Labour’s Ian Austin has rejected claims that MP and Peers were “railroaded” into attending the meeting of a parliamentary group to endorse the £50 million Holocaust Memorial project
Mr Austin, the MP for Dudley North, was elected as joint chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the National Holocaust Memorial alongside Conservative MP Bob Blackman, at the inaugral meeting.
Following a vote an overwhelming majority of the 50 MPs and Peers present for the meeting, a motion was passed stating: "The learning centre, which will examine the Holocaust through British eyes and examine subsequent genocides, is an exciting and important asset to the Gardens, which will be much improved physically by the initiative."
After last month’s meeting, Baroness Deach, a crossbench peer of critic of the memorial project, claimed it was packed “with people who may never have taken an interest in Holocaust issues before but had clearly been assembled in order to block any variety of views.”
