Civil servants post memo on department’s intranet denouncing various countries for their stance on gay rights, including Poland and US
Home Office officials have sparked a diplomatic row after falsely claiming Poland has official “LGBT-free zones”.
A senior Polish MP has accused civil servants of falling for the “propaganda of a trivial radical Left activist” after a memo was posted on the department’s intranet denouncing various countries for their stances on gay rights, including Poland.
The memo on May 17, marking “International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia”, was posted by Spectrum, a group which represents gay civil servants in the Home Office.
Kacper Plazynski MP, the Head of the EU Affairs Committee in the Polish Sejm, told The Telegraph: “It’s diplomatically enormously inappropriate for a unit within the British Home Office to criticise the Polish constitution and how it defines marriage.”