CONTINUED HEADLINE: Commodity Prices Surge Amidst Global Demand and UK Political Turmoil GUEST NAME: Simon Constable SUMMARY: While the south of France enjoys a pleasant harvest, global commodity prices for essential metals and select food items are spik
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Commodity Prices Surge Amidst Global Demand and UK Political Turmoil
GUEST NAME: Simon Constable
SUMMARY: While the south of France enjoys a pleasant harvest, global commodity prices for essential metals and select food items are spiking due to high demand and supply constraints, mirroring political unrest and leadership challenges within the UK's Labour Party. Simon Constable reports on rising commodity prices: copper, iron ore, and aluminum are up due to high demand for data centers and supply issues. Coffee prices have spiked by 51%, though cocoa and Brent crude have moderated. In the UK, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces internal dissent and "plastic patriotism" protests, with talk of replacing him by early next year.
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| 0:24.0 | I'm John Batsur, Simon Constable, my good colleague from the South of Francis here, |
| 0:28.3 | but Simon hails from the UK and we need to go there because I need an interpretation. |
| 0:34.3 | The interpretation I need is there was a very large turnout of people in London on Sunday, Saturday, Sunday, the weekend. |
| 0:43.1 | And the BBC said 100,000. |
| 0:46.0 | The protesters, and that's what they were doing was protesting, said 3 million. |
| 0:50.6 | So somewhere in between. |
| 0:52.4 | Why not? |
| 0:53.7 | However, what made it especially ripe is that the |
| 0:57.7 | next day, the Prime Minister, Sir Kirste Starrmer, declared the marcher's plastic patriotism. |
| 1:05.1 | It's a puzzle. I won't solve that one. So I'll go to the remarks that I saw on video package turned on migration. And we know that |
| 1:16.1 | that is a hot topic. But there's also the matter of protesting in general, freedom of speech, |
| 1:22.4 | freedom of assembly, anything to do is to challenge the government. And by by that I mean the Labor Party that is in |
| 1:30.2 | dominant form in Parliament. So two tracks. First, Simon, who is Tommy Robinson? Because I saw a |
| 1:36.8 | very well-spoken man with the accent of labor behind a big, big banner that read Remigration, which is a way of saying deport, the people |
| 1:48.1 | who are here having crossed the English channel. And the young man was speaking feverishly, |
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