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Speaker 1: In the Brady is a UK correspondent, high Endo.

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Speaker 2: Hey Ryan, great to speak to you again, Great to.

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Speaker 1: Have you on. So Starmer is preparing to go to Washington,

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Speaker 1: and I know that there was a report out today

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Speaker 1: saying the number ten and put a release out saying

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Speaker 1: that Trump's language and the actions he's taken so far

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Speaker 1: could lead to a better world with in terms of Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: So they're sort of putting on the charm offensive ahead

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Speaker 1: of his visit.

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Speaker 2: By the sounds yeah big time. But look, I think

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Speaker 2: the domestic concern in the UK is what Trump said

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Speaker 2: yesterday while he was with Macronan that he's going to

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Speaker 2: go ahead with these tariffs. There will be a twenty

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Speaker 2: percent flat tariff on all European goods. Now, the hope

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Speaker 2: in the UK was that we'll hang on. Britain's not

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Speaker 2: in the European Union anymore, and maybe Britain will be

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Speaker 2: given an exemption because of what the Brits see is

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Speaker 2: the special relationship. He's made it clear yesterday that everyone

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Speaker 2: will be paying a tariff of twenty percent. So I

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Speaker 2: think domestically Starmer and his advisors will be very concer

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Speaker 2: learned that if Trump goes ahead with that when they

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Speaker 2: meet on Thursday. But look, ultimately Starmar's going there to

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Speaker 2: make sure that Ukraine has a voice at the negotiation table.

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Speaker 2: We now learned that Zelensky is likely to go to

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Speaker 2: America as early as next week, and Trump seems to

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Speaker 2: think that a peace deal could be ironed out very

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Speaker 2: very quickly. Indeed, yeah, well.

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Speaker 1: I saw that that Menu and mac from was signed

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Speaker 1: within potentially within a couple of weeks, which would be

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Speaker 1: good news for the region, no doubt. Now this labor

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Speaker 1: politician has been jailed for punching a constituent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So this happened towards the end of last year.

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Speaker 2: It was a night out. The incident happened at two am.

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Speaker 2: Clearly alcohol was involved. Mike Amesbury had a stunking victory

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Speaker 2: at the last election last July. Runcorn is his seat

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Speaker 2: in the northwest of England and it was in the

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Speaker 2: town of Frudsham where he had a conversation with a

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Speaker 2: constituent over roadworks in the area at two am and

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Speaker 2: this got very heated and the end result was Mike

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Speaker 2: Amesbury was seen on CCTV throwing a punch and the

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Speaker 2: constituent falling to the ground. So he's been convicted of assault,

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Speaker 2: he intends to appeal. He's got ten weeks jail and

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Speaker 2: he went straight to prison. The judge basically denied any

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Speaker 2: bail while he appeals. The likelihood is that he will appeal.

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Speaker 2: But the big problem they have now is that ultimately,

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Speaker 2: if he serves his time in prison, there's likely to

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Speaker 2: be a by election. And hovering in the background is

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Speaker 2: the specter of the Reform Party, which do appear to

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Speaker 2: be gaining a lot of strength in the polls. So

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Speaker 2: let's see what happens. But I think Starmer has problems

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Speaker 2: everywhere at the moment, everywhere he looks.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it too now, Jim reck if we've

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Speaker 1: spoken about the Manchester United financial situation, the book's in

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Speaker 1: very bad order indeed, and now there's a bit of

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Speaker 1: belt tightening going on there in there.

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Speaker 2: So two hundred more redundancies announced this week. In addition

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Speaker 2: to the people who were going, the people who staying

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Speaker 2: will have their free lunches taken away at the stadium

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Speaker 2: and at the training ground. This has been diminishing month

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Speaker 2: on month really since Ratcliffe took over, and he wants

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Speaker 2: to save somewhere in the region of two million dollars

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Speaker 2: a year. This is how much apparently the free food

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Speaker 2: for staff is costing. So all of the lunches will

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Speaker 2: be replaced with fruit and bread and soup and that

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Speaker 2: will be it. So since he's taken over, it's really interesting.

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Speaker 2: I think all the locals that certainly the United fans

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Speaker 2: felt that, you know, a local boy coming in. He

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Speaker 2: has so much money that Jim Ratcliffe would spend, spend, spend,

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Speaker 2: and all they're seeing is cutbacks.

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Speaker 1: He's still it's soup. I wouldn't be complaining too much

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Speaker 1: and thanks so much. Good to have you on in

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Speaker 1: the Radio UK Correspondent.

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