Tag: andrew bridgen

Andrew Bridgen was expelled as he appeared to describe the vaccine rollout as “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”.

The representative for North West Leicestershire had already lost the party whip and was sitting in the Commons as an independent.

"These are outrageous conspiracy theories that he is promoting on his social media and more frequently on the floor of this House"

"He might like to do some research as to the origins of some of the things that he has been putting on his Twitter account," Mordaunt suggested.

"There is no possibility that Bridgen can be allowed to stand at the next election. He cannot claim that he didn’t realise the level of offence that his remarks cause."

An independent panel dismissed his appeal ‘on all grounds’ and said his punishment could have been harsher.

The Standards Committee also found he committed an ‘unacceptable attack upon the integrity’ of the standards commissioner.

"Why not the FBI?", one person responded on Twitter, while another said "Durham is in Durham, you absolute casserole."

The Tory MP lied under oath during a fraught case about a multimillion-pound family dispute.