BRITAIN-MIGRANTS-POLITICS

Metropolitan Police officers (MET) ask protesters to move as they gather around a bus reportedly waiting to remove migrants and asylum seekers from a hotel in Peckham, south London, in order to block it from transporting them to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, south-west England, on May 2, 2024. A total of 711 people were brought ashore in a single day this week after trying to cross the Channel in small boats to get to the UK, official figures showed on May 2, 2024. The number is the highest so far this year and comes as London maintains that its plan to "stop the boats" is working, notably through a controversial deportation scheme. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)