Aidan Burley MP sacked following Nazi pics furore

December 18, 2011

, the Conservative Member of Parliament for in, England, has been forced to leave his job as a  to  in the Department of Transport after pictures appeared in  newspaper showing him at a  in France with a man dressed in the.

A spokesman for the Conservative Party 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."

The Prime Minister has instructed the Conservative Party to conduct an investigation into Burley's behaviour.

Burley has made repeated apologies to the Jewish community. The said he does "not have an antisemitic bone in his body". He offered an "unreserved, wholehearted and fulsome apology" in a letter to the.