Furlough Extension, Money Trees, Giving Evidence, and Bullying

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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John Rentoul starts the show. Former Chief Business Advisor for Number 10 and Conservative MP Andrew Griffith anticipates the Chancellor’s budget plans. Neil Oliver and Mike talk about Nicola Sturgeon giving evidence. Royal Biographer Angela Levin speaks to Mike about Meghan being accused of bullying Palace staff, and wearing earrings gifted from Saudi crown prince accused of murder.

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0:51.4	Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.
0:55.5	The day is only just getting underway, but already we have a whole host of great headlines to bring you.
1:00.4	Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is fighting for her political life with her appearance before MSPs in Edinburgh,
1:05.7	probing whether she broke the ministerial code, and if so, whether she will have to disappear from view.
1:11.6	How many bits of the ministerial code did she break?
1:13.6	How many bits of it are important enough if she did break them, she will have to resign.
1:17.6	She's characteristically defiant in the face of calls which came in last night for her to resign from the Scottish Tory leadership.
1:24.6	Meanwhile, it's Budget Day.
1:25.6	Chancellor of Rishi Sunak has already revealed that the furlough scheme will be extended
1:29.6	to September.
1:31.0	Much against my suggestion on Sunday that he should do away with it all together and get
1:35.0	everybody back to work.
1:36.0	What else will he reveal from his little red box?
1:38.1	We'll be asking John Rental, Chief Political Commentator from the Independent.
1:41.4	The big story this morning, though, is the revelation that Megan Markle was facing a claim of bullying from staff at Kensington Palace shortly before she and
1:49.0	Harry jetted off out of the country. I wonder whether those two things could be connected.
1:53.4	Perhaps more embarrassingly, she was pictured wearing a pair of earrings given to her as a wedding gift
1:58.0	by Mohammed bin Silman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, who's accused
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