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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 Republican Mike Graham right here on talk of radio.

The skies are still a little stormy, ladies and gentlemen.

The rain is still a bit heavy, but we are edging ever closer to the summer holidays that we may or may not have.

Today we're heading back to the House of Commons for the first Prime Minister's questions of the month. No doubt Boris Johnson will continue the onslaught and labour by slicing and dicing Keir Starmer in the same way that Penny Mord

had destroyed Angela Rainer yesterday afternoon. We'll have a look at that a little bit later on

in this show. Poor old Keir is still reeling, of course, of his election defeat, and he's planning a fly-on-the-wall documentary to see if it might make it more interesting.

You know the answer to that, I think. As Rod Little told me yesterday, I feel sorry for the fly.

We are joined for the first time on PMQs by former Special Advisor Peter Cardwell. He'll be watching the body language for us. Up first though, we've got Matt Vickers MP on the leveling up funds, the lifting of lockdown, and the ongoing battle with Sage advisors. Because guess what? Neil Ferguson,

that's right, Professor Pantsdown, has apparently come out and said that he does actually

think the Indian variance all that transmissible after all. Well done, Neil. And the only way

we think about Neil Ferguson is everything he says out to be completely wrong. So we'll have to figure out later whether he's telling

the truth. Plus, we'll be asking him about the Metropolitan Police Officer recorded

cheering for Palestine and hugging demonstrators while on duty at the weekend. I think everybody

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