Jeremy Corbyn will challenge Theresa May and the Conservatives on Wednesday to show commitment to ending "austerity" in the police and fire services by backing a Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech.

Labour's amendment calls for an end to cuts to the police and fire services, commends their response to recent terror attacks and the Grenfell Tower disaster, backs the recruitment of more officers and firefighters, and calls on the Government to lift the public sector pay cap.

It is highly unlikely that the Conservatives will back any attempts to amend the Queen's Speech, which sets out the Government's legislative programme for the next two years.

Mr Corbyn denied his call for more support for the emergency services was an attempt to make political capital out of the Grenfell Tower disaster, insisting: "We said this very clearly during the election campaign before the tragedy of Grenfell fire occurred."

Speaking on Tuesday, he said: "What we're doing is asking for an end to the cuts in the fire service, the ambulance service and the police, and that the government should stop that and should invest more in them.

"In the election we put forward a very clear proposal to put another 10,000 police officers on our streets and another 3,000 firefighters."

"I would have thought Grenfell fire has concentrated the minds of a lot of people, of the wonderful work done by the police, fire and ambulance services, but the way in which they're stretched and the trauma with which all workers in those services go through and we think they need more money to be paid into those services and more staff in them."

The vote comes amid anger over a £1 billion deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up a Tory minority government, branded a "bung" by critics.

Opposition parties and devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales have called on the Government to match the funding boost for Northern Ireland across the UK, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell calling for an end to austerity "throughout the UK", not just in the province.

A Conservative spokesman said: "We are all indebted to our emergency services and their heroic responses to recent terror attacks, the bravery seen at Grenfell Tower, and the work every day that has seen crime cut by a third.

"We've protected the police budget since 2015 while Labour wanted to cut it by 10% and the number of fire incidents has halved in the last decade.

"We have also given the police and intelligence agencies given the powers they need to respond to increased threats and keep people safe.

"But the truth is you can't fund your emergency services without a growing, healthy economy which only Conservatives in Government will deliver, that's why we have put forward a Queen's Speech that will build a stronger economy so we can improve people's living standards and fund public services.

"Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's prescription of tax rises and limitless borrowing would put all that at risk."