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Welcome. So let's take a look then at the front pages. And with the headline, not even a tear for Sara, the Metro reports that 10 year old Sara Shareef's father showed no emotion as he was found guilty of her murder today. A quote on the front of the express describes Sara as having been killed by the very adults who should have loved and protected her. The daily mail asks why does this keep happening as it reports authorities missed at least 15 chances to stop Sara's murder.
Sara's store story also on the front of the Daily Mirror, the smile that hid a life of torture, the headline. Meanwhile, the government will cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs as departments battle to stay within spending limits, according to The Guardian. Amid proposed planning reforms spearheaded by the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, The Telegraph warns of a labor bid to bulldoze the home counties. According to the Financial Times, the Qatari government is seeking to double its $500,000,000,000 sovereign wealth fund by doing deals with the British and American governments. And the star, again, leans on boffins, this time to suggest that AI and chatbots will turn us all into zombies.
A reminder, by scanning the QR code you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers while you listen to our guests. So let's head to Kevin and to Claire. Most newspapers, as we saw, Claire dominated by the, convictions today, in the case of Sara Sharif, with the revelations truly shocking. And so many questions now about what went wrong given she was under a protective plan from before she was born.
This poor little girl, 10 years old, was murdered by her father and stepmother. And as the mail has on its front page, they missed 15 the the authorities missed 15 chances to save her. The trouble is you will always have awful horrible people in the world, but we have a system that's supposed to be there to protect children and to protect those who may end up their victims. And it's clear that there have been real failures in this case. There's a safeguarding review going on.
There's loads of questions for Surrey counts Surrey Social Services, who are supposed to have protected this poor little girl. And we've seen the heartbreaking footage of her today playing her guitar. She's adorable. She's clearly spirited. She's got everything to live for.
And these parents, her stepmother and her father, you know, you you get all you've also heard on Sky Today the transcript of his, conversation with the emergency services. And it's it's just heartbreaking. There were clearly signs that things were going wrong and a need for someone to intervene. And the fact that this hasn't happened leaves really, really big questions.
Absolutely. You know, in under a protection plan from birth, taken into foster care more than once, given to her mother, given to her father, school raises questions, is homeschooled. Why is she allowed to be homeschooled when the school has already raised questions? These are the sort of questions that the children's commissioner has begun to ask and demand answers too that there could be changes in in elements of this.
No. Absolutely. And then learn lessons to hopefully it won't happen again because it has happened before, and, sadly, parents will kill children in the in the future. Most most parents read this. It's gonna be absolutely horrified.
We need we need to know the broad outline of of what she suffered to understand the case. And it is absolutely horrific, and it and your heart sinks as you read it. And you and you look at you look at that little girl who's now dead and being killed in the most
brutal, horrific way by the people who should have loved
the most and protected the most. But we you know, the family is a cornerstone of, you know, of of society, but some families, shouldn't have children. And this emphasis to try and keep families together is sometimes wrong. She should have been taken away long ago because they they were not fit parents. It's quite clear when you look through the through the case and allowing them to keep her in the end resulted in her death.
But the all the lessons have to be have to be learned. I mean, the the courts, police, social services, teachers, why why why why? You you need to know. And then Yeah. It is learn those lessons to try and stop this happening.
Like basic data sharing, for example. Yeah. Why was a case closed after the school raised it in less than a week Mhmm. When she was already listed as having been in care? I mean, this is this is really basic stuff at the end of the day, isn't it?
I think 1 of the most heartbreaking bits is that social services got her file in 2023, I think, and it was closed after 6 days. And this was a girl there was, some testimony from 1 of her friends saying she turned up at school covered in bruises and lied about falling off her bike. But even her young friends knew that that wasn't true. And it feels I I think there were some reports that she wore a hijab to try to cover up some of her, injuries. Some of the stuff we've seen reported during the court case that she was bitter and that she was hooded, that she was tortured to death by these 2 people is is absolutely savage.
And I it's just really hard to think that, you know, why wasn't someone for social services checking the profile?
But what we do know is the courts, the police, social services, teachers, schools, they're all under enormous pressure. Yes. A great resource pressure, pressure of time, pressure to deal with so so much. That's not to excuse the mistakes that have clearly been made, but it is to try and explain them and understand them and how you can try and sort them so it doesn't, it doesn't happen again. Of course, something like this will happen again somewhere, but you want to minimize it.
Yes. And if each social worker has 40, 50, 60 cases Yep. You know, we were told that they should be prioritized. The question is, well, surely this was a priority, and and then we were told, well, it's all relative. So how Yeah.
You know, how bad can it be elsewhere? No.
No. No. Absolutely. You're you're right, though. It it's clearly, it should be a priority, but how many other kids will like will like this in that area?
There And
I suspect, you know, she's not gonna be alone.
There were real echoes of the Baby p case, which was absolutely horrific, and social services made a lot of mistakes in that case. And we saw the kind of the aftermath of that, them trying to defend some of their actions. And I think having a safeguarding review is really important to determine what went wrong and to try to stop it happening again. But baby pee wasn't that long ago, and it does feel like these things happen far too often.
Yes. Many of the injuries that Sara suffered, the court heard, had been inflicted using implements including a cricket bat, a vacuum, a metal pole, evidence of the restraint that you talked about, her head covered with homemade hoods made from parcel tape and plastic bags. While some of the injuries were during while the while the injuries were inflicted, she would be in this plastic bag and tape. I mean, it's just just terrible.
We've been we've been discovering the extent of the inhumanity, and the torture in Syria by Assad's regime. But here in in Hampshire
Yeah.
People who are adults who are animals, torturing a little girl, it's just absolutely horrific when it's happening in our own our own country.
Yes. Well, case review, no doubt. Sentencing to come as well. I'm sure more will come out about this as well.
I'm gonna
throw away the key once they've searched.
Well, we
are facing a lifetime behind bars.
Yeah. Let's let's move on to, politics, I guess. Financial Times, a very dramatic photo among many of the tractors descending Clare once again, into, Central London to Westminster.
Yes. I've I'm based in parliament, and we spent the whole day trying to work and listening to this noise outside, but it's clear these people are very impassioned. There's hundreds of tractors descended on parliament on parliament Square today. They're all beeping, doing go slows around the square. And it was quite a convivial atmosphere, you know.
They do really believe what they're protesting against, which is the budget changes to which means that farmers will be liable to inheritance tax above a certain level. And, they accuse, Labor of destroying their livelihoods and threatening family farms, which may now have to be broken up in order to pay inheritance tax bills that they now face. And this was their way of demonstrating against it. It's very colorful, it's very powerful, it's captured the nation's mood. People really know about this tax on farmers and, I think Labor are taking a lot of flack over it.
Yeah. I mean, not not the first time and not just in London to be fair.
I've questioned whether it's the nation's mood. Some of the nation, not the rest of the nation. I didn't go down. Didn't pop in our House of House of Commons to see go off my land as they might if I was with them. But, can you imagine if that was just, just stop oil rather than just stop soil?
They would be, they'd be demanding they'd be arrested. The people who are cheering them on, the MPs cheering them on, they say, gotta be arrested, gotta be banned, can't bring London or stuff.
So that
but that's a fantastic such a picture. But it's a it it is a political problem for the government. It's gotta get its message across. So how when they filled up their tractors with their subsidized red diesel and and coming to London like this to create, traffic chaos, the fact that the deal they're getting on inheritance tax inheritance tax was there was there until Margaret Thatcher lifted it for farms and landowners in the in the mid 19 eighties. We actually had more of our food produced by British farmers when last time inheritance tax was levied.
But yeah, their allowances is is 3 times what most up to 3 times what most of the people will get. The rate will only be half what other people will pay. And, like, they're not
honesty, Kevin. No. No. No.
You gotta get it across because you might not win them because, of course, they've got a vested interest and titles, you know, privilege. Whatever it is, they're looking they're fighting their corner. It's like other groups do that. They're entitled to in a democracy, but you gotta get the message across to everybody else because they don't speak for the entire even rural areas.
Difficulty for labor is. What is it? About a 100 now of the of the, constituencies they won are in rural areas. You have a story on the front page of the Daily Telegraph, labor bid to bulldoze the home counties. And down the bottom, the Matt cartoon, if we've got it, while I was in London started fantastic.
Got these houses on hand. But the point is that labor is being accused of not liking a large part of our country that lives in rural or semi rural areas.
Those people in those rural areas, farmers are a minor a minority. I'm not not sweeping them away. A little
bit for people in green belt areas. They are. Yeah. That that their mobility land is
People in those rural areas will be using the health service, education, transport, relying on criminal justice system, all those services which need improving. And if if the inheritance tax on land and include including farmers raises the half a 1000000000 that it's forecast to do, if it does, well, that would that would
be mean
chicken feet to about to any large budget we have in this country. That that is the point they're making.
That will be half a 1000000000 is not chicken feet. If you've got half a billion, it's
spam. Era.
What is the what is the NHS and social care budget for this
company? Yeah.
It might be, what, a 140, a 150,000,000,000, but half a 1000000000 spend a lot of money. For instance, if you were gonna subsidize, bus fares, if you had another half a 1,000,000,000, you could probably just about abolish them, never mind reduce them down to, £2 from going
up to
3 pounds. Prioritizing, and clearly, they feel they
a very small group who've had a mrs. Thatcher back in the 19 eighties, gave them a deal because she thought they'd be her supporters, and they're gonna lose their their special deal. But they'll get another special. They'll have they'll have a feather bedded inheritance tax.
The next layer is
the Sorry. I thought she was gonna lean forward and cut me out.
I think it's about time.
I know I was putting the other case, is it? It's all farmers. Great. Great. But no 1 puts the other side.
That's that's what's missing in this debate.
Entirety of the government puts a partner.
They don't. They haven't paid.
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Yeah. England's chief medical officer, of course, became very famous, prominent during, COVID, and he's looking at the obesity epidemic. And he's saying, look. The only way we can do is to get people to eat healthier by taxing unhealthy foods, those heavy with, fat and and sugar. And it is a it's it's a very good idea medically.
But I was wondering, will a government want to be seen to be putting up the price of food when improving living standards, household disposable income is its big economic priority now after it's sort of sidelined the high sustained economic growth in the g 7 because it's not gonna be delivered.
Do they I mean, do they take do they say what food? And if that would discriminate against certain groups, for example
Yeah. Well, it's probably poorer people, isn't it? Proposed an industry wide levy on salt and sugar, rather like, what's happened in soft drinks where George Osborne came in with a sugar tax, which you you always hope would have would raise nothing because it was intended to change be the behavior of the drinks manufacturers, which it did some and it didn't it didn't others. But by saying when I say don't do it because you'll hit poorer people hardest, well, that used to be the argument with don't ban smoking in in, indoors because it tends to be poorer people who smoke. Well, you kinda save lives if you if you do intervene or to just let poorer people die.
Yeah. I mean, problem is you take, you know, salt, sugar, fat out. It just tastes nuts, isn't it? I always say I'm 1 of these people who put salt on ready meals to save. Should we move on?
Do you mind? I apologize. To the Financial Times, which is a bit of a hand grenade talking point, to be fair. Bosses must be paid like footballers if the UK is to compete. This is somebody in the city, the city of London.
As you've just pointed out, a billionaire financier thing. People who run companies should be paid more. I think there is an argument for this, either there has been after the financial crash, there was a real kind of backlash against bankers. There was there were calls for them not to get bonuses. But the reality is
To get bonuses of shares. Yeah.
So they have to stay
with the company and be responsible. And
Yes. And, like, some some of those were well, you know, targeted. But I think Rachel Reeves has actually said that some of it went too far, and she's trying to raise some of it back. The reality is that these are highly competitive global it's a high competitive global industry. The city of London still makes up a large proportion of our GDP.
And, actually, do you need to incentivize good people by paying them lots of money to get them to do a good job? Yes. I think you probably do.
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