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Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Sarah Ferguson's companies winding down following latest Epstein release · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Hey Hea, the New Zealand's capital. She will actually be
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  Speaker 2: Sydney harsh. But you know we're all coming around to
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  Speaker 2: this idea, aren't we. Thirteen away from seven Indo Brady
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  Speaker 2: UK correspondence with us.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Enda, Hello Heather. I'm chuckling what I think to
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  Speaker 3: text in my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's the opposite. Do you know what's happening
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand and you'll enjoy this. It's the opposite
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  Speaker 3: Well we had that with the English but it was
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  Speaker 3: the other way around. Everything we had they took.
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  Speaker 2: This is true.
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  Speaker 1: This is true.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you now, Sarah ferguson the six companies getting
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  Speaker 2: wound up? Are they?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? So this is big news one half of England's
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  Speaker 3: happiest divorced couple, as she calls her and Andrew. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Newspapers today have it that there are six companies, all
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  Speaker 3: with the director, as Sarah Ferguson which are being wound down,
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  Speaker 3: so as over the end of next week they will
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  Speaker 3: be struck off. Companies House Register of all businesses in London.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really clear what any of them do and
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  Speaker 3: all one is connected to p R, one is connected
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  Speaker 3: to retail, but the other four it's all a bit flimsy. Look.
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  Speaker 3: The woman has struggled with huge debt problems her whole life,
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  Speaker 3: and the latest tranche of the Epstein emails we see
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  Speaker 3: how desperate she was from money, emailing him while he
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  Speaker 3: was in prison, you know, complaining about everything financial, how
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  Speaker 3: worried she was, how stressed and exhausted she was. She
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  Speaker 3: actually emailed the convicted pedophile in prison to tell him
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  Speaker 3: that she was exhausted with stress. You couldn't make it up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, how is it that the telegraph I see
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  Speaker 2: is crowing that the other ones who've basically formed forced
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  Speaker 2: Kiah Stama to abandon the plans to cancel the council elections.
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  Speaker 3: Is this right? No, it's Nigel Farage who has done this.
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  Speaker 3: So Reform UK put in a legal case against the
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  Speaker 3: government the backdrop to all of this, and it does
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  Speaker 3: look bad for Starmar. They wanted to postpone some council
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  Speaker 3: elections in about thirty areas. Now they're due to happen
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  Speaker 3: in May, and some of these councils are going to
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  Speaker 3: be restructured, some of them are going to be collapsed
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  Speaker 3: and squeezed into other council areas, and council leaders were saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: we don't to go through the expense of hosting elections
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  Speaker 3: if this council is not going to exist in eighteen
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  Speaker 3: months time, and Starmer agreed. Now, the suspicion was he
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  Speaker 3: agreed very quickly because the polling is absolutely terrible for
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  Speaker 3: labor out there at the moment, and he knows that
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  Speaker 3: if labor get a pasting in May, he'll be gone
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  Speaker 3: in June. So he said, let's postpone these elections then
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of years and see what the structure
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  Speaker 3: looks like. But ultimately it was Nigel Farage and Reform
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  Speaker 3: who put in a legal challenge. It was due to
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  Speaker 3: go to court this week and the government's lawyer came
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  Speaker 3: back with the advice saying you just need to hold
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  Speaker 3: your hands up and abandon these plans because they're actually right, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: quite right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what is up with this eight hundred million dollar
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  Speaker 2: payment to the EU.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so Britain famously no longer a member of the
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  Speaker 3: Uuropean Union. However, Starmer went to the Munich Security Conference
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  Speaker 3: and clearly there's a lot of business to be done
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  Speaker 3: in Ukraine in terms of an arms fund. So the
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  Speaker 3: European Union is looking to put together somewhere in the
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  Speaker 3: region of about five billion dollars worth of an arms
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  Speaker 3: fund for basically keeping Ukraine fighting, keeping everything going, and
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  Speaker 3: stopping Russia taking the whole country. And Britain has a
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  Speaker 3: lot of defense companies, so Brussels is saying to London, Yep,
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  Speaker 3: if you want into this fund, you're not part of
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  Speaker 3: the European Union. Bi'll have to pay just short of
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred million dollars to get access to it, and
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  Speaker 3: then we will start offering new contracts. So yeah, the
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing Britain would not have had to pay
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  Speaker 3: for if it had stayed in the European Union.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, Inda, thank you as always appreciate it. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to you in a couple of days aboute Into Brady,
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