The protest erupted on Tuesday night outside the four-star Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf, which the government intends to use as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers, according to Tower Hamlets Council.

A large number of protesters and counter-demonstrators gathered outside an east London hotel after it emerged that asylum seekers are being housed there.Metropolitan Police officers were seen guarding the four-star Britannia International Hotel on Marsh Wall,

Police descended on an east London hotel last night as protests broke out over rumours it was set to house migrants who had been "removed from Epping". GB News understands that the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf has been taken over by the Home Office in case it needs an "overflow hotel" - but nobody has yet been moved there.