13/07/2016 The Papers

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

With me are Paul Johnson, deputy editor of the Guardian,

and Tim Collins, the former Tory MP and managing director

The Guardian, which pictures a laughing Prime Minister

and her husband, Philip, on the steps of Number Ten.

The paper says her speech was focused on the "middle ground".

The i uses a phrase from that speech, with the Prime Minister

saying, "Let's build a fairer Britain."

A photo from the other side of the famous Downing Street door

dominates the Telegraph's front page.

The headline is "May brings in the Brexiteers."

The Times calls tonight's government appointments,

"May's clean break," after the Prime Minister sacked

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson features in Express alongside

Brexit Secretary David Davis, calling the pair, "May's team

The Mirror pictures Boris stuck on that infamous zipwire,

with the simple headline, "Dear world...sorry."

The FT looks at the possible impact of Philip Hammond taking over

at the Treasury, describing him as, "Low-key".

The departing Cameron family feature on the Metro,

alongside details of new government appointments to what it calls,

Let's start with you, Paul Dahmer because we have the front of the

Guardian here. Very nice photo of Theresa May with Philip. In the

corner it says, a speech to make Ed Miliband choke on his teeth. To come

back to the photograph, it is terrific, it captures the moment she

told her husband Boris Johnson would be Foreign Secretary! LAUGHTER.

They laughed in Paris and Brussels and New York et cetera. To come back

to the speech, it was interesting, powerful, direct, talked about

disadvantage and discrimination. She said, when we make the calls we

won't think of the powerful bite of you. When we pass laws we won't

think of the mighty bite you -- but. When it comes to taxes we will

prioritise not the wealthy but you -- but. Powerful speech. Slight

echoes, some commentators say it could have been delivered by Ed

Miliband, but there are some echoes, Tim would be expert of this than the

-- more the expert of this than me, but when Margaret Thatcher is quoted

St Francis of Assisi. When there is discord, may we bring harmony. With

the chaos in Labour at the moment, alarm bells will be ringing. I think

they will perpetually be ringing in Labour for about 12 months. I think

we need to come back to the ring. What you do and what you say are

different things. Actions speak stronger than words. Just above the

main story, Cabinet takes a tilt to the right. You feel the Guardian has

got it wrong. I fear the Guardian aren't the right people to

understand what goes on in the Tory party and I wouldn't read the Daily

Telegraph to understand what is going on in the Labour Party. After

20 years in politics, ten years analysing it, this is by eight

country mile the cleverest, most successful reshuffle I have seen any

Prime Minister make in a 30 year period. She has created a complete

free hand to do what she said she wanted to do on the steps of Downing

Street. She said she wanted to deliver Grexit. She has put in

charge people who will do that -- Brexit. And in doing that, she has

given herself a complete FreeHand. The right-wing of the Tory party,

the Leave side, they will fall give her anything. Their view is she will

deliver Brexit and that will allow her to do the other things on

tackling social injustice, rebalancing the economy, because the

other part of the reshuffle was the first dismissal of a chancellor

since Harold Macmillan in the 1950s, the night of the Long knives, to

fire your chancellor, indicating she is serious when she says she wants a

fundamentally different, interventionist, redistributionist

economic strategy -- long knives. Was it important to have such an

execution? I think it was made clear when she talked in her launch speech

earlier this week, and on Downing Street today, about wanting to be

not on the side of the privileged but working people, when she talks

about intervening to protect British businesses from being overtaken by

overseas businesses, she means it. It is fundamentally different from

George Osborne's approach. The way she has taken charge of this

government. She has put in Philip Hammond. He wants to be the

chancellor, not Prime Minister. He won challenge Theresa May on major

economic questions. There is one slight flaw but I bow to your

knowledge of the intricacies of the Tory party -- won't. There is a

history of chancellors wanting to become Prime Minister. Philip

Hammond and his rather low... His rather low-key approach. Who knows

if he is a threat? Andrea Leadsom... I know him very well. He will be a

great chancellor and he is not a threat at all. The Daily Express

front page and you have to Mac Brexiteers, Boris Johnson and David

Davis. Who will lead negotiations? Some rumours will be Boris Johnson

won't be allowed to go to Brussels. You can't have a department in

charge of Brexit without making it very clear the Foreign Office is not

in charge of that. David Davis, he has given a great deal of thought to

it, it binds Boris Johnson, after leading a campaign that got 70.5

million votes, but he will go out and she rocked the world, he will go

to America, China and India, David Davis will do the job of the Brexit.

According to the Foreign Secretary, this is a politician who has

insulted Barack Obama, Clinton, the Turks, the Germans, Africans, the

Kurds and Liverpool. He has had to make apologies about all of these

things. It is a curious piece of diplomacy. You could read it in a

different way, the new drink of the Foreign Office. Negotiations will be

carried out by David Davis in terms of that and so forth -- neutering.

And secondly, with Liam Fox, another one brought back from the wilderness

to lead the trade deals that people like him say we will sign with China

and America. We are rather ratty back of the queue with America. With

a lot of things from the Remain came before June 23 that had been

retracted... What is significant is, don't underestimate just how bright

Boris Johnson is. He is the first Foreign Secretary who is fluent in

multiple languages. He was mayor of London. Very successfully went round

and did trade deals for London in various parts of the world. I think

he will surprise people how good he will be. He is also in charge of

MI6. Yes, absolutely. The point is, as the Mayor of London he was in

charge of the Met Police. You are saying he won't be in charge of

Brussels. There is a European foreign council meeting, so he will

be in Brussels. It will be clear what the agenda is. If it will cover

Brexit it will make sense for David Davis to be there. (CROSSTALK). It

isn't clear. It depends on the agenda. If it is primarily on Brexit

it will be David Davis. If it is Ukraine or the Middle East, it will

be Boris. Look at the initial reactions, people are completely

aghast. Consistency from Boris Johnson... Ten days ago he set

Andrea Leadsom was the only person with the determination to become the

next Prime Minister. What Paul can't cope with is that the Labour Party

is tearing itself to shreds and cannot even unite over the rules of

the contest. The Tory party is clearly coming together very

powerfully and I think Theresa May has had a very good reshuffle

because the Tory party is more united than it has been in half a

century. Let me look at the second page in The Express. It has the big

appointments. There is only one woman. There is the Prime Minister!

A LAUGHTER. This is very... (CROSSTALK). This is

very, very curious, because the briefings last night leading to

front-page headlines this morning was she would rebalance... Tony

Blair had eight women in his cabinet. David Cameron had seven at

one time. We have had six announcements today and one person,

Amber Rudd. We do have tomorrow. There will be a lot of

announcements. The top jobs... One of the top jobs. I know that we have

all been through the Blair era, the Brown era, the camera nearer, this

year is a Prime Minister who so far has kept her word on everything --

Cameron era. She said she would have a team to deliver Brexit, she has

kept her word on appointing a chancellor who can dramatically

change economic policy, she has restructured the business department

in a way that will make it much easier to have an intervention

strategy, if she says she will have more women, by the time she has

finished composing her cabinet she will have many more women.

Where are these women going to go? There's health, education,

transport, important departments were several will be led by women I

suspect. The front of the Mirror, fairly self-explanatory. Echoes what

Paul has been saying. You are the Daily Mirror guy, now, Paul. It is

this idea of Boris Johnson being it wired around the world. It was the

Olympics, a huge success. -- zip wired. But he is a good salesman,

isn't he? He did very well at selling the London Olympics. If he

has to sell Brexit Britain, is he a good man to do that? Let's see how

the other nations, the EU nations, the Americans and Chinese react. So

far his diplomatic tours have ended slightly disastrously. Think about

how he had to cut short his trip to Palestine and scuttle out to

Kurdistan over some trouble about an unpaid bar bill. Let's hope this

doesn't happen. He will have to show some character in this role, more

serious. Exactly. People said he couldn't be London mayor but he was

extremely successful for eight years and one thing that was decided in

the referendum was we needed to organise our politics around what is

best for us not what other countries think is best. He might bring a bit

of fun to the Cabinet table because they are all quite serious people,

Teresa made. Philip Hammond is not a rip tickler, it has to be said,

Boris will bring some fun. Theresa May has already proved she has a

wonderful sense of humour by doing this Cabinet! The FT, it's quite

interesting, it does call them Philip Hammond, Tim's friend, a

fiscal hawk, which is quite interesting. She also talks about...

They come back to this David Miliband point, saying her speech in

Downing Street contained things that bore an uncanny resemblance to those

championed by Ed Miliband. The difference between George Osborne

and Philip Hammond are really marked. That was humiliating for

Osborne, longtime bookies favourite and others favour to be the next

Prime Minister. He had to come in by the backdoor and he left by the

backdoor. There's a really plaintive tweet tonight saying I will leave it

to others to judge whether I left the economy in a better shape than I

inherited it, and extraordinary exit from somebody so prominent for so

long. I hope was ticked up on Twitter tonight. Lots of people

talking about that. Talking about Hammond, the fiscal hawk, how does

that square with Theresa May's plan for austerity? The important thing

about Philip is he is a loyalist, he will do what he is told, he won't be

like Gordon Brown or George Osborne, trying to be a Deputy Prime

Minister. The Treasury will have a lot less power, that's important,

it's a different style of government, the Treasury will be

back in its box and the kind of Treasury we had 30 or 40 years ago.

He will be good on the detail and the numbers. And is a very

successful shadow chief secretary he was responsible for lots of economic

thinking prior to the election in 2010 for the Tory party. Teresa May

has committed to abandoning the deficit target from George Osborne

by 2020, Philip will deliver. He won't be in charge of these new

international trade deals? That will be Liam Fox. Extraordinary power to

Liam Fox. And extraordinary opportunity because it's important

to recognise there are countries around the world that have expressed

interest in bilateral trade agreements with the UK, China,

India, Australia, the US, the UAE, many interested in doing that.

Bilateral trade agreements can be done within a year or two, South

Korea, Iceland and Norway have done that. We could be in a position in a

few years where we have free trade agreements with 2.5 billion people,

which puts into context the question of our relationship with the EU.

You're saying we will negotiate with the EU but back load the

negotiations so when we get to the final sign of we can say you're not

as important as you thought. One of the problems with being in the EU is

you can't negotiate your own trade deals, we don't get that back until

we exit but we can put the negotiations in place so that when

we exit we can do the deals with the other countries and turnaround to

the EU, if they want to be difficult, which I hope and believe

they won't be, turn around and say unlike the rest of you we do most of

our trade already with the rest of the world, not with the rest of

Europe, and we have done these deals, don't assume all the

negotiating power is with you. Tim can see the way to the sunny

uplands, pie in the sky perhaps, but the Bank of England, the IMF, the

World Bank, the IMF, most economists, let's see what happens.

It's a very rosy picture. The key thing for Liam Fox and the Brexit

team is they won't talk to us until article he is activated. Exactly.

That seems to have been missed --. Is there still disagreement on

whether Article 50 needs to be activated? -- Article 50. Tim has

gone through the gears very quickly, he thinks we can do exit in about

6.5 seconds. We can't do that, Philip Hammond send yesterday we

could take six years. -- said. He was talking about ratification of

other EU member states on the final terms of Brexit. That's precisely

the point. Every free trade agreement we want to do with every

country outside the EU, as long as we are inside it, need the agreement

from 27 other countries. That's why out of our ten largest export

markets outside the EU only inside the EU do we have access to two free

trade agreements, we can get through the other a very quickly once we are

have been saying, this is a very have been saying, this is a very

different direction for the government domesticly at least.

Absolutely. She is somebody who is very clearly not intending just to

be a legacy Prime Minister or a caretaker Prime Minister or someone

who is just there to carry on on autopilot what she inherited from

David Cameron, she is serious about changing the direction of policy on

a whole range of issues and that's why the reshuffle is so exciting

because she is creating the space within her party and beyond her

party to do that. Some of the new departments she will set up tomorrow

and the appointments will indicate she is serious, this isn't just

rhetoric what she talked about on the doorstep, she will do some very

radically different things. The Times comes to something we haven't

talked about before, there's one third of the day we haven't talked

about, David Cameron's Commons exit, he was hugely amusing, he set out

his list of achievements, cutting the deficit, more jobs, better

schools, protecting the NHS, but he didn't tackle one thing. We've left

the EU by mistake as far as he's concerned and this is a mess. I will

come to Brexit because the Metro has it on the front but to finish on

Theresa May, a vicar's daughter, a former banker, not a PR spin like

David Cameron and the others, she's a serious thinker. -- spinner. You

can be reassured the old Bullingdon ways are out of the door? That was

one target for her, when she kept on about the wealthy and privileged,

when she turns it on her head and talked about the discriminated and

disadvantaged, it's a clear sign and that's a breakup. Then enter Boris

Johnson and we will see what happens with the others tomorrow. We talk

about... Paul mentioned what Mrs Thatcher said when she first became

Prime Minister, I don't think Tony Blair or David Cameron or Gordon

Brown did what she did today, talk about the experience of a black or

working class person, somebody who is from one of the most deprived

areas in the country. That's a really different approach and if she

is serious, and I think she is, about tackling those issues, that

could mean different policies from what we have ever seen. You could

say tough on the causes of Brexit. Let's move on to the Metro, the

family picture, it's all about legacy for David Cameron today. I

will give you the first shot at this, Paul, what will the legacy be?

What will the legacy be? He came in with the "Big Society" vision, we

haven't heard much from "Big Society". He came in with an agenda

which was encompassing and quite green, then they transferred through

the journey from a green consciousness into green rubbish as

it were. There was a journey here. We saw that other side of him in the

Commons today where he was generous. He was witty and amusing. Clearly a

plastic lid lucrative time for him on the after-dinner speaking circuit

should he want -- fantastically. The things that he saw as his legacy,

and he outlined seven or eight of them, we talked about stronger

defence and schools and NHS and so forth, seemed to me to be dwarfed

by... We're in a mess now. George Osborne hasn't left a note for

Philip Hammond saying the money is all spent but he may have is well

have. The Telegraph picks up on that quote, I was the future once, once

said of Tony Blair. How will people look back on David Cameron? It's

very poignant because when he said that to Tony Blair, that was the end

of 2005 and its remarkable his entire political career from the

moment he became Leader of the Opposition to exiting as Prime

Minister is in ten years. Careers in politics in Britain these days are

much faster. On the "Big Society", he was very proud with what he did

on national citizenship. On the greens staff, the amount of energy

generated by renewables has tripled, not insignificant achievement is. He

inherited a fundamentally broken economy -- achievements. The

challenge is a lot of people felt left behind and to end on a note

that I agree with my friend, that was a big factor in the Leave vote

that so many people felt they needed to kick the elite because the elite

didn't listen to them. I want to go to the cartoon here. That's not the

pound, says this character looking at the graph. That is Boris

Johnson's career. Plunged downwards. It has soared tonight. Very amusing

but one paragraph on the front of the Telegraph which is hugely

significant, economy slows as the Leave effect takes hold. And so

begins. Underneath some of the positive notes we have heard from

the FTSE and the pound recovering... Quantitative easing could start

tomorrow, a cut in interest rates. All your viewers do what I have done

since June the 24th, get up, scan the sky and see whether the

Luftwaffe have started bombing, I don't think it has yet. All this

alarmism. We will be much better off. How could you have anyone in

government trying to sell the strength of the UK around the world

who had said it would be a calamity? The reality is it won't be, we will

get through and be stronger as a result. We will leave it there. More

to come tomorrow, more appointments and we will talk about it then. Jim

and Paul, thank you for your company. That's it for the Papers.

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