Keir Starmer and David Lammy face backlash for using Holocaust Memorial in new campaign video 

Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy have landed in hot water after filming themselves at the German Holocaust Memorial in a video showcasing their trip to Germany.

The Labour leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary visited Berlin as part of a two-day visit on Thursday and Friday. 

While there, Starmer met Chancellor Olaf Scholz as well as the leader of of the leftwing SDP Lars Klingbeil.

The pair also visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and filmed themselves walking through it.

German antisemitism campaign group Tikvah Institut criticised the fleeting appearance of the site in the political ad, which never mentioned it by name

German antisemitism campaign group Tikvah Institut criticised the fleeting appearance of the Holocaust Memorial in the political ad, which never mentioned it by name

Freelance journalist James Jackson tweeted: ‘This is a massive faux pas in Germany.’

Barney Carroll posted: ‘The Holocaust memorial is meant to be a solemn place to remember an atrocity that dwarfs human experience. 

‘It should be approached with extreme humility. To use it for photo ops is considered extremely bad taste.’

Arbeit_Fish added: ‘This is utterly insane. Using the Holocaust Memorial as a prop to connote seriousness? hideously inappropriate…’

User Afroze said: ‘Wtf is this messaging! How does that caption go with a picture of Starmer standing in front of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin?

‘Blatant electioneering at the expense of holocaust victims??’

Freelance journalist James Jackson tweeted: ‘This is a massive faux pas in Germany.’

Arbeit_Fish added: ‘This is utterly insane. Using the Holocaust Memorial as a prop to connote seriousness? hideously inappropriate…’

Starmer visited a section of the Berlin wall while on a trip to the German capital to meet politicians and business leaders.

Sir Keir was on Friday pictured by the landmark, erected in 1961 by the communist authorities to separate East and West Berlin.

Most of the wall was demolished from 1990 after the two sides of the city were reunited the year before.

Casually dressed, Sir Keir walked along the East Side Gallery, a section of the wall covered in artwork.

It includes a piece painted by Dmitri Vrubel called My God, Help Me To Survive This Deadly Love, which depicts then-leader of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and former East Germany leader Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss.

In their meeting, Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are understood to have discussed Brexit and mutual economic prosperity between the UK and Germany.

The offices of Starmer and Lammy have been contacted by MailOnline.