guardian.co.uk,
Press Association, Sunday 18 December 2011
MP Aidan Burley (right, with David Cameron), used Twitter to express 'deep regret' over the Hitler chants at his friends' stag. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA |
A Tory MP
who attended a stag party where guests dressed as Nazis has been sacked as a
Commons aide for "offensive" behaviour and placed under investigation
by David Cameron.
Aidan
Burley had expressed "deep regret" at the "inappropriate"
actions of guests, including toasts to the Third Reich, with whom he partied at
a French ski resort.
But he was
removed from his post as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Transport
Secretary Justine Greening after fresh allegations were made linking him to the
behaviour.
The Mail on
Sunday, which exposed the party a week ago, said it had new information about
the episode.
A Party
spokesman said: "Aidan Burley has behaved in a manner which is offensive
and foolish.
"That
is why he is being removed from his post as Parliamentary Private Secretary at
the Department for Transport. In light of information received the prime
minister has asked for a fuller investigation into the matter to be set up and
to report to him."
The Cannock
Chase MP issued an "unreserved, wholehearted and fulsome apology"
over the party in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle earlier this week.
One of his
friends donned a replica SS officer's uniform and another guest reportedly
toasted the "ideology and thought processes" of Adolf Hitler's regime.
In the
letter he said he wished he had left the stag party.
"What
was happening was wrong and I should have completely dissociated myself from
it. I had a choice, and I made the wrong choice not to leave. I
apologise for this error of judgment."
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