MP sorry for Nazi remark

A British Conservative MP was ordered to apologise by leader David Cameron after he likened the plight of politicians over expenses to the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.

David Wilshire, MP for Spelthorne, Surrey, has already been forced to step down at the next election after paying £105,000 ($240,000) of expenses into a company he owns.

In an email to constituents, Wilshire protested that the "witch-hunt" against politicians would "undermine democracy".

He added: "Branding a whole group of people as undesirables led to Hitler's gas chambers."