Anyone who watched Question Time last night will have seen the prominent member of the Cabinet, Hazel Blears, describe the economy that Labour inherited from the Conservatives in 1997 as being one that was "in shreds" with unemployment standing at 3,000,000.

The excellent Fact Checker service from Channel 4 smelled a rat and got straight onto checking out the validity of Ms Blears' claims.

Their conclusion? Well they never actually call anyone a liar but they do point out that unemployment was at 1.6m and falling and that on every other indicator the economy was in good shape and was well on the road to recovery after the recession of the early 1990s.

So there we have it, perhaps another example of a senior Labour politician "mis-speaking"!

Check out C4's full assessment here.