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Jeremy Corbyn has joined an increasingly growing list of politicians who have not been able to answer specific questions about their manifesto pledges. So does that matter? Is it bad for politicians not to know the numbers, or is it bad that journalists focus on them? Katie Balls, a political reporter from the Spectator wonders why politicians don't just "spend an extra 10 minutes getting to know their brief" which would "result in them gaining voters". Helen Lewis, deputy editor at the New Statesman says this kind of scrutiny is encouraging "politicians to be as vague as possible so it is harder to catch them out". (Photo: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outside the Â鶹Éç Credit: Reuters)