article_snippet: the Conservative party has been accused of using the x-ray of a victim of child abuse in an attack advert.
article_snippet: The controversial image was unveiled on Friday by shadow chancellor Ed Balls and shadow health secretary Andy Burnham as Labour's 'first poster of the 2015 general election campaign'.
article_snippet: Labour stressed that the poster was designed by an external advertising agency, which used an image from a picture agency.
article_snippet: Tory MP Julian Smith said: 'Labour must explain what due diligence Labour did to ensure Labour advert isn’t based on any child’s tragedy.
article_snippet: The tone of Labour poster is unpleasant enough, I hope the provenance of the image is less toxic.
article_snippet: ’ Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham and shadow chancellor Ed Balls unveiled the poster in Harlow, Essex on Friday .
article_snippet: A Labour party spokesman said: 'This image is a stock photograph provided by one of the world's biggest picture agencies.​' Peter Dazeley, the photographer credited on the Getty image, could not verify where the Getty image came from.
article_snippet: Mr Balls used their poster to launch a highly political attack on the Tory party.