Gordon Brown at it again

From PMQs yesterday there came this exchange from a not normally tame Labour MP, Dennis Skinner.

"Q9. [163664] Mr. Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) (Lab):
Does the Prime Minister agree that although 1992 will always be remembered for being the year of Black Wednesday, it was also the year of the Heseltine pit closure plan, which marked the end of every pit in the Derbyshire coalfield? Since that time, with a strong economy, we have already got 3,000 jobs on the colliery sites. Next year, with the opening of junction 29A, there will be another 5,000 jobs. We have dragged the area from the depths of Tory degradation and brought a new lease of life to the coalfields. That is what separates us from the Notting Hill mob.

The Prime Minister:
Sometimes Conservative Members are in danger of forgetting that under their Government 3 million people were unemployed; they must not forget that under this Government we have reduced unemployment by 1 million, 300,000 single parents have found work, and we are reducing the numbers of people on incapacity benefit. We can do this only because we have stability and growth in the economy—something that never happened when the Leader of the Opposition was the economic adviser to the Conservative Government."

Hold on there Gordon, what is the number of people not in work in the UK? 4.5 million or so isn't it, just because you have moved people from unemployment to invalidity benefit doesn't mean that you have reduced unemployment. As for your repeated claims that David Cameron was Norman Lamont's economic advisor, I have commented on the lack of truth in this before.