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Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Cummings up...

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tim Montgomerie kicks the show off with Mike discussing Dominic Cummings, the PM's Chief Adviser. Stewart Jackson adds to the conversation. Simon Calder updates Mike on international travel, while talkRADIO's Political Correspondent reports live from Spain. Finally, Robert Jenrick talks to Mike about the government's new plan for the homeless.

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0:00.0

Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

0:28.6

Prepare yourselves this morning, ladies and gentlemen, for a shopping spree.

0:31.6

As of the 15th of June, you'll be able to buy a pair of trousers.

0:34.6

You might even be able to buy a shirt.

0:36.0

You'll be able to buy some furniture.

0:37.4

And if you want to, you can even buy a car if you so wish. The lockdown is easy,

0:41.8

even as we speak and as Spain and Greece prepare to welcome holidaymakers this summer,

0:45.9

it's selling to look like there might finally be a pathway out of this particular horror show.

0:50.2

Yesterday saw one of the more remarkable days in the world of politics and in the world of the coronavirus lockdown scenario.

0:57.4

The masked ranks of Her Majesty's Press piled on a very calm and measured Dominic Cummings, despite the death rates reducing,

1:03.8

despite the infection rate decreasing, despite government announcements on the lifting of the lockdown.

1:08.2

These bozos from Her Majesty's Press are still insisting that the

1:11.5

government's chief advisor is the story. And even after he explained in perfectly understandable terms,

1:16.8

what he had done, when he had done it, and where it had all happened, they still wanted more.

1:20.6

More details, more apologies, more regrets, more recriminations. At one point, the fiasco

1:25.4

became so farcical that Dominic Cummings was

1:27.6

being asked about petrol stations, the woods, and going to the toilet. The depth to which

1:31.9

journalism in this country has sunk is really quite something to behold. Meanwhile, there is

1:35.9

still no apology from the mirror or the Guardian for getting it completely wrong, particularly

1:40.6

with regard to the phantom witness who claims to have seen him in Durham when he says he was actually not there at all.

1:48.1

I've got one question for you all this morning.

1:49.7

Do you wish to be governed by the party and the people that you were elected to run this country by a massive margin?

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