Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has accused a pro-Leave Tory MP of 'lying' during a TV debate.

The clash happened during a BBC debate on the EU held at Wembley Arena in-front of an audience of 6,000 voters.

Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom was making a point regarding the European Union's influence over UK law when she was accused of lying by the Scottish Conservative leader.

Leadsom said:"The truth is 60% of our rules and regulations come from the European Union".

At this point she was heckled by Davidson from across the stage who shouted "that is a lie, that is a straight-faced lie and you are better than that".

The Conservative MP then continued with her point, saying: "As City minister and now as energy minister all day long I am told 'you can do that, you can't do this' because of the EU.

"The truth is, there are five presidents of the EU. Now, can anyone name one? Did anyone vote for them? No you didn't vote for them as you are not allowed to vote for them and you can't kick them out either.

"The problem is that in the EU there are 10,000 officials, that is nearly twice the number of people in this room by the way, who earn more than the UK Prime Minister and you are paying for them.

"That gravy train is continuing so we, Britain, have voted against Europe 70 times and 70 times we have been outvoted. So how does that mean we have any influence in Europe?"

However, when it was Davidson's turn to speak she came back to the points raised by Leadsom.

Davidson, who has led the Tories in Scotland since 2011, said Leadsom told an "untruth" and the Leave campaign has "lied" in their campaign literature over three areas.

The Scottish Conservative leader said: "I need to pick up on something Andrea said because I can't let it stand that you tell a blatant untruth in the middle of the debate two days before we vote.

"She said 60% of our laws are made in Europe and it is simply not true.

"Thirteen per cent of our laws, according to the independent House of Commons library, that number is 13%. In the last five year parliament there was four bills out of 121 that came out of Europe.

"I think that there is a real question here that you are being asked to make a decision that is irreversible, we can't change if we wake up and we don't like it and we are being sold it on a lie.

"They lied about the costs of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army- we have got a veto over that.

"They put these in their leaflets and they have lied here about this too. It's not good enough. You deserve the truth."

Voters will go to the polls on Thursday to decide if the UK should Remain or Leave the European Union.

It is only the second referendum on Britain's membership since the nation joined the then European Economic Community on January 1, 1973.