Baroness Claire Fox kicks off today's show to discuss the morning's top headlines as Keir Starmer backs rewriting equality law to ban trans people from same-sex spaces and serving Met Police officers who have been taken away from tackling serious crime and terrorism and instead told to investigate wrongdoing in the force. Writer for The Spectator's Gavin Mortimer joins shortly after to discuss Emmanuel Macros visit to China this week alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in an attempt to use Xi's influence over Russia to promote a peace settlement. TalkTV's International Editor Isabel Oakeshott returns to The Independent Republic to discuss further Donald Trump's shock arrest and arraignment in New York this week and Joe Biden's upcoming state visit to the UK. Travel Correspondent at The Times Ben Clatworthy joins shortly after to discuss more travel disruption as Britain's busiest port will build temporary marquees to check passports in a bid to avoid another weekend of Easter travel chaos after huge queues blighted ferry crossings. MP for Orkney and Shetland and Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Home Affairs, Northern Ireland and Constitutional Reform Alistair Carmichael MP joins shortly after to discuss further the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Morrell and Former Police Officer & Director of Law and order Foundation closes the show to discuss why police are failing to attend 120 burglaries a day. All that and so much more, so tune in! 

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