Conservative MP calls attempt to erase record of Nazi veteran honoured by House ‘distorting the Holocaust’

After House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota announced he was stepping down on Tuesday amid international controversy over a parliamentary invitation to a Ukrainian war veteran who fought in a Nazi division in the Second World War, Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman criticized government house leader Karina Gould — whose ancestors were Jewish Holocaust survivors — for proposing to strike the moment from official records on Monday. “[Gould] tried to strike it from the historical record of this House as if it never happened. A descendant of Holocaust survivors distorting the Holocaust,” Lantsman claimed.