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Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Roadmap out of Lockdown, 'Critical Threat' and Children's Mental Health

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown starts the show. Neil Oliver and Mike have their weekly discussion. Sam Armstrong, from the Henry Jackson Society talk about China. Finally Paediatric Doctor Nik Johnson and Mike speak about the impact of lockdown on children's mental health.

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0:00.0

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

0:18.5

It's beginning to look a lot like there are not one,

0:21.3

not two, not three, but possibly four, maybe even five different versions of a roadmap going on.

0:27.0

The front pages today are filled with possible plans, might be scenarios and provisions for the

0:31.9

opening of the economy. At least they're now directly talking about it. Here at Talk Radio,

0:35.9

we've been banging on about this for a very long time and there have been a reasonably good selection of MPs on the backbenchers of the

0:42.2

Tory party who have also been keeping up the pressure. Graham Brady's among them, of course.

0:46.6

We'll be talking coming up in this hour to Geoffrey Clifton Brown, Deputy Chair of the Public

0:50.7

Accounts Committee about how he thinks the lockdown should be managed,

0:54.6

how the opening up of the economy should be done, and how soon we can really start to see things

0:59.3

moving. What we can say at least is that the schools will open and soon we will be back to

1:04.3

normal. I'm absolutely sure of that. Julia Hartley-Brewer are not so sure. She thinks they're going to

1:08.2

try and keep it going for as long as possible. The question is, why can't we do it sooner rather than later?

1:15.0

Yesterday I predicted that Nicholas Sturgeon would announce the opening of schools next week,

1:18.5

and sure enough, that's what she did.

1:20.2

However, she did issue the ominous warning that it might all have to go into reverse

1:24.0

if infection rates go up again.

1:25.6

And of course, as you would have heard on the breakfast show this morning, Dr. Lee saying,

1:30.3

as long as they're still testing lots and lots of people, the rate of infection will never

1:34.3

go down low enough for them to say that they can actually lift it.

1:37.3

Surely it's time now for Boris Johnson to put his money where his mouth is.

1:40.3

We know he wants to do it. He just has to shake off those sage scientists

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