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Rishi Sunak last night warned Labour was a 'soft touch' on migrants.
He hit out at opposition politicians for supporting two protests that stopped the Home Office moving migrants from costly hotels to the Bibby Stockholm barge.
A Labour mayor led a blockade that forced one operation to be abandoned. And one of the party's MPs shared a call for 'comrades' to join another roadblock that ended in clashes with police and dozens of arrests. Protesters had swarmed a coach, slashing its tyres to stop it from leaving.
The dramatic scenes came yesterday after official figures showed 711 people crossed the Channel in dinghies on Wednesday, the most on one day this year.
The influx came as immigration enforcement officers continued detaining the first migrants due to be sent to Rwanda.
Police try and stop protesters forming a blockade around a coach which is parked near the Best Western hotel in Peckham, south London, to prevent the removal of migrants from the temporary accommodation
A protester is detained by police after blocking a bus that was due to remove migrants from a hotel on May 2, 2024 in Peckham, London
Rishi Sunak (pictured with wife Akshata Murty) last night warned Labour was a 'soft touch' on migrants
The PM hit out at politicians from the party led by Sir Keir Starmer (pictured with wife Victoria) for supporting two protests that stopped the Home Office moving migrants from costly hotels to the Bibby Stockholm barge
The Prime Minister said: 'Labour don't have a plan to stop the boats. Their plan for an amnesty for 115,000 illegal migrants a year at the expense of the British taxpayer would put more power in the hands of people smugglers, and cause more death and misery in the Channel.
'Under Labour's soft touch amnesty, the UK would have the most open borders in Europe.
'Seeing Labour politicians help prevent migrants being moved from expensive hotels reveals their true colours.'
Home Secretary James Cleverly vowed the migrants would still be moved to the Dorset barge.
'Angry students and politically motivated hangers-on are not who decide where asylum seekers are looked after in the UK,' he said.
'These aggressive attention-seekers want to be the focus rather than those they think they're helping. They are assisting the criminal gangs of people-smugglers who simply rub their
