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The Tories have launched a fake Labour manifesto website in another bid to confuse and mislead voters ahead of the general election.

A website with the web address "labourmanifesto.co.uk" was launched moments before the party's manifesto launch in Birmingham.

And the party have apparently paid Google to show the website as the top result for some users who search for the word "Labour".

The site, which features pictures of Jeremy Corbyn on a ' Labour red' background, has multiple overlapping headlines in a bid to appear like a poorly made website.

It claims to include "All you need to know about Labour’s 2019 manifesto " before moving to a series of Conservative attack lines.

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The disclaimer "A website by the Conservative Party" appears at the top of the site, but is partially obscured by the background and overlapping text.

Some users reported searching for "Labour" on Google brought the website up as the top result, a paid advertising position on the search giant.

Google today announced plans to crack down on political advertising on its platform later this week.

The Conservative party has been repeatedly accused of misleading the public on social media in the election campaign.

During Tuesday night’s live TV debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Mr Johnson, the Tory press office altered its Twitter account to look like an independent fact checking service.

Their name changed to ‘factcheckUK’ for the duration of the ITV debate and the Conservative Party logo was removed from the page.

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The move prompted a furious backlash - with the CCHQ account resorting to retweeting jokes about itself in a bid to laugh off the PR disaster.

Hundreds of furious users on social media reported the account to Twitter and the social media giant issued a warning to the Conservative Party for 'misleading' the public.

Yesterday Twitter warned that any further attempts to "mislead people" during the UK election will result in action.

But they faced calls to immediately suspend the Conservative account in line with their terms of service.

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The @CCHQpress account is verified by Twitter, displaying a blue tick which is intended to denote that a user is genuine.

Soon after their 'rebrand', dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts soon copied the move to pillory the Tories, including Royle Family actor Ralf Little.

He changed his name to 'Conservative Press Orifice' and the description to 'Not a fact checker. Or the Conservative Press Office'.

But Mr Little found himself locked out of his account, apparently due to the name-change joke.

He said: “Assume I’ve been suspended. Which is fine. But only if the @CCHQPress account is suspended for the same thing.”

A Twitter spokeswoman said: “Twitter is committed to facilitating healthy debate throughout the UK general election . We have global rules in place that prohibit behaviour that can mislead people, including those with verified accounts.

"Any further attempts to mislead people by editing verified profile information - in a manner seen during the UK Election Debate - will result in decisive corrective action."

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Independent factcheckers FullFact hit back: “It is inappropriate and misleading for the Conservative press office to rename their twitter account ‘factcheckUK’ during this debate. Please do not mistake it for an independent fact checking service such as @FullFact, @FactCheck or @FactCheckNI”.

On the first day of the campaign, Tory press officers pushed out a fake news video of an interview with Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, edited to appear he was unclear on the party's Brexit policy.

In a doctored video, which was viewed more than 200,000 times on Twitter, the party inserted several seconds of Sir Keir's face in silence after a question from Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan. In reality, Sir Kier had answered the question immediately.