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Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Rachel Reeves dashing UK hopes of early US trade deal · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: In the Bradio UK correspondence with us Hey andd.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, heaven Lovely, let's speak to you again.
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  Speaker 2: So the UK wants a trade deal with the US.
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  Speaker 1: Is it likely?
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  Speaker 3: No, in a word, and Rachel Reeves has pretty much
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  Speaker 3: said that in her first interview. So it's day two
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  Speaker 3: now of her in Washington, DC. She is the chancellor.
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  Speaker 3: It is her job to get the economy moving again. Here.
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  Speaker 3: Britain absolutely needs a trade deal with the United States,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not going to happen quickly. And everyone's told
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  Speaker 3: this before Brexit. Even Barack Obama came out and said,
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  Speaker 3: if you leave the European Union, you can go to
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  Speaker 3: the back of the queue. Everyone wants a trade deal
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  Speaker 3: with the United States. So here we are, all these
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  Speaker 3: years later that has come to pass. So Reeves is
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  Speaker 3: in America basically trying to build relationships, get the kind
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  Speaker 3: of low down on the Trump administration, puts faces to
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  Speaker 3: names and vice versa, and just shake some hands. But
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  Speaker 3: ultimately there is not going to be a trade deal
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  Speaker 3: this weekend. I mean Trump is actually traveling to Europe
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  Speaker 3: anyway for the pub's funeral on Saturday. So it's an
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  Speaker 3: exercise in bridge building, but the trade deal will not
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  Speaker 3: be happening quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Hey did you see that London Marathon has come off Twitter?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 3: This is very interesting and I'm not in any way surprise.
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  Speaker 3: So this is Hugh Brascher, who is the head of
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  Speaker 3: the London Marathon. His dad founded it in the early eighties,
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  Speaker 3: all those years ago, and it is the best day
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  Speaker 3: of the year in London. It is one day I've
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  Speaker 3: run at ten times and it is the one day
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  Speaker 3: that really fills you with hope for humanity. You meet
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  Speaker 3: people who have physical disabilities, you have people who are
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  Speaker 3: running for loved ones who are ill or have passed away.
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  Speaker 3: You meet people who've lost children, and everyone has one
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  Speaker 3: common goal to raise as much money as possible, to
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  Speaker 3: get across the finishing line as quickly as possible, and
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  Speaker 3: just to get the medal. So I'm not in any
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  Speaker 3: way surprise. Brasier has taken the view his words that's
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  Speaker 3: Twitter or X or call it what you want, has
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  Speaker 3: descended into the gutter. So they stopped posting on X
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  Speaker 3: and I say good luck to them. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: level of abuse on there is just vile.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still use it now?
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  Speaker 3: I've come off it, and I think back to I've
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  Speaker 3: reposted a couple of things recently, but I think back
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  Speaker 3: to when I was badly sick in July twenty one
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  Speaker 3: with COVID. I gave one interview on Irish radio urging
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  Speaker 3: people to get the vaccine, and I got death threats.
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  Speaker 3: I got abused every single day, and it still happens now,
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  Speaker 3: and it got even worse. So the London Marathon that
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  Speaker 3: year was in October, and when I couldn't walk, I
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  Speaker 3: was in bed for seven weeks, and when I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: walk properly, I said to myself, if I can get
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  Speaker 3: over this and get fit and get training again, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to run marathons till I drop. And I booked
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  Speaker 3: two in the space of a fortnight that October, I
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  Speaker 3: went to Amsterdam, and then a couple of weeks later
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  Speaker 3: I did London and I ran the two of them
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  Speaker 3: in under seven hours combined. And the level of abuse
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  Speaker 3: on Twitter was just off the scale. People accusing me
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  Speaker 3: of having made it up and being a government stooge,
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  Speaker 3: and who this guy's being paid by Big Pharma and
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  Speaker 3: then the really kind of nasty personal abuse as well,
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  Speaker 3: but then, hey, you know it's just people who've got
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  Speaker 3: way too much time on their hands and hearts full
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  Speaker 3: of hate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally just got to come off to a inda
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much, have yourself a lovely weekend. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk to you next week. That's Indo Brady how UK correspondent.
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