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Labour's Emily Thornberry criticised Theresa May today for announcing a four-point plan to combat terrorism during a pact between parties to suspend election campaigning.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary said the Prime Minister making a speech on the steps of Number 10 so soon after last night's deadly terror attack near London Bridge was "not something that would be expected.

She told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: "I don't think it's right to get dragged into plans at this stage so soon after those attacks. I do think this is a matter of timing."

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Asked if the announcement strayed into party politics, she said: "I think that it is drawing us into a debate. I think that there is time enough for us to discuss this issues.

In a televised statement delivered this morning, Mrs May said: "It is time to say enough is enough."

"We cannot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are," May said, calling for a beefed-up counter-terrorism strategy that could include longer jail sentences for some offences and new cyberspace regulations.

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Thornberry said: "I don't think that anything she is proposing is anything that needs to be or will be dealt with tomorrow.

"I don't think there is any immediate steps she is putting forward and obviously if it was then that would be a different matter.

"To come out onto the steps of 10 Downing Street, immediately in the aftermath of a terrible outrage like this, was not something that would be expected.

"I just simply regret the approach that she has taken."