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the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on talk radio.

It's locked down Easter and it's eerily quiet out there on the streets of London today as Boris Johnson begins his recovery from a near-death experience last week.

Yesterday he was a loud home from hospital and he is currently recuperating at Chequers with his partner, Carrie Simmons.

But the hatred had bile from the left continues.

The health editor of the economist, Chris Lockwood,

even suggested that the Prime Minister had never actually been ill.

He's now had to issue an apology and a retraction.

Apparently, he says he made a mistake.

And as the media narrative

about PPE changes, thanks to several reality checks over the weekend, some people are still

attempting to make political capital out of the NHS staff. The BBC on Sunday morning could barely

contain a disappointment after interviewing a doctor and two nurses who all said that protection

for them was not an issue and never had been.

The truth of the matter is that the supply and demand is not dovetailing in every single location of the health business.

But the narrative that is being pumped out by the health unions like the BMA and the Royal College of Nursing is one thing only, political propaganda.

Nobody in their right mind would expect NHS workers to put their lives at risk,

and it's now time to stop feeding the beast that suggests the government doesn't care.

As Boris Johnson said yesterday, he is indebted to the NHS for saving his life.

We'll get the latest from the front lines coming up. We'll be speaking to doctors,

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