Joel, a counter protester outside the hotel in Clerkenwell, said: “Islington is a multicultural area of London. The fascists want to intimidate people and they want to come down and say asylum seekers are the root cause of all the problems of the world, but it's not the case.

Anti-immigrant and anti-racism demonstrators have held rival protests in London outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers.

A series of protests outside the migrant hotels have been taking place in recent weeks. The protest in London on Saturday was held outside of the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in Islington, with a counter-protest led by the group Stand Up To Racism.