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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. All right, we have

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Speaker 1: Rosalind Matthison in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio today. She's

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Speaker 1: Executive everit for International Government for Bloomberg News based in London,

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Speaker 1: but we have are here in the States this week.

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Speaker 1: We found on the last hour meth that she is Australian.

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Speaker 1: From some little news. What's the name of the town again, Ros,

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Speaker 1: it's a code Goombungee Bungee Goombungee. It's an indigenous name. Wow,

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Speaker 1: go figure. I mean, I I don't know. One day

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Speaker 1: me and Roz traveled to a remote town in Austria

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Speaker 1: to interview the former head of the FBI, James Komy.

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Speaker 1: Together really was that in Austria? Yeah, that was awesome.

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Speaker 1: That was such a cool I mean, you know, he

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Speaker 1: had just written a book and obviously it was like

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Speaker 1: comy versus Trump. But he's amazingly fascinating and also really tall, dude,

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Speaker 1: extremely tall. Yeah, explained to us, what's happening in London today,

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Speaker 1: folks forting us, we need to pay attention to a

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Speaker 1: vote that's going on in Parliament. What's going on over there? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's right. So it seems like enough of his own

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Speaker 1: lawmakers have had enough of him, and so they've submitted

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Speaker 1: letters calling for a leadership vote on his him leading

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Speaker 1: at this point he will probably win that vote because

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Speaker 1: But the question is, what is the damage that's being

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Speaker 1: done simply by having this vote happen in the first place,

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Speaker 1: And what is the margin by which he would presumably

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Speaker 1: than he would like. Can that suggests of course that

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Speaker 1: right because, um, his own party is bringing this vote essentially,

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Speaker 1: and it's a system that I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: seems so old and weird. Um, But what if they lose.

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Speaker 1: They're bringing on an election that they're sure then later

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Speaker 1: to lose. Well, that is the risk also from this

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Speaker 1: these Tory rebels. But why how could he? I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're experiencing inflation just like we are, and they're doing

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Speaker 1: very little about it, just like we are. I mean,

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Speaker 1: poverty by these high energy praises right well, exactly in

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Speaker 1: all the polling shows that going to an election anytime

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Speaker 1: soon would be very self defeating for the Tories because

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Speaker 1: of all the things that you mentioned, particularly the state

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Speaker 1: as well. Difficult, difficult situation. Rosalind Math is an executive

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Speaker 1: editor for International Government Bloomberg News based in London, but

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Speaker 1: here in the States. This week, I getting the least

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Speaker 1: and that's where ros Mouth needs to be. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Prea Misra, Managing director and global head of Rates Strategy

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Speaker 1: A TV Securities Cupria. You know, I'm looking at my

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Speaker 1: So thanks for having yes. I think rates are likely

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Speaker 1: I think we stopped around that. To this, inflation is

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Speaker 1: more later. Um. But that's program perspective of somebody who

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