‘Just deport them!’: Labour's £40k migrant madness
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Shabana Mahmood has announced a host of new anti-immigration measures in Labour’s most radical policy intervention since it came to power.
The plans include offering asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave Britain, as well as suspending student visas for four countries over migrants using the system as a backdoor route to claim asylum.
Camilla and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg assess the plans, after Mahmood tells Camilla at a press conference that the measures are "not the end of the action that we will take in this area".
Elsewhere, Jacob condemns Sir Keir Starmer’s “flip-flopping” on Iran, which led to him being “bullied by his own Cabinet” into his initial decision to not allow US forces to use British bases.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.1 | Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a big new immigration crackdown, |
| 0:14.4 | and she's told the Daily Tea she won't rule out going even further. |
| 0:18.9 | But the problem is the party absolutely hates it. |
| 0:22.0 | So is she actually even a Labour politician at all, or just a reform tribute act? |
| 0:27.3 | And who is running the country right now? |
| 0:29.5 | Because it turns out Kirstama was slow to react to the situation in Iran because of advice |
| 0:34.6 | from Ed Miliband and Lord Hermann. |
| 0:37.9 | They were worried about history repeating itself with Iraq, |
| 0:40.8 | but I will explain why the conflicts are completely different. |
| 0:44.4 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:47.0 | And me, Jacob Rees-Mogg. |
| 1:11.7 | Thank you. Jacob, welcome back. I've got a sweaty brow. I have just raced here from Broadway House where the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud has been giving a speech that would delight somebody like you on the right. She's delighting the right and insisting that it's just old-fashioned labour values at play here as |
| 1:17.0 | she cracks down on immigration legal and illegal. Yes, well I don't want to correct you to |
| 1:22.6 | begin with, but I'm going to have to. Horses sweat, gentlemen, perspire and ladies gently glow. So you may have a gently glowing for it, but no more than that. Are you saying I've had a glow-up in the last few months? Jacob, I'm delighted with that. I don't know what that means. You do know what, a glow-up is when a woman of a certain age appears to have suddenly become youthful and starts wearing trendy clothes. |
| 1:46.2 | You could have had a glow up, you've had a haircut. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, I needed one. |
| 1:48.7 | I was beginning to look like a nippy. |
| 1:53.0 | But your uniform has remained the same since the late 18th century, let's be honest. Absolutely right. Absolutely right. |
| 1:54.8 | So, no, I think the speech is just the sort of thing that the British voter wants to hear, |
| 2:01.5 | except it's not traditional Labour values. |
| 2:03.1 | Labour has always been the party of mass migration, that the problems we have with mass |
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