FRONT-BENCH Tories tried to smear Labour during a bizarre podium line-up yesterday in a feeble bid to relaunch their two-day-old election campaign.

But their desperate warnings on the Armageddon that could hit Britain if they are booted out in May soon began to unravel.

Numerically challenged Chancellor George Osborne roped in party grandees William Hague and Theresa May to shore up the claim that they can be trusted with the economy.