UK minister condemns 'thuggish' anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth

UK minister slams ‘thuggish’ anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth

British minister ⁠Emma Reynolds has condemned hundreds of ⁠protesters who blocked streets in the ⁠English coastal city of Portsmouth late on Sunday to try to stop the arrival of migrants from France, calling them “thuggish”. The gathering was the second anti-migrant demonstration in two days, after masked men disrupted traffic in the port of Dover ‌on Saturday, chanting “Stop the boats”, a reference to the vessels carrying asylum seekers across the English Channel. Both groups appeared to be ...

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Uk govt condemns 'thuggish' Portsmouth migration protest

Britain's government has condemned as "thuggish" hundreds of demonstrators who blocked roads vowing to prevent asylum seekers leaving the southern English city of Portsmouth after they arrived by small boat.