The gaffe is the latest in a long line of errors by the MP (Image: Getty)
Two years later she was accused of playing the race card after she defended sending her son James to a £10,000-a-year school claiming: West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
And during her spell as Shadow Chancellor, she famously said it would cost just £300,000 to hire 10,000 more police officers over four years – a grand total of £30 for each.
The same year she also wrongly claimed that 16-year-olds can fight for their country and should therefore be able to vote.
During the same election campaign she refused four times to say she regretted past support of the IRA, adding: “It was 34 years ago, I had a rather splendid afro at the time. I don t have the same hairstyle and I don t have the same views.”
Alex Marshall, The New York Times Published: 27 Feb 2021 04:41 PM BdST Updated: 27 Feb 2021 04:41 PM BdST Jen Ives, a British comedian, in London on Feb 24, 2021. With opposition to transgender issues regularly expressed by mainstream British figures, the country’s trans comedians, including Ives, are often just trying to assert their humanity. “If you make someone laugh,” said Ives, “you’re at least showing them that you are a person.” Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times Jen Ives, a British comedian, in London on Feb 24, 2021. Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times In an undated photo made remotely, Bethany Black, a British comedian, on Feb 25, 2021. “This is my life,” Black said of being transgender. “This is something that I have to deal with every day, and not as a thought experiment.” Many British comedians made jokes about trans people, Black said though she added they usually avoid those when s