There’s something wrong about this Tory photo op...

David Cameron’s campaign team have been accused of bringing in fake students to sit in the audience behind the Tory leader when he made a speech at the University of East London’s Docklands campus on Monday.

According to Joseph Bitrus, president of the university’s union, the young people behind the Tory leader were not recognised by staff or students, and were conspicuous because they didn’t "represent the multiculturalism of the university". When Bitrus spoke to one of them afterwards, he confirmed he was a junior member of Cameron’s campaign team.

Whoever the extremely bored-looking audience members were, The First Post decided that the public, and Cameron, deserved another chance. We sent a photographer down to UEL to ask the first 15 genuine students she could find to pose for Cameron. If you click on the picture above, you can compare our version with the Conservatives’ original.

While some of the young people in the snap were studying International Politics, they don’t of course subscribe to any particular political viewpoint or party by being in our picture. ·