Clueless Jeremy Corbyn unable to identify Ant and Dec in cringeworthy moment at Labour leadership hustings
Even after getting a pretty big clue the veteran leftie had no idea who the presenters were
HAPLESS lefty Mr Corbyn failed to identify Ant and Dec from a picture in an on air telly blunder.
The veteran socialist was challenged during a Labour leadership hustings to name the pair, but didn’t recognise the TV stars, even when prompted.
Host Victoria Derbyshire even gave Mr Corbyn a pretty big clue, saying they were “the two Geordie TV presenters”, but he just stared on blankly.
She asked him again during the live TV showdown, adding: “No idea?”
To which he replied: “I cannot name them I’m really sorry."
He added: “I hope they’ll be happy about this.”
After the presenter pointed out that the Saturday Night Takeaway pair were supporters of his party Mr Corbyn added: “I know.
“They sent an email of support to the Labour party.”
When Mrs Derbyshire suggested they might now want to withdraw that, the Labour leader said: “I apologise humbly to Ant and Dec.”
Meanwhile Owen Smith correctly identified a snap of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber.
However both Opposition wannabes could not correctly say how many gold medals Team GB heroes Jason Kenny and Sir Bradley Wiggins had won.
Ant and Dec have a difficult relationship with the Labour Party, having been keen supporters in the past.
Ant said in 2015: "I voted Labour all my life but last election I voted Tory because I was thoroughly disillusioned with the Labour government.
“I feel we're both staunchly Labour and would vote Labour if we could, but I don't know what their philosophy is any more.”
Elsewhere in the televised debate the challenger Mr Smith called for peace talks with murderous Islamic State terrorists.
The struggling candidate said: “Ultimately all solutions to these crises do come about through dialogue.”
Probed on whether ISIS should be invited to peace talks, he said: “eventually if we are to try and solve this, all of the actors do need to be involved.”
Doubling down on his extreme position, Mr Smith said “at the moment, ISIL are clearly not interested in negotiating,” but he insisted “at some point, for us to resolve this, we will need to get people round the table.”
Even hard-left Jeremy Corbyn ruled out such talks, suggesting that there should only be “proximity talks” with those involved in Syria.