THE Prime Minister faced calls to resign today for presiding over cuts in police numbers as Home Secretary.

In the wake of three terror attacks in three months, Jeremy Corbyn attacked Theresa May over government cuts which have left the police with 20,000 fewer officers than in 2010.

The Labour leader backed calls for Mrs May to step down, before saying that Thursday’s General Election was “perhaps the best opportunity” to remove the PM from her post.

Julie Hilling, Labour candidate in Bolton West, said that voters will hold Mrs May to account.

She said: “Before she was Prime Minister, Theresa May was Home Secretary for six years and presided over cuts to police, cuts to the number of armed officers, and a real-term cut in pay for intelligence personnel. She should take responsibility for her actions and I am sure that voters in Bolton West will hold her accountable.”

Asked by ITV News if he backed calls for Mrs May to resign, Mr Corbyn said: “Indeed I would, because there’s been calls made by a lot of very responsible people on this who are very worried that she was at the Home Office for all this time, presided over these cuts in police numbers and is now saying that we have a problem — yes, we do have a problem, we should never have cut the police numbers.”

Mrs May refused to say whether cuts to police numbers should be reversed after the head of the Met Police, Cressida Dick, called for more resources after the London Bridge attack.

She said that, since 2015, police budgets had been protected “despite the fact that Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench suggested that police budgets should be cut by up to 10 per cent”.

The PM added: “It is also about the powers you give to the police and I have been responsible for giving the police extra powers to deal with terrorism.

“Jeremy Corbyn has boasted that he has opposed those powers and opposed the powers for anti-terror actions throughout his time in Parliament.”