Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, said his father’s pistols had been taken away after the shooting, and that society in the UK needed “radical change” and to “release the individual”.

A spokesperson for Restore Britain said: “Rupert was clearly referring to one incident.”

Kenny Ross, whose daughter Joanna was one of the pupils killed, told BBC Scotland News that he was not surprised at the “ignorance of some people” around the shooting.

He said: “They don’t realise how devastating it was. But now we have a safer society because there is no longer private gun ownership.

“Thirty years have passed and people forget what we had to go through.

“I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through that. It’s people like him that are very ignorant and selfish.”