It appears that the lady has Type 2 Diabetes and that was the cause of her confusions!
Diane Abbott has revealed her type 2 diabetes affected her performance during the general election campaign.
The Labour MP was replaced as shadow home secretary because of ill health just 48 hours before polling day, having appeared in a series of 'car-crash' broadcast interviews.
Ms Abbott, 63, told the Guardian "everything went crazy" during the campaign and her diabetes had been "out of control".
After she floundered over the funding of extra police officers during one radio interview, she said her brother had contacted her and "gave me a lecture about eating and having glucose tablets".
But she said she was now managing the condition and felt ready to get back to work.
It is the first time she has spoken about the condition since receiving the diagnosis two years ago.
Ms Abbott told the Guardian: "The first time I became aware that I was a target of a national campaign was when people in marginals in the north were WhatsApping me to say there were ad vans talking about me, with a picture of me and Jeremy on," she said.
"Then there were these targeted Facebook ads. There was one which was a mashup ad which made it sound as if I supported al Qaida. We did contemplate taking legal action."
Explaining the deterioration in her health, the 63-year-old Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP said: "During the election campaign, everything went crazy - and the diabetes was out of control, the blood sugar was out of control."
She said her brother had raised concerns after seeing her struggling: "He said 'that is not Diane', because ever since I've been a child I've had a great memory for figures, and he said he knew it was my blood sugar and gave me a lecture about eating and having glucose tablets."
She added: "It is a condition you can manage. I am doing that now and I feel ready to get back to work."
Theresa May also suffers from diabetes. The Prime Minsiter has the type 1 form of the condition, which means she has to inject herself with insulin four times a day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06 ... -campaign/