Gavin Grey: UK correspondent ahead of Donald Trump's meeting with King Charles

US President Donald Trump has arrived in the UK for his much-anticipated state visit.

 He's being welcomed by King Charles at Windsor Castle, and will also meet with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray. Are UK correspondents with me? Hello, Gevin, hither
have that?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
How excited are you guys about Donald and all of
the fuss?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, there will be a lot of fuss, a lot
of pageantry, and of course they're really laying out the
red carpet, both metaphorically and in reality as well. So
Donald Trump to arrive at Windsor Castle and to meet
King Charles the Third today. Now, the Queen Camilla did
not attend the funeral of a relative yesterday, and that's
because she's said to be still suffering a little bit

(00:31):
of sinusitis. But nevertheless, a very big day, an unprecedented
second state visit. They are doing all this pomp and
sorry because they know Donald Trump loves this. They are
desperate to try and have some good trade deals. We've
already seen a number of very very large, multi billion
ones announced by large American companies here in the UK.

(00:52):
So that's what the Prime Minister wants and I dare
say that's what the country wants and needs. But already
we're seeing light alterations to the itinerary in that they
are said we're going to change the route of the procession,
We're going to change the root of this and that
for security reasons. However, some are also saying, we note

(01:13):
that that will also mean he's seen in public much
much less and seen much further away by the public.
And last night, Heather, it's the morning here of course
our time. Last night a huge image of Donald Trump,
pictured next to Jeffrey Epstein, was beamed onto the walls
of Windsor Castle by protesters.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now, what is going on with this deal, this attempt
by Stammer to eliminate the tariffs on the UK steal exports.
Has he just given up on this.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
At the moment. Yes, it'd be wrong to say they've
given up completely, but so as part of the pomp
and pageantry, obviously the Prime Minister is going to be
pressuring Donald Trump into hammering down the rest of the
trade deal. Now, the UK and US signed a trade
deal in June over numerous things, and the Prime Minister said,
what an amazing win it was. Indeed that deal did

(02:06):
reduce tariff's on car and aerospace imports, but it left
British steel and steel exports into America with tariffs of
twenty five percent. Now other countries face steel tariffs of
fifty percent so senior government sources said, well, it's already
very good, very competitive, but they had said it was

(02:27):
coming down to zero, and our Prime Minister Secures Starma
made a big deal of that when it was announced.
Well it hasn't come down to zero. And it looks
like that that actual move is now basically on hold indefinitely.
And so the hope that this might be actually notified
and advertised here at this visit is now not going

(02:47):
to happen. And the steel industry really on the ropes
here anyway, with the government now actually renational well getting
close to renationalizing major parts of it.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Interesting, Ok, you know what's happened to this one in
one out? What if a migrant deal? Has this fallen
a pad already?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, well it's one in and frankly one staying at
the moment, and that is because the very first were
due to be sent back around about now actually in
the next hour or so under this one in one
out returns pilot scheme that was heralded again between the
UK and France back in July. Now, one of the
very first people on this trip, in fact, potentially the

(03:26):
first was an erroritraan man who arrived in the UK
illegally by a small boat. Well, right as the deadline approached,
he launched a legal challenge and the twenty five year
old last night was mentioned at the High Court in London,
with his lawyers arguing that he needed more time to
present evidence he might actually have been the victim of

(03:47):
modern day slavery. Now, the problem was that he was
already claiming that he wouldn't be safe in France. Well,
I think the Home Office, our ministers here and the
judge that would have been dismissed because why and France
safe to him, you know, it's a safe country. However,
he then argued in court as well or his lawyers did,
that he was a victim of modern day slavery. And

(04:08):
even the Home Office has admitted in one department that
he wouldn't be able to fight that properly and get
evidence if he worked back in France. So guess what, Yep,
it's been kicked into the semi long grass for expecting
another decision in a fortnight. But what this does, of course, Heather,
is that anyone now on that list of one on
one out can suddenly say, oh, hang on a minute,

(04:29):
I also might actually be a victim of modern day slavery,
and that mean it's automatically extended further. There are people
in this country, frankly aghast at all of this, and
indeed the leader of the opposition said we told you
so and is calling for much tougher laws.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, that's incredibly frustrating, Gevin. Thanks so much. Gevin Gray
UK correspond.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
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