14/07/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, Theresa May carries out a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle,

seeking a clear break with the Cameron years.

It's a brutal reshuffle, Mrs May, isn't it?

The new Prime Minister spent her first full day in office

assembling her new Cabinet team and wasted no time in making

Among those getting prominent roles are Justine Greening at Education,

Liz Truss at Justice, and the former leadership candidate

And there are ten leaving the Cabinet, including Michael Gove,

Nicky Morgan and John Whittingdale, as Mrs May shakes up Whitehall.

Thank you very much, everybody. BOOING.

There were boos for Boris on the Foreign Secretary's

first official engagement at the French Embassy in London.

It's inevitable that there's going to be a certain amount of plaster

coming off the ceiling in the chancelleries of Europe.

It wasn't the result that they were expecting

and clearly they are making their views known.

And despite the Brexit concerns, the Bank of England decides to hold

And the other main stories on tonight's programme:

Out on patrol - we report on policing in the US -

in the aftermath of protests over the killing of black men.

The yellow jersey is running up the Tour de France!

And trouble at the Tour de France - why Britain's Chris Froome was left

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Mickelson makes history on day

He shoots an eight under par 63, the joint lowest

Good evening from Downing Street, where Theresa May has sought to make

a clean break with the Cameron years by making sweeping

No fewer than ten of Mr Cameron's top team have left including

George Osborne, Michael Gove, John Whittingdale and Nicky Morgan.

Throughout the day there's been a constant flow of ministers

arriving at Number Ten, including Andrea Leadsom,

the former leadership contender, who enters the Cabinet

And as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports,

Theresa May has carried out a much more extensive - some say brutal -

Flowers on a day of congratulation, but commiserations too.

The busiest people in Westminster today were the florists.

But the Prime Minister was cracking on.

Arriving for maybe her biggest job - getting her team right.

It's not like they even get a job interview.

Like Liz Truss, they turn up to find out what they've got.

A cosy chat in Number Ten, then in her case they walk out

as the new Secretary of State for Justice.

Or like Justine Greening, you walk in with one Cabinet post

My perfect job, she said, heading straight to her new department.

Are you looking forward to a new position?

I am, I'm absolutely delighted and looking forward

No time to waste with new responsibilities

for universities and apprenticeships too.

Imagine being Damian Green, a senior MP walking up Whitehall

hoping but not really knowing if you're

Half an hour later, in charge of the Department

for Work and Pensions, leaving in a minister's car.

But a politician who's had few doubts about his suitability

for high office was enjoying his first day.

It's been a very busy first day for me here at the Foreign Office

and it began really with a big speech to about several

I set out what we need to be doing and what we need to be focusing on,

and that is reshaping Britain's global profile and identity

Philip Hammond is the Chancellor, essentially the number two.

Amber Rudd is the new Home Secretary.

Euro-sceptic Andrea Leadsom, who quit the leadership race just

days ago, moves into the Cabinet in charge of Rural Affairs.

After some confusion over his role, Jeremy Hunt stays at Health.

Priti Patel, also part of the Out campaign,

is promoted to DFID, the Department that

And Chris Grayling, who ran the Prime Minister's

leadership campaign, is now in charge at Transport.

Today's losers did not have to face the Downing Street walk of shame.

Theresa May told some colleagues in the privacy of the Commons

There are more than a few tweaks around the edges.

George Osborne, the Chancellor for six years, is out,

Michael Gove, his controversial friend, was also shown the door,

and Nicky Morgan, who backed him to be the leader, met the same fate.

Oliver Letwin, one of David Cameron's thinkers,

is out as well, along with John Whittingdale,

the old Culture Secretary, and Stephen Crabb,

This is way more than the usual comings and goings of

This feels more like a whole new government.

Theresa May has taken big, bold decisions and there's been

a no-nonsense clear out of some of the politicians who were seen

by some as a clique around David Cameron and George Osborne.

And some of the same controversies and problems too.

But the government looks different, very different, and under

Theresa May what some ministers do will be different too.

There won't be a budget within weeks now, as George Osborne had

We don't see any need for an emergency budget

I expect to make an Autumn Statement in the usual way, having spent

the summer studying the effect on the economy so far,

looking at our plan for the future, consulting with the experts,

starting with the Governor of the Bank of England this morning.

Remember these changes are all within the same

The same side is still in charge, but the new Prime Minister

wants a clean break, maybe clearing old resentments

Don't forget, these jobs really do matter.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

Theresa May's new line-up has not been universally welcomed in other

The President of the European Parliament, Martin Shulz,

said the EU would 'work constructively' with the new British

government, but he accused Mrs May of putting party unity ahead

The French Foreign Minister was rather more forthright,

accusing Boris Johnson of peddling lies during the referendum campaign,

as our deputy political editor John Pienaar reports.

The first full day as Foreign Secretary and a few friendly words

Not exactly an angry demo - they seemed to quite like

him, but foreign secretaries aren't supposed to be booed

What would you say to those who are unhappy about you being

The start of the day was not perfect either.

Best say nothing, but where was his ministerial car?

He lost his way when he was after the leadership.

Now, to the surprise of many, he's finally

in charge of quiet British diplomacy.

After a career strewn with colourful outbursts and more than a few

gaffes. Around the world there's been some amusement and quite a lot

of shock. On Twitter, the former Swedish leader thought it was a

joke, the former Belgian Prime Minister did as well. British humour

has no borders, he wrote. Australia sent good wishes to a good friend,

but others in France and Germany were less friendly. And Martin

Shulz, president of the European Parliament, as described the Cabinet

reshuffle which made Mr Johnson Foreign Secretary, as part of a

dangerously vicious cycle since the vote to quit the EU. The criticism

had come pouring down. French Foreign Minister said in an

interview the new Foreign Secretary had told a lot of lies about the EU.

After a boat like the referendum result on June the 23rd, it's

inevitable there will be a certain amount of plaster coming off the

ceiling in the chancelleries of Europe. It wasn't the result they

were expecting and clearly they are making their views known in a frank

and freeway. I have to say that the gentleman that you mentioned, the

French Foreign Minister, in fact has sent me a charming letter just a

couple of hours ago, saying how much he looked forward to working

together. Here in the UK, this was the reaction of one of Labour's

leadership challengers. They've just made him Foreign Secretary? In

America they know about Boris Johnson's way with words. He

compared presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to a sadistic nurse

in a mental hospital and during President Obama's British visit he

wrote about what he called the part Kenyan's president Aslan --

ancestral dislike of the British Empire. In Washington, which also

took the losing side in the campaign against the EU, a State Department's

face spoke volumes. It's been announced as Boris Johnson. How do

you think... That's better. We are always going to be able to work with

the British, no matter who is occupying the role of Foreign

Secretary. Boris Jensen addressed is new stuff today looking the part,

that's what diplomacy is about sometimes. Colleagues say he has the

talent and brains for the job, but he will have to get used to being a

little less Pienaar, BBC News. The man who replaced George Osborne

as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, says the outcome

of the referendum has had a 'chilling effect'

on the British economy. But he insisted that the government

would do whatever was needed During the day the Bank of England

surprised the financial markets by keeping interest rates on hold

at 0.5% despite hints that a cut was on the cards,

as our economics editor He was the future once -

George Osborne, and austerity budget, after austerity budget,

a plan that has been religiously Today the new man, Philip Hammond,

and a change of tone - out goes the language of cuts

and deficits and in comes the language of reassurance

and an economy that works, And on tax, a big message:

Increasing taxes is not the way to support the economy,

to maintain consumer that we keep on growing our

economy in the future. If there is one thing that people

in this country will want to focus on it is making sure

that the investment in our future continues,

and the jobs that investment creates The question on everyone's lips:

What is Philip Hammond's agenda? On taxes, as we heard,

he signalled a keenness, On borrowing, the deficit reduction

target has been abandoned. And on trade with Europe,

Mr Hammond insisted that Britain Big decisions are ready

for take-off, on airport expansion Mr Hammond stayed neutral

on a decision that has On a new nuclear power

station at Hinkley Point, the Chancellor was warmer,

backing the project. There is no better signal than being

open for business at the moment We would like to see

the aviation capacity The Davis commission

recommended Heathrow, The other big project we would love

to see taken forward is HS2. It puts a spine up the middle

of the country and also bring growth to regions of the UK,

so let's get on with it. Not getting on with it,

the Bank of England, which held interest rates at 0.5%,

despite worries that The Bank of England certainly

surprised the markets and a lot of economists when they said today

they wouldn't be cutting interest rates to help stimulate the economy,

well, not yet anyway. I think that makes

an important point - that it is not the governor of this

place who is most vital of the travel of UK economy -

that job is down to the new Prime Minister,

the new Chancellor, their policies will play a much

more significant role. We won't know those details

until the Autumn Statement, Economists say speed

is now the essence. Businesses are waiting

for the Government to provide some clarity on how it is going

to support the economy, how it is going to affect

their plans, and waiting until the Autumn Statement may be

a bit too long. The bank did warn the housing market

and consumer confidence have It said it was ready to cut interest

rates next month if necessary. Whether it feels the need may depend

in part on how far Mr Hammond is keeping his side of the bargain

on boosting Britain's economy. Today's Cabinet reshuffle

could signal a very different approach in some key policy areas,

including Justice and Transport So let's ask three of my colleagues

to outline the task ahead in those departments,

and we'll start our health editor Hugh Pym at St Thomas'

Hospital in central London. Yes, there was some confusion over

health policy earlier today, with reports the Health Secretary Jeremy

Hunt was moving on. Then it was confirmed he was staying in post. So

he will press on with his existing priorities. First of all imposing a

contract on junior doctors in England, he had reached agreement

with the British Medical Association but the members voted against, so

were lamenting it may not be straightforward. There is the bigger

picture of NHS finances, with warnings some hospitals and other

trusts may struggle on their budget and maintain safe standards of care.

Longer term, the government is committed to a seven-day NHS in

England. It's been made clear that is a manifesto commitment so the new

Prime Minister still sees it as a priority. Mr Hunt has always made

clear he loves his job, but he knows it's tough and it could yet get

tougher still. The new Justice Secretary and the

first female lord Lord Chancellor, Elizabeth Truss has two decisions to

make, to press ahead with the prisons' bill, the bill that gave

prison governors more control, more education, rehabilitation, that was

the brainchild of her predecessor, Michael Gove. It was in the Queen's

Speech two months ago but Theresa May is known to have a traditional

view of prince, should that bill be abandoned? Secondly, the plans to

replace the human rights act with a British bill of rights in the

Conservative election manifesto. But not much happened on it since.

Elizabeth Truss is known to be a fan of the idea. Should the plans be

speeded up. We have been trying to get answers to the questions. Her

office have not been able to give us clues, perhaps as they are still

trying to work out what the answers are.

And Chris Grayling comes to the department of transport when the

decisions depend on two pieces of national transport infrastructure.

The high-speed rail link between London and the north of England.

That vote could kick-start construction on what could be one of

the biggest engineering projects in Europe. Then of course there is the

controversial issue of airport expansion in the south of England.

The Government committed to airport expansion last year, last year, the

airport commission recommendeded a third runway at Heathrow Airport but

Boris Johnson does not like that idea. As for Philip Hammond and

Theresa May, their thoughts are nor nuanced but they both have

constituencies close to the Heathrow flight path.

Thank you very much. Well

The head of the high street retailer Next, Lord Wolfson,

who supported the Leave campaign, has told the BBC that big falls

in immigration would be dangerous for the economy.

He also said he would not be reducing investment in his business.

Three weeks after the referendum our business editor Simon Jack has

been to Stoke on Trent, an area that voted to leave,

After the intense heat of the European referendum,

no city in the UK emerged with more hardened resolve

70% of voters wanted a break with the European Union.

That level of certainty at the ballot box has led

to uncertainty for one of its most famous businesses.

Pottery maker Portmeirion has said it will cut

It's the uncertainty within the consumer's mind

that is making the retailers think, how much stock should we order?

And with the retailers wondering how much stock to order,

we have to be very careful we don't just make stock to add it to stock.

We are having to pull back just a little bit on our

The Bank of England has described the vote to leave

You might think of it as a punch on the nose which hasn't

started hurting yet, and some would say the governor has

been acting and talking as if an economic downturn

is imminent or even underway, and yet 70% of people here in Stoke

got exactly what they wanted, and many will see this as a reason

I did vote to stay in, but obviously with the majority

vote voting to go out, there is nothing we can do now,

so we just have to sit back and see what happens, really.

I think it is what it is - the people have spoken,

so let's just try and jump with the opportunity

Come back in 12 months and see, and we'll be there.

You are confident we will be better off?

I voted to come out, and I can't wait for it to happen.

The boss of one of Britain's's biggest retailers is also confident.

I think, as with all these things, they are always slightly overdone

in the media and I think most people are sort

I suspect the devaluation of the pound will be much more

of a boost to British manufacturing than people are expecting.

But he is concerned that sharp cuts to immigration could harm

the economy and reject the notion that the referendum result makes

I voted leave and I certainly would feel betrayed if immigration is not

I think it would be very dangerous to bring immigration

down to those levels, and I don't think that the majority

of people who voted Leave are the sort of bigots London has

of people who voted Leave are the sort of bigots that London has

Actually people want control of their borders,

but they don't necessarily want all immigration to stop.

That might be true, but here in the Potteries

and elsewhere, many Leave voters hope to combine two things -

brighter economic prospects and much lower immigration.

Simon Jack, BBC News, Stoke-on-Trent.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is with me.

Can we talk about how the Government will manage the Brexit process.

Split between three Cabinet ministers, how do we do that? Nobody

knows that answer. They are all charged with dealing with the

difficult, probably the most difficult question for Theresa May

as a Government, how to go about leaving the European Union. It is

not just a blank page in terms of how the process will work but also a

blank page in how the three men are expected to work together? Will

there be a pecking order? Or report to Theresa May? How does it work,

does Liam Fox report to Beijing. Brussels? It is unclear. It feels a

risky situation. All three men are strong characters, all three are

fond of expressing their views and all three are hard to plaquate. In

terms of the other union, the union between Scotland and the rest of the

UK, yesterday, Theresa May stood there and it was almost the first

thing she mentioned in the speech. She is clearly making it a priority

as the first visit tomorrow as the Prime Minister is tomorrow to head

to Edinburgh to have a meeting with Nicola Sturgeon the First Minister

there. Clearly that shows she means

business. So, what has happened in the

meantime to make us more confident about the sense of Theresa May as

Prime Minister? We have had big pieces of the jigsaw there. Are

three main things that she has done. Firstly, she has efficiently,

clinically, some may say brutally cleared out, a group of people seen

around David Cameron or George Osborne. They are gone, off to the

back benches. So there will be big characters, experienced voices and

that may be a benefit, compelled be a risk. Secondly, there are places

around the Cabinet table for the quiet grafters, people who have

worked hard, done their jobs lower down in parts of the government or

the Cabinet, rewarded for loyalty or hard work but that means too around

the Cabinet table and in public life there will be fewer characterful

voices speaking from the Cabinet. But maybe that tells us that Theresa

May is interested in controlling what is going on. And thirdly, if a

lot of people were to think that Theresa May was to be cautious, it

would be about continue youity, she has pretty much dismantled three

government departments, taking bits from others and mixing them up,

notably, the department for energy and climate change. That has meant

that some in the environmental world, it has sent alarm bells

ringing for some people. But overall, the sense of Theresa May

was of somebody most interested in stability, most interested in being

a safe pair of hands and actually, the strongest message we have had

from inside Number Ten, is that she wants to draw a line under the

Cameron era, she sees this time as her own.

That's it from Downing Street this evening.

A lot of ministerial changes today, so a quick reminder that

you can follow all the news of Mrs May's Cabinet along

with reaction and analysis on the BBC News website.

And with that it's time to join Reeta for the day's

Thousands of people have attended the funeral of Philando Castile,

who was shot dead by police in the US state of

The killing led to protests and nights of violence

Policing in America is now being sharply questioned -

after a series of deaths of African-Americans

Our North America Editor Jon Sopel went out on patrol with police

in the city of Frederick in Maryland and he sent this report.

The other side of policing in America.

In Frederick, Maryland, a city with its fair share of street

gangs and drug problems, officer Deborah Kidwell

has gone to the park to meet local youngsters.

She comes bearing gifts, but the first question

this little one asks is, "Do you wear a gun?"

Just in case, just in case I need it.

All they think is that we lock people up and we shoot people,

They don't seem to understand that the majority of

what we actually do is to help people.

I mean, have there been too many shootings?

Policing in the US is under intense scrutiny, and the president has been

at the forefront of saying things have to change.

The police force here is seen as something of a role model

in the way it engages with the community.

A storm comes in, and one of the sources of rumbling

discontent in Frederick and across the country is the ethnic

Here, it is 87% white and the chief is desperately trying to change

To attract minority candidates we are having a difficult time,

just like every other law enforcement agency

Every community meeting I go to, I usually talk about recruiting.

You know, if you know somebody, yourself or maybe a family member

that could be interested in this job, have them come on in.

I need you to turn around and put your hands behind your back.

Back at the apartment after a long wait, the partner returns home

The woman put into sheltered accommodation.

This is the mundane face of nearly all policing in the United States,

It is the 0.1% of cases where lethal force is deployed that is doing such

damage to the reputation of the police and race relations.

There is definitely a lot of mistrust, so I think that,

you know, it is really important to get out there and to show people

that we are not just a uniform, that we are human beings behind

the badge, with families and caring, and you know that what we are doing

is actually out here, because we all want to help.

Jon Sopel, BBC News, Frederick, Maryland.

There are reports of an incident taking place in Nice in France,

where they are celebrating Bastille Day where there have been fireworks.

These people are Football League the scene. A vehicle has ploughed into

the crowd. Eyewitnesses reported that there are several people lying

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

Donald Trump, the Republican candidate in the US

presidential election is reported to have chosen a member

of his party's right-wing Tea Party movement as his running mate.

The Trump campaign hopes that Mike Pence, who's

governor of Indiana, will help to attract socially

The mother of a 13-month-old girl who was sexually abused

by her father before her death has said she is "angry and disappointed"

at a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not

Poppi Worthington died in December 2012 -

after being found with serious injuries at her home

The CPS said this morning there was "insufficient evidence

to provide a realistic prospect of conviction".

Prince Harry has been tested for HIV in a bid to raise awareness -

and to encourage others to do the same.

According to the latest figures there are thought to be around

18,000 people who are unaware that they have the virus.

Prince Harry said he took the step of being publicly tested to help

Prince Harry, who tested negative, said he took the step

of being publicly tested to help

At least 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone

It's a practice now being described by the United

Kenya is one of the countries most affected - one in five

between the ages of 14 and 49 have been cut.

Our Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has been to Kenya

as it works to eradicate the practice.

A warning, the piece contains a graphic description of FGM.

Determined and brave, most of these girls ran away from home

because they were about to be mutilated or forced to marry.

In some tribes the tradition, where parts of a girl's vagina

are removed, marks the point a girl becomes a woman.

It happened to this teenager when she was just seven years old.

It was all so difficult, you feel like you want to faint,

you want to cry, even drowning out that whole...

Two years later her father told her she must marry a man in his 60s.

All of these girls risked their lives by running away,

but here they have a future, they're getting an education

and they're no longer at risk of being mutilated,

and crucially these girls won't go on to harm their own daughters.

Agnes Pareyio, who runs the rescue centre and the school,

is trying to stamp out the brutal custom in her ancient

She introduced me to women in a nearby village,

including a former cutter, who did a demonstration

This is the vagina here, so you scrape the side

of the vagina, and take off the clitoris here.

It emerged the cutting used to happen right where we stood.

It's difficult to imagine how terrifying this experience

And she's screaming, I guess?

Kenya banned female genital mutilation in 2011.

The UN's agency for children says young girls are far less

likely to be cut today, but old customs die hard.

TRANSLATION: This is a tradition that is very important to us,

the Masai people, otherwise the girls would want

We are not allowed to do it any more, otherwise I would cut my

seven-year-old daughter until she bleeds a lot.

In these deeply traditional patriarchal communities away

from the big cosmopolitan cities, many men still demand that women

are cut, but attitudes are changing and these Masai tribe cricketers

are helping to lead the charge, refusing to marry any

We use it as a way to bring our youth together,

to bring the community together, to tell them that female genital

In the long run I believe it will have changed society.

Definitely it will happen in my lifetime, I know.

And you can see and hear more about the issue of FGM across BBC

News tomorrow on radio, TV and online.

Golf now, and both Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose are well placed

following their first rounds at the Open at Royal Troon.

McIlroy is on 2-under par and Rose is on 3-under, five shots behind

The American had this shot to set the lowest ever first round score

He came agonisingly close but had to be satisfied

with an 8-under 63 - the joint lowest first round score.

England's cricketers have made a steady start to the first test

Newcomer Jake Ball took his first wicket -

as the visitors were limited to 77 for 3 at one stage.

But it was the veteran batsman Misbah Ul Haq who stole the show -

hitting a century to help Pakistan recover to 282 for 6 at the close.

The 42-year-old became the oldest player to score a century

in the modern game - celebrating with some press ups.

There have been extraordinary scenes in the Tour de France today

where the defending champion, the British cyclist Chris Froome,

was forced to abandon his bike and start running up

Froome had been knocked off, after a pile-up involving

Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks has the story

The climbs of Mont Ventoux are intense enough, without having

The yellow jersey is running up the Tour de France.

But in farcicle scenes, Chris Froome's desperation to retain

the lead saw him turn triathlete, running bikeless up the mountain.

It may have looked like a crowd-pleaser but Froome

was far from pleased with the crowds.

And this is why - their desire to get in the faces of the riders,

meant a camera bike had to stop suddenly, sending

Richie Port and in turn Froome, smashing head first

By the time Froome was finally able to grab a useable bike,

he had already lost major ground on his rivals.

Furiously shaking his head as he crossed the line.

But with his dream of a third tour win hanging in the balance,

the jury decided that the result shouldn't stand, leaving one very

happy Froome to tweet: Still in the yellow jersey.

So Froome keeps his lead, then but perhaps not his patience

There have been new images coming in on the breaking story happening in

Nice in France. Reports that a vehicle drove into the crowds in

Nice in France as they celebrate Bastille Day. One news agency has

been reporting that a vehicle ploughed into the crowd at the end

of the fireworks, and eyewitnesses reported that there were several

people believed to be injured lying in the street.