A Lib Dem candidate has caused consternation by declaring that teenagers should be allowed access to hard-core pornography.

Mike Dixon, the party's prospective MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, said no-one should "judge or criticise" teenagers who wanted to look at sexually explicit material.

He said: "I'm not a pervert. All I ask is to allow sexually mature 16 and 17-year-olds the same rights as anyone else to look at pictures of bums, tits and willies."

And today's Sun publishes 20 reasons not to vote Lib Dem, saying that the party has been "keeping quiet about a raft of barmy proposals which would destroy Britain."