migration

Slow economic growth, sticky levels of inflation and growing illegal migration, combined with a series of stumbles that have forced Starmer to fire key advisers and allies, have all sapped the prime minister’s political standing.

Still, some hostility to immigrants persists and migration has risen up the list of Scottish voters' concerns as flags have appeared on lampposts around the country.

Net migration in the UK - the difference between the numbers entering and leaving the country - stood at 690,100 in the year to June 2024.

Germany's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has said he will raise the matter of anti-drone defences at a Saturday meeting of European interior ministers, which was originally billed as a migration summit.

Nets along the east coast also routinely entangle humpback whales on their annual migration to and from the tropics.