The prime minister said: “If you look at what has happened [in Las Vegas] surely they will want to do something”

Theresa May suggested that the United States may want to toughen its gun laws after the mass shooting in Las Vegas yesterday in which 59 people were killed and more than 520 injured.

Speaking at the Tory party conference in Manchester the prime minister offered her condolences and labelled it a “random attack”.

She told LBC radio: “We cannot understand it because we have a different approach to guns. Obviously we tightened the gun laws after Dunblane.”

Mrs May said that Britons would “assume” that the US would take action to tighten the gun laws. “If you look at what has happened here surely they will want to do something,” Mrs May said.

She told Sky News: “I understand that this individual had a very