Point of Order

Robert Halfon Excerpts

Tuesday 1st May 2018 Commons Chamber

[Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Last night in the House of Lords, Lord Roberts said:

“My mind went back to Berlin in March 1933 when the enabling Bill was passed in the Reichstag, which transferred the democratic right from the Parliament into the hands of one man—that was the Chancellor, and his name was Adolf Hitler.”—[Official Report, House of Lords, 30 April 2018; Vol. 790, c. 1856.]

As someone who is Jewish and very proud of our Parliament, I find those remarks absolutely disgusting. They are shameful for our country and for our Parliament, and completely unacceptable. Can you advise me of ways that this House can send a message to that peer that such trivialisation of evil is unacceptable and that he should withdraw those remarks?

[Hon. Members]

Hear, hear!