Tories spent £18.6m on disastrous snap general election campaign

The Tories spent four times more than Labour on Facebook and Google during the disastrous snap election last year but still lost their majority. 

The Electoral Commission disclosed that the political parties spend more than £4m on social media websites during the election, more than twice as much as in 2015. 

The Tories spent £2.1m on Facebook and £562,000 on Google, compared to Labour which spent £577,000 on Facebook and £254,000 on Google.

The Liberal Democrats spent £412,000 on Facebook and £203,000 on Google.  The figures show that overall the Conservatives spent £18.6million on the snap election, Labour £11million and the Liberal Democrats £6.7million.