Watch: Tory MP warns against ‘vaccinationism’ in bizarre speech

Sir Desmond Swayne, the extravagant Conservative MP, has made a unique intervention in the Covid-19 debate.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Desmond was addressing the potential rollout of a coronavirus vaccine – warning against any impingement on the liberty of those who had not had the jab.

Responding to Steve Baker, the self-styled ‘Brexit hardman’, who had warned against “implicit coercion” against those not taking the jab from hospitality businesses and elsewhere, Swayne declared such a concept “vaccinationism”. Nope, us neither.

Watch his speech here.

Henry Goodwin

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