"I only use the mineral wool ones because your gut tells you it is not right to wrap a building in plastic", he said.
Suggesting spending cuts may also have a role to play, he said: "If you deny local authorities the funding they need, then there is a price that's paid".
British Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a judge-led full public inquiry into the incident.
She faced cries of "coward" and "shame on you" as she returned Friday to meet survivors, residents and volunteers at a local church. The queen waved to the crowd, and then hesitated before getting into her auto.
"I'm really angry about what's happened", said receptionist Samira Jama (50) who was helping her sister collect belongings from an apartment behind the cordon.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince William on Friday visited an aid distribution site and met with volunteers.
However, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took to Facebook to attack Labour politicians for "political game playing", defending his record regarding the fire service as mayor of London between 2008-2016.
She told Sky News there were still "unknown numbers" of people inside, but "it will be an absolute miracle for anyone to be left alive".
The fire in the block in west London burned for hours, and authorities fear that the official death toll of 30 is likely to rise, with numerous dead unlikely ever to be identified.
The protests are a reflection of the anger in the community following the devastating fire that killed 30 people.
Police said Friday they had identified the place where the fire started, adding that it was unlikely to have been ignited deliberately, CNN reported.
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He also said the last flames had finally been put out, two days after the fire broke out in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday in the 24-storey tower in a working-class enclave of the wealthy London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The material has the most stringent fire rating in building standards regulations but independent tests on the material used to make it, polyisocyanurate, show that in intense fires it can release lethal hydrogen cyanide fumes and can be rapidly fatal.
Police have warned some of the victims may never be identified due to the state of the remains.
Cundy said there may have been other people in the tower who police are not aware of, and that could increase the death toll. Thirty-seven people remained in hospital, with 17 of them in critical care.
The fire forced residents to flee through black smoke down the single stairwell, jump out of windows or even drop their children to safety.
"Mohammed undertook a risky journey to flee war and death in Syria, only to meet it here in the United Kingdom", the Syrian Solidarity Campaign said in a statement.
Alhajali, who lived on the 14th floor, was a civil engineering student at West London University.
The tower, built in 1974, was home to between 400 and 600 people.
Khadija Saye, a 24-year-old artist, was confirmed to have died yesterday.
Built in 1974, an 8.7-million-pound (S$15 million) refurbishment of the tower was completed past year and included new windows and a heating system.
It said "materials and systems" used as part of an investment in programme in multi-storey buildings were created to prevent the spread of fire and they "meet and in many cases exceed" Scottish building standards.
Residents have said their safety concerns were ignored, arguing their fears would have been addressed before the tragedy had they lived in a more upmarket area of London.
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