Yesterday Gordon Brown was caught red-handed!

Last week, he said that his government would be “increasing capital expenditure up to the Olympics” – that means spending on things like building more schools and hospitals.

But – as this video shows – these claims are not just controversial, they just aren’t true. His own figures show that he plans to cut capital investment not just from now to the Olympics in 2012, but every single year up to 2014.

At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday,  David Cameron repeatedly gave the Prime Minister the opportunity to correct this false claim – but as usual he just couldn’t give a straight answer to a straight question.

He also repeatedly claims that “in every year in the future public spending will continue to rise”. But again, the government’s own figures show that once you account for the increased cost of unemployment and the rising interest charges we will have to pay on national debt, total spending will be cut.

This means that Labour’s current plans involve significant cuts on the budgets of government departments, and spending on public services.

The Prime Minister may say he wants to restore trust in politics. But by trying to take the British people for fools in this way, his actions are speaking louder than his words.

The division in British politics is not – “cuts versus investment” – as Gordon Brown says, but between a Conservative Party telling the truth about the state of the public finances, and Labour who are failing to be straight with people.