Last week Tory PPS Aidan Burley was revealed to have attended a rather unsavoury party in France. Now he has been sacked from his government role after fresh allegations that suggest Burley was a more active participant in the Nazi-themed proceedings than he may have wished us to believe…
“A Tory MP who took part in a Nazi-themed stag party was last night sacked by David Cameron for his ‘offensive and foolish’ behaviour.
Aidan Burley was fired from his job as aide to Transport Secretary Justine Greening a week after The Mail on Sunday obtained footage of the event, which featured a toast to the Third Reich and a guest dressed as an SS officer.
Despite frantic efforts by the MP to salvage his political career – including writing a long letter of apology to The Jewish Chronicle and planning a visit to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland – the Prime Minister acted decisively when evidence emerged Mr Burley had hired the Nazi costume.”
It remains to be seen what impact this will have on Burley’s other political activities, such as the new “Trade Union Reform Campaign”, of which he is the chairman.
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