David Miliband: Tories turn blind eye to EU ‘Nazi’ friends
12 April 2012
David Miliband accused the Tories of condoning Nazism today as he attacked David Cameron's new European partners.
The Foreign Secretary seized on the Conservatives' alliance with the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom Party.
He claimed Michael Kaminski, one of the party's MEPs — who leads the Tories' new grouping in the European Parliament — had an "anti-semitic, neo-Nazi past".
Mr Miliband also condemned Tory chairman Eric Pickles for trying to justify the Fatherland and Freedom Party's annual celebration of dead soldiers in the Latvian SS legion.
Mr Pickles said last week they were honouring all Latvian Second World War dead.
"It makes me sick. And you know what makes me sicker? No one in the Tories batted an eyelid," Mr Miliband said.
