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With Theresa May potentially facing her own Waterloo in the upcoming general election, the nation is crying out “Mamma Mia” at the news that the prime minister is a secret ABBA fan.

As Jeremy Corbyn asks the country to “take a chance on me”, the premier has told The Metro that the Swedish pop group “gets me up and going” by choosing their evergreen smash-hit ‘Dancing Queen’ as her Desert Island Disc.

When asked if that was the song that would get her up on the dance floor, she said: “That's what gets me up and going, yes! That's why I picked it - I thought it would be quite nice to have something that really got me moving. And I'm of a generation that remembers ABBA very well.”

Though Mrs May tried hard to present herself as a super trooper, she emphatically denied any interest in following former Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls into the realm of reality TV, specifically Strictly Come Dancing.

“I’m certainly not intending to do one!” she stressed.

Her admission follows other embarrassing musical claims by politicians. Erstwhile Prime Minister Gordon Brown claimed that Arctic Monkeys got him going in the morning without being able to name any of their tracks. Elsewhere, Johnny Marr and Paul Weller must have thought, ‘why did it have to be me?’ when David Cameron claimed to be a fan of both The Smiths and The Jam.

Responding to Cameron’s claims at the time, Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr said: "Stop saying that you like The Smiths, no you don’t. I forbid you to like it." Weller said: “The whole thing with Cameron saying ‘Eton Rifles’ was one of his favourite songs… I just think, ‘Which bit didn’t you get?'”

With the polls now showing the gap between Labour and the Conservatives narrowing, it seems less a case of the winner takes it all and instead the possibility of a hung parliament. After all, the name of the game is politics and only a fool would bet a ton of money, money, money on a definite result (OK, that’s enough puns, thank you very much – Ed.).

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