LABOUR has come under fresh pressure to expel Ken Livingstone from the party after he discussed whether the Holocaust was "exploited" on Iranian state TV.

Furious MPs demanded the party permanently kick out the ex-London Mayor after he appeared last week on Press TV to talk about it on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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Mr Livingstone was slammed for appearing to talk about "whether the Holocaust was exploited to oppress others" last week.

He said again that his claims about Hitler were historically accurate and that his suspension from the party was due to a "political struggle".

"Very often these accusations, they’re nothing to do with anti-Semitism, It’s about political struggle inside the Labour party," he said.

"It's appalling and if I was a millionaire I could sue people and papers for saying these things."

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Today Ilford North MP Ken Livingstone stormed: "The time for his expulsion is long overdue. He continues to bring our party into disrepute."

He "Ken Livingstone knows exactly what he's doing when he appears on Press TV to make inflammatory remarks about the Holocaust. The only question that remains is why Ken Livingstone remains associated the Labour Party."

Bassetlaw MP John Mann, chair of the all-party group against anti-semitism, said: “It’s hugely inappropriate and can only be seen as calculated to offend.”

Labour Friends of Israel director Jennifer Gerber said he had showed "utter insensitivity toward the Jewish community".

She added: "His continued membership of the Labour party makes a mockery of its disciplinary processes and Jeremy Corbyn’s claim to be tackling antisemitism."

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Mr Livingstone is still suspended from the Labour party after he claimed that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist "before he went mad and murdered six million Jews".

Last year a Labour party meeting recommended that the suspension continue for another 12 months - but didn't make a decision on his future.

"When I was Mayor of London, I don't recall a single speaker ever saying anything inappropriate or abusing this in any way," he said last week of claims of Holocaust's legacy being "used".

Guests who phoned into the show said that "without the Holocaust there is no Israel" and suggested that the fight for the state would have collapsed without the genocide.