Liberal Democrat MP Danny Alexander has leaked Conservative proposals to cut child benefit, while the Lib Dems and Tories were in coalition together.
UKIP asked the police to investigate the BBC after the broadcast of last week’s episode of Have I Got News For You.
The lower than expected growth of 0.3% in the first quarter of 2015 is a blow to Conservative claims that their policies have stewarded the economy into a recovery.
The frontpage of the Telegraph today splashed with news that 5,000 small business firms had written a letter in support of Conservative economic policies, but recent revelations have brought into doubt the independent voice of the document.
The Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, and the SNP have all failed to explain how they plan to cut the deficit, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.