02/07/2016

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:00:00. > :00:00.He swept aside Australian John Millman in straight

:00:00. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:19. > :00:21.With me are Anne Ashworth, Assistant Editor of The Times,

:00:22. > :00:27.and Kevin Schofield, Editor of Politics Home.

:00:28. > :00:29.The Observer leads with the Conservative leadership race,

:00:30. > :00:32.saying the final choice will be between Home Secretary Theresa May

:00:33. > :00:42.The Sunday Express front page is devoted to the Queen's call

:00:43. > :00:45.for calm reflection in the wake of the vote to leave

:00:46. > :00:49.The Sunday Telegraph has with an interview with Conservative

:00:50. > :00:52.leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom, in which she claims she can be

:00:53. > :00:58.The Mail on Sunday headline accuses Andrea Leadsom of hypocrisy

:00:59. > :01:03.The Sunday Post claims that medics are planning to emigrate as a result

:01:04. > :01:09.The Sunday Mirror front page has a tribute to Caroline Aherne,

:01:10. > :01:13.the comedy actress and writer who passed away earlier today.

:01:14. > :01:16.And it's back to the race to be the new Prime Minister on the front

:01:17. > :01:27.of the Sunday Times, the paper says senior Tories

:01:28. > :01:30.are uniting to stop Theresa May being installed in the top job

:01:31. > :01:41.Let's begin with the Sunday Times. This is an interesting suggestion

:01:42. > :01:44.that although we have only had elections that involve a party

:01:45. > :01:52.members, this time we might not have won. There seems to be a bit of a

:01:53. > :01:58.clamour for Theresa May to be installed as the new Tory leader and

:01:59. > :02:03.Prime Minister, and clearly that was to happen, if she was appointed by

:02:04. > :02:08.acclamation, then it could happen quite quickly and David Cameron

:02:09. > :02:13.would be out the door. But there is a backlash to that idea, despite the

:02:14. > :02:17.fact that she seems to have by far the most support among the

:02:18. > :02:22.Parliamentary Conservative party, her rivals unsurprisingly are saying

:02:23. > :02:25.no, we won't step aside, there must be a contest. Primarily there needs

:02:26. > :02:35.to be a contest that when Mrs May, who was a remain Sam Payne, and a

:02:36. > :02:42.Brexit photo, either Andrea Leadsom or Michael Gove. It is an

:02:43. > :02:49.extraordinary drama, and they say they don't want a rerun of how

:02:50. > :02:53.Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair in 2007. The consequences weren't good.

:02:54. > :02:58.So they want to see it done in full and fair contest. If Mrs May is

:02:59. > :03:02.anointed as the leader they are even talking about a judicial review. Has

:03:03. > :03:06.that ever happened before in the Conservative party or any other? Not

:03:07. > :03:11.as far as I can remember, but nothing would surprise you about how

:03:12. > :03:16.the world is behaving right now. There are plenty of judicial

:03:17. > :03:19.reviews, particularly on Labour, whether Jeremy Corbyn would be on

:03:20. > :03:28.the shortlist of candidates if there was a challenge. I'm sure we will

:03:29. > :03:34.get to that eventually, but as I say, unsurprisingly Andrea Leadsom

:03:35. > :03:39.is saying, I will not stand aside, and Michael Gove likewise. He is

:03:40. > :03:47.insistent that the next leader of the Tory party must be someone who

:03:48. > :03:50.campaign for Brexit. If it was a remain, they would not have the

:03:51. > :03:54.moral authority, he says. The country has spoken, they want to

:03:55. > :04:00.leave, and it would make sense for somebody who believes in it to lead

:04:01. > :04:04.the country. That would be down to Michael Gove, Liam Fox and Andrea

:04:05. > :04:09.Leadsom. Theresa May seems to be likely to be the figure who could

:04:10. > :04:14.unite the party, is that not in the greater interest of the Conservative

:04:15. > :04:18.party, to have a central figure with huge experience in government, and

:04:19. > :04:21.who also has that popular touch? Remember Theresa May and

:04:22. > :04:28.Hillsborough? You could see the woman really felt for those

:04:29. > :04:35.families. She might be quite a price, and I think they would be

:04:36. > :04:39.wrong to underestimate her. Let's talk about the other candidate we

:04:40. > :04:43.have been talking about. We have done quite a lot of stories about

:04:44. > :04:49.Andrea Leadsom. She says she might be the new Thatcher. Is that what

:04:50. > :04:55.the Tories want? Maybe, they do have a vast yearning, don't they? Even

:04:56. > :05:05.perhaps the ones who don't remember her in government. Andrea Leadsom is

:05:06. > :05:11.saying, this is how I need to present myself. I am glamorous,

:05:12. > :05:14.kind, but I have a steely determination. It is the idea of the

:05:15. > :05:19.elegant woman who can bring consensus that knows exactly when to

:05:20. > :05:24.play it tough. It is all a little bit... Are not necessarily

:05:25. > :05:33.convinced. Remember it was not that long ago that Lady Thatcher was a

:05:34. > :05:41.booby -- bogey woman in the Conservative party. Presumably this

:05:42. > :05:49.is plain to the activists, isn't it? If it does go beyond the MPs. It is

:05:50. > :05:54.a clear pitch to the grassroots. Presumably they won't have some of

:05:55. > :06:01.the activists that Theresa May... That they were regarded as the nasty

:06:02. > :06:05.party. She is not universally popular out in the country as far as

:06:06. > :06:10.the membership is concerned. There was certainly a belief up until this

:06:11. > :06:15.week that if Boris Johnson had gotten down to the last two he would

:06:16. > :06:23.have beaten Theresa May quite easily among the activists. Clearly most

:06:24. > :06:28.activists would have voted for an insert so they seem more likely to

:06:29. > :06:31.support a lead supporting candidate. People in offices can feel a certain

:06:32. > :06:35.rivalry, but there is nothing like the competitiveness and the

:06:36. > :06:41.viciousness between people in Parliament. I think a lot of people,

:06:42. > :06:46.if we say we are a nation that feels very separate from the Westminster

:06:47. > :06:51.machine, is this not going to exacerbate those feelings of total

:06:52. > :06:57.alienation from the political scene? Look how badly they are behaving! We

:06:58. > :07:02.hear as journalists around the corridors of power, we hear them

:07:03. > :07:08.back biting, as it is usually done behind closed doors. This is the

:07:09. > :07:13.first time we have seen it just out there. And it was similar during the

:07:14. > :07:18.televised Brexit debate, with some of Amber Rudd's lines against Boris

:07:19. > :07:23.Johnson think pretty below the belt. They were party colleagues, but on

:07:24. > :07:30.this issue they were really divided. They said repeatedly that won't have

:07:31. > :07:35.referendums out of the way would come together, but it has been

:07:36. > :07:39.anything but. It is getting nasty by the day. Speaking of which, let's

:07:40. > :07:43.move on to the Mail on Sunday, because just as the Telegraph inks

:07:44. > :07:47.Andrea Leadsom will be the new Thatcher, the Mail on Sunday has

:07:48. > :07:51.found that she may not necessarily found that she may not necessarily

:07:52. > :08:00.be the dyed in the wool eurosceptic has which she has betrayed herself.

:08:01. > :08:07.They found that she wants said, I'm going to nail my colours to the

:08:08. > :08:11.mast. I don't think the UK should leave the EU, I think it would be a

:08:12. > :08:15.disaster for our economy and would lead to a decade of economic and

:08:16. > :08:22.political uncertainty. That is a fairly forthright support of

:08:23. > :08:32.Britain... That was just three years ago. When we knew the referendum was

:08:33. > :08:42.coming. I said earlier the Remain Campaign should... She was not the

:08:43. > :08:47.person of political substance. It is only in the past week that anybody

:08:48. > :08:50.knows who she is. Some would say if you went out into the country a lot

:08:51. > :08:55.of people still wouldn't know who she is. She is going to be doing the

:08:56. > :09:01.rounds tomorrow. I think she is on one of the Sunday shows. I think she

:09:02. > :09:06.might be on Andrew Marr's show. She will have a good time there. If she

:09:07. > :09:12.is watching the paper review, at least she can be tipped off and will

:09:13. > :09:19.be able to work on her story. Michael Gove is on the front of the

:09:20. > :09:25.Mail on Sunday. His sister says he is a political psychopath. She was

:09:26. > :09:35.full remain, but there is family loyalty, which is much stronger than

:09:36. > :09:43.political loyalty. The Sun, Boris won't answer my calls. I can't say I

:09:44. > :09:48.blame him, given what has happened. It says here, I have tried to ring

:09:49. > :09:55.him and explain what I did, but he is not picking up his phone. Kenny

:09:56. > :09:58.bee that surprised? He admits in an interview that on Wednesday night,

:09:59. > :10:07.the night before the Dagar happened, he was still trying to drum up

:10:08. > :10:11.support for Boris's launch, which was the following day. He says, and

:10:12. > :10:16.I don't quite believe this, that they were at a Tory sum of all the

:10:17. > :10:21.night before and a few things went on that made him realise actually

:10:22. > :10:27.Boris isn't the man to lead the country. He went home and slept on

:10:28. > :10:32.it and woke up in the morning spoke to his wife and said that is what

:10:33. > :10:41.I'm going do. Then by 9am he had not only declared that basically

:10:42. > :10:46.eviscerated Boris Johnson. You can't really expect him to pick up the

:10:47. > :10:50.phone after that. I'm going to say something in Michael Gove's support.

:10:51. > :10:54.He is an incredibly polite man. He has good manners and Isla is

:10:55. > :11:02.courteous. He would be capable of writing a very strong 5000 word

:11:03. > :11:11.piece on why he should stand, very quickly and very... He made quite an

:11:12. > :11:17.emotional speech. Very personal. I think Boris is in the middle of a

:11:18. > :11:21.dark night of his soul. He is sitting surrounded by the debris of

:11:22. > :11:25.his career. I'm sure he is not necessarily talking to anybody, I

:11:26. > :11:30.hope he is having some nice snacks, maybe watching the tennis, and is

:11:31. > :11:35.taking time out. I think the last thing on his mind is speaking to

:11:36. > :11:39.Michael Gove. Is intriguing to think that we were sitting here a week ago

:11:40. > :11:43.reviewing papers that were talking about Boris throwing his hat in the

:11:44. > :11:50.ring and being the leading light, and the likely winner. And it has

:11:51. > :11:53.gone, it has vanished. The speed at which political development has

:11:54. > :11:57.moved this past week has been astonishing. I am going to jump to

:11:58. > :12:03.the Sunday Mirror, because speaking of sleeping a long time in politics,

:12:04. > :12:13.copyright Harold Wilson, who was born 100 years ago today, and

:12:14. > :12:17.someone who tends to be forgotten. It is hard to believe that Harold

:12:18. > :12:24.Wilson would have ever had quite the experience Jeremy Corbyn is in

:12:25. > :12:32.during this week. It is incredible. I doubt if there has ever been

:12:33. > :12:37.Labour leader who having lost the support of three quarters of his MPs

:12:38. > :12:45.had continued to plough on. It is incredible really. McDonald in 1921,

:12:46. > :12:49.who had 14 MPs. He had just announced he was going off to form a

:12:50. > :12:54.coalition with the Tories, so we might call those special

:12:55. > :12:57.circumstances. Something I happened to look up this week, I was

:12:58. > :13:04.thinking, there must be a precedent. It was the only one I could find.

:13:05. > :13:15.Unimpressed, and surprised there was a precedent. There is something like

:13:16. > :13:22.62 vacancies in his Shadow Cabinet, and there is no one left. I am led

:13:23. > :13:25.to believe that now the rebels have stopped hanging on for him to

:13:26. > :13:31.resign, rather than wanting to directly challenge. He has come out

:13:32. > :13:36.fighting. What is the thrust of it? He is going to reach out. He is

:13:37. > :13:44.going to try to bring unity to his party. I wonder whether the fishes

:13:45. > :13:49.that too deep, and when we saw those people who had placed their trust in

:13:50. > :13:55.him, their evident sadness at how badly wrong it had gone, and they

:13:56. > :14:00.want to be a party in power. Nobody is in Parliament to be a protest

:14:01. > :14:09.group. You want to be a party able to take power and assume it, and

:14:10. > :14:13.currently, dare I say, the Tories will be hoping this continues then

:14:14. > :14:14.they will have a snap election and there will be another Tory

:14:15. > :14:24.government. Sports pages in the Telegraph, will

:14:25. > :14:29.have to rattle through them. Do the England football story for us first.

:14:30. > :14:35.I am declaring an interest in being Scottish, so why not in a great

:14:36. > :14:40.position to criticise England, but the FA chief executive has said the

:14:41. > :14:42.next manager will be paid by results. You can have a little

:14:43. > :14:53.giggle at that, he might not get paid very well. You can see why.

:14:54. > :14:56.Fabio Capello, Roy Hodgson is on a small fortune, they have spent

:14:57. > :15:08.millions and billions to achieve nothing. When you get there, Wales

:15:09. > :15:12.have obviously... Why would you bother to want to be in England

:15:13. > :15:16.manager? There are an awful lot of people who have already made a great

:15:17. > :15:21.deal of money out of football and what an amazing victory that would

:15:22. > :15:23.be to lead the England team. But are they going to get this guy from

:15:24. > :15:33.Wales? Isn't he a shoe in for the job? I don't see him being a Welsh

:15:34. > :15:38.manager or going to England. Also, there is another interesting

:15:39. > :15:43.question here, does this apply anywhere else? As any other person

:15:44. > :15:50.in these kinds of jobs get paid on results? You get no basic whatsoever

:15:51. > :15:56.and you just hope to win? It used to be before there was so much money in

:15:57. > :16:01.football that the players remind on them -- relied on their win bonuses.

:16:02. > :16:06.You could argue it was better than. Now they are on ?100,000 per week

:16:07. > :16:14.regardless of whether they win, lose or draw. One man who has had a very

:16:15. > :16:21.rotten day. It is the twilight of the gods, isn't it? No Djokovic at

:16:22. > :16:25.Wimbledon, no Boris in number ten. What next? All the certainties have

:16:26. > :16:31.gone! Leicester winning the Premier League. 2016 has been the year of

:16:32. > :16:36.the upset. Even the upset in the football tonight. I've always

:16:37. > :16:43.thought the Germans couldn't win it against the Italians, look what

:16:44. > :16:47.happens! The Germans also missed a few penalties tonight, and they

:16:48. > :16:51.haven't missed penalty since 1982. Everything we thought we believe and

:16:52. > :16:59.new. Is it all down to Brexit? Is it that we are all... All about in

:17:00. > :17:03.innate years are going, and because everyone else is like that we don't

:17:04. > :17:08.notice it, but everything has been upset. Everything will be blamed on

:17:09. > :17:11.Brexit. Everything that goes wrong will be blamed on that for at least

:17:12. > :17:18.another 18 months, I would say. A terrifying prospect. I will remember

:17:19. > :17:19.that when I drop or later a glass at home over the weekend. Thank you

:17:20. > :17:31.both.