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Theresa May has insisted “Brexit is the basis of everything" in the UK in a last-ditch attempt to win over voters with promises of a stronger economy.

In the final hours of the election campaign, the Prime minister dismissed accusations that she has been vague about policies, including how many pensioners will be hit by cuts to the winter fuel allowance.

During a visit to Nottingham, Mrs May also claimed her approach to tackling terrorism showed how different she was from Labour opponent Jeremy Corbyn – despite facing recent criticism over policing.

She told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg: "There are challenges ahead. The Brexit negotiations, we need to get those right. Brexit is the basis of everything.

"We need to secure our economy for the future, we need to ensure we are getting more jobs, better paid jobs, more opportunities for young people in this country.

"We can do that. We can do that if we get the Brexit negotiations right."

Mrs May has refused to set out how many pensioners will be hit by plans to axe winter fuel payments for wealthier pensioners or say if she plans to impose increases to national insurance.

But she dismissed suggestions she had not been clear with voters.

"No,” she said. “We have set out in our manifesto the challenges we face as a country and how we as government would deliver on those challenges, how we would ensure that we were addressing those challenges.

"We've been very open about the challenges the country faces and, of course, we have been clear with people about the fact that the terror threat is evolving.

"We do need to adapt as that threat evolves.

"Yes, I think there are areas that we need to take action in. I think we need to do more to take on the ideology that unites and motivates the perpetrators of these attacks.

"We need to stamp out extremism in communities here in Britain. We need to get those international agreements to regulate cyberspace so the terrorists can't plot online.

"And, yes, we do need to look as the threat evolves to see whether our police and security and intelligence agencies need more powers and I've also been clear about the sort of powers I'm talking about.

“About being better able to deport foreign terror suspects, about longer sentences for people prosecuted for terror offences and about doing more to restrict the freedoms and movements of terror suspects who we have enough evidence to know pose a threat but not enough evidence to prosecute fully in court."

Asked how different she is from the Labour leader, Mrs May said: "You just have to look at the approaches we take on a whole range of things to know how different we are.

"Let me just give you one example. On the whole question of how our police should deal with terrorists on our streets, on Saturday night you saw an appalling attack in London.

"Within eight minutes our police had taken out those terrorists. I support the police shooting to kill terrorists. Jeremy Corbyn does not."