Well they do play in the same colours…

David Cameron and son Arthur watch Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa at Loftus Road in 2011

David Cameron has been forced to justify his “brain fade” on Saturday when he wrongly identified the team he claims to avidly support. He mixed up his apparently beloved Villa, calling on people to support West Ham.

He’s been quizzed on forgetting his own football team, a unconscionable sin for most fans, on ITV’s Lorraine show. He says he’d been to West Ham’s stadium the day before but that these are not the things that determine an election.

In a speech celebrating Britain’s multiculturalism the Prime Minister said that he wished everyone would support West Ham, despite claiming for many years to be life-long Villa fan.

At the end of the speech he was pulled up by a surprised journalist who asked him: “You’ve said I think before that to govern is to choose. Do you choose West Ham or do you choose Villa?”

At the time he said he had had what “Natalie Bennett [the Green Party leader] would describe as a brain fade” adding: “I’m a Villa fan”.