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Speaker 1: In the Brady UK correspondence with us.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Inda, Heather, great to be back.

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Speaker 1: You know I would have thought the House, the Speaker

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Speaker 1: of the House of Commons has good reason to be

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Speaker 1: pretty cross at the police.

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Speaker 2: Yes he has so. For anyone who hasn't followed this,

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Speaker 2: Lindsay Hoyle recently came back from a trip to the

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Speaker 2: British Virgin Islands and what we did not know was

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Speaker 2: that he picked up a piece of information He was

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Speaker 2: tipped off there that someone at a senior level in

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Speaker 2: the bvyes in the Caribbean believes Peter Mandelsson, Lord Mandleson,

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Speaker 2: recently arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office relating

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Speaker 2: to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, that Mandelsson was planning

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Speaker 2: to flee the United Kingdom and go to the BVS

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Speaker 2: and basically stay there. Now, Mandlsson got arrested out of

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Speaker 2: nowhere at four pm on Monday. He then on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: I'd put a statement out saying this wasn't what was agreed.

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Speaker 2: I thought I was getting arrested in two weeks time

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Speaker 2: by appointment. What's gone on here? You know, I was

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Speaker 2: never going to flee the country him fleeing the country

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Speaker 2: was not on anyone's radar until he said it himself.

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Speaker 2: And now what's happened. Lindsay Hoyle stood up in the

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Speaker 2: House of Commons and said, just to clear up some

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Speaker 2: press speculation, I basically went and told the police. And

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Speaker 2: it's kind of very embarrassing I think for the police

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Speaker 2: that they've now let Mandelson know before he said that

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Speaker 2: in the House of Commons that he was the source

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Speaker 2: of the intel.

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Speaker 1: Does it make any sense to you though, in if

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Speaker 1: he was going to flee to the Virgin Islands, because

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Speaker 1: surely there's an extradition treaty with the UK.

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Speaker 2: Well, the first letter is B for British, so he

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Speaker 2: will be just dragged back and it would look even worse.

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Speaker 2: But I think the one thing I take from all

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Speaker 2: of this the way Andrew was arrested Mandlsson getting nicked

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Speaker 2: at four pm on a Monday. The world has changed

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Speaker 2: for these men, regardless of innocence or declarations and protestations

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Speaker 2: of innocence and investigations following the full course, the world

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Speaker 2: has changed. There is no zero interest who you used

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Speaker 2: to be. The law will follow its course.

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Speaker 1: Does feel a bit like that now are we seriously.

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Speaker 1: I mean the timeline of three years for you guys

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Speaker 1: to prepare for war with the Russians. Are people taking

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Speaker 1: this seriously?

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Speaker 2: So this is an interview in the Times today with

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Speaker 2: Al Cairns. He is the Armed Forces Minister. And this

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Speaker 2: guy is not a politician. He's ex Special Forces. He

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Speaker 2: has been a soldier his entire life. He's from a

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Speaker 2: council estate in Scotland. He speaks very bluntly. People are

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Speaker 2: already saying this guy could be the next prime minister

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Speaker 2: if he plays his cards right. He has come out

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Speaker 2: today with a jaw dropping interview in the Times and

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Speaker 2: he says that it's coming. We have three years to

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Speaker 2: get ready for a major conflict. And then he name

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Speaker 2: drops Russia and he said that the battlefield has changed

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Speaker 2: beyond all recognition now because the drone technology is advancing

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Speaker 2: so so fast. He points out that eighty seven percent

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Speaker 2: of all casualties on the front line in Ukraine are

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Speaker 2: as a result of drones. They have a kill rate

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Speaker 2: that is twenty two times higher than artillery rounds. And

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Speaker 2: he said that where we are right now in the

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Speaker 2: UK said we're training up snipers to shoot people from

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Speaker 2: eight hundred meters away, He said, what you're looking at

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Speaker 2: in terms of drawn technology? He said, I could train

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Speaker 2: my son up in a fortnight to kill you from

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Speaker 2: forty five kilometers away with a fiber optic dron. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I mean that is sobering, isn't it. Yeah, big

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Speaker 1: day for you guys with Manchester buy election. How do

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Speaker 1: you reckon it's going to go?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a three way split. Look, it goes one

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Speaker 2: of two ways for Kure Starmer Labor hold the seat

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Speaker 2: and win, and he rejuvenates himself and gets out there

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Speaker 2: and starts making domestic policies that people believe in. Or

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Speaker 2: if the Greens or Reform UK win this seat. What

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Speaker 2: you will then see as a conversation inside Labor saying,

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Speaker 2: look Starmar's toast, we need someone else.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll all have to keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: that one. Inda, Thanks very much, look after yourself into Brady,

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