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

It would seem there is joy unbounded all over the place

this morning. People are hugging each other in the street, high-fiving all over the place as we

finally see a way out of this coronavirus. Oh, hang on a minute. Maybe they're just celebrating

being able to go back to the pub. That's, of course, only if you're in tier three, not tier two,

or perhaps it's the other way around. Or is it tier 1? Or is it going to be Tier 3 and a half?

There is a vaccine, of course. In large parts of the country, there are now where people are languishing in Tier 3,

ostensibly part of this third lockdown. Last night in Parliament, 56 Tory backbenchers decided to vote against the measures,

dealing the first of many blows to Boris Johnson's prime ministership. We'll be talking to one of them, Matt Vickers coming up very shortly. And regardless of how relieved he may be

this morning at the news about this vaccine, he's clearly on very shaky ground with his own

backbenchers and with those people who voted for him in December. Now, I know this is probably

not the right time to ask this question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Could this be the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson? He's got a vaccine. Can he now retire and say, well, look,

what I did. 0344-49-1,000. One thing worth celebrating, though, is the plain fact that stands out above

all else, and that is the reason Britain has become the first country in the world. And that's right,

the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer vaccine is because we left the European Union.

So how does that feel?

All of those naysayers, it talks about the European Medicine Agency, leaving London,

causing all kinds of health problems, causing all manner of terrible situations for people who needed medicine

in this country.

When if you're living in the European Union, you're not getting a vaccine before we are.

So there you go.

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