On Sunday night, hundreds of protestors descended on Portsmouth to intercept a small boat with 140 asylum seekers on board.

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This of course follows significant disruption in Dover on Saturday after masked protestors blocked roads, chanting ‘stop the boats’. Whilst we are yet to learn who is responsible for the former, a close associate of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon called Daniel Thomas has claimed credit for organising the latter.

When being interviewed by Nick Ferrari on LBC on Monday morning, Labour’s Emma Reynolds condemned this disorder, but still took the opportunity to emphasise (as many of her colleagues have done before her) that people have ‘legitimate concerns’ around immigration.

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