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The Winston Marshall Show

The PROBLEM With Labour’s Illegal Immigration Plans

The Winston Marshall Show

Winston Marshall

Society & Culture

4.8661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Britain is at a breaking point, and on this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sit down with Rob Bates, founder of the Centre for Migration Control, for a forensic breakdown of Shabana Mahmood’s new asylum and immigration reforms.


We dig into what these proposals really mean: from 20-year settlement routes, the so-called “jewellery clause,” and Labour’s attempt to reframe illegal Channel crossings as an acceptable path to refugee status to the ballooning cost of asylum hotels, the collapse of border enforcement, and how Britain ended up spending billions housing people the state has lost track of.


Rob exposes the shocking scale of visa overstayers, the true size of the illegal migrant population, and why the small boats crisis is only the visible tip of a much larger system failure. We explore the data wars, crime figures, FOI revelations, nationality vs. country-of-birth disputes, and the politicised fight over who gets to define the truth.


We also get into the deeper structural rot: the ECHR bottleneck, the Modern Slavery Act being gamed, human rights loopholes exploited by foreign offenders, and how gangs, trafficking networks, and the black-market economy have embedded themselves into Britain’s immigration system.


All this, small boat crossings, overstayers, asylum hotels, the £16 billion bill, ECHR constraints, crime data controversies, and the political revolt inside Labour in a conversation cutting through the spin to what’s really happening at Britain’s borders.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Winston Marshall Show with our guest, Rob Bates. We took a deep dive into all

0:05.7

things immigration, legal, illegal, asylum claims, boat crossings, the border with France and Ireland,

0:13.2

and most importantly, of course, Shabana Mahmoud, the British Home Secretary's latest reform plans

0:20.4

to deal with the asylum system and, or she calls it,

0:25.5

irregular immigration.

0:27.2

Before you hear from Rob, I just wanted to say, first and foremost, thank you.

0:30.6

Thank you for supporting this show.

0:32.7

Thank you for continuing to listen.

0:34.3

Remember to press subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcast from.

0:38.3

And if you head over to winsamarshal.co.uk, not only will you enjoy ad-free viewing and

0:44.5

listening, but you'll be able to ask future guests your questions and you'll hear an extended

0:49.3

conversation between me and Rob discussing the various deals that Britain has with France as well as the

0:54.7

border with Ireland and much else. That's all exclusive at wintersamarshal.com.com.

1:00.2

But without further ado, Rob Bates.

1:04.6

Our new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmoud, has just announced her new plans to deal with

1:10.4

Britain's asylum situation and illegal immigration.

1:14.8

Britain has millions of illegal immigrants here.

1:18.4

We have a crisis, I believe, when it comes to all sorts of immigration, both legal and illegal.

1:26.2

And people are absolutely furious with her proposals.

1:31.9

Or I should say, the left of the Labour Party and those outside the Labour Party on the left

1:36.5

are furious.

1:37.4

Jeremy Corbyn called part of it disgusting.

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