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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 radio.

Today is the day, ladies and gentlemen, the day we start the beginning of a new area.

The day we begin to dream of what might have been.

The day that the light at the end of the tunnel gets a little bit brighter.

Yes, that's right. Boris Johnson will this very afternoon set out his roadmap to the end of this infernal lockdown. It looks like schools are all definitely opening on March the 8th, so that's great

news for all parents. All we have to do now is keep up the pressure on the Prime Minister to open up

gyms, shops, restaurants, bars, hubs

sooner than the current plan. After all, we've come this far, we may as well go the rest of the way,

mightn't we? I mean, what is the point, for example, of keeping hairdressers shut?

What is the point of closing down gyms and not open them again while everybody gets fatter and less fit

when everybody's supposed to be fighting off a killer virus.

03444-49-1,000.

We're joined first this morning by the chief political commentator at the Independent, Mr John Arendtel,

and I'll be asking him, just who is running this country anyway?

Is it Boris?

Is it Carrie Simmons, or is it Dylan the dog?

An amazing amount of absolute and utter wasted space

has been taken up over the course of the weekend

about a four-legged creature

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