Fighting terrorism will be the main focus as full campaigning resumes ahead of Thursday's General Election.
In a speech on Sunday evening, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn blamed Prime Minister Theresa May for denying police and security services the resources they needed to protect Britons.
Mr Corbyn has already promised to recruit 10,000 police officers and said that, if he wins the election, he will commission a report from security services on the terror threat.
He has accused Mrs May of trying to "protect the public on the cheap", cutting 20,000 police officers, despite warnings from the Police Federation that this would affect public safety.
He also said he backed the "full authority for the police to use whatever force is necessary to protect and save life as they did last night, as they did in Westminster in March".
Mr Corbyn said: "Our priority must be public safety and I will take whatever action is necessary and effective to protect the security of our people and our country."
Responding to Mr Corbyn, Conservative security minister Ben Wallace said: "Voters will judge him on his views and actions in the last 30 years, not his desperate promises and evasive soundbites three days out from polling day."
There were seven people killed and dozens injured when three terrorists drove a van onto the pavement on London Bridge on Saturday night and then got out to begin stabbing people.
There have been reports of the heroic actions of people in the area, who did their best to fight off the attackers, and of the police who took just eight minutes to reach the scene.
The attack follows a suicide bombing at a Manchester concert less than two weeks earlier which killed 22 people and a car and knife attack in Westminster in March, which killed five.
Speaking after the London attack, Mrs May said the three attacksrepresented a "new trend" of people and small groups inspired by the same "evil ideology of Islamist extremism".
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