:00:18. > :00:20.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:21. > :00:23.With me are the journalist James Rampton, and Annabelle Dickson,
:00:24. > :00:25.Political Correspondent at Politico Europe.
:00:26. > :00:33.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:
:00:34. > :00:39.The Telegraph Harvey two stories which dominate the front pages as a
:00:40. > :00:43.whole, marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, and
:00:44. > :00:54.also reporting on Theresa May's intention to stay in power to fight
:00:55. > :00:58.the next general election. The FT say there could be an early
:00:59. > :01:02.leadership contest. Many MPs expected her to step down following
:01:03. > :01:06.the Brexit negotiation. The Guardian leads with the Prime Minister's
:01:07. > :01:14.interview also, in which she insisted she was not a quitter. The
:01:15. > :01:20.Daily Mail has: I will fight the next election. It could mean she
:01:21. > :01:25.remains Prime Minister for the next ten years, if you do the maths. Then
:01:26. > :01:31.the Times says the Prime Minister wants to stay on to focus on social
:01:32. > :01:34.justice as well as Brexit. And the metro dedicate the front page to the
:01:35. > :01:41.tributes to Diana at Kensington Palace. In the sun, they give a full
:01:42. > :01:51.page to Princess Diana, saying she is still the people's Princess.
:01:52. > :01:59.Let's start with the Daily Telegraph. I'm no quitter, says
:02:00. > :02:02.Made. It's not going to be 2019, after Brexit, that she goes, it
:02:03. > :02:09.could be longer. That's right. This came about when she was on tour. She
:02:10. > :02:12.has the lobby packed with her in Japan, and after the reports at the
:02:13. > :02:19.weekend in the Sunday Mirror that she might have gone by the 30th of
:02:20. > :02:26.August 2019, she was asked about this and hit back, saying, no, I'm
:02:27. > :02:30.no quitter. I'm going to stay and I want to fight the next election,
:02:31. > :02:35.much to everyone's surprise. After the election, there was this
:02:36. > :02:41.understanding almost that she was the caretaker leader and she would
:02:42. > :02:46.see Brexit through and then kind of after she had dealt with Brexit and
:02:47. > :02:49.had the stability, then the Conservatives could start having a
:02:50. > :02:54.bloody leadership battle ahead of the next election. I was talking to
:02:55. > :03:00.sources today after we got wind of what she had said, and it was a
:03:01. > :03:06.mixed response. You know, there were one or two who said she can't fight
:03:07. > :03:16.an election, she's proved she can't do it. She was termed the Maybot. We
:03:17. > :03:22.all remember the wheat fields, the naughtiness in the wheat fields.
:03:23. > :03:25.Yes, and there are others who say, let's see what happens. Who knows
:03:26. > :03:30.what will happen in the next couple of years? For someone who is
:03:31. > :03:34.supposed to be boring, she does pull out is, first of all the general
:03:35. > :03:39.election and now this. I do fear for her. I think what George Osborne
:03:40. > :03:43.said a few days after her disastrous result, that she was a dead woman
:03:44. > :03:51.walking. I don't think anything has happened since the change my mind
:03:52. > :03:54.about that. What also makes me very suspicious is one of her main
:03:55. > :03:56.rivals, Boris Johnson, has said he gives his undivided backing. Will he
:03:57. > :04:01.stabbed her in the back, the front, the side? He is undivided in his
:04:02. > :04:07.opinion about that. He also says he is there to support her. Alarm bells
:04:08. > :04:12.ring for me because it reminds me of when Michael Heseltine said, I do
:04:13. > :04:15.not foresee circumstances in which I would take over from Mrs Thatcher,
:04:16. > :04:27.and then the next day, he stood against. People who say they are not
:04:28. > :04:32.a quitter and look like they are clinging on for dear life look
:04:33. > :04:35.desperate, and that is smelt by the electorate. I don't think she will
:04:36. > :04:40.make it to the next election, and if she does, she will be completely
:04:41. > :04:46.toast. Party conference season is coming up in the autumn, and after a
:04:47. > :04:51.relatively quiet summer, one assumes she has regrouped. One would imagine
:04:52. > :04:57.that is when people will start to mutter and put their colours to the
:04:58. > :05:04.mast. Yes, and this is a key test coming up. It dissolves the back is
:05:05. > :05:11.almost a month to the day before conference season. This is when all
:05:12. > :05:18.the grassroots will be there, and this is a key test of the mood. They
:05:19. > :05:23.were the ones who are out on the doorstep with what they were saying
:05:24. > :05:27.was a manifesto they despaired of. It wasn't something they could sell
:05:28. > :05:31.on the doorstep. They were the ones that rubbed away this shoe leather,
:05:32. > :05:36.as it were. Definitely, this is going to be the key test for her,
:05:37. > :05:42.and she will have to pull off the performance of a lifetime. James,
:05:43. > :05:52.inside the Telegraph, one of the editorial pages, Nick Timothy has at
:05:53. > :06:00.page to make -- has a piece. Can she grab political ground that will
:06:01. > :06:04.appeal? His contention is that she will be appealing to the common
:06:05. > :06:08.ground, which is not necessarily the centre ground which many liberals
:06:09. > :06:13.are hankering after. You know, there have been suggestions, James Chapman
:06:14. > :06:17.last week saying, could we form a centre ground party? He says that
:06:18. > :06:20.people suggesting that are the Metropolitan elite who are out of
:06:21. > :06:28.touch with the rest of the country. I do think that her performance was
:06:29. > :06:31.so bad in the last election, if I heard strong, stable leadership
:06:32. > :06:41.again, I was going to run off the nearest cliff. Here, she seems to be
:06:42. > :06:47.reading the tea leaves. I don't know, but I do fear for her future.
:06:48. > :06:52.As Eunice she says, grass-mac as soon as she says, I'm no quitter, I
:06:53. > :06:56.think she's finished. She was asked the question, and she was kind of
:06:57. > :07:02.dammed if she did and dammed if she didn't. If she had said, actually,
:07:03. > :07:06.no, I will pack up my bags in two years and go, then the optics for
:07:07. > :07:11.Brussels and Brexit talks wouldn't have been good. Really, she had to
:07:12. > :07:15.say this. I think there was a sense from other MPs I spoke to today that
:07:16. > :07:20.there wasn't a surprise about this. They didn't expect her to wave the
:07:21. > :07:25.white flag and say she was. You are right, because we are getting flak
:07:26. > :07:30.from Brussels or ready for the ambiguity of our position papers,
:07:31. > :07:36.and the supposed vagaries of what we are presenting. So, if Mrs May said
:07:37. > :07:38.she was off aim yes, that would create a further sense of
:07:39. > :07:42.instability and chaos, which I think is the case within the Tory Party,
:07:43. > :07:47.but it would make it even clearer. We shall see if it's a blog or not
:07:48. > :07:53.when the time comes. Let's just shimmy over to the Financial Times,
:07:54. > :07:59.because they have a picture of her, but her main story -- but their main
:08:00. > :08:04.story is the NHS faces a huge agency bill. This is Jeremy Hunt going on a
:08:05. > :08:10.recruitment drive for doctors. Tell us more. It is basically saying that
:08:11. > :08:17.the NHS is going to have to pay ?100 million to find 5000 doctors, and
:08:18. > :08:23.half of them will come from overseas, to plug staffing
:08:24. > :08:27.shortages. It is not a new story is that there are staffing shortages in
:08:28. > :08:31.the NHS. I'm sure it has been discussed regularly on this lot.
:08:32. > :08:39.Absolutely. It is an eye watering sum of money, and that is just going
:08:40. > :08:42.to recruitment agencies, not doctors' salaries, which I'm sure
:08:43. > :08:49.will beg the question for hard-pressed nurses, loads of
:08:50. > :08:53.workers in the NHS, as to why those sort of sums will have to be paid to
:08:54. > :08:57.those agencies, and it is worth saying, I think it does in the
:08:58. > :09:02.story, that this plan predates Brexit, so it is not even taking
:09:03. > :09:07.into account the potential doctors who might leave. Yes, because there
:09:08. > :09:12.is this issue of doctors coming from overseas and the ramifications if we
:09:13. > :09:17.lose even more of them. I keep thinking of a joke that begins,
:09:18. > :09:21.Doctor, doctor, whatever happened to the ?350 million we were promised on
:09:22. > :09:25.the side of the Brexit bus for the NHS? I don't know the conclusion,
:09:26. > :09:30.but it is true what you say. Helen Stokes Lampard, the chair of the
:09:31. > :09:32.Royal College, says, losing the skill and experience of EU workers
:09:33. > :09:48.would be disastrous for the sustainability of
:09:49. > :09:50.our health service. 2000 of the 34,000 GPs in England are from EU
:09:51. > :09:52.countries. If, through some, I think, bizarre outcome, we lose
:09:53. > :09:55.those people, that they are not allowed to stay, that is quite a
:09:56. > :10:00.large proportion of GP numbers in this country. They take 5-7 years to
:10:01. > :10:05.train, and you can't just snap your fingers, Whistle down the nearest
:10:06. > :10:09.pub and get 2000 new GPs. They have to have experience and very
:10:10. > :10:15.expensive training. The idea they will appear from nowhere is
:10:16. > :10:18.fantastical. Get Arnold Schwarzenegger in to do an advert
:10:19. > :10:24.and everyone will come running... I think it is absolutely bonkers. A
:10:25. > :10:28.huge story which will dominate tomorrow, of course - the 20th
:10:29. > :10:33.anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. The Daily Telegraph is one of
:10:34. > :10:37.those that had pictures of Princes William and Harry at Kensington
:10:38. > :10:41.Palace today. That's right. And lots of people have made the link between
:10:42. > :10:51.what they were doing today and what they were doing just under 20 years
:10:52. > :10:58.ago. We should say, the Sun and the Mail have that juxtaposition of
:10:59. > :11:03.photos. 2017, the adult sons, and in 1997, taking us back to the
:11:04. > :11:09.teenagers, well, Harry just 12 at the time. That contrast. I'm sure
:11:10. > :11:13.lots of people who have been watching, and have been lots of
:11:14. > :11:18.documentaries about it, and these two very articulate boys have been
:11:19. > :11:23.talking about the sort of terribly traumatic in their lives, and they
:11:24. > :11:27.had said that, actually, this is the last time that they are going to
:11:28. > :11:34.talk about it, on this 20th anniversary. And that is kind of it.
:11:35. > :11:39.It has been extraordinary hearing what they had to go through, and
:11:40. > :11:45.those sort of conversations that went on about what was the best
:11:46. > :11:49.thing to do. You had this public outpouring and their own private
:11:50. > :11:53.grief. Actually, tomorrow, they are having private grief. You know,
:11:54. > :11:59.today was the sort of public appearance, they went to Kensington
:12:00. > :12:03.Palace. I am not a monarchist, but I think they behaved impeccably
:12:04. > :12:05.throughout this. They made a surprise appearance today,
:12:06. > :12:10.absolutely delighted that people who had come to pay tribute, and there
:12:11. > :12:14.are moving little details that they gave, such as shaking hands with
:12:15. > :12:17.some of the mourners soon afterwards and their hands were wet because
:12:18. > :12:21.people were crying so much. I thought those little details really
:12:22. > :12:28.brought it to life. Obviously, it is a terrible thing they went through,
:12:29. > :12:31.but if one good thing emerged, it is that they talked about how they
:12:32. > :12:35.dealt with bereavement and made that OK in inverted commas and a general
:12:36. > :12:40.topic of conversation, because so often in England, and across the UK,
:12:41. > :12:44.it is taboo. You do the stiff upper lip and don't talk about your
:12:45. > :12:48.feelings. But they have validated that and said it is OK if you have
:12:49. > :12:52.suffered a loss to discuss it and say that you are grieving and
:12:53. > :12:57.incredibly sad. I think that's an amazing achievement they've done, to
:12:58. > :13:00.really open up for public debate. Obviously, there will be a lot on
:13:01. > :13:08.that tomorrow, with the anniversary. A very quick parting look, again in
:13:09. > :13:14.the Telegraph, about Bake Off. There is a cartoon at the bottom.
:13:15. > :13:18.Annabelle, talk us through this cartoon. It brings a smile to your
:13:19. > :13:23.face, doesn't it? Yes. They have taken me to make big news stories,
:13:24. > :13:31.obviously apart from Theresa May saying she won't quit and Princess
:13:32. > :13:40.Diana, and put them into one. That would have taken some doing!
:13:41. > :13:43.Exactly. We have Bake Off, which started again last night. I have to
:13:44. > :13:55.confess, I haven't watched it. They showed viewers... They got good
:13:56. > :14:02.numbers. It was fewer than the BBC. But the cartoon is great. Bake Off
:14:03. > :14:08.is rubbish, it says on this site. Kim Jong-un has gone too far this
:14:09. > :14:12.time! You can criticise anything except Bake Off in this country! We
:14:13. > :14:16.have to whiz through everything, as always. It would be nice to have
:14:17. > :14:18.more time. But thank you to James and Annabel. That's it for The
:14:19. > :14:22.Papers tonight.