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Speaker 1: Devin Gray is in the UK. He's how you can

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Speaker 1: your correspondent, Gavin, good morning to you. Morning there, tell

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Speaker 1: us there's been a resignation at Number ten.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Sue Gray. Now she's not an MP, she's not

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Speaker 2: a member of the cabinet. She is instead the chief

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Speaker 2: of staff for Sekre Starma, or should I say are

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Speaker 2: prime Minister's former chief of staff. Because she has resigned.

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Speaker 2: She was caught up in lots of rows about pay.

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Speaker 2: It materialized she was being paid more than the Prime minister.

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Speaker 2: That was leaked by dissatisfied colleagues who had actually taken

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Speaker 2: a pay cut. And also it was really last few

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Speaker 2: weeks have been dominated by freebies, by the donations given

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Speaker 2: to the Prime Minister, his wife and indeed to other

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Speaker 2: ministers that I don't know, many say not been handled

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Speaker 2: very well. So Sue Gray is going to move to

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Speaker 2: a new role as the Prime Minister's Envoy for Nations

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Speaker 2: and Regions. But make no mistake, her resignation, she said,

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Speaker 2: was because she become a distraction for the part of

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Speaker 2: the government. There will be plenty of people in the

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Speaker 2: opposition benches who were in government who would be delighted.

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Speaker 2: After all, Suegray led the investigation into parties at Downing Street,

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Speaker 2: which ultimately led to Boris Johnson's downfall.

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Speaker 1: Interesting move, isn't it. Let's go to the situation in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East. The Israeli Prime Minister leshing Outmenuel Machrom.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So the seventh of October is the first anniversary

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Speaker 2: of Hamas's attack on Israel, in which about two hundred

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Speaker 2: people were killed in two hundred and fifty one taken hostage.

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Speaker 2: So it was an odd time for the French President

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Speaker 2: Emmanuel Macron to call for a holt on arms deliveries

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Speaker 2: to Israel for use in Gaza. Immediately, the Israeli Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin yet Yahoo hit back, saying effectively, this is

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Speaker 2: shame on them. He said, Israel will win with or

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Speaker 2: without their support, calling it a disgrace. Well, they branch

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Speaker 2: of hit back, saying that France is a steadfast friend

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Speaker 2: of Israel and that Nettna, whose reaction is excessive and

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Speaker 2: detached from the friendship between France and Israel. Will others, however,

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Speaker 2: begin to make plain their feelings on the matter. Will

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Speaker 2: America change heart with its tactics, Well not at the moment,

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Speaker 2: but I think this gives some indication ran as to

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Speaker 2: how upset frustrated so many in the European ranks are.

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Speaker 2: Whether it'll make any difference, of course to Benjamin Mattnia,

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Speaker 2: who is a completely different question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly, as Gevin, thank you for that. Givin Gray

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Speaker 1: are UK europe correspondent.

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