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Speaker 1: Another developments and the Epstein saga and Mandelssohn over in

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Speaker 1: the UK, McSweeney, this is a Starmer's chief of staff

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Speaker 1: has resigned, joining us as Mike Pierce, our UK europe

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Speaker 1: correspondent Mike the latest.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, and this is going to be for secure Starmer.

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Speaker 2: He's facing the most challenging week of his leadership so far.

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Speaker 2: There are calls for his resignation, a possible vote of

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Speaker 2: no confidence also coming as well. Now, all this follows

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Speaker 2: the admission that he gave Lord mandels from the job

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Speaker 2: of UK Ambassador to the United States. That was in

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Speaker 2: spite of knowing that he had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 2: Now in that breaking news in the last couple of hours,

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Speaker 2: morgam at Sweeney is his name, He's Starmer's chief of

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Speaker 2: staff has resigned. He's an affect his right hand man.

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Speaker 2: He says he takes full responsibility for advising the Prime

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Speaker 2: minist to appoint Mandelssohn as a US ambassador last year,

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Speaker 2: a decision he now says is wrong. He says it's

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Speaker 2: damaged the ruling Labour party, the country and trust in politics.

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Speaker 2: The story here is exploding. I can tell you now

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Speaker 2: it comes as a new poul Reville. Starmer has the

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Speaker 2: support of fewer than one in five people in the country. Now,

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Speaker 2: even some of his own MP's are now saying it's

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Speaker 2: only a matter of time before he pays the price.

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Speaker 1: Now Rainer, who was former deputy now beckbing to she's

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Speaker 1: sort of saying I didn't think Mandelson was a good idea,

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Speaker 1: and Lemmy also saying that as well. So do you

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Speaker 1: think Starmer's day is a number or Kenny survived something

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Speaker 1: like this by dumping McSweeney.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we've got a whole load of documents.

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Speaker 2: Last week the government has said it would release a

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Speaker 2: whole load of documents that would sort of say one

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Speaker 2: more or the other, who said what and whatever. I

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Speaker 2: think the real challenge at the moment is there's not

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Speaker 2: another leader in waiting. That will be quite a long process,

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Speaker 2: but you know, we do expect that potentially there will

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Speaker 2: be a challenge. This is Dorr's just not going to

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Speaker 2: go away. It's in the news. Mandelsson's home was sort

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Speaker 2: of raided on Friday last week with big boxes taken away.

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Speaker 2: This story is so big here that there is some

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Speaker 2: doubt as to just how long Starmer can stay. And

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Speaker 2: if the opposition parties call a vod of no confidence,

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Speaker 2: would some of the Labor MPs actually vote with it

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Speaker 2: because some of them actually have come out, you know,

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Speaker 2: both privately and public to say that they don't think

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Speaker 2: Starmer's really is doing a great job here. So it's

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Speaker 2: a bit of a wait and see. But you can't

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Speaker 2: rule anything up.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike. We've covered the good of the Olympics

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Speaker 1: this morning earlier on but you've got the bear in

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Speaker 1: the agli.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm afraid. There have been some ugly scenes as

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Speaker 2: riot police clashed with demonstrators. Police use tear gas and

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Speaker 2: water can in Milan to end that protest. A number

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Speaker 2: of arrest were made. Now. It came as around ten

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Speaker 2: thousand people protested overclaims the games were damaging the environment

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Speaker 2: and concerns over the cost of living. Some released fireworks

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Speaker 2: and through stones at police as well. Meanwhile, officials are

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Speaker 2: basically investigating sabotage on Italy's railway network, halting key lines.

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Speaker 2: Now this led to people unable to get to the

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Speaker 2: games on time. Cables would cut. An investigation into that

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Speaker 2: is underway and in another development, get another appeal to

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Speaker 2: stop spectators booing the American athletes has been made for

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Speaker 2: a second time. The appeal was ignored at the opening ceremony.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we quite heard it because of the

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Speaker 2: microphones being close up to the action, but they did

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Speaker 2: definitely did happen. Of course, that's over the use of

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Speaker 2: ice immigration officers sent over to help to protect those

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Speaker 2: from the United States taking part. So you know, some

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Speaker 2: good news from Males Impis in terms of what the

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Speaker 2: athletes are doing, but on the edges of it some

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Speaker 2: ugly scenes as well, so not not particularly good if you're.

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Speaker 1: In miland appreciate that. Mike psa UK europe correspondent. I'm

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Speaker 1: not quite sure how if you are protesting about its

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Speaker 1: effect on the environment, how firing off fireworks and stopping

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Speaker 1: public transport is going to help you cause. But there

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