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Speaker 1: With us. Now is Inde Brady, a UK correspondent, Hello, Inda, Hey, Heather,

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Speaker 1: good to speak to you, right, is Angela Ryina Dogtaka.

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Speaker 1: She's clinging on, She's clinging on. The problem here is

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Speaker 1: that she's spent one point six million dollars on a

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Speaker 1: seaside apartment in Hove on the South Coast. No problem

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Speaker 1: with that, but the rules are that if it's your

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Speaker 1: second home you have to pay a lot of extra

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Speaker 1: money in stamp duty this property purchased tax that we

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Speaker 1: have here. On the face of it, it looks like

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Speaker 1: she's been very poorly advised by a lawyer. She says that,

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Speaker 1: so the figure we're talking about is eighty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: extra in tax in stamp duty. So she has come

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Speaker 1: out and the papers have been all over this to

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Speaker 1: have been following this story for weeks and weeks and weeks.

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Speaker 1: She says that she was given advice that she didn't

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Speaker 1: have to pay it. There is a family property in

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Speaker 1: the Manchester area that she initially had down as her

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Speaker 1: main home. Even though she's most in London and lives

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Speaker 1: in a Grace and Favor flat from the UK Government

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Speaker 1: near Downing Street, it's not looking good for her. She's

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Speaker 1: now got secondary advice from presumably a better lawyer who

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Speaker 1: has said to her that you know what, you should

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Speaker 1: have paid that eighty K. So now she's referred herself

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Speaker 1: to the government watchdog and she awaits her fate. But

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Speaker 1: the rules are the rules. I feel sorry for she

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Speaker 1: has a disabled son and it's a very complicated living

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Speaker 1: arrangement in the Manchester property. But I think ultimately she's

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Speaker 1: also housing secretary and this does not look good. Tell

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Speaker 1: me what this book says about William and the Scottish referendum. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so this is a guy called Valentine Lowe, a very

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Speaker 1: respected royal commentator and journalist, And there's a little snippet

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Speaker 1: in this book which is being serialized in the papers

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Speaker 1: this week, that if we go back to the Scottish

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Speaker 1: independence referendum of eleven years ago, he has got info

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Speaker 1: that it was William who leaned on his grandmother to

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Speaker 1: get involved and make some sort of a public pronouncement. Now,

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Speaker 1: the monarch here cannot be politic, but there was an

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Speaker 1: incident and I thought it was very strange at the time.

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Speaker 1: The Queen went to church in Scotland and she stopped

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Speaker 1: and she spoke to members of the public and she

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Speaker 1: was heard to say I hope the people of Scotland

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Speaker 1: think very carefully about this, and off she walked. And

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Speaker 1: of course people talk, journalists listen, and it ends up

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Speaker 1: in the newspapers. And that was all prompted by the

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Speaker 1: polling at the time the previous weekend putting the Yes

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Speaker 1: for Independence for Scotland campaign ahead of No and remaining

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Speaker 1: in the UK. And of course then a week later

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Speaker 1: Scotland went out and voted fifty five percent in favor

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Speaker 1: of staying in the United Kingdom. So why is William

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Speaker 1: so interested in it? Well, he didn't want to see

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Speaker 1: the UK breakup. And I think you know, he's not stupid.

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Speaker 1: He was what thirty two at the time. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he wanted to be a future king of the

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Speaker 1: United Kingdom of England, Wales and a bit of Ireland.

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Speaker 1: Scotland is very very important and William clearly felt she

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Speaker 1: needs to be aware that this is the way it's going.

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Speaker 1: The Yes campaign is winning and the only person that

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Speaker 1: anyone will listen to on this with reason is her

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Speaker 1: Majesty the Queen, his grandmother. Hey, so how does Nigel

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Speaker 1: for Azrik and you guys have become North Korea. This

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Speaker 1: is a good one. So I watched this. He gave

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Speaker 1: his address and he was questioned at the US Congress.

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Speaker 1: They're looking at online safety. He turned up wearing a

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Speaker 1: pin badge from the news channel here, the right wing

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Speaker 1: news channel that he sometimes appears on. It was all

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Speaker 1: very odd, but Nigel Faras said that we've got situations

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Speaker 1: like the Lucy Connolly case. So she was a woman

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Speaker 1: who posted on social media urging people to burn down

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Speaker 1: asylum hotels. She subsequently deleted it, but she ended up

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Speaker 1: getting put before the courts, convicted and she spent over

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Speaker 1: a year in prison. And then he highlighted the case

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Speaker 1: of Graham Linehan, the Irish guy who's a comedy writer

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Speaker 1: who put out some anti trans tweets earlier this year

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Speaker 1: that he throw yesterday by five armed police officer. So

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Speaker 1: Foras reckons that the UK is no longer a bastion

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Speaker 1: of free speech for anyone who kind of wants to

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Speaker 1: investigate this further, turn on his news channel, and we

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Speaker 1: are not North Korea just yet by any stretch of course.

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Speaker 1: You're not. Inda, Thank you very much, appreciate into Brady

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