Tory MP Andrew Bridgen loses whip over ‘dangerous’ Covid vaccine claims

Chief whip says MP ‘crossed a line, causing great offence’ with tweet comparing immunisation to the Holocaust

The Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen has lost the party whip after comparing the use of Covid vaccines to the Holocaust, the latest in a series of recent anti-vaccine statements he has made.

Tweeting a graph from Zero Hedge, a libertarian and conspiracy theory website, which purported to show the health risks from Covid vaccines, Bridgen wrote: “As one consultant cardiologist said to me this is the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust.”