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Speaker 1: Devin gray Are UK correspondence with us Hallo Gevin, Hi

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Speaker 1: have a heller, right, So what's the latest with Andrew?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the story that is not going to go

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Speaker 2: away and must be really mounting further pressure on the

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Speaker 2: rolls to do something more about it, mainly now because

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Speaker 2: the MPs are getting involved. They can't understand why they

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Speaker 2: decided their or family decided not to actually strip him

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Speaker 2: with the title, saying yes, it would have taken up

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Speaker 2: parliamentary time, but so what that sounds like a bit

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Speaker 2: of an excuse to some people. And now of course

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Speaker 2: his living arrangements are under scrutiny. He has this huge,

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Speaker 2: thirty roomed lodge in Windsor, not far from the castle,

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Speaker 2: in beautiful grounds and he's paying a peppercorn rent on it. Now.

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Speaker 2: He signed the lease through until twenty seventy five, and

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Speaker 2: property experts are saying, from what they can see it

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Speaker 2: is cast iron. Nobody could kick him out, and that's

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Speaker 2: led some to say, well, hang on, how was this negotiated?

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Speaker 2: Who negotiated it and why is he only paying a

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Speaker 2: peppercorn rent and can still afford to stay there? A

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Speaker 2: senior opposition figure one that many people tipped for the

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Speaker 2: top job. Robert Jenrick said it was about time quote

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Speaker 2: Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private, because

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Speaker 2: the public are sick of him, and many are saying

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Speaker 2: it's time the Prince compensated the taxpayer for the lost

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Speaker 2: rent on this royal lodge, something he would not be

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Speaker 2: able to do, and say that parliamentary committees could look

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Speaker 2: into the Crown of State's handling of the prince's living arrangements.

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Speaker 2: The heat is most certainly being turned up Heather. And

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Speaker 2: if the royals thought that by him agreeing not to

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Speaker 2: use his titles would put a lid on it, that

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Speaker 2: was a huge miscalculation, which.

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Speaker 1: I could have told them and did tell them. Well

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Speaker 1: I didn't tell then, but I said it on Monday

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Speaker 1: because it was so obvious that this was going to

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Speaker 1: get out of hand. But now so tell me we

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Speaker 1: were at with the MPs who are trying to strip

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Speaker 1: him of his princeship. Is that actually going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, basically, they can't, I think, do it on their own.

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Speaker 2: It has to be initiated by the King, who seems

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Speaker 2: reluctant to do that. But I think as pressure grows

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Speaker 2: and no doubt Prince William, who is apparently absolutely determined

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Speaker 2: that when he takes over as king, this will be done.

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Speaker 2: I think he's in the King's ears saying, Dad, you've

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Speaker 2: got to just separate this. You've got to separate the

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Speaker 2: mess surrounding Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from the rest

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Speaker 2: of us, because it is bringing the whole of the

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Speaker 2: royal family into disrepute for the first time in five

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Speaker 2: hundred years. This week, the King of England will pray

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Speaker 2: with the Pope. It'll get next to no headlines because

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Speaker 2: of what Prince Andrew is doing, and the Royals would

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Speaker 2: be very annoyed about that too.

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Speaker 1: Right now, what do you make of Ukraine heading that

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Speaker 1: Russian chemical plant with the long range missiles of the

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Speaker 1: uk Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this, of course is something that the Ukrainians have

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Speaker 2: been begging for longer range missiles in order to hit

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Speaker 2: the heart of Russia. It was a successful hit that

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Speaker 2: penetrated the Russian air defense system. The Ukrainian General staff

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Speaker 2: said that they're still assessing the outcome of the massive strike,

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Speaker 2: but they're saying the Briance chemical plant is really a

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Speaker 2: key facility of Russia's military industrial complex producing gunpowder, explosives,

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Speaker 2: rocket fuel components, ammunition, and missiles. And they're saying that

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Speaker 2: it'll really really ramp up pressure now on Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 2: to come to the table, because we do know that

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Speaker 2: the most recent meeting plan between Trump's team and Vladimir

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Speaker 2: Putin's team has been postponed indefinitely, with Trump saying he

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Speaker 2: didn't want a wasted meeting because Russia is saying, no,

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Speaker 2: we're not ready to stay where we are. We're not

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Speaker 2: going to keep the front lines where we are. We're

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Speaker 2: going to carry on. And that has led to a

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Speaker 2: joint statement signed by Ukrainian, German, French, Italian, Polish, Danish, Finnish, EU,

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Speaker 2: Norwegian leaders and British leaders saying Ukraine must be in

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Speaker 2: the strongest possible position before, during, and after any ceasepar. So,

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Speaker 2: although Russia has warned people not to give Ukraine long

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Speaker 2: range missiles, saying that it could bring them into the fight,

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Speaker 2: well the uk has done just that and now the

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Speaker 2: pressure is on Russia on America to do the same

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Speaker 2: and give Ukraine permission to use long range Tomahawk missiles.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, Devin, thank you as always, love chatting to we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you in a couple of days. It's Kevin Gray,

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Speaker 1: are UK correspondent.

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