Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane
MacShane attacks Tory alliance with extreme right in European Parliament
In the Commons Denis MacShane blasted Conservative alliances with extreme right-wing parties in East Europe. In Foreign Office questions MacShane said that Tory MPs shamed the nation by supporting the Polish right-wing politician, Michal Kaminski, who has sought to downplay the massacre of Jews in wartime Poland. Below is the exchange.
Mr. Denis MacShane (Rotherham) (Lab): Does my right hon. Friend agree that any massacre, big or small, by whomever, of Jews during world war two was a crime against humanity? To whitewash such a massacre and to try to make it relative is intolerable, unacceptable politics, and those who associate with those politicians shame this House and our nation.
David Miliband: My right hon. Friend has done fantastic work with colleagues across every party on anti-Semitism and the need to combat it. There is no room for hair-splitting when it comes to the massacre of 300 or 400 people in a Polish village in 1941, and I would have thought that every single Member of this House would be able to condemn that atrocity without any hesitation.
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