‘Now or Never,’ Adventure Island, Tax Rise Debate, Littering Motorists and British Pie Week
Morning Glory with Mike Graham
Matt Hall
4.4 • 741 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Christine Jardine starts the show. James Miller, Operations Director at Adventure Island speaks to Mike about hiring people without the vaccine. Dan Hodges talks to Mike about the Chancellor’s Budget ahead of tomorrow, and Peter Hitchens taking the vaccine. Nick Freeman discusses littering motorists. Finally, James Chiavarini joins Mike to talk all things pies!
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| 0:00.0 | Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on Talk Radio. |
| 0:14.7 | Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk radio. |
| 0:18.8 | The writing seems to be definitely on the wall, |
| 0:21.1 | ladies and gentlemen. Matt Hancock yesterday confirmed what I've been saying for quite a while, |
| 0:25.8 | certainly since the weekend. This coronavirus is very much on the wane, and with the addition |
| 0:29.9 | of the vaccine program's ever-increasing reach, it means that older and more vulnerable people |
| 0:34.3 | are safer than ever. According to the Secretary of State for Health, the number of people over 80 being admitted to intensive care units has fallen to single figures. |
| 0:42.3 | And now, more and more ministers and MPs are having the conversation about speeding up the |
| 0:46.3 | roadmap to freedom just because they now can. And I think it's the right thing to do. |
| 0:51.6 | The only fly in the ointment, of course, is the release of these new variant scare stories. |
| 0:55.9 | For me, the new variants are the new NHS is being overwhelmed. |
| 0:59.3 | As long as there's a threat, Matt Hancock and the SAGE advisors will tell us all to cower |
| 1:03.3 | indoors. |
| 1:04.1 | It's still not safe. |
| 1:05.3 | It's budget day tomorrow, though. |
| 1:06.3 | We're kicking off today with Christine Jardin, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh and West, Treasury spokesman for the party as well. |
| 1:11.3 | She might also have a thing or two to say about Nicola Sturgeon, who has chosen tomorrow to make |
| 1:16.2 | her appearance before that sexual harassment committee up in Hollywood. |
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| 1:22.3 | We'll also check in with our statistics expert, Jamie Jenkins. |
| 1:25.7 | Dan Hodges is also going to join us with his take |
| 1:27.8 | on what Rishi Sunak should be doing tomorrow. And of course he'll have something to say about |
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