'Bongo' MEP 'regrets offence'
The UK Independence Party Euro MP who said Britain should not send aid to "bongo bongo land" said he sincerely regrets "any genuine offence which might have been caused".
Ukip MEP 'perfectly happy' to stop using 'bongo' phrase
Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom has said he will not use the term "bongo bongo land" again after he was asked not to do so by his party chairman.
He told ITV News: "My chairman has said don't use it again and I'm perfectly happy to comply with that."
But he added that he would not apologise for his comments and that he felt he had done a "public service" but provoking debate on the subject of foreign aid.
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