Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Nigel Farage claiming the UK has turned into North Korea

Nigel Farage came to Washington to meet with US officials - and managed to get some digs in about his homeland.

The Reform leader declared that Britain had 'become North Korea' in regards to free speech.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explained further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
With us. Now is Inde Brady, a UK correspondent, Hello, Inda, Hey, Heather,
good to speak to you, right, is Angela Ryina Dogtaka.
She's clinging on, She's clinging on. The problem here is
that she's spent one point six million dollars on a
seaside apartment in Hove on the South Coast. No problem
with that, but the rules are that if it's your

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second home you have to pay a lot of extra
money in stamp duty this property purchased tax that we
have here. On the face of it, it looks like
she's been very poorly advised by a lawyer. She says that,
so the figure we're talking about is eighty thousand dollars
extra in tax in stamp duty. So she has come
out and the papers have been all over this to

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have been following this story for weeks and weeks and weeks.
She says that she was given advice that she didn't
have to pay it. There is a family property in
the Manchester area that she initially had down as her
main home. Even though she's most in London and lives
in a Grace and Favor flat from the UK Government
near Downing Street, it's not looking good for her. She's

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now got secondary advice from presumably a better lawyer who
has said to her that you know what, you should
have paid that eighty K. So now she's referred herself
to the government watchdog and she awaits her fate. But
the rules are the rules. I feel sorry for she
has a disabled son and it's a very complicated living
arrangement in the Manchester property. But I think ultimately she's

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also housing secretary and this does not look good. Tell
me what this book says about William and the Scottish referendum. Yes,
so this is a guy called Valentine Lowe, a very
respected royal commentator and journalist, And there's a little snippet
in this book which is being serialized in the papers
this week, that if we go back to the Scottish

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independence referendum of eleven years ago, he has got info
that it was William who leaned on his grandmother to
get involved and make some sort of a public pronouncement. Now,
the monarch here cannot be politic, but there was an
incident and I thought it was very strange at the time.
The Queen went to church in Scotland and she stopped

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and she spoke to members of the public and she
was heard to say I hope the people of Scotland
think very carefully about this, and off she walked. And
of course people talk, journalists listen, and it ends up
in the newspapers. And that was all prompted by the
polling at the time the previous weekend putting the Yes

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for Independence for Scotland campaign ahead of No and remaining
in the UK. And of course then a week later
Scotland went out and voted fifty five percent in favor
of staying in the United Kingdom. So why is William
so interested in it? Well, he didn't want to see
the UK breakup. And I think you know, he's not stupid.
He was what thirty two at the time. I don't

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think he wanted to be a future king of the
United Kingdom of England, Wales and a bit of Ireland.
Scotland is very very important and William clearly felt she
needs to be aware that this is the way it's going.
The Yes campaign is winning and the only person that
anyone will listen to on this with reason is her

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Majesty the Queen, his grandmother. Hey, so how does Nigel
for Azrik and you guys have become North Korea. This
is a good one. So I watched this. He gave
his address and he was questioned at the US Congress.
They're looking at online safety. He turned up wearing a
pin badge from the news channel here, the right wing
news channel that he sometimes appears on. It was all

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very odd, but Nigel Faras said that we've got situations
like the Lucy Connolly case. So she was a woman
who posted on social media urging people to burn down
asylum hotels. She subsequently deleted it, but she ended up
getting put before the courts, convicted and she spent over
a year in prison. And then he highlighted the case

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of Graham Linehan, the Irish guy who's a comedy writer
who put out some anti trans tweets earlier this year
that he throw yesterday by five armed police officer. So
Foras reckons that the UK is no longer a bastion
of free speech for anyone who kind of wants to
investigate this further, turn on his news channel, and we

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are not North Korea just yet by any stretch of course.
You're not. Inda, Thank you very much, appreciate into Brady
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