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Ukip leader Paul Nuttall has attacked Labour's leaked manifesto, telling reporters Jeremy Corbyn would have "surrendered... the Falkland Islands to Australia".

The blundering Mr Nuttall was trying to criticise the Labour leader's defence policy - when he put the Falkland's on opposite side of the globe.

He said: "We all know that he would have surrendered Northern Ireland to the IRA back in the 1980s.

"We all know that he would have surrendered Gibraltar to the Spanish, and indeed the Falkands to Australia."

Ukip MEP Patrick O'Flynn, sitting on the front row of those watching, interjected: "Argentina."

A flustered Mr Nuttall corrected himself, saying: "To Argentina."

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Some 255 British service personnel died in the successful defence of the Falkland Islands following an attack and occupation by Argentina, which calls the archipelago Las Malvinas.

The 1982 war also claimed the lives of 649 Argentinians.

Mr Nuttall made the remark as he criticised the policies contained within the leak of Labour's draft General Election manifesto, saying they showed Labour is wanting to "raise the red flag" and "surrender" to Brussels.

The gaffe came as Ukip launched their fisheries policy.

The party's aptly named fisheries spokesman Mike Hookem said that Ukip would repeal the Common Fisheries Policy in its entirety so that the UK can make the most of the £6.3 billion fishing nets our economy every year.

The Ukip leader has also been grilled today over his views on Islam after it emerged that his Brexit spokesperson had described the religion as a death cult.

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He said: "I think he's got his terminology wrong, OK. I think Islamic fundamentalism is a cancer within our society, I don't think Islam itself is a death cult (in) any way, shape or form.

"I would never personally describe Islam in that way."