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Sir Desmond Swayne Labour has accused former minister and New Forest West MP Sir Desmond Swayne of spreading “dangerous misinformation” about coronavirus and has called for the Tories to take action. Angela Rayner, deputy Labour leader, has written to Conservative Party chairwoman Amanda Milling about alleged remarks made by the veteran politician in which he reportedly said that Covid-19 infection and mortality figures had been “manipulated”. The Government’s figure for coronavirus deaths passed 100,000 this week, with separate data published by statistics agencies placing the toll at 115,000. More than 37,000 people are currently in hospital being treated for the virus, according to official data.
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Ministers demand apology from MP who claimed coronavirus data was ‘manipulated’
Sir Desmond Swayne (Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament/PA)
Senior Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne has refused to apologise for telling vaccine sceptics to “persist” with their campaign against coronavirus lockdown restrictions, arguing that he was unaware of their position on jabs.
Cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Priti Patel both called for him to withdraw his remarks, which included a claim that coronavirus data had been “manipulated”.
Mr Gove condemned his Conservative colleague as “completely out of order” while Ms Patel said he was “thoroughly wrong”.
But despite the two Cabinet ministers condemning Sir Desmond, Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed not to be aware of the remarks.