Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the suspected attack in Munich that injured at least 30 people

German Counter-terrorism officers have taken over the investigation into the incident yesterday in which a car drove into a crowd in Munich.

At least 30 people were injured, some in critical conditions.

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey discusses the suspected attack, the senior UK minister reported to have exaggerated her work experience, and the price people are paying for being single in the UK.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Darsie Voldegove is only twelve minutes away. Also the news.
Right now, let's go to the UK and talk about Europe.
And it's Kevin Great. Good morning to Kevin, Good morning Andrew.
Now it's good evening here, Good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I know.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Is that old one just a horrific thing in Munich
with the cab which drove into the crowd. What's the latest?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, so overnight here an addition to the number of
people injured, We now believe it it's at least thirty.
Earlier we were told it was high twenties. We do
believe children are included in that, and we do believe
some are critical, but perhaps of more significance. We now
are also being told that counter terrorism officers have taken
over the investigation, and that we're told is because there

(00:45):
are indications the suspect, a twenty four year old Afghan
asylum seeker, had an extremist background. Now we're not being
told what that is. That's just what it is in
Munich today where this happened. There is the Munich Security
Common Reference. World leaders including Vlodomeir Zelenski from Ukraine and
US Vice President J. D Vance are due to arrive

(01:06):
in the city five thousand officers on duty. But as
you can imagine, a heightened sense of tension, very very
much so in this And what more do we know
of the twenty four year old Afghan asylum seeker suspect. Well,
it is reported he came to Germany in twenty sixteen
as a minor, had his request for asylum turned down
in twenty seventeen, but strangely it appears he was then

(01:30):
allowed to stay in some sort of a special visa,
which meant that everything was suspended for a while, That
deportation order was suspended and he was in the country legally.
Police are saying. But this is really fraught because the
Germany goes to election polls in ten days time and

(01:50):
the far right alternative for Germany is polling high with
one of its big policies referring to the mass deportations
of immigrants.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's amazing how vehicles have suddenly become whipons of mass
destruction for terrorists and also bad people. And I remember
this from the nice truck in the south of France.
I had many friends there there on that night. It
was a horrific way to execut any revenge, no matter
what the motivation. Now you've got a politician who exaggerated
her CV.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, and not just any politician, our chancellor, either the
second or third most important person in government. We were
told when Sekir Starmer took over in July that he
was going to restore trust in politics. It's now been
revealed that the Chancellor's own she being the Finance Minister,
effectively the Chancellor's own curriculum vitai or resume, was full

(02:44):
of shall say, exaggerations. So she said a few times
that she spent the best part of a decade with
the Bank of England. She didn't. It looks like she
spent six years there. One of those years was actually
working away on a course for a qualification. And also
it would appear at one point that she has rather

(03:04):
extended other stays at other financial institutions and exaggerated her
role within those institutions. Sir Kirstin was asked about this
our Prime Minister. He says, always all been dealt with
in the past, etc. But as you can imagine, plenty
of people saying, no, this isn't dealt with properly. She
needs to be sacked and to apologize for what some

(03:24):
are claiming our deliberate lies. Her office are saying these
are unfortunate things which she hasn't checked. Somebody else wrote
her profile even on LinkedIn, and she didn't check it.
There's also, incidentally, concern it would appear on one of
her jobs where there was a probe about expenses. Again,
all that's a bit vague. The BBC has gotten in

(03:47):
on this and he's doing lots of investigative work.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm just looking up in the Oxford English Dictionary what
this part means, because you know six years she said
Tin it was actually six that's more than where it's
over the median point. But is that the best part?
What does bespad actually mean? Oh, dear, and fancy a
politician actually exaggerating? Who would have thought? And finally we can,
on this Valentine's Day here in New Zealand and just

(04:12):
dawning for you not talk about love and apparently it
is much better to be in love and patterned up
than to be single.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, financially so, So next time you're complaining about the
cost of those roses, have a think, because in the
UK they estimate being single costs more than five thousand,
one hundred and fifty New Zealand dollars more a year. Why. Well,
that's because single people are generally forced to spend about
twenty two percent more on rent or mortgages because of

(04:42):
course there's only one person, not two. Council tax that's
the local rates, the local tax you pay energy is
twenty eight percent more because you're paying the same amount
of cost to heat a property that you are there
were two of you. Thirty two percent more on broadband
and phones as well, and that really does suggest that
people who are single are finding it very expensive. I'm

(05:03):
always mystified by those single supplements you see on holiday,
but obviously the situation is much more difficult than that.
And this incidentally is far worse if you live in
a city like London than it might be in the countryside. Apparently,
and I have to say that it looks like the
financial resilience of single people is tested really throughout the lives.

(05:23):
Forty six percent of them have failed to save enough
to cover three months of essential shopping, compared to just
sixteen percent of couples here in the UK.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Everything's worse in London, mate, And that's why I tell
all my mates with the kids that they're going on
the oe and they're going to go and live in
London and go have you thought about Southampton? Hey, Kevin,
have a great weekend and I thank you for your time.
Kevin Gray out of the UK.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
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