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On the 30 April 2015, during a Question Time Election Special, the Labour leader Ed Milliband was challenged by a member of the audience over the previous Labour Government's economic record. "How can you stand there and say you didn't overspend and end up bankrupting this country?" the man complained. "It's absolutely ludicrous you are frankly just lying'. Research carried out after the 2010 and 2015 elections confirmed that Labour had indeed lost both contests in large part because the public believed that Labour had overspent and crashed the economy. Yet both these beliefs were false.