Jon Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, speaking as the Lib Dems launch their European election campaign, said:

“Nick Clegg’s promises aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. At the last election the Lib Dems promised to scrap tuition fees only to treble them. They promised not to increase VAT and then did so. And they promised fair taxes only to support the Tories in giving millionaires a tax cut paid for by hardworking families. You can’t trust a word he says.

“A vote for the Liberal Democrats in these elections is a vote for a record of broken promises and support for a party which has chosen to back David Cameron’s Tories all the way. Only Labour will make Britain better off.”