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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

So now we know everything is sorted.

We've been given our orders.

Christmas isn't cancelled after all.

It's just been turned into a massively complicated affair that involves bubbles, households,

minced pies and individual plates that are definitely not for sharing. The collective brains of

Boris Johnson, Nicholas Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford and Arlene Foster have managed to cobble together

a set of Christmas rules that are almost impossible to understand and entirely arbitrary, all the other rules that they've come up with over the past eight months. I'll bring you a full explanation to the 12 rules of COVID Christmas and I'll be challenging you to work out what you can and cannot do, who you can and cannot do it with, how long you can or cannot do it for, and where you can and cannot go.

First up this morning, we're talking to Deanna Davidson, Tory MP for Bishop Auckland,

who has demanded that the proposed MP's pay rise should be scrapped.

Could she be the first sensible politician we've had on the show this week?

I'll be congratulating her for that, but I'll also be asking her what she's doing for Christmas.

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