MP Sir David Amess has condemned young people who use social media to continue to mock him over his cake’ gaffe from 20 years ago.

In the House of Commons, Southend West MP Sir David felt it necessary to bring up his distaste and anger at those still ridiculing him over his comments - 20 years on.

It all stems from 1997, when Sir David appeared on Brass Eye, a comedy TV show created by Chris Morris which lampooned investigative reporting programmes.

He was duped, along with other celebrities at the time, into believing that ‘cake’ was a real drug on the streets.

In the programme, Sir David is filmed holding cake, a yellow pill shaped object slightly larger than the palm of his hand, where he warns viewers of the dangers of this fictitious drug.

He then went on to mention “cake” in Parliament alongside real street drugs of the time, before finding out the drug was actually a fabrication made by the writers of Brass Eye.

But time has not buried this unfortunate blunder and now, two decades on from when it happened, Sir David is still being ridiculed for it.

He told the House of Commons: “If you go onto social media, you will see that the mickey is taken out of me because of ‘cake’.

“Shame on any youngster who comes up to me and thinks that it is a laughing matter when my then constituent, Leah Betts, of an ecstasy overdose.

“Shame on Channel 4 who got people into this building when the then Minister of State, Tony Newton, checking through his civil servant, thought that there was a drug called ‘cake’.

“It’s an absolute disgrace that people who think it’s funny now weren’t even alive when my constituent, Leah Betts, died from ecstasy”.

Leah Betts was an Essex schoolgirl, from Latchingdon, who died after taking ecstasy for the first time on her 18th birthday in 1995.

The death of Leah Betts lead to Sir David to campaign against recreational drug use.

It was only shortly a year after this that he was tricked by Brass Eye.

In the footage, clearly reading from a script, he says: “Look at that: a hundred grand in the pocket of the filth that sells it.

“A big yellow death bullet in the head of some poor user.”

Although at the time Sir David was not the only person to be tricked - celebrities such as Noel Edmonds and Rolf Harris also fell for it.