Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Queen Elizabeth II voicing disapproval with Brexit referendum

Former US president Barack Obama has revealed Queen Elizabeth II didn't approve of the Brexit referendum.

The new book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, revealed that the late monarch questioned why a major political decision would be left to a public vote.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the Queen also voiced concerns with Donald Trump's presidency.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hello Winda, Heather, great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Right, So what did the Queen say, apparently about Brixit.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, we know she said it because Obama has been
interviewed for a new book by an American writer called
Susan Paiges called All the Queen's Presidents, And basically it
goes back to a lunch in April twenty sixteen, he
was President of the United States, President Obama, Queen Elizabeth
the Second sitting down in private having lunch Windsor Castle,

(00:31):
and the one topic of conversation in the United Kingdom
at that point and ever since really has been Brexit.
And she said to Obama that she could simply not
understand why David Cameron, as Prime Minister, had called a
referendum when he didn't know what the outcome would be.
And she felt that a matter of such huge national

(00:51):
importance should not be handed over and decided on a plebiscite.
So she was not a fan of the Brexit referendum.
And I think she she escaped with Scotland by the
skin of her teeth because Cameron also masterminded that situation.
The Scottish referend and unindependent. So the one other point

(01:11):
she made in this lunch as well, she actually said
to Obama, this is a couple of weeks before Trump
got the Republican nomination in twenty sixteen. She could not
understand how such a man could get so close to
running your country. That was what the Queen said to
Obama about Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, then she will be very pleased to not be
here to see that a very similar man, Nigel Farage,
might be in Downing Street.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, the new poll out suggests that if there were
to be a UK general election this week, Reform UK
would win in excess of three hundred seats and that
will put Nigel Farage into power as Prime Minister in
Number ten Downing Street. So we do have local elections
coming up in May in England council elections, and then

(01:56):
there are national elections for the Scottish Parliament and the
Welsh in it in May as well. All the polling
is pretty dire for Labor and Forage is absolutely everywhere
turned on any TV channel, radio station, pick up a newspaper.
Everyone's talking to him. The only question I would have
for Nigel Farage, because we're still paying the price of

(02:18):
bresit here. You know, this country used to be a mansion.
They've rebuilt a bungalow and now they want to hand
the keys over to the arsonists who destroyed the mansion's
that's what I would say to Farage. But he seems
to have an answer for everything. But then let's see
what happens in three years time.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
All right, So what's happening with the deep fried meals
at the schools?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
No more? So the government is intervening here. They're very
concerned about childhood obesity. We've got a situation here now, Heather,
where at the end of primary school one in three
children are leaving obese and heading into secondary school. Obese
kids coming out of primary school. Something has gone very
badly wrong. So the government getting involved. No more fried food,

(03:01):
no more sausage rolls, and no more pizzas kind of
poor quality, heavy calorie food that they can grab and
go and no more. Now what's going to happen is
all the food manufacturers and catering companies are going to
say to the government, rising energy costs, we can't deliver
healthy food that you want at the price that you're paying.
So over the calere starmer, but as of now deep

(03:23):
fried food gone from the school menus.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Interesting. Hey, thank you very much, really appreciate it as
always in that it's nice to talk to you. Into Brady
UK corresponding.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
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