Nazi row Tory denies texting 'slur'

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Aidan Burley insists he did not fall asleep but a friend conceded he may have "answered an important message from London" by text.
Labour MP Ian Austin told the Commons a student had complained about Mr Burley's "conduct", prompting the Tory to protest the claims were libellous.

Mr Burley was sacked as aide to Transport Secretary Justine Greening last month after film emerged of him at a stag party where guests, one dressed as an SS officer, toasted the Third Reich.

His "learning trip" to the former Nazi death camp in Poland at his own expense this week followed a long letter of apology to The Jewish Chronicle.

But a student on the same trip, Matthew Parkinson, tweeted: "aidan Burley seen texting and dozing whilst listening to an concentration camp survivor". He added in another tweet: "we was in a talk with a Auschwitz survivor and he... sat there texting and dozing".

The friend of Mr Burley insisted the MP gave the entire talk his rapt attention and found the trip "moving and humbling", adding: "The suggestion he was sitting there texting is just ugly, malicious and inappropriate."