David Cameron found himself at odds with Jewish leaders yesterday when he appeared to dismiss a government initiative to take schoolchildren on educational trips to Auschwitz as a "gimmick".
The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Holocaust Educational Trust expressed disappointment after the Tory leader highlighted the government-sponsored trips to Auschwitz in a list of "Gordon Brown's 26 gimmicks".
Henry Grunwald, the board's president, said: "The board of deputies does not get involved in party politics but we are surprised and disappointed that David Cameron should in any way have used the word gimmick in connection with visits to Auschwitz."
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