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EPISODE · Aug 14, 2026 · 34 MIN

Why Has Immigration Exploded Since Brexit? | The Sceptic Ep.91

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The battle over Brexit’s broken immigration promises and the mystery of why a key piece of climate data has quietly disappeared from official reports. In Episode 91 of the Sceptic, Ellie Hodges sits down with Migration Watch UK Chairman Alp Mehmet to discuss the soaring levels of migration since Brexit and whether Britain’s political class ever intended to deliver the border control voters thought they were getting. And for our premium subscribers, Daily Sceptic Environment Editor Chris Morrison asks why decades of declining wind-speed data have disappeared from the Met Office’s latest climate report and explores what it means for public trust in Britain's climate institutions.  Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content.  Follow Ellie on X. Follow Alp on X. Read Migration Watch UK’s ‘Taking Back Control? Brexit and Migration Ten Years On’ report here. Follow Chris on X. Read his article here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.   00:00 Intro 01:38 Alp Mehmet on Why Migration Soared After Brexit 03:54 The Decision That Opened the Floodgates 08:03 Bigger Boats, More Crossings, No Deterrent 11:58 Did Politicians Ever Intend to Cut Migration? 17:18 How Government Lost Control 22:19 The Student Visa Back Door 24:10 Why Nobody Wants to Cap Migration 26:15 The Warnings Nobody Listened to 28:00 Britain's Demographic Transformation 30:15 Chris Morrison on the Met’s Missing Climate Data 30:52 Why Hide Wind Data? 42:46 Climate Models Vs Reality 47:48 Net Zero’s Inconvenient Problem

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