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 Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk

Radio. It's all about spending money this week, ladies and gentlemen, spending it in the

shops, spending it at the pub, spending it in the restaurants when they all open their doors

on Saturday, and already there are predictions that pub tills will take in over 200 million

quid this coming weekend, and it looks like the Prime Minister is going to join in with the spree not just because he's going to visit the pub but because he's already announced a one

billion pound school building plan to rejuvenate the rather overburdened education system in this country aimed at repairing problems and upgrading schools so they can better handle the growing number of pupils. And there's more money on the way

as well. The Prime Minister will unveil even more spending plans in a keynote speech in the Midlands

tomorrow, which we will bring you live, of course, right here on Talk Radio. First up today, we'll be

asking former Tory MP and talk radio host Nick Dubois about the strategy coming out of Downey Street

right now, including the beginning of a war with

the civil service. Dominic Cummings has successfully picked off his first high-profile

target, Sir Mark Sedwell, the Cabinet Secretary and National Security Advisor. He's going to be

replaced by a Brexit-supporting executive leader in a move that very firmly brings the power

away from the mandarin's and puts it back

in the hands of the government.

That's got to be a good start, isn't it?

After all, when you voted for Brexit all those years ago, what you didn't expect was

for top civil servants in the home office, in the foreign office, in all sorts of other departments

of state, who would stand in the way of what it was that was the democratically

voted principle of leaving the European Union. That's what we stand for here at Talk Radio.

That's what we stand for in terms of any political organization. Democracy is what we are all about.

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