Labour MP Hugh Gaffney apologises for 'deeply offensive' Burns Night remarks

A Labour MP has apologised for making "deeply offensive" racist and homophobic remarks at a Burns Night celebration.Hugh Gaffney said he would attend equality and diversity training following the revelation he joked about Scottish poet Robert Burns being "bent".Giving the traditional 'Immortal Memory' at a Scottish Labour students event on Saturday, Mr Gaffney claimed Burns told "lads and lassies he was not bent".