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Bonus: Sue Reid Special

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Ricky Freelove

British News, Uk News, News, Government, Labour, Current Affairs, Speech Radio, Reform Uk, News Commentary, Politics, Debate, Daily News, Phone In, Immigration, Conservatives, Talk

4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Mike Graham is joined by Daily Mail journalist, Sue Reid, to discuss her latest story on the dark truth behind Britain's barbershop boom.

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0:00.0

Across the UK on DAB Plus, on YouTube, on your mobile, and we're going to speak to Sue Ree.

0:33.0

I don't want to say veteran journalists because some people don't like it,

0:36.1

but you are a veteran journalist at the Daily Mail.

0:38.7

And so you did a fantastic sort of expose a few days ago about the Britain's barbershop boom.

0:45.9

I mean, everybody kind of knows, no matter which part of Britain they live in, it used to be just a city thing.

0:50.5

But suddenly, I mean, even down in a little village in Sussex where I go at the weekends, there's about three barbers shops in this tiny little high street. And you think,

0:58.4

what exactly is going on here? There's clearly something going on. And you've kind of nailed

1:03.0

what everybody suspected, really. It's got a tremendous reaction, I have to say, because

1:08.2

it has affected every town and village there were 18,000

1:13.6

according to a data survey now existing and 670 open last year so when I went round

1:23.2

the country I found really nowhere was untouched so even in

1:30.1

lemington spa yeah instance there was still barbershops in Coventry which is

1:36.7

where I targeted my article there are 22 on one streets

1:41.5

it's incredible isn't it and And it is all connected with obviously money laundering,

1:49.5

cash, often with the smuggling of migrants into the country. Yeah, yeah, it's my

1:58.0

cash, it has to be got rid of. And I mean, a lot of these places, I remember seeing them starting to first open up here a few years ago,

2:06.6

there's never anybody in them.

2:08.2

But I presume that the barber business is easy to order money through because you can't tell,

2:13.7

nobody can really tell how many haircuts you're doing.

2:16.0

Well, I'm told it works like this, and I'm not a tax expert, but I'm told that it works like this.

2:24.4

The barber takes 10K turnover, say.

2:30.1

He then declares to the revenue, to the HMRC, 60K.

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