:00:00. > :00:00.staffer Powell is free to run again after his doping ban is stopped. And
:00:00. > :00:17.more with the World Cup in 15 minutes.
:00:18. > :00:28.Welcome to our look ahead at the papers. With me other times, most.
:00:29. > :00:35.Let's start with the Daily Telegraph. It is leading on the
:00:36. > :00:38.Cabinet reshuffle. The headline Hague out in colour of middle`aged
:00:39. > :00:45.white men. The Guardian is running the same story, Hague resigns in
:00:46. > :00:51.genetic Tory reshuffle. The time: Hague to step down in Cabinet make
:00:52. > :00:56.over. The Daily Mail describes the reshuffle as a purge of the
:00:57. > :01:03.middle`aged men. Whilst the Metro reports foreign patients will be hit
:01:04. > :01:08.with 150% bill in an NHS crackdown on health tourism. We'll start with
:01:09. > :01:17.the developing news about the reshuffle Jenny. Haig resigns in a
:01:18. > :01:20.Tory reshuffle. 26 years, who can forget when he first that up in
:01:21. > :01:26.front of the Tory party conference and now he's going. I'm afraid for
:01:27. > :01:30.once the headlines are true. If you are a political watch this is Jim
:01:31. > :01:35.attic. There was no hint to this. A lot of people said Haig was fed up
:01:36. > :01:39.of the role and front line politics and wanted to spend more time with
:01:40. > :01:45.his piano or speeches both of which is very good at. I think it was news
:01:46. > :01:52.to everybody in the political world that he would be going today. Neal,
:01:53. > :01:57.a bit of a surprise but he will still be hanging around as it were.
:01:58. > :02:03.The general election campaign really does start here. It is been said by
:02:04. > :02:07.Downing Street he will have a big role in the election campaign. He
:02:08. > :02:16.will be campaigning, he has a northern accent. This is a rarity in
:02:17. > :02:21.the old Etonian modern cabinets. He will no doubt be campaigning in the
:02:22. > :02:25.marginal constituencies in the northern cities where the Tories
:02:26. > :02:29.need to win to get an overall majority after the next election.
:02:30. > :02:36.And he, as leader of the house will be involved in any delicate
:02:37. > :02:42.legislative business between now and the election. His departure and the
:02:43. > :02:47.departure of of all the old goats, you might say, Kenneth Clarke and
:02:48. > :02:52.that generation, leads the way for a lot of women, apparently. This is
:02:53. > :02:57.still to come, who will fill these roles, but we are told people I
:02:58. > :03:05.estimate Fay, Liz Truss, are going to be promoted, there were rumours
:03:06. > :03:09.about the Culture Secretary job. I do object talking about people
:03:10. > :03:15.leaving as old goats arrest the Guardian says. On the whole, there
:03:16. > :03:20.is scepticism on the whole but there are lots of good people here like
:03:21. > :03:25.Damian Green, David Willetts and Dominic grieve. None of whom I agree
:03:26. > :03:28.with politically but they are people who are devoted many years to public
:03:29. > :03:33.service and are trying to do the right thing for the country. They
:03:34. > :03:36.work hard behind`the`scenes and they are honourable people and at the end
:03:37. > :03:41.of the day we ought to do at the end of their political careers, it was
:03:42. > :03:47.famously said all ended defeat, in this way we ought to take an account
:03:48. > :03:56.into this. They have done their best. It is an electoral decision
:03:57. > :03:58.though isn't it. I'm not disagreeing with their going. I'm not
:03:59. > :04:06.disagreeing with their going. Under a rugged three way. The man we
:04:07. > :04:11.understand who will overtake this is Philip Hammond. I saw him earlier
:04:12. > :04:18.and he was speaking French. And he was looking pleased. I should've
:04:19. > :04:25.sussed. The foreign`language and the smile on his face. What do you think
:04:26. > :04:31.that'll mean in terms of policy, he's a bit of a right of William
:04:32. > :04:36.Hague isn't it? He is thought to be. It is all new and hard to tell. What
:04:37. > :04:43.I have heard is that the defence Department will be very good pleased
:04:44. > :04:45.that he is gone. He has made itself unpopular by cost`cutting and people
:04:46. > :04:53.thinking he is a bit of a technocrat. He is not hot on charm
:04:54. > :04:58.and does things by the rules. He would be contoured Angelina Jolie
:04:59. > :05:10.question mark I think any man would be. Is a sexist? No it's just a fact
:05:11. > :05:15.of life. Is a technocrat someone you would want to renegotiate treaties
:05:16. > :05:19.in Europe? Could that be the thinking here? There are divided
:05:20. > :05:23.opinions here because people think in order for the Tories to convince
:05:24. > :05:30.their internal critics whether they are Tories or electors in general,
:05:31. > :05:33.they need to see a Eurosceptic is making the argument for them in
:05:34. > :05:37.Brussels. Only that way will the British believe they have people
:05:38. > :05:40.generally fighting for their interest. The counter argument is if
:05:41. > :05:48.you have someone going in being bullish, is he not going to put up
:05:49. > :05:57.the backs up of all the EU members. Let's move the Daily Telegraph. Its
:05:58. > :06:03.front page again, Haig out. William Hague out in colour of middle`aged
:06:04. > :06:08.white men. If you're male and pale then you're out.
:06:09. > :06:11.LAUGHING Can I point out we still have a
:06:12. > :06:21.large tub of male and pale men in the cabinet full stop we any of
:06:22. > :06:25.three women out of 27 there. On the assumption that all men will be
:06:26. > :06:30.replaced by women, which I doubt, let's remember that this is the vast
:06:31. > :06:35.majority and as I said we should praise the work that these people
:06:36. > :06:42.are done, it is incredibly overdue that there are lots of talented
:06:43. > :06:46.women in Parliament. It has been interesting to see over the
:06:47. > :06:50.Coalition Government how few reshuffle is their bin. When you're
:06:51. > :06:55.in coalition, that is normally the nature of the beast. No mere
:06:56. > :07:00.division of a Cabinet post between two coalition parties. In the last
:07:01. > :07:04.Labour government, in its dying days there was a reshuffle almost every
:07:05. > :07:06.ten minutes as people reshuffle themselves out of governments
:07:07. > :07:13.because they could not deal with Gordon Brown. William Hague has been
:07:14. > :07:17.an excellent Foreign Secretary and he has been there a long time,
:07:18. > :07:25.personally I support jobs Osborne as Chancellor to. I think there is a
:07:26. > :07:28.benefit to having the stability. That is Cameron 's argument
:07:29. > :07:33.definitely. He hates shuffles as it were. He has tried to hang on to
:07:34. > :07:36.people as long as possible and in some instances, Maria Miller,
:07:37. > :07:43.potentially too long. Why this happening now? We're year out why
:07:44. > :07:47.now? For exactly that reason. I think it was wise of Cameron to make
:07:48. > :07:51.the commitment to try and keep people in their roles, otherwise the
:07:52. > :07:57.civil service can run rings around ministers. As often happen in the
:07:58. > :08:01.Blair years, a minister hanging around to several policy was
:08:02. > :08:05.invented was small. It is critical for the Tories, although the economy
:08:06. > :08:12.is approving, they still are not improving very much in the opinion
:08:13. > :08:15.polls. As Neil alluded to they look at the Tory party is an issue bunch
:08:16. > :08:21.of posh boys. Given when Cameron came in, he said he would target a
:08:22. > :08:24.third of his cabinet out swimming, and at the minute it is one third of
:08:25. > :08:30.the target he's reaching, it is about time he gave people a few MPs
:08:31. > :08:36.to reflect some experience of the lives everyone else is leading. That
:08:37. > :08:39.is the suggestion. The people is putting into his knee positions are
:08:40. > :08:48.going to be the ones trotted out on programmes like, they will be the
:08:49. > :08:54.face. These be the faces of the general election campaign I imagine.
:08:55. > :08:59.To some extent. To some extent I think will see a lot of Cameron.
:09:00. > :09:10.Sure. At least be a few women in the wings now though. Maybe a non`white
:09:11. > :09:14.women. One of the things, she is a backbencher now, people think should
:09:15. > :09:19.be if section it as minister. One of the things that worries me is that
:09:20. > :09:24.Cameron does not extend far beyond his comfort zone. I've had no
:09:25. > :09:29.rumours he is interested in promoting Sarah Williston who was
:09:30. > :09:35.elected as a Tory and has been most unconventional in her job as a
:09:36. > :09:38.politician. She has come in to say Sears to serve the interests of
:09:39. > :09:43.their constituents and not to follow the rules of cut country. She speaks
:09:44. > :09:47.an intelligent mind and causes problems for them and they don't
:09:48. > :09:53.seem to use her talents. That is a black mark against Cameron. Ken
:09:54. > :09:58.Clarke is leaving after many years. Michael Heseltine paying tribute to
:09:59. > :10:07.him today said, some might feel he is out of step with current Tory
:10:08. > :10:14.thinking, a little bit old. If the Tory party is out of step with him,
:10:15. > :10:23.then there is a problem. Is there a sense that hears of an age that is
:10:24. > :10:28.not relevant any more? I was reading earlier and that there will no
:10:29. > :10:32.longer be a one nation Tory representative in the Cabinet. Ken
:10:33. > :10:38.Clarke and Michael Heseltine are both like that. Ken Clarke was
:10:39. > :10:43.famously against `` was famously in favour of Europe and believes in
:10:44. > :10:50.that paternalistic one nation, bringing everyone together type of
:10:51. > :10:55.Conservative thinking. That is opposed to the more devices thinking
:10:56. > :11:03.with which the Conservative Party has become branded. David Cameron
:11:04. > :11:08.did his best in trying to persuade the camp `` the country that the
:11:09. > :11:13.Tory party had changed and did not succeed. People just do not believe
:11:14. > :11:19.that this is a Tory party that believes in the good of the whole
:11:20. > :11:24.country. I think David Cameron is a one nation Tory, that is where he
:11:25. > :11:30.puts himself. He is not perceived as such. That is definitely where he
:11:31. > :11:34.would stand. The fact that the party is more divided than he would like
:11:35. > :11:40.is a different thing. I think Michael Heseltine was referring to
:11:41. > :11:44.the fact that Ken Clarke is fond of Europe and currently it is difficult
:11:45. > :11:51.to express enthusiasm for Europe in the Tory party. David Cameron has
:11:52. > :11:56.had to bend to all of that. He has had to put forward a different
:11:57. > :12:02.policy. This reshuffle is about presentation, it is not about policy
:12:03. > :12:07.or changing anything. It is too early for us to know that, we do not
:12:08. > :12:13.know who the key people are. When we talk about William Hague having a
:12:14. > :12:18.northern accent, we heard that the Chancellor was about to embark on a
:12:19. > :12:22.tour of the North. He will go round all the areas where the Tories have
:12:23. > :12:31.been unpopular and announce new infrastructure schemes. He has got
:12:32. > :12:37.?100 million to allocate and it could see schemes in very unlikely
:12:38. > :12:44.places. Places may now feel that the Chancellor is giving them money. The
:12:45. > :12:47.Tories have to do something if they want to be the biggest single party
:12:48. > :12:54.and they want to win. They are still not doing well in the polls. You
:12:55. > :12:58.will be back in one hour. We will talk about other subjects. Let us go
:12:59. > :13:00.to Westminster and talk to Chris