Labour has been landed with a £20,000 fine after failing to declare election spending during the 2015 General Election, including the £7,000 cost of the so-called 'Ed Stone'.

The fine by the Electoral Commission, the largest handed down by the body in its history, followed an investigation into two payments totalling £7,614 absent from the party's election return, which covered the cost of the much maligned stone on which former Labour leader Ed Miliband had carved his election pledges.