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Let's spend Monday morning together.

In the studio I've got writer, broadcaster, journalist Emma Wolf.

We're going to go through the papers. Morning, Emma.

I just want to say a few words.

There's an elephant in the room, isn't there?

Mike's not here my

Graham is still on leave while a Facebook post posted on his Facebook page is

being investigated until then until the conclusion of that investigation

you got to understand we just have to wait. But this is his show. I'm doing

Mike's show. Okay. All the best to everybody. Right. Well, let's clear the air. You got that.

Okay. So let's do the best show we can and let's get started. Well, Emma, let's do the papers. We're going to go through the papers, of course, first.

I'm going to do that. How's that? That's a bit better, isn't it?

Some of my microphone are rubbing up against my shirts there. Great start. Right. Seriously,

let's do the papers. Well, obviously we're going to get on to the missing migrant,

the guy who inadvertently got led out of Chelmsford Prison on Friday.

We'll move on to that soon, but we're going to go do the papers first.

And the first story we've got is a very strong story.

It's in most of the papers but the mail's gone

big on it. It is. Billions wasted on hotels for migrants. This is a report, a parliamentary report,

which accuses home office staff as squandering billions of pounds on asylum seeker hotels

and presiding over a kind of incompetence handling a failed, chaotic, expensive system.

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