Angry protests erupted outside a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel in Leeds today, with demonstrators shouting 'back in your rubber dinghies' to those inside.

Police were out in force as crowds waving Union flags and banging instruments converged on the Britannia Hotel in the Seacroft area of the city.

Officers formed a defensive cordon around the building, which was targeted during last summer's riots.

Today, protesters - some of them masked - were seen shouting 'get them out, get them out' in the faces of police, who refused to let them through.

One man screamed 'back in your rubber dinghies', while another said: 'Not only have they got a free hotel they have extra bobbies looking after them'.