Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said he thinks Jimmy Carr’s joke about the Holocaust was “horrid” and called for people to boycott the comedian.
The presenter and comic has been widely criticised for the joke he made in Netflix comedy special His Dark Material.
Mr Javid said the joke was “horrid”, adding: “I think we all have a right to react to that, and one of the best ways anyone can react to that is show these platforms what they think about Jimmy Carr by not watching or listening to him, and that will send him a very strong message.”
In the comedy show, 49-year-old Carr made a disparaging remark about the deaths of thousands of gypsies at the hands of the Nazis.
It has prompted widespread condemnation, including from comedian David Baddiel and Irish traveller and bare-knuckle boxer Paddy Doherty.
Daddiel, 57, said: "You can obviously tell a Holocaust joke that is cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist.
"Or you can tell one that targets the oppressors, or draws attention to the fundamental evil of it, or shines and light on the humanity of the victims.
"It's not the subject matter of the joke that counts, it's the specifics of the individual joke. Clearly, Jimmy Carr's was the former."
Doherty, who starred in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, said the 'disgusting' joke was an insult to the 1.5million gypsies exterminated in death camps.
He said: "There's a level you don't go to. More than a million of my people were killed."
