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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talker Radio.

We have reached the end of yet another incredible week in the Independent Republic.

We have moved into brand new studios and begun the new Talk Radio Revolution.

We have witnessed Boris Johnson changing policy on immigrant NHS workers after we told him it was wrong.

And we have edged ever closer to more lockdown restrictions being lifted.

Already we're talking about pubs reopening, schools unlocking their classrooms and planes starting

to fly again while at the same time watching the infection rate of coronavirus declined significantly,

not just in London, but in the rest of the world too. Could it be that there is light at the end

of the tunnel? We want to hear more from you, of course, as we enter yet another bank holiday weekend. Once again, yesterday the beaches and the tourist hotspots

were full of people who don't appear to be too frightened to go out. And all those people who were

punished and all those people who were fine, even yesterday in Devon, police were handing out fines

to people for driving down a road that went towards a beach. It turns out the CPS are not

absolutely sure whether they can prosecute anybody because they're not entirely sure what laws

they have actually broken. Tell us what your plans are for this weekend and tell us what you

are seeing out there as well. 0344-49-1,000 is the number. Coming up later on, we'll be asking

former Border Force officer Chris Hobbs just how the police are supposed to ensure that people stick to their 14-day quarantine restrictions

because that's what they're now told they have to do after they return to these shores from

being somewhere else. And why Pretty Patel can't seem to get to grips with those migrant votes

we spoke about yesterday? We invited her onto the show as Home Secretary to talk about

what was going on with Nigel Farage down at Dover. She declined to do so. She did, however,

answer some MPs questions yesterday. I tweeted those out last night. She's basically saying

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