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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the Danish Prime Minister calling a snap election · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: International Correspondence with insin eye insurance, peace of mind for
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand, business.
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  Speaker 2: Boording away from sex in New Zealand and a sick
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  Speaker 2: in Denmark hitting to the polls. Early March twenty four
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  Speaker 2: is the date joining us as Gevin Gray are UK
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  Speaker 2: europe correspondent.
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  Speaker 1: Given this is all Trump related, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it is actually Ryan Yes, I mean
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  Speaker 3: they didn't have to go for an election until the
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  Speaker 3: end of October. Buterick Meta Frederickson, the forty eight year
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  Speaker 3: old Prime minister, has called this early. Why well, because
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  Speaker 3: the opinion polls hadn't been very kind to her over
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  Speaker 3: the last few months. There's been pressure about rising cost
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  Speaker 3: of living and also welfare pressures. It appears she may
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  Speaker 3: have called the staff election because at the moment she's
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  Speaker 3: now riding high in the opinion polls. Why well because
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  Speaker 3: of the row over Greenland, which is part of the
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  Speaker 3: Kingdom of Denmark. But of course is something that Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump covets, and not just that. Of course, we are
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  Speaker 3: due to hear in the next week if Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: has sent this so called hospital ship over to Greenland.
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  Speaker 3: He says, very very poor healthcare over there. The Greenland
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  Speaker 3: leader hit back and said, well, actually, we have good
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  Speaker 3: health care here, and what's more, it's free to all
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  Speaker 3: our public, unlike America. Of course, we don't know what
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  Speaker 3: this ship is. They've not actually i'd really given any
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  Speaker 3: details about it. But it does come amid this rising
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  Speaker 3: tension between the US and Europe, and this election that
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  Speaker 3: she's called for the end of March looks like something.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment the opinion pause are suggesting she's going
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  Speaker 3: to win. At the moment she's in a three way coalition,
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  Speaker 3: she may just have enough to get a bit less
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  Speaker 3: in need of a bit less agreement.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting, isn't it, Because the same thing kind of
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  Speaker 1: happened with Kenada, didn't that en Carne? You know, Trump
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  Speaker 1: and his trade war and the threats, and then actually
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  Speaker 1: he changes the course of an election, probably to his detriment.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, very much. And often I think this is the
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  Speaker 3: way things happen, that you know, you have one intention
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  Speaker 3: at the outset, and then all of a sudden, actually
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  Speaker 3: you find the opposite has happened. It certainly did happen
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  Speaker 3: with Mark Carney in when he swept a Paris prime minister.
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  Speaker 3: And here I think we're going to see that with
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  Speaker 3: Meta Frederickson as well. If these opinion polls are right,
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  Speaker 3: she is taking a gamble, but it looks like at
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  Speaker 3: the moment it's a gamble that she considers to be
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  Speaker 3: confident of winning.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant, Thanks so much, Kevin Gray are UK you're a correspondent.
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