Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on Europe's reaction to Trumps 200% tariffs, Judge convicted of enforcing slavery, and the price of a 2 metre London home

Europe is responding to Trump's enormous 200 percent tariffs on wine and other alcohol products from the region. 

Wine producers in France, Italy and Spain are 'really angry'. 

Donald Trump has accused the European Union of being formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States. 

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey gives Ryan Bridge a run down on the situation, as well as the Judge convicted of forcing a young woman into slavery, and how much a 2 metre wide house in London will set you back. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We had Dan Mitson out of the US telling us
that they import nine billion dollars worth of wine into
the United States and a lot of that coming from
the EU. A two hundred percent tariff would be massive.
How are they feeling about this over in Europe? How
are they feeling in the UK? Givin Gray's our correspondent,
given good evening.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I really rattled they are actually the wine producers in
particular France, Italy, Spain or really angry about this, thinking
that they're being unfairly picked upon. Meanwhile, Donald Trump calling
the fifty percent tariff planned on US whiskey and nasty tariff,
saying it's a hostile and abusive and has accused the

(00:39):
European Union of being formed for the sole purpose of
taking advantage of the United States. Well, that is where
the European Central Bank President Christine Legard has stepped in.
She's a very senior figure in the world banking industry,
and she's of course European, but says the EU had
no choice but to retaliate, saying everyone's going to suffer

(01:00):
and if the dispute develops into a full brelogne trade war,
that will be very, very serious. As you can imagine.
But she's certainly lending her support to Europe on this
and has described his comments about the Europe being created
almost for the sole reason of taking advantage to the US.
She said that is just historically inaccurate and frankly nonsense.

(01:23):
So a great deal of concern from alcohol producers here,
both in the UK, Ireland, Irish whiskey of course, a
massive export to America as well, but mostly it did
those continental wine producers who are most fearful of this
massive tariff threat.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you just don't know where the next tear going
to be put, do you. I mean that's the other problem.
Is there a sense that you might have actually dodged
not being in the EU anymore, that you might have
kind of dodged a bullet. I know, you're getting steel
and aluminium like everyone else, but.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, I think there is. There's the hope that, if anything,
may expedite trade talks, but of course might expedite to
our disadvantage. But either way, I think a lot of
people think we really need to get these trade deals
sorted out. It's taken so long following Brexit for two
countries that are supposed to be good friends and getting along.
This trade deal between America and the UK has been,

(02:16):
you know, just plodding along at snail like pace, taking
so long. And certainly it would seem that former presidents
Joe Biden and to a certain extent as well Barack Obama,
we're in absolutely no rush to get that underway. Indeed,
it was Barack Obama who famously said after Brexit that
the UK would be at the back of the queue
awaiting its turn for this trade deal to actually take place.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
That's right. What about this n judge who's been convicted
in the UK forcing a young woman to work as
a slave.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, so she's a High court judge in Uganda as well.
Forty nine year old Lydia mcgumby has, according to prosecutor,
has taken advantage of her status over her victim. She
basically forced a young woman to work as a slave
for her in the UK and she's now been found
guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach
of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation,

(03:09):
forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.
She's going to be sentenced at the start of May,
and in footage released by police which was taken into court,
she seemed absolutely stunned when an officer said that she
was being arrested under the modern Slavery Act, saying I'm
a judge in my country, I have immunity, I'm not

(03:30):
a criminal. But she nevertheless has been found guilty here
and this is all about how she was allegedly kept
a woman to work for her at her home, almost
like for free childcare as it were. And it's something
that the police have really been clamping down on, actually,
the numbers of people being brought into the UK with

(03:52):
a promise of a great job and then effectively having
their passports taken off them in some instances, being told
they can't leave the house, and then being for to
work very very long hours but very very little, if
any money.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Kevin, thank you for that. Kevin Gray, are UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
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