TheEye teams up with the splendid David Vance for the weekly nightmare that is Question Time. Both of us, if not beforehand but certainly afterwards, have consumed industrial quantities of red wine. The live chat that he hosts and TheEye assists moderating, though, is always a rollercoaster of an evening.

However the programme yesterday has got TheEye thinking because it was the most extraordinary edition of Question Time broadcast in ages.

After a whole week of daily revelations about MPs’ use and abuse of parliamentary allowances, the sheer visceral anger felt by the audience was palpable. Only that one issue was up for discussion. Theresa May for the Tories – who has been left alone by the Daily Telegraph – gave a measured and assured performance and was relatively calmly received by the audience. In Grimsby (not traditionally Tory territory, it must be said) that’s got to be the equivalent of hitting 100 or getting a 5’fer on your Test debut at Lord’s.

But the same cannot be said for Margaret Beckett and Sir Menzies Campbell – who the Telegraph has taken aim at – who were constantly heckled and interrupted by livid members of the audience unsatisfied at the explanations being given.

Alan Duncan – an early target of the Telegraph – has been pulled from Any Questions on Radio 4, with Jeremy Hunt taking his place instead. Whether that was Mr Duncan’s decision or the Conservative spin doctors isn’t known (yet), but what politicican would seriously put themselves up in front of the firing squad of public opinion on an audience-driven grilling these days?

But shying away from such scrutiny is no solution and MPs are not going to be able to run away and hide on this one. The public – not to mention the media – simply won’t let them.

Watch again below how the the audience in Grimsby treated the MPs on the panel last night: