1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: And Gavin Gray is our UK correspondent. Hey, Gevin, Hi, there, 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: So this budget that you guys have looming is going 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: to be one that's going to rebuild Britain apparently. Yeah. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, So the budget doesn't until the end of October, 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 2: just over five weeks time, but the government important today 6 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 2: will be setting out its plans for the future. This 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: is the first speech by the new Chancellor, Rachel Reeves 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 2: at a party conference. So every year the political parties 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: go away and discuss their manifestos, discuss their plans proposals 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: among the party membership and Rachel Reeves, the new Chancellor, 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 2: do you to give her speech in a little over 12 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: four hours time and saying that she's going to rebuild 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 2: written it comes to me quite a bit of a 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: row saying effectively, the government has been so pessimistic about 15 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: the economic situation here in the UK, saying it has 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: inherited this twenty two billion pound almost fifty billion New 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: Zealand dollars black hole in the economy is what they're saying. 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: That many people saying you are driving investment out of Britain. 19 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: So what we're expected to hear today perhaps a little 20 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 2: bit of talking things up but definitely the message will 21 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 2: be no return to austerity. She will say. The previous 22 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: government had austerity at its center and it was destructive. 23 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 2: They say they've got to deal with that and that'll 24 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 2: mean some tough decisions. So it's going to be a 25 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 2: budget with real ambitions. Now. They've already ruled out numerous 26 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: different tax rises, which is interesting. No major increase in 27 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,279 Speaker 2: national insurance, income tax, normal income tax and value added 28 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 2: tax here in the UK. So what does that leave 29 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: where lots of people think inheritance tax, the tax on 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,919 Speaker 2: what you leave after you die, along with maybe another 31 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 2: one called capital gains tax, which is a tax on 32 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 2: a profit that you make from buying something and then 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: selling it more expensively, could come into play. But I 34 00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: don't think we're going to hear the detail of that. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 2: They're going to keep that till the end of October. 36 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: How one earth has France ended up with the right 37 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: wing government. 38 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 2: It's absolutely astonishing, actually, so it is the oddness the 39 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: way in which they pick their cabinets and the way 40 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: in which their politics worked. You will remember that the 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: president Emmanuel Macron chose a snap election back in July, 42 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: an election which he thought would strengthen his position. It didn't, 43 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: it weakened it, and in the end the right wing 44 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: parties did very well, and to block them, a group 45 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: of left wing parties got together and said, look, vote 46 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 2: for us, because we are effectively the only way to 47 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: stop the right and far right getting in well. Emmanuel 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 2: Macron has appointed a centrist prime minister by the name 49 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 2: of Michelle Barnier. He was the eu Brexit negotiator and 50 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: has now unveiled a right wing or right of center 51 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 2: party for his ministers in the cabinet. It's extraordinary because 52 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 2: most people voted left wing, so already there are demands 53 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: for people to have a vote and no confidence. Their 54 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 2: first cabinet meeting will be this afternoon, but within hours 55 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: of announcing his choice of people to elect as ministers, 56 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 2: they are already facing this no confidence vote, which we 57 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: expect to take place quite soon, and that incidentally could 58 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: be the first of many no confidence votes even if 59 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: they survived that. It is an extraordinary choice, but many think, well, 60 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: he got himself into this model and now he's going 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: to have to try and get out of it. 62 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: Devin, can you explain to me why, I mean, I 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: understand why people with esma were kept out of the 64 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: armed forces. But why eckning. 65 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's well, it's a very very good reason that 66 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: the reason behind it is often some of the medications 67 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 2: that people with acnely have to take lead them to 68 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: different side effects. But you're right, it's a ridiculous thing. 69 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: But for many, many years now people with acne and 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 2: asthma have been kept out of the British Army. Not 71 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 2: so from now. The reason is a recruitment crisis. It's 72 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: said that the British Armies, of its smallest size in 73 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 2: two hundred years, they did already say a six percent 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: pay increase should hope boost recruitment, but it wants to 75 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 2: speed up the process. This current government, with outdated restrictions 76 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 2: being are really thrown on the scrap peep. And so 77 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: now although you still have to pass a tough medical 78 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: people with heart problems, back hood problems, hearing or vision 79 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 2: issues and other issues will struggle to make the grade. 80 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 2: But a range of other conditions that might have affected 81 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: your chances will now be accepted. And also interestingly in 82 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: this they're saying, you know, certainly, yeah, okay, if your 83 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: frontline asthma will be an effect, but what happens if 84 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: you're a great gamer. They're even saying, you know, if 85 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 2: you're a gamer, we are looking for top cyber defense experts. 86 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 2: So it is a wide ranging call to arms. 87 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: Interesting. The neuds gets jobs as well, and Gavin thanks 88 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: very much, which is good. It was always going to 89 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: pay off. Thank you, Gavin Gray, a UK correspondent. 90 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 2: Here. 91 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: The people will stop from joining the armed forces with 92 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: acne because there was and is a risk of skin 93 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: infection when serving in field conditions, and the acne could 94 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: be further inflamed by certain pieces of equipment that will 95 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: warn or I use I suppose, like if you put 96 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: a mask on at this fairpoint. 97 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 2: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 98 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 2: news talks the'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 99 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.