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Coming up, net migration is to be blown out of the water this week with predictions it could reach as high as 700,000.

Israel's on the brink of striking a deal to free some hostages and halt the fighting in Gaza.

And as a COVID calamity,

as the former Chief Medical Officer explains the UK

was woefully unprepared for a pandemic.

You think?

Good evening and welcome to the Independent Republican Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

It is your home of common sense.

And we're here once again for your delectation over the next two hours.

And we're going to be asking all the right questions.

Why, for example, are we allowing doctors to hold the NHS to ransom? Since the striking season began, all the men and women in the

white coats, that's them, have done. It's cost our health service billions of pounds, and God

knows how many deaths they've caused. How is it possible to still have a railway service that is not

fit for purpose, overpriced and completely unreliable, riven as it is, still, by strike action from the extremist trade unions.

And when will we finally get what we want when it comes to immigration?

Tonight, I'll be telling you how net migration figures for the last 12 months

will actually be going up, not down.

Contrary to what the lefty lawyers and politicians will tell you.

That's right, another 700,000 people are now

living in this country. And what good will tax cuts do for us if they are announced tomorrow by

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