When Nick Clegg returns from New York he’ll find a letter waiting for him on his doormat from the shadow work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper. It won’t make comfortable reading.

She points out that FactCheck caught him out over “unfounded and misleading rhetoric at the Lib Dem conference where you claimed that under Labour child poverty in the UK had increased”.

In fact, child poverty did go down under Labour, though not by much.

You, like La Cooper, can read the FactCheck for yourselves here. FactCheck – first with the facts.