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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has revealed that one of his festive highlights is making a traditional Christmas cake to share with family and friends.

And while he admits his recipe is "not very healthy", containing eight eggs and up to 500 grammes of butter, it does sound tasty.

Mr Corbyn, who said in the past he very rarely has an alcoholic drink, also likes to give his Christmas cake an extra kick with a dollop of whisky or sherry.

He makes his cake in November, ready to be shared at Christmas time.

Mr Corbyn revealed his cake recipe in an interview with Jenna Macfarlane, Glasgow Editor of The Tab , a news service run by students.

He was asked what he'd make if he appeared on Channel 4's The Great British Bake Off.

But he said: "What I like making, but it wouldn’t really work for Bake Off because it takes too long, is Christmas cake. It’s quite a long affair to make.

"One and a half kilos of fruit, flour, four of five hundred grams of butter – it’s not very healthy – a lot of sugar, eight eggs, and an awful lot of spices."

He added: "I do it all myself and it takes quite a while to do. Then I’ll add something that gives it a bit of flavour – whisky, sherry, whisky’s the best – put that in and bake it for at least five hours."