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:00:16. > :00:18.We will make Britain a country for the many not

:00:19. > :00:19.for the privileged few - that's the mission of

:00:20. > :00:23.This morning, we're at Westminster where, after walking into 10

:00:24. > :00:25.Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister yesterday,

:00:26. > :00:33.Theresa May is now beginning her first full day in office.

:00:34. > :00:36.One of her first jobs has been to appoint her senior team

:00:37. > :00:38.of government ministers, her new cabinet, and there's

:00:39. > :00:41.an unexpected job for Boris Johnson, one of the key leave architects,

:00:42. > :00:49.This is what our new Prime Minister said about him just two weeks ago.

:00:50. > :00:54.The last time he did a deal with the Germans, he came back with three

:00:55. > :01:00.nearly new water cannon. LAUGHTER

:01:01. > :01:06.It is all change in Downing Street, with a big, bold, brash reshuffle as

:01:07. > :01:12.Theresa May wield the axe and brings in the Brexit supporters. And what

:01:13. > :01:22.is going on with Labour? Here is the last primaries are's verdict. They

:01:23. > :01:26.have had resignation and Coronation - they haven't even decided what the

:01:27. > :01:30.rules are yet. We will speak to an Jalil, one of the Labour MPs who

:01:31. > :01:42.wants to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn and be the new leader.

:01:43. > :01:48.We are live at Westminster. It is beautifully sunny, a glorious

:01:49. > :01:54.morning. Maybe it is a good omen for the new Prime Minister, Theresa May.

:01:55. > :01:59.We will bring you any developments that come this morning. We also want

:02:00. > :02:03.to hear from you, wherever you are in the country. What do you want

:02:04. > :02:18.from the new Prime Minister? Do let us know. I would like to talk to you

:02:19. > :02:23.through the programme today, so put "Call" is in your message if you

:02:24. > :02:30.want to speak to us on the programme.

:02:31. > :02:32.Here's Annita with a summary of the day's news.

:02:33. > :02:37.It's the first full day in the job for the new Prime

:02:38. > :02:40.Last night, she began assembling her new Government with

:02:41. > :02:44.Philip Hammond is made Chancellor of the Exchequer.

:02:45. > :02:46.While leading Leave campaigner Boris Johnson takes his job,

:02:47. > :02:50.David Davies becomes the Secretary of State in charge of leaving

:02:51. > :02:53.We're expecting more roles to be announced this morning.

:02:54. > :02:54.We'll keep you across any developments.

:02:55. > :02:56.Here's our Political Correspondent Ben Wright's latest report.

:02:57. > :02:58.And now to work, after the tumultuous political drama that

:02:59. > :03:01.brought her to Downing Street, Theresa May is building

:03:02. > :03:03.After filling the top Cabinet jobs yesterday,

:03:04. > :03:07.On entering Number Ten, she said her administration

:03:08. > :03:10.would not be driven by the interests of the privileged

:03:11. > :03:14.few, and would govern for the whole nation.

:03:15. > :03:17.We believe in the union, the precious, precious bond

:03:18. > :03:20.between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

:03:21. > :03:25.But it means something else that is just as important.

:03:26. > :03:30.It means we believe in the union not just between the nations of the UK,

:03:31. > :03:32.but between all of our citizens, all of us,

:03:33. > :03:35.whoever we are and wherever we are from.

:03:36. > :03:38.One question is how that rhetoric will

:03:39. > :03:48.Today, new Secretaries of State for Health,

:03:49. > :03:49.Education and Work and Pensions will be

:03:50. > :03:53.One of the big surprises was the promotion of Boris Johnson

:03:54. > :04:03.Clearly now we have a massive opportunity in this

:04:04. > :04:06.country to make a great success of a new relationship with Europe

:04:07. > :04:08.and the world, and I am very excited to be

:04:09. > :04:14.Of course, Mr Johnson was a prominent

:04:15. > :04:16.campaigner for Britain to leave the EU, unlike Theresa May,

:04:17. > :04:20.But she now has to deliver on the referendum result

:04:21. > :04:23.and has given big jobs to Brexit backers, including David Davis,

:04:24. > :04:25.who will oversee negotiations with the EU.

:04:26. > :04:30.Theresa May has experience negotiating with Brussels,

:04:31. > :04:34.taking Britain out of the EU will be a massive task and at the moment

:04:35. > :04:40.Last night she spoke on the phone to the EU's

:04:41. > :04:46.The president of France and the Chancellor of Germany.

:04:47. > :04:48.She said she would need some time for her government

:04:49. > :04:59.House prices in Britain are expected to fall over the next few months,

:05:00. > :05:01.following the decision to leave the European Union.

:05:02. > :05:02.That's according to the Royal Institution

:05:03. > :05:09.It also says that the number of properties being put up for sale

:05:10. > :05:12.is falling at the sharpest rate since records began.

:05:13. > :05:17.It could be good news for borrowers, bad news for savers.

:05:18. > :05:20.The Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates today -

:05:21. > :05:23.for the first time since the height of the financial crisis.

:05:24. > :05:25.If the rate is halved to 0.25 percent as expected,

:05:26. > :05:29.It's hoped that lower rates, which make it cheaper to borrow

:05:30. > :05:31.money, would encourage more spending to boost the economy

:05:32. > :05:52.A collection of Bronze Age household goods found in Cambridge is helping

:05:53. > :05:59.historians. It dates back to around 1000 BC. The find include axis,

:06:00. > :06:01.jewellery and tweezers. That is all the news. More at 9:30am. Now,

:06:02. > :06:12.Good morning, these are the main headlines in sport.

:06:13. > :06:14.And there's a busy few days ahead, with the 145th Open Championship

:06:15. > :06:18.Sheffield's Danny Willett is out on the course shortly

:06:19. > :06:20.to begin his first round, hoping to add to his victory

:06:21. > :06:31.I am really looking forward to going up there and actually playing it

:06:32. > :06:35.now. I want to see how the golf game is getting on, and I will get ready

:06:36. > :06:39.for what could be another great major championship. The Claret jug

:06:40. > :06:40.would go nicely with the green jacket.

:06:41. > :06:42.Nottinghamshire's Jake Ball will make his Test Debut for England

:06:43. > :06:45.as they take on Pakistan in the first Test at Lord's.

:06:46. > :06:47.He replaces fellow bowler James Anderson, who's not yet fully

:06:48. > :06:55.Tour De France leader Chris Froome has thanked organisers for putting

:06:56. > :06:58.riders' safety first after they cut short today's 12th Stage

:06:59. > :07:04.to Mont Ventoux by six kilometres because of high winds.

:07:05. > :07:06.And 42-year-old Jo Pavey will compete in the 10,000 metres

:07:07. > :07:12.In doing so she'll become the first British track athlete

:07:13. > :07:31.We are just outside the Houses of Parliament, where Theresa May, the

:07:32. > :07:36.new Prime Minister, is beginning her first full day in that surely almost

:07:37. > :07:40.impossible job. That anyone really have the skills to do that job

:07:41. > :07:45.effectively? We will discuss that today, amongst other things. We

:07:46. > :07:48.expect her to announce more of her top team, more members of the new

:07:49. > :07:52.cabinet. We will bring you all the details as soon as we get those

:07:53. > :07:57.announcements. While the Conservatives have a new leader,

:07:58. > :08:04.Labour is still in crisis, with MPs trying to unseat Jeremy Corbyn.

:08:05. > :08:07.We'll hear from Angela Eagle, one of those MPs who wants to be

:08:08. > :08:13.leader in just a moment, but first, this.

:08:14. > :08:23.I don't think Jeremy is in a position to provide

:08:24. > :08:28.# The hills are alive with the sound of mus...

:08:29. > :08:31.I don't think Jeremy is in a position to provide

:08:32. > :08:33.the leadership that we need to be able to offer.

:08:34. > :08:37.For all of his qualities, I don't believe that leader is Jeremy.

:08:38. > :08:47.I feel I've served in the best way I can and today I had to go.

:08:48. > :08:50.I'm putting a motion to the Parliamentary Labour Party

:08:51. > :08:54.which, if it is passed, is a motion of no-confidence

:08:55. > :08:57.in Jeremy Corbyn and will be asking him to consider his position

:08:58. > :09:10.I have come to the conclusion very reluctantly that Jeremy Corbyn's

:09:11. > :09:15.This is a time of acute national crisis.

:09:16. > :09:17.People from all wings of the party in parliament have lost

:09:18. > :09:33.Jeremy Corbyn is made of stronger stuff.

:09:34. > :09:45.He's a man of steel and he's made it clear that he will not step down.

:09:46. > :09:48.Let me read, it'll only take a second.

:09:49. > :09:54.Any nomination must be supported by 20% of the combined Commons

:09:55. > :09:57.members of the Parliamentary Labour Party and members

:09:58. > :10:00.of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

:10:01. > :10:12.Nominations not attaining this threshold shall be null and void.

:10:13. > :10:14.Now, I'm not a Blairite, I'm not a Brownite and

:10:15. > :10:21.Jeremy is a good man with great Labour values.

:10:22. > :10:24.He's been a loyal servant of our party, he's done a good job

:10:25. > :10:28.in some respects but he is not a man who can lead us into the next

:10:29. > :10:38.Can we avoid the disaster we are heading to and the talk

:10:39. > :10:57.Don't let those people who wish us ill divide us.

:10:58. > :11:00.Stay together, strong and united, for the kind of world

:11:01. > :11:12.Labour MP Angela Eagle, who has launched a leadership bid

:11:13. > :11:18.to challenge Jeremy Corbyn is with us now.

:11:19. > :11:27.Good morning. Thanks for coming on the programme. First, another female

:11:28. > :11:33.Conservative Prime Minister - it is 2-0 to the Tories, isn't it? Labour

:11:34. > :11:38.Party pioneered equality legislation, so I think it is the

:11:39. > :11:43.right time to have a directly elected woman bleeding. That is one

:11:44. > :11:46.of your pitches for the job, being a woman. I want to show the audience

:11:47. > :11:49.your reaction last night when you heard the news that Boris Johnson

:11:50. > :11:53.had been appointed Foreign Secretary. Let's look. You'll might

:11:54. > :12:06.Boris is fun, great, bouncing around. They never actually put

:12:07. > :12:14.him... They just made him Foreign Secretary?

:12:15. > :12:23.LAUGHTER No! Shocked and bewildered, would

:12:24. > :12:27.they be the right adjectives? This is a man who came to Liverpool,

:12:28. > :12:32.repeated lies about the Hillsborough families, insulted the city and the

:12:33. > :12:36.region of Merseyside and was forced to make an apology by Michael

:12:37. > :12:43.Howard, then he insulted President Obama by referring to his Kenyan

:12:44. > :12:47.roots. Is this the man they want as Foreign Secretary? I couldn't

:12:48. > :12:51.believe it. I don't know a few hard the new Chancellor this morning,

:12:52. > :12:59.when asked if Boris Johnson was up to it, he said, the Prime Minister

:13:00. > :13:03.is in charge. So he will get the pay and someone else will do the work?

:13:04. > :13:09.Theresa May really sounded like she wants to be the champion of the

:13:10. > :13:15.working classes - are you worried? I am not, because she has a record as

:13:16. > :13:18.long as your arm in the previous Government of absolutely hammering

:13:19. > :13:23.Labour areas with austerity policies, cuts everywhere. Those are

:13:24. > :13:27.visited upon those communities that are the least able to deal with

:13:28. > :13:34.them, because they are the poorest. That is not a middle ground pitch,

:13:35. > :13:38.for me. We need, as a Labour Party, to talk about how we can revive

:13:39. > :13:44.these areas. She can talk about it, but we know what her record is. You

:13:45. > :13:47.were meant to be the unity candidate to challenge Jeremy Corbyn, but now

:13:48. > :13:52.apparently there is another unity candidate who has come forward and

:13:53. > :13:56.wants to be leader as well. That will not help, will it? You'll might

:13:57. > :14:00.be important thing is, I obviously believe I am the best person to lead

:14:01. > :14:05.the Labour Party in these difficult times, and they are dangerous times

:14:06. > :14:09.for the country, because the aftermath of the Brexit vote really

:14:10. > :14:14.has thrown everything up in the air. Our prosperity is on the line, our

:14:15. > :14:21.social justice, social equality, all at risk. Equal pay for work of equal

:14:22. > :14:31.value for women, that is an EU law, what will happen to it? The key

:14:32. > :14:36.thing is, we have to say that Jeremy Corbyn cannot provide the leadership

:14:37. > :14:42.in Parliament and is not going well -- not going down well on the

:14:43. > :14:47.doorsteps. I am happy to talk to omen about how we go forward. He is

:14:48. > :14:53.a perfectly fine man. Our politics are not very different, but I have a

:14:54. > :14:57.lot more experience, and I think I have further reach, at a northern

:14:58. > :15:03.woman from working-class roots, as a person who understands identity

:15:04. > :15:06.politics and what goes on, as a gay woman, I think I have the toughness

:15:07. > :15:12.and experience and that I am the right person for this job. What did

:15:13. > :15:13.you think of John McDonnell when he said that people like you were

:15:14. > :15:24.useless? I tried to work with Jeremy, it did

:15:25. > :15:28.not work, there was a parallel organisation, we were not opposing

:15:29. > :15:32.the Government's policies, because of Jeremy's inability.

:15:33. > :15:41.There is a coarsening of our politics, it has to stop. Was it

:15:42. > :15:45.really Labour Party members who threw that brick through the window

:15:46. > :15:48.of your constituency office? I have not had bricks through the window of

:15:49. > :15:55.my office before, and it was the day before the NEC meeting, which

:15:56. > :16:00.decided whether Jeremy should be on the ballot or not. I don't know, but

:16:01. > :16:07.I have been getting huge amounts of bullying and threats and nastier

:16:08. > :16:11.messages. Maybe the brick was a nasty message as well. You are

:16:12. > :16:16.suggesting it could be a Labour Party member. I have no idea who

:16:17. > :16:21.threw the brick through the window, but the kind of atmosphere that has

:16:22. > :16:27.been generated, the people that work for me have to deal with it when

:16:28. > :16:30.they go into work every day. We have had to unplug our phones for three

:16:31. > :16:35.weeks because every time we put them in, we get a string of appalling

:16:36. > :16:41.messages. My constituents cannot get through to me so that I can help

:16:42. > :16:46.them and do my day job, and it has got to stop, it is bullying. What

:16:47. > :16:53.kind of message is? I cannot repeat them on air. Just threatening,

:16:54. > :16:57.nasty, adhesive. Is it true you have had death threats? I am told I have,

:16:58. > :17:02.the police are looking into it. I checked with you, I wanted to read a

:17:03. > :17:08.couple of comments I have seen on Twitter. There are some vile

:17:09. > :17:16.homophobic things, these are the slightly less extreme end. You are

:17:17. > :17:18.not reading out the worst ones? Of course not, but I know you are

:17:19. > :17:23.comfortable with reading out a couple. Angela Eagle says Jeremy

:17:24. > :17:28.Corbyn is unelectable, she is a treacherous lesbian. Angela Eagle is

:17:29. > :17:37.less electable than her brother Eddie. Angela Eagle, as charismatic

:17:38. > :17:42.as herpes. Charming! These kinds of messages are directed at women. I

:17:43. > :17:47.don't think that in a democracy people who stand up for what they

:17:48. > :17:51.believe in... I have been a party member for 40 years, I don't need to

:17:52. > :17:56.be told I am treacherous, I love the party and the country, I want is to

:17:57. > :18:00.have a strong opposition, which we should lead, so we can put a

:18:01. > :18:03.compelling case to the people at the next election. I don't think anybody

:18:04. > :18:10.should have to put up with stuff like that. Paul says, nice of you to

:18:11. > :18:13.claim that Jeremy Corbyn is the problem, it is the Labour MPs that

:18:14. > :18:18.are not respecting democracy that are the problem. Jeremy has not

:18:19. > :18:23.provided the leadership in Parliament for us to take this

:18:24. > :18:29.Government on. I have been on the doorsteps for the last few months,

:18:30. > :18:33.we lost support and councillors in the elections, we lost the

:18:34. > :18:38.referendum, partially because of Jeremy's lacklustre support for

:18:39. > :18:43.Remain. If we are going to be competitive in a general election,

:18:44. > :18:46.which is the point, to have people in Parliament protesting for

:18:47. > :18:49.Government so we can help those people who are suffering in our kin

:18:50. > :18:54.in it is, we have to have an effective leader, and Jeremy is not

:18:55. > :19:00.that leader. He needs to hand onto somebody who can take us forward. I

:19:01. > :19:05.want to suggest this, I wonder if you are perhaps as deluded as you

:19:06. > :19:08.say or belief Jeremy Corbyn is. Why would you be able to lead the party

:19:09. > :19:14.when you voted for the Iraq war, against every attempt to investigate

:19:15. > :19:22.it, you voted for air strikes in Syria, for tuition fees, for ID

:19:23. > :19:27.cards? On tuition fees, I led rebels from the backbenches to get a cap on

:19:28. > :19:38.tuition fees for ten years. What about those others? On Iraq, I

:19:39. > :19:42.regret the votes that I cast. It was done with incomplete and inaccurate

:19:43. > :19:48.information, I have apologised for that, and we have to learn the

:19:49. > :19:51.lessons so it does not happen again. People are now worried about the

:19:52. > :19:55.future of our country in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, there

:19:56. > :20:00.are huge issues of reassurance we need in our communities which are

:20:01. > :20:03.being subjected to hate crimes, there are other issues about

:20:04. > :20:07.economic prosperity that we need to deal with. I believe I am the best

:20:08. > :20:13.person to put that case for the Labour Party. One person says,

:20:14. > :20:17.please ask her to stop putting Jeremy Corbyn down there just to

:20:18. > :20:25.talk of her policies. I would not rush to the EU exit as fast as

:20:26. > :20:29.Jeremy wanted to. He came on the TV the morning after the referendum and

:20:30. > :20:33.said we should trigger article 50 immediately. That is like jumping

:20:34. > :20:39.out of an aeroplane without checking that your Parachute is there. We

:20:40. > :20:46.have to be more anti-austerity, we have to talk... Jeremy Corbyn has

:20:47. > :20:50.not been anti-austerity enough? The Brexit vote was a howl of pain for

:20:51. > :20:56.many two-minute issue has been left behind. We need a more radical

:20:57. > :20:59.programme, to include them in economic prosperity and improve

:21:00. > :21:05.their life opportunities. My opportunities were improved by

:21:06. > :21:09.having a Labour Government. So that I could make progress in life when

:21:10. > :21:12.my parents were prevented from making progress because of where

:21:13. > :21:15.they came from. We need to offer the same hope to every single person in

:21:16. > :21:23.this country, wherever they live whichever region. We have got to use

:21:24. > :21:26.the power of Government to ensure that we bring prosperity and hope to

:21:27. > :21:32.those areas that have been left behind. I will make a speech about

:21:33. > :21:36.this in much greater detail very soon, but we need to recognise we

:21:37. > :21:41.have got a divided society, we have got to bring it back together by

:21:42. > :21:46.sharing our economic... Nobody will disagree, I am asking for specifics.

:21:47. > :21:49.I will make speeches about this during the leadership campaign, and

:21:50. > :21:54.I am more than happy to come on your show when I have said that the

:21:55. > :21:57.detail to talk about it. You doubled your majority in the last election,

:21:58. > :22:01.your constituents like you, but they don't want you to challenge Jeremy

:22:02. > :22:09.Corbyn for the leadership. Why do you say that? You are facing a vote

:22:10. > :22:12.of no-confidence. This is a tiny disruptive group who were thrown out

:22:13. > :22:19.the 1990s, they have come back and are making a lot of noise. It is not

:22:20. > :22:24.the vast majority of my by Bishop. If you lose that vote, then what? I

:22:25. > :22:29.am challenging Jeremy Corbyn for leadership of the Labour Party, we

:22:30. > :22:36.need strong, decisive, effective leadership, I am putting myself

:22:37. > :22:44.forward to offer that to the party. Your views are welcome. One more for

:22:45. > :22:48.now from Richard, stick with it, Jeremy Corbyn, these MPs want you

:22:49. > :22:51.out, so you must be right for the job. If you want to get in touch,

:22:52. > :22:58.you are very welcome. Our political guru Norman Smith

:22:59. > :23:10.is at Downing Street outside Good morning! It is all happening,

:23:11. > :23:15.nobody expect it Theresa May would have such a big, bold reshuffle, it

:23:16. > :23:20.belies her image as a cautious, careful politician. Instead,

:23:21. > :23:24.overnight she has dismantled the whole David Cameron cabinet. Still

:23:25. > :23:30.waiting for people to walk up Downing Street this morning, the new

:23:31. > :23:35.promotions we can expect. Not quite the red carpet, but a walk of glory

:23:36. > :23:40.for politicians. We have had a lot of change so far, so let me take you

:23:41. > :23:45.through with our political pack of cards of who has come out trumps and

:23:46. > :23:53.who may end up a joker. That begin with Philip Hammond, he is

:23:54. > :23:56.Chancellor. He was a Remain campaigner, a very rich man, people

:23:57. > :24:01.say he is a millionaire. I don't know about that. He got a lot of

:24:02. > :24:04.praise for getting the defence budget under control when he was

:24:05. > :24:09.Defence Secretary, but he is sometimes known not very kindly as

:24:10. > :24:17.box office, because he can be a tad dull. Let's talk about Amber Rudd,

:24:18. > :24:22.one of the big women promotions. She has catapulted into the position of

:24:23. > :24:26.Home Secretary. She was also a Remain campaigner. She was an

:24:27. > :24:34.adviser to foreboding and a funeral as her Arab -- as an aristocracy

:24:35. > :24:40.consultant. She must come from a posh background. She has only been

:24:41. > :24:45.an MP for six years. Huge acceleration for her. During those

:24:46. > :24:50.Brexit debate, she coughed Boris Johnson about the head, really

:24:51. > :24:59.getting stuck into him. Let's talk about Michael Fallon. He clings on

:25:00. > :25:04.as Defence Secretary. He was also a Remain campaigner, he has been

:25:05. > :25:08.around the block, he has had five or six of and positions, he first came

:25:09. > :25:12.in under Margaret Thatcher. He is sometimes known as the Minister for

:25:13. > :25:17.the today programme, because he gets wheeled out when there are difficult

:25:18. > :25:23.positions. He is a safe pair of hands. During the 1983 election he

:25:24. > :25:27.got banned for drink-driving. I don't imagine Margaret Thatcher was

:25:28. > :25:34.thrilled about that. Let's talk about David Davis. He is brought in

:25:35. > :25:44.as the Brexit minister. He is a Brexit campaigner. He is ex-SAS. He

:25:45. > :25:49.was sometimes known as DDR the SAS. An eight arrival, he is 67,

:25:50. > :25:56.was sometimes known as DDR the SAS. been in Government before, but he

:25:57. > :26:00.has made it at last. He has managed to get into Government. He stood

:26:01. > :26:07.against David Cameron for the leadership back in 2005, but he did

:26:08. > :26:14.not get it. Liam Fox. He is brought into the new job as secretary of

:26:15. > :26:20.State for International trade, he has to hammer out the trade deals.

:26:21. > :26:23.He is also a Brexit campaigner, he is a doctor, so he is a good person

:26:24. > :26:28.to be around if you are feeling peaky. He was a Government whip

:26:29. > :26:34.during the last great European revolt over Maastricht, it is funny

:26:35. > :26:39.how things turn out. And he resigned as Defence Secretary following that

:26:40. > :26:44.row over his adviser, who he tuck on trips with him, even though he was

:26:45. > :26:49.not his official adviser. Last but by no means least, Boris Johnson. To

:26:50. > :26:54.the surprise of pretty much everybody at Westminster, he is

:26:55. > :26:59.promoted to the Foreign Office, one of the top offices of Government. He

:27:00. > :27:05.was pretty much the front face of the Brexit campaign. He has never

:27:06. > :27:11.held any Government post before, no matter how lowly, and yet there he

:27:12. > :27:17.is at the top of victory, although he did serve two terms as London

:27:18. > :27:24.mayor. Although everybody calls him Boris, he has a longer name, so he

:27:25. > :27:27.has rather highfalutin background. A lot of people in the Foreign Office

:27:28. > :27:32.will get a bit anxious about whether he is going to be having the

:27:33. > :27:39.necessary tact and diplomacy you need. When he was on that trip to

:27:40. > :27:48.Japan, he got involved in a game of rugby. He got a bit too carried away

:27:49. > :27:54.during that. He was pushing children at the way. If it happened when he

:27:55. > :27:58.was Foreign Secretary, it could cause a dramatic incident. Then

:27:59. > :28:02.there was the zip wire moment during the London Olympics, when he was

:28:03. > :28:06.left dangling, waving the union Jacks. I could list a whole load of

:28:07. > :28:12.other incidents, the last time he was on an official overseas trip...

:28:13. > :28:18.That was not so long ago, when he was Mayor of London. We just

:28:19. > :28:25.watching of these pictures now, Boris on the rugby field, and there

:28:26. > :28:29.he is on the zip wire. What a sight. When he was last in the Palestinian

:28:30. > :28:32.territories they had to cancel his trip because their Web protests and

:28:33. > :28:38.threats of violence because he will thought of as being too pro-Israel.

:28:39. > :28:42.Even Theresa May seemed to have a feud out about him when she was

:28:43. > :28:45.asked about him during the leadership election, she made a

:28:46. > :28:50.caustic observation about his negotiating skills with the Germans.

:28:51. > :28:55.Last time he did a deal, he came back with three nearly new water

:28:56. > :28:59.cannon. I should tell you, after he got

:29:00. > :29:06.those water cannon, she banned him from using them, so they ended up as

:29:07. > :29:10.useless. Amber Rudd, one of his colleagues, the Home Secretary,

:29:11. > :29:12.remember the killer line that she delivered during the Brexit debate

:29:13. > :29:18.about the man she thought Boris Johnson was?

:29:19. > :29:24.Boris is the life and soul of the party, that he is not the man you

:29:25. > :29:31.want driving due home at the end of the evening.

:29:32. > :29:38.You almost winced at that one! That is the list of people we know about

:29:39. > :29:43.so far. Nobody so far has come up the Downing Street walk, but we will

:29:44. > :29:46.get people. We will want to see whether Theresa May lives up to her

:29:47. > :29:51.pledge to promote a whole load of women, because so far we just have

:29:52. > :29:58.Amber Rudd. Everybody else is male, pale and stale. So we are expecting

:29:59. > :30:02.more women. Nobody so far, we will have to hang on in there.

:30:03. > :30:20.Waiting for the women! We will be with you later.

:30:21. > :30:25.Rob was Minister Without Portfolio and choose date. Argue still that,

:30:26. > :30:32.or is there a clean slate when we get a new Prime Minister? I don't

:30:33. > :30:42.know, but I am desperately chairman of the Conservative Party. -- deputy

:30:43. > :30:45.chairman. One viewer says, please, can someone explain the rationale of

:30:46. > :30:51.Boris Johnson being the new Foreign Secretary? I think Boris is a

:30:52. > :30:55.well-known individual and he is one of the few politicians who is called

:30:56. > :31:13.by his first name by everyone. He was the Maher Mark -- he was the

:31:14. > :31:19.Mayor of London. He was successful. One viewer says, Boris Johnson is a

:31:20. > :31:27.joke and to have him as Foreign Secretary is farcical. I think he is

:31:28. > :31:31.a good choice. Why? As Mayor of London, he had to get stuck in in

:31:32. > :31:37.terms of promoting London around the world. He will already have existing

:31:38. > :31:44.relationships. The one thing he is good at is communication. His

:31:45. > :31:52.charismatic way of getting people to buy in. He is no-nonsense and I am

:31:53. > :32:03.sure he will get stuck in. You have a huge smile on your face.

:32:04. > :32:10.Anne-Marie was elected last year. You supported Michael Gove, the

:32:11. > :32:13.former Justice Secretary. He could still be Justice Secretary. What are

:32:14. > :32:21.you hearing? Not anything so far this morning. Our new Prime Minister

:32:22. > :32:25.got through the big jobs last night. Hopefully she had a glass of wine

:32:26. > :32:29.and put her feet up for five minutes before having to take on this

:32:30. > :32:32.morning's challenges and the rest of the Government been put together in

:32:33. > :32:37.a framework with all the skills she knows she needs for the challenges

:32:38. > :32:46.ahead of her. Will there be more women? I think we have a long day

:32:47. > :32:55.ahead. There may be some surprise names you have not heard of. Boom?

:32:56. > :33:01.Wait and see. It is for Theresa May to make the announcement. David

:33:02. > :33:05.Davies as Brexit Secretary - does that suggest that Theresa May wants

:33:06. > :33:13.to leave the EU sooner or later? In her campaign, she said Brexit means

:33:14. > :33:16.Brexit and she would appoint a senior Brexit supporter and create a

:33:17. > :33:20.cabinet position, which means we are leaving the EU. She has put top

:33:21. > :33:25.people in charge, David Davies and Liam Fox. Boris was also a Brexit

:33:26. > :33:29.supporter. The timing and details will be fleshed out in the coming

:33:30. > :33:34.weeks and months, but it shows she is serious and is keeping a word.

:33:35. > :33:41.From the job she has handed out so far, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the fact

:33:42. > :33:44.that our so many Brexit supporters there at the moment, does it suggest

:33:45. > :33:51.she is doing a good job of healing the Conservative Party? Absolutely,

:33:52. > :33:54.and I would expect nothing less. Her modernising agenda, which seems to

:33:55. > :34:02.have surprised some people, is no surprise to me. That is very much

:34:03. > :34:06.the woman. She works in a consensual way. Let's bring the best brains in

:34:07. > :34:11.to find a solution and keep going until the solution is reached. I

:34:12. > :34:15.have no doubt that she understands fully what that mandate from the

:34:16. > :34:18.people meant and that having key Brexit leaders in the forefront of

:34:19. > :34:22.the Government, not just within the Brexit role that David Davies will

:34:23. > :34:29.take on, is vital to ensuring that happens. This is not just the

:34:30. > :34:33.Government about Brexit. Her speech yesterday was seminal, because she

:34:34. > :34:39.was saying that we are the party of the social ambulance, helping people

:34:40. > :34:44.who are struggling and helping people to get on the ladder and

:34:45. > :34:49.improve their lives. It was a compassionate conservative speech, a

:34:50. > :34:52.one nation conservatism speed. She mentioned the union. It was

:34:53. > :34:59.incredibly important and it set out the goals for future Government. And

:35:00. > :35:03.a swipe of the Notting Hill set of David Cameron and George Osborne,

:35:04. > :35:08.saying, my Government, she directly addressed the camera, my Government

:35:09. > :35:14.will not just work for the privileged few but for everyone.

:35:15. > :35:17.Under David Cameron, we had the national living wage, we created

:35:18. > :35:22.jobs and apprenticeships, and she said she is going to build on that,

:35:23. > :35:28.Bebe party of aspiration adopt agility, but also be the party of

:35:29. > :35:32.the social ambulance. What do you think she meant, Anne-Marie, when

:35:33. > :35:37.she said, we will do everything we can to give you more control over

:35:38. > :35:43.your lives? I think what she meant was, in a sense, she wanted to

:35:44. > :35:49.continue the agenda that David had of devolution and trying to ensure

:35:50. > :35:55.that local communities had more power, more skin in the game with

:35:56. > :36:00.regard to how local community money is spent. I think that's what she

:36:01. > :36:05.meant by more control. Thank you, all of you. Nice to see you. I have

:36:06. > :36:09.no idea what time it is, even though there is a huge clot behind me. It

:36:10. > :36:12.is 9:35am. Time for the news. It's the first full day

:36:13. > :36:15.in the job for the new Prime Last night she began

:36:16. > :36:18.assembling her new Government with big changes in the top

:36:19. > :36:20.Cabinet jobs. Philip Hammond is Chancellor

:36:21. > :36:22.of the Exchequer, while leading Leave campaigner Boris Johnson

:36:23. > :36:24.takes his job, becoming David Davies becomes the Secretary

:36:25. > :36:43.of State in charge of leaving What are your priorities? We will

:36:44. > :36:46.decide those collectively. Will you prioritise access to the single

:36:47. > :36:57.market? Wait and see. Is Boris Johnson your boss now? Liam Fox has

:36:58. > :37:02.the role of international trade Secretary and has been speaking this

:37:03. > :37:06.morning. I had every faith that we have a wonderful future of the

:37:07. > :37:10.country. We have an opportunity to increase our global profile and we

:37:11. > :37:11.should be optimistic and confident about the future.

:37:12. > :37:14.It could be good news for borrowers, bad news for savers.

:37:15. > :37:16.The Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates today

:37:17. > :37:21.for the first time since the height of the financial crisis.

:37:22. > :37:23.If the rate is dropped to 0.25% as expected,

:37:24. > :37:27.It's hoped that lower rates, which make it cheaper to borrow

:37:28. > :37:30.money, would encourage more spending to boost the economy

:37:31. > :37:42.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:37:43. > :37:46.Now, the sport with Hugh Woozencroft - and a busy day ahead

:37:47. > :37:52.American Justin Thomas is the early leader, 4 under par after five holes

:37:53. > :37:55.of the opening round, with most of the field still to come

:37:56. > :37:57.Sheffield's Danny Willett has just begun his first round,

:37:58. > :38:00.hoping to add to his victory at the Masters earlier this

:38:01. > :38:02.year in what's his first appearance at Royal Troon.

:38:03. > :38:05.There's coverage of the golf on BBC Radio 5live from 10 o'clock.

:38:06. > :38:07.Nottinghamshire's Jake Ball will make his Test Debut for England

:38:08. > :38:10.as they take on Pakistan in the first Test at Lord's.

:38:11. > :38:13.The 25 year old replaces fellow bowler James Anderson,

:38:14. > :38:17.who's not yet fully fit after a shoulder injury.

:38:18. > :38:20.And 42-year-old Jo Pavey will compete in the 10 thousand

:38:21. > :38:23.metres at the Rio Olympics next month - in doing so she'll become

:38:24. > :38:26.the first British track athlete to compete in 5 Games.

:38:27. > :38:28.Performance Director Neil Black said the decision was not

:38:29. > :38:44.We are live at Westminster this morning.

:38:45. > :38:47.Theresa May has been a regular visitor to Downing Street since

:38:48. > :38:50.she took over as Home Secretary in 2010, but yesterday was her first

:38:51. > :38:53.time walking through the doors of Number 10 as Prime Minister.

:38:54. > :38:59.The calls from world leaders, the briefings, the nuclear codes.

:39:00. > :39:00.Who begins planning her life in minute detail?

:39:01. > :39:03.Here to give us an insight is Lord Butler, Cabinet Secretary

:39:04. > :39:06.and head of the Home Civil Service for a decade during the time

:39:07. > :39:12.of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair,

:39:13. > :39:17.Sean Worth, former special advisor to David Cameron,

:39:18. > :39:20.who was there on his first day at Number 10, and former First

:39:21. > :39:23.Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, who officially resided at Bute House

:39:24. > :39:32.Lord Butler, you saw how three Prime Ministers operated,

:39:33. > :39:34.Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.

:39:35. > :39:36.How will Theresa May's first days and weeks in office differ

:39:37. > :39:46.Of course, she is lucky, in the sense that we have the holiday

:39:47. > :39:51.season coming up. On this first day, she has to make her appointments.

:39:52. > :39:55.That involves a succession of decisions. First, she has to decide

:39:56. > :39:59.what department she is going to have. She has decided to have a

:40:00. > :40:05.Brexit department. She then has to make appointments within the limits

:40:06. > :40:09.of the salary she can pay to cabinet ministers. If she has an extra

:40:10. > :40:14.cabinet minister for Brexit, she may have to drop a cabinet post. Like

:40:15. > :40:19.the Business Secretary, for example. Yes. Then there are mundane

:40:20. > :40:23.decisions to be taken which matter to politicians. The order of

:40:24. > :40:27.seniority, the seating plan around the Cabinet table. She has the

:40:28. > :40:34.decide who has the grace and favour of houses, who has the flats in the

:40:35. > :40:38.Admiralty. These are the sorts of things which, in that first day, in

:40:39. > :40:42.addition to phone calls, you have to decide. She has spoken to Angela

:40:43. > :40:49.Merkel of Germany and the president of France. Sean, you were special

:40:50. > :40:53.adviser to David Cameron from 2010-12. You say this is different

:40:54. > :40:59.from when unelected Prime Minister walks in. Why? Normally, you come in

:41:00. > :41:05.on the back of a general election, and you get a bit more time. They

:41:06. > :41:09.call it a honeymoon period where people give you grace to set out

:41:10. > :41:12.your stall and make appointments. She is coming in mid-term, an

:41:13. > :41:19.extraordinary position where the day before she took office, the Labour

:41:20. > :41:25.Party appeared to shut themselves in the head by keeping Jeremy Corbyn on

:41:26. > :41:28.the ballot for the leadership, come what may, essentially vacate in the

:41:29. > :41:32.centre ground just as she is coming in, setting out that vision. Our

:41:33. > :41:35.priority is the political architecture that you are seeing

:41:36. > :41:43.being set up with his Cabinet. Pretty smart moves so far. Hammond

:41:44. > :41:47.as Chancellor will be fantastic. You also have that centre ground they

:41:48. > :41:53.catered. You can rush in there and set up that vision straightaway.

:41:54. > :42:00.Alex Salmond, take us back to your first day in office, 16th of May

:42:01. > :42:04.2000 seven. I remember meeting the permanent Secretary, Sir Robin's

:42:05. > :42:09.equivalent, and getting ushered into the new premises and the new

:42:10. > :42:12.offices, and then being heavily impressed by how much preparation

:42:13. > :42:19.the civil service seems to have done to anticipate every question I

:42:20. > :42:22.asked. What did you ask? Basically, that was after the election, which

:42:23. > :42:27.is slightly different, but you come in and say, I have these thoughts,

:42:28. > :42:30.and they say, yes, we thought you might, he you are, try to do it this

:42:31. > :42:37.way. She will be getting a lot of that. As Robin said, she has key

:42:38. > :42:41.decisions which may marked the Leave not look important. She has

:42:42. > :42:46.appointed Liam Fox, David Davis and Boris Johnson. Are they part of the

:42:47. > :42:52.Foreign Office team? In other words, is Boris the boss of David Davis and

:42:53. > :42:57.Liam Fox? David Davis is a serious politician and a great appointment.

:42:58. > :43:00.Boris is a court jester. Does David Davis worked for the court jester,

:43:01. > :43:05.or does he have a separate department? That sort of decision

:43:06. > :43:10.will determine the success or failure of her appointments. Theresa

:43:11. > :43:17.May, do you think she is the type of woman who is thinking already along

:43:18. > :43:21.those lines? Congratulations to her on taking office, but she is in the

:43:22. > :43:27.serious category of politicians rather than the court jester

:43:28. > :43:35.category. She has got, you know, a great advantage over the way

:43:36. > :43:39.sometimes things happen. Tony Blair came in in 1997, and he had been up

:43:40. > :43:45.pretty well all night, in Sedgefield, out on the road for four

:43:46. > :43:53.or five weeks, and he was exhausted. Then you have to make, in our

:43:54. > :44:01.system, some of the most important decisions when you are completely

:44:02. > :44:06.knackered. It is tough. That is the other thing about being Prime

:44:07. > :44:11.Minister - you can tell me how First Minister compares, Alex Salmond -

:44:12. > :44:16.but it is to me, as an outsider, almost an impossible job, and you

:44:17. > :44:19.have to have some superhuman powers which nobody does have, but you

:44:20. > :44:24.clearly have to have intellect, attention to detail and an ability

:44:25. > :44:30.to cut through all the information that must land on your desk. It is

:44:31. > :44:34.almost impossible, isn't it? I remember briefing Theresa May at a

:44:35. > :44:39.party conference in the Coalition Government, and she got the briefing

:44:40. > :44:46.at 11pm and I had to see her at 6:30am. She was already literally

:44:47. > :44:50.across the entire spectrum of things, all the detail, really

:44:51. > :44:56.impressive. That side of it, I think she will be fine with. The other big

:44:57. > :45:03.point to make is, Philip Hammond also has an encyclopaedia brain and

:45:04. > :45:09.is well-known for jumping on other people's briefs in cabinet meetings.

:45:10. > :45:13.Which may or may not be good. He is now in a rollback warrants it. He

:45:14. > :45:17.has an ability to get across a range of subjects.

:45:18. > :45:24.You think you are prepared for the pressures, but when you start it is

:45:25. > :45:28.different? She has got a big advantage, she has been Home

:45:29. > :45:34.Secretary for six years, which is a big job requiring tough decisions. I

:45:35. > :45:38.disagree a bit, if you come in after an election you are exhausted, but

:45:39. > :45:42.you come in with a popular mandate. If we compare with Tony Blair, he

:45:43. > :45:48.walked in with cheering crowds on either side. When Theresa May made

:45:49. > :45:51.her statement, you heard the echoes of the pro-European demonstration

:45:52. > :45:56.across the road. She is a Prime Minister without a mandate. If I had

:45:57. > :46:02.to choose between tired with a mandate and fresh without a mandate,

:46:03. > :46:08.I would choose the former. I want to ask about another subject, the

:46:09. > :46:12.Chilcott report. You are one of five MPs who has written to the Speaker

:46:13. > :46:16.asking for a Commons motion next week that would call for Tony Blair

:46:17. > :46:20.to be held to account for failings in the planning, operations and

:46:21. > :46:30.aftermath of the Iraq war. What you want to achieve? David Davis is one

:46:31. > :46:37.of the MPs, so there will be another selection of many prominent ones.

:46:38. > :46:41.The case was made yesterday, this is about whether Tony Blair misled

:46:42. > :46:46.Parliament over a period of 15 months. That is what content is

:46:47. > :46:53.about, misleading Parliament. The evidence is there, I think. In terms

:46:54. > :46:56.of parliamentary accountability, the one thing a parliament cannot do is

:46:57. > :47:00.stand for being misled by any minister, least of all the Prime

:47:01. > :47:04.Minister, on any subject, least of all a subject of peace or war.

:47:05. > :47:11.Parliament house to judge whether the evidence is there to suggest

:47:12. > :47:17.over a period of months Parliament in 2003 was misled, and if so, that

:47:18. > :47:21.person should be held in contempt. It is an essential part of

:47:22. > :47:25.parliamentary democracy. Explain what that means if you are held in

:47:26. > :47:29.contempt of Parliament. Parliament makes a decision on that, one of the

:47:30. > :47:35.committees would decide on the penalty. You can get hauled to the

:47:36. > :47:38.bar of the house, you could get the charge read against you, you could

:47:39. > :47:44.be prevented from holding public office ever again. This is about

:47:45. > :47:49.stressing that Prime Minister 's art elected with great power, but they

:47:50. > :47:57.must tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to

:47:58. > :48:02.Parliament. Let's go back to Norman at Downing Street, you have a bit

:48:03. > :48:07.more information on when the next layer of Cabinet positions will be

:48:08. > :48:13.announced? We are being told to hold our breath. We may not get the next

:48:14. > :48:18.announcement until the walled 11am. It is all quiet here at the moment.

:48:19. > :48:22.I suspect Theresa May is having to figure out a few bits and bobs. She

:48:23. > :48:28.has people who backed her during the campaign, prominent figures, Chris

:48:29. > :48:35.Grayling, Justine Greening. They will feel, hang on, we supported

:48:36. > :48:39.you, what is in it for us? They are hoping they might get a decent job.

:48:40. > :48:43.She has promised there will be a lot more women, and so far we just have

:48:44. > :48:48.Amber Rudd being put in as Home Secretary. She will have to look at

:48:49. > :48:52.what women she brings into the cabinet. A couple of things which

:48:53. > :48:56.are interesting, if you want to get a sense of how radical she is going

:48:57. > :49:02.to be, look at what she does in areas like health, education, work

:49:03. > :49:06.and pensions. Does she still have the appetite for public service

:49:07. > :49:13.reform, or does she think, I have got enough on my plate, we will park

:49:14. > :49:16.that? On a personal level, it is interesting to see what happens with

:49:17. > :49:24.Michael Gove. We have seen Boris Johnson brought back from the brink,

:49:25. > :49:28.now Foreign Secretary. Who would have believed that? So maybe Michael

:49:29. > :49:34.Gove could be kept in the Cabinet. I am thinking not, occurs Theresa May

:49:35. > :49:40.and Michael Gove had some fairly breezing confrontations in Cabinet.

:49:41. > :49:44.Perhaps she will be less kind towards him, and he need not hang

:49:45. > :49:50.around his phone. We will be back with you. We have

:49:51. > :49:54.some people here who notaries are made pretty well. -- who know

:49:55. > :49:57.Theresa May pretty well. Tough, diligent, competent,

:49:58. > :49:59.hard worker, not gossipy, some of the descriptions we've heard

:50:00. > :50:01.of Theresa May over But what's she really

:50:02. > :50:04.like behind closed doors? We can talk now to some

:50:05. > :50:06.of her closest friends and colleagues, Pat Frankland,

:50:07. > :50:10.who's known the new Prime Minister for more than 40 years,

:50:11. > :50:11.Cllr Philip Love, president of Maidenhead Conservative

:50:12. > :50:12.Association, her local constituency, Mr Love helped select Mrs May

:50:13. > :50:16.as their candidate as MP back in 1997, and Conservative MP

:50:17. > :50:17.Damian Green, who has known her since she was 18 and

:50:18. > :50:20.worked for her at the Home Office. It feels very weird! You help select

:50:21. > :50:44.her. 19 years ago! I knew her at the same time as Pat,

:50:45. > :50:48.we were contemporaries. Norman says we might have to wait until after it

:50:49. > :50:52.11am for various other appointments that she will make. You think it is

:50:53. > :50:58.to do with Chris Grayling, who has questions in the house at 10:30am. A

:50:59. > :51:04.prominent Leave campaigner, but a backer of Theresa May's campaign.

:51:05. > :51:10.Yes. Parliament never stops. We have had energy questions. I don't know

:51:11. > :51:15.who took them, it would have been Amber Rudd until last night. It is

:51:16. > :51:19.the leader of the house questions, which Chris Grayling has to do from

:51:20. > :51:25.10:30am. It would be surprising if he were not involved in some way in

:51:26. > :51:33.the reshuffle. My guess is that is why it is starting then. Surprising

:51:34. > :51:38.if he were not involved in the reshuffle. Quite a few people might

:51:39. > :51:43.have thought he would get the job that David Davis has got, the Brexit

:51:44. > :51:46.secretary, or the job that Liam Fox has got, international trade

:51:47. > :51:54.secretary. Are you surprised? I am not surprised. I agree Chris chaired

:51:55. > :51:59.the campaign and has been a successful minister in a number of

:52:00. > :52:03.posts. It is a good idea to bring David and Liam back into Government.

:52:04. > :52:07.People may have forgotten David was the Europe Minister for a long time

:52:08. > :52:13.under John Major, so he has done this to go shooting in the past.

:52:14. > :52:21.John Major described him as the keyword? Was he not? No, he was not

:52:22. > :52:25.in Cabinet then. Although he has always been a big Euro-sceptic, he

:52:26. > :52:29.was the whip that got the Maastricht vote through and he became Europe

:52:30. > :52:35.Minister Thomas Luthi is experienced. What will Chris

:52:36. > :52:44.Grayling get? I have no idea. What would make sense? A big job, but I

:52:45. > :52:48.don't know. Playing fantasy Cabinet, while the actual Cabinet is being

:52:49. > :52:54.appointed, is slightly futile. It is true that Theresa May was slightly

:52:55. > :52:59.irritated when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, because she

:53:00. > :53:04.had beaten her to it? Yes. When I first met her, for as long as I can

:53:05. > :53:10.remember, she wanted to be an MP and Prime Minister, and preferably the

:53:11. > :53:14.first woman by Minister. While we were at Oxford, I think Mrs Thatcher

:53:15. > :53:19.became leader of the Conservative Party, and it started to become

:53:20. > :53:26.clear that that particular aspect of being Prime Minister had gone. She

:53:27. > :53:31.was quite irritated. Also tell us what you got up to at University.

:53:32. > :53:36.Was it normal student life, a few lectures, loads of hangovers, being

:53:37. > :53:39.a bit tipsy? In those days, we did not have much money, so the

:53:40. > :53:47.hangovers were out of our expense bracket. Students have never had any

:53:48. > :53:57.money! My first hangover came after Oxford. My gosh! So sad! While! What

:53:58. > :53:59.did you get up to? We still went to parties, I just don't remember

:54:00. > :54:04.getting really drunk. Not having the money. My father would have put me

:54:05. > :54:11.off, I think, if I had done things like that. What do you recall of her

:54:12. > :54:15.student days? She probably led me into the Oxford union and the Oxford

:54:16. > :54:20.Conservative Party, because she wanted to be involved and she wanted

:54:21. > :54:28.her friends involved as well. She took me a long, she wanted company

:54:29. > :54:32.to hear Sir Keith Joseph speak, or people like that. We would go along

:54:33. > :54:37.to the union because she would be speaking, and our friends went along

:54:38. > :54:44.to support her. Really engaged in politics? Very engaged. When you

:54:45. > :54:57.first met her, what did you think of this woman? When the selection

:54:58. > :55:03.started to find an MP in Maidenhead, we had 300 CDs to look at, we got it

:55:04. > :55:07.down to 12. It was when it got down to the last six that I thought she

:55:08. > :55:12.stood out. There were some quite high profile people going for this

:55:13. > :55:16.potentially safe seat. But it was because not everybody may agree, but

:55:17. > :55:20.if you have been a councillor, you have knocked on doors, you have seen

:55:21. > :55:24.the residence, you get to know them, you know how important they are, and

:55:25. > :55:28.what has been impressive is that perforce he was Home Secretary, she

:55:29. > :55:33.would come out on Saturdays and knock on doors, and she still does.

:55:34. > :55:38.Residents cannot believe that with her portfolio and her workload how

:55:39. > :55:43.on earth she still finds the time to knock on doors on Saturdays. She

:55:44. > :55:48.still goes to any functions you ask her to. She is a superb constituency

:55:49. > :55:54.MP. What do you remember of her from University? I met her for two

:55:55. > :56:00.reasons, through the politics, the Oxford union and the Oxford

:56:01. > :56:06.Conservatives, and also because the lady who is now my wife was her

:56:07. > :56:12.tutorial partner, they both read geography. I met her early on. I had

:56:13. > :56:17.a slightly more dissolute life than Pat did, I remember the occasional

:56:18. > :56:25.hangover! I don't want people to think I am obsessed with that! She

:56:26. > :56:28.was part of the set, we did normal student things, we went to parties,

:56:29. > :56:34.we were involved in debates and things like that. The key to her is

:56:35. > :56:37.what you see is what you get. All of the adjectives you read out at the

:56:38. > :56:42.start, they are true now, they were true then, she is a good friend,

:56:43. > :56:49.completely reliable, honest, straightforward. She has always been

:56:50. > :56:53.like that. For somebody like you who is hoping to get a job in this new

:56:54. > :56:58.cabinet, you have known her for years, when you are waiting like

:56:59. > :57:04.this, what is that like? It is like waiting to hear for a piece of news.

:57:05. > :57:09.It is no different from politicians. Politicians are human beings as

:57:10. > :57:14.well. We were reminded of that when David Cameron came out with his

:57:15. > :57:19.children and wife. Exactly. This is a tense morning for a lot of people.

:57:20. > :57:24.There will be several hundred people checking their mobile phone has not

:57:25. > :57:29.run out of charge. In terms of what she said yesterday outside number

:57:30. > :57:35.ten, what the dude think, is a long-standing friend? It did not

:57:36. > :57:42.surprise me that she wanted to bring the country together. And that she

:57:43. > :57:46.was concerned for the normal person. She has always had a very kind

:57:47. > :57:59.aspect to her. She was brought up in a very Christian ethos. That would

:58:00. > :58:03.still be there. She is what she was. What did you think of what she said

:58:04. > :58:07.yesterday, the idea that she would work on the half of everybody,

:58:08. > :58:12.rather than the privileged few? I agree, that is what she firmly

:58:13. > :58:18.believes, she always has done, she has not changed over 19 years, that

:58:19. > :58:21.has always been her belief. When she said it is the Conservative and

:58:22. > :58:29.united party, that was very relevant. Good luck, hope you get a

:58:30. > :58:36.phone call! Thank you for your comments. This e-mail, Boris Johnson

:58:37. > :58:41.is a politician... He walks the walk right after he talked the talk. I am

:58:42. > :58:42.not sure what that means! We have Theresa May and Philip Hammond,

:58:43. > :58:53.where is Clarkson? It is lovely where you are, and in

:58:54. > :59:00.other parts of the country, lovely sunshine. This tells the story, and

:59:01. > :59:04.not of blue sky, not much cloud. We have seen one or two showers today,

:59:05. > :59:08.some of us will see some into the afternoon. After the sunny start,

:59:09. > :59:15.Fairweather cloud will develop, and it will spread. Wall-to-wall blue

:59:16. > :59:18.skies, sunny spells. Like trees, feeling pleasant in the sunshine.

:59:19. > :59:23.Through the afternoon, eastern England could see the odd shower.

:59:24. > :59:27.The vast majority will miss them, but there will be more clout than

:59:28. > :59:32.this morning. More clout, but it is Fairweather cloud. Just the odd

:59:33. > :59:39.shower. Beautiful for the cricket at Lord's. Across southern counties, we

:59:40. > :59:43.are still in the sunshine. Sunshine close to the coast, blue skies in

:59:44. > :59:48.the south-west and around the coastline of Wales and north-west

:59:49. > :59:52.England. Inland, sunny spells and a bit more Fairweather cloud. Sunny

:59:53. > :59:57.spells for Northern Ireland, a pleasant day ahead. A lot of

:59:58. > :00:02.sunshine for Scotland. The Fairweather cloud will produce the

:00:03. > :00:07.odd shower. For the golf, it should stay dry. We have seen pictures of

:00:08. > :00:10.it already, a beautiful start, a beautiful day, a light wind. This

:00:11. > :00:18.evening and overnight, the temperature will drop under the

:00:19. > :00:22.clear sky. The cloud is building in from the west. It heralds the

:00:23. > :00:27.arrival of a weather front bringing in some rain. Tomorrow it will

:00:28. > :00:31.slowly move east through the course of the day. The heaviest rain will

:00:32. > :00:36.be with hike across the health of Scotland, north-west England, Wales.

:00:37. > :00:41.Close to the coast in the south-west, low cloud, mystic and

:00:42. > :00:47.isn't -- misty conditions and drizzle. The highest temperatures in

:00:48. > :00:53.the south-east, but that will feel quite humid.

:00:54. > :01:00.Good morning, it is Thursday, welcome.

:01:01. > :01:04.Britain has a new Prime Minister - she's already set out her

:01:05. > :01:15.We will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few but

:01:16. > :01:21.for everyone of us. That will be the mission of the Government lead. --

:01:22. > :01:24.of the Government I lead. team of ministers -

:01:25. > :01:38.Boris Johnson's the new Boris is a court jester. Does David

:01:39. > :01:47.Davis worked for the court jester or does he have a separate department.

:01:48. > :01:51.The one thing that Boris is good at is communication. It is all change

:01:52. > :01:56.in Downing Street, with a big, bold, brash reshuffle, as Theresa May

:01:57. > :02:01.wield the axe and brings in the Brexit supporters.

:02:02. > :02:03.Later in the programme we'll hear from critics of Theresa May

:02:04. > :02:06.and we'll talk to impressionists who're now working out how

:02:07. > :02:24.The skies will darken and be mercilessly will consume us all. --

:02:25. > :02:28.the merciless sky will consume us all.

:02:29. > :02:30.Here's Annita with a summary of today's news.

:02:31. > :02:33.It's the first full day in the job for the new Prime

:02:34. > :02:37.Last night she began assembling her new Government, with big changes

:02:38. > :02:42.Boris Johnson takes his job, becoming the Foreign Secretary,

:02:43. > :02:44.Philip Hammond is Chancellor of the Exchequer, Amber Rudd

:02:45. > :02:47.becomes Home Secretary, while leading Leave campaigner

:02:48. > :02:49.David Davies becomes the Secretary of State in charge

:02:50. > :03:05.What are your priorities? We will decide those collectively. Will you

:03:06. > :03:08.prioritise access to the single market? Wait and see. Is Boris

:03:09. > :03:10.Johnson your boss? given the role of International

:03:11. > :03:14.Trade Secretary. He's also been

:03:15. > :03:22.speaking this morning. I think we have a wonderful future

:03:23. > :03:27.as a country. We have tremendous opportunities to increase our global

:03:28. > :03:28.profile, and we should be extraordinarily confident about the

:03:29. > :03:31.future. It could be good news for borrowers,

:03:32. > :03:34.bad news for savers. The Bank of England is expected

:03:35. > :03:37.to cut interest rates today for the first time since the height

:03:38. > :03:39.of the financial crisis. If the rate is dropped

:03:40. > :03:42.to 0.25% as expected, It's hoped that lower rates,

:03:43. > :03:46.which make it cheaper to borrow money, would encourage more spending

:03:47. > :03:48.to boost the economy That's a summary of the latest BBC

:03:49. > :03:54.News - more at 10.30. The 145th Open Championship has

:03:55. > :04:03.begun at Royal Troon this morning. A number of big names are now out

:04:04. > :04:07.on the course on what's a gloriously sunny morning

:04:08. > :04:10.on the coast in South Ayrshire. That has made for some

:04:11. > :04:13.low scoring thus far. World Number 37 Justin Thomas

:04:14. > :04:15.started his round with He's five under, alongside fellow

:04:16. > :04:24.American Patrick Reed, a shot ahead of a group including

:04:25. > :04:26.English amateur Scott Gregory. Scotland's Colin Montgomerie

:04:27. > :04:28.is playing his first Open since 2010, and started

:04:29. > :04:30.with a double bogie - he's since recovered

:04:31. > :04:33.somewhat, on 1 under par. You can follow all the action right

:04:34. > :04:36.now on BBC Radio 5live It's a big day for Nottinghamshire

:04:37. > :04:46.bowler Jake Ball as he makes his Test Debut for England in the first

:04:47. > :04:49.Test against Pakistan at Lord's. Test Match Special starts on 5live

:04:50. > :04:51.Sports Extra at 10.30. Captain Alastair Cook is tipping

:04:52. > :04:54.Ball to perform as he stands in for the influential

:04:55. > :05:12.James Anderson. He has the ability to get good

:05:13. > :05:18.players out on flat wickets. That is one of his cute skills. He puts the

:05:19. > :05:20.ball in good areas with good pace. I am looking forward to it.

:05:21. > :05:22.Britain's Chris Froome has thanked Tour de France organisers

:05:23. > :05:25.for putting riders' safety first, after they announced today's 12th

:05:26. > :05:27.Stage will finish six kilometres short of the Mont Ventoux summit

:05:28. > :05:31.because of hundred kilometre per hour winds.

:05:32. > :05:33.Froome extended his lead to 28 seconds after finishing second

:05:34. > :05:40.42-year-old Jo Pavey will compete in the 10 thousand metres

:05:41. > :05:43.at the Rio Olympics next month after being named

:05:44. > :05:47.In doing so, she'll become the first British track athlete

:05:48. > :05:53.Performance Director Neil Black said the decision was not

:05:54. > :06:05.She has been an inspiration to a lot of athletes and she did well at the

:06:06. > :06:09.Europeans. She proved she is a championship performer, and there is

:06:10. > :06:13.no stopping her. If you can get past age and you are confident, you can

:06:14. > :06:14.do great things. Congratulations to Jo.

:06:15. > :06:31.We really want to hear from you this morning, answering this question -

:06:32. > :06:36.what do you want from Theresa May? Get in touch in the usual ways. So

:06:37. > :06:39.far, a lot of comment about Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. Kate

:06:40. > :06:44.says, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. If you can make

:06:45. > :06:50.it so they send half the year in an airport, all the better. Liz says: I

:06:51. > :06:53.am so pleased he is Foreign Secretary. Now he can show everyone

:06:54. > :06:58.what a brilliant man he can be. I'm sure he won't let us down. I think

:06:59. > :07:02.the Prime Minister has made good choices for the Cabinet and I am as

:07:03. > :07:06.excited about the future. Jackie says she was a Labour voter who

:07:07. > :07:11.voted for Brexit. She says, I think Boris Johnson is a good appointment.

:07:12. > :07:16.He is a clever man who did a good job as Mayor of London. If he proves

:07:17. > :07:22.incompetent, then voice an opinion. What do the appointments tell us

:07:23. > :07:27.about the way that Theresa May will run the country? Norman is at

:07:28. > :07:31.Downing Street. Good morning. It was all action stations last

:07:32. > :07:36.night, but not much going on today. We saw some bloke walking up the

:07:37. > :07:40.street with a big basket of flowers, presumably for Mrs May, but who

:07:41. > :07:46.knows? It may be that someone in the press office has a birthday. There

:07:47. > :07:50.has been a lot of action, but not this morning. Let's go through some

:07:51. > :08:00.of the changes with our political pack of cards to see who has Trump

:08:01. > :08:13.'s and who is a joker. -- who has come out trompes. At Philip Hammond

:08:14. > :08:20.has the reputation of having got on top of the defence budget, which was

:08:21. > :08:25.dicey. He is known as Box Office Phil, but not because he is the most

:08:26. > :08:30.exciting man in the world. Amber Rudd is one of the big female

:08:31. > :08:36.promotions and gets the job of Home Secretary. Theresa May's old job.

:08:37. > :08:41.She is another Remain campaign. What do we know about her? She was

:08:42. > :08:48.consulted in the film Four Weddings And A Funeral, she was the

:08:49. > :08:51.aristocracy consultant, so she must come from a rather posh background,

:08:52. > :08:55.I would imagine. She has only been in Parliament for six years, so she

:08:56. > :09:00.has done well to go from being a backbencher to Home Secretary in six

:09:01. > :09:09.years. That is some promotion. She was ferocious in those TV debates

:09:10. > :09:14.before the referendum. She said Boris Johnson was the life and soul

:09:15. > :09:21.of the party but not the manual wanted to drive you home. Michael

:09:22. > :09:25.Fallon as Defence Secretary, here's another Remain supporter. He has had

:09:26. > :09:29.five or six Government jobs, the first one under Mrs that you're all

:09:30. > :09:40.those years ago. He is sometimes known and is -- known as Minister

:09:41. > :09:45.for the Today programme. He got banned from driving during the 1983

:09:46. > :09:51.election, which probably didn't help when he had to campaign. David Davis

:09:52. > :09:56.is brought into this new post as Brexit Minister. He was a long-time

:09:57. > :10:03.Brexit campaigner, but don't mess with him because he is an ex-SAS

:10:04. > :10:07.man. He used to be called DG of the SAS. Don't mess around, for goodness

:10:08. > :10:12.sake, because who knows what might happen if you did that. He is a late

:10:13. > :10:17.arrival in the Cabinet at 67. First time in the Cabinet, arriving quite

:10:18. > :10:22.late in his career, but good luck to him. He stood against David Cameron

:10:23. > :10:28.in 2005 for the leadership and obviously lost. Liam Fox, another

:10:29. > :10:32.Brexit supporter, brought in to the new post of international trade

:10:33. > :10:37.Secretary, so his job is to try to forge new trade deals around the

:10:38. > :10:41.world. He is actually a doctor, so if you are feeling peachy, called

:10:42. > :10:48.Doctor Fox and he might be able to help you out. He was one of the

:10:49. > :10:54.Government whips during the last Europe revolt, whose job it was to

:10:55. > :11:01.crack down on the rebels. How times change! He had to resign after a row

:11:02. > :11:06.blew up over his unofficial adviser, Adam Werribee, whom he took on trips

:11:07. > :11:12.with him. Last, a name that ice expect lots of people are talking

:11:13. > :11:16.about, Boris Johnson, who has catapulted in as Foreign Secretary.

:11:17. > :11:21.He was very much the face of the Brexit campaign. Boris Johnson has

:11:22. > :11:26.never held any Government job at all. He has never even been Minister

:11:27. > :11:31.for cleaning park benches on Sunday evenings. Zero experience of

:11:32. > :11:40.Government, though he was the Mayor of London a couple of times. Most

:11:41. > :11:44.people call him Boris. A lot of speculation about how people manage

:11:45. > :11:48.on the world stage, because already, he has a tendency not to show the

:11:49. > :11:55.most diplomacy and tact, shall we say. During the referendum campaign,

:11:56. > :12:03.he talked about President Obama's half Kenyan ancestry, compare B you

:12:04. > :12:09.to Hitler. The member the trip to Japan? I think he was taking part in

:12:10. > :12:13.a game of Street rugby, and Boris Johnson played rugby as a youngster,

:12:14. > :12:18.and he seemed to get a little carried away, as I recall, and

:12:19. > :12:23.started bashing over some of the rather young children whom he was

:12:24. > :12:28.meant to be playing against. That is no way to behave, Boris, really! Do

:12:29. > :12:32.you remember the other moment, a couple of years before that, I

:12:33. > :12:38.think, during the London Olympics? Who can forget? Boris on the zip

:12:39. > :12:43.wire of shame. An extraordinary moment. This is the man who will be

:12:44. > :12:47.our new Foreign Secretary. Brace yourself - anything could happen.

:12:48. > :12:51.Clearly, Mrs May had a few doubts about him when she was campaigning

:12:52. > :12:55.to be leader, she made that caustic observation when she was asked about

:12:56. > :13:00.Boris Johnson, and she had this to say about his negotiating skills

:13:01. > :13:04.when he tried to do a deal with the Germans to buy some water cannon.

:13:05. > :13:07.The last time he did a deal with the Germans, he came back with three

:13:08. > :13:19.nearly new water cannon. LAUGHTER

:13:20. > :13:23.. Ouch! There is a more serious side, how other countries will view

:13:24. > :13:24.him. This morning, we had some bruising remarks from the German

:13:25. > :13:28.Foreign Minister. TRANSLATION: It is bitter

:13:29. > :13:29.for Great Britain. People there are experiencing a rude

:13:30. > :13:32.awakening after irresponsible politicians first lured the country

:13:33. > :13:36.into Brexit to then, once the decision was made,

:13:37. > :13:42.bolt and take no responsibility. To be honest, I find

:13:43. > :13:47.this outrageous. But it's not just bitter

:13:48. > :14:04.for Great Britain, it's also bitter I should say, that was before Boris

:14:05. > :14:10.was promoted to Foreign Secretary. There might have to be a different,

:14:11. > :14:17.more diplomatic approach now. We wait and wait, and we're told we may

:14:18. > :14:21.have to wait until around 11am. We are looking out for a number of

:14:22. > :14:28.things today, one of them, to see whether Mrs May makes his commitment

:14:29. > :14:36.to have women in senior posts. Currently, there is only Amber Rudd.

:14:37. > :14:41.We will also look out for Michael Gove. Theresa May has reached out

:14:42. > :14:45.and brought Boris Johnson in, will she do the same for Michael Gove?

:14:46. > :14:49.The two of them had some fairly bruising encounters run the Cabinet

:14:50. > :14:53.table, so maybe no mercy for Michael Gove.

:14:54. > :14:58.Thank you, Norman. Let's get some reaction from Lord Tebbit, who had

:14:59. > :15:02.various top jobs in Margaret Thatcher's Government in the 1980s.

:15:03. > :15:06.Good morning to you. Is Theresa May Margaret Thatcher Mark to? I dug

:15:07. > :15:14.think so, but let me say, she was not my choice. All those whom I

:15:15. > :15:18.would have chosen either committed kamikaze attacks on each other or

:15:19. > :15:24.blew themselves up or something, so we have Mrs May. We have to look at

:15:25. > :15:30.that in as constructive a way as we can.

:15:31. > :15:39.I am of the old Conservative Party. I was active when we won three

:15:40. > :15:43.elections in a row when we polled nearly 40 million votes and we had a

:15:44. > :15:49.majority of over 100 in the House of Commons. -- 14 million. She thought

:15:50. > :15:56.it was the nasty party, I thought it was the successful party. Lazarus

:15:57. > :16:01.like, Boris Johnson is now Foreign Secretary, after many people thought

:16:02. > :16:06.his career was dead. After what happened a couple of weeks ago. Is

:16:07. > :16:10.he the right man? I would like to be a fly on the wall when he meets

:16:11. > :16:17.Vladimir Putin, it should be a laugh a minute. I know him very well, I

:16:18. > :16:22.like him. He is in a bully and character and a good communicator.

:16:23. > :16:26.We shall have to wait and seem ever he can do better managing our

:16:27. > :16:33.foreign affairs and managing the traffic along the embankment in

:16:34. > :16:39.London. What is your instinct? I don't want to go down that path. I

:16:40. > :16:47.will wait and see. Very diplomatic answer. I am not always diplomatic!

:16:48. > :16:52.That is why I am wondering, because you know him well, you don't want to

:16:53. > :16:55.knife him in the back. That's right, people that do that to him seemed to

:16:56. > :17:01.go down themselves, and I don't want to do that. Is there room for

:17:02. > :17:09.Michael Gove in the same cabinet as Boris Johnson? It is difficult,

:17:10. > :17:13.because Michael was disappointing. He is a man of considerable

:17:14. > :17:20.abilities, he is not user friendly, but he is very able. It would be

:17:21. > :17:28.difficult to sit them down side-by-side. That is a shame,

:17:29. > :17:31.because it is a waste of talent. In terms of the other appointments,

:17:32. > :17:37.Home Secretary, the former energy minister and the right, dominant on

:17:38. > :17:43.the Remain side. Philip Hammond as Chancellor. David Davis, a Europe

:17:44. > :17:50.Minister from years gone by, is now Brexit secretary. Liam Fox is now

:17:51. > :17:55.this minister for international trade. What do you think of those?

:17:56. > :18:06.David Davis is a good appointment. He is very able. A long track

:18:07. > :18:09.record. The great thing is whereas John Claude Yunker might think that

:18:10. > :18:13.the reason may was going to come to him and say, I don't like this

:18:14. > :18:19.policy, I am stuck with it, how can we get round it, he won't have any

:18:20. > :18:23.doubts about this one who is coming to him in the shape of David Davis.

:18:24. > :18:27.He knows where he is coming from. That will be helpful in getting

:18:28. > :18:33.things moving. What do you think that it is two prominent Leave

:18:34. > :18:40.campaigners in those roles? Is there some kind of self preservation for

:18:41. > :18:47.Theresa May? Because of it goes wrong, or compromises have to be

:18:48. > :18:54.made, she says, we have to leave campaigners in charge. She is in

:18:55. > :18:57.charge. The one thing that would India me to her would be if she can

:18:58. > :19:03.get back to proper Cabinet Government. We began to lose that in

:19:04. > :19:08.Tony Blair's day, sofa Government. We got it in the coalition, with the

:19:09. > :19:12.Liberal Democrats and the Chancellor and the Prime Minister sorting

:19:13. > :19:17.everything between the four of them and telling the Cabinet. We have not

:19:18. > :19:22.got back to the proper structure of using the Cabinet and Cabinet

:19:23. > :19:28.committees to sort out thoroughly what we are going to do before we

:19:29. > :19:34.chuck it out into the public domain. That would be a huge step forward.

:19:35. > :19:41.It would cause me to sing her praises. We will see. Back to

:19:42. > :19:48.Downing Street and Norman. We are hearing that Michael Gove has

:19:49. > :19:54.been sacked. George Osborne out, Michael Gove out. That tells us that

:19:55. > :20:00.Theresa May is dismantling the old camera network. George Osborne and

:20:01. > :20:04.Michael Gove were the right and left hand of David Cameron's Government,

:20:05. > :20:11.both of them are gone. The Notting Hill set, if you like, is being

:20:12. > :20:15.taken out. That is a part of what we have seen over the past 24 hours,

:20:16. > :20:19.Theresa May trying to send out a message that she is building an

:20:20. > :20:24.entirely new Government. It is a moment of change. It is not carry on

:20:25. > :20:30.David Cameron. She wants everybody to realise that this is a decisive

:20:31. > :20:34.moment, when there is a new Government, not a carry on Cameron

:20:35. > :20:41.Government. With regard to Michael Gove, both he and Theresa May have

:20:42. > :20:46.had some precious parcels in the past over how to counter Islamic

:20:47. > :20:50.extremism in Britain, and some of that spilled out into the papers and

:20:51. > :20:55.it all got very ugly, and Theresa May had to get rid of some advisers,

:20:56. > :20:59.who will probably be brought back in, I think I saw a couple of them

:21:00. > :21:08.going in. The topline is the old Cameron stole what's our one by one

:21:09. > :21:12.being axed. I wonder how Michael Gove reacted

:21:13. > :21:16.when he saw Boris Johnson appointed Foreign Secretary. There might have

:21:17. > :21:20.been a bit of him thinking, you can come back from the dead within two

:21:21. > :21:24.weeks, then I suppose with Mr Johnson around the table, you could

:21:25. > :21:28.not necessarily have Michael Gove as well.

:21:29. > :21:33.You hesitate to think what relations around the table would be like.

:21:34. > :21:36.Michael Gove would have to pull the knife out of Boris Johnson's back

:21:37. > :21:42.which he plunged there. It is really hard to see, if you are trying to

:21:43. > :21:49.build collective Cabinet Government, how that personal dynamic could

:21:50. > :21:53.possibly work. On a practical level, you have got to make some space

:21:54. > :21:57.around the table, people are going to have to go, because Theresa May

:21:58. > :22:02.wants to bring new people in, so you have to shunt some people out. There

:22:03. > :22:09.will be people who do not survive today. So far, only Michael Fallon

:22:10. > :22:13.has clung on to his current position as Defence Secretary. Everywhere

:22:14. > :22:19.else, it has all changed, so there will be more people whose services

:22:20. > :22:23.are dispensed with. The one thing that saved them, they don't have to

:22:24. > :22:28.do the walk of shame outside Downing Street, it is done on the blower

:22:29. > :22:32.now, they get into the privacy of their own home, without having to

:22:33. > :22:37.skulk back down Downing Street. There is not the public e-mail a

:22:38. > :22:39.shin, but brace yourselves, there will be more sackings, because

:22:40. > :22:42.Theresa May needs to create space around the table to bring in new

:22:43. > :22:48.blood. Mikey on Twitter says, Michael Gove

:22:49. > :22:54.has gone from being potential leader to being sacked from the Cabinet

:22:55. > :22:58.within a fortnight. Ian on Twitter, great news about Michael Gove being

:22:59. > :23:08.sacked, he was a vile little bleep who destroyed the education system.

:23:09. > :23:11.Some person says, interesting that the Prime Minister awards Boris

:23:12. > :23:17.Johnson the job as Foreign Secretary, especially after painting

:23:18. > :23:21.him as incompetent. One person says, backstabbing Michael Gove has been

:23:22. > :23:29.sacked. Keep those coming in. Use the hashtag, or you can text. Or you

:23:30. > :23:34.can send us an e-mail. Back to Norman for a second.

:23:35. > :23:40.We are hearing that Nicky Morgan may also not survive in the Cabinet.

:23:41. > :23:44.That would be interesting, because she was one of the prominent female

:23:45. > :23:50.members of the Cabinet, and we know that Theresa May wants more women in

:23:51. > :23:55.the Cabinet. But it looks as if she might have lost her position as

:23:56. > :24:02.Education Secretary. She was actually toying with running for the

:24:03. > :24:07.leadership. Like Michael Gove, figures who saw themselves as

:24:08. > :24:10.potentially being the future leaders, future prime ministers,

:24:11. > :24:15.have within the space of a week or so being banished to the

:24:16. > :24:20.backbenches. That underlines how brutal the system is, it is not just

:24:21. > :24:24.David Cameron who gets ousted in hours, but even people who have held

:24:25. > :24:27.significant posts, who have ambitions of leading the country,

:24:28. > :24:34.they can also be banished to the backbenches remarkably quickly.

:24:35. > :24:37.The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan sacked, the former Education

:24:38. > :24:39.Secretary Michael Gove sacked as Justice Secretary. More through the

:24:40. > :24:42.morning, as you would expect. Theresa May said on the steps

:24:43. > :24:45.of Downing Street last night that she wants to "help the millions

:24:46. > :24:49.who can just about manage, but worry Well, the cost of borrowing money

:24:50. > :24:55.could be cut later today. Mark Carney, the Governor

:24:56. > :24:57.of the Bank of England, will chair an important meeting

:24:58. > :24:59.of his key advisers who will vote whether to cut

:25:00. > :25:04.interest rates at midday. So what's happened to

:25:05. > :25:06.the economy since we voted And how big are the challenges

:25:07. > :25:11.facing Theresa May and her new In a moment we can speak

:25:12. > :25:18.about this with someone who's been on that committee,

:25:19. > :25:20.Marian Bell. But first we can have a look

:25:21. > :25:23.at what's happened to the economy since Brexit with Louise Cooper,

:25:24. > :25:29.a financial journalist. So first up, Louise, what's happened

:25:30. > :25:40.to the value of the pound? The pound has fallen, as everybody

:25:41. > :25:46.was predicting. Against the dollar it has fallen the most. It went from

:25:47. > :25:53.1.50 before the referendum vote came in, it fell to 1.27, it has rallied

:25:54. > :25:57.a bit, 1.30 two. The move against the euro has been substantially

:25:58. > :26:09.less. Our main trading partner is the Eurozone. In terms of before the

:26:10. > :26:15.vote, it was 1.25, 1.30. Now it is about 1.19. If you are going on

:26:16. > :26:21.holiday in Europe, you get less bang for your buck. Yes, but there are

:26:22. > :26:25.many less -- there are many reasons why the euro is not without its own

:26:26. > :26:27.problems. We don't have time to discuss that now! That would take

:26:28. > :26:29.some time! OK, so what about the Ftse 100,

:26:30. > :26:32.which gives a sense of how well the biggest 100 listed companies

:26:33. > :26:42.in the UK are doing? It plunged over 10% within two days.

:26:43. > :26:46.On the Friday and the Monday following the result. That it has

:26:47. > :26:52.rallied back to be higher than it was before the vote. It has rallied

:26:53. > :26:57.so hard, we are in what is classed as official bull market territory,

:26:58. > :27:05.it is up over 20% since its lows earlier in the year. Why does that

:27:06. > :27:09.matter? Most of our money, our pensions, our life insurance, is

:27:10. > :27:15.invested in it, it is a much bigger index than the FTSE 250. It is a

:27:16. > :27:20.better indicator of the economy, that is a much smaller index. Even

:27:21. > :27:24.that has rallied, to only be offered a bit since before the vote. The

:27:25. > :27:34.stock market is taking this in its stride. Every day at 7am we get UK

:27:35. > :27:39.plc update its investors on the state of trading. Almost without

:27:40. > :27:46.exception, the two messages we get from UK plc, uncertainty, too early

:27:47. > :27:49.to tell. In various ways, that is what UK plc is telling us in those

:27:50. > :27:52.statements every day at 7am. But there has been a slight

:27:53. > :27:54.improvement in the pound since Angela Leadsom pulled out

:27:55. > :27:56.of the Conservative leadership on Monday and we discovered

:27:57. > :28:12.Theresa May would be Prime Minister. There has been a Theresa May rally

:28:13. > :28:15.in July. Is that because the financial markets know and adore

:28:16. > :28:21.her? Possibly, that it is more that we have some certainty. It also

:28:22. > :28:26.means we do not have this nine week bitter infighting amongst the Tory

:28:27. > :28:30.leadership. It is certainty and time to get on with the job, rather than

:28:31. > :28:33.unpleasant mess for another two months.

:28:34. > :28:37.So there are winners and losers there, and all of the above will

:28:38. > :28:39.influence how the monetary-policy committee, that's Mark Carney

:28:40. > :28:54.and his eight advisers, will decide to vote on interest rates.

:28:55. > :29:01.You have been on the committee. The base rate is not .5%, it has been

:29:02. > :29:08.for years, what is the point of cutting it by 0.25%? Why you do

:29:09. > :29:13.that? As Mark Carney has said, they are worried about what Brexit means

:29:14. > :29:18.for growth. And in particular what it has done for uncertainty. We are

:29:19. > :29:23.hearing large companies putting investment plans on hold, consumer

:29:24. > :29:26.confidence has fallen, we begin to see at first data from the housing

:29:27. > :29:30.market. They told us in May when they had a detailed look at the

:29:31. > :29:36.economy that if we did not leave the EU, growth would rise, interest

:29:37. > :29:41.rates would rise to keep inflation low at 2%, and everything looked

:29:42. > :29:50.stable and hunky-dory, but they spoke about the downside risks from

:29:51. > :29:54.a Brexit vote. We have seen those. They are expecting a smaller economy

:29:55. > :30:00.as a result of Brexit. Still growth, but less growth? They are expecting

:30:01. > :30:05.a slower economy than they would otherwise have had. There is a risk

:30:06. > :30:10.in the short term of recession. That is what they will try to prevent.

:30:11. > :30:16.Longer term, the fall in sterling and the reduction in the UK

:30:17. > :30:19.economy's ability to produce would be inflationary and could result in

:30:20. > :30:22.higher interest rates further out. But in the near-term, there might be

:30:23. > :30:32.a cut. So if Marconi and his advisors cut

:30:33. > :30:37.it by 0.25% this lunchtime, does that mean he thinks there is a

:30:38. > :30:40.recession around the corner? They are not so much advisers, the

:30:41. > :30:47.committee. They have individual votes. Although Mr Carney has been

:30:48. > :30:54.clear in his comments that he thinks and easing policy -- that he things

:30:55. > :30:57.an easing policy might be appropriate, he can't carry that. He

:30:58. > :31:01.might well be talking on behalf of the other members, because they have

:31:02. > :31:07.done this contingency work, this analysis of what the risks might be

:31:08. > :31:17.of Brexit. So they might make a decision today quite easily,

:31:18. > :31:20.although in fact there the main time for making the decision would be

:31:21. > :31:26.next month. He has do have a majority of the nine members to get

:31:27. > :31:29.his cup. Thank you both very much. Back to Norman for a re-cap of the

:31:30. > :31:34.sackings in the next ten minutes or so.

:31:35. > :31:38.Michael Gove has been sacked. So, Theresa May has, in effect, taken at

:31:39. > :31:43.another of the key Cameron lieutenants last night. She sacked

:31:44. > :31:48.George Osborne last night. This morning she has sacked Michael Gove.

:31:49. > :31:52.The Notting Hill set is pretty much being dismantled by Mrs May. The

:31:53. > :31:59.indications are that Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, is also set

:32:00. > :32:03.to lose her job. More surprising, of course, because Mrs May had talked

:32:04. > :32:07.about promoting women into cabinet. Mrs Morgan as Education Secretary

:32:08. > :32:15.was one of the more prominent women in the Cabinet. But it does give Mrs

:32:16. > :32:21.May more room to bring in new faces, to appoint a new Justice Secretary

:32:22. > :32:27.and Education Secretary. Thank you very much. We are live

:32:28. > :32:31.from Westminster this morning. The weather has been very kind. It is

:32:32. > :32:35.quite hot, but that is fine. That is the least of anybody's worries.

:32:36. > :32:39.Margaret Thatcher hit people with her bag, John Major wore grey

:32:40. > :32:47.underpants over as trousers and eight peas, Tony Blair had eight to

:32:48. > :32:50.the grin and said look quite a lot. How will satirists and

:32:51. > :32:54.impressionists start to portray the new Prime Minister, Theresa May?

:32:55. > :32:55.Which mannerisms will they focus on? Here are some examples of previous

:32:56. > :33:11.prime ministers. Yaw I have to tell someone, I have a

:33:12. > :33:16.terrible secret. I know the herbs are out of alphabetical order. It is

:33:17. > :33:21.worse. The day I became leader, I had my portrait painter, but the

:33:22. > :33:32.Porter has a life of its own. First, my blue tie became a red tie. Yes,

:33:33. > :33:36.and? As I become more and more electable, the picture becomes more

:33:37. > :33:43.and more left wing. It is just a tiny. When I came in yesterday, it

:33:44. > :33:50.was consulting a trade union leader over a pint of bitter. Better! I

:33:51. > :33:57.heard the portrait's voice criticising Margaret Thatcher

:33:58. > :34:00.openly. Oh, Tony! What if it gets a seat on the NEC? What if John

:34:01. > :34:13.Humphrys interviews it? It is the past I can't escape. Is anyone not

:34:14. > :34:32.unanimous? It... We... We're slightly... What is the opposite of

:34:33. > :34:42.unanimous? Tell him. Animus? I can't wait till our exciting new leader

:34:43. > :34:51.gets here. He oozes charisma. He is not insignificant. Yes, I'm here. He

:34:52. > :34:57.stands out from the crowd. Who is that boring bloke with the glasses?

:34:58. > :35:03.It's me, your exciting new Prime Minister, with lots of totally new

:35:04. > :35:11.policies. Look. Hang on... That Margaret's handbag. No, I have my

:35:12. > :35:15.own handbag. Theresa it's OK, everyone, I'm back and the election

:35:16. > :35:20.can go ahead. I am here with Theresa May. Why should people but

:35:21. > :35:28.Conservative? Because if Labour form a pact with the SNP, it will be a

:35:29. > :35:38.constitutional crisis! Aren't exaggerating? The merciless fire

:35:39. > :35:47.will consume us all. What do you say to people who are accusing your

:35:48. > :35:52.child the scaremongering? Blue! Bite-mac John Culshaw, you have been

:35:53. > :36:01.trying to perfect Jeremy Corbyn. Let's talk to Jan one. There is

:36:02. > :36:06.quite a bit it... Of footage out there, but not loads. She has been

:36:07. > :36:12.quite elusive over the last few years. I used to get frustrated. I

:36:13. > :36:17.was saying courageous, let's do Theresa May, but she never appeared,

:36:18. > :36:21.even as Home Secretary. She used to send James Brogan Shah right to make

:36:22. > :36:26.a statement. You can't get a lot of Theresa May from. You are making

:36:27. > :36:30.your mouth tends. the mouth is very tense, even when she's miles? It is

:36:31. > :36:38.as if she really struggles to get it anywhere further than that. She is

:36:39. > :36:42.very precise, and generally, very held. Her shoulders are high, her

:36:43. > :36:55.head is likely on one side, slightly thrust forward. She is cooking.

:36:56. > :36:58.John, when you study someone like Jeremy Corbyn, who has been on the

:36:59. > :37:02.scene for years but now has a prominent role, are you watching him

:37:03. > :37:07.on TV, listening without looking? How do you get his voice? A mixture

:37:08. > :37:12.of all of those things. You watch a clip over and over, and see which

:37:13. > :37:17.characteristics leap out. He reminds me of my old woodwork teacher in the

:37:18. > :37:24.1980s, who was slightly... Hesitant. A little bit... Petulant. The temple

:37:25. > :37:30.levels would rise during a speech until they reached a tantrum at the

:37:31. > :37:34.end. There is an unpredictability and petulance, which is interesting

:37:35. > :37:39.to play with. You have also noticed that while he is speaking, he is

:37:40. > :37:44.rather impatient, as though he needs to get off. Let's pause there. We're

:37:45. > :37:48.going back to Norman. We are getting more sackings now,

:37:49. > :37:52.learning that John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, is gone. There is

:37:53. > :38:01.a hat-trick of people who have been booted out this morning. Now, John

:38:02. > :38:06.Whittingdale. They are all gone. Mrs May is clearing out vast chunks of

:38:07. > :38:11.the Cabinet, which gives her run to bring in her own people, to promote

:38:12. > :38:16.more women into those sort of position. Interesting, too, because

:38:17. > :38:21.Boris Johnson was given that use promotion. Other Brexit supporters,

:38:22. > :38:29.Mr Whittingdale one of them who wanted to get out of the EU, are not

:38:30. > :38:35.protected. Michael Gove is gone. The pace is now picking up. Mrs May's

:38:36. > :38:40.got a bit of leeway in her Cabinet now to bring in some new people. I

:38:41. > :38:44.think that's what we are expecting, particularly, of course, because she

:38:45. > :38:48.has flagged up that she wants to promote more women. She is not

:38:49. > :38:51.committed to a 50-50 split, but she wants a recognised of women in the

:38:52. > :38:57.Cabinet. That is probably good news for you,

:38:58. > :39:02.Jan. Less good news for you, John. You like Nicky Morgan is gone. She

:39:03. > :39:14.will be even more shocked than before! -- Nicky Morgan is gone. She

:39:15. > :39:27.will be even more shocked than before. Bite-mac John, Michael Gove.

:39:28. > :39:34.He will be missed in that slightly sense. Did you ever do John

:39:35. > :39:38.Whittingdale? He never rose to the surface enough. You were telling us

:39:39. > :39:44.about Jeremy Corbyn and his sort of impatience. He is usually looking

:39:45. > :39:50.over his glasses, Andy petulance rises as the conversation goes on.

:39:51. > :39:54.He is perhaps deluded about what is surrounding him and going on his

:39:55. > :40:02.tractor. That is interesting to play with. In terms of satire, where are

:40:03. > :40:06.we in Britain in 2016? Well, the good news is, we no longer have to

:40:07. > :40:11.worry about whether there will be enough female characters in the

:40:12. > :40:15.show. I have been doing topical comedy since 1981, and we have

:40:16. > :40:23.always said, can't we have more women? So, it is great. It is great

:40:24. > :40:29.that women can have the confidence to take the Mickey out of themselves

:40:30. > :40:34.and to find different nuances in all the female characters. Yes, it will

:40:35. > :40:39.be great fun. Amber Rudd is the new Home Secretary. You need to start

:40:40. > :40:45.studying her. I had a little look at Amber Rudd this morning. She's quite

:40:46. > :40:49.emphatic. Purposeful. Yellow might very purposeful, and I think she

:40:50. > :40:55.will be a very purposeful Home Secretary for to reasonable. I

:40:56. > :41:02.wonder if we could do a mock-up of PMQs with Jeremy Corbyn and new

:41:03. > :41:08.Prime Minister Theresa May. Well, would the Right Honourable gentleman

:41:09. > :41:12.agree with me is that whereas the Tory party leadership contest is a

:41:13. > :41:21.ruthless machine, the Labour Party leadership contest is more like Game

:41:22. > :41:28.Of Thrones reimagined as a title might fasts as Mike I would just

:41:29. > :41:31.said that I have prepared for myself a question from Gloria from

:41:32. > :41:38.Huddersfield, who asks, why can you not find your own questions? Thank

:41:39. > :41:44.you, both of you. And happy studying! Back to Norman in Downing

:41:45. > :41:48.Street. This reshuffle is turning out to be

:41:49. > :41:55.much more brutal, I think, than anyone had predicted. Mr Cameron's

:41:56. > :41:58.reshuffles were a little nip and tuck era now, but Theresa May is

:41:59. > :42:09.carving her way through the Cabinet, wholesale changes. Only Michael

:42:10. > :42:14.Fallon, the Defence Secretary, has clung onto his job. Everything else

:42:15. > :42:19.has changed. Three sackings this morning - Michael Gove, who loses

:42:20. > :42:24.the position of Justice Secretary, Nicky Morgan, also dismissed, no

:42:25. > :42:28.longer the Education Secretary. And John Whittingdale, no longer Culture

:42:29. > :42:34.Secretary. They are all cleared out of the way. So, there is space now

:42:35. > :42:38.for Mrs May to bring in more of her own people. I wonder if that is what

:42:39. > :42:42.we will now see. The only action we have seen in the street this morning

:42:43. > :42:48.was someone bringing up a large basket of flowers. I doubt very much

:42:49. > :42:53.that that was from Mr Gove! We should begin to get the promotions

:42:54. > :42:59.of people who are being promoted by Mrs May. The other thing I think is

:43:00. > :43:06.striking, because the way that Mrs May has dismantled the Notting Hill

:43:07. > :43:10.set - Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, the intellectual

:43:11. > :43:14.underpinning of the Tory modernisation agenda, cast back to

:43:15. > :43:19.the backbenches. No longer in power. They have just been taken apart. And

:43:20. > :43:25.that, in part, I think, is because Mrs May wants this reshuffle to be a

:43:26. > :43:30.decisive moment, a moment of change. And my goodness, it is turning out

:43:31. > :43:34.to be that come up with this extraordinarily sweeping and radical

:43:35. > :43:40.reshuffle. Thank you, again. More messages from

:43:41. > :43:44.you. This one says, Boris Johnson did a great job as Mayor. A great

:43:45. > :43:49.sense of humour, charisma, and the fact that he speaks various

:43:50. > :43:54.languages. He will be a perfect Foreign Secretary and Theresa May

:43:55. > :43:58.has made a wide choice. Another, give Boris Johnson a break. Another,

:43:59. > :44:03.everyone is slapping Boris Johnson off as useless. He was twice Mayor

:44:04. > :44:11.of London, he won Brexit, and he is better than the new Prime Minister.

:44:12. > :44:15.In the last week, we have got to know quite a few things about the

:44:16. > :44:18.new PM Theresa May. There has been a pheromone of praise for her record

:44:19. > :44:26.as Home Secretary, but that is not the Holst Ory. Together, we will

:44:27. > :44:31.build a better Britain. I believe to reasonable provide strong and stable

:44:32. > :44:33.leadership. I wish Theresa May the very greatest success. I think he

:44:34. > :44:44.has played it cannily. The new Prime Minister

:44:45. > :44:45.has had her critics. In 2013, she copped a fair bit

:44:46. > :44:48.of flak over a Home Office campaign to reduce the number

:44:49. > :44:50.of illegal immigrants. The plan, a van telling

:44:51. > :44:54.them to go home. I think politicians should be

:44:55. > :44:59.willing to step up to the plate and say when they think something has

:45:00. > :45:02.not been as good an idea. The advertising

:45:03. > :45:04.standards authority said claims made on the vans

:45:05. > :45:09.were misleading. Critics called them

:45:10. > :45:16.racist and stupid. Theresa May's coming

:45:17. > :45:17.to Scotland tomorrow. Can we not Crowd Source

:45:18. > :45:20.a Go Home van? And when it came to carrying out

:45:21. > :45:23.the Government's promise of cutting the numbers of people

:45:24. > :45:25.coming into the country... It is of course unlikely that we're

:45:26. > :45:27.going to reach tens of thousands She voted against the repeal

:45:28. > :45:34.of section 28, the law that banned schools from promoting

:45:35. > :45:35.homosexuality, although more recently she was in favour

:45:36. > :45:39.of same-sex marriage. What about her relationship

:45:40. > :45:42.with the police? In 2014 as Home Secretary,

:45:43. > :45:46.she tore into the Police Federation, Tough talking or just

:45:47. > :45:52.plain threatening? You must not be under the impression

:45:53. > :45:55.that the Government will let The way that police officers

:45:56. > :46:00.were completely denigrated Then there's human rights

:46:01. > :46:09.and civil liberties. She's been under fire for devising

:46:10. > :46:12.the so-called snooper's charter. The Investigatory Powers Bill

:46:13. > :46:15.would force communications companies to hold personal data for spies

:46:16. > :46:22.to access if needs be. The woman who wants to deport EU

:46:23. > :46:24.citizens and scrap Her belief that human-rights laws

:46:25. > :46:33.limit the powers of Government led to perhaps her most

:46:34. > :46:35.famous blunder in 2011. The illegal immigrant who cannot

:46:36. > :46:37.be deported because, and I am not making this up,

:46:38. > :46:46.he had a pet cat. Turns out the cat had nothing

:46:47. > :46:49.to do with why the man Over the last 72 hours there have

:46:50. > :47:00.been an awful lot of gushing tributes to Theresa May -

:47:01. > :47:03.for the next few minutes we thought it might be interesting to hear

:47:04. > :47:06.from some of those who are more critical of her and her

:47:07. > :47:08.time as Home Secretary. Let's talk now to Aderonke Apata,

:47:09. > :47:11.who has been an asylum seeker since 2004 and still has not

:47:12. > :47:14.received a decision by the Home Paul West, the most recently retired

:47:15. > :47:18.National Chair of the Chief Police Officers' Staff Association,

:47:19. > :47:19.and Jonathan Foreman, a journalist who's been looking

:47:20. > :47:29.at her record as Home Secretary. In terms of leadership of the

:47:30. > :47:34.police, what were your concerns? In terms of her as a future Prime

:47:35. > :47:38.Minister, I am very supportive. I think she was the best and strongest

:47:39. > :47:42.of the candidate. But in terms of her approach in the Home Office, it

:47:43. > :47:47.was quite confrontational from the start at all levels, she was

:47:48. > :47:52.critical of the quality of police leadership, and the grassroots in

:47:53. > :47:54.terms of the Police Federation. A lot of sweeping generalisations

:47:55. > :48:00.about corruption being endemic, which is not my experience of more

:48:01. > :48:04.than 30 years. It was the general is which meant that hundreds of

:48:05. > :48:08.thousands of officers up and down the country felt slighted that their

:48:09. > :48:13.work was being almost disregarded. In almost every speech I have heard

:48:14. > :48:18.her make, she says the vast majority of police officers are hard-working

:48:19. > :48:24.and decent. That has come to the fore over time, but her initial

:48:25. > :48:31.approach... In the White Paper published shortly after the 2010

:48:32. > :48:36.election, the punch line was the police service had become out of

:48:37. > :48:39.touch with the communities it had served, which was not a good start

:48:40. > :48:47.to the relationship. In terms of her record as Home Secretary, her record

:48:48. > :48:51.means you don't think she is fit to be Prime Minister? Among the

:48:52. > :48:57.candidates we ended up with, she may be the best, there are troubling

:48:58. > :49:00.things, she is authoritarian, intolerant of criticism, she does

:49:01. > :49:07.not work with people who have more experience than her, that is why the

:49:08. > :49:12.former spy chief left after a year. It is hard to find negative articles

:49:13. > :49:16.about her because she and her staff spend so much time making sure they

:49:17. > :49:22.did not appear. That is maybe OK as a Home Secretary... She had a busy

:49:23. > :49:25.brief, she spent time making sure negative articles did not appear?

:49:26. > :49:31.Articles were taken down after pressure from her office. You did

:49:32. > :49:38.not have to succumb to the pressure. No, but she was more worried about

:49:39. > :49:44.herself and her image than doing a good job. That is why you end up

:49:45. > :49:47.with strange politically correct stuff,... It is healthy to be

:49:48. > :49:52.criticised. It will be interesting to see how she does when she faces

:49:53. > :49:58.questioning, because she has avoided it in the past, it is hard to see

:49:59. > :50:02.how being confronted over problems with the Home Office, like Afghan

:50:03. > :50:08.interpreter is not being allowed in, the stipa's Charter, I whole lot of

:50:09. > :50:13.different stuff, not enough boats patrolling the coast, there is a lot

:50:14. > :50:17.of stuff that is troubling. She is very able and a good negotiator to

:50:18. > :50:22.beginning with Europe, and she is intimidating, and that is good, but

:50:23. > :50:26.she is not collegiate, and it is dangerous for a politician to be too

:50:27. > :50:33.worried about their image and reputation. The list you have given

:50:34. > :50:38.us is almost the exact opposite of what almost everybody has said in

:50:39. > :50:42.the last few days, bearing in mind people want a job from her, so that

:50:43. > :50:45.will influence the way they speak about her in public, but the ideas

:50:46. > :50:52.she is worried about her image? Absolutely. She was no Tories at the

:50:53. > :50:57.Home Office for making sure... When she had the big immigration failure

:50:58. > :51:00.and did not bring it down, her name was not even mentioned, it is always

:51:01. > :51:06.the junior ministers who took the blame. There is a style of

:51:07. > :51:11.leadership way you'd's where you pass blame down and take credit. She

:51:12. > :51:18.has been the opposite of not caring about who claims credit. But that

:51:19. > :51:24.ring true to you? He is being harsh. He has studied lots of things in a

:51:25. > :51:27.lot more detail. I think she warmed to the brief as Home Secretary, she

:51:28. > :51:32.will make a good Prime Minister, but it is not a good approach to set out

:51:33. > :51:35.in a confrontational way and alienate the police service, which

:51:36. > :51:39.is what she did, and it has taken years for the relationship to be

:51:40. > :51:43.mended. It would be good to think that the new Home Secretary will

:51:44. > :51:47.adapt a more partnership approach. She did some good things, some of

:51:48. > :51:52.the changes in terms of direct entry and paying conditions were good, and

:51:53. > :51:54.a required courage. I would have liked to have seen more good work on

:51:55. > :51:59.getting police back on the street and other things. She may be

:52:00. > :52:05.different as Prime Minister from Home Secretary, but a lot of stuff

:52:06. > :52:11.that people have said about her time there is just people trying to get

:52:12. > :52:16.jobs. Let's go back to Norman. That may read a couple of messages from

:52:17. > :52:19.viewers. Stephen says, fantastic that Michael Gove has been potted,

:52:20. > :52:25.he will have more time to polish his knives. Mike says, I love that

:52:26. > :52:30.Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan will be banished to the backbenches. One

:52:31. > :52:37.person says, we need to hear that Jeremy Hunt is sacked as Health

:52:38. > :52:42.Secretary as well. It has been an extraordinary morning. We have all

:52:43. > :52:47.heard of the night of the long knives, I will call this the morning

:52:48. > :52:51.of the butcher's lever. Theresa May has been hacking her way through

:52:52. > :52:59.this cabinet. Three posts this morning gone. George Osborne sacked

:53:00. > :53:05.last night, and as we know, Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan and John

:53:06. > :53:10.Whittingdale all out. A massive amount of change, but there is a

:53:11. > :53:15.purpose. To signal a clear moment of change and a break with the David

:53:16. > :53:19.Cameron years. Look at the driving political forces behind the past six

:53:20. > :53:27.years. David Cameron, George Osborne, Michael Gove, all banished

:53:28. > :53:29.to the backbenches. Theresa May clearly wants to signal a

:53:30. > :53:33.fundamental change with what is turning into one of the biggest

:53:34. > :53:40.reshuffles we have seen in many, many years.

:53:41. > :53:47.I asked this morning, what do you want from our new Prime Minister?

:53:48. > :53:52.Welcome. What do you want from Theresa May? I want to see us out of

:53:53. > :54:01.the single market. This is what we voted for. If she can do it, great.

:54:02. > :54:06.I am glad to see David Davis and Liam Fox and restaurants and are

:54:07. > :54:13.involved. It could be good. What about you? I want some honesty from

:54:14. > :54:23.her. This is the woman who voted for the Iraq war, against making bounds

:54:24. > :54:32.and the EU referendum. You have not heard speeches -- honesty in her

:54:33. > :54:35.speeches? Philip Hammond was going to and fro, he said there would be

:54:36. > :54:41.an emergency budget, then he said there would not be. Some

:54:42. > :54:47.transparency is what we need now. What do you want from Theresa May? I

:54:48. > :54:54.would wish to see more positive information, news, concerning the

:54:55. > :55:00.current situation of the country. Brexit is good, she said Brexit is

:55:01. > :55:09.Brexit, I wish that she would tell us some more positive outlook for

:55:10. > :55:11.Britain. I am excited she is bringing in Leave campaigners to do

:55:12. > :55:21.this for the country, it is commendable. Thank you.

:55:22. > :55:31.I have two Conservative MPs with me. You have been since 2015. I cannot

:55:32. > :55:36.read this writing, I'm sorry! A couple of voters and viewers, two

:55:37. > :55:41.them really excited that so many Leave campaigners have got top jobs.

:55:42. > :55:46.The early appointments show that the new Prime Minister, still getting

:55:47. > :55:50.used to that, is looking to have a balanced cabinet. We have people

:55:51. > :55:52.from the Brexit side of the argument, but she campaigned to

:55:53. > :55:59.remain, as did Philip Hammond. We will see the whole argument starting

:56:00. > :56:04.to diminish in importance as we see the rest of the appointments come

:56:05. > :56:08.out. What about the sackings? Nicky Morgan, Michael Gove, John

:56:09. > :56:13.Whittingdale. It was important that Theresa May brought new energy and

:56:14. > :56:17.enthusiasm to the Cabinet and put her stamp on it. It is a coalition

:56:18. > :56:21.cabinet, she has done what she said she would do, uniting the party, she

:56:22. > :56:27.will unite the country. The left-wing of the right wing post on

:56:28. > :56:31.it is a progressive cabinet. Very progressive cabinet? David Davis,

:56:32. > :56:37.Liam Fox? Philip Hammond? Traditionally, a Cabinet is one wing

:56:38. > :56:42.of the party, this is a coalition, in the national interest, David

:56:43. > :56:47.Cameron did before. It is about uniting the country and achieving

:56:48. > :56:50.Brexit. These are the people that campaigned on it, they are best

:56:51. > :56:56.placed to go out there positively to achieve it. Quite a few voters on

:56:57. > :57:01.social media sites Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary is a joke. They

:57:02. > :57:06.are wrong. I have worked with him for ten years, and in that time I

:57:07. > :57:12.saw him going all across the world, being an advocate for London, and

:57:13. > :57:18.therefore the UK. Lord Tebbit said, can you imagine him in a meeting

:57:19. > :57:25.with Vladimir Putin? Yes, I have seen him in meetings with very

:57:26. > :57:29.senior people. Like who? He was in China, in the lead up to the Beijing

:57:30. > :57:35.Olympics. He hosted a number of international dignitaries during the

:57:36. > :57:40.UK Olympics and Paralympics, he went over to Rio de Janeiro. He is

:57:41. > :57:44.comfortable and experienced at dealing with serious international

:57:45. > :57:48.players is he played a formidable role as London mayor, and it is

:57:49. > :57:52.important to remember his key characteristics are as easy as,

:57:53. > :57:57.energy, positivity. That is what we need at this moment, and that is why

:57:58. > :58:02.Theresa May appointed him. What a political comeback. Thank you.

:58:03. > :58:11.But you for your messages, they shaped our conversation.