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Jeremy Corbyn has on-air meltdown over childcare costs during excruciating interview

Labour leader struggled in vain to find the cost of his party's flagship manifesto pledge during a BBC interview.

LONDON — Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn suffered an embarrassing "brain fade" today after failing to explain how much his party's flagship childcare policy will cost.

Corbyn was asked on Radio 4's Woman's Hour about Labour plans to provide universal free childcare for three million children.

The Labour leader was forced to search in vain on his Ipad for the details of the policy, which he had apparently come on the programme to announce.

It was the first major stumble for the Labour leader during this campaign and comes after an otherwise assured performance in last night's Channel Four / Sky News' Battle For Number Ten debate.

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It follows a similar stumble by Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott over the cost of Labour's policing plans.

Labour's opponents today jumped on Corbyn's failure to answer the question.

"Jeremy Corbyn has had two 'brain fades' in two days. It seems he's been borrowing Diane Abbott's calculator," Liberal Democrat shadow first secretary of state Alistair Carmichael said.

"Jeremy Corbyn's Labour let people down by voting with Theresa May on Brexit and now is failing to say whether they will help those struggling families who stand to be most affected."

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