angela hartnett, welcome.rking with gordon ramsay at the start of your career, that must have been... i'm trying to think of the right word... testing, challenging, was it? they're both very good words for it. yeah, i mean it was, it was certainly a challenge. i think because i went into it very naive, i'd come from a lovely little restaurant in cambridge, where we started at nine in the morning, very civilised, we had a nice two hour break in the afternoon and then generally we we were home before the pubs closed, you know, it was very nice. then came to london, where we were starting at seven in the morning, a break if we were lucky, we got half an hour in the afternoon — if we were lucky — and then finishing never before midnight, you know, six days a week. it was gruelling, is another word for it! laughter. gruelling! were you conscious that this was sink or swim? yeah. you'd gone into the big league and if you didn't make it, he was going to be quite tough? and get rid of you? oh, totally. oh totally, i t

shimmins starchefs —— and we are in cannes the interview shimmins star chefs —— michelin star chef angela hartnettand welcome to bbc news. the former prime minister sir john major has weighed into the debate over theresa may's future calling those conservatives who're seeking to undermine the prime minister "self—absorbed and disloyal". mrs may has admitted her difficult speech at the party conference last week had been "uncomfortable" for her but says she's "resilient" and determined to carry on in thejob. here's our political correspondent susana mendonca. and there is some flash photography in her report. if i win, i shall continue as prime minister... fending off the plotters was a full—time job for sirjohn major. when he was prime minister, he faced a leadership election and won. more than two decades on, he's now coming to the defence of theresa may against those plotting to take her down. writing in a sunday newspaper, sirjohn said, "the country has had enough of these self absorbed and frankly disloyal behaviour seen among some in the conservative party", and he urged party members involve