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Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the UK's response to Donald Trump's tariffs · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Right now in the Radio UK correspondent in the good
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  Speaker 2: evening to you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ryan, good to speak to you again.
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  Speaker 2: Now the UK, you've escaped the worst of it. Canada
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  Speaker 2: was a bit angry with you guys for not standing
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  Speaker 2: up for them. But your strategy is Starmer's strategy. It seems
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  Speaker 2: to have worked. It looks like you've escaped the worst
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  Speaker 2: of Trump's tariffs, well to a point.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everyone here bangs on about the special relationship
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  Speaker 3: with the United States, Well hang on, New Zealand have
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  Speaker 3: got the same deal as the UK. So is Guatemala,
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  Speaker 3: Brazil and Australia. Starmer has made the main plank of
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  Speaker 3: his foreign policy making friends with Donald Trump. The European Union,
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  Speaker 3: they don't care. They're going to whack back exactly the
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  Speaker 3: same taxes and tariffs. You're going to see a big
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  Speaker 3: trade warran out between Europe and the United States. Canada.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everyone will whack back and bite back of
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  Speaker 3: what Trump has done. Starmers seem to think that conciliation
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  Speaker 3: is the way forward. So we saw a big show
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  Speaker 3: that envelope from the King when he saw Trump recently.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be fascinating. But I think there will
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  Speaker 3: be perhaps a collective's outpouring of relief from Number ten
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  Speaker 3: Downing Street that the UK has not had a twenty
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  Speaker 3: percent tariff because the economists here reckon twenty percent of
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  Speaker 3: a tariff would have a permanent zero point three percent
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  Speaker 3: reduction in the UK GDP. So there's still a lot
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  Speaker 3: to play for. Tariff's don't kicking and kick in until Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: and I think now in the next forty eight hours
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  Speaker 3: is just frantic diplomatic efforts behind the scenes to try
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  Speaker 3: and get a trade deal to negate that tariff even further.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Harry the case over the text player funded security,
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  Speaker 2: you know he thinks he should have security on the
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  Speaker 2: public tet in going to court next week.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so it'll be a two day hearing Tuesday Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: next week. I'm hearing at the Court of Appeal. This
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  Speaker 3: is his last role of the dice now because it's
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  Speaker 3: an appeal, I don't think he needs to be there,
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  Speaker 3: so we may not see Harry. He doesn't need to
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  Speaker 3: give evidence. I think it's legal argument. And then there
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  Speaker 3: will be a panel of three judges who will ultimately decide.
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  Speaker 3: But look, there is no public sympathy here for Harry.
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  Speaker 3: The overwhelming view when you speak to people is he
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  Speaker 3: made his decision. It was his choice to remove himself
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  Speaker 3: from his own family and go and live in luxury
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  Speaker 3: in California. So why should the UK taxpayer be picking
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  Speaker 3: up the tab for security when a multi millionaire comes
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  Speaker 3: back here. So it'll be curious to see the interpretation
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  Speaker 3: of the law. But I think most people here don't
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  Speaker 3: really care what Harry does so long as we're not paying.
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  Speaker 2: For it, especially when Megan's line of Honey and Jam
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  Speaker 2: it's just sold out on a new website.
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  Speaker 3: I would have thought in that amazing. I look forward
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  Speaker 3: to buying some.
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  Speaker 2: Hey just before we go. He through airport, so that
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  Speaker 2: after the fire I'd been warned about the power supply,
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  Speaker 2: or they had been I should say one about the
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  Speaker 2: power supply.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in advance. So this is interesting. The boss of
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  Speaker 3: the airport, Thomas Woaldby is his name. His Dani issues
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  Speaker 3: to be the boss of Copenhagen Airport. Now he's running
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  Speaker 3: heath Throw. He was hauled before Parliament to explain everything
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  Speaker 3: that went on the decision making processes, and it's very
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  Speaker 3: interesting that the information that is key to the story
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  Speaker 3: today actually came from someone else speaking to the panel.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a group of politicians on the Transport Select
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  Speaker 3: Committee and it was a guy from the Heathrow Airport
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  Speaker 3: Operators Committee. So this is all the airlines, and he
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  Speaker 3: pointed out that just two weeks before the fire at
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  Speaker 3: the substation, there have been the theft of some copper
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  Speaker 3: wiring and cabling from the substations around Heathrow and that
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  Speaker 3: prompted the Airport operators to throw airport directly, what are
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  Speaker 3: you going to do if there's a problem with one
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  Speaker 3: of these substations And they didn't get a response. So Waldby,
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  Speaker 3: the CEO, said that he made the right the SAIS
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  Speaker 3: and it was safety first and it was all he
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  Speaker 3: could do. But it's very interesting now. I think what
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see play out is a legal battle
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  Speaker 3: for compensation because the airlines are legally obliged to compensate
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  Speaker 3: the passengers, and it's quite clear the airlines are now
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  Speaker 3: going to say the heat throw you caused this.
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  Speaker 2: In the thank if they're in the Radio UK Correspondent.
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