Robert Midgley - Inside The Dirty Deal Threatening The World’s Security
The Winston Marshall Show
Winston Marshall
4.8 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with Robert Midgley, journalist and spokesperson for the Friends of British Overseas Territories, to expose what could be Keir Starmer’s greatest political scandal yet — the quiet handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
We unpack how this shocking deal — costing British taxpayers up to £47 billion — effectively gives away sovereign UK territory in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Robert reveals how the Labour government, under pressure from international legal activists like Philippe Sands, has undermined British sovereignty and endangered one of America’s most strategic military bases, Diego Garcia.
From allegations of corruption and hacked negotiations in Mauritius to the Chinese Communist Party’s interest in the region, we examine how Britain’s political and legal elite have allowed foreign powers to dictate national policy under the banner of “decolonisation.”
We also explore the untold story of the Chagossian people — forcibly removed by the British government in the 1960s, yet still overwhelmingly pro-British today, despite decades of betrayal.
All this — the Chagos scandal, the billions in taxpayer money, China’s growing influence, and how Starmer’s Labour is sleepwalking Britain into surrendering its sovereignty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Winston Marshall Show with me, Winston Marshall. I sat down with |
| 0:04.5 | spokesperson for the friends of the British overseas territories and spokesperson for the |
| 0:10.7 | Chegosians in the ongoing scandal of the Chegos Islands handover or hand off Robert Midgely. |
| 0:17.8 | We discussed in great detail and great depth the various aspects of the |
| 0:23.3 | Chegos Islands and how Sarkir Stama is handing them off paying the Mauritians to take over |
| 0:30.1 | those islands. As well as a great in-depth look at the history of the Chegos Islands and |
| 0:36.6 | what might be expected in the future. |
| 0:39.3 | If you go over to our substack at winston-martial.co.uk, you'll enjoy an extended conversation |
| 0:45.0 | where Robert and I discuss the Commonwealth, the idea that Trump might bring America back into |
| 0:51.7 | the Commonwealth. We look at what's going on in Gibraltar and David |
| 0:54.8 | Lamy handing over control of the border with Spain to the Spanish and we look at the legacy of the |
| 1:01.6 | British Empire. That's all at Winston-Marshal.com.com.com. But without further ado, Robert Mitchley, |
| 1:10.1 | Robert Mitchley, welcome to the show. Before I introduce you, I think I should just set up what I want to talk to you about, which is what might be one of Kirstama's great, perhaps the greatest political scandal. There is an abundance of riches when it comes to Kirstama's |
| 1:28.1 | political scandals in his just over a year as prime minister. But the story of the Chegos Islands |
| 1:35.0 | and handing over these significant territories in the Indian Ocean, they are the British Indian Ocean |
| 1:43.8 | territories by name, |
| 1:45.9 | is quite galling, quite shocking. And it's a story of lawfare. It's a story of decolonization. |
| 1:54.3 | It's a story of post-war progressivism working against Britain. And it seems to me to be deeply anti-British, |
| 2:03.5 | not just that we're giving away these territories, but we're paying to do so. The government |
| 2:10.2 | officially saying it's $3.4 billion, but Taxpayers Alliance are saying it's £47 billion. |
| 2:15.9 | That's correct. Now we're going to get into all of this. |
| 2:17.7 | We're going to get into the players behind the scenes, the likes of Philippe Sands, |
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