Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Sarah Ferguson being dropped from multiple charities over Epstein email

Seven charities have dropped the Sarah Ferguson as a patron, after an email from 2011 emerged in which she called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein her 'supreme friend'.

Julia's House, a children's hospice, was the first to remove Duchess of York - saying it was 'inappropriate' for her to continue in the role.

A raft of others lined up behind them, and the British Heart Foundation said she would no longer be its ambassador.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says it's likely more charities will follow suit.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Go to our UK correspondent in the Brady who's with

(00:02):
us in the good evening?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Ryan, good to speak to you.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Great to have you one as always, tell us what's
hit men? With Sarah Ferguson, the big cancelation is on.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, this is extraordinary and I think a lot of
people have been waiting a long time to see this happen.
So what has sparked everything? All these charities are now
running a mile from Sarah Ferguson, And you know, as
a anti charity, I've worked with a lot of charities.
They're all so badly in need of funding and money
and celebrity profile to help them, and a royal patronage

(00:36):
is just unheard of. You know, there's so many charities
out there. What we saw very very quickly was a
small hospice on the South coast put out a very
dignified statement saying the emails we've seen in the media
over the weekend written by Sarah Ferguson to Jeffrey Epstein
calling him her supreme friend and generous friend, and then

(00:57):
you know, apologizing if he'd heard her use the pace
as in pedophile about him. This very small hospice issued
a dignified statement saying we don't want anything to do
with this woman anymore. Then followed a breast cancer charity,
a teenage cancer charity trust. One after the other, they
fell like Domino's until last night, a dog's charity, believe

(01:19):
it or not, ran away from Sarah Ferguson of charity
for Retired Service Dogs, saying they could no longer have
anything to do with her. So I think what we're
seeing the last twenty four hours and probably more to
come today, Sarah Ferguson will be treated the same way
as her ex husband, who she still shares.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
A home with now. She maintains through all of this
that what she was saying public or privately was different
to what she was saying publicly. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So the big flaw in her argument is that the
man she had allegedly used the word p the P
word the pedophile about was Jeffrey Epstein. He was a
convicted pedophile. Sorry him threatening to sue her for defamation.
You can't be sued for defamation if what you've said
about a man is factually true, proven in court, and
he went to prison for it in two thousand and five.

(02:11):
So her argument just does that not add up. But look,
you're not exactly dealing with the brains of Britain here
are you.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Hey, Nigel Farage, he's come up with his immigration plans.
He wants to restrict benefits to UK citizens. Has all
this going what are the details and how's it going down?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
So he says that once he's Prime minister, and look
he's measuring the curtains up in Downing Street four years
in advance. I think he's in for a very big
fall this guy. So Forage has come out every Monday
now he's basically holding a news conference and if he
hasn't got someone to defect from the Conservatives, he comes
out with a big, outlandish piece of policy. Now already

(02:49):
it is riddled with hols. He says that he becomes
Prime minister, the only people eligible for benefits will be
British people UK citizen right, And he says that everything
he's going to change about benefits and getting rid of
indefinite leave to remain. This is something that people get.
It's not as good as citizenship, but you can stay

(03:11):
here forever pretty much. Faras reckons that by his calculation,
and I think again this has been done on the
back of a beer mat, probably after several beers. He
reckons it will save half a trillion dollars over a generation. Now,
the think tank that provided those figures actually came back
back very very quickly and said no, no, no, this

(03:32):
is wrong. We made the wrong calculations. Nevertheless, this is
manna from heaven for Forag's followers and the idea that
you know, removing benefits from anyone who's not British. I
would say to Nigel, we have nine point two million
people in the UK doing nothing, not in employment, not
in education, not in training, and not paying taxes. And

(03:54):
I would say, if you go through the nine point
two million, there aren't that many of them that are migrants.
Just a hunch.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hey, I know you're a big marathon runner, and I
saw that Harry Styles run and ran a sub three
marathon in Bulin. But it's not as he's been doing.
I think he did Tokyo. He's obviously quite into this.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's amazing and good luck to him. So he ran
under the alias stead Sarendos. So you know, everyone can
see who's entered races, and if you're kind of competitive,
you go have a look through you and see who's there.
I think it's amazing. I take my hat off to Harry.
I'll be lucky to interview him over the years. He's
a lovely, lovely guy and he's just honestly, honestly Ryan,

(04:34):
one of these annoyingly talented people. I'm not in any
way surprised. He has everything in his locker, from the
singing to the looks, and he's a gentleman as well
to deal with. But running two fifty nine in Berlin,
I take my hat off to him. I've been trying
to run under three hours all my life. I'm pushing
fifteen now, will be a fifty at Christmas, and the

(04:54):
closest I've got is three hours, twenty two minutes and
forty three seconds. So well done, Harry Star. I'm in awe.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Like you said, there's nothing you can't do. Hey, you
appreciate your time in Thank you so much. That's into Brady,
our UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
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