Abbott’s in another muddle

HAPLESS Diane Abbott got her maths wrong again as she dramatically underestimated Labour’s losses.

At a lunchtime interview, the shadow home secretary changed her answer on how many seats the party had lost from 50 to 100 in a matter of seconds. It came just days after she was humiliated when she got her figures mixed up on a key police funding pledge.

Asked by ITV News yesterday if she knew the scale of Labour’s losses at the time, she replied: ‘I think the net losses are about 50.’

The interviewer reminded Miss Abbott, pictured, that, at the time, the net losses stood at 125. Bizarrely she replied: ‘Well, the last time I looked we had net losses of 100.’

Earlier this week Miss Abbott was unable to answer basic questions about her party’s policy of hiring 10,000 police officers. She suggested it would cost £300,000 – meaning each officer would be paid £30.