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Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker. The Independent Republic of Mike Graham

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

on Talk Radio. We have reached the end of another lockdown week as we edge ever closer

to the Boris Johnson roadmap. On Monday, the Prime Minister will reveal exactly what he's decided to do.

Or, alternatively, depending on your view, he will reveal exactly what his sage advisors tell him he can do.

We shall explore the options today with Baroness Kate Howie over in Northern Ireland,

where they're still struggling with the fallout from Brexit. Last time we spoke, it wasn't clear

what the end result would actually be. It wasn't clear how they would solve the problem of

the Northern Ireland Protocol and the intransigence of the European Union. We'll find out whether

or not they've got any closer to doing that. We might also ask her what she made of Sakeer Stama's rather

lackluster keynote speech yesterday, where he once again failed to make any impression on anyone

or anything. It was absolutely dull as ditch water, as you might have expected. Also, he didn't,

by the way, mention Brexit. No surprise there. We did a poll yesterday with three possible outcomes. Question was,

should Sequeir Stama be Prime Minister? The options were no, definitely not, and no chance.

Surprisingly enough, 100% of you thought that he would not be Prime Minister. Another fantastic,

unbiased poll here at Talk Radio, the Home of Common Sense. Coming up, we're talking to a

student group. We think they're being ripped off, which of course may be their first lesson in

life. Many of them haven't even seen the inside of a lecture theatre, but they're still being

charged top whack. Most of them are back at home after paying for a year's worth of accommodation.

More evidence that education is now a business rather than anything else at all.

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