Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Gavin Grey: UK & Europe correspondent on far right heading for election victory in Germany & UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer accepts tens of thousands of pounds worth of free gifts

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Gavin Grey: UK & Europe correspondent on far right heading for election victory in Germany & UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer accepts tens of thousands of pounds worth of free gifts · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Devin Gray, are you can your correspondent with us is
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning? Another success for the far right
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  Speaker 1: in Germany? How are we looking in that state election?
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  Speaker 2: Real sighth of relief for the German leader, the Chancellor,
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  Speaker 2: all Our Scholtz, because according to exit polls they came
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  Speaker 2: out just in the last forty five minutes or so,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like the Chancellor's party has held off a
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  Speaker 2: very very strong campaign by the Alternative for Germany, the
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  Speaker 2: far right party, the AfD. It looks like the Chancellor's
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  Speaker 2: Social Democrats have scored thirty one percent and the Alternative
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  Speaker 2: for Germany thirty percent. I have to say this would
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  Speaker 2: have been a loss in the Chancellor all of Schultz's
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  Speaker 2: own backyard just outside Berlin, and if it lost this
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  Speaker 2: election then I think that possibly would have really dented
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  Speaker 2: his future, possibly beyond any attempt to get it back,
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  Speaker 2: and could have seen him have to step down. So
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people waiting. I know these are only
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  Speaker 2: exit polls, but they tend to be pretty accurate in German,
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  Speaker 2: and it looks like the march of the AfD, which
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  Speaker 2: has done so well with recent election successes, has been
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  Speaker 2: held off by this result, which we're expecting to be
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  Speaker 2: formalized in the next few hours.
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  Speaker 1: To the UK and Sakis Starmer. We were covering this
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  Speaker 1: last week, all the freebies from the donors, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the sixty six thousand pounds over the last year for
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  Speaker 1: accommodation and clothes and even those pricey glasses. He's trying
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  Speaker 1: to put a line under this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has been. And today is the opening of
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  Speaker 2: the Labor Party conference, so the Party of Government Secure.
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  Speaker 2: Starmer's party had an annual gathering where they decide what
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  Speaker 2: the policies they're going to try and do and talk
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  Speaker 2: through over the next year or so. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: in this honeymoon period, normally it's a big triumphant thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm afraid the news this week has been really
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  Speaker 2: bad for the Prime Minister. We drip drip drip about
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  Speaker 2: gossip and scandal within Downing Street. And he's only been,
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  Speaker 2: of course, in powers is early July, so we're now
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  Speaker 2: getting a sense of perhaps where things are going. They
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  Speaker 2: are definitely trying to draw a line under all the freebies.
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  Speaker 2: But now the Deputy Prime Minister has been accused of
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  Speaker 2: acting improperly by accepting a stay in a New York
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  Speaker 2: compartment owned by a donor to her political party. The
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  Speaker 2: Deputy Prime Minister says she's done nothing wrong, broken no
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  Speaker 2: parliamentary rules. But again it is this drip drip of
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  Speaker 2: information coming through and indeed outlandish claims really of hypocrisy
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  Speaker 2: because the Labor Party have been accusing other parties of
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  Speaker 2: accepting freebies and perhaps allowing it to sway their policy
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  Speaker 2: decisions over the past few years, when now, of course
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  Speaker 2: they are able to have a go back at Labor
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  Speaker 2: and say you are no different. So the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: now saying he won't accept any free clothes from anyone,
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  Speaker 2: but all those free tickets to Taylor Swift Conference, the
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  Speaker 2: Arsenal football Club, they I think will continue.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness everyone likes and it doesn't matter what party from.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody likes a nice coat, don't they. Gavin and Gray
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  Speaker 1: are UK correspondent with us. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning. For more from News Talk sed B,
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