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Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the UK and EU's latest trade talks · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Gray is our UK correspondent. Hey Gevin, Hi there right?
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  Speaker 2: So has Gary officially announced that he's gone?
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  Speaker 3: Not yet, but we think he will. We're talking about
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  Speaker 3: Gary Linka, the former England footballer, of course and star,
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  Speaker 3: but also the highest paid BBC TV presenter. Controversial not
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  Speaker 3: because of his presenting skills, but controversial because over his
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  Speaker 3: career he has continued to post on social media. Now
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  Speaker 3: as a former BBC myself, you know, it just is
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  Speaker 3: not done by the majority of staff, and there were
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  Speaker 3: plenty of people in the newsroom in particular who, frankly
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  Speaker 3: I thought there were double standards. I think was what
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  Speaker 3: some in the newsroom thought about. How he seemed to
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  Speaker 3: be allowed to say what he wanted on social media
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  Speaker 3: and yet people in the newsroom received some pretty serious
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  Speaker 3: action if they did the same. So what appears to
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  Speaker 3: have tit the balance? We expected Gary Lineker to present
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  Speaker 3: his final Match of the day next weekend and then
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  Speaker 3: stay within the BBC but not present Match of the
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  Speaker 3: Day anymore. The football program instead to present things like
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  Speaker 3: the coverage of the World Cup and other major sporting
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  Speaker 3: of things like this, But it now looks like he
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  Speaker 3: is having to go why because of social media again?
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  Speaker 3: So last week he had to apologize after sharing a
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  Speaker 3: social media post about Zionism that included an illustration of
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  Speaker 3: a rat. Now the rat, of course, is historically used
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  Speaker 3: as an anti Semitic insult. Linega said he regretted the references.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't know it was a reference to that, and
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  Speaker 3: he said he would never knowingly share anything anti semitic.
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  Speaker 3: He deleted the post, but it blew up into one
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  Speaker 3: big rowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what, Kevin, I just don't buy
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  Speaker 2: that because if you post a picture of a ret
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  Speaker 2: next to anything, you're, by by its very nature, being pejorative.
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  Speaker 2: So what is wrong with him?
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  Speaker 3: Very good question. He has continued to talk out about things,
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  Speaker 3: predominantly about migration in this country, which has wound up
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  Speaker 3: lots of people. Why does his opinion about migration and
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  Speaker 3: small boats matter any more than anyone else's. He's a
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  Speaker 3: footballer and a television presenter. He is not a politician,
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  Speaker 3: and yet has a massive following on social media and
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  Speaker 3: it's got him in trouble before and here we are again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Well see now listen, what is the post
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  Speaker 2: brexit negotiation that has reached some sort of consensus.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so big meeting today between Secure Style at the
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  Speaker 3: UK Prime Minister and other EU leaders. It is the
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  Speaker 3: first bilateral meeting between the UK and the EU since Brexit,
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  Speaker 3: and this government says it wants to get on and
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  Speaker 3: reset relations with the EU after some bitter talk over Brexit.
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  Speaker 3: So plenty of Brexiteers are going to be nervously watching
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  Speaker 3: what's being agreed because of course the EU will want
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  Speaker 3: something back from the UK if the UK is demanding
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  Speaker 3: one of two things. So apparently discussions over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: included defense, trade, fishing rights, and a possible youth mobility scheme. Now,
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  Speaker 3: fishing rights very controversial, lots of European boats use our
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  Speaker 3: waters and many argue we don't get much back in return.
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  Speaker 3: And the youth mobility scheme well, at the moment we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to cut migration and net migration, so adding to
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  Speaker 3: the figures would seem to be a contra to what
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  Speaker 3: most people will say they want. And also it looks
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  Speaker 3: like the stumbling block late last night was fishing rights,
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  Speaker 3: so plenty of people waiting to hear what the European
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  Speaker 3: Commission President Ursula vonderlyon and secure Starmer will say. Having
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  Speaker 3: struck this deal, which we now believe is ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Announcements around trade and security probably include British access to
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  Speaker 3: roughly two hundred and eighty billion New Zealand dollars for
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  Speaker 3: the EU Defense Fund, and that could be a big
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  Speaker 3: boost for UK defense companies. But what will have to
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  Speaker 3: be agreed otherwise? Certainly it now would appear that the
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  Speaker 3: Conservative leader, the leader of the Opposition, and the Reform
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  Speaker 3: UK leader Nigel Farage are saying it's a surrender, yet
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  Speaker 3: we don't really know what's in it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. Hey, thank you so much, Gevin. As always, Gavin
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  Speaker 2: Gray are UK correspondent.
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