His comments came as Hungary's ambassador to London, Péter Szabadhegy, also spoke out to claim common cause with Britain on the issue. In a briefing to British journalists last week, he said the British public had been jamming the switchboard of Hungary's embassy to London in support of Budapest's controversial stance. Of the 300 phone calls, emails and letters that were reaching the embassy's Belgravia HQ every day, 70 per cent described Hungary's actions as "God's gift to Europe." The rest were mostly insults such as “heartless scum”.