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

We have got one heck of a show for you today, ladies and gentlemen,

because we have got the statistics that we have been waiting for for the best part of two weeks.

And I'm going to tell you something quite shocking.

We have now got more people living in this country than we have ever had in the history of Great Britain.

Okay?

At no time have we had more people living in this country than we have now.

The net migration figure has come out this morning, just about half an hour ago.

$606,000 is what it is to December 22.

The problem is, of course, that that only tells half the story, because

the real story is how many people have actually come here, not how many people have come here

minus the number of people who have left. We'd like to ask the Prime Minister about it, of course,

but he's decided he's going to give an interview to somebody else. And do you know who he's going

to give an interview to? Is he going to give it to the BBC? No. Is he going to give it to to somebody else. And do you know who he's going to give an interview to?

Is he going to give it to the BBC? No. Is he going to give it to Sky? No. Is he going to give it to Bloomberg?

No. Is he going to give it to CNBC? No. Is he going to give it to the Daily Mail or the Sun or the Times? No, he's going to give it to ITVs this morning, the most toxic show in the history of television.

I mean, if Rishi Sunak doesn't have enough problems, he's sitting on a sofa just as we speak, talking to the replacement of Holly and Phil.

I mean, does he got no moral compass whatsoever?

Does he not know that that's a show which has not only lost about two to three hundred

thousand listeners over the course of the last week because of all the shenanigans have been going on?

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