The Home of Common Sense. This is Talk.

Top of the morning to you. It is three minutes past six. It is Thursday morning. Mark Dolan with you on Talk, the Home of Common Sense,

in for the legend. That is Jeremy Kyle. So much to get through this morning.

So as he pursued legal action as a young lawyer against military veterans and with the reopening of cases against Northern Ireland soldiers,

is Sequeir Starma fit to lead Britain's armed forces?

Does he have the authority to lead our soldiers?

Let me know your thoughts on that.

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This is alarm clock Britain. You're getting up, you're getting breakfast into your kid's stomach,

you're getting ready for work. You may well be at the tail end of a night shift, in which case I salute your efforts.

I salute your contribution to the unstoppable powerhouse that is the British economy,

which continues to be active, continues to grow, not thanks to this government,

but thanks to the efforts of the British people.

So never here Keir is on holiday again, this time in China.

And he has gifted President Xi with a Manchester United football.

But has he got the balls to stand up to this regime?

Can we afford to freeze China out of our economy?

We're speaking to one of the country's most trusted economist Paul Johnson.

Who knows his onions?

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