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Speaker 1: Devin Grays, a UK correspondent this evening. Hello, Gevin. Hi there,

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Speaker 1: Hell Devin. I'm pleased to see labors resisting the four

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Speaker 1: day working week ide because they would be messive, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 1: It would be massive And it's also one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I think many people are worried about voting

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Speaker 1: labor for the influence of the unions, because it is

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Speaker 1: the unions who fund the Labor Party, and it's the

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Speaker 1: unions who have been calling for this four day week.

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Speaker 1: So particularly the Trade union Unison, they do a lot

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Speaker 1: of health working with their members and they've been calling

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Speaker 1: on labor. They are one of the key backers of

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Speaker 1: the big opposition party here for a four d week

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Speaker 1: but no impact on workers' salary, so in other words,

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Speaker 1: effectively a twenty percent pay riuse. They've passed the motion

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Speaker 1: at their annual conference saying it's the next step. Now.

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Speaker 1: They're not alone actually in this. Other unions have also

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Speaker 1: been pushing for this, the Public and Commercial Services Union,

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Speaker 1: lots of civil servants in that public sector staff calling

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Speaker 1: for a significant shortening of ours, and a joint letter

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Speaker 1: of forty business leaders pushing the next government to introduce

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Speaker 1: working hours law. So this is a growing thing. It's

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Speaker 1: just whether Sekisstarma, the leader of the opposition party Labor,

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Speaker 1: will or will not permit it. We're being told at

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Speaker 1: the moment, no, that's not part of the plan. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: something that with no doubt in people's minds when they

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Speaker 1: go to the polls on Thursday, and Devin, listen, how

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Speaker 1: bad is it in Paris? Well, the streets of some

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Speaker 1: parts of Paris have been a little bit fraught overnight

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Speaker 1: with the rise of the far right. So francis currently

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Speaker 1: one stage through a two stage process voting for a

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Speaker 1: parliament and it looks like the far right party of

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Speaker 1: Marine La Penn the National Rally Party, really has exploded

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Speaker 1: onto the scene and he's pretty much now at the

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Speaker 1: gates of power. There is a second vote on Sunday

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Speaker 1: of this coming weekend. Before we could definitely say that,

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Speaker 1: but the National Rally Party won a third of the vote.

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Speaker 1: A left wing alliance, a grouping of different left wing organizations,

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Speaker 1: won twenty eight percent. But as they said, it's a

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Speaker 1: grouping of different parties. And Emmanuel Macron's presidential tenure has

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Speaker 1: really been dented. He just won twenty percent of the vote.

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Speaker 1: And so consequently the National Right and a very very

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Speaker 1: strong position for this. What they're trying for now is

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Speaker 1: that like an absolute majority of the two hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty nine seats in the five hundred and seventy seven

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Speaker 1: seat National Assembly. As I said, the next round is

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, but their message of tougher immigration, tax cuts,

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Speaker 1: law and order being improved, they really have resonated with

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Speaker 1: voters and an election that Emmanuel Macron kind of called

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Speaker 1: it a fit of peak, having done so badly in

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Speaker 1: the European elections, is coming back to bite him well.

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Speaker 1: Two right, Gavin, listen, thank you, I appreciate it. As always,

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