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DERMOT MURNAGHAN: To review today’s papers are Conservative MP and Eurosceptic Nus Ghani, the Labour MP David Lammy and in between them the author Bonnie Greer, a very good morning to you all.  If we kick off with this issue of Sadiq Khan and the reverberations of the campaign that was fought by the Conservatives.   Nus, what did you make of it as a Conservative, female, Muslim MP, what did you make of that campaign from Zac Goldsmith and his supporters?

NUS GHANI: It was always going to be a rough and tumble campaign.

DM: Did you think they were right to point out the company Sadiq Khan was keeping?  

NUS GHANI: I think it’s absolutely right to hold any candidate to account and not shy away from anything just because they come from a different background, it is absolutely right to have that conversation.  It was perhaps a narrow campaign and because it was a narrow campaign that now all people think of about Zac rather than the other things he was campaigning on whether it was environmental, whether it was business, whether it was on transport, the campaign just got too narrow and London fundamentally has changed.   

DM: But do you agree with Bonnie there, that you were meant to work it out for yourself weren’t you, by the nature of that campaign, it was almost like a previous Conservative campaign ‘Are you thinking what we’re thinking?’, if he is hanging around with people like that then maybe he believes what they believe in.  

NUS GHANI: I think that is a little bit over the top.  There is a tendency when elections are won or lost just to focus on the winning campaign being the bees knees and the losing campaign must have been the worst campaign on the planet.  London has always been a left leaning city, the result might have always been that Sadiq would have won but do you know it was …

DM: The BBC and a blazing row apparently about revealing stars bumper pay packets.  

NUS GHANI: I thought it was interesting in all the papers today the flak that John Whittingdale is under from all sides, from Members of Parliament of all sides, of all the luvvies, just because he is doing his job which is in the law, to hold the BBC to account once every ten years, to scrutinise what the BBC is up to and it appears to be a criticism of him doing his job which is down in the royal charter.  It seems like the luvvies are throwing their toys out of the pram.   

DM: We hear that the BBC Trust, the independent body that oversees the BBC will go and there will be a new body and that there’ll effectively be political appointees on it who could have control over scheduling and programming and current affairs?

NUS GHANI: The BBC would argue it is completely independent, they are not going to allow anybody to have control over their … It’s interesting, we hold the BBC to account once every ten years and as soon as you try and scrutinise it, the journalists who want to hold parliamentarians to account get very upset if parliamentarians want to hold the BBC to account.  

DM: Dominic Lawson writing in the Sunday Times saying that David Cameron is less of a gentleman than Jeremy Corbyn.  

NUS GHANI: If Jeremy was such a gentleman why wasn’t he there at Sadiq Khan’s swearing in ceremony?   He wasn’t at Sadiq Khan’s.  I think the difference between being a gentleman, possibly being passive aggressive and then being a leader of the party, having a vision …

DM: This story about Donald Trump, he’s desperately seeking the female vote.

NUS GHANI: It worries me, it worries me what he stands for.  It’s interesting that Amir Khan was in a fight last night with a Mexican and one of the things that Amir said before the fight was would that fight take place if Trump was President, Amir being a Muslim and the other chap a Mexican.  What’s interesting about this election, what Trump needs to do is broaden his base which means he needs to get the female vote.  How does he do that?  Well downgrading Hillary Clinton, it’s a tricky one isn’t it?   

DM: Let’s end with Leicester City lifting us all up.  

NUS GHANI: A fantastic story, absolutely fantastic.  I love the fact that 5000 samosas were made over the weekend, Leicester is no longer down the road from Nottingham.   What a superb story.   The only negative out of this story is I’ll have to spend Tuesday afternoon with Keith Vaz and the Leicester [throng], otherwise it is a brilliant, brilliant story.  

DM: And the sun is shining, Nus Ghani, David Lammy, Bonnie Greer, very good to see you all, thank you very much indeed for a lively review there.