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The only radio show you can count on for a proper serving of good old-fashioned common sense in search

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and talk tv good morning and welcome to the independent republic of mike graham right here on talk the Home of Common Sense, the place where you can find an awful lot of reasonably interesting information, some of which will be very useful to you as you go through your day this morning.

Because guess what, rational debate seems to have left the building. I don't mean this building. I mean the building down the river, which is, of course, the Palace of Westminster, the Houses of Parliament.

There's people in newspapers this morning saying Boris Johnson needs to hire Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor.

Hello? Jeremy Hunt? You must be joking. This bloke has tried twice to deceit Boris Johnson and has got absolutely nowhere. Very, very fast indeed.

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