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A fire at a London hotel housing asylum seekers is being treated as a hate crime and has been condemned as a "despicable and cowardly attack".

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arrive at the country's borders every year and more than 3.7 million asylum cases are currently pending in immigration courts.

Senior council officers are vetting Green as they consider a proposal to allow her to analyse records of spending on items such as IT systems and hotels housing asylum seekers.

The use of taxis to take asylum seekers from their hotels to appointments must be stopped, the prime minister has said.

A protester who cited burkas when refusing to remove his face covering outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping has been fined £276.