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Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham,

on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk

and radio. And so, it looks like I was right once again gets a bit boring this

doesn't it keep being right all the time it's almost impossible to predict when I could

possibly ever get anything wrong the newspapers this morning are already talking about a faster

path to freedom if the number of vaccinations exceeds expectations which they are

almost certainly bound to do what What did I tell you yesterday?

Much to the chagrin of some of you, I was welcoming the roadmap to recovery set out by Boris Johnson

because I said it was a step in the right direction.

Some of you were dismissive because it wasn't going fast enough.

Some of you were saying things like, Mike, how can you possibly ever betray us like this?

Why are you not giving the Prime Minister a harder time?

Well, I said the reason I wasn't doing that was because I actually firmly believe that this was the

way out of this problem. And it might not look great at the moment. It might not look brilliant.

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