''Our borders are at breaking point - Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms still don’t go far enough,' Matt Goodwin says

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Matthew Goodwin

By Matthew Goodwin


Published: 21/11/2025

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GB News Matt Goodwin made his case for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights

Shabana Mahmood's sweeping asylum reforms this week - they've dominated the headlines.

But actually in America, a bombshell intervention by President Trump, exclusively revealed by GB News today, has piled even more pressure on our sinking Labour Government.



We can confirm tonight that President Trump's administration will urge Keir Starmer to get a grip on Britain's immigration madness.

With almost 40,000 small boat migrants arriving in Britain so far this year, an unofficial American memo seen by the People's Channel will be issued to Governments across Europe and the West.

And it's going to say this: "We encourage your Government to ensure that policies protect your citizens from the negative social impacts of mass migration, including displacement, sexual assault and the breakdown of law and order."

The department issued the memo to American embassies across Europe, including Britain, telling officials to "urge governments to positively respond to their citizens growing discontent relating to unmitigated immigration".

The memo also cites organised rape gangs in the United Kingdom as an example of how mass immigration has damaged European nations.

Indeed an issue, as you know, that GB News and Charlie Peters have campaigned on relentlessly for the last few years.

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Matt said Labour's asylum reforms 'do not go far enough'

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And just a few hours ago, the US State Department posted this on X: "Mass immigration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies."

And let's be honest, they're not wrong, are they?

British people are, in my opinion, being put at ever increasing risk by the flood of unfettered, undocumented, illegal migrants flocking into our country almost every week.

Nowadays, it seems to bring shocking news stories of an illegal migrant committing a terrible crime right here in Britain. We've all read the stories rapes, sexual assaults, even murder.

Shabana Mahmood

The Home Secretary set out the Government's latest asylum reforms

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You name it, they've done it. But fear not, because our Home Secretary's new asylum reform, Shabana Mahmood's reforms are apparently going to fix our broken borders.

Some of these proposals are certainly to be welcomed, I admit. But if you peel back the curtain, if you look at the detail, as we always do right here on GB News, there are many nasty surprises in there that make us question whether the Labour Government is going far enough.

Shabana Mahmood plans to create new work and study routes. She wants to make it easier for migrants to bring family members into the country and gain residents more quickly.

There are exceptional protections designed for children or the vulnerable. They will be expanded and they will be applied to people with anxiety or trauma.

There will be opt-outs for parents, grandparents and relatives, and this is basically because nothing Shabana Mahmood is proposing will indeed change the defective human rights legal culture that we still operate under, which prevents us from controlling our own laws.


She's already established a specific safe and legal route for Gaza students on fully funded scholarships to come to the UK along with their families. Now, as you can imagine, the list goes on and on.

So while the hard left accuse Shabana Mahmood of racism and the moderate right in the Labour Party sing her praises, tonight, I'm just going to say this.

The Home Secretary, the Labour Government, Keir Starmer, they have lost control of our borders. They are not putting into place a plan that will fix our borders.

Our country, as you all know, is at breaking point. These asylum reforms still do not go anywhere near far enough.

The only way we control our borders is by controlling our laws. And the only way we control our laws is by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

I've said it time and time again, and I'll say it again. We need to leave the ECHR.

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