BBC Question Time's Fiona Bruce fact-checked minister Mark Spencer live on air
Fiona Bruce fact-checked a minister on Question Time last night when he tried to put a positive spin on UK growth figures.
The minister for food, farming and fisheries Mark Spencer was trying to talk up the Conservatives’ success with the economy when the BBC host brought him back down to Earth.
He said: “The good news is we’ve just started to turn a corner, we’ve just started to get inflation back under control, we’ve got growth going again.