GB News explodes into furious immigration clash as host confronts MP

GB News presenter Stephen Dixon took MP Matt Vickers to task over his party's immigration policy. The issue arose after the politician opened up on how his party would approach the issue following an incident at the weekend where protesters targeted a hotel in Epping which houses immigrants.

"Immigration is a huge issue. We need to... learn lessons, doing something about it. We have a detail in place. People need to know that they're running this country. They will be detained, and they will be removed, and then all of a sudden they will stop coming. We saw what happened when we started doing exactly the same with people from Albania, was one of the top places from which people were arriving the minute they were being shipped out, the number arriving fell by more than 90% that is the way forward. There needs to be a deterrent. It's a supply and demand issue," he said.

Dixon interjected: "The problem you've got, though is getting those agreements in place. Albania, yeah, we've got the agreement in place... We haven't got a problem with Europe. We don't have a bilateral agreement with France do we?

"But we have something Europe wide, and that's where it gets very problematic. "We need to have something, well, we need to have something beyond... I mean, Rwanda was one country (we could send people to)."

Vickers answered: "But actually the principle that if you arrive here, you are going back, you're either going back to your own country or you're going to a safe third world country, is the way forward.

"Actually, what we see more recently... they're (Labour) now allowing the laws being changed to allow people who arrive here illegally to become British citizens.

"That is like rolling out the red carpet. It's inviting people in. It's making the situation a lot worse as well... There are more hotels opening. Hotels are being closed.

"We're actually seeing less of those people who've arrived illegally being removed from the country. It's all going the wrong way," he said.

Referring specifically to the protests at the Epping hotel at the weekend he continued: "Epping - I think it should be closed. I think what's going on there... is absolutely terrible. I think it should be closed.

"I think we need to be closing more of these hotels. But the only way we're going to solve this is by stopping people arriving, by putting (something) in place and making sure that people know when they arrive, well, when they decide to pay those people smugglers to come across the channel, but they're not going to get to stay. They'll stop paying, and they'll stop coming."