14/07/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

We will make Britain a country for the many not

for the privileged few - that's the mission of

This morning, we're at Westminster where, after walking into 10

Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister yesterday,

Theresa May is now beginning her first full day in office.

One of her first jobs has been to appoint her senior team

of government ministers, her new cabinet, and there's

an unexpected job for Boris Johnson, one of the key leave architects,

This is what our new Prime Minister said about him just two weeks ago.

The last time he did a deal with the Germans, he came back with three

nearly new water cannon. LAUGHTER

It is all change in Downing Street, with a big, bold, brash reshuffle as

Theresa May wield the axe and brings in the Brexit supporters. And what

is going on with Labour? Here is the last primaries are's verdict. They

have had resignation and Coronation - they haven't even decided what the

rules are yet. We will speak to an Jalil, one of the Labour MPs who

wants to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn and be the new leader.

We are live at Westminster. It is beautifully sunny, a glorious

morning. Maybe it is a good omen for the new Prime Minister, Theresa May.

We will bring you any developments that come this morning. We also want

to hear from you, wherever you are in the country. What do you want

from the new Prime Minister? Do let us know. I would like to talk to you

through the programme today, so put "Call" is in your message if you

want to speak to us on the programme.

Here's Annita with a summary of the day's news.

It's the first full day in the job for the new Prime

Last night, she began assembling her new Government with

Philip Hammond is made Chancellor of the Exchequer.

While leading Leave campaigner Boris Johnson takes his job,

David Davies becomes the Secretary of State in charge of leaving

We're expecting more roles to be announced this morning.

We'll keep you across any developments.

Here's our Political Correspondent Ben Wright's latest report.

And now to work, after the tumultuous political drama that

brought her to Downing Street, Theresa May is building

After filling the top Cabinet jobs yesterday,

On entering Number Ten, she said her administration

would not be driven by the interests of the privileged

few, and would govern for the whole nation.

We believe in the union, the precious, precious bond

between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

But it means something else that is just as important.

It means we believe in the union not just between the nations of the UK,

but between all of our citizens, all of us,

whoever we are and wherever we are from.

One question is how that rhetoric will

Today, new Secretaries of State for Health,

Education and Work and Pensions will be

One of the big surprises was the promotion of Boris Johnson

Clearly now we have a massive opportunity in this

country to make a great success of a new relationship with Europe

and the world, and I am very excited to be

Of course, Mr Johnson was a prominent

campaigner for Britain to leave the EU, unlike Theresa May,

But she now has to deliver on the referendum result

and has given big jobs to Brexit backers, including David Davis,

who will oversee negotiations with the EU.

Theresa May has experience negotiating with Brussels,

taking Britain out of the EU will be a massive task and at the moment

Last night she spoke on the phone to the EU's

The president of France and the Chancellor of Germany.

She said she would need some time for her government

House prices in Britain are expected to fall over the next few months,

following the decision to leave the European Union.

That's according to the Royal Institution

It also says that the number of properties being put up for sale

is falling at the sharpest rate since records began.

It could be good news for borrowers, bad news for savers.

The Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates today -

for the first time since the height of the financial crisis.

If the rate is halved to 0.25 percent as expected,

It's hoped that lower rates, which make it cheaper to borrow

money, would encourage more spending to boost the economy

A collection of Bronze Age household goods found in Cambridge is helping

historians. It dates back to around 1000 BC. The find include axis,

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

Good morning, these are the main headlines in sport.

And there's a busy few days ahead, with the 145th Open Championship

Sheffield's Danny Willett is out on the course shortly

to begin his first round, hoping to add to his victory

I am really looking forward to going up there and actually playing it

now. I want to see how the golf game is getting on, and I will get ready

for what could be another great major championship. The Claret jug

would go nicely with the green jacket.

Nottinghamshire's Jake Ball will make his Test Debut for England

as they take on Pakistan in the first Test at Lord's.

He replaces fellow bowler James Anderson, who's not yet fully

Tour De France leader Chris Froome has thanked organisers for putting

riders' safety first after they cut short today's 12th Stage

to Mont Ventoux by six kilometres because of high winds.

And 42-year-old Jo Pavey will compete in the 10,000 metres

In doing so she'll become the first British track athlete

We are just outside the Houses of Parliament, where Theresa May, the

new Prime Minister, is beginning her first full day in that surely almost

impossible job. That anyone really have the skills to do that job

effectively? We will discuss that today, amongst other things. We

expect her to announce more of her top team, more members of the new

cabinet. We will bring you all the details as soon as we get those

announcements. While the Conservatives have a new leader,

Labour is still in crisis, with MPs trying to unseat Jeremy Corbyn.

We'll hear from Angela Eagle, one of those MPs who wants to be

leader in just a moment, but first, this.

I don't think Jeremy is in a position to provide

# The hills are alive with the sound of mus...

I don't think Jeremy is in a position to provide

the leadership that we need to be able to offer.

For all of his qualities, I don't believe that leader is Jeremy.

I feel I've served in the best way I can and today I had to go.

I'm putting a motion to the Parliamentary Labour Party

which, if it is passed, is a motion of no-confidence

in Jeremy Corbyn and will be asking him to consider his position

I have come to the conclusion very reluctantly that Jeremy Corbyn's

This is a time of acute national crisis.

People from all wings of the party in parliament have lost

Jeremy Corbyn is made of stronger stuff.

He's a man of steel and he's made it clear that he will not step down.

Let me read, it'll only take a second.

Any nomination must be supported by 20% of the combined Commons

members of the Parliamentary Labour Party and members

of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

Nominations not attaining this threshold shall be null and void.

Now, I'm not a Blairite, I'm not a Brownite and

Jeremy is a good man with great Labour values.

He's been a loyal servant of our party, he's done a good job

in some respects but he is not a man who can lead us into the next

Can we avoid the disaster we are heading to and the talk

Don't let those people who wish us ill divide us.

Stay together, strong and united, for the kind of world

Labour MP Angela Eagle, who has launched a leadership bid

to challenge Jeremy Corbyn is with us now.

Good morning. Thanks for coming on the programme. First, another female

Conservative Prime Minister - it is 2-0 to the Tories, isn't it? Labour

Party pioneered equality legislation, so I think it is the

right time to have a directly elected woman bleeding. That is one

of your pitches for the job, being a woman. I want to show the audience

your reaction last night when you heard the news that Boris Johnson

had been appointed Foreign Secretary. Let's look. You'll might

Boris is fun, great, bouncing around. They never actually put

him... They just made him Foreign Secretary?

LAUGHTER No! Shocked and bewildered, would

they be the right adjectives? This is a man who came to Liverpool,

repeated lies about the Hillsborough families, insulted the city and the

region of Merseyside and was forced to make an apology by Michael

Howard, then he insulted President Obama by referring to his Kenyan

roots. Is this the man they want as Foreign Secretary? I couldn't

believe it. I don't know a few hard the new Chancellor this morning,

when asked if Boris Johnson was up to it, he said, the Prime Minister

is in charge. So he will get the pay and someone else will do the work?

Theresa May really sounded like she wants to be the champion of the

working classes - are you worried? I am not, because she has a record as

long as your arm in the previous Government of absolutely hammering

Labour areas with austerity policies, cuts everywhere. Those are

visited upon those communities that are the least able to deal with

them, because they are the poorest. That is not a middle ground pitch,

for me. We need, as a Labour Party, to talk about how we can revive

these areas. She can talk about it, but we know what her record is. You

were meant to be the unity candidate to challenge Jeremy Corbyn, but now

apparently there is another unity candidate who has come forward and

wants to be leader as well. That will not help, will it? You'll might

be important thing is, I obviously believe I am the best person to lead

the Labour Party in these difficult times, and they are dangerous times

for the country, because the aftermath of the Brexit vote really

has thrown everything up in the air. Our prosperity is on the line, our

social justice, social equality, all at risk. Equal pay for work of equal

value for women, that is an EU law, what will happen to it? The key

thing is, we have to say that Jeremy Corbyn cannot provide the leadership

in Parliament and is not going well -- not going down well on the

doorsteps. I am happy to talk to omen about how we go forward. He is

a perfectly fine man. Our politics are not very different, but I have a

lot more experience, and I think I have further reach, at a northern

woman from working-class roots, as a person who understands identity

politics and what goes on, as a gay woman, I think I have the toughness

and experience and that I am the right person for this job. What did

you think of John McDonnell when he said that people like you were

useless? I tried to work with Jeremy, it did

not work, there was a parallel organisation, we were not opposing

the Government's policies, because of Jeremy's inability.

There is a coarsening of our politics, it has to stop. Was it

really Labour Party members who threw that brick through the window

of your constituency office? I have not had bricks through the window of

my office before, and it was the day before the NEC meeting, which

decided whether Jeremy should be on the ballot or not. I don't know, but

I have been getting huge amounts of bullying and threats and nastier

messages. Maybe the brick was a nasty message as well. You are

suggesting it could be a Labour Party member. I have no idea who

threw the brick through the window, but the kind of atmosphere that has

been generated, the people that work for me have to deal with it when

they go into work every day. We have had to unplug our phones for three

weeks because every time we put them in, we get a string of appalling

messages. My constituents cannot get through to me so that I can help

them and do my day job, and it has got to stop, it is bullying. What

kind of message is? I cannot repeat them on air. Just threatening,

nasty, adhesive. Is it true you have had death threats? I am told I have,

the police are looking into it. I checked with you, I wanted to read a

couple of comments I have seen on Twitter. There are some vile

homophobic things, these are the slightly less extreme end. You are

not reading out the worst ones? Of course not, but I know you are

comfortable with reading out a couple. Angela Eagle says Jeremy

Corbyn is unelectable, she is a treacherous lesbian. Angela Eagle is

less electable than her brother Eddie. Angela Eagle, as charismatic

as herpes. Charming! These kinds of messages are directed at women. I

don't think that in a democracy people who stand up for what they

believe in... I have been a party member for 40 years, I don't need to

be told I am treacherous, I love the party and the country, I want is to

have a strong opposition, which we should lead, so we can put a

compelling case to the people at the next election. I don't think anybody

should have to put up with stuff like that. Paul says, nice of you to

claim that Jeremy Corbyn is the problem, it is the Labour MPs that

are not respecting democracy that are the problem. Jeremy has not

provided the leadership in Parliament for us to take this

Government on. I have been on the doorsteps for the last few months,

we lost support and councillors in the elections, we lost the

referendum, partially because of Jeremy's lacklustre support for

Remain. If we are going to be competitive in a general election,

which is the point, to have people in Parliament protesting for

Government so we can help those people who are suffering in our kin

in it is, we have to have an effective leader, and Jeremy is not

that leader. He needs to hand onto somebody who can take us forward. I

want to suggest this, I wonder if you are perhaps as deluded as you

say or belief Jeremy Corbyn is. Why would you be able to lead the party

when you voted for the Iraq war, against every attempt to investigate

it, you voted for air strikes in Syria, for tuition fees, for ID

cards? On tuition fees, I led rebels from the backbenches to get a cap on

tuition fees for ten years. What about those others? On Iraq, I

regret the votes that I cast. It was done with incomplete and inaccurate

information, I have apologised for that, and we have to learn the

lessons so it does not happen again. People are now worried about the

future of our country in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, there

are huge issues of reassurance we need in our communities which are

being subjected to hate crimes, there are other issues about

economic prosperity that we need to deal with. I believe I am the best

person to put that case for the Labour Party. One person says,

please ask her to stop putting Jeremy Corbyn down there just to

talk of her policies. I would not rush to the EU exit as fast as

Jeremy wanted to. He came on the TV the morning after the referendum and

said we should trigger article 50 immediately. That is like jumping

out of an aeroplane without checking that your Parachute is there. We

have to be more anti-austerity, we have to talk... Jeremy Corbyn has

not been anti-austerity enough? The Brexit vote was a howl of pain for

many two-minute issue has been left behind. We need a more radical

programme, to include them in economic prosperity and improve

their life opportunities. My opportunities were improved by

having a Labour Government. So that I could make progress in life when

my parents were prevented from making progress because of where

they came from. We need to offer the same hope to every single person in

this country, wherever they live whichever region. We have got to use

the power of Government to ensure that we bring prosperity and hope to

those areas that have been left behind. I will make a speech about

this in much greater detail very soon, but we need to recognise we

have got a divided society, we have got to bring it back together by

sharing our economic... Nobody will disagree, I am asking for specifics.

I will make speeches about this during the leadership campaign, and

I am more than happy to come on your show when I have said that the

detail to talk about it. You doubled your majority in the last election,

your constituents like you, but they don't want you to challenge Jeremy

Corbyn for the leadership. Why do you say that? You are facing a vote

of no-confidence. This is a tiny disruptive group who were thrown out

the 1990s, they have come back and are making a lot of noise. It is not

the vast majority of my by Bishop. If you lose that vote, then what? I

am challenging Jeremy Corbyn for leadership of the Labour Party, we

need strong, decisive, effective leadership, I am putting myself

forward to offer that to the party. Your views are welcome. One more for

now from Richard, stick with it, Jeremy Corbyn, these MPs want you

out, so you must be right for the job. If you want to get in touch,

you are very welcome. Our political guru Norman Smith

is at Downing Street outside Good morning! It is all happening,

nobody expect it Theresa May would have such a big, bold reshuffle, it

belies her image as a cautious, careful politician. Instead,

overnight she has dismantled the whole David Cameron cabinet. Still

waiting for people to walk up Downing Street this morning, the new

promotions we can expect. Not quite the red carpet, but a walk of glory

for politicians. We have had a lot of change so far, so let me take you

through with our political pack of cards of who has come out trumps and

who may end up a joker. That begin with Philip Hammond, he is

Chancellor. He was a Remain campaigner, a very rich man, people

say he is a millionaire. I don't know about that. He got a lot of

praise for getting the defence budget under control when he was

Defence Secretary, but he is sometimes known not very kindly as

box office, because he can be a tad dull. Let's talk about Amber Rudd,

one of the big women promotions. She has catapulted into the position of

Home Secretary. She was also a Remain campaigner. She was an

adviser to foreboding and a funeral as her Arab -- as an aristocracy

consultant. She must come from a posh background. She has only been

an MP for six years. Huge acceleration for her. During those

Brexit debate, she coughed Boris Johnson about the head, really

getting stuck into him. Let's talk about Michael Fallon. He clings on

as Defence Secretary. He was also a Remain campaigner, he has been

around the block, he has had five or six of and positions, he first came

in under Margaret Thatcher. He is sometimes known as the Minister for

the today programme, because he gets wheeled out when there are difficult

positions. He is a safe pair of hands. During the 1983 election he

got banned for drink-driving. I don't imagine Margaret Thatcher was

thrilled about that. Let's talk about David Davis. He is brought in

as the Brexit minister. He is a Brexit campaigner. He is ex-SAS. He

was sometimes known as DDR the SAS. An eight arrival, he is 67,

was sometimes known as DDR the SAS. been in Government before, but he

has made it at last. He has managed to get into Government. He stood

against David Cameron for the leadership back in 2005, but he did

not get it. Liam Fox. He is brought into the new job as secretary of

State for International trade, he has to hammer out the trade deals.

He is also a Brexit campaigner, he is a doctor, so he is a good person

to be around if you are feeling peaky. He was a Government whip

during the last great European revolt over Maastricht, it is funny

how things turn out. And he resigned as Defence Secretary following that

row over his adviser, who he tuck on trips with him, even though he was

not his official adviser. Last but by no means least, Boris Johnson. To

the surprise of pretty much everybody at Westminster, he is

promoted to the Foreign Office, one of the top offices of Government. He

was pretty much the front face of the Brexit campaign. He has never

held any Government post before, no matter how lowly, and yet there he

is at the top of victory, although he did serve two terms as London

mayor. Although everybody calls him Boris, he has a longer name, so he

has rather highfalutin background. A lot of people in the Foreign Office

will get a bit anxious about whether he is going to be having the

necessary tact and diplomacy you need. When he was on that trip to

Japan, he got involved in a game of rugby. He got a bit too carried away

during that. He was pushing children at the way. If it happened when he

was Foreign Secretary, it could cause a dramatic incident. Then

there was the zip wire moment during the London Olympics, when he was

left dangling, waving the union Jacks. I could list a whole load of

other incidents, the last time he was on an official overseas trip...

That was not so long ago, when he was Mayor of London. We just

watching of these pictures now, Boris on the rugby field, and there

he is on the zip wire. What a sight. When he was last in the Palestinian

territories they had to cancel his trip because their Web protests and

threats of violence because he will thought of as being too pro-Israel.

Even Theresa May seemed to have a feud out about him when she was

asked about him during the leadership election, she made a

caustic observation about his negotiating skills with the Germans.

Last time he did a deal, he came back with three nearly new water

cannon. I should tell you, after he got

those water cannon, she banned him from using them, so they ended up as

useless. Amber Rudd, one of his colleagues, the Home Secretary,

remember the killer line that she delivered during the Brexit debate

about the man she thought Boris Johnson was?

Boris is the life and soul of the party, that he is not the man you

want driving due home at the end of the evening.

You almost winced at that one! That is the list of people we know about

so far. Nobody so far has come up the Downing Street walk, but we will

get people. We will want to see whether Theresa May lives up to her

pledge to promote a whole load of women, because so far we just have

Amber Rudd. Everybody else is male, pale and stale. So we are expecting

more women. Nobody so far, we will have to hang on in there.

Waiting for the women! We will be with you later.

Rob was Minister Without Portfolio and choose date. Argue still that,

or is there a clean slate when we get a new Prime Minister? I don't

know, but I am desperately chairman of the Conservative Party. -- deputy

chairman. One viewer says, please, can someone explain the rationale of

Boris Johnson being the new Foreign Secretary? I think Boris is a

well-known individual and he is one of the few politicians who is called

by his first name by everyone. He was the Maher Mark -- he was the

Mayor of London. He was successful. One viewer says, Boris Johnson is a

joke and to have him as Foreign Secretary is farcical. I think he is

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

terms of promoting London around the world. He will already have existing

relationships. The one thing he is good at is communication. His

charismatic way of getting people to buy in. He is no-nonsense and I am

sure he will get stuck in. You have a huge smile on your face.

Anne-Marie was elected last year. You supported Michael Gove, the

former Justice Secretary. He could still be Justice Secretary. What are

you hearing? Not anything so far this morning. Our new Prime Minister

got through the big jobs last night. Hopefully she had a glass of wine

and put her feet up for five minutes before having to take on this

morning's challenges and the rest of the Government been put together in

a framework with all the skills she knows she needs for the challenges

ahead of her. Will there be more women? I think we have a long day

ahead. There may be some surprise names you have not heard of. Boom?

Wait and see. It is for Theresa May to make the announcement. David

Davies as Brexit Secretary - does that suggest that Theresa May wants

to leave the EU sooner or later? In her campaign, she said Brexit means

Brexit and she would appoint a senior Brexit supporter and create a

cabinet position, which means we are leaving the EU. She has put top

people in charge, David Davies and Liam Fox. Boris was also a Brexit

supporter. The timing and details will be fleshed out in the coming

weeks and months, but it shows she is serious and is keeping a word.

From the job she has handed out so far, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the fact

that our so many Brexit supporters there at the moment, does it suggest

she is doing a good job of healing the Conservative Party? Absolutely,

and I would expect nothing less. Her modernising agenda, which seems to

have surprised some people, is no surprise to me. That is very much

the woman. She works in a consensual way. Let's bring the best brains in

to find a solution and keep going until the solution is reached. I

have no doubt that she understands fully what that mandate from the

people meant and that having key Brexit leaders in the forefront of

the Government, not just within the Brexit role that David Davies will

take on, is vital to ensuring that happens. This is not just the

Government about Brexit. Her speech yesterday was seminal, because she

was saying that we are the party of the social ambulance, helping people

who are struggling and helping people to get on the ladder and

improve their lives. It was a compassionate conservative speech, a

one nation conservatism speed. She mentioned the union. It was

incredibly important and it set out the goals for future Government. And

a swipe of the Notting Hill set of David Cameron and George Osborne,

saying, my Government, she directly addressed the camera, my Government

will not just work for the privileged few but for everyone.

Under David Cameron, we had the national living wage, we created

jobs and apprenticeships, and she said she is going to build on that,

Bebe party of aspiration adopt agility, but also be the party of

the social ambulance. What do you think she meant, Anne-Marie, when

she said, we will do everything we can to give you more control over

your lives? I think what she meant was, in a sense, she wanted to

continue the agenda that David had of devolution and trying to ensure

that local communities had more power, more skin in the game with

regard to how local community money is spent. I think that's what she

meant by more control. Thank you, all of you. Nice to see you. I have

no idea what time it is, even though there is a huge clot behind me. It

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

in the job for the new Prime Last night she began

assembling her new Government with big changes in the top

Cabinet jobs. Philip Hammond is Chancellor

of the Exchequer, while leading Leave campaigner Boris Johnson

takes his job, becoming David Davies becomes the Secretary

of State in charge of leaving What are your priorities? We will

decide those collectively. Will you prioritise access to the single

market? Wait and see. Is Boris Johnson your boss now? Liam Fox has

the role of international trade Secretary and has been speaking this

morning. I had every faith that we have a wonderful future of the

country. We have an opportunity to increase our global profile and we

should be optimistic and confident about the future.

It could be good news for borrowers, bad news for savers.

The Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates today

for the first time since the height of the financial crisis.

If the rate is dropped to 0.25% as expected,

It's hoped that lower rates, which make it cheaper to borrow

money, would encourage more spending to boost the economy

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Now, the sport with Hugh Woozencroft - and a busy day ahead

American Justin Thomas is the early leader, 4 under par after five holes

of the opening round, with most of the field still to come

Sheffield's Danny Willett has just begun his first round,

hoping to add to his victory at the Masters earlier this

year in what's his first appearance at Royal Troon.

There's coverage of the golf on BBC Radio 5live from 10 o'clock.

Nottinghamshire's Jake Ball will make his Test Debut for England

as they take on Pakistan in the first Test at Lord's.

The 25 year old replaces fellow bowler James Anderson,

who's not yet fully fit after a shoulder injury.

And 42-year-old Jo Pavey will compete in the 10 thousand

metres at the Rio Olympics next month - in doing so she'll become

the first British track athlete to compete in 5 Games.

Performance Director Neil Black said the decision was not

We are live at Westminster this morning.

Theresa May has been a regular visitor to Downing Street since

she took over as Home Secretary in 2010, but yesterday was her first

time walking through the doors of Number 10 as Prime Minister.

The calls from world leaders, the briefings, the nuclear codes.

Who begins planning her life in minute detail?

Here to give us an insight is Lord Butler, Cabinet Secretary

and head of the Home Civil Service for a decade during the time

of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair,

Sean Worth, former special advisor to David Cameron,

who was there on his first day at Number 10, and former First

Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, who officially resided at Bute House

Lord Butler, you saw how three Prime Ministers operated,

Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.

How will Theresa May's first days and weeks in office differ

Of course, she is lucky, in the sense that we have the holiday

season coming up. On this first day, she has to make her appointments.

That involves a succession of decisions. First, she has to decide

what department she is going to have. She has decided to have a

Brexit department. She then has to make appointments within the limits

of the salary she can pay to cabinet ministers. If she has an extra

cabinet minister for Brexit, she may have to drop a cabinet post. Like

the Business Secretary, for example. Yes. Then there are mundane

decisions to be taken which matter to politicians. The order of

seniority, the seating plan around the Cabinet table. She has the

decide who has the grace and favour of houses, who has the flats in the

Admiralty. These are the sorts of things which, in that first day, in

addition to phone calls, you have to decide. She has spoken to Angela

Merkel of Germany and the president of France. Sean, you were special

adviser to David Cameron from 2010-12. You say this is different

from when unelected Prime Minister walks in. Why? Normally, you come in

on the back of a general election, and you get a bit more time. They

call it a honeymoon period where people give you grace to set out

your stall and make appointments. She is coming in mid-term, an

extraordinary position where the day before she took office, the Labour

Party appeared to shut themselves in the head by keeping Jeremy Corbyn on

the ballot for the leadership, come what may, essentially vacate in the

centre ground just as she is coming in, setting out that vision. Our

priority is the political architecture that you are seeing

being set up with his Cabinet. Pretty smart moves so far. Hammond

as Chancellor will be fantastic. You also have that centre ground they

catered. You can rush in there and set up that vision straightaway.

Alex Salmond, take us back to your first day in office, 16th of May

2000 seven. I remember meeting the permanent Secretary, Sir Robin's

equivalent, and getting ushered into the new premises and the new

offices, and then being heavily impressed by how much preparation

the civil service seems to have done to anticipate every question I

asked. What did you ask? Basically, that was after the election, which

is slightly different, but you come in and say, I have these thoughts,

and they say, yes, we thought you might, he you are, try to do it this

way. She will be getting a lot of that. As Robin said, she has key

decisions which may marked the Leave not look important. She has

appointed Liam Fox, David Davis and Boris Johnson. Are they part of the

Foreign Office team? In other words, is Boris the boss of David Davis and

Liam Fox? David Davis is a serious politician and a great appointment.

Boris is a court jester. Does David Davis worked for the court jester,

or does he have a separate department? That sort of decision

will determine the success or failure of her appointments. Theresa

May, do you think she is the type of woman who is thinking already along

those lines? Congratulations to her on taking office, but she is in the

serious category of politicians rather than the court jester

category. She has got, you know, a great advantage over the way

sometimes things happen. Tony Blair came in in 1997, and he had been up

pretty well all night, in Sedgefield, out on the road for four

or five weeks, and he was exhausted. Then you have to make, in our

system, some of the most important decisions when you are completely

knackered. It is tough. That is the other thing about being Prime

Minister - you can tell me how First Minister compares, Alex Salmond -

but it is to me, as an outsider, almost an impossible job, and you

have to have some superhuman powers which nobody does have, but you

clearly have to have intellect, attention to detail and an ability

to cut through all the information that must land on your desk. It is

almost impossible, isn't it? I remember briefing Theresa May at a

party conference in the Coalition Government, and she got the briefing

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

across the entire spectrum of things, all the detail, really

impressive. That side of it, I think she will be fine with. The other big

point to make is, Philip Hammond also has an encyclopaedia brain and

is well-known for jumping on other people's briefs in cabinet meetings.

Which may or may not be good. He is now in a rollback warrants it. He

has an ability to get across a range of subjects.

You think you are prepared for the pressures, but when you start it is

different? She has got a big advantage, she has been Home

Secretary for six years, which is a big job requiring tough decisions. I

disagree a bit, if you come in after an election you are exhausted, but

you come in with a popular mandate. If we compare with Tony Blair, he

walked in with cheering crowds on either side. When Theresa May made

her statement, you heard the echoes of the pro-European demonstration

across the road. She is a Prime Minister without a mandate. If I had

to choose between tired with a mandate and fresh without a mandate,

I would choose the former. I want to ask about another subject, the

Chilcott report. You are one of five MPs who has written to the Speaker

asking for a Commons motion next week that would call for Tony Blair

to be held to account for failings in the planning, operations and

aftermath of the Iraq war. What you want to achieve? David Davis is one

of the MPs, so there will be another selection of many prominent ones.

The case was made yesterday, this is about whether Tony Blair misled

Parliament over a period of 15 months. That is what content is

about, misleading Parliament. The evidence is there, I think. In terms

of parliamentary accountability, the one thing a parliament cannot do is

stand for being misled by any minister, least of all the Prime

Minister, on any subject, least of all a subject of peace or war.

Parliament house to judge whether the evidence is there to suggest

over a period of months Parliament in 2003 was misled, and if so, that

person should be held in contempt. It is an essential part of

parliamentary democracy. Explain what that means if you are held in

contempt of Parliament. Parliament makes a decision on that, one of the

committees would decide on the penalty. You can get hauled to the

bar of the house, you could get the charge read against you, you could

be prevented from holding public office ever again. This is about

stressing that Prime Minister 's art elected with great power, but they

must tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to

Parliament. Let's go back to Norman at Downing Street, you have a bit

more information on when the next layer of Cabinet positions will be

announced? We are being told to hold our breath. We may not get the next

announcement until the walled 11am. It is all quiet here at the moment.

I suspect Theresa May is having to figure out a few bits and bobs. She

has people who backed her during the campaign, prominent figures, Chris

Grayling, Justine Greening. They will feel, hang on, we supported

you, what is in it for us? They are hoping they might get a decent job.

She has promised there will be a lot more women, and so far we just have

Amber Rudd being put in as Home Secretary. She will have to look at

what women she brings into the cabinet. A couple of things which

are interesting, if you want to get a sense of how radical she is going

to be, look at what she does in areas like health, education, work

and pensions. Does she still have the appetite for public service

reform, or does she think, I have got enough on my plate, we will park

that? On a personal level, it is interesting to see what happens with

Michael Gove. We have seen Boris Johnson brought back from the brink,

now Foreign Secretary. Who would have believed that? So maybe Michael

Gove could be kept in the Cabinet. I am thinking not, occurs Theresa May

and Michael Gove had some fairly breezing confrontations in Cabinet.

Perhaps she will be less kind towards him, and he need not hang

around his phone. We will be back with you. We have

some people here who notaries are made pretty well. -- who know

Theresa May pretty well. Tough, diligent, competent,

hard worker, not gossipy, some of the descriptions we've heard

of Theresa May over But what's she really

like behind closed doors? We can talk now to some

of her closest friends and colleagues, Pat Frankland,

who's known the new Prime Minister for more than 40 years,

Cllr Philip Love, president of Maidenhead Conservative

Association, her local constituency, Mr Love helped select Mrs May

as their candidate as MP back in 1997, and Conservative MP

Damian Green, who has known her since she was 18 and

worked for her at the Home Office. It feels very weird! You help select

her. 19 years ago! I knew her at the same time as Pat,

we were contemporaries. Norman says we might have to wait until after it

11am for various other appointments that she will make. You think it is

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

prominent Leave campaigner, but a backer of Theresa May's campaign.

Yes. Parliament never stops. We have had energy questions. I don't know

who took them, it would have been Amber Rudd until last night. It is

the leader of the house questions, which Chris Grayling has to do from

10:30am. It would be surprising if he were not involved in some way in

the reshuffle. My guess is that is why it is starting then. Surprising

if he were not involved in the reshuffle. Quite a few people might

have thought he would get the job that David Davis has got, the Brexit

secretary, or the job that Liam Fox has got, international trade

secretary. Are you surprised? I am not surprised. I agree Chris chaired

the campaign and has been a successful minister in a number of

posts. It is a good idea to bring David and Liam back into Government.

People may have forgotten David was the Europe Minister for a long time

under John Major, so he has done this to go shooting in the past.

John Major described him as the keyword? Was he not? No, he was not

in Cabinet then. Although he has always been a big Euro-sceptic, he

was the whip that got the Maastricht vote through and he became Europe

Minister Thomas Luthi is experienced. What will Chris

Grayling get? I have no idea. What would make sense? A big job, but I

don't know. Playing fantasy Cabinet, while the actual Cabinet is being

appointed, is slightly futile. It is true that Theresa May was slightly

irritated when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, because she

had beaten her to it? Yes. When I first met her, for as long as I can

remember, she wanted to be an MP and Prime Minister, and preferably the

first woman by Minister. While we were at Oxford, I think Mrs Thatcher

became leader of the Conservative Party, and it started to become

clear that that particular aspect of being Prime Minister had gone. She

was quite irritated. Also tell us what you got up to at University.

Was it normal student life, a few lectures, loads of hangovers, being

a bit tipsy? In those days, we did not have much money, so the

hangovers were out of our expense bracket. Students have never had any

money! My first hangover came after Oxford. My gosh! So sad! While! What

did you get up to? We still went to parties, I just don't remember

getting really drunk. Not having the money. My father would have put me

off, I think, if I had done things like that. What do you recall of her

student days? She probably led me into the Oxford union and the Oxford

Conservative Party, because she wanted to be involved and she wanted

her friends involved as well. She took me a long, she wanted company

to hear Sir Keith Joseph speak, or people like that. We would go along

to the union because she would be speaking, and our friends went along

to support her. Really engaged in politics? Very engaged. When you

first met her, what did you think of this woman? When the selection

started to find an MP in Maidenhead, we had 300 CDs to look at, we got it

down to 12. It was when it got down to the last six that I thought she

stood out. There were some quite high profile people going for this

potentially safe seat. But it was because not everybody may agree, but

if you have been a councillor, you have knocked on doors, you have seen

the residence, you get to know them, you know how important they are, and

what has been impressive is that perforce he was Home Secretary, she

would come out on Saturdays and knock on doors, and she still does.

Residents cannot believe that with her portfolio and her workload how

on earth she still finds the time to knock on doors on Saturdays. She

still goes to any functions you ask her to. She is a superb constituency

MP. What do you remember of her from University? I met her for two

reasons, through the politics, the Oxford union and the Oxford

Conservatives, and also because the lady who is now my wife was her

tutorial partner, they both read geography. I met her early on. I had

a slightly more dissolute life than Pat did, I remember the occasional

hangover! I don't want people to think I am obsessed with that! She

was part of the set, we did normal student things, we went to parties,

we were involved in debates and things like that. The key to her is

what you see is what you get. All of the adjectives you read out at the

start, they are true now, they were true then, she is a good friend,

completely reliable, honest, straightforward. She has always been

like that. For somebody like you who is hoping to get a job in this new

cabinet, you have known her for years, when you are waiting like

this, what is that like? It is like waiting to hear for a piece of news.

It is no different from politicians. Politicians are human beings as

well. We were reminded of that when David Cameron came out with his

children and wife. Exactly. This is a tense morning for a lot of people.

There will be several hundred people checking their mobile phone has not

run out of charge. In terms of what she said yesterday outside number

ten, what the dude think, is a long-standing friend? It did not

surprise me that she wanted to bring the country together. And that she

was concerned for the normal person. She has always had a very kind

aspect to her. She was brought up in a very Christian ethos. That would

still be there. She is what she was. What did you think of what she said

yesterday, the idea that she would work on the half of everybody,

rather than the privileged few? I agree, that is what she firmly

believes, she always has done, she has not changed over 19 years, that

has always been her belief. When she said it is the Conservative and

united party, that was very relevant. Good luck, hope you get a

phone call! Thank you for your comments. This e-mail, Boris Johnson

is a politician... He walks the walk right after he talked the talk. I am

not sure what that means! We have Theresa May and Philip Hammond,

where is Clarkson? It is lovely where you are, and in

other parts of the country, lovely sunshine. This tells the story, and

not of blue sky, not much cloud. We have seen one or two showers today,

some of us will see some into the afternoon. After the sunny start,

Fairweather cloud will develop, and it will spread. Wall-to-wall blue

skies, sunny spells. Like trees, feeling pleasant in the sunshine.

Through the afternoon, eastern England could see the odd shower.

The vast majority will miss them, but there will be more clout than

this morning. More clout, but it is Fairweather cloud. Just the odd

shower. Beautiful for the cricket at Lord's. Across southern counties, we

are still in the sunshine. Sunshine close to the coast, blue skies in

the south-west and around the coastline of Wales and north-west

England. Inland, sunny spells and a bit more Fairweather cloud. Sunny

spells for Northern Ireland, a pleasant day ahead. A lot of

sunshine for Scotland. The Fairweather cloud will produce the

odd shower. For the golf, it should stay dry. We have seen pictures of

it already, a beautiful start, a beautiful day, a light wind. This

evening and overnight, the temperature will drop under the

clear sky. The cloud is building in from the west. It heralds the

arrival of a weather front bringing in some rain. Tomorrow it will

slowly move east through the course of the day. The heaviest rain will

be with hike across the health of Scotland, north-west England, Wales.

Close to the coast in the south-west, low cloud, mystic and

isn't -- misty conditions and drizzle. The highest temperatures in

the south-east, but that will feel quite humid.

Good morning, it is Thursday, welcome.

Britain has a new Prime Minister - she's already set out her

We will make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few but

for everyone of us. That will be the mission of the Government lead. --

of the Government I lead. team of ministers -

Boris Johnson's the new Boris is a court jester. Does David

Davis worked for the court jester or does he have a separate department.

The one thing that Boris is good at is communication. It is all change

in Downing Street, with a big, bold, brash reshuffle, as Theresa May

wield the axe and brings in the Brexit supporters.

Later in the programme we'll hear from critics of Theresa May

and we'll talk to impressionists who're now working out how

The skies will darken and be mercilessly will consume us all. --

the merciless sky will consume us all.

Here's Annita with a summary of today's news.

It's the first full day in the job for the new Prime

Last night she began assembling her new Government, with big changes

Boris Johnson takes his job, becoming the Foreign Secretary,

Philip Hammond is Chancellor of the Exchequer, Amber Rudd

becomes Home Secretary, while leading Leave campaigner

David Davies becomes the Secretary of State in charge

What are your priorities? We will decide those collectively. Will you

prioritise access to the single market? Wait and see. Is Boris

Johnson your boss? given the role of International

Trade Secretary. He's also been

speaking this morning. I think we have a wonderful future

as a country. We have tremendous opportunities to increase our global

profile, and we should be extraordinarily confident about the

future. It could be good news for borrowers,

bad news for savers. The Bank of England is expected

to cut interest rates today for the first time since the height

of the financial crisis. If the rate is dropped

to 0.25% as expected, It's hoped that lower rates,

which make it cheaper to borrow money, would encourage more spending

to boost the economy That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.30. The 145th Open Championship has

begun at Royal Troon this morning. A number of big names are now out

on the course on what's a gloriously sunny morning

on the coast in South Ayrshire. That has made for some

low scoring thus far. World Number 37 Justin Thomas

started his round with He's five under, alongside fellow

American Patrick Reed, a shot ahead of a group including

English amateur Scott Gregory. Scotland's Colin Montgomerie

is playing his first Open since 2010, and started

with a double bogie - he's since recovered

somewhat, on 1 under par. You can follow all the action right

now on BBC Radio 5live It's a big day for Nottinghamshire

bowler Jake Ball as he makes his Test Debut for England in the first

Test against Pakistan at Lord's. Test Match Special starts on 5live

Sports Extra at 10.30. Captain Alastair Cook is tipping

Ball to perform as he stands in for the influential

James Anderson. He has the ability to get good

players out on flat wickets. That is one of his cute skills. He puts the

ball in good areas with good pace. I am looking forward to it.

Britain's Chris Froome has thanked Tour de France organisers

for putting riders' safety first, after they announced today's 12th

Stage will finish six kilometres short of the Mont Ventoux summit

because of hundred kilometre per hour winds.

Froome extended his lead to 28 seconds after finishing second

42-year-old Jo Pavey will compete in the 10 thousand metres

at the Rio Olympics next month after being named

In doing so, she'll become the first British track athlete

Performance Director Neil Black said the decision was not

She has been an inspiration to a lot of athletes and she did well at the

Europeans. She proved she is a championship performer, and there is

no stopping her. If you can get past age and you are confident, you can

do great things. Congratulations to Jo.

We really want to hear from you this morning, answering this question -

what do you want from Theresa May? Get in touch in the usual ways. So

far, a lot of comment about Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. Kate

says, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. If you can make

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

am so pleased he is Foreign Secretary. Now he can show everyone

what a brilliant man he can be. I'm sure he won't let us down. I think

the Prime Minister has made good choices for the Cabinet and I am as

excited about the future. Jackie says she was a Labour voter who

voted for Brexit. She says, I think Boris Johnson is a good appointment.

He is a clever man who did a good job as Mayor of London. If he proves

incompetent, then voice an opinion. What do the appointments tell us

about the way that Theresa May will run the country? Norman is at

Downing Street. Good morning. It was all action stations last

night, but not much going on today. We saw some bloke walking up the

street with a big basket of flowers, presumably for Mrs May, but who

knows? It may be that someone in the press office has a birthday. There

has been a lot of action, but not this morning. Let's go through some

of the changes with our political pack of cards to see who has Trump

's and who is a joker. -- who has come out trompes. At Philip Hammond

has the reputation of having got on top of the defence budget, which was

dicey. He is known as Box Office Phil, but not because he is the most

exciting man in the world. Amber Rudd is one of the big female

promotions and gets the job of Home Secretary. Theresa May's old job.

She is another Remain campaign. What do we know about her? She was

consulted in the film Four Weddings And A Funeral, she was the

aristocracy consultant, so she must come from a rather posh background,

I would imagine. She has only been in Parliament for six years, so she

has done well to go from being a backbencher to Home Secretary in six

years. That is some promotion. She was ferocious in those TV debates

before the referendum. She said Boris Johnson was the life and soul

of the party but not the manual wanted to drive you home. Michael

Fallon as Defence Secretary, here's another Remain supporter. He has had

five or six Government jobs, the first one under Mrs that you're all

those years ago. He is sometimes known and is -- known as Minister

for the Today programme. He got banned from driving during the 1983

election, which probably didn't help when he had to campaign. David Davis

is brought into this new post as Brexit Minister. He was a long-time

Brexit campaigner, but don't mess with him because he is an ex-SAS

man. He used to be called DG of the SAS. Don't mess around, for goodness

sake, because who knows what might happen if you did that. He is a late

arrival in the Cabinet at 67. First time in the Cabinet, arriving quite

late in his career, but good luck to him. He stood against David Cameron

in 2005 for the leadership and obviously lost. Liam Fox, another

Brexit supporter, brought in to the new post of international trade

Secretary, so his job is to try to forge new trade deals around the

world. He is actually a doctor, so if you are feeling peachy, called

Doctor Fox and he might be able to help you out. He was one of the

Government whips during the last Europe revolt, whose job it was to

crack down on the rebels. How times change! He had to resign after a row

blew up over his unofficial adviser, Adam Werribee, whom he took on trips

with him. Last, a name that ice expect lots of people are talking

about, Boris Johnson, who has catapulted in as Foreign Secretary.

He was very much the face of the Brexit campaign. Boris Johnson has

never held any Government job at all. He has never even been Minister

for cleaning park benches on Sunday evenings. Zero experience of

Government, though he was the Mayor of London a couple of times. Most

people call him Boris. A lot of speculation about how people manage

on the world stage, because already, he has a tendency not to show the

most diplomacy and tact, shall we say. During the referendum campaign,

he talked about President Obama's half Kenyan ancestry, compare B you

to Hitler. The member the trip to Japan? I think he was taking part in

a game of Street rugby, and Boris Johnson played rugby as a youngster,

and he seemed to get a little carried away, as I recall, and

started bashing over some of the rather young children whom he was

meant to be playing against. That is no way to behave, Boris, really! Do

you remember the other moment, a couple of years before that, I

think, during the London Olympics? Who can forget? Boris on the zip

wire of shame. An extraordinary moment. This is the man who will be

our new Foreign Secretary. Brace yourself - anything could happen.

Clearly, Mrs May had a few doubts about him when she was campaigning

to be leader, she made that caustic observation when she was asked about

Boris Johnson, and she had this to say about his negotiating skills

when he tried to do a deal with the Germans to buy some water cannon.

The last time he did a deal with the Germans, he came back with three

nearly new water cannon. LAUGHTER

. Ouch! There is a more serious side, how other countries will view

him. This morning, we had some bruising remarks from the German

Foreign Minister. TRANSLATION: It is bitter

for Great Britain. People there are experiencing a rude

awakening after irresponsible politicians first lured the country

into Brexit to then, once the decision was made,

bolt and take no responsibility. To be honest, I find

this outrageous. But it's not just bitter

for Great Britain, it's also bitter I should say, that was before Boris

was promoted to Foreign Secretary. There might have to be a different,

more diplomatic approach now. We wait and wait, and we're told we may

have to wait until around 11am. We are looking out for a number of

things today, one of them, to see whether Mrs May makes his commitment

to have women in senior posts. Currently, there is only Amber Rudd.

We will also look out for Michael Gove. Theresa May has reached out

and brought Boris Johnson in, will she do the same for Michael Gove?

The two of them had some fairly bruising encounters run the Cabinet

table, so maybe no mercy for Michael Gove.

Thank you, Norman. Let's get some reaction from Lord Tebbit, who had

various top jobs in Margaret Thatcher's Government in the 1980s.

Good morning to you. Is Theresa May Margaret Thatcher Mark to? I dug

think so, but let me say, she was not my choice. All those whom I

would have chosen either committed kamikaze attacks on each other or

blew themselves up or something, so we have Mrs May. We have to look at

that in as constructive a way as we can.

I am of the old Conservative Party. I was active when we won three

elections in a row when we polled nearly 40 million votes and we had a

majority of over 100 in the House of Commons. -- 14 million. She thought

it was the nasty party, I thought it was the successful party. Lazarus

like, Boris Johnson is now Foreign Secretary, after many people thought

his career was dead. After what happened a couple of weeks ago. Is

he the right man? I would like to be a fly on the wall when he meets

Vladimir Putin, it should be a laugh a minute. I know him very well, I

like him. He is in a bully and character and a good communicator.

We shall have to wait and seem ever he can do better managing our

foreign affairs and managing the traffic along the embankment in

London. What is your instinct? I don't want to go down that path. I

will wait and see. Very diplomatic answer. I am not always diplomatic!

That is why I am wondering, because you know him well, you don't want to

knife him in the back. That's right, people that do that to him seemed to

go down themselves, and I don't want to do that. Is there room for

Michael Gove in the same cabinet as Boris Johnson? It is difficult,

because Michael was disappointing. He is a man of considerable

abilities, he is not user friendly, but he is very able. It would be

difficult to sit them down side-by-side. That is a shame,

because it is a waste of talent. In terms of the other appointments,

Home Secretary, the former energy minister and the right, dominant on

the Remain side. Philip Hammond as Chancellor. David Davis, a Europe

Minister from years gone by, is now Brexit secretary. Liam Fox is now

this minister for international trade. What do you think of those?

David Davis is a good appointment. He is very able. A long track

record. The great thing is whereas John Claude Yunker might think that

the reason may was going to come to him and say, I don't like this

policy, I am stuck with it, how can we get round it, he won't have any

doubts about this one who is coming to him in the shape of David Davis.

He knows where he is coming from. That will be helpful in getting

things moving. What do you think that it is two prominent Leave

campaigners in those roles? Is there some kind of self preservation for

Theresa May? Because of it goes wrong, or compromises have to be

made, she says, we have to leave campaigners in charge. She is in

charge. The one thing that would India me to her would be if she can

get back to proper Cabinet Government. We began to lose that in

Tony Blair's day, sofa Government. We got it in the coalition, with the

Liberal Democrats and the Chancellor and the Prime Minister sorting

everything between the four of them and telling the Cabinet. We have not

got back to the proper structure of using the Cabinet and Cabinet

committees to sort out thoroughly what we are going to do before we

chuck it out into the public domain. That would be a huge step forward.

It would cause me to sing her praises. We will see. Back to

Downing Street and Norman. We are hearing that Michael Gove has

been sacked. George Osborne out, Michael Gove out. That tells us that

Theresa May is dismantling the old camera network. George Osborne and

Michael Gove were the right and left hand of David Cameron's Government,

both of them are gone. The Notting Hill set, if you like, is being

taken out. That is a part of what we have seen over the past 24 hours,

Theresa May trying to send out a message that she is building an

entirely new Government. It is a moment of change. It is not carry on

David Cameron. She wants everybody to realise that this is a decisive

moment, when there is a new Government, not a carry on Cameron

Government. With regard to Michael Gove, both he and Theresa May have

had some precious parcels in the past over how to counter Islamic

extremism in Britain, and some of that spilled out into the papers and

it all got very ugly, and Theresa May had to get rid of some advisers,

who will probably be brought back in, I think I saw a couple of them

going in. The topline is the old Cameron stole what's our one by one

being axed. I wonder how Michael Gove reacted

when he saw Boris Johnson appointed Foreign Secretary. There might have

been a bit of him thinking, you can come back from the dead within two

weeks, then I suppose with Mr Johnson around the table, you could

not necessarily have Michael Gove as well.

You hesitate to think what relations around the table would be like.

Michael Gove would have to pull the knife out of Boris Johnson's back

which he plunged there. It is really hard to see, if you are trying to

build collective Cabinet Government, how that personal dynamic could

possibly work. On a practical level, you have got to make some space

around the table, people are going to have to go, because Theresa May

wants to bring new people in, so you have to shunt some people out. There

will be people who do not survive today. So far, only Michael Fallon

has clung on to his current position as Defence Secretary. Everywhere

else, it has all changed, so there will be more people whose services

are dispensed with. The one thing that saved them, they don't have to

do the walk of shame outside Downing Street, it is done on the blower

now, they get into the privacy of their own home, without having to

skulk back down Downing Street. There is not the public e-mail a

shin, but brace yourselves, there will be more sackings, because

Theresa May needs to create space around the table to bring in new

blood. Mikey on Twitter says, Michael Gove

has gone from being potential leader to being sacked from the Cabinet

within a fortnight. Ian on Twitter, great news about Michael Gove being

sacked, he was a vile little bleep who destroyed the education system.

Some person says, interesting that the Prime Minister awards Boris

Johnson the job as Foreign Secretary, especially after painting

him as incompetent. One person says, backstabbing Michael Gove has been

sacked. Keep those coming in. Use the hashtag, or you can text. Or you

can send us an e-mail. Back to Norman for a second.

We are hearing that Nicky Morgan may also not survive in the Cabinet.

That would be interesting, because she was one of the prominent female

members of the Cabinet, and we know that Theresa May wants more women in

the Cabinet. But it looks as if she might have lost her position as

Education Secretary. She was actually toying with running for the

leadership. Like Michael Gove, figures who saw themselves as

potentially being the future leaders, future prime ministers,

have within the space of a week or so being banished to the

backbenches. That underlines how brutal the system is, it is not just

David Cameron who gets ousted in hours, but even people who have held

significant posts, who have ambitions of leading the country,

they can also be banished to the backbenches remarkably quickly.

The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan sacked, the former Education

Secretary Michael Gove sacked as Justice Secretary. More through the

morning, as you would expect. Theresa May said on the steps

of Downing Street last night that she wants to "help the millions

who can just about manage, but worry Well, the cost of borrowing money

could be cut later today. Mark Carney, the Governor

of the Bank of England, will chair an important meeting

of his key advisers who will vote whether to cut

interest rates at midday. So what's happened to

the economy since we voted And how big are the challenges

facing Theresa May and her new In a moment we can speak

about this with someone who's been on that committee,

Marian Bell. But first we can have a look

at what's happened to the economy since Brexit with Louise Cooper,

a financial journalist. So first up, Louise, what's happened

to the value of the pound? The pound has fallen, as everybody

was predicting. Against the dollar it has fallen the most. It went from

1.50 before the referendum vote came in, it fell to 1.27, it has rallied

a bit, 1.30 two. The move against the euro has been substantially

less. Our main trading partner is the Eurozone. In terms of before the

vote, it was 1.25, 1.30. Now it is about 1.19. If you are going on

holiday in Europe, you get less bang for your buck. Yes, but there are

many less -- there are many reasons why the euro is not without its own

problems. We don't have time to discuss that now! That would take

some time! OK, so what about the Ftse 100,

which gives a sense of how well the biggest 100 listed companies

in the UK are doing? It plunged over 10% within two days.

On the Friday and the Monday following the result. That it has

rallied back to be higher than it was before the vote. It has rallied

so hard, we are in what is classed as official bull market territory,

it is up over 20% since its lows earlier in the year. Why does that

matter? Most of our money, our pensions, our life insurance, is

invested in it, it is a much bigger index than the FTSE 250. It is a

better indicator of the economy, that is a much smaller index. Even

that has rallied, to only be offered a bit since before the vote. The

stock market is taking this in its stride. Every day at 7am we get UK

plc update its investors on the state of trading. Almost without

exception, the two messages we get from UK plc, uncertainty, too early

to tell. In various ways, that is what UK plc is telling us in those

statements every day at 7am. But there has been a slight

improvement in the pound since Angela Leadsom pulled out

of the Conservative leadership on Monday and we discovered

Theresa May would be Prime Minister. There has been a Theresa May rally

in July. Is that because the financial markets know and adore

her? Possibly, that it is more that we have some certainty. It also

means we do not have this nine week bitter infighting amongst the Tory

leadership. It is certainty and time to get on with the job, rather than

unpleasant mess for another two months.

So there are winners and losers there, and all of the above will

influence how the monetary-policy committee, that's Mark Carney

and his eight advisers, will decide to vote on interest rates.

You have been on the committee. The base rate is not .5%, it has been

for years, what is the point of cutting it by 0.25%? Why you do

that? As Mark Carney has said, they are worried about what Brexit means

for growth. And in particular what it has done for uncertainty. We are

hearing large companies putting investment plans on hold, consumer

confidence has fallen, we begin to see at first data from the housing

market. They told us in May when they had a detailed look at the

economy that if we did not leave the EU, growth would rise, interest

rates would rise to keep inflation low at 2%, and everything looked

stable and hunky-dory, but they spoke about the downside risks from

a Brexit vote. We have seen those. They are expecting a smaller economy

as a result of Brexit. Still growth, but less growth? They are expecting

a slower economy than they would otherwise have had. There is a risk

in the short term of recession. That is what they will try to prevent.

Longer term, the fall in sterling and the reduction in the UK

economy's ability to produce would be inflationary and could result in

higher interest rates further out. But in the near-term, there might be

a cut. So if Marconi and his advisors cut

it by 0.25% this lunchtime, does that mean he thinks there is a

recession around the corner? They are not so much advisers, the

committee. They have individual votes. Although Mr Carney has been

clear in his comments that he thinks and easing policy -- that he things

an easing policy might be appropriate, he can't carry that. He

might well be talking on behalf of the other members, because they have

done this contingency work, this analysis of what the risks might be

of Brexit. So they might make a decision today quite easily,

although in fact there the main time for making the decision would be

next month. He has do have a majority of the nine members to get

his cup. Thank you both very much. Back to Norman for a re-cap of the

sackings in the next ten minutes or so.

Michael Gove has been sacked. So, Theresa May has, in effect, taken at

another of the key Cameron lieutenants last night. She sacked

George Osborne last night. This morning she has sacked Michael Gove.

The Notting Hill set is pretty much being dismantled by Mrs May. The

indications are that Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, is also set

to lose her job. More surprising, of course, because Mrs May had talked

about promoting women into cabinet. Mrs Morgan as Education Secretary

was one of the more prominent women in the Cabinet. But it does give Mrs

May more room to bring in new faces, to appoint a new Justice Secretary

and Education Secretary. Thank you very much. We are live

from Westminster this morning. The weather has been very kind. It is

quite hot, but that is fine. That is the least of anybody's worries.

Margaret Thatcher hit people with her bag, John Major wore grey

underpants over as trousers and eight peas, Tony Blair had eight to

the grin and said look quite a lot. How will satirists and

impressionists start to portray the new Prime Minister, Theresa May?

Which mannerisms will they focus on? Here are some examples of previous

prime ministers. Yaw I have to tell someone, I have a

terrible secret. I know the herbs are out of alphabetical order. It is

worse. The day I became leader, I had my portrait painter, but the

Porter has a life of its own. First, my blue tie became a red tie. Yes,

and? As I become more and more electable, the picture becomes more

and more left wing. It is just a tiny. When I came in yesterday, it

was consulting a trade union leader over a pint of bitter. Better! I

heard the portrait's voice criticising Margaret Thatcher

openly. Oh, Tony! What if it gets a seat on the NEC? What if John

Humphrys interviews it? It is the past I can't escape. Is anyone not

unanimous? It... We... We're slightly... What is the opposite of

unanimous? Tell him. Animus? I can't wait till our exciting new leader

gets here. He oozes charisma. He is not insignificant. Yes, I'm here. He

stands out from the crowd. Who is that boring bloke with the glasses?

It's me, your exciting new Prime Minister, with lots of totally new

policies. Look. Hang on... That Margaret's handbag. No, I have my

own handbag. Theresa it's OK, everyone, I'm back and the election

can go ahead. I am here with Theresa May. Why should people but

Conservative? Because if Labour form a pact with the SNP, it will be a

constitutional crisis! Aren't exaggerating? The merciless fire

will consume us all. What do you say to people who are accusing your

child the scaremongering? Blue! Bite-mac John Culshaw, you have been

trying to perfect Jeremy Corbyn. Let's talk to Jan one. There is

quite a bit it... Of footage out there, but not loads. She has been

quite elusive over the last few years. I used to get frustrated. I

was saying courageous, let's do Theresa May, but she never appeared,

even as Home Secretary. She used to send James Brogan Shah right to make

a statement. You can't get a lot of Theresa May from. You are making

your mouth tends. the mouth is very tense, even when she's miles? It is

as if she really struggles to get it anywhere further than that. She is

very precise, and generally, very held. Her shoulders are high, her

head is likely on one side, slightly thrust forward. She is cooking.

John, when you study someone like Jeremy Corbyn, who has been on the

scene for years but now has a prominent role, are you watching him

on TV, listening without looking? How do you get his voice? A mixture

of all of those things. You watch a clip over and over, and see which

characteristics leap out. He reminds me of my old woodwork teacher in the

1980s, who was slightly... Hesitant. A little bit... Petulant. The temple

levels would rise during a speech until they reached a tantrum at the

end. There is an unpredictability and petulance, which is interesting

to play with. You have also noticed that while he is speaking, he is

rather impatient, as though he needs to get off. Let's pause there. We're

going back to Norman. We are getting more sackings now,

learning that John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, is gone. There is

a hat-trick of people who have been booted out this morning. Now, John

Whittingdale. They are all gone. Mrs May is clearing out vast chunks of

the Cabinet, which gives her run to bring in her own people, to promote

more women into those sort of position. Interesting, too, because

Boris Johnson was given that use promotion. Other Brexit supporters,

Mr Whittingdale one of them who wanted to get out of the EU, are not

protected. Michael Gove is gone. The pace is now picking up. Mrs May's

got a bit of leeway in her Cabinet now to bring in some new people. I

think that's what we are expecting, particularly, of course, because she

has flagged up that she wants to promote more women. She is not

committed to a 50-50 split, but she wants a recognised of women in the

Cabinet. That is probably good news for you,

Jan. Less good news for you, John. You like Nicky Morgan is gone. She

will be even more shocked than before! -- Nicky Morgan is gone. She

will be even more shocked than before. Bite-mac John, Michael Gove.

He will be missed in that slightly sense. Did you ever do John

Whittingdale? He never rose to the surface enough. You were telling us

about Jeremy Corbyn and his sort of impatience. He is usually looking

over his glasses, Andy petulance rises as the conversation goes on.

He is perhaps deluded about what is surrounding him and going on his

tractor. That is interesting to play with. In terms of satire, where are

we in Britain in 2016? Well, the good news is, we no longer have to

worry about whether there will be enough female characters in the

show. I have been doing topical comedy since 1981, and we have

always said, can't we have more women? So, it is great. It is great

that women can have the confidence to take the Mickey out of themselves

and to find different nuances in all the female characters. Yes, it will

be great fun. Amber Rudd is the new Home Secretary. You need to start

studying her. I had a little look at Amber Rudd this morning. She's quite

emphatic. Purposeful. Yellow might very purposeful, and I think she

will be a very purposeful Home Secretary for to reasonable. I

wonder if we could do a mock-up of PMQs with Jeremy Corbyn and new

Prime Minister Theresa May. Well, would the Right Honourable gentleman

agree with me is that whereas the Tory party leadership contest is a

ruthless machine, the Labour Party leadership contest is more like Game

Of Thrones reimagined as a title might fasts as Mike I would just

said that I have prepared for myself a question from Gloria from

Huddersfield, who asks, why can you not find your own questions? Thank

you, both of you. And happy studying! Back to Norman in Downing

Street. This reshuffle is turning out to be

much more brutal, I think, than anyone had predicted. Mr Cameron's

reshuffles were a little nip and tuck era now, but Theresa May is

carving her way through the Cabinet, wholesale changes. Only Michael

Fallon, the Defence Secretary, has clung onto his job. Everything else

has changed. Three sackings this morning - Michael Gove, who loses

the position of Justice Secretary, Nicky Morgan, also dismissed, no

longer the Education Secretary. And John Whittingdale, no longer Culture

Secretary. They are all cleared out of the way. So, there is space now

for Mrs May to bring in more of her own people. I wonder if that is what

we will now see. The only action we have seen in the street this morning

was someone bringing up a large basket of flowers. I doubt very much

that that was from Mr Gove! We should begin to get the promotions

of people who are being promoted by Mrs May. The other thing I think is

striking, because the way that Mrs May has dismantled the Notting Hill

set - Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, the intellectual

underpinning of the Tory modernisation agenda, cast back to

the backbenches. No longer in power. They have just been taken apart. And

that, in part, I think, is because Mrs May wants this reshuffle to be a

decisive moment, a moment of change. And my goodness, it is turning out

to be that come up with this extraordinarily sweeping and radical

reshuffle. Thank you, again. More messages from

you. This one says, Boris Johnson did a great job as Mayor. A great

sense of humour, charisma, and the fact that he speaks various

languages. He will be a perfect Foreign Secretary and Theresa May

has made a wide choice. Another, give Boris Johnson a break. Another,

everyone is slapping Boris Johnson off as useless. He was twice Mayor

of London, he won Brexit, and he is better than the new Prime Minister.

In the last week, we have got to know quite a few things about the

new PM Theresa May. There has been a pheromone of praise for her record

as Home Secretary, but that is not the Holst Ory. Together, we will

build a better Britain. I believe to reasonable provide strong and stable

leadership. I wish Theresa May the very greatest success. I think he

has played it cannily. The new Prime Minister

has had her critics. In 2013, she copped a fair bit

of flak over a Home Office campaign to reduce the number

of illegal immigrants. The plan, a van telling

them to go home. I think politicians should be

willing to step up to the plate and say when they think something has

not been as good an idea. The advertising

standards authority said claims made on the vans

were misleading. Critics called them

racist and stupid. Theresa May's coming

to Scotland tomorrow. Can we not Crowd Source

a Go Home van? And when it came to carrying out

the Government's promise of cutting the numbers of people

coming into the country... It is of course unlikely that we're

going to reach tens of thousands She voted against the repeal

of section 28, the law that banned schools from promoting

homosexuality, although more recently she was in favour

of same-sex marriage. What about her relationship

with the police? In 2014 as Home Secretary,

she tore into the Police Federation, Tough talking or just

plain threatening? You must not be under the impression

that the Government will let The way that police officers

were completely denigrated Then there's human rights

and civil liberties. She's been under fire for devising

the so-called snooper's charter. The Investigatory Powers Bill

would force communications companies to hold personal data for spies

to access if needs be. The woman who wants to deport EU

citizens and scrap Her belief that human-rights laws

limit the powers of Government led to perhaps her most

famous blunder in 2011. The illegal immigrant who cannot

be deported because, and I am not making this up,

he had a pet cat. Turns out the cat had nothing

to do with why the man Over the last 72 hours there have

been an awful lot of gushing tributes to Theresa May -

for the next few minutes we thought it might be interesting to hear

from some of those who are more critical of her and her

time as Home Secretary. Let's talk now to Aderonke Apata,

who has been an asylum seeker since 2004 and still has not

received a decision by the Home Paul West, the most recently retired

National Chair of the Chief Police Officers' Staff Association,

and Jonathan Foreman, a journalist who's been looking

at her record as Home Secretary. In terms of leadership of the

police, what were your concerns? In terms of her as a future Prime

Minister, I am very supportive. I think she was the best and strongest

of the candidate. But in terms of her approach in the Home Office, it

was quite confrontational from the start at all levels, she was

critical of the quality of police leadership, and the grassroots in

terms of the Police Federation. A lot of sweeping generalisations

about corruption being endemic, which is not my experience of more

than 30 years. It was the general is which meant that hundreds of

thousands of officers up and down the country felt slighted that their

work was being almost disregarded. In almost every speech I have heard

her make, she says the vast majority of police officers are hard-working

and decent. That has come to the fore over time, but her initial

approach... In the White Paper published shortly after the 2010

election, the punch line was the police service had become out of

touch with the communities it had served, which was not a good start

to the relationship. In terms of her record as Home Secretary, her record

means you don't think she is fit to be Prime Minister? Among the

candidates we ended up with, she may be the best, there are troubling

things, she is authoritarian, intolerant of criticism, she does

not work with people who have more experience than her, that is why the

former spy chief left after a year. It is hard to find negative articles

about her because she and her staff spend so much time making sure they

did not appear. That is maybe OK as a Home Secretary... She had a busy

brief, she spent time making sure negative articles did not appear?

Articles were taken down after pressure from her office. You did

not have to succumb to the pressure. No, but she was more worried about

herself and her image than doing a good job. That is why you end up

with strange politically correct stuff,... It is healthy to be

criticised. It will be interesting to see how she does when she faces

questioning, because she has avoided it in the past, it is hard to see

how being confronted over problems with the Home Office, like Afghan

interpreter is not being allowed in, the stipa's Charter, I whole lot of

different stuff, not enough boats patrolling the coast, there is a lot

of stuff that is troubling. She is very able and a good negotiator to

beginning with Europe, and she is intimidating, and that is good, but

she is not collegiate, and it is dangerous for a politician to be too

worried about their image and reputation. The list you have given

us is almost the exact opposite of what almost everybody has said in

the last few days, bearing in mind people want a job from her, so that

will influence the way they speak about her in public, but the ideas

she is worried about her image? Absolutely. She was no Tories at the

Home Office for making sure... When she had the big immigration failure

and did not bring it down, her name was not even mentioned, it is always

the junior ministers who took the blame. There is a style of

leadership way you'd's where you pass blame down and take credit. She

has been the opposite of not caring about who claims credit. But that

ring true to you? He is being harsh. He has studied lots of things in a

lot more detail. I think she warmed to the brief as Home Secretary, she

will make a good Prime Minister, but it is not a good approach to set out

in a confrontational way and alienate the police service, which

is what she did, and it has taken years for the relationship to be

mended. It would be good to think that the new Home Secretary will

adapt a more partnership approach. She did some good things, some of

the changes in terms of direct entry and paying conditions were good, and

a required courage. I would have liked to have seen more good work on

getting police back on the street and other things. She may be

different as Prime Minister from Home Secretary, but a lot of stuff

that people have said about her time there is just people trying to get

jobs. Let's go back to Norman. That may read a couple of messages from

viewers. Stephen says, fantastic that Michael Gove has been potted,

he will have more time to polish his knives. Mike says, I love that

Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan will be banished to the backbenches. One

person says, we need to hear that Jeremy Hunt is sacked as Health

Secretary as well. It has been an extraordinary morning. We have all

heard of the night of the long knives, I will call this the morning

of the butcher's lever. Theresa May has been hacking her way through

this cabinet. Three posts this morning gone. George Osborne sacked

last night, and as we know, Michael Gove and Nicky Morgan and John

Whittingdale all out. A massive amount of change, but there is a

purpose. To signal a clear moment of change and a break with the David

Cameron years. Look at the driving political forces behind the past six

years. David Cameron, George Osborne, Michael Gove, all banished

to the backbenches. Theresa May clearly wants to signal a

fundamental change with what is turning into one of the biggest

reshuffles we have seen in many, many years.

I asked this morning, what do you want from our new Prime Minister?

Welcome. What do you want from Theresa May? I want to see us out of

the single market. This is what we voted for. If she can do it, great.

I am glad to see David Davis and Liam Fox and restaurants and are

involved. It could be good. What about you? I want some honesty from

her. This is the woman who voted for the Iraq war, against making bounds

and the EU referendum. You have not heard speeches -- honesty in her

speeches? Philip Hammond was going to and fro, he said there would be

an emergency budget, then he said there would not be. Some

transparency is what we need now. What do you want from Theresa May? I

would wish to see more positive information, news, concerning the

current situation of the country. Brexit is good, she said Brexit is

Brexit, I wish that she would tell us some more positive outlook for

Britain. I am excited she is bringing in Leave campaigners to do

this for the country, it is commendable. Thank you.

I have two Conservative MPs with me. You have been since 2015. I cannot

read this writing, I'm sorry! A couple of voters and viewers, two

them really excited that so many Leave campaigners have got top jobs.

The early appointments show that the new Prime Minister, still getting