PA understands the asylum seekers were taken off the coach and have not yet left the hotel.
More than 40 people have been arrested after protesters blocked a coach set to take asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge.
A large group of people, many with their faces covered, surrounded the coach and were seen linking arms and sitting in Peckham Road.Pictures showed lines of police officers attending the scene, while footage captured some jostling with protesters at one point. He said that officers spoke to the coach driver and protesters “at length” and warned them that they could be arrested, and added: “After this demonstrators blocked the road and continued to prevent the coach, and police vehicles, from leaving.
Protesters formed a blockade around the coach which was set to take asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge He said: “We will continue to remove those with no right to be here, despite continued efforts by the Labour Party and a coalition of disparate student groups to stop us.
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