The Labour Party has launched a web-based bid to capitalise on recent Conservative woes.

A Big Brother-style internet site invites members of the public to "vote out" a selection of senior Tories.

Saying the party is "in utter turmoil and divided as ever", web surfers can decide who is ejected from the "Tory house of turmoil".

Listed on the site are party leader Michael Howard, and frontbenchers Oliver Letwin and David Davis.

Other "housemates" are Lord Saatchi, Lord Tebbit, Michael Portillo, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Derek Conway.

With interactive votes and a "turmoilometer", Labour aims to gain from recent reports of discontent within the Tory ranks.

'Housemates'

Listing reasons why the party figures should be "voted out", the website says Letwin, the shadow chancellor, has "annoyed housemates by wanting to set everyone's budget".

And the shadow home secretary is said to want to take over as party leader, but is "trying very hard not to make it look too obvious".

Lord Tebbit is described as a "veteran troublemaker" while Portillo "planned his escape from the house some time ago, but that's not stopped him from going into the diary room to call the other housemates 'blinkered'".

A Labour spokesman said that "the Tories yet again find themselves in turmoil and are demonstrating they never change".

"Despite their new surroundings, the Tories have shown they are still stuck in the past, still riddled with division and still wedded to an agenda of cuts, charges and privatisation," he added.