The videos in question were criticized for taking footage of BBC news presenters and editing them to suggest that the journalists were siding with the Conservative position.

Axar.az reports citing BBC that YouTube has banned two Tory election videos following complaints from the BBC, the Independent reported.

The videos were criticized for taking footage of BBC news presenters and editing them to show that they agreed with the Conservative policies. The party, however, insists that the videos had not been edited in a way to mislead or change the reporting.

According to YouTube, the adverts were seen as many as a million times, and the Tories spent as much as €30,000 to promote them.

Earlier this week, the videos were removed from Facebook on copyright grounds.

"We have removed this content following a valid intellectual property claim from the rights holder, the BBC," the social network said.