Enda Brady: UK Correspondent on the debate over whether teenagers should be able to travel without supervision

A debate in the UK has arisen about whether teenagers should be able to travel without parental supervision. 

Location, Location, Location presenter Kirstie Allsopp is speaking out about feeling "sick" and "profoundly shocked", when social services contacted her about allowing her 15-year-old son to travel with a friend in Europe. 

Officials says the safety of children is their "absolute priority". 

UK Correspondent Enda Brady told Mike Hosking that Allsopp believes the complaint was made maliciously by someone who doesn’t like her. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Britain. We go into Brady, very good money to you.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, Mike, got to speak to him and you too.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
And the suite that Sakia is running, it's going to
get worse before it gets bita we get a little
what chance. We've got some text talking.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Here one percent. Yes, so we've had a public holiday today,
but all of the papers here are full of what
he will say in the morning when he makes this speech.
I think what the Prime Minister is doing is laying
the ground for inevitable tax rises. We're told that he
has inherited a forty four billion dollar black hole in
the UK public finances, and he's going to use the

(00:34):
phrase rubble and ruin that he inherited from the Conservatives
after fourteen years. Rubble and ruin is what he has
been given to deal with. So I think inevitably the
budget that's coming in October, Rachel Reeves is now Britain's chancellor,
first female Chancellor of the Exchequer. Here, I think taxes
will be going up. And this speech later today it's

(00:57):
a big deal because he's effectively laying the ground out
as to how we going to deal with all the problems.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
How much political capital, will he boon avet's the case.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I think it's early days, but you're right there is
a risk. But he is also going to say that
it's going to take ten years to fix Britain. So
anyone who thinks he is a one term prime minister,
I think he's also setting out his stall that he
wants to be re elected. It's going to take ten
years to fix all the problems. And I mean everywhere
you look like there are issues across Britain. The country

(01:29):
is broken, from the potholes in the roads to the
rivers you can't swim in because of the sewage discharges.
Absolutely every aspect of British life needs fixing and that's
going to take money. And forty four billion dollars of
a black hole. I mean that's before we even get
our heads back above water. So I think there will
be tough tax rises and big decisions coming. But you're right,

(01:51):
he runs the risk that people will immediately turn around
and say, oh, here's the guy who pledged during the
election campaign that he wouldn't put up taxes and within
two months of getting in it's exactly what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Who comes beckheham As in regards the Tory leader given
this sort of an a process at the moment, Well.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
They're fighting amongst themselves really to see who will be
the leader, and everything i'm hearing in Westminster pretty battel
seems to be a front runner. Kenny Badanok absolutely wants
to be leader at some stage. James Cleverly is riding
quite high former Homeman Foreign Secretary. But I think the
difficulty the Conservatives have is there's not that many of

(02:29):
them and if you get the leadership now, in all honesty,
the party is a basket case at the moment. Are
you likely to see out another five years as opposition
leader leader of the opposition and then take on Starmer
in twenty twenty nine. So I think whoever gets that
at the moment will be an interim leader of the Conservatives,

(02:49):
teeing it up for someone else to come in. But look,
they will take lots of potshots at Starmer in the
next twenty four hours for this speech, But I think
he's just telling everyone what we already know, that rubble
and ruin is what he's got to deal with.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
If you held a poll, what's the result for Kirsty
Alsop They with her or Againna, I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Absolutely with her, and I think anyone who's followed this story,
so if anyone hasn't seen this. A week ago, she
announced on social media that she'd allowed her fifteen year
old son to go interrailing with his sixteen year old
mate across Europe for three weeks on a company, just
the two boys, and they successfully did it. They got

(03:30):
back home and they went to London, to Paris, to Amsterdam,
to Berlin. They went all over. They ended up in
the south of France, Barcelona, into Spain and then back
to the UK. Now, she proudly put that out on
social media, got a lot of backlash. What's happened today?
It turns out that Social Services have had a complaint,
so this has been she believes maliciously done. Someone who

(03:53):
doesn't like her has rung the local council and complained
to Social Services under a child welfare complaint and it's
being investigated. So she's absolutely split public opinion. You're right,
but I think good luck to her. My young lad sixteen,
he's just come back from a week in Ireland with
my parents and he had the time of his life
and he brought a sixteen year old mate with him,

(04:13):
and I know it's different that we escorted him to
the airport as he throw in London and my parents
went and picked them up in Dublin bus. It gives
young people confidence and at some stage we need to
cut those baby strings.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, exactly. Couldn't agree more that our kids were flying
from a very young age by themselves. In this country.
We stick little tags on their arms and they get
looked out above the earline, but they always made it
and they always came back. Now, spinn Goren Erickson unwell
for about a year, a year and a half or thereabouts.
Where does he sit in the penels around the annals
of history there?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And well, I think he will go down as well
as historic football manager for England because he was the
first foreigner, the first non English person to get the job,
and there was a big hullabaloo when he got it.
Was there no one good enough in England, no one
English who was good enough to manage England. And then
he quickly started winning matches and of course, as we've
seen in any sport, you know, as soon as a
win starts happening and more wins come, everyone gets on board.

(05:08):
I think he was desperately unlucky not to win something
with the England squad he had at the time played
sixty seven matches one forty. He had peak David Beckham
in his prime, Frank Lampard, Stephen Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand, very
very good players and it's an absolute tragedy what has happened.
Spent seventy six diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but he gave

(05:29):
some really intelligent interviews in the last few weeks. So
he's passed away in Sweden with his family by his side.
But then one little quote that he said last week
was that one aspect of life that nobody ever talks
about is death.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, it's true. Good on you might we'll catch up this.
I appreciate it very much. Into Brady out of Britain
for us this morning.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
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