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WATCH: Chris Philp calls on Home Secretary to 'take action' on illegal migrants working as food delivery riders
Jun 30, 2025
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has demanded food delivery companies to "put their house in order" after exposing swathes of illegal migrants using an app "loophole" to work.Conducting his own investigation of illegal workers in Britain, Philp uncovered illegal migrants being offered multiple courier account logins online for as little as £40 a week and as much as £100 a week.FULL STORY HERE.
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Welcome to the show
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So you know this is going on. You went in pursuit of them yourself
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And it's just got to the point now where every high street and every town
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really is festooned with these bikes. We have no idea who these people are
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And the blatant proof in this latest investigation by the Sun newspaper, as you know
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accounts being sublet out for 40 quid a week. No checks. Within moments, really, of coming to our shores
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you can be whisking curries and burgers around and getting paid cash in hand. Yeah, Martin, you're absolutely right. It's completely outrageous. I went to that asylum hotel you showed in the clip just then, went there a week or so ago, and there was a pen full of bikes, as the clip showed, absolutely stuffed full of bikes with panniers on the back for Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eats
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and the illegal immigrants within, in some cases, just hours of illegally entering our country
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They're illegal immigrants coming here by small boat. They're working on platforms like Deliveroo
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And the people smugglers are telling these illegal immigrants in France, if they come to the UK, then they can work here easily
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So it's a pull factor that is attracting illegal immigrants to come from France and Germany into the UK
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Now, first of all, the Home Office run that hotel and dozens of other hotels like it
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So the Home Office, Yvette Cooper, should be shutting that down. Why is she paying our money, taxpayers' money
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to accommodate these illegal immigrants in hotels and letting them run illegal working right under the Home Office's nose
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Now, you saw that security guard in that video. He was very keen to kick me out when I was asking questions
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as a Member of Parliament, but he wasn't lifting a single finger to sort out the fact the illegal immigrants were illegally working for Deliveroo Now Deliveroo themselves and Just Eats and Uber Eats are frankly allowing this to happen on their platforms They claim they do checks but that is absolute nonsense
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as evidenced by the fact that all those illegal immigrants in the hotel are working
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And then there's the evidence of the Sun journalist who managed to successfully get himself a Deliveroo login
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So any checks they're doing, if they are doing any for that matter at all, are clearly not working
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They are facilitating and encouraging illegal immigration. the Home Office should come down on those companies, Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats
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like a ton of bricks, prosecute them, fine them into next week. And frankly, if they can personally prosecute the people running those companies as well
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because they are creating a magnet, a pull factor for illegal immigrants to come to the UK
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And then finally, there is a public safety aspect. I mean, often, for example, imagine a lone woman ordering a Deliveroo
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coming maybe to her house or flat late at night, thinking that the delivery driver is known to Deliveroo
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but because of all this practice of renting out logins, either with or without Deliveroo's knowledge
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the person who actually turns up to the door at midnight could be, frankly, absolutely anyone
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including an illegal immigrant who only turned up to the country a few days beforehand
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So I think it's a safety risk as well. Chris Phil, every time we do this story at Stupy News
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no doubt we'll have a statement from the companies in a short while. They always say we're rigorous in our checks
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We do everything in our power. But here we are again. It's Groundhog Day
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I put it to you. On these WhatsApp message groups, it says once a day
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if you ask for a facial ID recognition login, that's what the phone does
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The app has that power. Simply message me the accounts holder I take a selfie of my mugshot send it to you Bosh you in Clearly the checks and balances don work Are we being fobbed off Yeah we definitely being fobbed off
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I mean, I wrote to the chief executive of some of these companies after my visit to the asylum hotel
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I got the usual response with all the usual platitudes. And when they say they're taking proper action to stop this
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they're basically lying. They're not. I mean, the evidence is right there in front of us, at the asylum hotel, on streets up and down the country
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and the Sun Journalist work as well. I think a couple of years ago, the Home Office did stop a load of Deliveroo riders to identify who they were
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And it turns out I think over half of them had no right to work here
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So these companies need to urgently put their house in order. They are fobbing us off. They're lying, frankly
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And it's about time the government took some action here. Now, Chris, of course, they would stringently deny that
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They would say they're not lying. And to be absolutely clear here, Chris, are you saying that the company owners should be dragged into court and prosecuted
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Yeah, they should. Yes, they should. They're presiding over companies who are facilitating mass illegal working
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It's not just, you know, a handful of drivers or, you know, five percent
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It's huge numbers. It's thousands and thousands. And when you get people smugglers openly advertising in Europe, continental Europe, saying one of the reasons to come to the UK is you can easily work illegally on platforms like Deliveroo
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They are providing people smugglers with their advertising material, fueling this flow, this flood of illegal immigrants across the channel
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Isn't the first thing you actually got to do, though, is put a stop, obviously, to illegal work
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So I presume your film has gone to the Home Office and all the details there so an enforcement team can go out there and deal with it Yes I wrote to Yvette Cooper with the full details urging her to shut down the illegal working at that hotel and other hotels
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which she directly controls, and secondly, asking her to get immigration enforcement to investigate
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I also personally messaged the Immigration Minister with a screenshot of one of these websites where you can rent details
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to draw it directly to her attention. Right. And the other point there is obviously this is illegal working
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There's no question about that, what you've discovered. But these people are not illegal migrants yet
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They're asylum seekers, so they won't become illegal until their asylum claim has been rejected
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Well, no, I disagree, because in my view, they're illegal immigrants. The minute they cross the channel, that is in contra of them
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They may subsequently claim asylum, but they still entered the country illegally
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contrary to Section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971. And because they came not directly from a place of danger, they came from France, which is safe
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That means under the Refugee Convention, they can be subject to penalties, including criminal sanctions
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So they categorically, in my view, are illegal immigrants. OK, well, we have a statement from Angela Eagle, of course, Dame Angela Eagle
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who is the Minister for Border Security and Asylum. And she told GB News this
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I welcome Villabroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats pledge to increase facial verification checks
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following today's roundtable. We will keep a close eye on their progress and continue discussions
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Now, under our plan for change, we are taking a zero-tolerance approach to illegal working across the board
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and arrests nationwide have increased by 51%. And we are strengthening legislation via our borders bill
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to end the abuse of flexible working arrangements
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