Google has revealed why the search engine has removed auto-complete suggestions for the Conservative Party, after some internet users claimed it was in exchange for a tax deal.

Following a week of stories about Google's UK tax payments, people on Twitter picked up on the fact that typing "Conservatives are" or "Tories are" into Google returns no search suggestions.

But when you type "Labour are" it suggests "finished", "a joke", "right wing" and "scum." A search for "SNP are" similarly returns "liars", "a joke", "Nazis" and "evil".

"Lib Dems are" offers "finished", "pointless", "traitors" and "left wing".

Some users on Twitter claimed that the search anomaly "explains the tax issue".