Remember wages of £1.50 an hour? Actually, yes

After appearing at a recent 'generation debate' in Hucknall, Foreign Secretary David Miliband took time out to write to all who attended. His letter contained a heartfelt plea for voters to "remember how far Britain has come and take on the myth that our country is decline".

"Remember wages of £1.50 an hour, winter crises in the NHS, outside loos in primary schools, section 28, declining overseas aid spending?" he said. "They have all been changed by Labour in Government."

But perhaps not all of them. As Jim Radburn of the Carers in Hucknall organisation points out, the Government funding for the country's legion of carers means they often have to make it on £1 an hour or less.

You might have expected Mr Miliband to have remembered this when he penned his appeal to voters in the Sherwood constituency - as Mr Radburn mentioned it during the first question of the debate in Hucknall.