She announced that there would be a public inquiry into the disaster.

"Right now people want answers, and it's absolutely right, and that's why I am today ordering a full public inquiry into this disaster. We need to know what happened; we need to have an explanation of this, we owe that to the families. To the people who have lost loved ones, friends, and the homes in which they lived," May said.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, the main opposition party, also visited the scene shortly after the prime minister, and met survivors of the fire.

He told the survivors: "We will demand and get answers. The truth has got to come out and it will. We have to get to the bottom of this."

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who visited the scene in the afternoon, said: "Understandably, residents are very angry and concerned and have genuine questions that demand answers."

Khan was repeatedly interrupted as he spoke live on television, with local residents and survivors expressing their anger at the tragedy.

One woman said: "Someone needs to be held accountable. These deaths could have been prevented."

London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton said Thursday the search of Grenfell Tower will be a "very long process".

With many dozens of people still accounted for, people have been told to brace themselves for the death toll to rise.

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