03/07/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our Sunday morning edition of The Papers.

With me are Jenny Anderson - author and reporter on Quartz.com,

and the Political Commentator James Millar.

Welcome to you both, thank you for being with us. Let's take you

through what we have. The Observer leads with

the Conservative leadership race, saying the final choice will be

between Home Secretary Theresa May The Sunday Express front page

is devoted to the Queen's call for calm reflection in the wake

of the vote to leave The Sunday Telegraph has

with an interview with Conservative leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom,

in which she claims she can be The Mail on Sunday headline accuses

Andrea Leadsom of hypocrisy The Sunday Post claims that medics

are planning to emigrate as a result The Sunday Mirror front page has

a tribute to Caroline Aherne, the comedy actress and writer

who passed away earlier today. And it's back to the race to be

the new Prime Minister on the front of The Sunday Times -

the paper says senior Tories are uniting to stop Theresa May

being installed in the top job So let's kick off then. With of

course the Conservative Party leadership, James, this bid to stop

any kind of coronation of Theresa May. Yes, this one... It's an

interesting day because everything has been happening so fast. It's

great for the Sunday papers, you take stock and try to move the story

on. It feels slightly like The Sunday

Times have got so many good lines, they don't know which one to go with

them that come with this idea that Theresa May wants a coronation, so

she would have the face the competition. I'm not aware that

Theresa May has said she wants a coronation or that there's a lot of

evidence of it. But clearly she is the hot favourite at the moment and

the other candidates are manoeuvring this weekend to try and stop her, so

we have got Michael Gove, Andrea Leadsom, both doing interviews and

putting things out to their supporters to try and undermined

Theresa May. They are claiming that she is trying to stitch things up,

yet she hasn't said that. And the rather nasty mention of her health,

this is already getting dirty and could get dirtier. To what you make

of it all as an American living in the United Kingdom? It was not that

long ago that the US was that kind of political basket case, the

sclerotic Congress and this primary race that would never end, but we

have two candidates another UK is kind of the political basket case of

the world. There is a sense that maybe we did it to ourselves here,

this didn't have to... Have to happen as much. We brought this on.

I think there is a sense of disbelief for sure. It's interesting

that we could end up with a race in the Tory Party are tween two women

for the leadership. We've got" Merkel in Germany, we could have

Hillary Clinton in the US, and then here. If are looking for silver

linings, feminism might be one. James, how do you see the vocally?

We have got important developments coming up this week. Its heart, the

Golden rule of Tory leadership is the favourite never winds. Well, the

favour was Boris Johnson and he's uneven in the race anymore. Theresa

May is now the favourite. Andrea Leadsom is certainly making the

running this weekend. In other papers, to the extent that some

papers are feeling the need to gun her down already. Some papers are

building her up. Certainly the moment, it looks like it will be

Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom going forward on Thursday, they do it

quickly in the Tory Party, they don't hang around. The electorate of

the Conservative Party membership is in some ways a little bit

unpredictable. You can know what MPs then but it's much harder to assess

what the 150,000 members out there thing. Absolutely, and in over

marketable moment as we had so many in the past week, a banker is now

the top... How far have become, in 2008 or 2010, it wouldn't seem that

perhaps now we have to reach out side the realm of politics for some

expertise. But it think you are right, at this point if there is

something that we've all learned him and it is true in the US and the UK,

anything can happen. We will see that out takes us. Wizardly suspect

that the Tory membership is Eurosceptic and that is part of this

trying to stop Theresa May is to get people, a secular candidate, the

membership may have well flopped. As another heavyweight front page

focusing on Andrea Leadsom and an Theresa May, they are set to fight

the Tory poll 4pm. They say Michael Gove's bid fades. Is it too early to

say that? I don't think it is to sin. He doesn't have the votes,

that's one thing, and it sort of his active political Treasury, that will

hang over him, it will not go away to four days. I don't think he has a

very good shot. But we are in a strange position where we have

Theresa May who voted to remain but it is being accused of wanting to

leave against Andrea Leadsom who voted to leave and is quoted today

as saying... You know, everything is moving, everything is shifting, no

position is set in stone. Andrea Leadsom is the unknown candidate at

the moment to the large extent, which helped David Cameron last

time. He came in off the rails. We believe that Andrea Leadsom tomorrow

will set out her stall. She is riding high because you don't know

anything about her at the moment. A little bit more about her in the

Sunday telegraph, in that paper she is quoted as saying I can be the new

Margaret Thatcher, which will presumably go down quite well with

the Tory Party membership out there. Tory catnip, to say he would be the

new Thatcher. But what is it really mean? She is obviously invoking

Thatcher because she knows it will go down with the Tory membership.

She also talks about her strong Christian faith and elsewhere talks

about family comes first. She is very much ticking the boxes for the

Tory faithful. At cooking the Sunday roast, she added that as well. How

far have we come with feminism? I'm not sure. And her person personal

warmth, sheep combines toughness with personal warmth. I have dealt

with her when I was in Westminster and she does have personal warmth,

that does count for something. It is fair to say she is not widely known

around the country, not exactly a household name, is she? Second be

both... In asset and a negative. If she does go forward with Theresa

May, we'll get to know her a lot better over the next few weeks.

Somebody who definitely is a household name, Boris Johnson, of

course, let's go on to talk about the drama revolving around Boris

Johnson and Michael Gove. So the Mail on Sunday, they have a piece by

Boris Johnston's sister Rachel Johnston, saying that Boris was

blown up by a political psychopath. Quite strong! Quite strong, and it

honestly tells you where radar in terms of leadership right now

because this is not what we need. We don't need more psychodrama, we

don't need a tax, we don't need people call each other psychopaths.

The country is in crisis, Bigfoot just have to get me move forward.

This I don't think it's us anywhere. Clearly things have been said and

done but I think it is a reliever Merkel statement that at this point

you can still go down this route of petty name-calling and fighting in

the papers when what is confronting Britain is quite serious. And this

piece come actually, is focusing on Michael Gove's wife Sarah Vine and

that leaked e-mail saying... Boris blown up by a political psychopath

but it was Mrs. Michael Gove who detonated the bomb. Nothing they

love more than a woman being horrible by another woman. It is the

most odd piece, it just... The Johnstons are such a bizarre family,

they have all their arguments in public and the wind each other up in

public and eight regarded as their playground, the rest of us just

happened to be sharing it. The language that Rachel Johnson uses,

it's all about Michael Gove as an ideological ninja, borderline

bunkers. It's just from a different fun it. What it really illustrates

that is her description of Michael Gove as a sort of Westminster

suicide bomber. There's a lot of talk in the papers today of wars and

suicide bombers and all that sort of stuff and frankly it's quite

distasteful. It's the bubble kind of forgetting... It's just politics at

the end of the day, but they regarded as a war. The other big

story in the bubble, the Westminster bubble, is that Labour leadership.

The Observer, they are covering that as well. They're talking about

Jeremy Corbyn... What are they saying. It felt... We were talking

at this, it felt like a nothing story. He's going to offer a peace

deal. I don't think... They tried to oust him, so trying to offer AP

still is a little bit too little too late. He didn't feel like there was

a lot of substance. Do you think it is too late for him to survive? It

feels that way, absolutely. There was a clear vote of no-confidence

there for him. The fact that he cannot be in the same room as one of

his top lieutenants because he's afraid of being bullied. Are we in

year four, are we in professional politics? That does not look good.

This is a huge opportunity for the Labour Party. They should be

stepping forward, lining up, filling the gap. The Conservatives are

hardly covering themselves in glory. And yet... This is the other side.

There could conceivably be a general election within months. Absolutely.

I think it's an amazing story. Jeremy Corbyn wants to be Prime

Minister, apparently. Yet he cannot be in the same room as his deputy.

This is a man who presumably wants to be able to walk into a room with

flatter or Putin or Obama or Clinton or whoever, but he cannot be with

his own number two because he might be bullied. Someone who might jog

his finger at him, his aides are saying we've got a duty of care,

he's a 70-year-old man. He's not actually a 70-year-old man, Dave got

that wrong. There's a culture of bullying. Just when you think things

can't get more bizarre... You can't make it up! And the Sunday mirror

also have Jeremy Corbyn piece off to MPs. Do you think there could be any

sort of deal, agreement? It's an interesting one, the Sunday mirror,

like a phrasing that he threw down the olive branch. A nice turn of

phrase. They are representing it that he has reached out to his rebel

MPs, if you like, and said you can have more say over policy. Others

would present that same offer as the MPs saying to him there will still

be a mechanism whereby MPs, the leader doesn't have too much power.

Either way, it suggests they are inching towards some sort of... Page

seven of the mirror says, let's do a deal. Do you think that's possible?

It suggests we are getting close to it. To be quite honest, I don't

know, nobody knows. Nobody knows what's going to happen tomorrow in

politics at the moment. Even Angela Eagle and Owen Smith are deciding

who's good to be the candidate, they can't even decide on a candidate to

challenge him. It's anybody's guess what's going to happen. Because last

much longer. Amidst all the turmoil, the express have reported a message

from Her Majesty saying... Hit commentary on? Emblazoned on every

mug carried back to America from all around the world, but the plea for

calm could be applied to everything at this point. It could be applied

to politics, finance, the markets are unraveling, to Wimbledon, we've

lost Novak Djokovic, it could be applied to football. A sad state of

affairs that we need the Queen to weigh in, but she did in a very

mild... Is a controversial message or noncontroversial message? It's

always the case to keep calm, but he said it at the official opening of

the Scottish Parliament after the election in May and the Scottish

people regard this as a comment on the possibility of a second

referendum, which in the 70s and during the last referendum she

hinted that you would rather Scotland stays part of the UK. The

English newsrooms are seeing as a common on Brexit more widely. Which

one she is referring to, I don't know. It is both cases, keeping, is

probably best. Apart from Brexit and all the political shenanigans in the

leadership of the two parties, we have also got memories of Caroline

Aherne, whose death was announced yesterday. A fantastic comedian. She

was. His line was so powerful, mother told me only special people

get cancer, I must be very special. Alcoholism, depression, cancer, yet

but we watch these clips of her, her humour was brilliant. A real

tribute, she had a tough life, a lot of nice tributes to her today. A

very nice spread in the Sunday mirror. A lovely picture. Now the

tributes will concentrate on her comedy, I hope, because it was

interesting, there was a certain distaste about the royal Queen, they

documented all her personal problems and gory details throughout. She was

very interesting as a comedian, which got lost amongst all the

personal drama sometimes. She did the Mrs. Merton stuff, that was some

of the first critique of the sort of celebrity culture, celebrities

would, knowing that they would get torn to bits, but they would keep

coming. And then of course she dumped that because it actually

wasn't... You got to be the cover they did the royal family, which I

think was completely different. And The Sunday Times having on their

page five, demons lurking behind. It's actually surprisingly often

comedians have quite dark personal lives. Robin Williams was a great

example in the state. There are so many examples, I think. There is a

sense that humour as armour, right? You rely on that humour to protect

yourself and to get out there, but she clearly had that. And the other

element of it, it continues the year of death. The number of celebrity

deaths, and the idea that it's the baby boomers, she was only 52, she's

not part of the baby boom or generation, neither was Prints. So

many this year. Were just getting old. That's part of it as well. Or

is it just coincidence? I know what you mean. I suppose there are

celebrity deaths every year, but huge names. So many! I can assume

it's just perfectly normal but we're noticing and more. But it's having a

strange effect. Good to hear from you both, to get your views on the

papers. Many thanks to both of you. And just a reminder that we will be

taking a look at world's front pages every evening at 10:30pm and 11:30pm

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