Ukip restart election campaign with promise to clamp down on terror as other parties return to local campaigning

UKIP restarted the election campaign today with a vow to dramatically clampdown on terror - promising Brits who fight for IS would have to forfeit their citizenship.

Leader Paul Nuttall branded Islamic terrorism "a cancer that must be cut out" as he pledged more police, border officers and soldiers.

Telling those that "hate our way of life - you will not win" Mr Nuttall said that it is "not enough to light candles and signal upset on social media" after terror attacks such as in Manchester.

The launch of the election manifesto this morning signalled the restarting of campaigns following a two-day pause after the attack on an Ariana Grande concert on Monday evening which killed 22.

Eight men are now in custody in related to the attack - as the names of the latest victims are released.

Pledging a "muscular approach to social integration", Ukip are promising 20,000 extras troops, 20,000 new police officers, 7000 more prison guards and 4000 extra border guards.

And in a blistering assault on the PM, the party claimed Theresa May had lost control of extremism in the UK - and said that "nothing will change if she wins a big majority."

"When you are leader of a political party you have a duty to set out how you would protect the people of your country from the threat to their entire way of life, he said.

"Without the political will to take difficult decisions… things are only going to get worse," he added.

Mr Nuttall said their manifesto - titled Britain Together - was a "clear cut, uncompromising agenda".

And he said other parties were shying away from addressing the issue "because it makes them feel uncomfortable".

• Quit the EU immediately without going through the Article 50 process of negotiating an exit
• Slash taxes on families by raising the income tax threshold and abolishing VAT on energy bills
• Give £2billion a year to the NHS and social care, and train up thousands of extra doctors
• Abolish tuition fees for science, maths and engineering students while building hundreds new grammar schools
• Cut net migration to zero, but allow EU citizens currently living here to continue to do so
• Rebuild crumbling seaside towns by helping the fishing industry and injecting public money into disadvantaged areas
• Slash foreign aid to just 0.2 per cent but boost poor people overseas by cutting tariffs on their products and increasing trade
• Abolish all road tolls, scrap the HS2 rail line and prevent Heathrow from building a third runway
• Start a new English Parliament, abolish the House of Lords and change our voting system to proportional representation

Mr Nuttall also vowed that his party would "keep the Government honest" over Brexit - and make sure they delivered the exit the British people voted for.

"If the Government begin to backslide, Ukip will be there," he said.