Peerages, Daisy Cooper, And Drama At The Opera

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, News & Politics

4.4 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Should former MPs be given peerages so they can return to politics? New Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper joins us for the first time in the Independent Republic of Mike Graham. The Sun on Sunday's Political Editor and opera aficionado David Wooding pops in to talk about a fight at the Royal Opera House. And Helen Knapman talks us through the best products of 2019.

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0:00.0	The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.
0:03.7	The Human Zoo, where they don't hide away the sick animals.
0:07.6	Dangerous mid-morning debate with the Great Dictator.
0:10.7	The Independent Republic of Mike Graham.
0:13.4	It's time to attention to when I'm talking to you!
0:15.0	On talk radio.
0:16.2	Dismiss! Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.
0:33.5	There is a definite aroma of victory in the air this morning.
0:36.1	Despite the rain teeming down in Westminster.
0:38.3	The House of Commons will sit for the first time since the Tory election landslide,
0:41.6	where a new speaker will be elected, and it will be a lot more pleasant than the last one,
0:45.3	who seems to have been reduced to shouting order, order in foreign languages on Italian television.
0:51.4	We'll get a new father of the House as well.
0:53.6	There is much excitement in the ranks
0:55.1	because Boris Johnson has vowed to outlaw any delays to Brexit in 2020.
0:59.4	The Prime Minister is going to beef up the Brexit bill
1:01.2	and legally prohibit, those are his words,
1:03.7	extending the transition period beyond December 31st next year.
1:07.7	And with the majority the Tories have,
1:09.1	it's going to be passed when the bill is presented to Parliament this Friday. Brexit is actually getting done. 03444-49-1,000. Coming up, we're going to be
1:17.3	finding out how to stop Joe Swinton from elevating herself to the House of Lords after losing her seat
1:21.6	in Scotland and stepping down as leader of the Liberal Democrats. The Second Chamber is already
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