Scuffles broke out near the building, with demonstrators chanting "we want justice!" as they surged toward the doors.
Emergency workers on a raised platform point at a section of the fire-gutted Grenfell Tower in London, Friday, June 16, 2017, after a fire engulfed the 24-story building Wednesday morning. "I'm like, God help these people", said Choucair, 42, who had lived with her family in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower for just over a year.
Dozens of people attending a protest for the victims stormed the town hall in London's richest borough yesterday afternoon, accusing the authorities of ignoring their plight.
Cotton said the cause of the fire was not known.
Scuffles broke out in the crowd as the Prime Minister's vehicle drove away from the scene of the disaster.
Lammy, whose has a friend still unaccounted for in the disaster: "Don't let them tell you it's a tragedy".
May has been criticised from within her own Conservative Party over her response and she pledged on Thursday to hold a public inquiry into the fire at the social housing block which was home to about 600 people. We need to know what happened, we need to have an explanation for this.
While the deadly blaze at the Grenfell Tower in north Kensington has prompted an outpouring of generosity, it has also unleashed rage at the authorities as the charred tower was cast as a deadly symbol of a divided society.
Built in 1974, an 8.7-million-pound (S$15 million) refurbishment of the tower was completed previous year and included new windows and a heating system.
Another type of panel - one that has a mineral core, which is much more fire resistant - is used widely in New Zealand. Mr Barwell lost his bid for re- election to Parliament and is now Mrs May's chief of staff.
"Absolutely she has the same degree of sympathy and horror at these events that we all have", he added. Her government is also due to launch hard Brexit talks with the European Union on Monday.
Mrs May spent nearly an hour speaking to patients and staff at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Friday, a day after visiting the scene of the blaze in west London to talk to firefighters, police and other emergency workers.
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The PM said people "deserve answers" as to why the fire spread so rapidly and that the inquiry "will give them".
Waewta Suparerksanon, 62, told the BBC Thai service that she and four other members of her family escaped from the inferno at about 4am local time.
She has promised those left homeless by the blaze would be rehoused locally within weeks, and the 5 million pound fund would pay for emergency supplies, food, clothes and other costs.
Ade Deane-Pratt from Camberwell, south London said she was marching because of the anger she felt towards the Government. She wanted an entirely controlled situation in which she didn't use her humanity.
London's mayor Sadiq Khan was heckled by an angry crowd demanding answers, and there are fears that tensions could escalate.
We plan to house residents of Grenfell Tower as locally as we can.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince William visited an aid distribution site and were meeting with volunteers.
"That's one of the most bad things I have ever seen", William said of the tower's blackened shell. "Not OK to speak to them via TV".
He said police had started a criminal investigation but there was nothing to suggest "that the fire had been started deliberately".
"We do believe that the number will sadly increase", he said.
London Police commander Stuart Cundy said that the conditions inside Grenfell Tower mean that the search operation to recover the victims was extremely challenging.
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