16/04/2016 The Papers

his mother Diana was pictured seated alone more than 20 years ago.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Laura Hughes, political correspondent at the Daily

Telegraph, and Mihir Bose, who's a columnist for the Evening Standard.

The Mail headlines with new allegations about Culture Secretary

It claims he sent a photo of highly sensitive cabinet papers to a woman

A crisis is looming in primary school places in England,

with a shortfall of 10,000 places expected in four years' time.

The Sunday Express dedicates a full page to the photograph of the Duke

and Dutchess of Cambridge visiting the Taj Mahal and replicating

The Sunday Telegraph quotes a senior Government minister saying

Britain could face an economic shock similar to the banking crisis

And The Sunday Times writes that the former cricketer Sir Ian Botham has

backed Britain leaving the European Union and said Britain should "stand

Let's begin. Starting this evening with the Observer. The story that is

all about a letter that parents will get through the post in the next 36

hours or more. That is a whether or not their children have got into

their chosen school. This headline: That the letter parents would be

looking forward to, hoping their little Johnny or Sarah got into the

primary school of their choice, probably near home, and the stories

about what will happen in the next few years. There will be a shortage

of 10,000 places because the government's policy is for a cat

is, not allowing schools to build new ones and so on. -- policy is for

a cat is. The Local Government Association is unhappy about it.

This is a recurring problem in our schools, which is going on for a

long time, where we don't seem to get our school policy right. And it

is a great imposition on parent can't get the primary school of

their choice. Which school send their child to? They have to look

into private education, which is still only 7% who go to that. It is

a great strain on resources. That is an important point. Yes. I think

there will be protests against what is happening. It is obviously coming

at a time where the government has said they will make all schools into

academies. Certain Tory MPs are also opposed to the idea and worries that

for parents to read that someone from Leeds says there isn't enough

room and there aren't adequate resources to teach the children who

are there, so they have to turn other bits of their schools into

learning facilities. How many children are going to be in this

classroom is? How are students going to cope and what will be the

standard of education? You mentioned leaves, there are number of other

places as, including a couple of Burroughs in London. -- Leeds. OK,

moving on. A couple of Brexit stories. In the Telegraph the

headline is, Britain faces economic rupture if we leave the European

Union. This is because of the long-awaited treasury report. Yes.

Eagerly anticipated treasury report. This is the government setting out

their position, what the Treasury thinks the impact will be if Britain

leads the youth. As you might expect they fear it might not be very good.

Today's Telegraph warns it would be economic self harm to vote to sever

ties with Brussels in June. He also says that it would be blue collared

workers, people who work in manufacturing and those sorts of

industries, who would be most hit by this. He is the new Work and

Pensions Secretary, the new face of the split in the Tory government at

the moment. This isn't a surprise. Each week we are getting something

from a minister still loyal to Cameron coming out and saying

exactly what the government would like. And this week the work and

pensions secretary in this particular article. Also worth

mentioning, Mihir, a number of other ministers saying we are getting this

sort of information all the time. Chris Grayling making an important

point, that David Cameron had said, leading up to the negotiations, he

said, if we have to leave Britain could still survive outside the EU.

Now the government seems to be saying they can't survive outside

the EU, they will face a crash. So in some ways the debate between

ministers is sharpening and it is interesting that this debate between

ministers is much sharper and much more interesting than any debate

taking place between Labour and the Conservatives. Same story, different

newspaper, the Times with an unusual headline. Botham swings back for

Brexit. Yes, it is Sir Ian Botham, today backing the Brexit. It's a bit

of a type onto the Boris Johnson speech. It is more of a headline. As

wonderful as he was, we know his great cricketing deeds, but the idea

that we should take politics cues from him. It is contradictory

because he said he was a cricketer, but cricket is a gain of 11 people

who play together. The EU is supposed to be a team, so I don't

know what the contradiction is. -- is a game. But it is ridiculous to

bring people like this into the argument. Is the basis that if you

can hit the ball for six we should take lessons from that and decide

what the policy for the next generation should be raced on his

opinion? There are many nonsports fans who won't even know who he is.

Yes, as a contest earlier I didn't know who he was! I understand why

they did it. People are bored of one minister saying, oh, no, he is

scaremongering, he is lying. It is a bit of fun. For those who know who

he is a fun story, but for my generation I don't think it means

that much. They probably thought he was Boris Johnson's brother or

something. The Mail. It is really going very big on John -- John

Whittingdale. MP's porn star lover showed Cabinet papers. This is of

course about the cabinet minister John Whittingdale who had a

relationship with a woman and that was when he was head of a very

influential group looking at the media. And then discovered through

contact with a journalist that she was an escort and then finished the

relationship. Here we are going into even more details and The Daily Mail

is quite big on that. Yes. What is interesting, this is the Mail on

Sunday, use paper of the year, this fascinating is we know how the

earlier story about John Whittingdale came out. It is

what... If you recall, when the story came out about John

Whittingdale having had an affair with a sex worker, Hacked Off said

newspapers deliberately didn't print a story because they wanted to

influence or hurt a gun to the head of John Whittingdale newspaper

regulation. But it seems as a result of that they will actually encourage

this sort of story, which is just the sort of story... Intrusion into

privity which Hacked Off said newspapers indulge in too much. The

fact that the Mail has devoted six pages to it, they must have been

working on this story for a long time and waited until the other

story came out before printing. And of course we don't know if the

allegations are true. And he says as soon as he found out he finished the

relationship anyway. There's a huge amount of pressure now on John

Whittingdale and all sorts of allegations. But the Mail have been

working hard. It does seem strange that they have all this information

in the space of a few days. It makes you think that they knew a lot more

than what they said. There is pressure on him, but he is entitled

to a private life. And he wasn't married. He wasn't. And Hacked Off

is the group that Hugh Grant has been involved with and the whole aim

is to stop the press unnecessarily intruding into the private lives of

celebrities. John Whittingdale is a public figure, but I am not sure

what the public interest is in this story. There are pictures of this

meeting, but I don't think it is... Let's see where that one goes. Onto

the Independent. A story that has come out over the last few days.

This is a survey. The majority of people want all tax returns to be

published. Everybody? 49% say we should be like the Scandinavian

countries. I must say that is a very depressing opinion poll, if it is

accurate. I certainly don't want to know what your tax return is and I

don't know why you should want to know mine. To have this sort of

information, I don't know what people in Sweden and Norway do with

this information, but we seem to have made people who pay less tax,

using the laws of the land, as somehow moral lepers, as if they

have behaved morally badly. The law should be changed if we want people

to pay more tax. Not ask people to say, yes, we should stand the moral

high ground and pay as much tax as possible. And 13% of people admitted

they use the cash to pay a bill or some other transaction to avoid

VAT. That's the thing. At a practical level, when you say to

people, do you want to give your children as much money as you can

when you go? Most people would probably say yes. So if it went to a

vote, and it was decided we should have new laws, stricter laws, and

we've got a very complicated tax code, I think quite a lot of people

don't understand it. This whole thing has got very confused because

those papers, some people were doing illegal things, money laundering,

that kind of thing, but a lot of this kind of stuff and white

politicians in this country have done have not been illegal. It is

just ethically wrong. David Cameron wasn't doing anything illegal, but

44% of the survey believe his approach to his public finances is

morally repugnant. It comes back to this question of moral behaviour. If

you behave according to the law, that's what you are required to do.

That's the definition of morals and tax. The Sunday express. The

full-page photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in front of the

Taj Mahal and of course they have put the picture of Diana on what has

become Diana's venture. Absolutely. Diana probably to find that it. I am

not sure if before Diana sat on the bench more than 20 years ago,

basically telling the world that her marriage was coming to an end, I

don't think the band was that important. Briefly, did that pass

you by? Or do you think it is a good front story? It is a good story. I

love the fact that working palace says it has nothing to do with

Diana, all tourists do it, of course it does! But they have come out and

said" you memories", which was interesting. They due to both of

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