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The 46-year-old man from Sutton, south London, was arrested on Thursday and is currently in police custody.

The stickers had been seen on buses, trains and tube stations across the capital, with images of high profile Muslims and the slogan: “Gotta catch and deport them all.”

While most of the stickers are believed to have been posted up in and around central London, they have been spotted as far away as west Berkshire and at a service station on the M6 near Knutsford, Cheshire.