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Speaker 1: Gavin gray As are UK correspondent this evening. Hi, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: hither look to you like you. European Parliament is probably

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Speaker 1: going to shift to the right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the way everyone is expecting it

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Speaker 2: to go. So they are across the EU voting for

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Speaker 2: the European Parliament members three hundred and seventy three million

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Speaker 2: Europeans eligible to vote. It's the second biggest democratic election

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Speaker 2: in the world after India, seven hundred and twenty seats

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Speaker 2: up for grabs, each country having seats proportioned to their population,

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Speaker 2: with Germany and ninety six for instance, France eighty one,

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands thirty one seats. They're up for grabs and

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Speaker 2: they are among the first count to vote. The focus

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Speaker 2: will move to Ireland and the Czech Republic as well.

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Speaker 2: Today they vote, and then the rest of the EU

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Speaker 2: votes over the weekend, with the expected result late Sunday

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Speaker 2: evening European time Monday morning for New Zealand. Now we

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Speaker 2: are expecting this result this election to come and favor

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Speaker 2: potentially far right parties eyeing victory in France, Belgium, Austria

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Speaker 2: and Italy. So everyone's really looking at the first one

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Speaker 2: Netherlands the Dutch to see which way they're going. Now

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Speaker 2: we don't know yet. Voting is underway, but the exit

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Speaker 2: polls suggest it's a tight race between the Party of

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Speaker 2: Anti Islam Populist Builders and the Left Green Alliance, and

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Speaker 2: that would suggest that mister Wilder's Freedom Party is on

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Speaker 2: course for some gains, but not the runaway victory, not

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Speaker 2: a repeat of the runaway victory of the general election

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Speaker 2: within the Netherlands to elect a Dutch governance. So it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a very interesting few days. A lot

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Speaker 2: of very concerned people in Europe about this lurch to

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Speaker 2: the right.

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Speaker 1: Kevin explained to me the latest with Harry, Prince Harry

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Speaker 1: in his court case.

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Speaker 2: Oh how long have you got? This is really really

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Speaker 2: quite complicated, But basically Prince Harry always used to full

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Speaker 2: publicly funded security protection until he stepped back from royal

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Speaker 2: duties and moved to America back in March twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: There is something called RAVEK, the Executive Committee for the

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Speaker 2: Protection of Royal and Public Figures, and they decide the

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Speaker 2: level of protection and in the past, all being in

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Speaker 2: that very senior clique of royal family members, they all

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Speaker 2: received the same level of protection that changed when he

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Speaker 2: moved and his was downgraded. His level of protection was

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Speaker 2: downgraded when he visited the UK. He didn't like that.

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Speaker 2: He launched legal action against the Home Office responsible for policing.

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Speaker 2: Multiple hearings have taken place since he was told that

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Speaker 2: he was refused permission to challenge a ruling which said

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Speaker 2: there was no procedural unfairness, and he decided to go

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Speaker 2: up and over the head of that High Court to

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Speaker 2: the Court of Appeal and the judge has said he

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Speaker 2: can appeal. He said he was persuaded quote not without hesitation,

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Speaker 2: that Harry's challenge has a prospect of success. So back

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Speaker 2: to court we all go. This is costing the UK

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Speaker 2: taxpayer more money. I would suggest it's possibly making Harry

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Speaker 2: even less popular, but that's just my opinion. So Harry

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Speaker 2: back to court. One of lots of different legal proceedingcies undertaking,

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Speaker 2: including of course all those cases against the newspapers and

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Speaker 2: media here in the UK.

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Speaker 1: Devin, your opinion is bang on, I lover, Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, Devin Gray, UK correspondent. For more from Hither

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