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Talk Breakfast

When Chinese Eyes Are Spying

Talk Breakfast

Ricky Freelove

News, Labour, Reform Uk, Immigration, News Commentary, Current Affairs, Conservatives, Daily News, Government, Uk News, Politics, Debate, Phone In, British News, Speech Radio, Talk

4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Wake up with Talk Breakfast in full on YouTube, DAB+ radio, Freeview 280, Fire TV, Samsung TV Plus or the Talk App on your TV from 6am every morning.

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0:00.0

Hey, very good morning. She's just gone six o'clock. We're live across the UK. And immediately, I look down on my sheet and it says Tuesday, the 21st of January. It's actually Wednesday the 21st of January. That boy that's back, that Damien, so much to answer for. Welcome to tour breakfast. JK here. I just want to start by saying, and I don't expect any sympathy at all.

0:21.8

I've got man flu, my knees hurt. This is the sort of morning when I was a kid. If I'd said to my mother, Mum, I don't feel great today. I'll get croaky, bit snotty, and she'd have gone, yeah, and I got pneumonia in the Second World War, you're going to school. because hard work in Brits, you'd understand this.

0:38.0

All these soft people that go,

0:39.2

I'm going to work today.

0:40.8

We are here. in the Second World War, you're going to school. Because hard work in British, you'd understand this.

0:37.9

All these soft people that go, I'm going to work today. We are here. We are on. Excuse the voice, it will crack. But we've got so much to talk to you about. Yesterday's show was astonishing. Of course, when that news broke that Donald J. Trump had finally laid into the Chagos Islands deal. Well, he went further overnight.

0:54.4

He basically told Starram to straighten out the UK.

0:57.5

He said London's gone. finally laid into the Chegos Islands deal. Well, he went further overnight. He basically told Stalbord

0:56.0

to straighten out the UK. He said London's got real problems. This is a bit of a dump. It was a lengthy

1:01.3

White House briefing where our very own Harry Cole, who's done a great article in the sun today,

1:07.6

Harry Cole, saving the West every night from 10 o'clock. He put this question

1:12.0

to the President of the United States of America.

1:14.2

I had to hand the base of Diego Garcia over to Mauritius and then rent it back was an act

1:18.8

of great stupidity. Previously you backed that bill. Is it now your position that the deal

1:23.8

should not go ahead?

1:24.7

I think that they, you know, when they originally were going to do it,

1:27.7

they were talking about doing some concept of ownership.

1:31.3

But now they're looking to essentially just do a lease and sell it.

1:34.9

And I'm against that.

1:36.1

You know, it's reasonably nothing like Greenland,

1:39.3

but it's a reasonably important area of the globe,

1:43.4

not to anywhere near Greenland, but I think they

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