Enda Brady: UK correspondent ahead of Donald Trump's second state visit to the UK

US President Donald Trump is set to make a second state visit to the UK later in the month.

This trip comes after Trump spent four days in Scotland, where he met politicians and visited his golf courses.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the heads of Nvidia and OpenAI will be part of the entourage coming along, suggesting there's room for new tech developments.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady, UK, corresponding with us now, Hello Liinda.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hello Heather, great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
So Harry's landed back on home soil. But is he
going to see the family.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
In a word, no, he landed yesterday. He went immediately
to see his late grandmother's grave and pay his respects
on the week of her anniversary. Three years she's been
gone and would you believe it, While he was in
Windsor at Saint George's Chapel, seven miles away, William was
attending a women's institute function with the Princess of Wales

(00:32):
in Sunningdale. So the two brothers were within seven miles
of each other yesterday and there was no communication whatsoever.
And everything we're reading in the papers this morning, it's
highly unlikely he will be seeing his dad either. So
he cuts a bit of a lonely figure here, Harry.
When he comes home. He's back in the UK for
four days. To give him his credit, he attended the

(00:55):
well Child Awards event last night and he did manage
to crack a bit of a gag at his brother's expense.
I thought he was presenting an award and he said
to this little boy, these are gravely ill children. He
said to this little boy, tell me about your family,
if you got any siblings, And the little boy said, yes,
I've a brother. And Harry said, quick as a flash,

(01:16):
does he drive you mad? And that gotta laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's right, most of them do that to be fair. Now,
who are the tick bros who are coming with Trump?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So the boss of Nvideo will be here next week,
Sam Altman, the boss of Open AI. And there's also
an invite for Tim Cook, the chief executive Apple. So
President Trump is arriving next week. We knew there'd be
an entourage of security and family and everyone else for
this unprecedented second state visit, but it turns out he's

(01:46):
bringing tech bros with him as well. So clearly the
Americans field there are opportunities in the UK sector.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now you need to run me through what Boris has
got up to here.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
So this is very interesting. Someone has got hold of
his email account. It's an American company that archives leaked
and hacked emails and lo and behold, they've got into
Boris's inbox and they've handed the lot of it over
to the Guardian newspaper. Now, Boris Johnson has not commented
on what's being reported today. He has not responded whatsoever.

(02:19):
But the allegation is that he has been using political
contacts gleaned from his time in Downing Street to fund
his lifestyle afterwards. So there's a couple of jaw dropping
financial figures to run you through. In the space of
just under two years since leaving Downing Street, he has
earned in excess of ten million enz dollars for thirty

(02:41):
four speeches. That's very, very good money. There's also a
claim that that time he flew to Venezuela to meet
President Maduro and said that he hadn't been paid for it.
There is a claim that he was seeing somewhere in
the region of four hundred and eighty thousand en zed
dollars paid via an inter mediary for a forty five

(03:02):
minute meeting with President Maduro of Venezuela. So he's been
a busy boy, has Boris if these emails are to
be believed, and a very lucrative situation at that.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
What's the end like, what's the endpoint here for him?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think, like every ex prime minister, it's monetizing your
political capital and you're worth Cameron does it reasonably quietly
from his corner of Oxfordshire and Boris Johnson, Well, he's
certainly been making money while hey, while the sun has shined.
I don't. I live just up the road from him.
I never see him around, but it's clear he's very

(03:41):
busy keeping himself active and the money is flowing in.
But like there's talk of him and Reform getting together
and could he be the poster boy of the next
election campaign. I can't see it. I think he's a
busted flush and when most people are struggling to pay bills,
here hearing that Boris Johnson has creamed off ten million dollars. Okay,
he's earned it. He's delivered the speeches both ten million

(04:02):
dollars for a a few dozen speeches. It's staggering money.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's a huge a it's massive, Hey da, thank you
appreciate it. Into Brady UK corresponding.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
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