Culture Secretary Karen Bradley admitted that UK police numbers have been cut in recent years

But Ms Bradley repeatedly avoided answering the question when asked by Piers Morgan in an interview on Good Morning Britain.

It comes after the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – speaking less than 24 hours after the latest terror attack in Britain – highlighted that 20,000 police officer were cut while the Prime Minister was Home Secretary.

‘Enough is enough,’ said Terresa May … but Corbyn and Farron queried police cuts and asked why her government has not published the report into funding of jihadi groups by Saudi donors.

It was supposed to be the Brexit election. Instead it is the issue of security that dominates, after another terror attack struck a British city and election campaigning was suspended for the second time over the weekend.

The UK must not allow knee-jerk anti-terror measures to eat into civil liberties, warned the Green Party Co-leader Jonathan Bartley, who said the government should rethink it’s ‘xenophobic’ counter-radicalisation programme.