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