01/05/2016 The Papers

Now on BBC News here's Rachel Schofield with The Papers.

Welcome to our Sunday morning edition of The Papers. Let us get a

flavour of the front pages. We start with the Sunday express.

The times are talking about the new Israeli ambassador to Britain who

has joined the debate about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

The Ob server has an interview with Sadiq Khan.

The Mail on Sunday is all about the BBC and how we may be losing some

prime-time programmes. Yes, and it will do this and they

will do it for all the wrong reasons because certain people in the

Conservative Party, including John Whittingdale, I cannot tell you how

angry this makes me, want to diminish and take away the presence

of the BBC. They want to turn us into the PBS of America. We are told

we are a capitalist country where competition drives excellence. The

BBC has of late produced the most extraordinary dramas. This really

quite vindictive set of policies doesn't understand that the people

feel passionately about the BBC. I hope people like this because this

is happening now. I am all in favour of competition

but this isn't a level playing field. It's all very well seeing

have the BBC compete with ITV. The BBC has ?3.7 billion licence fee

funds so it is not a level playing field. I think John Whittingdale is

try to redress this because he is aware that ITV are seeing this as

unfair competition. I do have sympathy with what he is saying but,

having said that, it would be unfortunate if the BBC's flagship

programmes were damaged. I would not like to see that but I think there

is something to be done to make it a more level playing field.

You said you would like to see people rise up against it. The

public would have something to say about this, surely.

I hope so and I hope there is a public consultation. But when we

need them government really get them to us. I hope we do have one and

they disagree with you, Ruth, because ITV is doing financially

very well. The media expert was seeing their profits are doing very

well. Of course but it is not a level

playing field. What does that even mean?

I will tell you! The BBC has the licence fee money and ITV doesn't.

But the output on the BBC is massive with the number of channels.

I always grovel when the worst comes to the worst. Some people would

challenge whether the BBC should be doing programmes like Strictly Come

Dancing at all. Why? Because they are successful?

I don't go that far. Become irrelevant like PBS. No, the

public loves the BBC. As for your level playing field, the advertisers

on the commercial channels take money from our pocket five times

more. ITV has to work to get that money by

getting the advertisers were at the BBC does not. I'm going to stick to

my DD is that it is not a level playing field.

Before we get 50 cups -- the city coffers Garth -- fisticuffs...

David Cameron 's idea for academies in schools is proving unpopular.

Yes, the minister was heckled and asked if she was running the

Department or Nick Gibb was, and after that there were accusations of

sexism. I have some sympathy with the teachers, which may surprise you

as men. I do see there is a problem here. What I find interesting is not

the Education Secretary being heckled by teachers. That is not a

story, that is an everyday event. What is interesting is that the

Prime Minister is thinking about making his concessions to

Conservative rebels and I think many of them are rebelling purely because

of Brexit. It is to do with the discomfort and rebellion in the

Conservative Party. We are going to talk about Labour Party but let us

remember there are problems internally with the Conservative

Party. You think this is internal politics?

A party that believes in competition wants to kill the BBC. A party that

believes in choice is now ticking choice away from education. Are you

a party, I'm asking the Conservative Party, a party that believes in a

variety of educational responses to educational demands and needs or are

you a party that centralises and quite a Communist way and decides

how everything is going to be an Academy.

I conceded that point. I think they should go easy on the academy

programme. But it is the politics here and recently the Prime Minister

made concessions on the trading and build because he wanted the trade

unions to support a -- support him on Brexit.

Let us move our focus to the Labour Party. The anti-Semitism row

deepens. The Sunday Telegraph said they have put together a dossier

with what they describe of disturbing examples of anti-Semitic

attitudes and Labour Party. It has taken off and I am glad we

are talking about it. No forms of racism should be tolerated. But I do

think, I sometimes wonder if Ken Livingstone is a double agent for

the Conservative Party because what a horrible moment to have a hissy

fit, which is going to affect the elections. The right-wing press are

a field day and he should be banished from the party as from now.

We do not need investigation. He is bringing the party into disrepute.

On one side there is the Ken Livingstone issued but the whole

point is that this has broadened into a wider debate about a

potential problem in the Labour Party.

What do you think? This will shock horror but I agree with her. I

believe Ken Livingstone should just be out. He has form. It is not as if

he doesn't make well statements. You can see how cross some of his

colleagues are. The man is a menace and not just to the Labour Party but

to the country. He has a menace to race relations. I think he should be

banished to outer darkness. While we are still on this, let us

bring in the Observer because their top story is on the same story. On

the impact it will have on the London mayor role elections.

I want as much outrage from the public on, what I have never seen so

much of as the hideously racist campaign that Zac Goldsmith has been

conducting. The letters some of us have had seeing things like you are

a Hindu and you are one of us but those horrible Muslims are not. The

electoral commission needs to look at how Siddique Khan is caught

between the terrible anti-Semitism row that Ken Livingstone and others

have created and this fall going for him because he is a Muslim. He is a

liberal Muslim. If a Muslim of high integrity cannot stand for high

office what kind of society are we running?

I have sympathy with that. We are friends again and excavation

Mark I think the whole racism thing is appalling. I have a great deal of

sympathy with Sadiq Khan. I'm not taking sides politically, God

forbid. Go on.

May the best man win and I would be whole fight -- horrified if he lost

the election because of this. If he loses it because of racism that is

terrible. You have been on your conspiracy

theories on the Brexit campaign some people have said with the Labour

Party that this whole route has been stalked by embittered old Blairites.

It could be but I think he has form of being mischievous.

We need a proper opposition to the government.

Tucked away under the picture from the two-day Yorkshire, the UK in a

housing crisis. And entered to see it doesn't sound like a crisis to me

but what is the angle. David Cameron wanted a homeowning

democracy but new findings say four in ten people will not own their own

homes ever. It is unaffordable housing. In London in particular and

big cities like Birmingham. You are getting wonderful flats being built

at people on ordinary wages working in the public service or even... We

are a low-wage economy. They just cannot afford it. It is

simple economics. Supply and demand. Population is rising and demand is

not following -- supply. Successive governments haven't

managed to get a grip on it. They have not and it is because they

will get a grip on the subject of supply which might mean building on

the green belt. Philip Green's wife has had an

unusual summons to the House of Commons.

I think both of them should be there. This is one of the saddest

stories. I don't think any business should survive cos it doesn't

deserve to survive but what is actually being done to BHS by a

profligate owner and his wife, allegedly, needs to be examined by

Parliament. They are in a tax haven. I am making no allegations but it

happens to be the truth that she lives in a tax haven. They need to

be questioned. It is time that this kind of capitalism was tamed.

Monaco is a sunny place for shady people.

Allegedly. We have to be careful. But they have been called before the

select committee and able look at whether the funds were taken out

while the deficit was being dulled up. And also to look at how the

business collapsed so rapidly. I am looking forward to seeing the

evidence. We are going to skip ahead to the

Sunday Express because a lovely picture of Kate Middleton. She is

going to be on the cover of Vogue. Much kinder than the Daily Mail

because they were quite waspish. I wanted to get a flavour of what the

opposition was doing on the other news channels and they went really

hard on this story. I think she is absolutely a superb person and looks

terrific and natural and is a person of the age.

It is a controlled image. Not overly stylised and glamorous. Not

necessarily their bogey would imagine.

It is absolutely image making. -- not the Vogue magazine you would

imagine. I think that is a bit hard because

the royal family does a terrific job, if I may say so, and I think

she is hanging on that tradition. We won't go there.

On all the back pages, the underdog Leicester City may come out on top.

What is so fascinating is the fact that although the city themselves

are hugely invested in this, other fans from rival teams who know they

cannot win by getting behind Leicester.

Exactly Anders is one of those wonderful fairy stories. It came

from nowhere and they are at the top. The managers from the expense

of football teams are asking what is the magic. In the Telegraph, a

gambler debt to pounds on the team and is now likely to net ?45,000.

All I can say is 5000 to one, I wish I'd put a tenner on.

Somebody put a bet on and cashed it in after one week when they lost.

I could have bought VHS. -- BHS. Yet fully tied together.

We do look at the front pages every evening at 10:45pm.