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Chagossians Siege Chagos

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

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

LIVE from the Chagos Islands are the British Chagossians being threatened by the British government with immigration officials forcing them with deportation. The irony that Starmer can deport his own citizens is not lost on Mark Dolan. Plus the new Reform UK shadow cabinet is investigated by the New Culture Forum's Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dan Hodges pulls apart the dying days or Sir Keir Starmer's premiership.

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0:00.0

Listen, we've got a developing story now. Chagosians who have returned to the islands are now hiding

0:05.5

due to British patrol boats searching for them. And I'm delighted to welcome Misley Mandarin,

0:12.0

who is the Chagosian government's unofficial first minister who's on one of the islands. Mr. Mandarin,

0:19.4

welcome to talk breakfast.

0:22.1

Hello, sir. Thank you for the islands. Mr. Mandarin, welcome to talk breakfast. Hello, sir.

0:23.0

Thank you for having me.

0:24.5

I'm just going to tell you,

0:26.2

we've just been served this piece of paper

0:29.9

to leave the island,

0:31.9

to leave my homeland from the British patrol,

0:35.6

from the British Indian Ocean Territory Patrol,

0:38.3

which is absolutely a disgrace to this government.

0:45.3

So Mr. Mandarin, have the authorities come off a boat onto the island

0:50.3

and handed you this eviction notice?

0:53.3

They sent me an eviction notice.

0:57.3

They sent me an eviction notice and they said,

1:00.5

if I don't leave there, I will be jailed for three years.

1:03.8

Which I'm happily to do it for my country.

1:05.6

I've got the right to be here.

1:10.3

And tell me why you feel so passionately that you have a right to be in the Togosian Islands.

1:13.6

Because we've been exiled once and that story will never happen.

1:19.6

So that's why. This is my homeland. My dad is next to me.

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