Tory MP attended dinner where guests toasted Third Reich

According to the Mail:

“A high-flying Tory MP was forced to apologise for ‘clearly inappropriate behaviour’ last night after he attended a party where guests, one dressed in an SS uniform, chanted offensive Nazi slogans in a crowded restaurant at a French ski resort.

Aidan Burley, MP for Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, was with 12 friends, some of whom chanted ‘Hitler, Hitler, Hitler’. One toasted the ‘Third Reich’ and one taunted a waiter for being French.

Mr Burley, 32, a senior aide to Transport Secretary Justine Greening, was filmed in a mountain restaurant during a stag do, sitting next to another party goer dressed in a black SS uniform and cap.”

The MP for Cannock Chase hasn’t exactly been a stranger to controversy. Political Scrapbook covered one of his university experiences last month, when they reported on his “elitist dining club” and their trip to Stringfellows.

He’s clearly becoming a bit of an embarrassment for Cameron. The Mail describes the two as “laughing and joking like old friends” as early ago as 2006. The PM is now under pressure to sack him from his role as a senior aide to Transport Secretary Justine Greening.

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