Headteachers have told MPs how families from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds were “very upset” following comedian Jimmy Carr’s controversial comments about their communities.
A clip from Carr’s Netflix special, His Dark Material, sparked a social media backlash when he joked about the horror of the Holocaust and “six million Jewish lives being lost” before making a remark about the deaths of thousands of gypsies at the hands of the Nazis as part of the punchline.
