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

on talk radio

A mid-morning dance with the devil

from the farmer of fury

Dangerous mid-morning debate

with the great dictator

The Independent Republic of Mike Graham

on talk radio

The Independent Republic Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham as Boris Johnson has emerged.

Thanks to Talk Radio is the most eccentric of the two candidates, backing it out to become the next prime minister of this country. Our political leaders of Ross Kempsel managed to get out of

Boris, the most interesting story yet.

Far better than the late-night shouting match,

far more fascinating than any of his columns in the Daily Telegraph,

and even more compelling than his never-ending list of children.

I'm talking, of course, about his propensity to build buses out of cardboard boxes,

a tale so far-fetched that it surely has to be true, doesn't it?

Or doesn't it?

I don't know, we'll be finding out from Ross. We'll be also be finding out with the help of Tory MP and Jeremy Hunt supporter James Cartlidge, whether there's any point in Jeremy Hunt even carrying

on with the hustings and carrying on with this sort of ridiculous situation where he thinks

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