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Here's incendiary TV rent-a-gob Katie Hopkins spectacularly failing to justify her latest controversial claims about Muslims on live television.

The Twitter-baiting columnist was one of very few people to publicly back US presidential hopeful Donald Trump in the wake of his calls for all Muslims to be banned from entering the US.

She then wrote a column claiming here in the UK "we have lost control of vast swathes of our country" to Muslims.

She was invited onto Andrew Neil's Daily Politics show this week to explain her comments - and failed miserably.

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Asked by Neil to name an area she believed had been lost, Hopkins floundered: "There's plenty of places in the UK that other people will tell you, I can tell you, I would not walk through."

Neil replied: "Well tell me."

Hopkins blurted out: "I don't think it's legally accurate to actually name certain areas. I think there's been some legal issues around that."

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Despite assurances from Neil that there were no legal issues around naming an area, Hopkins still refuses to identify a particular location.

"I do think that if I were to walk through certain areas, where over 90 per cent of the population are Muslim, I wouldn’t fare too well," she replied.

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Pressed again by Neil, Hopkins said: "I know these places exist," before talking about her child's nativity play.

"I'm going to my child's nativity play later, Andrew," she blathered. "I'm going to my child's nativity play."

She appeared to be trying to make a point about multi faith schools, but Neil shut her down by saying: "In other words you can't tell me so you'll talk about your child's nativity play."