Corbyn backs calls for May to quit over police cuts

5 June 2017, 3:49 pm

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British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn is backing calls for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for reducing the number of police officers during her six years as interior minister.

Asked by ITV television if he backed the calls for May to resign after three terror attacks in three months, the Labour Party leader said: “Indeed I would… We should never have cut the police numbers.”

Asked again if he wants May to quit, Corbyn replies: “We’ve got an election on Thursday and that’s perhaps the best opportunity to deal with it.”

In an earlier speech, May defended her record, insisting London’s Metropolitan Police force was “well resourced” and has “very powerful counter-terrorism capabilities.”

— AFP