14/07/2014 The Papers

yellow jersey. We will reflect on the World Cup in Brazil, as our

attention turns to the Olympics in two years' time.

Welcome to our lookahead at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

We will start with the Daily Telegraph, which is leading on that

cabinet reshuffle. The Guardian takes on the same story, Haig

resigns in dramatic Tory reshuffle. The Financial Times also leads with

a story about William Hague, adding that David Cameron is planning a

younger cabinet with more women. The Daily Mail describes the reshuffle

as a purge of middle`aged men. The Sun also reports on that, but the

main story is about Cheryl Cole changing her name after getting

married. The Daily Mirror has details of Cheryl Cole's recent

wedding, but its main story is tonight's big political news. Hague

out in Cameron above. The Times also reports on the cabinet cull, and

that the Church of England approves women bishops. The Metro talks about

a crackdown on the NHS. Haig quits as Cameron clears out the

cabinet. Yes, he will be going from House of Commons, as well as the

government, after 26 years. This is of course the man who was once a

schoolboy, making that famous speech to the Tory conference, saying, I am

the future. Well, he ain't any more. It is a very depressing sight, a

16`year`old so wrapped up in politics. He was very wrapped up in

politics at that point. He would be a big loss to the government, he has

been a competent fighter. No big gas under his leadership of the Foreign

Office, and obviously there were some big things going on in the

world that could do with a safe pair of hands `` gaffes. Think we are

right to stay at the start of this coalition that he would avoid

reshuffling is much as possible. The three big offices have remained

constant. I don't think we can be that approving of his tenure in the

I think a lot of people would say that it is not clear what Britain's

place in the world is. He apparently suffered very badly after the defeat

on Syria, because he couldn't take his own party with him. I haven't

got what they wanted out of Europe, and I can't say that Afghanistan and

the withdrawal from Iraq looked terribly competent either. Nor has

our support for the Arab spring, or him wanting to arm the Syrian

rebels, saying that would all work out as well. Right! Think he is a

very nice man, but you can't say it was a perfect success. If you look

at the disaster we had in the invasion of Iraq with the Labour

government, these were obviously actions taken... If you want to

compare disastrous foreign policy in the past 12 years, to rather

unimpressive stuff in the last four. Anyway, moving on. He had a lot to

mop up, with Iraq and Afghanistan, I will grant you that Syria and the

Commons defeat... It sounds like a joke, but it is important is how he

pronounces his words. He could be used as someone who can get the

message to the north. Sign that he will be the leader of the Commons,

he is fantastic at making speeches. Is not in the Tories little circle,

and they need that desperately. Not as desperately as they need some

women and some people who aren't white. A purge of the middle`aged

man. Esther McVeigh is in. The reason it is a purge is because

their run nothing but middle`aged men in the cabinet. The call Kenneth

Clarke middle`aged, aged 72, I think that gives all of us a lot of hope.

There is a serious point, only three women in the cabinet. Before people

get very excited about all the men going, let's not forget that if all

seven that have been lost will be replaced by women, there are still

twice as many men and women in the cabinet. We know that won't happen,

because we know that Phillip Hammond is going to William Hague's job. At

last, some women are going and some talented women `` some men are going

and some talented women will have a chance. Today, it was said if there

was a risk whether this would favour gender over talent. All those years,

it was only men who knew what they were doing. Even with the women they

were trying to hang on to, David Cameron really tried to hang on to

the culture Secretary, even though it was clear to all of us that she

should go, he didn't do a great job in first place. No one was saying he

was choosing the correct women in the first place, although he had few

to choose from but he has overlooked talented women because they weren't

party faithfuls. He has taken on some rebels, Andrea Levenson is very

impressive, with a very sharp green, and only just got a promotion

as a junior minister. If we go to the Daily Mirror, it has taken a bit

of a different tack to all the other papers on this. The implication is

that William Hague was pushed, and didn't quit. I would be astounded if

the Daily Mirror had this inside track from inside the Tory party, as

a Labour loyal paper. I think they tried to make mischief. David

Cameron knows how valuable William Hague is, and he wouldn't have...

Keeping sea has been brilliant, he would have hung on to him. William

Hague has been getting rather bored with the job, it is rumoured. He is

fed up with the travelling, and he is brilliant at writing books and

giving speeches, and he likes to play the piano. He wants a change.

Didn't he do it during his last Wilderness years, a 2`man show,

didn't they go around the country? Are you serious? Yes. I wish I had

known, I would have gone. We are going to leave talk of the reshuffle

and go on to the Daily Telegraph. A very big picture on the front page

of a female reverend. The Church of England could be getting women

bishops next year. All three houses of the Synod have voted down, there

was a shock decision against two years ago, when it was blocked. That

was a great shock, and obviously the church is way out of step with the

rest of the country. And even there was a threat of Parliamentary

intervention if they haven't done it. For those of us who don't, who

aren't church`goers, it all seems a bit otherworldly. I don't know, one

of my first jobs as a reporter for the BBC was to make a film in

Northern Ireland about the opposition to the idea that women

would become priests at all. They were just about to. There was such

venomous hatred in the idea that women had a right to appear as a

representative of God. There was huge resentment, and there has been

a lot of that still. One of the moving things was that the Guardian

has a quote, saying it took a closing speech of real passion from

an evangelical Christian to round this up. Your fate is my fate, is

all of our fate, and everyone us has a responsibility to make sure the

searing vision of the risen Christ goes out to the people. I am an

atheist, but I hear a chill down my spine when I hear that. Apparently

they had peace negotiators to work out a framework by which

Conservatives could remain within the church and still have female

bishops. They actually had people who deal with violence and war

negotiating within the church to try to get this framework worked out.

Can we send them to Israel now? And Syria after that? The church still

have to deal with the vexed issue of homosexuality. I think the

Archbishop of Canterbury has been on Newsnight, saying there is going to

be a guided conversation about issues of sexuality. If you are

going to keep the Anglican Church, not just the Church of England but

the Anglican Church across the world, it is necessary. And assisted

suicide, which is another issue that will be discussed and could be very

fractious. Nadine Gordimer, Evergreen, ageless and an

inspiration to all writers. She has died. This means a lot to me because

I was born in South Africa and might parents were political

revolutionaries, and contemporaries of Nadine Gordimer's. I grew up

reading her books. It is easy to forget that she had a very difficult

time of it. To be a liberal, and a woman and a writer in South Africa

when there were almost no voices prepared to stand up against

apartheid. She was loathed by the regime, meaning she was voted by

many people within it. She had quite an isolated life for decades. There

were just a couple of lone voices against apartheid in a very hostile

environment. She was immensely brave to keep writing like that. People

forget that once South Africa change, she did not then become a

heroine. There is nothing that quiet revolutionaries hate more than the

revolutionaries from before the revolution. What she was one of the

first people Nelson Mandela visited when he left prison. She said, how

could white South Africans feel that they are the master race, when they

walk around in very tight khaki shorts? I read that years ago, and

it completely blew that vision of the Afrikaans state being a

wonderful thing. She just blew it with a few well chosen words. Well

chosen words were the tools of her profession. It seems like only

minutes we were sitting around this table discussing the death of Maya

Angelou. It is so sad that these very strong powerful voices from

different places in the world in different backgrounds, fighting for

so many of the same things, racial and sexual equality. I hope this

means that some people who have never read her would feel inclined

to try. What would you recommend? Burgo's daughter, about 80 girl who

realises about apartheid. She wasn't simplistic, she was sophisticated.

It was great to have you in. At midnight, we will have much more on

the rapidly developing reshuffle at the heart of government. We already

know William Hague is leaving, what other changes can we expect? Coming

up now, World Cups forestay.