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Speaker 1: In the Brady, our UK correspondent is with us ello

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Speaker 1: Inda Heather.

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Speaker 2: Great to speak to you again.

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Speaker 1: So Trump's arriving at you tonight? Is he?

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Speaker 2: He is? He will fly into London Stansted Airport in

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Speaker 2: about twelve hours time. And what we're seeing is an

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Speaker 2: unprecedented second state visit for a United States president. It's

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Speaker 2: never happened before, an unprecedented security operation. I think there

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Speaker 2: won't be a spare police officer in the country. I

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Speaker 2: think all leave within fifty miles of London will have

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Speaker 2: been canceled and a very very tight security operation. It

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Speaker 2: will be so a lot of it will focus around

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Speaker 2: Windsor Castle, and then he will be over at Checkers

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Speaker 2: as well, where the Prime Minister has a grace and

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Speaker 2: favor country mansion to entertain dignitaries from overseas. It's a huge,

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Speaker 2: huge week in more ways than one for Keir Starmer

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Speaker 2: and Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's going to go Okay?

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Speaker 2: Look, there will be some protests, but I think as

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Speaker 2: vocal as they will be, they will be kept out

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Speaker 2: of sight and the people will be given space to protest.

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Speaker 2: But the news cameras, I think will be doing their

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Speaker 2: best to just focus on stuff that paints the UK

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Speaker 2: in a positive light. Britain needs this week to go well.

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Speaker 2: Britain needs trade deals with America, Britain needs friends right now,

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Speaker 2: and I think Starmer really needs this week to be

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Speaker 2: brilliant because he's had a rocky few weeks and months.

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Speaker 2: He's languishing in the polls. There's talk of replacing him

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Speaker 2: within Labor and that will only grow. So I think

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Speaker 2: what we're seeing this week will probably be Starmer at

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Speaker 2: his best doing the international stuff. But an awful lot

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Speaker 2: of people feel that the Prime Minister has taken his

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Speaker 2: eye off the ball domestically for some time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but am I right in thinking he's still got

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Speaker 1: to be grulled today over the Mendelsohn affair.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so three hours have been allocated this morning in

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Speaker 2: Parliament and he gave quite a feisty interview by Starmar

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Speaker 2: standards last night defending his own handling of everything and

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Speaker 2: the timing of everything and who knew what So for

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Speaker 2: anyone who hasn't all of this, Peter Mandelsson was the

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Speaker 2: UK ambassador to America last Wednesday Prime Minister's question, Starmer

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Speaker 2: defended him, even though there were question marks over his

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Speaker 2: long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, and it became quickly clear

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Speaker 2: that that position was untenable because there were so many

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Speaker 2: emails got leaked to the media from Mandelsson writing to

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Speaker 2: Epstein after he had been convicted of abusing children, saying,

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Speaker 2: fight this, fight for an early release. We love you,

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Speaker 2: your friends love you, We'll stand by you. Cringey, cringey

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Speaker 2: stuff from Peter Mandelsson. And then within twenty four hours

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Speaker 2: Starmer had to come out and say he's gone. I've

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Speaker 2: had to get rid of him. So it's not a

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Speaker 2: good look for Starmer, and I think the whole accusation

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Speaker 2: that his critics make is that he's a flip flop

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister says one thing and then the next day

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Speaker 2: does something else. It just keeps playing out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, why has Conor McGrigor pulled out.

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Speaker 2: So he had no chance of ever becoming president of Ireland.

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Speaker 2: We will elect our next president for seven years on

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Speaker 2: October twenty fourth. It's kind of like a job nobody

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Speaker 2: wants at the moment. Not that many front runners or

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Speaker 2: big names have gone into the race, but McGregor has

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Speaker 2: made a big deal of going to America popping up

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Speaker 2: in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick's Day and channeling

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Speaker 2: all that Trump ergy and the friendships he's made in

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Speaker 2: the MAGA world, and he was painting himself out to

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Speaker 2: be the savior of Ireland. I don't quite know who

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Speaker 2: he's saving Ireland from. We're running a budget surplus of

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Speaker 2: nine billion. I mean, it's the money washing around Ireland

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Speaker 2: and government at the moment is insane. Compared to when

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Speaker 2: I was a kid growing up in the eighties, we

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Speaker 2: were on our knees. Our life in Ireland is pretty

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Speaker 2: pretty good right now, but McGregor riles up this far

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Speaker 2: right kind of fringe. I would say it's a percentage

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Speaker 2: of one percent in Ireland. But unfortunately he was never

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Speaker 2: going to get the support and he saw that and

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Speaker 2: he has pulled out. He couldn't get the county councils

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Speaker 2: to back him, or twenty elected representatives. And it's a

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Speaker 2: shame because I actually got asked if I'd run, and

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Speaker 2: I would liked nothing better than getting in the ring

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Speaker 2: with Connor McGregor. I just would have. I would have

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Speaker 2: eaten them alive, honestly.

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Speaker 1: So why didn't you say yes?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm forty nine and I've an awful lot more

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Speaker 2: to achieve seven years time might be a different story,

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Speaker 2: but watch this space hy good tip.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much into Indo Brady, UK correspondent. For

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