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Two minutes past seven, top of the morning to you.

I'm Mark Dolan. This is Talk breakfast. A new year means a brand new schedule and going forward. I'm delighted to be your host every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 6am to 10 a.m. My priority will be getting your views, your concerns and your opinions on the national television radio airwaves.

Now, breaking this morning, the 12th U-turn in 18 months.

That's right, another Labour U-turn with the Chancellor

expected to climb down on her plans to raise business rates in hospitality.

But is it too little too late?

And with proposed changes to the drink drive limit, which will destroy rural locals,

why do this government seem to hate pubs so much?

Meanwhile, the Chancellor blasts Nigel Farage over his decision to reinstate the two-child benefit cap if he becomes prime minister.

And she's concerned because she thinks he's racist. But is it racist to put British taxpayers first?

Plus Rachel Reeves, Rachel from Accounts has got caught up in her own race row, which I'll be dealing with in Dolan's dispatch at 9am.

She's effectively implied that you have to be white to be British.

How ironic!

She's the very thing that the left accuse everyone else of.

Is she going to apologise?

Also this morning, senior military chiefs

warn the Prime Minister about a 28 billion pound defence black hole.

Could Elon Musk's ex-social media platform

be banned in censorship Britain

and the SMP's secret plan to keep men in women's prisons.

And a massive story. Storm Goretty. Garots Britain. The worst no for a decade hitch large parts of

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