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Jeremy Corbyn has offered to help Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain conquer her fear of manhole covers.

The TV baker, who was the series star baker in 2015, revealed she has an irrational fear of drain lids on Twitter, yesterday.

Luckily, the Labour leader is something of an aficionado, and has offered his assistance in defeating her phobia.

Corbyn has admitted to being an avid "drain spotter", explaining manhole covers can often be "quite artistic" and that one can tell a lot about a city's history from examining them.

But even being shown images of beautifully designed examples from Japan wasn't enough to convince Nadiya manhole covers were benign.

She wrote: "That beautiful cover still has a hole under it."

(Image: PA)

Finally last night, a helpful Twitter mutual follower brought the unlikely pair together.

Leo Murray tweeted at Corbyn, saying: "any chance you could help [Nadiya] to overcome her fear of manhole covers?

And the Labour leader stepped up to the challenge, writing "Hi Nadiya, happy to help."

But Nadiya suggested Mr Corbyn might have some more important things to do than helping her with her drain dread.

She said: "You keep doing your good work Jeremy! Fight the good fight ! My fear of man hole covers can wait ..."

Corbyn has admitted his hobby of collecting photos of interesting manhole covers is "zany", but insists it "doesn't hurt anyone."

He told ITV's Lorraine Kelly in 2015: "I know it sounds a bit zany... history is what we live all the time."

Corbyn's other hobbies include gardening, jam making and a longstanding interest in railways.