dog videos? Coming up next, it's the

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