Name: Diane Abbott forgets how much Labour’s police plan will cost in disastrous interview
Uploaded: 2017-05-02T20:06:47+01:00
Duration: 5 min 54 s
Description: They wanted to focus on police numbers. But Labour's campaign was waylaid today by numbers of another kind, as Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott got into a complete mess as she tried to explain the costs of Labour's pledge to put an extra 10,000 bobbies on the street. And Theresa…

They wanted to focus on police numbers. But Labour’s campaign was waylaid today by numbers of another kind, as Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott got into a complete mess as she tried to explain the costs of Labour’s pledge to put an extra 10,000 bobbies on the street. And Theresa May couldn’t quite escape the row over her awkward Brexit dinner with European President Jean-Claude Juncker either.