I did not break any law says Nazi row MP Aidan Burley

Staffordshire MP Aidan Burley says he did not break any law attending a Nazi-themed stag do, after it emerged a criminal investigation has been launched.

Mr Burley was today facing fresh calls to stand down after French authorities confirmed that they are probing the conduct of the Cannock Chase MP and 12 of his friends.

The group was filmed partying at a resort in the Alps.

There is also speculation that he could be interviewed by police. Magistrates have received a complaint that the revellers were inciting racial hatred and glorifying crimes against humanity.

Mr Burley responded by saying: "They are launching a preliminary investigation, and I understand I am not the focus of it. I do not believe I have broken any French law and have distanced myself from other people on the stag."

However, Dudley North MP Ian Austin, shadow work and pensions minister, repeated his call for Prime Minister David Cameron to expel Mr Burley from the Conservative Party. "The scandal surrounding Aidan Burley's disgraceful conduct is not going away," he said.

Julien Andrez, counsel for La Fondue restaurant where the stag night started, has said bosses filed a criminal complaint over the stag do.

Hamdy Boussouiba, director of French pressure group SOS Racism, is also thought to have lodged a complaint.

The gathering has already cost Mr Burley his job as a parliamentary private secretary to Transport Secretary Justine Greening.

Mr Cameron has ordered his own inquiry.

Under the French penal code, it is a crime unless required for a film, a play or a historical exhibition, to exhibit in public a uniform, insignia or emblem reminiscent of those which were worn by the Nazis.

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