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Gavin Grey: UK and Europe correspondent on French demands for halt on Israeli arms deliveries · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Devin Gray is in the UK. He's how you can
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  Speaker 1: your correspondent, Gavin, good morning to you. Morning there, tell
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  Speaker 1: us there's been a resignation at Number ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Sue Gray. Now she's not an MP, she's not
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  Speaker 2: a member of the cabinet. She is instead the chief
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  Speaker 2: of staff for Sekre Starma, or should I say are
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  Speaker 2: prime Minister's former chief of staff. Because she has resigned.
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  Speaker 2: She was caught up in lots of rows about pay.
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  Speaker 2: It materialized she was being paid more than the Prime minister.
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  Speaker 2: That was leaked by dissatisfied colleagues who had actually taken
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  Speaker 2: a pay cut. And also it was really last few
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  Speaker 2: weeks have been dominated by freebies, by the donations given
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  Speaker 2: to the Prime Minister, his wife and indeed to other
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  Speaker 2: ministers that I don't know, many say not been handled
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  Speaker 2: very well. So Sue Gray is going to move to
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  Speaker 2: a new role as the Prime Minister's Envoy for Nations
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  Speaker 2: and Regions. But make no mistake, her resignation, she said,
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  Speaker 2: was because she become a distraction for the part of
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  Speaker 2: the government. There will be plenty of people in the
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  Speaker 2: opposition benches who were in government who would be delighted.
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  Speaker 2: After all, Suegray led the investigation into parties at Downing Street,
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  Speaker 2: which ultimately led to Boris Johnson's downfall.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting move, isn't it. Let's go to the situation in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East. The Israeli Prime Minister leshing Outmenuel Machrom.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So the seventh of October is the first anniversary
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  Speaker 2: of Hamas's attack on Israel, in which about two hundred
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  Speaker 2: people were killed in two hundred and fifty one taken hostage.
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  Speaker 2: So it was an odd time for the French President
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Macron to call for a holt on arms deliveries
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  Speaker 2: to Israel for use in Gaza. Immediately, the Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin yet Yahoo hit back, saying effectively, this is
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  Speaker 2: shame on them. He said, Israel will win with or
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  Speaker 2: without their support, calling it a disgrace. Well, they branch
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  Speaker 2: of hit back, saying that France is a steadfast friend
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  Speaker 2: of Israel and that Nettna, whose reaction is excessive and
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  Speaker 2: detached from the friendship between France and Israel. Will others, however,
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  Speaker 2: begin to make plain their feelings on the matter. Will
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  Speaker 2: America change heart with its tactics, Well not at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: but I think this gives some indication ran as to
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  Speaker 2: how upset frustrated so many in the European ranks are.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it'll make any difference, of course to Benjamin Mattnia,
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  Speaker 2: who is a completely different question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly, as Gevin, thank you for that. Givin Gray
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  Speaker 1: are UK europe correspondent.
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