:00:13. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:23.With me are Anne Ashworth, Associate Editor of the Times -
:00:24. > :00:30.and John Rentoul, Political Columnist for The Independent.
:00:31. > :00:34.The Independent reports Garbine Muguruza's Wimbledon
:00:35. > :00:37.victory, along with a poll suggesting that a majority of voters
:00:38. > :00:40.would be happy with a tax rise to see the salaries of emergency
:00:41. > :00:44.Brexit takes the front page of the Observer,
:00:45. > :00:47.with a warning from civil servants of the challenges that lie ahead
:00:48. > :00:55.The Sunday Telegraph leads with the soon-to-be published
:00:56. > :00:58.salaries of the BBC's highest earners, suggesting
:00:59. > :01:02.there are discrepancies in pay between genders.
:01:03. > :01:05.And the Mail on Sunday says the French Government and banking
:01:06. > :01:07.chiefs are engaged in a plot against the British
:01:08. > :01:22.So, let's begin. Let's start with the Telegraph, we have got David
:01:23. > :01:28.Davis who apparently has the backing of 30 MPs to have him as leader. I
:01:29. > :01:31.thought he didn't want to be the leader? He did say that but the
:01:32. > :01:39.speculation goes on and there was lots of that in the Sunday papers
:01:40. > :01:42.tomorrow. I am getting the sense that the government is grinding to a
:01:43. > :01:48.halt because all the senior members of it are many drink for a future
:01:49. > :01:53.leadership election. Because they are all assuming that Theresa May
:01:54. > :01:59.will not be alarmed Currie around a very long. This will make
:02:00. > :02:06.negotiating Brexit difficult. We only know it is difficult. This will
:02:07. > :02:11.make it even more difficult. It is building paralysis into government.
:02:12. > :02:14.We all read about what it was like a number temper for the election and
:02:15. > :02:18.it seems that that disarray has spread to the whole of the party.
:02:19. > :02:25.Could David Davis carry the party with? He is 68 it would be his last
:02:26. > :02:30.try. Maybe this is his moment, but isn't he up against Philip Hammond
:02:31. > :02:34.who would also like a try at the job? And Boris Johnson and the point
:02:35. > :02:40.is there is a stop Boris campaign gathering strength because they know
:02:41. > :02:45.that if Boris Johnson gets the chance to be in the last two, and is
:02:46. > :02:50.put before the party members in the country, he stands good chance of
:02:51. > :02:55.winning. There was a poll in the other papers that said the person he
:02:56. > :03:00.would most like to be the Tory leader is Boris Johnson because he's
:03:01. > :03:03.a name and face. The authors, and sure it they would sort of know who
:03:04. > :03:10.David Davis is, they know Phil Hammond is spreadsheet Bill, but
:03:11. > :03:17.Boris is a personality. David Davis is trusted in Brussels, isn't he? He
:03:18. > :03:22.has done very well as Brexit set so far. But he's not have to make any
:03:23. > :03:26.difficult choices, yet. Anything he has impressed his colleagues by
:03:27. > :03:31.being pragmatic as well as an ardent Brexitier. The suggestion is that
:03:32. > :03:38.Theresa May could lead before Christmas. Is that the room? There
:03:39. > :03:41.were so many rumours. There was a coup after the party conference,
:03:42. > :03:47.when they see how that goes and then the plotters move. But, will they
:03:48. > :03:52.actually have the nerve to do it? I don't know but I think you put your
:03:53. > :03:55.finger won it when you said that the government is paralysis because if
:03:56. > :03:58.this goes on it will become increasingly difficult for Theresa
:03:59. > :04:05.May to carry on and she may just cite packaging and that would
:04:06. > :04:09.trigger a leadership election. Keeping on the Brexit theme because
:04:10. > :04:16.the male talks about this plot to wreck Britain, what do they mean?
:04:17. > :04:20.What they want to do is take all the City of London's business away from
:04:21. > :04:25.it. That would be an extraordinary thing because if half of all income
:04:26. > :04:31.tax is paid by people in London, if we lose those bankers that would be
:04:32. > :04:35.a very big blow to the whole economy, you may love them or loathe
:04:36. > :04:40.them but we need the income tax they pay. Emmanuel Macron who has been on
:04:41. > :04:44.a charm offensive with Trump is supposed to be planning to have a
:04:45. > :04:50.really hard Brexit that would totally disrupt the City of London
:04:51. > :04:55.and cause those fund managers and banks to want to move to Paris and,
:04:56. > :05:01.is not contrary to what he's supposed to have told Tony Blair? In
:05:02. > :05:04.those secret discussions. Don't we always say that they will leave,
:05:05. > :05:11.they enjoy their life here and let's face it the taxes are higher there.
:05:12. > :05:16.Macron is getting ready to lower tax rate, corporation tax is going down
:05:17. > :05:23.the wealth tax. Be there but less onerous. There is the sense that
:05:24. > :05:28.France has got it is life joy back somehow. It might be a temporary
:05:29. > :05:31.thing but the French might start to get a nostalgia for Paris and want
:05:32. > :05:39.to return home of life looks better there. It is not surprised that the
:05:40. > :05:42.French would like to take some of our financial services business away
:05:43. > :05:49.from London, I think it will be a bit harder than just a bit of joy
:05:50. > :05:52.and lowering of taxes I think the City of London's pre-eminence in
:05:53. > :05:58.financial services will be harder to crack than that. I hope. I wonder if
:05:59. > :06:02.the nation realises the importance of the City of London to the economy
:06:03. > :06:11.and what a vital thing is and that returning it is pretty darn
:06:12. > :06:16.important for us. They certainly have a joie de vivre. We saw how
:06:17. > :06:23.successful... 'S trip was. We cannot move away from Brexit. The Observer,
:06:24. > :06:27.Brexit chaos. What we talking about? The former head of civil service
:06:28. > :06:34.says it is all a mess, not particularly new towards. There
:06:35. > :06:40.doesn't seem to be "That we will need a much longer transitional
:06:41. > :06:46.phase than what is currently planned." Nobody seems to have any
:06:47. > :06:46.firm deadline any firm planning, it is just chaos
:06:47. > :08:11.that was voted down. Yes, it is interesting that there has been a
:08:12. > :08:19.shift in the public moved on austerity on taxes, and public
:08:20. > :08:25.services. The fact is that people are actually prepared to pay higher
:08:26. > :08:27.taxes for better public services because they have seen specifically
:08:28. > :08:35.the Grenfell Tower disaster, they have seen one of the big issues in
:08:36. > :08:41.the election campaign was the NHS and schools. I just wonder, though,
:08:42. > :08:46.this is the kind of generalised wish that we are willing to pay higher
:08:47. > :08:51.taxes when it comes to it, do we really, are we really ready? That
:08:52. > :08:54.seems to me that people would support taxing the higher paid more
:08:55. > :08:59.but in order to raise the amounts of money we needed would need to be
:09:00. > :09:05.people average earnings as well. I know it is only an opinion poll this
:09:06. > :09:09.was axing people were willing to pay more taxes themselves. I think
:09:10. > :09:13.obviously it depends on how you ask the question, if you mention
:09:14. > :09:18.firefighters they are prepared, if you mention lifting the public
:09:19. > :09:22.sector can pay cap generally than the willingness to pay extra taxes
:09:23. > :09:25.dropped slightly. I think certainly the mood is shifting in that
:09:26. > :09:29.direction and the government is very well aware that and that'll be the
:09:30. > :09:38.big choice that Philip Hammond bases in the budget this autumn. We do not
:09:39. > :09:45.know how large the poll was. 1500. Misleading polls? Goodness me! We
:09:46. > :09:48.have seen even this week we had about what one of the firefighters
:09:49. > :09:53.went through a Grenfell Tower and it's understandable that people will
:09:54. > :09:58.be willing to see that go up. I think if US people would you pay
:09:59. > :10:02.higher taxes to give my fact kit they need, the ladders they need to
:10:03. > :10:07.fight fires in power is a think there would be universal assent.
:10:08. > :10:13.Absolutely. And if you add taxation to say I'm going to pay higher taxes
:10:14. > :10:23.to pay for certain services to be properly supplied think people would
:10:24. > :10:29.say yes. OK, well... Which brings us to pay, but slightly different pay
:10:30. > :10:34.the Sunday Telegraph is talking about the BBC is braced the gender
:10:35. > :10:39.pay row. It is difficult wonder we have a BBC story, honestly, but talk
:10:40. > :10:43.is through what you make of this? It'll put the cat among the pigeons
:10:44. > :10:50.in pounds of companies this gender pay thing. There has been a focus on
:10:51. > :10:54.pay at the BBC, but what happens in other companies went all the women
:10:55. > :10:59.realise what the boys are getting paid and it is an average much
:11:00. > :11:04.better than they are? I think there will be quite a lot of discussion
:11:05. > :11:10.around the office kettle when people work that one out but also it is
:11:11. > :11:13.just very interesting this drive towards openness about pay because
:11:14. > :11:16.money is one of the things the British don't like to talk about,
:11:17. > :11:19.you can know the most intimate details about another person but
:11:20. > :11:23.they would not tell you exactly how much they were paid and now people
:11:24. > :11:28.are going to be forced, in public, to reveal what they earn. It is
:11:29. > :11:34.awkward and the background this week the BBC will publish the salaries of
:11:35. > :11:39.its highest earners and that will be very interesting, but off the back
:11:40. > :11:47.of that the suggestion that we will find out that there is a stark
:11:48. > :11:50.gender pay gap. And all British companies that employ more than 250
:11:51. > :11:54.people from next April will have to publish what the gender gap is. I'm
:11:55. > :11:56.not sure how much information they will have to give an individuals but
:11:57. > :12:03.it will certainly increase the pressure for greater pay equality
:12:04. > :12:08.and that is wholly good thing. The transparency route is one of the
:12:09. > :12:13.best ways of achieving that. At a time when employers really do not
:12:14. > :12:18.feel able to be paying more, it is very interesting moment. It is a
:12:19. > :12:21.broader thing than the BBC. The fact that most people feel quite
:12:22. > :12:25.resentful because their earnings have been frozen and when they found
:12:26. > :12:30.that the guy in the same office is paid a great deal more they will not
:12:31. > :12:37.be happy. Well, that is a nice move to get others onto the new Doctor
:12:38. > :12:43.Who, John I know you are a big fan. The mail is tipping the first female
:12:44. > :12:48.doctor. Indeed there has been a lot of speculation I think the
:12:49. > :12:53.announcement is tomorrow, is it? Has been all these teaser are the razors
:12:54. > :13:01.with the Doctor's Tardis key disappearing. We do not know in
:13:02. > :13:06.whose hands it will reappear. The mail on Sunday is speculating that
:13:07. > :13:10.it could be broad church star Jodie Whittaker, not someone I am familiar
:13:11. > :13:16.with, but definitely a female person. That will cause a huge
:13:17. > :13:22.amount of controversy amongst Doctor Who fans not only because it is a
:13:23. > :13:28.woman, but the 13th doctor. As every Doctor Who fans know there can only
:13:29. > :13:34.be 12 doctors because he any has 12 regenerations. Who said that? That
:13:35. > :13:38.is part of the Doctor Who back story, it was subtly changed in Matt
:13:39. > :13:45.Smith's time. The doctor was given by the Time Lord in his hometown
:13:46. > :13:51.planet some bonus regeneration. This is a detail that only a real fan can
:13:52. > :13:54.know. He honestly wouldn't a game of people. What a wonderful way to
:13:55. > :14:01.reduce and the brand to make that Doctor woman. Yeah I think ill be
:14:02. > :14:07.fun, then need to do is the new with the story of this is the way to do
:14:08. > :14:11.it. It is quite difficult, it's interesting we're talking about the
:14:12. > :14:18.fact it is going to be a woman. It would be a surprise. If you think
:14:19. > :14:23.about how long long this series has been, you need to shock viewers and
:14:24. > :14:28.get people like me interested. I'm sitting here thinking, you really
:14:29. > :14:33.know all this stuff... I'm not engaged in very much of it and if I
:14:34. > :14:39.was... Would I start watching again if there was a female doctor who?
:14:40. > :14:44.Maybe, maybe, you have got to think building youth audiences in drama is
:14:45. > :14:48.now much more difficult than it was. If you think about putting a woman
:14:49. > :14:53.in the role maybe that would have a whole new follower. It'll be such a
:14:54. > :14:58.let down to merit if it is a bloke. There is an actor, Chris is being
:14:59. > :15:03.tipped. What will be more upsetting the fact that they deviated from the
:15:04. > :15:08.plotline in the bucket is the 13th, or the fact it is woman? I think the
:15:09. > :15:14.woman is the much more interesting thing because all the cultural
:15:15. > :15:19.assumptions, the old joke about your being treated by a doctor and
:15:20. > :15:25.tensile that it is a woman, if you say Doctor people assume you mean a
:15:26. > :15:33.man. In British culture. It is about time that that got subverted. Up
:15:34. > :15:40.against Netflix, video games, what you do? You refresh the brand. Get
:15:41. > :15:43.people watching. We will refresh our thoughts in the next hour because
:15:44. > :15:47.you will be enjoying a meet the papers for the time being, John,
:15:48. > :15:50.thank you so much and thank you as well. We will be back at half past
:15:51. > :15:56.11 to have another look at the pace is. -- to have another look at the
:15:57. > :16:04.papers.