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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk of radio.

So here we are then smack bang in the middle of the week, waiting for some pearls of wisdom to fall from the lips of those who are charged with getting us all out of this COVID-inspired mess.

And there's a fair chance that by the weekend we will have them.

The pearls of wisdom, I mean, not getting out of the mess. Imagine the scenes in Downey Street this morning as the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his chief advisor Dominic Cummings, and the

country's chief medical officer Chris Whitty all sit around the table arguing about what to do next.

I've been thinking about this quite a lot this morning and I'm trying to imagine a room

full of people taking life very seriously, but not actually really knowing whether to

agree about anything. The newspapers have a variety of choices for them, a reduction in the time

we may have to quarantine if returning to the UK from a holiday in an unsafe country, a lifting

of the restrictions to the Ballyarix and the Canary Islands for hundreds of thousands of British

holiday makers, the introduction

of testing at airports for people coming home and growing concerns about a second wave of

the virus sweeping across Europe.

Whitty, of course, will be urging caution because that's all he ever does. After all, it was

his idea to make people coming back from Spain self-isolate for a fortnight because 10 people

tested positive last week.

Boris will be trying to convince him to relax the rules a bit more so people can spend more money

to help revive the economy. Dominic Cummings, of course, will simply be sitting there trying

to work out which journalist he doesn't want to speak to this week. This could take some time.

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