Former leader Ed Miliband stumbles over the bingo numbers as he gets a touch of the Abbotts

WHEN will someone come give politicians a proper maths lesson?

Ed Miliband was last night the latest to fall foul to the numbers in a bit of an awkward slip-up at a bingo hall.

While calling out the numbers in Thorne, in his Doncaster constituency, the former Labour leader forgot the correct format.

He began by calling out them out from the traditional list of names.

"All the threes, thirty three," he said. "All on it's own, number seven... five and eight, fifty eight.

"Unlucky for some, number 13."

But the 47-year-old, who presided over Labour's loss of the 2015 election, then read out "Nineteen... sorry... one and nine, nineteen."

Pensioners in the room giggled and tutted at the slip-up, but moved swiftly on with the game.

The clip was tweeted out by the local Labour party account.

But fans on Twitter were quick to praise him for finding his "true calling".

"Ed Miliband has the bingo skillz!" one said.

And Abby Tomlinson, who became an internet sensation in 2015 for founding the 'Milifandom' movement, said he was a "man of many talents".

The former Labour leader appears to be having a far more relaxed election campaign this time around.

In 2015 the then-leader was caught trying to eat a bacon sandwich - for which he was relentlessly mocked.

And he unveiled the Ed Stone, an eight-foot high stone block of pledges which he promised to slap in the Downing Street garden if elected.

It was recently claimed that the stone has been found nestled inside a posh London restaurant.

But this time around it's all a bit more chilled for Ed.

The former leader was pictured cutting a constituent's lawn in Arksey a few weeks back - it seems some politicians will do anything to grab a vote.

And he performed every role in a recreation of A-ha's hit Take On Me last month too - and joked he was having a "mid-life crisis".

Labour has been repeatedly embarrassed of late as their politicians fail to get their sums right.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott proposed paying police officers just £30 per year - before making terrible guesses at the number of seats the party had lost in the local council elections.

And Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner got her figures wrong in another election interview fail on schools.