14/07/2014 The Papers

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Welcome to our look ahead at the papers. With me other times, most.

Let's start with the Daily Telegraph. It is leading on the

Cabinet reshuffle. The headline Hague out in colour of middle`aged

white men. The Guardian is running the same story, Hague resigns in

genetic Tory reshuffle. The time: Hague to step down in Cabinet make

over. The Daily Mail describes the reshuffle as a purge of the

middle`aged men. Whilst the Metro reports foreign patients will be hit

with 150% bill in an NHS crackdown on health tourism. We'll start with

the developing news about the reshuffle Jenny. Haig resigns in a

Tory reshuffle. 26 years, who can forget when he first that up in

front of the Tory party conference and now he's going. I'm afraid for

once the headlines are true. If you are a political watch this is Jim

attic. There was no hint to this. A lot of people said Haig was fed up

of the role and front line politics and wanted to spend more time with

his piano or speeches both of which is very good at. I think it was news

to everybody in the political world that he would be going today. Neal,

a bit of a surprise but he will still be hanging around as it were.

The general election campaign really does start here. It is been said by

Downing Street he will have a big role in the election campaign. He

will be campaigning, he has a northern accent. This is a rarity in

the old Etonian modern cabinets. He will no doubt be campaigning in the

marginal constituencies in the northern cities where the Tories

need to win to get an overall majority after the next election.

And he, as leader of the house will be involved in any delicate

legislative business between now and the election. His departure and the

departure of of all the old goats, you might say, Kenneth Clarke and

that generation, leads the way for a lot of women, apparently. This is

still to come, who will fill these roles, but we are told people I

estimate Fay, Liz Truss, are going to be promoted, there were rumours

about the Culture Secretary job. I do object talking about people

leaving as old goats arrest the Guardian says. On the whole, there

is scepticism on the whole but there are lots of good people here like

Damian Green, David Willetts and Dominic grieve. None of whom I agree

with politically but they are people who are devoted many years to public

service and are trying to do the right thing for the country. They

work hard behind`the`scenes and they are honourable people and at the end

of the day we ought to do at the end of their political careers, it was

famously said all ended defeat, in this way we ought to take an account

into this. They have done their best. It is an electoral decision

though isn't it. I'm not disagreeing with their going. I'm not

disagreeing with their going. Under a rugged three way. The man we

understand who will overtake this is Philip Hammond. I saw him earlier

and he was speaking French. And he was looking pleased. I should've

sussed. The foreign`language and the smile on his face. What do you think

that'll mean in terms of policy, he's a bit of a right of William

Hague isn't it? He is thought to be. It is all new and hard to tell. What

I have heard is that the defence Department will be very good pleased

that he is gone. He has made itself unpopular by cost`cutting and people

thinking he is a bit of a technocrat. He is not hot on charm

and does things by the rules. He would be contoured Angelina Jolie

question mark I think any man would be. Is a sexist? No it's just a fact

of life. Is a technocrat someone you would want to renegotiate treaties

in Europe? Could that be the thinking here? There are divided

opinions here because people think in order for the Tories to convince

their internal critics whether they are Tories or electors in general,

they need to see a Eurosceptic is making the argument for them in

Brussels. Only that way will the British believe they have people

generally fighting for their interest. The counter argument is if

you have someone going in being bullish, is he not going to put up

the backs up of all the EU members. Let's move the Daily Telegraph. Its

front page again, Haig out. William Hague out in colour of middle`aged

white men. If you're male and pale then you're out.

LAUGHING Can I point out we still have a

large tub of male and pale men in the cabinet full stop we any of

three women out of 27 there. On the assumption that all men will be

replaced by women, which I doubt, let's remember that this is the vast

majority and as I said we should praise the work that these people

are done, it is incredibly overdue that there are lots of talented

women in Parliament. It has been interesting to see over the

Coalition Government how few reshuffle is their bin. When you're

in coalition, that is normally the nature of the beast. No mere

division of a Cabinet post between two coalition parties. In the last

Labour government, in its dying days there was a reshuffle almost every

ten minutes as people reshuffle themselves out of governments

because they could not deal with Gordon Brown. William Hague has been

an excellent Foreign Secretary and he has been there a long time,

personally I support jobs Osborne as Chancellor to. I think there is a

benefit to having the stability. That is Cameron 's argument

definitely. He hates shuffles as it were. He has tried to hang on to

people as long as possible and in some instances, Maria Miller,

potentially too long. Why this happening now? We're year out why

now? For exactly that reason. I think it was wise of Cameron to make

the commitment to try and keep people in their roles, otherwise the

civil service can run rings around ministers. As often happen in the

Blair years, a minister hanging around to several policy was

invented was small. It is critical for the Tories, although the economy

is approving, they still are not improving very much in the opinion

polls. As Neil alluded to they look at the Tory party is an issue bunch

of posh boys. Given when Cameron came in, he said he would target a

third of his cabinet out swimming, and at the minute it is one third of

the target he's reaching, it is about time he gave people a few MPs

to reflect some experience of the lives everyone else is leading. That

is the suggestion. The people is putting into his knee positions are

going to be the ones trotted out on programmes like, they will be the

face. These be the faces of the general election campaign I imagine.

To some extent. To some extent I think will see a lot of Cameron.

Sure. At least be a few women in the wings now though. Maybe a non`white

women. One of the things, she is a backbencher now, people think should

be if section it as minister. One of the things that worries me is that

Cameron does not extend far beyond his comfort zone. I've had no

rumours he is interested in promoting Sarah Williston who was

elected as a Tory and has been most unconventional in her job as a

politician. She has come in to say Sears to serve the interests of

their constituents and not to follow the rules of cut country. She speaks

an intelligent mind and causes problems for them and they don't

seem to use her talents. That is a black mark against Cameron. Ken

Clarke is leaving after many years. Michael Heseltine paying tribute to

him today said, some might feel he is out of step with current Tory

thinking, a little bit old. If the Tory party is out of step with him,

then there is a problem. Is there a sense that hears of an age that is

not relevant any more? I was reading earlier and that there will no

longer be a one nation Tory representative in the Cabinet. Ken

Clarke and Michael Heseltine are both like that. Ken Clarke was

famously against `` was famously in favour of Europe and believes in

that paternalistic one nation, bringing everyone together type of

Conservative thinking. That is opposed to the more devices thinking

with which the Conservative Party has become branded. David Cameron

did his best in trying to persuade the camp `` the country that the

Tory party had changed and did not succeed. People just do not believe

that this is a Tory party that believes in the good of the whole

country. I think David Cameron is a one nation Tory, that is where he

puts himself. He is not perceived as such. That is definitely where he

would stand. The fact that the party is more divided than he would like

is a different thing. I think Michael Heseltine was referring to

the fact that Ken Clarke is fond of Europe and currently it is difficult

to express enthusiasm for Europe in the Tory party. David Cameron has

had to bend to all of that. He has had to put forward a different

policy. This reshuffle is about presentation, it is not about policy

or changing anything. It is too early for us to know that, we do not

know who the key people are. When we talk about William Hague having a

northern accent, we heard that the Chancellor was about to embark on a

tour of the North. He will go round all the areas where the Tories have

been unpopular and announce new infrastructure schemes. He has got

?100 million to allocate and it could see schemes in very unlikely

places. Places may now feel that the Chancellor is giving them money. The

Tories have to do something if they want to be the biggest single party

and they want to win. They are still not doing well in the polls. You

will be back in one hour. We will talk about other subjects. Let us go

to Westminster and talk to Chris