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Speaker 1: We're going to London. In the Brady's aw Uken you

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Speaker 1: have corres correspondent, I should say correspondent in that Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show.

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Speaker 2: Hey Ryan, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: So the terriffs for the EU obviously one thing, and

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Speaker 1: then you've got Starmer also going over to Washington to

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Speaker 1: make with Trump.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big day, it really really is. And

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Speaker 2: look there are two issues on the table today when

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Speaker 2: Starmer gets there. Trade is obviously huge because Britain's economy

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Speaker 2: is going nowhere. And if he puts twenty five percent

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Speaker 2: tariffs on UK goods, remember UK famously notoriously now not

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Speaker 2: in the EU, twenty five percent on goods from this

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Speaker 2: country will basically wipe out this year and the next

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Speaker 2: four years nothing, There will be no growth. So Starmer

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Speaker 2: will be concerned about that and we'll be asking for

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Speaker 2: an exception to be made for the UK. And then

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Speaker 2: the huge issue internationally is Ukraine. And it's clear that

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Speaker 2: Starmer has spoken to Macron. Tuesday night there was a

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Speaker 2: phone call from Paris to Downing Street. Mac had spent

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Speaker 2: time with Trump on Monday. So Europe is coordinating, joining

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Speaker 2: forces and coming at Trump from the same page. What

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Speaker 2: Starmer is going to offer today is that there will

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Speaker 2: be an offer of British boots on the ground as

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Speaker 2: peacekeepers alongside French soldiers. Other European nations may get involved

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Speaker 2: as well, up to thirty thousand troops rotating in and

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Speaker 2: out of Ukraine, and Starmer is going to tell Trump

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Speaker 2: that we need air support from the United States to

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Speaker 2: deter Putin from coming again.

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Speaker 1: You guys should be okay on the teriff front, though, right,

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Speaker 1: because you don't have a trade difficit with the US.

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Speaker 2: No, but it will look extremely unfair if he starts

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Speaker 2: whacking tariffs on every twenty seven members of the European Union,

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Speaker 2: I mean Ireland where I'm from. There's huge concern over

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Speaker 2: this because our economy is built on exporting pharmaceutical and

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Speaker 2: tech products to the United States. And he's already pointed

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Speaker 2: out that a lot of these big tech companies that

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Speaker 2: are American who base themselves in Dublin and are paying

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Speaker 2: their taxes to the Irish government. He believes that money

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Speaker 2: should be going to the US treasury. So every capital

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Speaker 2: city in Europe right now is running around you know,

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Speaker 2: he has set the cat amongst the pigeons big time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Zelensky coming to London on Sunday. So busy. He's

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Speaker 1: going to be busy. He'll be in Washington tomorrow in

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Speaker 1: the Friday local time, and then he'll be in London

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Speaker 1: on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: The guy never stops. I've seen him in person this

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Speaker 2: year speak. I don't know where he gets the energy

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Speaker 2: from three years of war. He is relentless and he

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Speaker 2: has to be because the Russians are and will be relentless.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we need to wise up to what's coming here.

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Speaker 2: Zelensky will come to London on Sunday and it's clear

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Speaker 2: that he will be angling to see just how much

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Speaker 2: progress Starmer has made with Trump in terms of getting

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Speaker 2: a deal. But Starmer has been clever this week, you know,

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Speaker 2: cutting UK foreign aid and diverting that money to the military,

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Speaker 2: trying to get spending on defense up to two and

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Speaker 2: a half percent of GDP. Europe is playing catch up.

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Speaker 2: But whatever Trump, whether he's a genius or an idiot,

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Speaker 2: he has got everyone dancing to his tune, which you know,

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Speaker 2: it's extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it seems some things in some ways that

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Speaker 1: is working for him as well. On the international stage. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this nurse who complained that a colleague

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Speaker 1: lift her out of a tea round and she's tried

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Speaker 1: to get compensation. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: She has and she has won eighty thousand dollars of compensation.

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Speaker 2: Took it to an employment tribunal. Way do you hear this?

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Speaker 2: Her name is Susan Hamilton. She's a nurse. She qualified

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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six, so she's a very experienced nurse.

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Speaker 2: And she's nursing at Saint Helier Hospital in Sutton, which

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Speaker 2: is just south of London. So there's a male dietitian

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Speaker 2: working there. They clearly don't like each other. She would

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Speaker 2: say good morning to him or greet him in the morning,

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Speaker 2: and complaint went into management. Ultimately they both complained about

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Speaker 2: each other. She took it further, She took it to

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Speaker 2: a tribune. So she said that this male dietitian would

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Speaker 2: would not return her greeting in the morning meetings when

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Speaker 2: she spoke, he would look the other way. And then

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Speaker 2: the final insult was he would make rounds of tea

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Speaker 2: and she would be excluded. And her management pulled them

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Speaker 2: this is so peasant. And then when management pulled them

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Speaker 2: up on this and said, you know you can't exclude

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Speaker 2: her from the rounds of tea. His response was to

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Speaker 2: stop making the tea altogether, so nobody got a cupa.

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Speaker 2: So she's taken it to an industrial tribunal. They found

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Speaker 2: in her favor and she has been awarded eighty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: So if there's anyone out there that wants to leave

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Speaker 2: me off their cup of tea, round filler, kettle filler,

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Speaker 2: boots eighty.

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Speaker 1: K on what grounds? On what grounds do you get compensations?

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Speaker 1: And who pays the compensation? Is that the employer?

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Speaker 2: I would say it's the employer, yeah, to be the

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Speaker 2: National Health Service ultimately the UK taxpayer. But I mean

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Speaker 2: it does sound ridiculous that this must have been a

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Speaker 2: very long running mini work feud but ended up with

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Speaker 2: that judgment. And yeah, it's all over the papers today.

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Speaker 2: Check it out. Read it eighty grand because she was

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Speaker 2: left out of the tea round.

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Speaker 1: Goodness me in the Thank you so much for that.

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Speaker 1: Indo Brady, our UK and Europe correspondent.

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