Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the political changes set to impact France

Fears of a new political crisis swept through France - as it looks likely Francois Bayrou will be ousted in a crucial confidence vote.

France’s embattled Prime Minister stunned the country when he asked President Emmanuel Macron to convene an extraordinary session of parliament in September.

UK correspondent Enda Brady speculates ahead of the big day.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us. Now, Hey, Inda,
Hey Heather, how are you? Yeah, I'm good. Nigel Farage
is having a good time, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes, he is so. All week long he's been talking
about deportations and removing six hundred thousand illegal migrants from
the UK if he becomes Prime minister. Today the D
word is on the front pages. But it's a defection
from the Conservatives, a Scottish member of Parliament called Graham Simpson.
He has announced that he will no longer be with

(00:30):
the Conservatives and he is joining Reform UK. So we're
seeing this constant drip of defections. Basically Forage building up
his forces, gaining more traction. He's riding high in the
polls twenty six percent now, Labor and Starmer are on twenty,
Conservatives way behind on fifteen. It's all there for Forage.

(00:51):
But you know we're four years out from the election.
That's a long time to maintain momentum. Now what's this.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Chip's reason for wanting to join Reform? What's it for him?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, knowing politicians as I do and as you do,
I would say self interest and self preservation. I think
a lot of people in Scotland will be looking at
the polling of the Conservative Party. You know, as much
as the SMP aren't doing brilliantly and Labor aren't, the
Conservatives are fading away and I think there is a
danger for them that north of the border as well,

(01:24):
reforms start picking up some of their seats.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, now, what is going on with the French government?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Inda, They're going to fall next week if we believe
all of the analysis coming out of France, all of
the political pundits believe that time is up for Francois Beyroux.
He is going to be another short lived French Prime minister.
Macron has a huge crisis coming his way, so beiru
called a confidence vote. It will happen in the next

(01:52):
ten to twelve days and he's not going to win it.
So the left wingers have said they won't support him.
The hard right have said categorically, we're not supporting you.
We want a national election again. I actually covered the
previous election. It only seems like yesterday I was in
Paris and there was lots of optimism with this guy
coming in. It's all over. Francoisberroux will fall and the

(02:16):
real issue is the economic situation facing France. They are
running a GDP deficit of somewhere in the region of
five point eight percent this year, and the national debt
is touching getting on for five and a half trillion
and z dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yees, I mean it's messive stuff, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Does Chep who won the Chase and then die? Do
we know why? He died?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Long standing illness, his family have said, which he didn't
want to tell the producers of The Chase about because
he was very worried that, you know that they might
say we can't have you on the show. He was
a huge, huge fan of The Chase, as a lot
of us are. I watch it as often as I can,
and I think it's a brilliant show. Beating the Chaser
does not happen that often. Tim McCarthy, however, sixty four

(03:02):
years old, a head teacher from the Greater Manchester area.
He went on the show and he beat the Chaser
with one second to go. Now nobody knew this, His
wife knew it, and his children knew it. And then sadly,
between filming and the episode being screened on British TV yesterday,
Tim passed away, so his wife invited all their family

(03:25):
and friends to the local pub in Tildesley in Greater Manchester,
a pub called the Colliers, and they sat down at
five o'clock yesterday evening to watch the chase with everyone
else not knowing what happened. And I reckon, you could
have lifted the roof off that pub with the cheer
when Tim won and he walked away with one hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hey, how far in advance of an airing do they
film it?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
So I asked this question yesterday. They actually filmed that
episode October of last year and it wasn't broadcast. He
passed away in July and it was not broadcast until yesterday.
There are months and months and months in advance.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Jeez, Hey, Inda, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Into
Brady UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
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