Envoy complains about ‘one-legged Lithuanians’ remark from Davey 'Dave' Cameron

Conservative party leader David Cameron's alleged off-the-cuff remarks about "one-legged Lithuanian lesbians" at a recent arts funding lunch have caused outrage in Lithuania, and a complaint from the country's ambassador to the UK asking him to explain himself.

In the letter the ambassador, Vygaudas Usackas, expresses his dismay at the comment made by the Mr Cameron at an Arts Council lunch last Tuesday, in which he was reported to have said: "I hope you won't be giving grants to too many one-legged Lithuanian lesbians".



Mr Usackas, a former deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to the US, said the comment had "prompted a wave of outrage in Lithuania".

A spokeswoman for Mr Cameron said the Tory leader had written a letter to the ambassador yesterday, and that his chief of staff, Edward Llewellyn, had spoken to the ambassador to clarify the comments.

"David [Cameron] did not use the word lesbian, he said that lottery grants should go to the right causes and not to 'one-legged Lithuanian dance troupes'. I would hope the ambassador understands this."