This Labour Candidate Can't Remember The Party’s Main Policies

Severe case of brain fade.

A Labour party candidate had already forgotten the party's manifesto on Tuesday, just one day after it was released. Here's how she reacted when asked about "the key policies".

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Ruth Cadbury, the party's parliamentary candidate for Brentford and Isleworth, was taking part in an interview with the Chiswick Calendar after a debate with her rival candidates. It went horribly wrong.

A poll by Lord Ashcroft in January suggested that Cadbury is likely to win the seat. Her Conservative rival, Mary Macleod, won the seat in 2010 with a small majority of 1.8%.

After fleetingly going off camera, she returned and appears to have said: "I can't remember that.

The Chiswick Calendar

When the interviewer told her that she should check the party's policies, she said: "I do need to check, I mean, I'm reading them every day."

The Chiswick Calendar

After initially forgetting the manifesto, she then talked about some of the key issues for Labour, such as the NHS and education. She also defended the party's mansion tax, a tax on people who own homes worth more than £1 million.

Watch the full cringeworthy episode here.

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