Andrew Bridgen MP is suing Matt Hancock for £100,000 in a row over the Covid vaccine. The former health secretary had accused Mr Bridgen of spouting “anti-Semitic, anti-vax conspiracy theories” after he compared the effects of Covid vaccines to the Holocaust.
Mr Bridgen lost the Conservative whip over comments he made about the vaccine earlier this month. The MP for North West Leicestershire wants Mr Hancock to pay damages to a legal fund for people seeking “collective redress for vaccine harms”.
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