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WATCH: Mary-Ann Stephenson's stance on illegal migration is 'dangerous', Mike Parry says
Dec 22, 2025
Remarks made by the newly-appointed chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have sparked a fiery GB News row after she claimed migrants are "demonised" in Britain.Hitting out at Mary-Ann Stephenson's stance on illegal migration, broadcaster Mike Parry declared she is "deluded" and her comments are "dangerous".FULL STORY HERE.
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Well, I've seen exactly what she said, and I'm sorry
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I don't know the lady myself, but I think she must be deluded. Her conclusions just don't make any sense
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You look at the common sense of the situation, meaning the most recent report from the Migration Advisory Committee
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says that the average cost of a migrant coming to the UK
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over a lifetime is £109,000. Now, she's saying don't call migration a threat, says EHRC chief
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This is the lady, Dr Mary-Anne Stevenson, the new boss. She says people must curb the language and not demonise asylum seekers
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as though, in some way, asylum seekers are giving us a positive in this country
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Well, she says there should be more asylum seekers. She's saying there should be more asylum seekers. Now, the old argument always used to be
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well, if asylum seekers come to Great Britain, the population goes up, therefore gross domestic product goes up
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That might be true en masse for loads of people, but per head of person, it goes down
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There's an even more damaging report that's come out recently. What about this one? A low-wage migrant who arrives in Britain at the age of 25
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will pose a net cost of about to the country by the age of 65 and the average cost is about billion a year in deficit I don expect you to agree with all of that Scarlett
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but the point is, and what Dr Mary-Anne has not got right
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is that it is right for people to be disturbed because people are disturbed
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People may not be right, but people are disturbed. What she says is she talks about the demonisation of migrants, right, is the people
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And what she says, which I think she's absolutely right, is we shouldn't turn them into the enemy
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They're individual people. They have stories. We might not agree with them
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We might think that most of them shouldn't be here. But that doesn't mean that we turn them into these stories about, oh, I'm frightened to go down the street because a migrant might attack me
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that we've got geese being, swans being taken from parks for Christmas
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because migrants are taking them for Christmas. Can I say that... The general overall feeling from people is that there are too many migrants
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and there's no control on our borders. And are people not right to have that feeling
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No no But what I saying is I think it perfectly OK to say that we shouldn have We shouldn have the That we should have more control of our borders
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But you don't demonise the people in the boats, right? That's all I'm saying..
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Amongst those people in the boats, we are importing sex attackers to this country
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And that's not a wild statement. 59. What's 59 too many? 59 too many if we're importing people in this country
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But out of the thousands, we have had 59 convictions, right? And you're saying that doesn't matter
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It does matter. No, of course it matters. But I'm more likely, or I am very unlikely to be attacked on the street
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by a sex attacker, but my daughter is more likely to be attacked by somebody who isn't a migrant
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So don't bring in people who are also attacking our females. No, but what I'm saying is that actually what she's saying is
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We don't want a hostile environment. And that's all she's saying. She's saying, don't demonise the people
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But she's also saying it would be a mistake to leave the ECHR. So if people have a genuine concern
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the way to deport people would be to leave the ECHR The Tories and Reformer both said that But she saying it would be a total mistake No well actually I was listening to Suzanne earlier and I agree with her I mean I think that our interpretation
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of the ECHR is often wrong. I am surprised, actually, at, if
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you look at what the ECHR actually says, I mean, we can deport many
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many, we can deport people who are economic migrants. But we don't
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Well, we can. But we don't. We are doing so now. We are doing so now
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And we are actually trying to process people. And we had years and years in which I do not understand, right
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I don't understand. I'm not a Tory. I had nothing to do with this. I do not understand why we didn't process people as fast as possible
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We used to process people in six weeks. And then we spent years putting people in hotels
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Do you think she has overstepped the mark? I think the woman's absolutely deluded
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Over the weekend, 810 people came here in a 24-hour period. We don't know the identity or the character of any one of those 810
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They're mostly young men of fighting age. OK. And yet this woman is saying nothing to be seen here, nothing to worry about
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No, he's not. She's saying... It's dangerous. She is saying that. She's saying don't demonise migrants
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OK. And that's all she's saying
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