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

It is the first day of what could very possibly be the final denouement of the final Tory leadership contest.

We will go down to the final two later on this afternoon.

Kemi Badenok finally disappeared off the grid yesterday.

The big question now is, will it be Penny Morden or will it be Liz Truss versus Rishi Sunak?

Because everybody seems to believe that Rishi Sunak will get there by hook or by crook one way or the other.

We'll be talking to a variety of people this morning, including Andrew Bowie MP, who is, of course,

in favour of Rishi Sunak. Alicia Kearns is going to be here. She's in favour of Penny Morden. We haven't

got anybody in favour of Liz Truth, so we'll just have to talk to John Rental about her to see whether

he thinks that she might be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Also, of course, we'll be taking loads of your calls as well,

because very important day to day too,

Prime Minister's questions, the last Prime Minister's questions for Boris Johnson.

He said last week he might not be here this week.

That turned out not to be the case either,

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