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Let's get ready to rumble. Let's get ready, ready, let's get ready, let's get ready, ready, let's get ready, let's get ready, let's get ready, let's get ready, let's get ready, let's get, John Renson is here, Chief of Political Commentation of the Independent. John, a very good morning to you.

Good morning, Mike. You know, I'm like the Independent John, a very good morning to you. Good morning, Mike.

You know, I come to, well, it's a sort of independent republic, you know, spin-off.

So we're still sort of under the same umbrella, to be honest.

I was going to ask, it's one of these weeks where there's so much to talk about.

I don't know where to begin, really, but I thought maybe I'd ask you about Nick Thomas Simmons, who's writing the eye today, Rachel Rees is meeting up with EU

financial chiefs, because there's a significant suggestion, it would seem, that the Labour government

is looking at moving a bit closer to the EU as things with America start to look a little bit more

uncertain. What are you,

what are you hearing about that? Well, I haven't heard anything, anything recently, but, I mean,

that seems entirely sensible. One of the, one of the economic problems we have, one of the

costs that we've had to bear is the cost of an extremely hard Brexit.

And if we can make trade with the EU easier, then that's in our financial interest and we should

do it. It might be in their financial interest as well, because, I mean, they weren't exactly

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