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Jeremy Corbyn today proved his ‘kid banter’ is better than any other living politician.

He was filmed having a remarkably normal conversation with a group of primary school children during a visit to their Holiday Club, today, promoting Labour’s free school meals policy.

The Labour leader discussed the merits of making one’s own jam, before asking the pupils what their favourite flavour was.

Being small children, they of course said strawberry.

Corbyn said they probably wouldn’t like his favourite kind of jam, blackberry and apple.

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Unfortunately, children can't vote. To quote The Thick of It's Peter Mannion, "They might as well be geese."

But a politician being able to speak to children as if they were normal human beings, not aliens, shouldn’t really be a matter of great comment.

But history teaches us it’s usually more of an issue.

Here’s a few politicians who have learned the hard way that it’s risky to work with children.

Let's start with Ed Balls quacking like a duck and making a baby cry

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Then there was George Osborne's awkward breakfast banter and piggy-in-the-middle snub

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"Is that where the, er, football is. Yeah? Did you see the Tour De France?"

And when he failed at skipping in front of a room full of young people

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Nick Clegg also tried that one with similar results

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Then there was the time Theresa May realised the kids were on to her and she must escape immediately

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David Cameron was once so crushingly dull that one young girl could handle it no more

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And Boris once legit rugby tackled an 8-year-old Japanese boy

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Of course, Corbyn's not been immune to child-based awkwardness

There was that time he looked like he wanted to wrap a violin round a small child's head

And then there was the infamous incy wincy spider incident of 2016