Well, hello there you're watching The Press Preview, a first look at what is on the front pages as they arrive. Time then to see what's making the headlines with The Guardian's political editor Pippa Kareer and the Whitehall editor of The Daily Mail, Claire Ellicott, welcome to both of you. Great to see you here in Downey Street as well. It's from now until just before midnight. So to the front pages as ever, let's kick off with those. The eye says it's back to the future after Rishie Sunak took a major political gamble and brought former Prime Minister David Cameron back into cabinet as his new foreign secretary. The Financial Times also leads on the return of David Cameron after Swellow Braverman sacking and the consequent reshuffle. Well, this is how the Metro sees the return of Mr. Cameron. Wham, bam, in comes Cam. Claire's paper, The Daily Mail, is in an article that she part authors. It says here, Claire, describes it as Richie's big throw of the dice. Pippa, writing in The Guardian, calls it a stunning political comeback aimed at closing the gap with labor. Well, according to the Times, it's a comeback from the political wilderness.

This is the front of The Sun. Recall me, Dave. The telegraph says the Cameron return has sparked a backlash from Brexitears on the right of the party. And finally, The Daily Star says that 88% of women find a bald man sexy. At least that's according to new research by a bunch of eggheads. So the paper says somewhere in there, there'll be David Cameron, I'm sure. A reminder: by scanning the QR code you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers while you watch us and listen to our guests. So let's go to the Guardian's political editor, Pippa Kura, and the Whitehall editor of The Daily Mail, Claire Ellicott. Lovely to have you both here, penning those front pages for us as well. Pippa, kick off then with The Guardian, picking out two words from the headline there, Cameron, shock return in a high stakes reshuffle. First of all, how shocked were you and how high stakes is it?

Totally shocked, because just half an hour before, Suelah Braverman had been sacked. Unsurprisingly, we'd all be predicting it as Home Secretary, and was moved on back to the back benches. Obviously, the question then was who was going to replace her? There was a speculation around that James Cleverley was going to move from the Foreign Office. Then this car pulls up outside Downing Street, and your colleagues—I think it was Sam Coates earlier, Anna, was watching as it all unfolded. Speculation, I think I listened to Kay Burley talking about how ministers arrive in their cars and who is this going to be getting out of the car? And lo and behold, it was David Cameron.

Getting.

Out of a taxi. Getting out of axi as an Uber was it? And lo and behold it was David Cameron. So the collective sharp intake of breath right across Westminster. Because although several years ago, I think it was 2018, I remember writing stories about speculation that he had his eye on coming back and ideally would like to do the job of Foreign Secretary. That is some time ago, and he hasn't really been in public eye for the last 12 months, 24 months. So it was a surprise that we were not expecting. So yeah.

Definitely shocked. Yeah. And your paper, the Daily Mail, let's look at that, shall we, as well? Rishi's big throw of the dice. Again, that theme of jeopardy. Why do you think that is? Is it because he comes with baggage? Brexit baggage being one of them, for example?

Yes. I mean, you've got David Cameron, who led the Remain campaign. He's now the Foreign Secretary. It's a huge shift. Rishi Sunak is the most prominent right-winger in his cabinet, and he's brought in David Cameron, the man who led the Remain campaign. It's extraordinary. It's a real move from Rishie. He doesn't have a lot to lose. He's got one year left to the election. He's just taken the view, I think, that he has to do something bold. There has to be a major gamble. David Cameron, let me say we were also shocked when he emerged today. He is a huge gamble, and it will be really interesting to see how it pans out. They've got huge differences in policies and he has a surprise appointment.

Well, let's take a look at the why then, shall we? The argument is that he's jettisoned the populist right-wing of the conservative Party, that he was trying to pacify them and the Red Wall seats. Now it's all about the Shires, about the home counties, about the traditional conservative areas, trying to prop those up. So would you say this is actually a retreat then for the conservative Party in where it's firefighting. It's digging its trenches.

Somewhere else? Yeah, I think there's a bit of that, although that's not new. We've seen Richie Sinag pivot towards the Blue Wall ever since he's been in power. He doesn't have the allure that Boris Johnson seemed to have the Red War, Brexit was not the issue that it was in some of those former Labour seats, which went over wholesale to the Conservatives in 2019. So this is not a new thing, but it definitely feels like it's a change from this time. Is it only really a month ago when he was at a conservative party conference, standing on the stage, promising to be the change candidate, and distancing himself from 30 years of political consensus, saying he wanted to overturn it. Lo and behold, five weeks later, he brings back a former Prime Minister who was in charge of the conservative party for 12 of those years and Prime Minister for six of those years, a big chunk of time, and quite clearly drops the strategy of being the change candidate, obviously recognising that it was fairly incredible when your party had been in power for 13 years to try and present yourself as something new and up against Labour in the.

Next election. Yeah, that was always possibly a tool order, possibly more so now. If you take a look at the eye with that theme, Back to the future. It's what many commentators have said today.

Yes. I mean, you've got David Cameron is just a really interesting appointment. He was a successful Tory leader. He won elections. He knows how to win elections. Bringing him back in also brings some of the moderates in the Tory party who were feeling slightly alienated by people like Suella Braverman's rhetoric around homeless people and around the protests. I think they needed to bring someone in to maybe counter her. But I think David Cameron obviously is a surprising person to have brought in.

So Swellah Bravman, it's amazing how she's become yesterday's woman so quickly. Whatever David Cameron's appointment has done, it has been a massive distraction, has it not? So what happens to her now? And did Rishie Sunak work out that the threat of her on the back benches wasn't possibly as great as he feared, and that it was time for her to go?

It was like the dead cat strategy. Extraordinary, wasn't it? I mean, the one sure-far way of getting rid of Swellop Rubman's sacking off the front pages was appointing David Cameron. Not that I'm suggesting that's why they did it, but yes, absolutely. There was a lot there was concern inside Number 10 previously that it was better to keep Cuella Bruckman inside the tent than it was to have her outside. I think that feeling persisted despite the fact that over very many issues, she came forth with quite inflammatory rhetoric, which actually really quite upset quite a lot of more moderateory MPs.

I mean, specifically, the homelessness issue, do you think?

She was suggesting that homelessness was a lifestyle choice and that tents should be... Charities should be banned from the land tents on the streets. And then there was stuff around the March calling the Pope Palace to Pallian marches, calling them hate marches. But they're just the latest situations in a variety of really quite powerful, hateful.

Rhetoric- The hurricane of global migration, for example.

-invasions on our Coast, talking about people coming over in small boats across the channel. But I think there was calculations done in number 10, and I think they worked out. Certainly the public pulling that has been issued today by UGov and others reflects the private pulling, which they've done themselves, which is an overwhelming majority of people thought that they'd gone too far. She was in danger, well, had already detoxified the conservative party and the conservative party brand, which obviously has been buffeted over the last few years anyway. They calculated that it was better off having her outside, that the so-called rebellion, the so-called rebels, was small in number and their minds would be focused by the impending general election, that they may well try and cause some trouble, but it was unlikely to be enough or sufficient enough to really put Sunak in danger, to put Sunak's position in peril. And the calculation was it was better to have her out.

After all. Yes. And if we take a look at the Financial Times, they pick up on things that are happening later this week, not least the Rwanda policy. Their paragraph says, If Sunak faces a new clash with hardline colleagues, when the Supreme Court rules on Braverman's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, if it is deemed unlawful, she's expected to renew calls for Britain to quit the European Convention on Human Rights, which is always something coming this week, isn't it? What happens now to the right-wing of the conservative Party who can already coalesce around something tangible this week?

Well, I think that was one of the factors in sacking her when Rishiie Zolak did, because on Wednesday, we get this ruling and had it, there's feeling in government, there's a lot of pessimism that it won't actually go in the government's favour. If that's the case, Llewellyn Braverman could have used it as a way of quitting to further her leadership ambitions. This is the thinking in Downing Street and saying, We need to quit the ECHR. There's no way we can carry on like this. There is no way we can stop the boats without doing it. So the idea, I think, behind the Downing Street thinking today was to get rid of her today. So if she couldn't resign on Wednesday as a bit of a martyr. And you're right that the right-wing of the party will coalesce around her and they will do now. There is a debate about how many people we're talking about. Some people would be up to 50 MPs who would back her. Others put it as low as six or seven. It's not quite clear. We've only had one person, Andrea Jenkins, who have put in a no-confidence letter.

Yes, because Richie's been a year, they now can. Is that the point?

Yes. And so the ruling on Wednesday will be really interesting, and it'll be a real moment for Richie, Sunak, to decide where he takes the party because we know he doesn't want to take the UK at the... The ECHR. And we know that a lot of the members of his cabinet, not least Cameron, don't want that to happen either. So it looks like that policy is probably dead in the water. But it does give the right-wing of the party something to fight for.

Well, that's the question now, isn't it? What is the conservative Party now? Many people are suggesting that David Cameron wouldn't junk all the appointments he currently has for four or five months in office. So it does look like the election will be in the autumn next year. But who will be presenting? What will the face be of the conservative party in the fight against the Kyrs-Starmas party? Well, it.

Have to be Rishad Snank. He's the Prime Minister, and he still out-polls his party.

But do we know what he.

Stands for now? Well, I mean, it looks like if today is anything to go by, it's a much more moderate face than we've seen previously. Even if his natural inclination on social issues is more traditional than David Cameron's, and I think it is, I think he's recognized that elections are won in the center ground and flirting with the right is not going to bring him sufficient votes in order to win the next election. And of course, it's not just David Cameron. It's also keeping James Cleverley, a fairly emollient, fairly moderate figure in the conservative Party, as Home Secretary or moving into Home Secretary rather. And it's keeping Jeremy Hunt, crucially, as Chancellor. There's been lots of speculation around about Jeremy Hunt's future, particularly because of the pressure that he's coming under from conservative MPs to cut taxes at the autumn statement or the budget going into the general election. So far he's resisted that and said, We need to concentrate on the economy first. We need to drive down inflation. That would be the best tax cut for people, and only then can we concentrate on cutting income taxes or any other taxes, business or whatever.

But that needs to be the priority. That's gone done really badly with some in the party, particularly on the right. But by sticking to that line, by putting out a press release today, Downing Street, confirming that Jeremy Hunt was going to remain in post, they don't normally do that. They announce who's been appointed and who's been sacked. It shows that he has the Prime Minister's support, and hopefully, from their perspective, we'll put an end to those rumours, but says quite a lot about the complexion of the conservative party going forward.

Well, welcome back. You are watching the Press Preview with me once again, the Guardian's political editor, Pippa Creara, and the Whitehall editor of the Daily Mail, Claire Ellicott. Welcome back to both of you. We've talked about David Cameron and Svilla Braverman, and we've talked about briefly the new Home Secretary, James Cleveley. The job doesn't get any easier, does it? We saw what happened at the weekend with the Palestinian marches and the right-wing trouble. But let's also talk about the Rwanda Plan in more detail. The suggestion is it needs to go ahead, even if it means leaving the ECHR, Claire. The problem still looms large is what I'm trying to say.

Yes. This is huge for the government, and this is essentially one of Rishi's... That's key. It's one of his five pledges, and it's essentially what his entire election campaign pence is on. If he can't stop the boat, I don't think the are going to be able to convince people that there is a reason to vote for them. Wednesday is going to be a huge plank of that. The idea is the Rwanda scheme is to act as a deterrent to stop migrants crossing and the government will get the Supreme Court decision on whether or not that can go ahead. We have Robert Jenrick tonight saying that the immigration minister saying that it will have to go ahead, no ifs, no buts. There's lots of different ways to achieve that. It's not clear whether they would have to rejig the treaty or whether they would have to come up with some way of words around it that would help them or use other countries as safe countries if the government does lose this case. But it's going to be a huge problem for James Cleverley. He's just been appointed. It's going to be his firstbig job, and went in the Home Office.

So it is going to be massive for the government and everyone will be watching closely.

Yes, the trouble ahead on domestic, trouble ahead on foreign policies. We know as well, David Cameron has already had to meet the Indian Prime Minister, I think he was today. He had to be sworn in in the House of laws, but he's got this acute problem of the Israel Hamas war as well. And we certainly know that the hospitals in Qatar are really acute now. Joe Biden has waded in talking about the need for hospitals to be safe, including Al-Shifah Hospital. This is on the front page, I think, of your paper, Pippa.

Yes. Actually, it follows that really heart-wending photograph, which we published on the front page of Monday's paper of those babies, those premature babies at the hospital, seven or eight to a bed, all crammed together and wrapped up warm because the hospital had run out of fuel to run their generators and so they couldn't keep them in incubators anymore. It was one of the most, I think, awful images of this conflict. We've heard some horrendous stories both from Israel and from Gaza. But seeing those innocent lives, those tiny babies who had, this is nothing to do with, I think, really brought at home. We're reporting on the front page of tomorrow's paper that Israeli forces have reached the gates of the hospital, which is, of course, like Israel's largest. But it's not just those dozens of babies remaining trapped inside. There's hundreds of other people as well. There was suggestions from doctors that they had to move away people from the windows because anybody that walked past was potentially a target for an Israeli sniper. Of course, what the Israelis say is that the hospital is being weaponized by Hamas, who are well-known for using civilian infrastructure to hide behind as a headquarters for some of their senior commanders, which is why it's apparently a target for the Israelis.

But there are lots of people in there that are incredibly vulnerable that have been probably hundreds that were ill anyway before the attacks, before the bombings even took place. And across Gaza as well, other hospitals too are under so much pressure. It really is a desperate situation.

Yeah. And elsewhere in the reshuffle, of course, we know that Thérôme Coffey has gone as Environment Secretary, replaced by Steve Barclay, whose job as Health Secretary goes to Victoria Atkins. But your papers picked out Esther McVeigh, former TV presenter, obviously still does a bit of it now, as we know. Why have you picked up on her? Is she the last right-winger standing? Is that the way to describe her?

Well, I think that's fair. And so Rishie Seyner obviously got rid of his most right-wing member of the cabinet, when Swellah Braverman. And the right of the party are not happy about that. We've already seen, as we mentioned, Andrea Jenkins putting in an asset with no confidence. There's a group around Soella where are not happy about it. And so putting in Esther McVay is something of a stop to the right of his party, which otherwise might look, as you say, James Cleveley is quite moderate, David Cameron's a remainder. You have Esti McVay who's coming as the minister for common sense. She's being known as... She's there to sort out the wokeery in the civil service and she's going to be a member of cabinet, she's going to be attending cabinet. So she will have a prominent voice around the table. She'll be able to voice her opinions for the right of the party, stand up for them, and it will serve, Richard Stuarts, who will be laid out as a way of keeping her, of keeping the right of the party happy.

Well, David Cavanagh making the front pages certainly tonight. But the person who would, I guess, if today's reshuffle had not happened, Sir Bobby Charlton laid to rest the world of funeral, of a football rather, paying tribute at his funeral today, the legend that is Sir Bobby.