Enda Brady: UK correspondent on France potentially receiving a new PM by the weekend

Outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who intensified a political crisis by resigning earlier this week, indicated Emmanuel Macron could name a new PM soon.

Lecornu’s comments on France 2 public television had been eagerly awaited after Macron gave him until today NZT to find a way out of months of deadlock over an austerity budget.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explained the situation further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK Correspondence with us Alowinda, Hey, Heather,
how are you. I'm well, thanks very much. The Tories
are going to scrap the stamp duty.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
They are, so they've finally got some headlines in the UK. Look,
it's been a long time Kenny Badenoch not punching through
at all. Her position as actual leader of the opposition
has been usurped by Nigel Farage for quite some time
because he just wants to talk about migration and how
bad Starmer is in the handling of it. So Baidanock
has come out with the Conservative Party conference this week

(00:28):
with a big keynote key policy that if she's elected
she will get rid of stamp duty all property purchases.
It's the bane of people's lives. It's another form of
taxation on the money you've already earned to buy the
house in the first place. And she's saying that she
will get rid of it. Now, I just my mind boggles.

(00:48):
Stamp duty is never going to be got rid of.
The budget as it stands is going to be difficult.
Stamp duty brings in somewhere in the region of eighteen
billion dollars a year. The UK government and Kemmy doesn't
seem to have done her sums. But look, it's a look.
If they make me prime minister, I'll give everyone a
six figure salary and no one has to work. Just

(01:10):
doesn't work. You know, it's just mad.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
But this is what happens, right, So how many people
are going to believe it? Or are people actually irrational
enough to hear it and go Nan, that's just dreaming.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I think if you went out on the streets today
and said to people with this woman Kemmy badenok, a
lot of people would say who is she? And then
they would say, okay, yeah, but what about the migrants
because Nigel Faras says he's going to send them all home?
Oh and by the way, haven't you got an Irish accent?
When are you leaving? That's the standard of political debate
in the UK at the moment. Heather, I'm sorry, I'm
not good.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I what's it like in France? Though? Are they about
to get another PM?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
So yeah, it's very interesting what's going on. They've lost
three prime ministers, or rather I should say Macron has
lost three prime ministers in twelve months, and the whisper
is that there will be another announced in the next
forty eight hours. But I think think the big problem
coming down the line is the budget. Whoever comes in
as Prime minister, they need to get the budget over

(02:07):
the line and they need to start saving money because
the French government is quite simply spending more than is
coming in in tax chaos in France. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Interesting. You watch the Clarksons fan, don't you.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I do. I love it, And there's a little bit
of a development done that today.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Say now, I don't watch the Clarksons fam, so you're
going to have to tell me all the background on us.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So take Jeremy Clarkson, who makes top gear for decades
and basically some people love him, most people kind of
are in the middle, and a lot of people hate him.
He goes off and he buys a farm in West
Oxfordshire and he starts filming and he makes a TV
show called Clarkson's Farm. He has done wonders for the
farming sector. I would say, not just in this country,

(02:52):
people all over the world are getting more of an
understanding of just how bloody hard it is. And I
speak as the grandson of dairy farmers in Ireland, how
bloody hard it is to make a living off the land.
So he's gone and done this. Caleb Cooper is a
young Oxfordshire farmer who has become very very well known
in England off the back of being kind of the

(03:13):
farming brains of the operation. And he's like, you know,
he's he can occasionally come across as a bit of
a fool, but he ultimately makes Clarkson look the fool.
He is today getting on a plane for the first
time in his life. He is going to Australia and
they're going to make a little farming documentary for four
months in Australia about farming down Under. So Caleb Cooper

(03:34):
having he's never even been on a train. I think
I heard him say once on a podcast. So now
he's flying to Australia and good on Jeremy Clarkson, because
he's kind of shone a light, not just on farming,
but he's helped this young man achieve things that are
just astounding and brilliant and I love.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
It, yeah, brilliant, love it. Hey, thank you very much.
Inda Indo Brady UK correspondent. When I sit to Inda,
I start with I didn't mean like right at the basics,
did unders and that Jeremy had done a show called
Clarkson's Farm, but I didn't mind it, didn't mind it
at all.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
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