Labour MP Clive Lewis has sparked outrage after comparing the government's plan to temporarily house refugees in a south coast holiday park to "concentration camps".
Speaking on the BBC's Politics Live earlier today, the MP for Norwich South made the comment during a discussion on the government's new plan to tackle illegal migration.
In a discussion about today's i newspaper front page, Mr Lewis said, "I'm looking at that headline, 'Pontins revolt: Tory backlash at plans to house migrants in holiday camps'. Let's be really clear here: my understanding is if you put a group of people concentrated into a camp, as you did in South Africa in the Boer War, that's what you call a concentration camp."
Seemingly in recognition of the weight of the term, he then said, "I'm not making any..." before he was interrupted by Conservative MP Damian Green who said, "You just have. That's ridiculous."
