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Speaker 1: Kay Oliver our UK, you're correspondent, k good morning to you,

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Speaker 1: a defiant Mastershift judge going nowhere over there.

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, good morning to you Ryan. And just to

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Speaker 2: say it seems it's a case of out of the

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Speaker 2: frying pan, straight into the fire for Greg Wallace. He

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Speaker 2: has posted a defiant online video which basically, over these

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Speaker 2: claims of inappropriate conduct, he is pointing a finger at

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Speaker 2: middle class women of a certain age. Now, he's also

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Speaker 2: said that he over nearly twenty years, has worked with

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Speaker 2: perhaps four thousand contestants and this is a tiny minority

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Speaker 2: of these women who are making these allegations of inappropriate

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Speaker 2: language and misogyny. And it would be perhaps a question

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Speaker 2: to be answered as to why at this stage, if

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Speaker 2: we're talking about crisis management, he has gone out and

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Speaker 2: put this online so that now millions of people and

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Speaker 2: see this rather defiant backlash coming through. There are questions

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Speaker 2: being asked right, left and center about this one, including

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Speaker 2: claims from another male former contestant that Master Chef has

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Speaker 2: a very toxic atmosphere and that what is being said

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Speaker 2: about Greg Wallace is really the tip of the iceberg.

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Speaker 2: That BBC are launching investigations right left and center. But

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Speaker 2: this seems to be a story that's going to run

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Speaker 2: and run at the.

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Speaker 1: Moment here goodness may what about the crackdown on the

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Speaker 1: promised crackdown on migration from labor.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been hearing about this promised crackdown since they

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Speaker 2: came into office in July, and it seems that numbers

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Speaker 2: today have revealed twenty thousand small boat crossings since July,

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Speaker 2: with no sign of it really letting up. Brian Now

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Speaker 2: Labour's Pat McFadden speaking today. He's a government minister. He

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Speaker 2: has promised that the government is determined to tackle this issue.

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Speaker 2: When questioned, would really not give a target figure for

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Speaker 2: the numbers, so there is no specific number that they're

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Speaker 2: going to talk about. However, we do know that last

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Speaker 2: week there were figures revealed by the Office of National

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Speaker 2: Statistics that shows under the Tory watch, up until June

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, nine hundred thousand people came into this country.

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Speaker 2: And the feeling is if these numbers continue to grow

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Speaker 2: like this, by the year twenty forty six, we will

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Speaker 2: have fifteen extra cities the size of Birmingham needed to

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Speaker 2: accommodate all the people that are over here. So obviously

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Speaker 2: this is still very much a political hot potato and

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Speaker 2: we wait to see what action they will take.

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Speaker 1: Certainly sounds like a ka Thank you very much for that,

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Speaker 1: kol of our UK europe correspondent.

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