Nadhim Zahawi, an Iraqi-born Conservative MP, said he was stunned Miss Jackson could be so ignorant.

‘If a Conservative MP had said those things, they would have been sacked from the government or had the whip withdrawn,’ he said.

‘David Cameron would not tolerate such comments, and neither should Ed Miliband.’

Mr Zahawi, a self-made millionaire, added: ‘I was not born in Britain and I have never worked as a strawberry picker.’

George Eustice, a Tory MP and former strawberry farmer, said: ‘Glenda Jackson’s comments are incredibly ignorant.

‘I worked on a strawberry farm for ten years. There was a mix of workers, some of them foreign, but many of them British.’

Blunder: Labour MP Glenda Jackson has courted controversy by suggesting most immigrants are fruit pickers (posed picture)

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